The Harrap book of sea verse

Table of Contents: “…The briny world : From A song of the English / Rudyard Kipling -- From The two Foscari / George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron -- The diver / Theobold Purcell-Buret -- The chambered nautilus / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- From The dry salvages / Thomas Stearns Eliot -- By the sea / Christina Rossetti -- The sea-limits / Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- The world below the brine / Walt Whitman -- Among shallows / Leonard Clark -- The shells / Walter Savage Landor -- The shell / James Stephens -- To the immortal memory of the halibut on which I dined this day / William Cowper -- From The fish, the man, and the spirit / James Henry Leigh Hunt -- From To a seamew / Algernon Charles Swinburne -- Sea-change / John Masefield -- The treasure / Sydney Middleton Clarke -- From King Richard III / William Shakespeare -- The city in the sea / Edgar Allan Poe -- Dolor Oogo / Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch -- From The forsaken merman / Matthew Arnold -- The mermaiden's vesper hymn / George Darley -- Santorin / James Elroy Flecker -- From The magnetic mountain / Cecil Day Lewis -- The sea / William Henry Davies -- The sands of Dee / Charles Kingsley -- Flannan Isle / Wilfrid Wilson Gibson -- A sea dirge / William Shakespeare -- From Beside the seaside / John Betjeman -- The last chantey / Rudyard Kipling…”


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221 one-minute monologues for women

Table of Contents: “…Cartwright -- A journey to London / John Vanbrugh -- Julius Caesar ; King Henry IV, part 1 ; King John (2) ; King Lear ; King Richard III (2) / William Shakespeare -- The Lanchashire witches / Thomas Shadwell -- Leves amores / Katherine Mansfield -- Little women / Louisa May Alcott -- Love in a village / Isaac Bickerstaff -- A midsummer night's dream (4) / William Shakespeare -- The misanthrope (2) / Molière, trans. …”


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Shakespeare's kings : the great plays and the history of England in the Middle Ages, 1337-1485 by Norwich, John Julius, 1929-2018

Table of Contents: “…Final reckoning (1483-1485) -- Triumphal progress through north -- Buckingham's revolt -- role of Morton -- Margaret Beaufort -- Revolt ends in fiasco -- Buckingham executed -- Support grows for Richmond -- Fugitive rebels join him at Rennes -- Richard's anxieties -- Begins to see Richmond as serious threat -- Treaty of Pontefract with Brittany -- Henry's escape into Anjou -- Warm reception from French court -- Arrival of Oxford -- Affair at Hammes -- Death of Queen -- Richard considers marriage with Elizabeth of York -- Denial at Clerkenwell -- Henry's landing -- His progress -- Bosworth -- Fate of Richard's body -- 19. King Richard III (1471-1485) -- The two legends -- Dating of the play -- Acts I and II -- Chronologies -- Clarence's death -- Queens' lamentation -- Undramatic treatment of Richard's coup -- Acts III and IV -- Richard's progress to the throne -- His murder of the Princes -- Bosworth -- Epilogue -- Chronological table.…”


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Masterplots : 2010 plot stories & essay reviews from the world's fine literature

Table of Contents: “…Vincent Millay -- Havelok the Dane / Unknown -- A Hazard of New Fortunes / William Dean Howells -- Headlong Hall / Thomas Love Peacock -- The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter / Carson McCullers -- Heart of Darkness / Joseph Conrad -- The Heart of Midlothian / Sir Walter Scott -- The Heart of the Matter / Graham Greene -- Heartbreak House / George Bernard Shaw -- The Heat of the Day / Elizabeth Bowen -- Heaven's My Destination / Thornton Wilder -- Hedda Gabler / Henrik Ibsen -- The Heimskringla / Snorri Sturluson -- Helen / Euripides -- Henderson the Rain King / Saul Bellow -- Henry Esmond / William Makepeace Thackeray -- Henry the Eighth / William Shakespeare -- Henry the Fifth / William Shakespeare -- Henry the Fourth, Part One / William Shakespeare -- Henry the Fourth, Part Two / William Shakespeare -- Henry the Sixth, Part One / William Shakespeare -- Henry the Sixth, Part Two / William Shakespeare -- Henry the Sixth, Part Three / William Shakespeare -- Herakles Mad / Euripides -- Hercules and His Twelve Labors / Unknown -- Hereward the Wake / Charles Kingsley -- A Heritage and Its History / Ivy Compton-Burnett -- A Hero of Our Time / Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov -- Heroides / Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) -- Herself Surprised / Joyce Cary -- Hesperides / Robert Herrick -- A High Wind Rising / Elsie Singmaster -- The Hill of Dreams / Arthur Machen -- Hillingdon Hall / Robert Smith Surtees -- Hippolytus / Euripides -- Historia Calamitatum / Pierre Abélard -- The History of Colonel Jacque / Daniel Defoe -- The History of England / Thomas Babington Macaulay -- History of Frederick II of Prussia / Thomas Carlyle -- History of King Richard III / Sir Thomas More -- The History of Mr. …”


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