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Actaeon was torn apart by his own hounds because he dared, Peeping-Tom-like, to gaze at the naked body of the beautiful goddess Diana while she bathed. This edition carries forward Eliot's vision and vividly demonstrates how literature can be illuminated by the new digital medium.It’s worth analysing the significance of any allusion in The Waste Land, and this one is no different. Publication of The Waste Land in 1922 was a milestone in the literary history of the 20th Century. The interviews and Fiona Shaw's performance are specially filmed by Adam Low, director of the BBC Arena documentary on Eliot. Faber is the London publisher where Eliot himself worked for almost four decades RGB is behind other revolutionary interactive books for iPad including The Elements and Solar System which are defining the future of publishing. The Waste Land is published jointly by Faber and Faber and RGB.

Now it isn't, and that in itself would almost justify the price of the iPad that made it possible.” “As someone coming from the wrong side of the two cultures, Eliot's poem had effectively been closed off to me for decades. Winner International Interaction Design Award 2013

Winner Best Adult App at the FutureBook Awards 2011

examine original manuscript pages to see how the poem took shape under Ezra Pound’s editing.

watch over 35 expert video perspectives on the poem including contributions from Seamus Heaney and Jeanette Winterson.

reveal the structure of the verse and move quickly between sections with a new navigation tool.

understand the poem’s many references and allusions with the help of comprehensive interactive notes.

Eliot himself (readings from two periods in his life) as well as Ted Hughes, Alec Guinness, Viggo Mortensen and Jeremy Irons with Eileen Atkins

listen to complete audio readings of the poem, also synchronised to the text, by T.

watch a remarkable specially filmed performance of the entire poem by Fiona Shaw, synchronised to the text.

This digital edition carefully respects the typography and integrity of the original yet offers spectacular new ways to explore the significance and influence of the poem. A wealth of interactive features illuminate T. The Waste Land brings alive the most revolutionary poem of the last hundred years for a 21st Century audience. To mark the centenary of the poem, Faber is releasing the award-winning The Waste Land app for the first time on iPhone as well as iPad.