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World Wisdom Shakespeares Sonnets and the Bible A Spiritual
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Penguin Books Ltd Thomas Hardy
Book SynopsisThe seminal biography of a great poet, novelist and sacred figure in English writing, Thomas Hardy, from bestselling author Clare Tomalin. ''An extraordinary story, beautifully told. Tomalin is the most empathetic of biographers'' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday Paradox ruled Thomas Hardy''s life. His birth was almost his death; he became one of the great Victorian novelists and reinvented himself as one of the twentieth-century''s greatest poets; he was an unhappy husband and a desolate widower; he wrote bitter attacks on the English class system yet prized the friendship of aristocrats. In the hands of Whitbread Award-winning biographer Claire Tomalin, author of the bestselling Charles Dickens: A Life and The Invisible Woman, Thomas Hardy comes vividly alive. ''Another triumph for a biographer who goes from strength to strength'' Melvyn Bragg, Guardian, Books of the Year ''Tomalin provides an
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Houghton Mifflin Lectures On Literature
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Mariner Books Classics A Room of Ones Own
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The Armchair Traveller at the Bookhaus In Byron′s Footsteps
Book SynopsisWhen Tessa de Loo saw Albania for the first time, no foreigners were allowed to enter. Filled with a great curiosity, longing, and a sense of wonderment by this isolated land, de Loo gazed toward the mountains that stood like 'the backs of patiently waiting elephants' across the water from Corfu. Inspired by the famous Thomas Phillips portrait of Lord Byron in Albanian national costume, and enthralled by the image of Lord Byron since her teenage years, she sets about exploring not only his physical journey, but attempts to understand his inner one as well. de Loo stole her way in and found a country suffering the hardships of post-communist reality and the constant and sometimes fractious clash between tradition and modernity. In the tradition of Bruce Chatwin, de Loo, the award-winning author of "The Twins," has written a fascinating travelogue and a very personal reassessment of the a formative chapter in Lord Byron's short life.Trade Review'[One notes] the seriousness and humour with which De Loo laces her contribution to superior travel literature... She gives her report in the form of letters to Byron (My dear friend, My dearest George) alternated with chapters where she recounts Byron's journey. However euphoric De Loo's report is not too affected, it stays lively and informative... is a book of contrasts, surprises and disappointments, written cheerfully and with eye for details.' Vrij Nederland
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Macbeth
Book SynopsisMacbeth is one of Shakespeare's most performed and studied tragedies. This major new Arden edition offers students detailed on-page commentary notes highlighting meaning and theatrical ideas and themes, as well as an illustrated, lengthy introduction setting the play in its historical, theatrical and critical context and outlining the recent debates about Middleton's possible co-authorship of some scenes. A comprehensive and informative edition ideal for students and teachers seeking to explore the play in depth, whether in the classroom or on the stage.Trade ReviewThis is a splendid edition: it incorporates the most recent modern scholarship ... and it does so within a compass and format that is both readable and usable. -- Neil Rhodes, University of St. Andrews, UK * Around the Globe *A much needed third series edition of Macbeth, which provides the reader with a breath of fresh scholarship after over 30 years. * Jarrod DePrado, Sacred Heart University, USA *Table of ContentsPreface List of Illustrations Introduction Macbeth Appendices Further Reading Index
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No Exit Press F SCOTT FITZGERALD The Pocket Essential Series
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NMSE - Publishing Ltd John Buchan and the Thirty-nine Steps: an
Book SynopsisSet in the months before the outbreak of the Great War and in print for almost 100 years The Thirty-Nine Steps is John Buchan's most popular novel. This timely look at the book - what inspired it, its themes and metaphors - and at its author - how much of John Buchan's own self and experiences are in it - will greatly enhance the reader's enjoyment.Trade Review' ... It doesn't matter how many times you have read "The Thirty-Nine Steps", this book will allow you to see it through fresh eyes and appreciate it even more deeply.' Undiscovered ScotlandTable of ContentsIntroduction - The man who lived / London, and the man who died / Galloway and the Borders / Upper Tweedale / The living hill country / The Scots in the modern world / South Africa and secret societies / Disguise and disappearance / Converging on the sea / Further reading and summaries of the Buchan novels.
