The Cenci
10 best books like The Cenci (Percy Bysshe Shelley): The Secret Agent, The Golden Bowl, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Coriolanus, King Henry VI, Part 2, King Henry VI, Part 3, Henry VI, Part 1, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Manfred, Milton: A Poem (The Illuminated Books of William Blake, Vol 5)
| Author | Joseph Conrad |
| ISBN | 0192801694 |
Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory things go disastrously wrong, and what appears to be "a simple...
| Author | Henry James |
| ISBN | 0140432353 |
'A thing to marvel at, a thing to be grateful for.'A rich American art-collector and his daughter Maggie buy in for themselves and to their greater glory a beautiful young wife and noble husband. They do not know that Charlotte and Prince Amerigo were formerly lovers, nor that on the eve of the Prince's...
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
| Author | James Hogg |
| ISBN | 0192835904 |
Set in early eighteenth-century Scotland, the novel recounts the corruption of a boy of strict Calvinist parentage by a mysterious stranger under whose influence he commits a series of murders. The stranger assures the boy that no sin can affect the salvation of an elect person. The reader, while recognizing...
| Author | William Shakespeare |
After the exotic eroticism of Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare returned to Rome for one of his final tragedies, and the change could not have been more dramatic. Coriolanus is one of Shakespeare's harshest and most challenging studies of power, politics and masculinity, based around the life of...
| Author | William Shakespeare |
King Henry VI, Part 2 = 2 Henry VI (Wars of the Roses #6), William Shakespeare
Henry VI, Part 2, is a history play, by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1591, and set during the lifetime of King Henry VI of England. Henry VI, Part 2, focuses on the King's inability to quell the bickering...
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| ISBN | 1903436311 |
A thoroughly accomplished piece of playcraft and a significant work of literature, this complex account of civil war is filled with broken oaths, betrayals, and labyrinthine patterns of multi-generational revenge, and Shakespeare gives us a coherent thread of narrative to guide us through...
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| ISBN | 0140714650 |
Henry VI, Part 1 is an uncompromising celebration of early English nationalism that contrasts the English with the French, portrayed here as effeminate and scheming.
A boy king, Henry VI, is on the English throne, and the indomitable Talbot leads the English cause in France. Joan La Pucelle...
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
| Author | William Blake |
| ISBN | 0486281221 |
Once regarded as a brilliant eccentric whose works skirted the outer fringes of English art and literature, William Blake (1757–1827) is today recognized as a major poet, a profound thinker, and one of the most original and exciting English artists. Nowhere is his glorious poetic and pictorial...
| Author | Lord Byron |
| ISBN | 1103516817 |
Manfred contains supernatural elements, in keeping with the popularity of the ghost story in England at the time. It is a typical example of a Romantic closet drama. Manfred was adapted musically by Robert Schumann in 1852, in a composition entitled Manfred: Dramatic Poem with music in Three Parts,...
| Author | William Blake |
| ISBN | 0691001480 |
The core of William Blake's vision, his greatness as one of the British Romantics, is most fully expressed in his Illuminated Books, masterworks of art and text intertwined and mutually enriching. Made possible by recent advances in printing and reproduction technology, the publication of new editions...
