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  • Radical Wordsworth

    The Poet Who Changed the World

    by Jonathan Bate ...
    The life and times of the celebrated Romantic poet is revealed in this "magnificent biography . . . Both erudite and utterly absorbing" ( Daily Mail ).This is the biography of a great poetic genius, a revolutionary who changed the world. William Wordsworth rejoiced in the French Revolution and played a central role in the cultural upheaval that we call the Romantic Revolution. He and his fellow ... Read more

    $26.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ted Hughes

    The Unauthorised Life

    by Jonathan Bate ...
    An illuminating and authoritative study of the 20th-century English poet and children's writer's life and work.Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate, was one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. He was one of Britain's most important poets.With an equal gift for poetry and prose, he was also a prolific children's writer and has been hailed as the greatest English letter-writer since John Keats. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bright Star, Green Light

    The Beautiful Works and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald

    by Jonathan Bate ...
    An immensely pleasurable biography of two interwoven, tragic figures: John Keats and F. Scott FitzgeraldIn this radiant dual biography, Jonathan Bate explores the fascinating parallel lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald, writers who worked separately—on different continents, a century apart, in distinct genres—but whose lives uncannily echoed.Not only was Fitzgerald profoundly influenced ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Soul of the Age

    A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare

    by Jonathan Bate ...
    “One man in his time plays many parts,His acts being seven ages.”In this illuminating, innovative biography, Jonathan Bate, one of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, has found a fascinating new way to tell the story of the great dramatist. Using the Bard’s own immortal list of a man’s seven ages in As You Like It, Bate deduces the crucial events of Shakespeare’s life and connects ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • William Shakespeare Complete Works Second Edition

    The newly revised, wonderfully authoritative First Folio of Shakespeare’s Complete Works, edited by acclaimed Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen and endorsed by the world-famous Royal Shakespeare CompanyCombining cutting-edge textual editing, superb annotations and commentary, a readable design, and bonus features for students, theater professionals, and general readers, this ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Stressed, Unstressed

    Classic Poems to Ease the Mind

    Can you be re-lit by poetry? This little book offers everyone one of the oldest of all remedies for stress: the reading of poetry.Intended to help you endure some of your stressful moments and painful experiences, these poems tell us we are not alone. Returned again and again over the centuries by great imaginations are love and death and memory – remembrance of childhood joy, of happy days and ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Macbeth

    Series series Modern Library Classics
    No dramatist has ever seen with more frightening clarity into the heart and mind of a murderer than has Shakespeare in this compelling tragedy of evil. Taunted into asserting his “masculinity” by his ambitious wife, Macbeth chooses to embrace the Weird Sisters’ prophecy and kill his king–and thus, seals his own doom. Fast-moving and bloody, this drama has the extraordinary energy that derives from ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Ted Hughes

    The Unauthorised Life

    by Jonathan Bate ...
    Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate, was one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. He was one of Britain's most important poets, his work infused with myth; a love of nature, conservation, and ecology; of fishing and beasts in brooding landscapes.With an equal gift for poetry and prose, and with a soul as capacious as any poet in history, he was also a prolific children's writer and has been ... Read more

    $12.49 USD

  • Romeo and Juliet

    Series series Modern Library Classics
    "The permanent popularity, now of mythic intensity, of Romeo and Juliet is more than justified," writes eminent scholar Harold Bloom, "since the play is the largest and most persuasive celebration of romantic love in Western literature."William Shakespeare (1564-1616) based his early romantic tragedy on Arthur Brooke's 1562 poem The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet. Shakespeare's resulting ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • A Midsummer Night's Dream

    Magic, love spells, and an enchanted wood provide the materials for one of Shakespeare’s most delightful comedies. When four young lovers, fleeing the Athenian law and their own mismatched rivalries, take to the forest of Athens, their lives become entangled with a feud between the King and Queen of the Fairies. Some Athenian tradesmen, rehearsing a play for the forthcoming wedding of Duke Theseus ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Garden

    Our Four-Thousand-Year Quest for Paradise

    by Jonathan Bate ...
    A globe-spanning, never-before-told epic history of the garden—from antiquity to presentGardens have always been sacred spaces, allowing humans both to return to nature and to tame it. Avid gardener and literary historian Jonathan Bate traces our fascination with gardens across four millennia and explores their enduring influence on art, literature, philosophy, politics, and religion. Just as the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Othello

    Series series Modern Library Classics
    Though this great tragedy of unsurpassed intensity and emotion is played out against Renaissance splendor, its story of the doomed marriage of a Venetian senator’s daughter, Desdemona, to a Moorish general, Othello, is especially relevant to modern audiences. The differences in race and background create an initial tension that allows the horrifyingly envious villain Iago methodically to promote ... Read more

    $3.99 USD