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Songs, Satires, Elegies\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"The Expiration\" \u003cbr\u003e\"The Computer\" \u003cbr\u003e\"The Bait\" \u003cbr\u003e\"Song\" \u003cbr\u003e\"Love's Deity\" \u003cbr\u003e\"Woman's Contancy\" \u003cbr\u003e\"The Indifferent\" \u003cbr\u003e\"Community\" \u003cbr\u003e\"The Curse\" \u003cbr\u003e\"The Flea\" \u003cbr\u003e\"The Message\" \u003cbr\u003e\"The Apparition\" \u003cbr\u003e\"The Broken Heart\" \u003cbr\u003e\"Break of Day\" \u003cbr\u003e\"Confined Love\" \u003cbr\u003e\"From Sappho to Philaenis\" \u003cbr\u003e\"To His Mistress Going to Bed (Elegy 19)\" \"The Good Morrow\" \u003cbr\u003e\"The Sun Rising\" \u003cbr\u003e\"Jealousy (Elegy 1)\" \u003cbr\u003e\"Love's Exchange\" \u003cbr\u003e\"The Will\" \u003cbr\u003e\"Satire 2\" \u003cbr\u003e\"Satire 3\" \u003cbr\u003e\"From Metempsychosis\" \u003cbr\u003e\"The Storm\" \u003cbr\u003e\"The Calm\" \u003cbr\u003e\"To Sir Henry Wotton\" \u003cbr\u003e\"His Picture (Elegy 5\" \u003cbr\u003e\"On His Mistress (Elegy 16)\" \u003cbr\u003e\"The Dream\" \u003cbr\u003e\"The Prohibition\" \u003cbr\u003e\"The Canonization\" \u003cbr\u003e\"Air and Angels\" \u003cbr\u003e\"The Ecstasy\" \u003cbr\u003e\"A Fever\" \u003cbr\u003e\"Lover's Infiniteness\" \u003cbr\u003e\"The Anniversary\" \u003cbr\u003e\"A Valediciton: of Weeping\" \u003cbr\u003e\"Song\" \u003cbr\u003e\"A Valediciton: Forbidding Mouring\" \u003cbr\u003e\"The Undertaking\" \u003cbr\u003e\"The Funeral\" \u003cbr\u003e\"The Relic\" \u003cbr\u003e\"Twicknam Garden\" \u003cbr\u003e\"A Lecture upon the Shadow\" \u003cbr\u003e\"A Nocturnal upon S. Lucy's Day, Being the Shortest Day\" \u003cbr\u003e\"The Autumnal (Elegy 9)\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Craig Black","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":46647833395435,"sku":"DZ1314","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0699\/2127\/6139\/files\/1314-Square-cover.jpg?v=1774396376"},{"product_id":"book-1325","title":"Sailing Alone around the World","description":"\u003cp\u003eChallenged by an expert who said it couldn’t be done, Joshua Slocum, a fearless New England sea captain, set out in April 1895 to prove that a man could sail alone around the world. A little over three years and forty-six thousand miles later, the proof was complete. This is Slocum’s own account of his remarkable adventures during the historic voyage of the \u003cem\u003eSpray\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhether Slocum was more accomplished as a writer or sailor is hard to say. His writing style is fast paced, witty, and exhilarating, an absorbing match to his harrowing adventures—adventures that included being chased by Moorish pirates off Gibraltar; escaping a fleet of hostile canoes; being submerged by a great wave off the Patagonian coast; an encounter with Black Pedro, “the worst murderer in Tierra del Fuego”; and foiling a nocturnal attack by savages by strewing carpet tacks on the \u003cem\u003eSpray\u003c\/em\u003e’s deck.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Craig Black","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":46647834738923,"sku":"DZ1325","price":43.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0699\/2127\/6139\/files\/1325-Square-cover.jpg?v=1775505157"},{"product_id":"book-1324","title":"John Keats","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of the most distinctive periods in poetry occurred in England early in the 1800s. This is now referred to as the age of romanticism, a movement which rebelled against the neoclassical forms and celebrated the imagination as a spiritual force. John Keats was a prominent shaper of this new movement, and as such, he was not without his critics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death,\" he soberly prophesied. Indeed, Keats suffered an early tragic death of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-five but today is recognized as the archetypal romantic genius who explored the limits of the imagination and celebrated the pleasures of the senses.