Une anthologie exceptionnelle reunissant cinq monuments de la poesie epique occidentale : Homere, Virgile, Dante, Shakespeare et Milton. Des voyages heroiques de l'Iliade et de l'Odyssee aux visions de l'au-dela de la Divine Comedie et du Paradis perdu, cette collection retrace des siecles d'imagination poetique.

Cette collection réunit l'œuvre intégrale de William Shakespeare, génie universel du théâtre et de la langue anglaise. Elle comprend ses grandes tragédies telles que Hamlet, Macbeth et Le Roi Lear, ses comédies emblématiques comme Le Songe d'une nuit d'été, ainsi que ses pièces historiques et ses sonnets. Un monument intemporel de la littérature mondiale, réuni en un seul volume élégant pour Chronicle Vault.

Fifty essential works, one sweeping introduction to the world's greatest storytellers. This first volume gathers Jane Austen's social wit, Charles Dickens's unforgettable characters, Fyodor Dostoevsky's psychological depth, Victor Hugo's romantic grandeur, Herman Melville's seafaring epic, and Edgar Allan Poe's dark imagination alongside giants from Cervantes to Tolstoy, the Bronte sisters to Shakespeare. Spanning centuries and continents, from the Spanish Golden Age to Gothic romance, Vic...

With a foreword by Malorie Blackman, author of the Noughts & Crosses series and Chasing the Stars.‘Farewell the tranquil mind; farewell content.’Rediscover Shakespeare’s tale of jealousy and miscommunication.Jealousy is a hell of a drug.After being passed over for promotion, the envious flag-bearer Iago begins a vicious campaign of whispers against his leader, the famed Black Venetian General, Othello. As Iago’s manipulatio...

With a foreword by Katherine Webber, author of the Twin Crowns series.‘Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.’Rediscover Shakespeare’s tale of exile and forgiveness.What goes around, comes around.Prospero, the usurped Duke of Milan, was doomed to live out his life on a small island with his daughter, Miranda, and his magical servants Ariel and Caliban. Until a shipwreck lands his usurping brother on the island, along with K...

With a foreword by Bea Fitzgerald, author of A Beautiful Evil and The End Crowns All.‘O time, thou must untangle this, not I.’Rediscover Shakespeare’s tale of crossed loves and mistaken identities.Love gets complicated.After a catastrophic shipwreck, identical twins Viola and Sebastian are separated, each believing that the other is dead. To get her life back on track, Viola begins dressing as a man and working for...

With a foreword by Simon James Green, author of Boy Like Me and The Big Ask.‘There is a tide in the affairs of men.’Rediscover Shakespeare’s tale of power and betrayal.It’s lonely at the top.As the triumphant General Julius Caesar’s power continues to grow, so too does a plot to undo him. Contrived by enemies, joined by friends, it is the ultimate betrayal, and it will cost Caesar his life.Who will rise to ...

With a foreword by Lev Rosen, author of the Evander Mills series and You've Goth My Heart.‘All that glisters is not gold.’Rediscover Shakespeare’s tale of bitterness and retribution.Bitterness begets blood.Bassiano is in love with the gorgeous heiress Portia! Alas, he’s too poor to pass the suitors’ test set by her father. Fortunately, Bassiano’s best friend, Antonio, steps up and borrows the money on his behalf. Unfortunately, Anto...

With a foreword by Manjeet Mann, author of Run, Rebel and Roar.‘They told me I was everything: 'tis a lie’Rediscover Shakespeare’s tale of power and treachery.The price for power is paid in blood.The ageing King Lear must divide his kingdom between his daughters; but who to choose? Goneril and Regan, who love him loudly and flatter his ego, or the self-contained Cordelia, who waits for fate to bring what it will.

Featuring beautiful hand-painted cover art from artist Laci Fowler, this deluxe edition of William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet and Other Verse celebrates the beauty and the agony of love.William Shakespeare, one of history's most influential English writers, crafted works that endure because of their profound insight into human emotions. Throughout his canon, he masterfully explores every facet of love, capturing both its bliss and its potential for jealo...

Shakespeare's popular pastoral romance, As You Like It, features disguised lovers, exiled brothers, multiple marriage plots, a wrestling bout and the famous Forest of Arden.Friendships are formed and lovers are reunited in a play that explores the intersection of love, 'play' and deception. Rosalind's unique performance of gender, both as herself and in disguise as Ganymede, provides the pivot on which the play turns, leading us into the magic of the fores...

At a masked ball he was never invited to, Romeo Montague falls instantly for Juliet Capulet — a girl whose family has hated his for as long as anyone can remember. What follows is five days of secret marriage, banished exile, a potion meant to fake death, and a message that arrives one hour too late, ending in a tomb with both families finally, uselessly reconciled. Written around 1595, Romeo and Juliet has defined the language of romantic love and romantic tragedy for over four centuries,...