Category: General Fiction/Classics

The Beggar’s Opera and Polly by John Gay
Requirements: .ePUB reader, 2 MB
Overview: ‘Gamesters and Highwaymen are generally very good to their Whores, but they are very Devils to their Wives.’

With The Beggar’s Opera (1728), John Gay created one of the most enduringly popular works in English theatre history, and invented a new dramatic form, the ballad opera. Gay’s daring mixture of caustic political satire, well-loved popular tunes, and a story of crime and betrayal set in the urban underworld of prostitutes and thieves was an overnight sensation. Captain Macheath and Polly Peachum have become famous well beyond the confines of Gay’s original play, and in its sequel, Polly, banned in Gay’s lifetime, their adventures continue in the West Indies. With a cross-dressing heroine and a cast of female adventurers, pirates, Indian princes, rebel slaves, and rapacious landowners, Polly lays bare a culture in which all human relationships are reduced to commercial transactions.

Raucous, lyrical, witty, ironic and tragic by turns, The Beggar’s Opera and Polly – published together here for the first time – offer a scathing and ebullient portrait of a society in which statesmen and outlaws, colonialists and pirates, are impossible to tell apart.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics

Download Instructions:
https://ouo.io/4xLTePR

https://ouo.io/Eb7EwHn

The Encounter by Complicite, Simon McBurney (NHB Modern Plays)
Requirements: .ePUB reader, 2 MB
Overview: In 1969 Loren McIntyre, a National Geographic photographer, found himself lost among the people of the remote Javari Valley in Brazil. It was an encounter that was to change his life, bringing the limits of human consciousness into startling focus.

Inspired by the book Amazon Beaming by Petru Popescu, The Encounter traces McIntyre’s journey into the depths of the Amazon rainforest, incorporating innovative technology into a solo performance to build a shifting world of sound.

The Encounter opened at the Edinburgh International Festival in August 2015 performed by Simon McBurney, and received its London premiere at the Barbican in February 2016 before embarking on a world tour.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics

Download Instructions:
https://ouo.io/DaWA7NM

https://ouo.io/WuhJZN

The Land at the End of the World by António (Antonio) Lobo Antunes
Requirements: .ePUB reader, 1.7mb
Overview: “Brilliant…harrowing…Packs the impact of an exploding mortar shell.” ―Kai Maristed, Los Angeles Times

In the tradition of William Faulkner and Gabriel García Márquez, one of the twentieth century’s most original literary voices offers “kaleidoscopic visions of a modern Portugal scarred by its Fascist past and its bloody colonial wars in Africa” (Paris Review). Hailed as a masterpiece of world literature, The Land at the End of the World―in an acclaimed translation by Margaret Jull Costa―recounts the anguished tale of a Portuguese medic haunted by memories of war. Like the Ancient Mariner who will tell his tale to anyone who listens, the narrator’s evening unfolds like a fever dream that is both tragic and haunting. The result is one of the great war novels of the modern age.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics

Download Instructions:
https://ouo.io/wc6bdY

https://ouo.io/t2IGDg

OCR’d and proofed by me

Valuable Nail: Selected Poems by Günter (Gunter) Eich
Requirements: .ePUB reader, 299kb
Overview: This first book-length collection of Eich’s poems in English makes available a poet who was a soldier and prisoner of war and then began to resurrect his native tongue as a language for poetry. These poems were translated over a period of fifteen years, often in consultation with the author until his death in 1972.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics

Download Instructions:
https://ouo.io/xwXwerH

https://ouo.io/80Jl2o

OCR’d and proofread by me

The Wise Woman by Philippa Gregory
Requirements: .ePUB, .PDF reader, 2.2 Mb
Overview: Alys joins a nunnery to escape the poverty of her life on the moor with her foster mother, Morach, the local wise woman with whom she lives as an outcast, but she soon finds herself thrown back into the world when Henry VIII’s wreckers destroy her sanctuary. Summoned to the castle as the old lord’s scribe, she falls obsessively in love with his son Hugo, who is married to Catherine. Driven to desperation by her desire, she summons the most dangerous powers Morach has taught her, but soon the passionate triangle of Alys, Hugo, and Catherine begins to explode, launching them into uncharted sexual waters. The magic Alys has conjured now has a life of its own — a life that is horrifyingly and disastrously out of control.

Is she a witch? Since heresy means the stake, and witchcraft the rope, Alys is in mortal danger, treading a perilous path between her faith and her own female power.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics

Download Instructions:
Download File – 2.2 Mb

https://ouo.io/Bwup13