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Park Lane Books World of Jane Austen
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Temple Lodge Publishing Educating the Soul: On the Esoteric in
Book Synopsis'The power of Shakespeare lies in his evidently conscious knowledge, skill and understanding of how to work with the alchemical potential in the human soul in the crafting of his plays. Each play is made as an exquisitely unique transformative device for the education of the soul."Books carry on conversations across the thresholds of time and space', writes Josie Alwyn in her introduction. This book is the fruit of her 'conversation' with Brien Masters - a collaboration that began more than twenty years ago, when she was learning to be a Waldorf teacher. They open their discussions with the broader theme of the role and 'mission' of drama in human development, before focusing on the central topic: the potential for metamorphosis inherent in Shakespeare's plays. This creative, birth-giving, transformative essence of Shakespeare - the esoteric core of his work - is vitally important to our times, they suggest, and contributes to the ongoing cultural education of the human soul.Published to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, Educating the Soul offers an overview of Shakespeare's journey as a playwright in the context of evolving human consciousness. The heart of the book features nine essays on Shakespeare's most performed plays. Just as the middle act of a Shakespearian drama gives a point of transformation, so these essays represent the central, unfolding dialogue that took place between the writers as the book developed. This section is followed by an in-depth study of Hamlet, that sees the story as a learning process, deeply strengthened by the primary character's own education and changing consciousness. Finally, the book explores the theme of transformation through The Tempest and in relation to the archetypal 'tree of life'. Accessible to all, the motifs of the various chapters in this book are woven lightly together, enabling the reader to follow the contents in sequence, or to dip in and pick up the threads at any point.
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CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD The Connell Guide To Shakespeare's Antony and
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LUP - University of Michigan Press David Mamet in Conversation
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Cambridge University Press Camus The Stranger
Book SynopsisThis handy guide places The Stranger, one of the seminal texts of existentialism and twentieth-century literature in general, in the context of French and French-Algerian history and culture. This second edition boasts a revised guide to further reading and a new chapter on Camus and the Algerian War.Table of ContentsPreface; Chronology; 1. Contexts; 2. The Stranger; 3. Early Camus and Sartre; 4. Camus and the Algerian War; 5. Why and how we read The Stranger: a guide to further reading.
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Cambridge University Press Cambridge English for Nursing Preintermediate
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Cambridge University Press The Rhetoric of Identity in Isocrates
Book SynopsisThe Rhetoric of Identity in Isocrates provides an interpretation of an important, but largely neglected and disregarded, fourth-century Athenian author to show how he uses writing to provide a model of political engagement which is distinct from his own contemporaries' (especially Plato's) and from our own notions of political involvement.Trade Review"Students of ancient rhetoric will be very glad that there is now a monograph on Isocrates in English....They will find the book interesting and suggestive...." Bryn Mawr Classical Review"The Rhetoric of Identity in Isocrates strengthens our understanding of the process by which Isocrates created his literary ethos and the necessity for such a rhetorical display." Rhetoric ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Isocrates and logos politikos; 2. The unities of discourse; 3. The politics of the small voice; 4. Isocrates in his own write; 5. The pedagogical contract; 6. The politics of discipleship; Brief afterword; Appendix 1. Isocrates and Gorgias; Appendix 2. Concerning the chariot-team.
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Cambridge University Press Macbeth
Book SynopsisThis second edition of Macbeth offers a thorough reconsideration of one of Shakespeare's most popular plays. Edited and introduced by A. R. Braunmuller, this edition features a new introductory section on recent productions of the play, including cinematic versions by Kurosawa and Roman Polanski.Trade Review'This updated edition of Macbeth reveals thorough research, it is conscientiously annotated, and it appears a superb tool for researchers and students involved in Shakespeare scholarship.' Year's Work in English StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: Macbeth in legend, Macbeth in history; Macbeth in the mind; Macbeth in performance; Macbeth in the mind and in performance; Recent performances and adaptations; Note on the text; List of characters; The play; Supplementary notes; Textual analysis; Appendixes: 1. Casting Macbeth; 2. Additional text and music; 3. Relineation of the Folio; Reading list.
