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Shakespeare's King Lear ranks with Sophocles' Oedipus as a tragic hero destroyed by his own good intentions. From the moment when Lear unfolds his darker purpose, we are drawn into an ineluctable chain of events that leads through betrayal, deceit, destructive family conflict, reconciliation, despair, and death. Considered by many to be the most grueling of Shakespeare's tragedies.

Here are 26 tiny classics of English "cruel" humor, in Harry Graham's first book of Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes.

This collection contains Oscar Wilde's four best-known comedies: The Importance of Being Earnest; Lady Windermere's Fan; An Ideal Husband; and A Woman of No Importance. All of them satirize upper-class English society of the 1890s, dramatizing scandalous secrets, political and marital intrigue, and dandyish bad behavior with Wilde's trademark wit and wisdom.

Listeners are invited to sit back and enjoy this collection of classic Yuletide tales....

Franz Kafka was one of the first and greatest masters of dystopian literature. In his bleak world view, man is presented as helpless and ineffectual, his destiny determined by distant, obscure and essentially unfriendly agencies. In none of his works is this savage and unreasoning enslavement presented more vividly than in Metamorphosis, a novella in which Gregor Samsa, a respectable employee and dutiful son, wakes to find himself transformed into a gigantic insect.

A vacation in a quiet country spot; what could possibly go wrong? From Northcote's collection In Ghostly Company published in 1921.

When a dragon turns up in the English countryside, can the boy who befriends him help him avoid the threatened showdown with Saint George?

This is a fable about real and fake love, with a typically Wildean twist.

A party of friends exchange ghost stories on Christmas Eve; but everything may not be quite as it seems....

Samuel Butler, although an evolutionist (but not of the Darwinian kind), postulated a radical theory about God as both known and unknown, suggesting a kind of creative energy throughout the universe. His ideas are somewhat gnostic, though they don't fall into any one camp. Here is Butler's book, God Known and God Unknown in a new format, with an astute review of Butler's God that was written after Butler's death and published in 1918.

A visit to the Royal Collection of Charles I at the Royal Academy, 26th March 2018. Viewing works by Rubens, van Gyck, Mantegna, and Holbein, with comments and responses of the spectators.

Do you ever wonder if there is a gnome living in the hole at the bottom of the old tree in the park? Have you ever felt like you weren't alone while in the woods? Did you know that elves are responsible for many of our day-to-day occurrences? If your mind ever fills with these kinds of questions, then these modern fairy tales are for you!

There is always room in the world for more gripping tales about the exploits of the inimitable Sherlock Holmes and the redoubtable Dr. Watson. Here is a collection of five previously unknown cases from the astonishing career of the consulting detective and his ever-loyal partner.

A book of poems written by the author and accumulated over and expanse of his life since about twenty years of age to the present. Poems cover various themes from love, religion identity, politics, race, art and sports. The Poems do not flow in chronological sequence however, but to a large extent arranged in thematic order.

This audiobook is a play for stage.....

es and Watson investigate spies and amateur beggars in this thrilling addition to the Sherlock Holmes mythos, based on one of the unpublished tales mentioned in the original series.

This is my life, one mistake at a time. Worker-bee goes to work, sip coffee, step forward, one, two, three. I'm a brainless zombie with no purpose in life. Feed me brains and I'll eat 'em raw with some Tabasco. Worst mistake in my life, getting married to the perfect Russian princess. Her beautiful face hides treacherous intent. She'll suck you dry like a lemon until you have no juice left. Out of life, out of money, out of any hopes and dreams. This is your life, suck it up and don't complain.

For many of us, the goal of life isn't ultimate wealth, a massive amount of stuff, or the perfect car. Though we strive to gain materialistic possessions and a social status, often times we find that the achievement of gaining such objects has little effect on our lives. There is always something which is better that needs to be obtained. Why is this? What is it that drives people's ambitions and motivation in life? What are we all striving for but many can never fully gain? It's happiness, plain and simple.

What is the significance of what Henry Ian Darling found in the boot of a car? And how did his wife know of the event? How could anyone be cruel enough to do such a thing? Find out where the discovery leads this collector of oddities and what it may mean for Henry's ultimate quest - finding the enigma, which will save or destroy all dimensions.

Another Blood Jet is A. J. Huffman's new collection of poetry. This collection is a multigenre, literary horror collection of 48 poems that intermix personal memoirs of moments of a volatile relationship with bloody and surrealistic visions of the speaker's everyday life and madness. The goal of this collection is to take the listener on an emotionally tangential ride that twists their minds and guts in empathy. Collectively it creates a diversely intriguing mix of imagery, metaphor, and real-life memoir.