Philip Sidney

Will Jonson

Sidney's sonnet cycle, consisting of 100 sonnets, followed by 11 Songs, is, after Shakespeare's, the finest sonnet cycle in the English language. Sidney explores all the aspects of what it means to be in love and does so in language that is memorable and striking. All lovers of poetry will enjoy exploring this classic work from the Elizabethan era. Check out our other books at www.dogstailbooks.co.uk

Astrophel and Stella

Federico García Lorca

Antes de la publicación del "Romancero gitano " , Federico García Lorca (1898-1936) quiso adelantar 'Canciones' como muestra de la variedad y riqueza de su registro poético. El fino libro, obra ya de plena madurez, aparecería en Málaga, en 1927, como suplemento de la revista 'Litoral'.

Primeras Canciones (1922) and Canciones (1921-24)

Anton Chekhov

Chekhov is renowned as the greatest short story writer the world has ever known. Here is the second volume of an exciting project to print all Chekhov's stories in the order in which they were originally published in Russia. This edition should prove fascinating for the general reader, and an invaluable aid for scholars seeking to trace the development of Chekhov as a short story writer

Short Stories 1886

Christopher Marlowe

Christopher Marlowe, based on the German story Faust, in which a man sells his soul to the devil for power, experience, pleasure and knowledge. Doctor Faustus was first published in 1604, eleven years after Marlowe's death and at least twelve years after the first performance of the play. It is the most controversial Elizabethan play outside of Shakespeare, with few critics coming to any agreement as to the date or the nature of the text. Check out our other books at www.dogstailbooks.co.uk.

Doctor Faustus: Text A

Aeschylus

In the Oresteia Aeschylus addressed the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos. In 'The Eumenides', Orestes is tormented by supernatural powers that can never be appeased. Forming an elegant and subtle discourse on the emergence of Athenian democracy out of a period of chaos and destruction, The Oresteia is a compelling tragedy of the tensions between our obligations to our families and the laws that bind us together as a society. Check out our other books at www.dogstailbooks.co.uk

Eumenides

William Blake

'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' is the most overt statement Blake ever wrote in prose of his beliefs and the radical, revolutionary part of this text are 'The Proverbs of Hell.''No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings. You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. Prisons are built with stones of Law, brothels with bricks of Religion. Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by Incapacity. Exuberance is Beauty. 'A superb insight into Blake's beliefs and essential for a full understanding of 'The Songs of Innocence and Experience.'

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

George Bernard Shaw

Shaw believed that theatre audiences of the 1890s deserved more than the hollow spectacle and sham he saw displayed on the London stage. But he also recognized that people wanted to be entertained while educated, and to see purpose mixed with pleasure. Shaw employed traditional dramatic forms - Victorian melodrama, the history play and the adventure story - to turn received wisdom upside down. Set during the American War of Inde-pendence, 'The Devil's Disciple' exposes fake Puritanism and piety.

The Devil's Disciple

Errico Malatesta

Errico Malatesta (14 December 1853 - 22 July 1932) was an Italian anarchist. He spent much of his life exiled from Italy and in total spent more than ten years in prison. Malatesta wrote and edited a number of radical newspapers and was also a friend of Mikhail Bakunin. He was an enormously popular figure in his time. 'Anarchy' is considered the finest of his books and the clearest exposition of his beliefs. Check out our other books at www.dogstailbooks.co.uk

Anarchy

Kahlil Gibran

'Sand and Foam' is a collection of profound and inspirational thoughts from the master of timeless wisdom, Kahlil Gibran, author of 'The Prophet'. Abstract and specific, amused and awed, direct and circuitous, this work draws together strands of advice and motivation to enrich the mind, heart, soul and life of the reader. Newly presented in a beautiful small format, the lines of 'Sand and Foam' echo with a beauty as moving and relevant today as when they were first written.

Sand and Foam

Charles Baudelaire

Charles Pierre Baudelaire (April 9, 1821 - August 31, 1867) was a French poet who produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe. His most famous work, 'Les Fleurs du Mal' (The Flowers of Evil), expresses the changing nature of beauty in modern, industrializing Paris during the 19th century. Baudelaire's highly original style of prose-poetry influenced a whole generation of poets including Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud and Stephane Mallarme among many others. He is credited with coining the term "modernity" (modernite) to designate the fleeting, ephemeral experience of life in an urban metropolis, and the responsibility art has to capture that experience.

Will Jonson

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