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Carcanet Press Ltd England and the English Millennium Ford
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Random House USA Inc Jungle Bantam Classics
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Everyman Arthur Rimbaud Selected Poems
Book SynopsisBurnt-out at twenty-three, Rimbaud has become a model for the poet as wayward genius. Nevertheless, he wrote a substantial amount of lyric and dramatic verse in his few years of activity. This volume contains all his mature output, together with several short prose works, including A SEASON IN HELL, and relevant passages from the poet's letters.
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Random House Publishing Group The Portrait of a Lady Classics
Book SynopsisCapturing the grandeur of a gracious, splendid Europe of wealth and Old World sensibilities, this glorious, complex novel has become a touchstone for a great writer’s entire literary achievement. From the opening pages, when the high-spirited American girl Isabel Archer arrives at the English manor Gardencourt, James’s luminous, superbly crafted prose creates an atmosphere of intensity, expectation, and incomparable beauty. Isabel, who has been taken abroad by an eccentric aunt to fulfill her potential, attracts the passions of a British aristocrat and a brash American, as well as the secret adoration of her invalid cousin, Ralph Touchett. But her vulnerability and innocence lead her not to love but to a fatal entrapment in intrigue, deception, and betrayal. This brilliant interior drama of the forming of a woman’s consciousness makes The Portrait of a Lady a masterpiece of James’s middle years.
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Channel View Publications Ltd A Companion to Translation Studies
Book SynopsisA Companion to Translation Studies is the first work of its kind. It provides an authoritative guide to key approaches in translation studies. All of the essays are specially commissioned for this collection, and written by leading international experts in the field. The book is divided into nine specialist areas: culture, philosophy, linguistics, history, literary, gender, theatre and opera, screen, and politics. Contributors include Susan Bassnett, Gunilla Anderman and Christina Schäffner. Each chapter gives an in-depth account of theoretical concepts, issues and debates which define a field within translation studies, mapping out past trends and suggesting how research might develop in the future. In their general introduction the editors illustrate how translation studies has developed as a broad interdisciplinary field. Accompanied by an extensive bibliography, this book provides an ideal entry point for students and scholars exploring the multifaceted and fast-developing discipline of translation studies.Trade Review"This excellent critical companion will be welcomed by students and established scholars alike. Organised thematically, it presents different strands and schools of thought in the context of their contributions to particular shared concerns, thus offering an ideal springboard for further reading in both translation studies and neighbouring disciplines." -- Kate Sturge, Aston University, UKThe strength of the book is thoughtful, well-researched and carefully documented. Anyone who is interested in translation studies and relevant discipline will find beneficial to read it. -- Lu Shisheng, Nankai University * Bibliographical and Lexicographical Information, Babel, Vol 57:2, 2011 *Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction 1. Culture and Translation - Susan Bassnett 2. Philosophy and Translation - Anthony Pym 3. Linguistics and Translation - Gunilla Anderman 4. History and Translation - Lynne Long 5. Literary Translation - Theo Hermans 6. Gender and Translation - Luise von Flotow 7. Screen Translation - Eithne O’Connell 8. Theatre and Opera Translation - Mary Snell-Hornby 9. Politics and Translation – Christina Schäffner Bibliography Index
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University of California Press The Aeneid of Virgil 35th Anniversary Edition
Book SynopsisRecounting the wanderings of Aeneas and his companions after the fall of Troy, this edition of Virgil's epic poems contains fourteen renderings created by Barry Moser to illustrate this volume.
