1. Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Written By: John Keats

The epic romance of one of the most celebrated poets in the English language

Coming to theatres in September 2009 is the tragic love story of nineteenth-century poet John Keats and the love of his life, Fanny Brawne. Keats died at the young age of twenty-five, leaving behind some of the most exquisite and moving verse and letters ever written, inspired by his deep love for Fanny. more..

2. Adventures of a Special Correspondent (Dodo Press)
Publisher: Dodo Press
Written By: Jules Verne

Large Format for easy reading. Story of a reporter traveling across Russia and Persia, from the French pioneer of the Science Fiction genre more..

3. True lies
Publisher: T. Doherty Associates
Written By: Philip Ross

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4. On the Nature of Things
Publisher: BiblioLife
Written By: Titus Lucretius Carus

The Roman philosopher's didactic poem in 6 parts, De Rerum Natura — On the Nature of Things — theorizes that natural causes are the forces behind earthly phenomena and dismisses divine intervention. Derived from the philosophical materialism of the Greeks, Lucretius' work remains the primary source for contemporary knowledge of Epicurean thought. more..

5. Waiting for Godot
Publisher: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC Audio)
Written By: Samuel Beckett

"Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful?" Estragon's complaint, uttered in the first act of "Waiting for Godot", is the playwright's sly joke at the expense of his own play - or rather at the expense of those in the audience who expect theatre always to consist of events progressing in an apparently purposeful and logical manner towards a decisive climax. In those terms, "Waiting more..

6. Death of a Salesman
Publisher: Caedmon
Written By: Arthur H. Miller

“A contemporary classic. . . listen to this album.” --The New York Times

Death of a Salesman burst upon the scene in 1949, and is as fresh and meaningful today as it was when it opened on Broadway - and won the Drama Critics' Circle Award, the Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

As Death of a Salesman is Miller's great play, Willy Loman is Lee J. Cobb's great role. He created the part on more..

7. The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits
Publisher: Evertype
Written By: Lewis Carroll

"The Hunting of the Snark" was first published in 1876, eleven years after "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and four years after "Through the Looking-Glass". It is a master­piece of nonsense and is connected to "Through the Looking-Glass" by its use of vocabulary from the poem "Jabberwocky". "The Hunting of the Snark" is a strangely dark poem, and some critics believe that its more..

8. Under the Lilacs (Dodo Press)
Publisher: Dodo Press
Written By: Louisa May Alcott

Large Format for easy reading. By the author of Little Women. A wonderful children's story about Ben Brown, his performing poodle Sancho, and the two young girls who feed and care for them after the boy and dog run away from the circus. more..

9. The Canterbury Tales (Oxford World's Classics)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Written By: Geoffrey Chaucer

David Wright's new translation of The Canterbury Tales into modern verse--the first to appear in over thirty years--makes one of the greatest works of English literature accessible to all readers while preserving the wit and vivacity of Chaucer's original text. more..

10. An Eye for an Eye (Dodo Press)
Publisher: Dodo Press
Written By: Anthony Trollope

Large Format for easy reading. Drama focusing on political, social and inter-gender issues in the victorian era by one of the most respected victorian novelists more..