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Constantine Cavafy

A New Biography

by Gregory Jusdanis, Peter Jeffreys ...

A long-awaited and much-anticipated biography of one of the great modern poets.In 1933, on his seventieth birthday, the poet Constantine Cavafy died in an Alexandrian hospital, surrounded by friends. He left behind a small, curated oeuvre of 154 poems, along with fragments and drafts of incomplete works. Throughout his life, Constantine had kept a tight grip on the distribution of his poetry, but ... Read more

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A long-awaited and much-anticipated biography of one of the great modern poets.In 1933, on his seventieth birthday, the poet Constantine Cavafy died in an Alexandrian hospital, surrounded by friends. He left behind a small, curated oeuvre of 154 poems, along with fragments and drafts of incomplete works. Throughout his life, Constantine had kept a tight grip on the distribution of his poetry, but
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Approaches to Teaching the Works of C. P. Cavafy

Edited by Peter Jeffreys, Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos ...

Series Book 175 - Approaches to Teaching World Literature
Known as a preeminent poet of queer male desire, C. P. Cavafy lived most of his life as part of the Greek minority community in Alexandria, Egypt. He was inspired by the possibilities offered by peripheries, whether sexual, geographic, or historical. Volumes of his poems, widely translated into English, give anglophone readers access to his distinctive mixture of irony and tenderness, directness ... Read more

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Known as a preeminent poet of queer male desire, C. P. Cavafy lived most of his life as part of the Greek minority community in Alexandria, Egypt. He was inspired by the possibilities offered by peripheries, whether sexual, geographic, or historical. Volumes of his poems, widely translated into English, give anglophone readers access to his distinctive mixture of irony and tenderness, directness
... Read more
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Hamlet

by William Shakespeare ...

Narrated by Anton Lesser, Edward de Souza, Susan Engel, Emma Fielding, Peter Jeffrey, Sean Baker, Jamie Glover, Geoffrey Whitehead, Gavin Muir, Peter Yapp, Benjamin Soames, David Timson, Richard Pearce, Paul Panting ...

Unabridged

3 hours 22 min

Hamlet, which dates from 1600-1601, is the first in Shakespeare’s great series of four tragedies, the others being Othello (1603), King Lear (1605) and Macbeth (1606). In writing this extraordinary play Shakespeare effectively reinvented tragedy after an interval of roughly two thousand years we have to go back to the Greek dramatists of fifth-century Athens to find anything of comparable depth ... Read more

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Hamlet, which dates from 1600-1601, is the first in Shakespeare’s great series of four tragedies, the others being Othello (1603), King Lear (1605) and Macbeth (1606). In writing this extraordinary play Shakespeare effectively reinvented tragedy after an interval of roughly two thousand years we have to go back to the Greek dramatists of fifth-century Athens to find anything of comparable depth
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Robert Louis Stevenson: A BBC Radio Drama Collection

Treasure Island, Kidnapped, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and more

by Robert Louis Stevenson ...

Narrated by David Tennant, Wally K. Daly, Jack Lowden, Phyliss Logan, Alan Cumming, Peter Jeffrey, Michael Nardone, Stuart McQuarrie, John Dougall, David Rintoul, Tony Osoba, Nina Wadia, Madeleine Worrall, Full Cast ...

Unabridged

12 hours 22 min

A thrilling collection of dramatisations from the classic Scottish master of talesRobert Louis Stevenson was a novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer, and created some of the most famous and influential characters in modern literature. From Long John Silver and David Balfour to Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, his figures swiftly became the shorthand for piracy, monstrous medicine, and the slave trade ... Read more

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A thrilling collection of dramatisations from the classic Scottish master of talesRobert Louis Stevenson was a novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer, and created some of the most famous and influential characters in modern literature. From Long John Silver and David Balfour to Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, his figures swiftly became the shorthand for piracy, monstrous medicine, and the slave trade
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The MAN I Really Was

by Jeffrey Peter Clarke ...

Hera, wife of Almighty Zeus, king of the Gods, determines that Heracles must suffer and die, so he is condemned to face the twelve labours she imposes upon him. The challenges are many. Some take him through great danger to strange and distant lands but Heracles is no ordinary man and will face the worst. His own words, lost to us through centuries of confusion and fantasy, can at last be heard. ... Read more

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Hera, wife of Almighty Zeus, king of the Gods, determines that Heracles must suffer and die, so he is condemned to face the twelve labours she imposes upon him. The challenges are many. Some take him through great danger to strange and distant lands but Heracles is no ordinary man and will face the worst. His own words, lost to us through centuries of confusion and fantasy, can at last be heard.
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From a Distant Star

by Jeffrey Peter Clarke ...

Deep beneath the frigid land of Mars they discovered a presence that did not belong. A form that could not be natural. It was excavated and taken away for examination. When it hatched to reveal the entity within, there came death and the perils that followed. So began the race against time and the fatal desires of one man. ... Read more

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Deep beneath the frigid land of Mars they discovered a presence that did not belong. A form that could not be natural. It was excavated and taken away for examination. When it hatched to reveal the entity within, there came death and the perils that followed. So began the race against time and the fatal desires of one man.
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The Christmas Collection

by Christina Hardyment ...

Narrated by Peter Jeffrey, John Moffatt, David Timson, Susan Engel, Simon Harris, Liza Ross, Benjamin Soames ...

