Charlotte Perkins Gilman gained much of her fame with lectures on women’s issues, ethics, labor, human rights, and social reform.
She often referred to these themes in her fiction.
She is best remembered for her 1892 short story "The Yellow Wallpaper," based on her own bout with severe depression and misguided medical treatment.
An intimate history of Shakespeare, following him through a single year that changed not only his fortunes but the course of literature.
How did Shakespeare go from being a talented poet and playwright to become one of the greatest writers who ever lived? In this one exhilarating year we follow what he reads and writes, what he sees, and who he works with as he invests in the new Globe Theatre and creates four of his most famous plays—Henry V, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, and, most remarkably, Hamlet.
James Shapiro illuminates both Shakespeare’s staggering achievement and what Elizabethans experienced in the course of 1599: sending off an army to crush an Irish rebellion, weathering an Armada threat from Spain, gambling on a fledgling East India Company, and waiting to see who will succeed their aging and childless Queen.
This book brings the news and intrigue of the times together with a wonderful evocation of how Shakespeare worked as an actor, businessman, and playwright. The result is an exceptionally immediate and gripping account of an inspiring moment in history.
This audio includes a selection of scenes from Henry V, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, and Hamlet featuring performances by Vanessa Redgrave, Paul Scofield, Ian Holm, and many more.
James Sharpiro, a professor at Columbia University in New York, is the author of Rival Playwrights, Shakespeare and the Jews, and Oherammergau: The Troubling Story of the World’s Most Famous Passion Play.
Wuthering Heights is the story of love turning on itself and of the violence and misery that result from thwarted passion. A book of immense power, it is filled with the raw beauty of the moors and a deep compassion for the conflicting destinies of men and women. Emily Bronte lived out her life in the wilderness of the moors and died a year after her extraordinary novel was published. The story of stubborn Cathy and wild-as-the-wind Heathcliff has been a favorite since its original publication in 1848. The novel begins with Lockwood, a tenant, taking up residence close to Wuthering Heights. His landlord, Mr. Heathcliff, proves to be surly, unfriendly and rude. When Lockwood discovers a mildewed book with the names Catherine Earnshaw, Catherine Heathcliff and Catherine Linton scratched on its cover he begins to read and starts on a strange tale that proves irresistible . . .
A Radio 4 Classic Serial dramatisation of one of the most popular and influential books of the 19th Century.
Romantic and gothic elements combine in this tightly-constructed thriller which induces excitement and fear in its audience.
Based on a novella by Shakespeare’s enemy and arch rival Robert Greene, The Winter’s Tale introduces Perdita, perhaps the Bard’s most richly symbolic character.
At times tragic, at times humorous, but always entertaining and instructive, The Winters Tale is a complex and rewarding work by the greatest dramatist of all time.
"The crown of Henry James’s achievement."–John Bayley
This classic Henry James morality tale tells of a triangle of friends and lovers
doomed by overreaching desire to treachery. In early-20th-century London,
Kate Croy is secretly engaged to Merton Denscher, a journalist possessing
all the qualities of an ideal husband except money. By chance, Kate befriends
American heiress Milly Theale, whom she learns is suffering from a mysterious
fatal illness. Kate, who truly cares for Milly, devises a scheme to maximize
their combined assets: She encourages Merton to take an interest in Milly,
to seduce her, and finally, to marry her. By lending her lover to brighten Milly’s
few remaining days, Kate intends to make him a rich widower whom she herself
can marry. But such well-laid plans are not enough for the subtlety of the heart.
To be or not to be… Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow…
O for a Muse of Fire… The quality of mercy is not strained…
This sceptred isle… Once more unto the breach dear friends…
Many of Shakespeare’s greatest and best-loved speeches are brought together in this superb collection, performed by outstanding artists who bring to vivid life words which are an integral part of our language, our culture and our everyday lives.
Alexander Von Bettring, Architect, Egyptologist and Millionaire, is dead.
After years of captivity in Egypt, insanity has driven him to suicide…
Or so they believe…
Sadly, all chances of redemption are past… or are they…
The family is summoned to Alexander’s secluded mansion for a reading of the will. They soon find he left them more than they bargained for…
And it may just cost them their lives.
A chance discovery of a bronze commemoration plaque to Eighteenth century lifeboat pioneer Lionel Lukin alongside a village pond in Dunmow, Essex, aroused author John Glasscocks interest.
For how was it that someone living in Dumnow in the heart of the Essex countryside and miles from the sea came to have a vital part to play in the invention and development of the Lifeboat as we know it today?
As John Glascock reveals in this drama-documentary, there were three main rivals after the claim of inventor of the lifeboat, and the building of the first lifeboats had come about only after an eighteenth century tale of dubious dealing and heavy political skullduggery in smoke filled rooms.
Narration by Angela Neville and Pat O’Gorman
Along with the help and assistance of
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI)
Robin Sharp, formerly of the RNLI
Stuart Jones of the Port of Lowestoft Research Society
South Tyneside Central Library
Tyne & Wear Museums
And Members of the Essex Hospital Radio Players
With Production and Audio Realisation by Dennis Rookard
Written and Produced by John Glasscock.
"A social satire of epic proportions and one that does not suffer by comparison with Thackeray’s
Vanity Fair…the whole comedy of manners, convincing both in its fidelity to life and as a work of art."
–New York Times
The White Monkey is the fourth of the nine novels in The Forsyte Chronicles and marks the opening of
the second trilogy in the series, called A Modern Comedy. In this new chapter, Fleur and Michael Mont begin
to question their marriage when their good friend, author Wilfred Desert, can no longer contain his passion for
Fleur. Fleur finds herself torn between her love for Michael and passion for Wilfred.
Meanwhile, Soames Forsyte, as a director of the Providential Premium Reassurance Society, must root out the
rumored indiscretions of a manager’s dubious dealings with the Germans. The whole while, he is haunted by a
painting of a white monkey with rinds of crushed fruit flung about it and eyes searching for something more.
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