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1) Henry V
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English
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Believed to have been written in 1599, William Shakespeare's "Henry V" forms the final installment of a tetralogy of plays, which includes "Richard II", "Henry IV, Part I", and "Henry IV, Part II". The play focuses on the events surrounding the Battle of Agincourt during the Hundred Years' War. Henry, who is introduced in the earlier plays as a wild and undisciplined youth, has now come of age and ascended to the thrown following the death of his...
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"I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history, " Arthur Miller wrote in an introduction to The Crucible, his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts. Based on historical people and real events, Miller's drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria. In the rigid theocracy of Salem, rumors that women...
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The second play in William Shakespeare's tetralogy of plays which also includes "Richard II", "Henry IV, Part 2", and "Henry V", "Henry IV, Part 1" is believed to have been written no later than 1597. A history play, the drama concerns the unquiet reign of Henry Bolingbroke. Following the usurpation of the throne, Henry IV is plagued with guilt over his role in the imprisonment and death of King Richard II. In order to resolve himself of this internal...
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Clothbound classics
No fear literature
Library of literature volume LL-27
Penguin classics volume L22
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No fear literature
Library of literature volume LL-27
Penguin classics volume L22
More Series...
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English
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A retelling of the medieval poem about a group of travelers on a pilgrimage to Canterbury and the tales they tell each other. With their astonishing diversity of tone and subject matter, The Canterbury Tales have become one of the touchstones of medieval literature. Translated here into modern English, these tales of a motley crowd of pilgrims drawn from all walks of life-from knight to nun, miller to monk-reveal a picture of English life in the fourteenth...
6) Up the Women
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2023.
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English
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The welcome return of the hilarious suffragette sitcom, written by and starring Jessica Hynes. Under Margaret's passionate leadership, the hapless women of the Banbury Intricate Craft Circle Politely Requests Women Suffrage are back in the Church Hall cooking up more schemes to attract attention to the worthy cause. The series is full of special guest stars, laugh out loud jokes, japes and plenty of physical comedy. It's a heart-warming celebration...
7) The Paradise
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English
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Denise Lovett, a young and ambitious country girl with only her wits to live on, arrives in a booming Northern city to take up a long-held promise of work in her uncle's drapery shop. But she soon discovers that her uncle cannot afford to employ her as most of his customers have been seduced away by The Paradise, England's first department store, right across the street.
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Powerful rebels are mustering their forces to topple the aging King Henry IV from his throne. Their success seems assured because the dying king cannot depend upon his son and heir Prince Hal. Instead, King Henry relies on the aid of the latest war hero Sir John Falstaff ... and the kingdom is soon in for a big surprise.
12) Curiosa
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Français
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Paris 1895. Pierre Louÿs is a Parisian dandy and poet on the verge of fame. Pierre and his friend Henri De Régnier are both madly in love with Marie de Heredia (Noemie Merlant), the cheeky daughter of their mentor. Despite her feelings for Pierre, Marie eventually marries Henri who has a better situation. Badly hurt, Pierre leaves for Algeria where he meets Zohra, a bewitching local girl with whom he shares a tumultuous relationship and a passion...
13) The piano lesson
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English
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August Wilson has already given the American theater such spell-binding plays about the black experience in 20th-century America as Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Fences . In his second Pulitzer Prize-winner, The Piano Lesson, Wilson has fashioned his most haunting and dramatic work yet. At the heart of the play stands the ornately carved upright piano which, as the Charles family's prized, hard-won...
14) Ill Gotten Gains
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1997.
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English
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A gripping tale of twenty-four Africans held captive in a slave ship after slavery is outlawed. Spurred on by a spector that lives in the ship, the captives are moved to a tragic and bloody uprising.
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2023.
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English
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Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë face a life of hardship. Trapped at home with very few opportunities, they share the burden of supporting their father and their troubled brother, but Charlotte sees that writing novels could offer a way out. Acclaimed screenwriter Sally Wainwright creates "a bleak and brilliant portrayal" (The Guardian) of the sisters' extraordinary battle for recognition.
16) Amistad
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1997.
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English
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The movie chronicles the incredible journey of a group of enslaved Africans who overtake their captor's ship and attempt to return to their beloved homeland.
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2023.
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English
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Daniel Radcliffe and Jon Hamm return to star in a second series inspired by the works of Russian novelist Mikhail Bulgakov. Revisiting the small village of Muryevo in 1918, we find the Young Doctor battling an all-consuming morphine addiction. Under the critical gaze of his older self, the Young Doctor struggles to cope with life in the hospital and the efforts of his medical staff, the Civil War and the distractions of a beautiful young aristocrat,...
18) Esther
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Experience the Bible story of Esther, who infiltrated the King of Persia's harem in order to stop a planned genocide of Jewish people, saving many innocent lives.
19) Call the Midwife
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2012.
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English
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Based on the best selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth. Set in the 1950s, this six part series is a moving and intimate insight into the colourful world of midwifery and family life in London's East End. We are introduced to the local community through the eyes of young nurse Jenny Lee as she lives and works as a midwife alongside the Nuns of the Order of St. Raymond of Nonnatus.
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