Unabridged

2 hours 31 min

Christmas brings out the best and the worst in us, as can be seen in this evocative anthology. Among what Thomas Love Peacock calls the ‘many poetical charms in the heraldings of Christmas’ there are eulogies by saints and diatribes from curmudgeons. Here, Christmas is expounded by divines, sung by rustics, deplored by philosophers and made mystical in stories. This collection includes complete ... Read more

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Christmas brings out the best and the worst in us, as can be seen in this evocative anthology. Among what Thomas Love Peacock calls the ‘many poetical charms in the heraldings of Christmas’ there are eulogies by saints and diatribes from curmudgeons. Here, Christmas is expounded by divines, sung by rustics, deplored by philosophers and made mystical in stories. This collection includes complete
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The Image of God

A BBC Radio Adaptation of the Medieval Mystery Plays

by David Buck ...

Narrated by David Buck, Timothy West, Denis Quilley, Peter Jeffrey, Hannah Gordon, Julian Glover, Richard Briers, John Rowe, Annette Crosbie, John Shrapnel0, Nigel Anthony1, Full Cast2 ...

Unabridged

5 hours 22 min

A full-cast three-part adaptation of the Medieval Mystery Plays, introduced by David BuckDuring medieval religious holidays in certain English towns and cities, members of the various guilds would gather in the streets to re-enact Bible stories, from the Creation to the Last Judgment. Often staged from dawn to dusk on a single day, they were performed on a procession of pageant wagons, and the ... Read more

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A full-cast three-part adaptation of the Medieval Mystery Plays, introduced by David BuckDuring medieval religious holidays in certain English towns and cities, members of the various guilds would gather in the streets to re-enact Bible stories, from the Creation to the Last Judgment. Often staged from dawn to dusk on a single day, they were performed on a procession of pageant wagons, and the
... Read more
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Margaret Oliphant: Miss Marjoribanks, Phoebe Junior and Hester

A BBC Radio Collection

by Margaret Oliphant, Kate Clanchy, Zena Foster, Elizabeth Proud ...

Narrated by Charlotte Attenborough, Elizabeth Spriggs, Full Cast, Lyndsey Marshall, Penelope Wilton, Peter Jeffrey, Teresa Gallagher ...

Unabridged

9 hours 3 min

Three BBC radio adaptations of famous novels by the prolific 19th-century author Mrs Oliphant – plus an episode of Reading Aloud, with extracts from her autobiographySometimes called ‘the feminist Trollope’, Margaret Oliphant wrote over 100 works of fiction in a wide variety of genres, ranging from novels of small-town life to historical tales and supernatural stories. Included here are three of ... Read more

$17.99 USD

Three BBC radio adaptations of famous novels by the prolific 19th-century author Mrs Oliphant – plus an episode of Reading Aloud, with extracts from her autobiographySometimes called ‘the feminist Trollope’, Margaret Oliphant wrote over 100 works of fiction in a wide variety of genres, ranging from novels of small-town life to historical tales and supernatural stories. Included here are three of
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Rogue Planet

by Jeffrey Peter Clarke ...

The lure of Planet X drew them into deep space, far beyond the light and warmth of our sun, to discover what secrets lay concealed beneath the perpetual darkness and frozen desolation of this seemingly long abandoned world.And what embers of deceit stirred within the thoughts of one among those who, on entering the forbidden depths, were to face unforeseen dangers? ... Read more

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The lure of Planet X drew them into deep space, far beyond the light and warmth of our sun, to discover what secrets lay concealed beneath the perpetual darkness and frozen desolation of this seemingly long abandoned world.And what embers of deceit stirred within the thoughts of one among those who, on entering the forbidden depths, were to face unforeseen dangers?
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The Singing Stones

by Jeffrey Peter Clarke ...

Karen and Richard met by chance, strangers in an unfamiliar town. They were used to the good life and each saw fit to take advantage of the other.A weekend of pleasure was their aim as they set off over the Pennines that rainy night. But they took a wrong turning down a confusing, deserted lane. Bogged down in a remote area with no phone signals, they could not call for help.Perhaps there was help ... Read more

$6.95 USD

Karen and Richard met by chance, strangers in an unfamiliar town. They were used to the good life and each saw fit to take advantage of the other.A weekend of pleasure was their aim as they set off over the Pennines that rainy night. But they took a wrong turning down a confusing, deserted lane. Bogged down in a remote area with no phone signals, they could not call for help.Perhaps there was help
... Read more
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This Sceptred Isle: Collection 1: 55BC - 1702

The Classic BBC Radio History

by Christopher Lee ...

Narrated by Anna Massey, Paul Eddington, Peter Jeffrey, Roger May, Paul Jenkins, John Turner, Stephen Critchlow, Denys Hawthorne ...

Unabridged

15 hours 28 min

The first five volumes from the landmark BBC radio series This Sceptred Isle. Christopher Lee's epic history tells the story of Britain from the Romans to the death of Victoria. This collection includes the original first five volumes:55BC-1087: Julius Caesar to William the Conqueror From Britannia under the Romans to the Dark Ages and the invasions of Angles, Saxons, Danes, and Norwegians.1087 ... Read more

$21.99 USD

The first five volumes from the landmark BBC radio series This Sceptred Isle. Christopher Lee's epic history tells the story of Britain from the Romans to the death of Victoria. This collection includes the original first five volumes:55BC-1087: Julius Caesar to William the Conqueror From Britannia under the Romans to the Dark Ages and the invasions of Angles, Saxons, Danes, and Norwegians.1087
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