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnlike Shelley, Keats was not a political poet; his prime passion was for art. His muse was the goddess of beauty and truth, and his worship of her found its finest expression in his immortal odes, which stand unique in literature, unexcelled in perfection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems collected here are: \u003cbr\u003e1. \"Oh Chatterton! How Very Sad Thy Fate\" \u003cbr\u003e2. \"O Solitude! If I Must with Thee Dwell\" \u003cbr\u003e3. \"To One Who Has Been Long in City Pent\" \u003cbr\u003e4. \"On First Looking into Chapman's Homer\" \u003cbr\u003e5. \"To My Brothers\" \u003cbr\u003e6. \"Great Spirits Now on Earth Are Sojourning\" \u003cbr\u003e7. \"On the Grasshopper and Cricket\" \u003cbr\u003e8. \"After Dark Vapours Have Oppressed Our Plains\" \u003cbr\u003e9. \"On Seeing the Elgin Marbles\" \u003cbr\u003e10. \"On the Sea\" \u003cbr\u003e11. A Selection from \"Endymion\" \u003cbr\u003e12. \"To Mrs. Reynolds' Cat\" \u003cbr\u003e13. \"On Sitting Down to Read \u003cem\u003eKing Lear\u003c\/em\u003e Once Again\" \u003cbr\u003e14. \"When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be\" \u003cbr\u003e15. \"Lines on the Mermaid Tavern\" \u003cbr\u003e16. \"O Thou Whose Face Hath Felt the Winter's Wind\" \u003cbr\u003e17. \"For There's Bishop's Teign\" \u003cbr\u003e18. \"On Visiting the Tomb of Burns\" \u003cbr\u003e19. \"Old Meg She Was a Gipsey\" \u003cbr\u003e20. \"This Mortal Body of a Thousand Days\" \u003cbr\u003e21. \"There Is a Joy in Footing Slow across a Silent Plain\" \u003cbr\u003e22. \"The Eve of St. Mark\" \u003cbr\u003e23. \"Why Did I Laugh Tonight? No Voice Will Tell\" \u003cbr\u003e24. \"Bright Star, Would I Were Stedfast as Thou Art\" \u003cbr\u003e25. \"Hyperion: A Fragment\" (Book I), II, and III) \u003cbr\u003e26. \"Hyperion: A Fragment\" (Book I, continued; Book II, Book III) \u003cbr\u003e27. \"La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad\" \u003cbr\u003e28. \"Sonnet to Sleep\" \u003cbr\u003e29. \"Ode to Psyche\" \u003cbr\u003e30. \"Ode to a Nightingale\" \u003cbr\u003e31. \"Ode on a Grecian Urn\" \u003cbr\u003e32. \"Ode on Melancholy\" \u003cbr\u003e33. \"Ode on Indolence\" \u003cbr\u003e34. \"Lamia\" (Part I) \u003cbr\u003e35. \"Lamia\" (Part I, continued; Part II) \u003cbr\u003e36. \"To Autumn\" \u003cbr\u003e37. \"The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream\" \u003cbr\u003e38. \"This Living Hand, Now Warm and Capable\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Craig Black","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":46647833886955,"sku":"DZ1324","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0699\/2127\/6139\/files\/1324-Square-cover.jpg?v=1774396394"},{"product_id":"book-1349","title":"Emily Dickinson","description":"\u003cp\u003eEmily Dickinson today has gaining her deserved place alongside Walt Whitman as one of the two greatest American poets of the nineteenth century. Beginning always with particulars of personal experience, her poems encompass life and death, love and longing, joyfulness and sorrow. With sparse, precise language, she conveyed a penetrating vision of the natural world and an acute understanding of the most profound human truths.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems included in this collection are grouped by three time periods, 1890, 1891, and 1896, and by the subjects of life, love, nature, and time and eternity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Craig Black","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":46647840964843,"sku":"DZ1349","price":43.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0699\/2127\/6139\/files\/1349-Square-cover.jpg?v=1775505211"},{"product_id":"book-1351","title":"Tales from Shakespeare","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis retelling in prose of twenty of Shakespeare’s thirty-seven plays was originally published just for children. Keeping Shakespeare’s own words whenever possible but making the plots and language easily understandable, this very listenable collection has entertained and informed generations of adults as well. With such classic stories as \u003cem\u003eA Midsummer Night’s Dream\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMuch Ado about Nothing\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHamlet\u003c\/em\u003e, and more, Shakespeare’s most memorable characters come to life anew as magicians and fairies, fools and kings weave their magic, mischief, and madness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents include: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Tempest\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Midsummer Night’s Dream\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Winter’s Tale\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eMuch Ado about Nothing\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eAs You Like It\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Two Gentlemen of Verona\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Merchant of Venice\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eCybeline\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eKing Lear\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eMacbeth\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eAll’s