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University of California Press Autobiography of Mark Twain Volume 2
Book SynopsisBrimming with humor, ideas, and opinions, this title delves into Mark Twain's life, uncovering the many roles he played in his private and public worlds.Trade Review"The great American author, aided by his scholarly editors, continues to spin out a great yarn covering his long life... Twain admirers will find this volume indispensable and wil eagerly await the third volume." STARRED REVIEW Kirkus Reviews "Meticulously edited... A treasure deserving shelf space next to Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer." STARRED REVIEW -- Bryce Christensen Booklist "Twain is incapable of going more than a few paragraphs without making you laugh or think hard... Don't loan this book out: you'll never see it again." Bloomberg Pursuits "Another delightful round of humor and candor, reminiscence and insider sketches of the people and politics of Twain's day." The Sacramento Bee "Contains more of Twain's ranging, astute, and unfailingly candid portrayals of his private and public lives. Excoriations of politicians appear next to affectionate family stories and bemused observations on the absurdities of life, helping to fill out our understanding of America's greatest humorist." The New Yorker, Page-Turner "Set aside all ideas of starting at the beginning and reading through to the end. This is a book to keep on your bedside table, or in the kitchen, or the garage, or anyplace else you might want to pick it up. Follow Clemens' own advice in reading it, as he did in writing it: Start reading at no particular point; wander at your free will all over it; read only about the thing that interests you for the moment; drop it the moment its interest threatens to pale; and turn your eye upon the new and more interesting thing that has intruded itself into your gaze meantime. Believe me, there are plenty of these in this wonderful volume." The Hartford Courant "One sees a mind bubbling and hears a uniquely American voice." Literary Review "Twain traveled extensively and befriended many luminaries, and his colorful experiences give the book the same Dickensian scope as the first volume, and presents a vivid picture of America in the 19th century and Twain's indelible mark on it." Publishers Weekly "This is vintage Twain-timeless, and still germane." BookPage "Twain is frequently sad and cynical in these late-in-life writings (just a few years before his death) but his devastating wit and sharp-eyed commentary are on full display as well." Christian Science Monitor "The publishing sensation of the year." -- Jonah Raskin San Francisco Chronicle "What we've inherited is no ordinary book. You may begin at the beginning and read to its end; you may reach into it like a grab bag and enjoy whatever you pull out. It doesn't matter." Dallas Morning News "Twain ambles through eternal truths and trivia, telling of world events and personal piques. Witticisms appear at random intervals, and the ensuing laughter can be dangerous to the lower extremities if one doesn't have a vicelike grip on this weighty tome." The Christian Science Monitor "In case you had any doubt about it, the new book demonstrates that Twain dictated as well as he wrote." The Washington Post "One of the more marvelous literary projects of our time." The Buffalo News "As much a sensitive and articulate historical work as an autobiography, the book is almost inexhaustible in its content... What seems like a mountain of anecdotal scraps and opinions results in a clear picture of Clemens as Twain." Library Journal "If you surrender yourself to the sound of his voice, the pleasure of Twain's company proves pretty hard to resist. His narrative may be loose, but at least it never loses sight of its subject." The New Yorker, Page-TurnerTable of ContentsList of Dictations Acknowledgments AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARK TWAIN Explanatory Notes Appendixes Samuel L. Clemens: A Brief Chronology Family Biographies Previous Publication Note on the Text Word Division in This Volume References Index Photographs
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The Lilliput Press Ltd Creativity in its Contexts
Book SynopsisTwo poets, a playwright and a novelist – Michael Longley, Eavan Boland, Frank McGuiness and Anita Desai – explore in these essays aspects of the imaginative process as each has experienced it: four major writers, four sensibilities, four ways of seeing creativity and its contexts. MICHAEL LONGLEY writes with remarkable candour of his years – 1970 to 1991 – as arts administrator in Northern Ireland. Transforming anecdote into parable, this noted poet measures the cost of ‘trying to remain true to yourself facing the ”dark tower”‘ while being part of an essential but often soul-destroying bureaucracy. EAVAN BOLAND, merging the personal and the theoretical, contends that the place of women as writers in Irish society have been shaped by a ‘ fusion of the national and the feminine’. FRANK MCGUINESS, the internationally acclaimed playwright, offers a radically innovative reading of Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis, while calling into being the material contexts of creativity – in this instance, a prison cell. The Indian novelist ANITA DESAI looks at her country’s colonial heritage and a shared background that gave rise to the work of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore and the film-maker Satyajit Ray. Her fascinating lecture shows how a vibrant indigenous culture, coming into fruitful contact with the West at the end of the nineteenth century, blossomed into artistic creation – yielding parallels with Ireland.
