King Lear

William Shakespeare

A moving tragedy of political intrigue and family strife, William Shakespeare's King Lear is edited by George Hunter, with an introduction by Kiernan Ryan in Penguin Shakespeare. 'How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!' The ageing King Lear, tired of office, decides to split...

The Penguin Book Of Hell

Scott G. Bruce

"From the Bible through Dante and up to Treblinka and Guant namo Bay, here is a rich source for nightmares." --The New York Times Book Review   Three thousand years of visions of Hell, from the ancient Near East to modern America   From the Hebrew Bible's shadowy realm of Sheol to twenty-first-century v...