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Literary works from the great poets and writers of history - some of which are buried in Westminster Abbey's famous Poet's Corner.

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  • Handel in London: The Making of a Genius

    Handel in London: The Making of a Genius

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    'How refreshing, to read a book about music written for a music lover and not a musicologist. In clear, lucid, entertaining prose, Jane Glover makes those of us who lack musical literacy better understand and appreciate Handel's divinity.' - Donna Leon,...
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  • Poems of the Great War

    Poems of the Great War

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    This collection is an introduction to the great wealth of First World War poetry. The sequence of poems is random - making it ideal for dipping into - and drawn from a number of sources, mixing both well-known and less familiar poetry. The work of 21...
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  • A Midsummer Night's Dream

    A Midsummer Night's Dream (Macmillan Collector's Library)

    £9.99
    Gorgeous, strange and magical, A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best loved of Shakespeare's plays. A young woman flees Athens with her lover, only to be pursued by her would-be husband and her best friend. Unwittingly, all four find themselves in...
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  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass: And What Alice Found There (Macmillan

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    It's a warm summer's afternoon when young Alice first tumbles down the rabbit hole and into the adventures in Wonderland that have kept readers spellbound for more than 150 years. Collected here are Lewis Carroll's two classics - Alice's Adventures...
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  • Hamlet

    Hamlet by William Shakespeare (Macmillan Collector's Library)

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    A young prince meets with his father's ghost, who alleges that his own brother, now married to his widow, murdered him. The prince devises a scheme to test the truth of the ghost's accusation, feigning wild madness while plotting a brutal revenge until...
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  • The Making of Handel's Messiah The Making of Handel's Messiah

    The Making of Handel's Messiah

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    The first performance of Handel’s 'Messiah' in Dublin in 1742 is now legendary. Gentlemen were asked to leave their swords at home and ladies to come without hoops in their skirts in order to fit more people into the audience. Why then, did this now...
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  • The Sonnets (Macmillan Collector's Library)

    The Sonnets (Macmillan Collector's Library)

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    The Sonnets of William Shakespeare, a cycle of 154 linked poems, were first published in 1609. Filled with ideas about love, beauty and mortality, the sonnets are written in the same beautiful and innovative language that we have come to know from...
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  • Poems for Stillness

    Poems for Stillness

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    A stunning anthology of poetry to create calm and peacefulness. The poems are arranged around themes of meditation, friendship, gratitude, prayers and blessings, stillness and consolation.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning,...
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  • Scenes of London Life

    Scenes of London Life (Macmillan Collector's Library)

    £10.99
    Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. Chosen and introduced by the playwright J. B...
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  • Jane Eyre

    Jane Eyre (Macmillan Collector's Library)

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    A beloved classic and undisputed masterpiece, Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre explores class, society, love and religion through the eyes of one of fiction's most unique and memorable female protagonists. This beautiful Macmillan Collector's...
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  • Poems of London

    Poems of London

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    Poems of London brings together a remarkably wide range of poems inspired by the storied city, from its teeming medieval streets to the multicultural metropolis it is today. The pantheon of classic English poets, from Shakespeare and Donne to Wordsworth...
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  • Poetry of the First World War

    Poetry of the First World War (Macmillan Collector's Library)

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    The First World War was one of the deadliest conflicts in modern history and produced horrors undreamed of by the young men who cheerfully volunteered for a war that was supposed to be over by Christmas. Whether in the patriotic enthusiasm of Rupert...
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