Presents the original text of Shakespeare's sonnets side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes.

The Language You Thought You Knew -- Eating and Drinking -- Passing the Time -- Learning and Working -- Playing (and More Drinking) -- Making Friends and Enemies -- Caring for Body and Mind -- The World Outside -- Wildlife -- Travel -- Beyond Human -- Searching for Meaning -- Hoarding Words. "An entertaining and illuminating collection of weird, wonderful, and downright baffling words from the origins of English -- and what they reveal about the...

Les Fleurs du mal is a collection of poems by Charles Baudelaire, encompassing almost all of his production in verse, from 1840 until his death at the end of August 1867. Flowers of Evil It is a major work of modern poetry. His pieces break with agreed style, in use until then and rejuvenate the structure of the verse by regular use of crossings, rejects and counter-rejects. This renovates the rigid form of the sonnet. He uses suggestive images by...

Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character

A collection of poems reflecting the experiences of a little English boy growing up in the early part of the twentieth century.

A collection of poems evoking the world and feelings of childhood. It is one of the best-loved classic poetry collections ever written and is illustrated here by the world-famous artist Michael Foreman in a beautiful new gift edition, with a foreword by Alexander McCall Smith.

An illustrated collection of nineteen popular poems by William Wordsworth, who was the poet laureate of England in the mid-nineteenth century. Includes an introduction to the poet's life and work.

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...

"A Doll's House" by Henrik Ibsen is a groundbreaking and thought-provoking masterpiece that challenges societal norms and explores the complex dynamics of marriage and identity. Set in 19th-century Norway, the play revolves around Nora Helmer, a seemingly content wife and mother, and her husband Torvald. As the plot unfolds, the audience is drawn into a web of secrets, lies, and personal revelations. Nora's journey from a docile, doll-like existence...

Swooping, curving lines bring motion into this book about verbs from the "Word Fun Series." The personified frog, high flying acrobats, and soaring spacecraft are among some of the "performers" of the verbs on the colorful pages. The pictures capture the lively verb actions, while the sample sentences demonstrating the how verbs are used. The verbs are all featured in different fonts, sizes, and colors to accentuate their placement in the example...