Voices in the Park (PB)

Anthony Browne

"Four different voices tell their own versions of the same walk in the park. The radically different perspectives give a fascinating depth to this simple story which explores many of the author s key themes, such as alienation, friendship and the bizarre amid the mundane. Anthony Browne s world-renowned...

Prometheus Bound, The Suppliants, Seven Against Thebes; The Persians

Aeschylus

Aeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. In Prometheus Bound the defiant Titan Prometheus is brutally punished by Zeus for daring to improve the state of wretchedness and servitude in which mankind is kept. The S...

Natural History: A Selection

Pliny the Elder

Pliny's "Natural History" is an astonishingly ambitious work that ranges from astronomy to art and from geography to zoology. Mingling acute observation with often wild speculation, it offers a fascinating view of the world as it was understood in the first century AD, whether describing the danger of d...