From the private papers of Anne Boleyn and Jane Austen to those of Elizabeth Barrett-Browning and Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, this title collects together some of the most romantic letters in history.

A collection of letters from celebrities written to their sixteen-year-old selves

The Diary of a Lifetime

Presents some of the greatest love poetry from around the world and through the ages, ranging from W H Auden to William Shakespeare, John Donne to Emily Dickinson, and Robert Browning to Roger McGough.

With her husband, Ebenezer, now 'doornail dead', the coldest Christmas Eve on record finds Mrs Scrooge outside the supermarket, protesting against consumerism and waste. That night, alone in her bed with Catchit the cat beside her, Mrs Scrooge is visited by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come.

Features a selection of weekly 'pen-pal' letters written between 1949 and 1961 from an unmarried woman working at the Pier Approach Baths in Bournemouth, to a wealthy American widower, living on Long Island, New York.

Covers the period from T S Eliot's childhood in St Louis, Missouri, to the end of 1922, by which time he had settled in England, married and published The Waste Land .

John Keats died aged just twenty-five. He left behind some of the most exquisite and moving verse and love letters ever written, inspired by his great love for Fanny Brawne. This book tells the story of their tragic affair.

Includes the plays All My Sons and A View from the Bridge .

A collection of poems that shows what it is to be human; to love, to lose, to dream and to hope. It give us a sense of our time on this planet, and the pleasures they offer are - like space itself - infinite.

A collection of poems that reminds you of all those long-forgotten poems that you were taught at school, together with mini-biographies and introductions. It includes: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ; If ; Dulce et Decorum Est ; Song of Myself ; Digging ; and Not Waving But Drowning .

Fading southern belle Blanche Dubois depends on the kindness of strangers and is adrift in the modern world. When she arrives to stay with her sister Stella in a crowded, boisterous corner of New Orleans, her delusions of grandeur bring her into conflict with Stella's crude, brutish husband Stanley.

'Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful.' This line was adopted by Jean Anouilh, to characterize the first production of Waiting For Godot at the Theatre de Babylone, in 1953. Anybody acquinted with Beckett's masterly black comedy would not question the recognition of this twentieth-century literature classic.

Presents the story of how the small community of Salem is stirred into madness by superstition, paranoia and malice, culminating in a violent climax.

Brings together some of the most important and finest-written pieces from the Guardian and Guardian Unlimited . From eyewitness reports and perceptive political commentary to dramatic sports coverage and unrivalled photography, this title chronicles 2009, a testament to the Guardian 's tradition of journalism.

Features motivational quotes, proverbs, mantras and wry truths to help us through the recession, from such wits as Churchill, Disraeli and George Bernard Shaw.

Draws on some weighty emotional experiences: loneliness, jealousy, self-loathing, desire, the fierceness of a mother's love. This book reveals the foibles of the great, the ghastly and the ordinary bloke and the sufferings of those closest to them.