The World's Wife
By: Carol Ann Duffy
4.42
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Be terrified. It's you I love, perfect man, Greek God, my own; but I know you'll go, betray me,…
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1. Serious Concerns
By: Wendy Cope
3.88
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
A collection of poems featuring works by Cope such as "Bloody Men", "Men and their Boring Arguments… read more
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- poetry
- feminism
- womens
"Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion."-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns
"The day he moved out was terrible – That evening she went through hell. His absence wasn’t a problem But the corkscrew had gone as well."-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns
"At lunchtime I bought a huge orange The size of it made us all laugh. I peeled it and shared it with Robert and Dave— They got quarters and I had a half. And that orange it made me so happy, As ordin…"-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns
"Bloody men are like bloody buses — You wait for about a year And as soon as one approaches your stop Two or three others appear. You look at them flashing their indicators, Offering you a ride. You’r…"-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns
2. The Whitsun Weddings
By: Philip Larkin
3.92
Format: 46 pages, Paperback
Philip Larkin (1922-1985) remains England's best-loved poet - a writer matchlessly capable of evoki… read more
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- poetry
- fiction
- school
"What will survive of us is love."-Philip Larkin, The Whitsun Weddings
"What will survive of us is love. - from A Writer "-Philip Larkin, The Whitsun Weddings
"Give me your arm, old toad; Help me down Cemetery Road."-Philip Larkin, The Whitsun Weddings
"On me your voice falls as they say love should, Like an enormous yes."-Philip Larkin, The Whitsun Weddings
3. A Streetcar Named Desire
By: Tennessee Williams
3.98
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play—reissued with an introduction by Art… read more
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- fiction
- school
"Never inside, I didn't lie in my heart..."-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
"And funerals are pretty compared to deaths."-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
"I think you have a great capacity for devotion,"-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
"I want to rest. I want to breathe quietly again."-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
4. Picnic at Hanging Rock
By: Joan Lindsay
3.67
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
It was a cloudless summer day in the year nineteen hundred. Everyone at Appleyard College for Yo… read more
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- fiction
"Thinking's all right if you have the time for it."-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock
"At every step the prospect ahead grew more enchanting with added detail of crenellated crags and lichen-patterned stone. Now a mountain laurel glossy above the dogwood's dusty silver leaves, now a da…"-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock
"Although we are necessarily concerned, in a chronicle of events, with physical action by the light of day, history suggests that the human spirit wanders farthest in the silent hours between midnight…"-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock
"And now, at last, after a lifetime of linoleum and asphalt and Axminster carpets, the heavy flat-footed woman trod the springing earth. Born fifty-seven years ago in a suburban wilderness of smoke-gr…"-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock
5. Ariel
By: Sylvia Plath
4.19
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Sylvia Plath's celebrated collection. When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolifi… read more
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- poetry
- feminism
- womens
- fiction
"I do not fear it: I have been there."-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
"I could not run without having to run forever"-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
"For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge"-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
"Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it."-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
6. The Merchant's Prologue and Tale
By: Geoffrey Chaucer , Maurice Hussey
3.79
Format: None pages, Paperback
A well-established and respected series. Texts are in the original Middle English, and each has an … read more
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- poetry
- fiction
- school
7. Death and the Maiden
By: Ariel Dorfman
4.08
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Ariel Dorfman's explosively provocative, award-winning drama is set in a country that has only rece… read more
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- fiction
- school
8. Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Hecabe / Electra / Heracles
By: Euripides , Philip Vellacott
4.33
Format: 25 pages,
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- fiction
- mythology
- school
9. The World's Wife
By: Carol Ann Duffy
4.42
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Be terrified. It's you I love, perfect man, Greek God, my own; but I know you'll go, betray me,… read more
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- poetry
- retellings
- school
- feminism
- fiction
- womens
- mythology
10. A Doll's House
By: Henrik Ibsen , Michael Meyer
3.76
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
A Doll's House (1879), is a masterpiece of theatrical craft which, for the first time portrayed the… read more
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- feminism
- fiction
- school
"Laughter's all the damned thing's fit for."-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
"I must make up my mind which is right – society or I."-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
"لن تفقدوني طويلاً، فالراحلون سرعان ما ينطوون في زوايا النسيان."-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
"أنا ارى الناس صنفين .. صنف تعشقه المرأة، وصنف تحب أن تتجاذب معه أطراف الحديث."-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
11. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
By: Angela Carter
3.92
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the B… read more
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- feminism
- retellings
- fiction
"Her hair falls down like tears"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
"ordered me a sky from a florist"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
"My spite was sharp as broken glass"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
"My father lost me to the Beast at cards"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
12. Selected Poems of Christina Rossetti
By: Christina Rossetti
4.00
Format: 274 pages, Paperback
Christina Rossetti is widely regarded as the most considerable woman poet in England before the twe… read more
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13. Othello
By: William Shakespeare
4.48
Format: None pages,
In Othello, Shakespeare creates a powerful drama of a marriage that begins with fascination (betwee… read more
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14. The Duchess of Malfi
By: John Webster
3.00
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
More widely studied and more frequently performed than ever before, John Webster's The Duchess of M… read more
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15. White Knuckle
By: Steven Bruce
4.66
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
White Knuckle is Steven Bruce's poignant debut poetry collection, providing a stark autobiographica… read more
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- poetry
"Our scars are a testament that we arrived at the battle."-Steven Bruce, White Knuckle
"Strength comes, not in the grip, but the opening of the hand."-Steven Bruce, White Knuckle
"We are not the ashes of our past, but embers burning towards a future fire."-Steven Bruce, White Knuckle
16. The Orange and Other Poems
By: Wendy Cope
4.19
Format: 53 pages, Kindle Edition
My heart has made its mind up And I'm afraid it's you. The Orange and Other Poems provides the … read more
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- poetry
17. Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
By: Natalie Haynes
4.24
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The Greek myths are one of the most important cultural foundation-stones of the modern world. St… read more
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- feminism
- retellings
- mythology
"For my mum, who has always thought that a woman with an axe was more interesting than a princess"-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
"Medusa wasn't always a monster, Helen of Troy wasn't always an adulterer, Pandora wasn't ever a villain."-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
"The greatest virtue, in other words, that an Athenian woman could aspire to was not to be registered, almost not to exist."-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
"The guiding principle when searching for the cause of everything wrong in the world has been, all too often: _cherchez la femme_."-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
18. Let the Light Pour In
By: Lemn Sissay
3.67
Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEARA SAINSBURY'S MAGAZINE BOOK TO G… read more
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- poetry
19. Smart Ovens for Lonely People
By: Elizabeth Tan
3.88
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Conspiracies, memes, and therapies of various efficacy underpin this beguiling short-story collecti… read more
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- fiction
- school
20. Throat
By: Ellen Van Neerven
4.22
Format: 138 pages, Paperback
not in Aus, mate bad things don't happen here our beaches are open they are not places where blo… read more
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- poetry
- school
21. Chimerica
By: Lucy Kirkwood
3.93
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
Winner, 2014 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Winner, 2014 Olivier Award for Best New Play Winner, 2013 … read more
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