It also includes Shakespeare's Sonnets, as well as his longer poems 'Venus and Adonis' and 'The Rape of Lucrece'. This volume is a reprint of the Shakespeare Head Press edition, and it presents all the plays in chronological order in which they were written. He excels in plot, poetry and wit, and his talent encompasses the great tragedies of 'Hamlet', 'King Lear', 'Othello' and 'Macbeth' as well as the moving history plays and the comedies such as 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', 'The Taming of the Shrew' and 'As You Like It' with their magical combination of humour, ribaldry and tenderness. He excels in plot, poetry and wit, and his talent encompasses the great tragedies of 'Hamlet', William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is acknowledged as the greatest dramatist of all time. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is acknowledged as the greatest dramatist of all time.
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Following the call of her changed abilities, she’s drawn to an area with poisoned waters and a mysterious factory holding dark secrets. Meanwhile, in the months since the end of Crooked Kingdom (2016), grieving Nina has returned to Fjerda on a mission to rescue and recruit Grisha. With traveling becoming too risky given his secrets, Nikolai and his inner circle hatch a display of strength that will bring the other powers to him for diplomacy, using the cover of his seeking a queen. Worse, for the past 6 months Nikolai has been struggling with an enemy inside himself: The monstrous curse thought ended by the death of the Darkling re-emerges when he sleeps, posing a danger to his people, crown, and soul. Though Ravka’s civil war ended three years ago, Ravka still faces threats both domestic-pretenders to the throne, policies that are popular with commoners but anger nobility-and external-old enemies like Fjerda, debts owed to Kerch. In this Grishaverse novel, King Nikolai struggles to keep his kingdom afloat in a destabilized, rapidly changing world. The villain is Cluny the Scourge, one of the most deliciously despicable rats of all time. And small wonder! This enthralling tale is jam-packed with the things we long for in a great adventure: danger, laughter, hairbreadth escapes, tragedy, mystery, a touch of wonder, a truly despicable villain, and a hero we can take to heart.That hero is Matthias, a young mouse who must rise above his fears and failures to save his friends at Redwall Abbey. When Redwall was published in 1987 it catapulted author Brian Jacques to international stardom. Recently released, Kenneth Weene’s new novel, Memoirs From the Asylum, is a comi-tragic tale of madness and sanity, of desperation and hope, of possibilities and fate. But they do not, and Widow’s Walk becomes a powerful tale of human pain and emotional conflict. If only things could always flow along with such ease. 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Within the Nine Realms, deception runs deep.War lingers on the horizon, as armies gather deeply within the shadows.The land has chosen its hero, but war demands a heavy price-one Aria may not be prepared to pay.Those she thought she could trust have deceived her.The council has declared her the enemy.Everything that can be taken from her has been wrenched from her grasp.When everyone is pushing her to become the villain they claim her to be, will she be able to become the monster the realms need?They created Aria to rule the Nine Realms, but now they fear she's too vicious, dangerous, and unhinged to live. A king who craves to possess her mind, body, and soul.A council who has deemed her too dangerous to live.And a fate she never asked for, but can't escape. She's waging a war against the entirety of the Nine Realms, and discovering who is on her side, and whose corpse will be added to her on the foundation she intends to build her kingdom on. Aria is back and facing new challenges, and everything she thought she knew is wrong. From USA Today Bestselling Author Amelia Hutchins comes a tale of love, war, and betrayal. Interspersed with the story are vignettes of the strange Cirque de Reves in which all things are black or white or grey, and which is only open at night. All the children know is that they are being ruthlessly trained in order to compete against their unknown rival in a magical competition. Later, the man in grey removes a promising nine year-old boy from an orphanage, whom he eventually also binds by a ring. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern is a beautiful, magical, dreamlike book that tells the story of the Cirque de Reves, the Circus of Dreams, and the two star-crossed lovers who are bound together to compete in a game for which they don’t know the rules.Īt six years old, Celia Bowen, daughter of Prospero the Enchanter (AKA Hector Bowen), is introduced by her father to the mysterious man in a grey suit who places a ring on her finger that sinks into her flesh and leaves a scar. After more than a decade in the film industry, he was ready for a new challenge. Sitting in Penguin Random House’s imposing building on the Strand, Mastai has an air of confidence that suggests nothing would intimidate him for very long. But in 2013, when he started thinking about a story where a man strands himself in an alternate reality, Mastai realised that it wouldn’t be a screenplay, but a novel – a revelation he describes as “a little bit intimidating”. 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