Author: Publisher: Pearson South Africa
ISBN: 9781868918348
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
X-kit Literature Series: FET King Lear
Author: Publisher: Pearson South Africa
ISBN: 9781868918348
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
X-kit Lit Series Fet:the Crucible
Author: Publisher: Pearson South Africa
ISBN: 9781770254985
Category : Historical drama, American
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
X-kit Lit Series Fet:pride & Prejudice
Author: Publisher: Pearson South Africa
ISBN: 9781770254992
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
X-kit Lit Series Fet:a Grain of Wheat
Author: Publisher: Pearson South Africa
ISBN: 9781770254978
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
King Lear
Author: William ShakespearePublisher: Classic Books Company
ISBN: 0742652866
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
King Lear, one of Shakespeare's darkest and most savage plays, tells the story of the foolish and Job-like Lear, who divides his kingdom, as he does his affections, according to vanity and whim. Lear's failure as a father engulfs himself and his world in turmoil and tragedy.
Dunbar
Author: Edward St. AubynPublisher: Hogarth
ISBN: 1101904291
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
A reimagining of one of Shakespeare's most well-read tragedies, by the contemporary, critically acclaimed master of domestic drama Henry Dunbar, the once all-powerful head of a global media corporation, is not having a good day. In his dotage he hands over care of the corporation to his two eldest daughters, Abby and Megan, but as relations sour he starts to doubt the wisdom of past decisions. Now imprisoned in Meadowmeade, an upscale sanatorium in rural England, with only a demented alcoholic comedian as company, Dunbar starts planning his escape. As he flees into the hills, his family is hot on his heels. But who will find him first, his beloved youngest daughter, Florence, or the tigresses Abby and Megan, so keen to divest him of his estate? Edward St Aubyn is renowned for his masterwork, the five Melrose novels, which dissect with savage and beautiful precision the agonies of family life. His take on King Lear, Shakespeare’s most devastating family story, is an excoriating novel for and of our times – an examination of power, money and the value of forgiveness.
Forthcoming Books
Author: Rose ArnyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1578
Book Description
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations Drawn from the Speech and Literature of All Nations, Ancient and Modern, Classic and Popular, in English and Foreign Text
Author: Jehiel Keeler HoytPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Quotations
Languages : en
Pages : 1382
Book Description
Encyclopaedia Perthensis, Or, Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, Etc. : Intended to Supersede the Use of Other Books of Reference
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description
Learwife
Author: J. R. ThorpePublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1643138243
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Inspired by Shakespeare's King Lear, this breathtaking debut novel tells the story of the most famous woman ever written out of literary history. "I am the queen of two crowns, banished fifteen years, the famed and gilded woman, bad-luck baleful girl, mother of three small animals, now gone. I am fifty-five years old. I am Lear's wife. I am here." Word has come. Care-bent King Lear is dead, driven mad and betrayed. His three daughters too, broken in battle. But someone has survived: Lear's queen. Exiled to a nunnery years ago, written out of history, her name forgotten. Now she can tell her story. Though her grief and rage may threaten to crack the earth open, she knows she must seek answers. Why was she sent away in shame and disgrace? What has happened to Kent, her oldest friend and ally? And what will become of her now, in this place of women? To find peace she must reckon with her past and make a terrible choice - one upon which her destiny, and that of the entire abbey, rests. Giving unforgettable voice to a woman whose absence has been a tantalising mystery, Learwife is a breathtaking novel of loss, renewal and how history bleeds into the present.