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John Milton, “When I Consider How My Light Is Spent.” In the early 1650s John Milton lost his eyesight. Blindness forced him out of politics, where he had been an important figure in Oliver Cromwell’s government, and into retirement where he wrote some of the greatest poetry in a ...  عرض المزيد

J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 11. Jane Gallagher had been the sort of girl who kept her kings in the back row. Is she still? As sixteen-year-old Holden Caulfield unravels over the course of a few days in Manhattan his thoughts often return to Jane, who haunts hi ...  عرض المزيد

Macbeth by William Shakespeare audiobook. Genre: tragedy On a stormy Scottish heath, the battle-hardened nobleman Macbeth encounters three strange witches who plant a dazzling, dangerous prophecy in his mind: he is destined for greatness. Spurred by ambition and the fierce resolv ...  عرض المزيد

Henry VIII by William Shakespeare audiobook. Genre: history In Henry VIII, Shakespeare stages the Tudor court as a place where ceremony and ambition collide, and where a single royal decision can remake lives overnight. England's formidable king, Henry VIII, moves through a glitt ...  عرض المزيد

Julius Caesar is one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays, telling the story of one of history’s most famous events. In this tense political thriller, the Roman senator Brutus must decide whether to assassinate the powerful military general Julius Caesar in order to save Roman Repu ...  عرض المزيد

The Tragedy of Richard II by William Shakespeare audiobook. Genre: tragedy William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Richard II opens on a kingdom where words carry the weight of swords. King Richard II presides over a court simmering with grievance as Henry Bolingbroke accuses Thomas ...  عرض المزيد