This volume contains a selection of work from each of Seamus Heaney's published books of poetry up to and including the Whitbread prize-winning collection, The Haw Lantern (1987). 'His is 'close-up' poetry - close up to thought, to the...

Murder in the Cathedral, written for the Canterbury Festival on 1935, was the first high point on T. S. Eliot's dramatic achievement. It remains one of the great plays of the century. Like Greek drama, its theme and form are rooted in...

Aurelio Zen returns to his native Venice to investigate the disappearance of a rich American resident, but he soon learns that amid the hazy light and shifting waters of the lagoon nothing is what it seems. As Zen is drawn deeper into...

When Glenn Gould died in 1982 at the age of fifty, he left behind an astonishing legacy: in twenty-six years he had proved himself to be not only an extraordinary pianist but a brilliant critic. His writing - which appeared primarily in...

Elif considers London to be her true home, but she also yearns for her family summer holidays in Turkey. When her brother-in-law extends an invitation for her to move there permanently, she decides she must take advantage of the...

„Trainspotting“ ist ein Roman von Irvine Welsh, der später von John Hodge für das Theater und den Film adaptiert wurde. Die Geschichte spielt in den 1980er Jahren in Edinburgh und folgt einer Gruppe junger Heroinabhängiger, die...

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Über den Autor und weitere Mitwirkende P.D. James served in the forensic and criminal justice departments of the Home Office until her retirement in 1979. She was made a Life Peer in 1991. Her detective novels include Cover Her Face, An...

'In Samuel Beckett's Happy Days, drama is stripped to its sheerest essence. We observe the gradual extinction of a body; of a mind; of language. We also observe the remnants of a marriage in which we hardly know which counts for more:...

"True History of the Kelly Gang" von Peter Carey ist ein historischer Roman, der das Leben des berüchtigten australischen Outlaws Ned Kelly erzählt. Der Roman ist in Form einer fiktiven Autobiografie verfasst und gibt vor, von Kelly...

Jackie Brown is an airline stewardness who is arrested for smuggling money into America, thus falling victim to a plot by the FBI to undo her boss, who is trafficking in illegal weapons. Jackie finds herself in a no-win situation, and...

"The Time and Space of Uncle Albert" von Russell Stannard ist ein Kinderbuch, das komplexe physikalische Konzepte auf zugängliche Weise erklärt. Die Geschichte dreht sich um die junge Protagonistin Gedanken (Ged) und ihren Onkel Albert,...