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Cambridge University Press Cambridge Academic English B2 Upper Intermediate
Book SynopsisA three-level (B1+ to C1) integrated skills course for higher education students at university or on foundation courses.
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Thames & Hudson Ltd What Happens Next
Book SynopsisA sensitive and gently humorous look at a little boy's imaginings of where his Grandpa goes after he dies.Trade Review'The illustrations are wonderful, and the book has a brilliantly creative approach to its subject' - Absolutely Mama
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Galileo Publishers The 100 Best Novels: In English
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The Lilliput Press Ltd Denis Johnston: A Life
Book SynopsisThis is the first biography of Denis Johnston, barrister, theatre director, film-maker, pioneering television producer, war correspondent, essayist and celebrated playwright. Johnston was of Ulster Presbyterian stock, born into Edwardian Dublin, where he was briefly held hostage in his family home at Lansdowne Road during the 1916 Rising. Son of a Supreme Court judge, he was schooled at St Andrew’s in Dublin, in Edinburgh and Christ’s College, Cambridge, and at Harvard University. He made the name of the Gate Theatre in 1929 with his astonishing first play The Old Lady Says ‘No!’, created the radio epic ‘Lillibulero’ for the BBC in Belfast, and earned an OBE for his war reporting from North Africa, Yugoslavia and Buchenwald. In 1950 he decamped to New York and taught for many years at colleges in Massachusetts, founding the Poets’ Theatre in Boston. An Irishman of wide horizons and wit, and a prodigal dissenter, his multi-faceted life illuminates the cultural history of the past century. He was turbulently married to the actresses Shelah Richards and Betty Chancellor, and had four children, among them the novelist Jennifer Johnston. In this masterly biography, Adams draws upon Johnston’s copious and intimate diaries, letters and uncompleted autobiography deposited in Trinity College, Dublin, cataloguing the ‘untidy museum’ of his subject’s past. The result is an enthralling narrative of the extraordinary secret life of a complex, self-doubting individual, which brings new light to bear on one of the twentieth century’s most original Irish writers.Trade Review‘Bernard Adams has produced a terrific biography of a truclent maverick’ – Neil Donnelly, Irish Independent ‘This excellent biography will undoubtedly stimulate further interest in the work while providing fitting tribute to a remarkable Irishman.’ – P.J. Mathews, Irish Times ‘A masterly biography. Rarely was a biographer better served by his subject. Johnston was an enthusiastic archivist who left a wealth of secret diaries, autobiographical writings and recordings, scrapbooks and unpublished memoirs in his wake. These sources are judiciously used and amplified by the author’s keen sense of Johnston’s milieu to provide an intriguing narrative of a fascinating life.’ – P.J. Mathews, Irish Times ‘Bernard Adams sets out from a secure base and he tells his story of Johnston’s life fluently.’ -W.J. McCormack, Sunday Business Post ‘Denis Johnston: A Life is clearly a labour of love. It is also a thoroughly good read.’ – Emer O’Kelly, Sunday Independent
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Peepal Tree Press Ltd New World Adams: Interviews with West Indian
Book SynopsisIn these interviews, held in the early 1980s, with twenty-two of the major writers of the English-speaking Caribbean, Daryl Dance brings together what is much more than just a valuable source book for readers of West Indian writing. The interviews are highly readable - by turns probing, combative and reflective and always absorbing. Daryl Dance brings to the interviews a rare breadth of knowledge and empathy with the work of the writers interviewed and the openly avowed insights of an African-American woman.The writers interviewed include Michael Anthony, Louise Bennett, Jan Carew, Martin Carter and Denis Williams, Austin Clarke, Wilson Harris, John Hearne, C.L.R. James, Ismith Khan, George Lamming, Earl Lovelace, Tony McNeill, Pam Mordecai and Velma Pollard, Mervyn Morris, Orlando Patterson, Vic Reid, Dennis Scott, Sam Selvon, Michael Thelwell, Derek Walcott and Sylvia Wynter. This second edition contains updated bibliographies for all the writers.Daryl Dance is Professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond.
