Henry V

Henry V is the most famous and influential of Shakespeare's history plays. Its powerful patriotic rhetoric has resounded down the ages, gaining eloquent expression in Laurence Olivier;s renowned film. Henry himself, astute and charismatic, who led his 'band of brothers' to victory in the Battle of Agincourt, could indeed seem to be 'this star of England'. In recent decades the play has attracte…

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. Knocked unconscious, it is only when mechanic Hank Morgan comes to that he finds himself in 6th-century England rather than 19th-century America. surrounded by the traditions and customs of Camelot and King Arthur's court, Morgan dislikes the hereditary social class structure and state church and attemps to instill his Amer…

Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it the garrulous and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only one aim-that if finding a good match for each of her five daughters. In this she is mocked by her cynical and indolent husband. With its wit, its social precision and, above all, its irresistible heroine, Pride and…

Nicholas Nickleby

Following the success of Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby was hailed as a comis triumph and firmly established Dickens as a'literary gentleman'. It has a full supporting cast of delectable characters that range from the iniquitous Wackford Squeers and his family, to the delightfulMrs. Nickleby, taking in the eccectric Crummles and his travelling players, the Mantalinis, the K…

Othello

Othello has long been recognised as one of the most powerful of Shakespeare's tragedies. This is an intense drama of love, deception, jealousy and destruction. Desdemona's love for Othello, the Moor, transcends racial prejudice; but the envious Iago conspires to devastate their lives. On its vivid rendering of racism, sexism, contesred identities, and the savagery lurking within civilisation, O…

Dork Diaries : OMG

What's the best way to get to know yourself? a) Stare in a mirror b) Ask your BFFS to write an essay about you c) Keep a diary OMG, the answer is totally c! As Nikki Maxwell knows, writting a diary is a GREAT way to keep track of everything going on in YOUR life. And in this special diary, Nikki asks and you answer... If you could swap places with anyone for a day, who would it be and …

Macbeth

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

978-1-85326-035-3

Collation

128 hal.; 20 cm.

Series Title

Wordsworth Classics

Call Number

823 Sha m

The fever code

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After a harrowing military tour of Afghanistan, Dr Watson returns to London to convalesce at 221B Baker Street, home to the enigmatic Sherlock Holmes. Their lives are irrevocably thrown together by news that a man has been found dead in a grimy 'ill-omened' house, with the word rache - German for 'revenge' - written in blood on the wall. This grisly discovery is complicated further by the look …

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