Well That Ends Well\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Taming of the Shrew\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Comedy of Errors\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eMeasure for Measure\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eTwelfth Night\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eTimon of Athens\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eRomeo and Juliet\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eHamlet\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eOthello\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003ePericles, Prince of Tyre\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Craig Black","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":46647841849579,"sku":"DZ1351","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0699\/2127\/6139\/files\/1351-Square-cover.jpg?v=1775505226"},{"product_id":"book-1358","title":"Robert Browning","description":"\u003cp\u003eRobert Browning was a deeply religious man who wrestled to obtain and keep his Christian faith. His conviction was that life in this world is so riddled with evil and sorrow that only a future life can make sense out of it. He viewed life as a training ground which God provided in His divine love and sovereign will.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGiven Browning’s intensely romantic love affair with Elizabeth Barrett, it is characteristic that he should view love as life’s animating force and the key to its meaning. To Browning, the most dreaded fate would be to live a “ghastly smooth life, dead at heart.” This view of life is projected throughout his poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncluded in this collection are “Johannes Agricola in Meditation”, “The Pied Piper of Hamelin”, “Youth and Art”, “Beatrice Signorini”, “Spring Song”, and many others.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Craig Black","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":46647842078955,"sku":"DZ1358","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0699\/2127\/6139\/files\/1358-Square-cover.jpg?v=1775505249"},{"product_id":"book-1365","title":"The Outline of History","description":"\u003cp\u003eHaving coined the phrase \"the war that will end war,\" H. G. Wells was disillusioned by the World War I peace settlement. Convinced that humanity needed to awaken to the instability of the world order and remember lessons from the past, the author of numerous science fiction classics set out to write about history. Wells hoped to remind mankind of its common past, provide it with a basis for international patriotism, and guide it to renounce war. The work became immensely popular, earning him world renown and solidifying his reputation as one of the most influential voices of his time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTopics range from the world before man and the first living things to civilizations, religions, wars, and everything in between. 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Bligh, along with eighteen men, was cast adrift in an open boat only twenty-three feet long with a small stock of provisions-and without a chart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis narrative, deeply personal yet objective, documents the voyage and Bligh's relationship to his men, thereby exposing the oft debated question of what kind of man he really was.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Craig Black","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":46647851581675,"sku":"DZ1530","price":45.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0699\/2127\/6139\/files\/1530-Square-cover.jpg?v=1775505652"},{"product_id":"book-1552","title":"Hints on Child Training","description":"\u003cp\u003eFortified with common sense and Biblical wisdom, Trumbull's straightforward guide has established its place as a classic work in the field of child rearing. Written over 100 years ago, it is completely free of modernist influence. 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At the same time, his abilities as a prose stylist earned him a position among the literary elite.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Common Law\u003c\/em\u003e, derived from a series of lectures given at the Lowell Institute in Boston, he systematized his early legal doctrines, creating an enduring classic of legal philosophy that continues to be read and consulted today. Beginning with historical forms of liability, it goes on to discuss criminal law, torts, bail, possession and ownership, contracts, successions, and many other aspects of civil and criminal law. 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