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Dedalus Press Butterfly Valley: A Requiem
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Scottish Text Society Older Scots: A Linguistic Reader
Book SynopsisA full introduction to Older Scots language and literature, with a wide selection of copiously annotated texts from the period. This book enables both students and more advanced scholars to develop a comprehensive understanding of Older Scots, the form of Scots which survives in records up to around 1700. It provides the means of understanding the language's essential characteristics, and enables readers to engage with the fascinating textual and linguistic problems which it presents. The volume contains an extensive set of annotated texts from the period, inviting closer engagement with the detail of the language, which are preceded by a comprehensive introduction to and discussion of the subject; it also looks at the linguistic detail (in the broadest sense) of the reception and afterlife of medieval andearly modern Scottish texts. Those interested in literary form in Older Scottish literature will find it a "kit" for stylistic analysis; book historians will appreciate the detailed studies of processes of production and reception, and be reminded of the importance of integrating disciplines such as textual criticism, codicology, paleography and philology; and for linguists, there is access to an unrivalled body of up-to-date textual information, previously hard to find in a single place. Jeremy J. Smith is Professor of English Philology, University of Glasgow.Trade ReviewMakes a vital contribution to Older Scots studies. [It] will be much appreciated by scholars and students alike.... The combination of high calibre scholarship, carefully selected texts, and a lucid, engaging written style, ensures that Smith's Linguistic Reader makes the Older Scots language come alive for students and researchers alike. * INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF SCOTTISH STUDIES *An important tool and reference work for students and teachers who wish to study and teach this corpus. it is lucid, intelligent, and authoritative. * MEDIEVAL REVIEW *A great step forward in the sheer availability of representative texts from the Older Scots period. [...] It will become the standard textbook for these matters in the foreseeable future, not only for students but also academics. * JOURNAL OF IRISH & SCOTTISH STUDIES *[W]elcomed for presenting a linguistically and stylistically wide range of Older Scots texts in accessible form [...] this book will be welcomed by all teachers and researchers in the field. * SCOTTISH LANGUAGE *Table of ContentsPreface About Older Scots Transmission Grammar and Lexicon Style in Older Scottish Texts List of Texts Editorial Principles Texts 1: Documents Texts 2: Letters Texts 3: On language and literature Texts 4: Poetry Texts 5: Prose Texts 6: Bible translation Appendix: Older Scots: the first hundred words Bibliography and references
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Archetype The Secret of Shakespeare: His Greatest Plays
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Taylor & Francis Colonialism and Neocolonialism
Book SynopsisNearly forty years after its first publication in French, this collection of Sartre's writings on colonialism remains a supremely powerful, and relevant, polemical work. Over a series of thirteen essays Sartre brings the full force of his remarkable intellect relentlessly to bear on his own country's conduct in Algeria, and by extension, the West's conduct in the Third World in general. Whether one agrees with his every conclusion or not, Colonialism and Neo-Colonialism shows a philosopher passionately engaged in using philosophy as a force for change in the world. An important influence on postcolonial thought ever since, this book takes on added resonance in the light of the West's most recent bout of interference in the non-Western world.Trade Review'A living testimony to Sartre as a significant anti-colonial figure, with not only an analytic brain but ethical precepts worthy of emulation. It provides a detailed and massively well-informed insight into French Colonial policies in Algeria.' - Human Nature Review'Uncalled for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population.' - Jean-Paul SartreTable of ContentsAcknowledgements "Preface "by Robert J.C. Young Introduction: Remembering Sartre by Azzedine Haddour From One China to Another Colonialism is a System Albert Memmi's "The Colonizer and the Colonized" You Are Wonderful We Are All Murderers A Victory The Pretender The Constitution of Contempt The Frogs Who Demand a King The Analysis of the Referendum The Sleepwalkers The Wretched of the Earth The Political Thought of Patrice Lumumba
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Random House USA Inc I Am Not Your Negro
Book SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLER • In his final years, one of America’s greatest writers envisioned a book about his three assassinated friends, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King. His deeply personal notes for the project had never been published before acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck mined them to compose his Academy Award-nominated documentary.“Thrilling…. A portrait of one man’s confrontation with a country that, murder by murder, as he once put it, ‘devastated my universe.’” —The New York TimesPeck weaves these texts together, brilliantly imagining the book that Baldwin never wrote with selected published and unpublished passages, essays, letters, notes, and interviews that are every bit as incisive and pertinent now as they have ever been. Peck’s film uses them to jump through time, juxtaposing Baldwin’s private words with his public statements, in a blazing examination of the tragic history of race in America.This edition contains more than 40 black-and-white images from the film.
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HarperCollins Publishers A Secret Vice Tolkien on Invented Languages
Book SynopsisFirst ever critical study of Tolkien's little-known essay, which reveals how language invention shaped the creation of Middle-earth and beyond, to George R R Martin's Game of Thrones.J.R.R. Tolkien's linguistic invention was a fundamental part of his artistic output, to the extent that later on in life he attributed the existence of his mythology to the desire to give his languages a home and peoples to speak them. As Tolkien puts it in A Secret Vice', the making of language and mythology are related functions'.In the 1930s, Tolkien composed and delivered two lectures, in which he explored these two key elements of his sub-creative methodology. The second of these, the seminal Andrew Lang Lecture for 19389, On Fairy-Stories', which he delivered at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, is well known. But many years before, in 1931, Tolkien gave a talk to a literary society entitled A Hobby for the Home', where he unveiled for the first time to a listening public the art that he had Trade Review‘Anyone who has interest in language, linguistics, storytelling, or simply just fantasy in general should add this to their top shelf’5* Amazon Reviewer ‘An absolute MUST HAVE for any Tolkien fan!’5* Amazon Reviewer
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Taylor & Francis Things Merely Are
Book SynopsisThis book is an invitation to read poetry. Simon Critchley argues that poetry enlarges life with a range of observation, power of expression and attention to language that eclipses any other medium. In a rich engagement with the poetry of Wallace Stevens, Critchley reveals that poetry also contains deep and important philosophical insight. Above all, he agues for a ''poetic epistemology'' that enables us to think afresh the philosophical problem of the relation between mind and world, and ultimately to cast the problem away.Drawing astutely on Kant, the German and English Romantics and Heidegger, Critchley argues that through its descriptions of particular things and their stubborn plainness - whether water, guitars, trees, or cats - poetry evokes the ''mereness'' of things. It is this experience, he shows, that provokes the mood of calm and releases the imaginative insight we need to press back against the pressure of reality. Critchley also argues that this calm defines the cTrade Review'Things Merely Are is very much a manifesto that aims to break the frame of philosophical thinking within the English-speaking tradition. And in the bargain Critchley gives us a fresh reading of Wallace Steven's work that academic literary criticism desperately needs. My hope is that this book is not just a one-trick pony but the opening of a philosophical investigation into literary modernism.' - Notre Dame Philosophical ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgements, Abbreviations of works by Wallace Stevens, Advice to the reader, 1. Or so we say – twenty-one propositions, 2. Poetry, philosophy and life as it is, 3. Sudden rightnesses, 4. Wallace Stevens’s intimidating thesis, 5. The twofold task of poetry, 6. The thing itself and its seasons, Conclusion, Afterword: Calm – on Terrence Malick, Thanks, Notes, Bibliography, Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Michel Foucault
Book SynopsisIt is impossible to imagine contemporary critical theory without the work of Michel Foucault. His radical reworkings of the concepts of power, knowledge, discourse and identity have influenced the widest possible range of theories and impacted upon disciplinary fields from literary studies to anthropology. Aimed at students approaching Foucault''s texts for the first time, this volume offers:* an examination of Foucault''s contexts* a guide to his key ideas* an overview of responses to his work* practical hints on ''using Foucault''* an annotated guide to his most influential works* suggestions for further reading.Challenging not just what we think but how we think, Foucault''s work remains the subject of heated debate. Sara Mills'' Michel Foucault offers an introduction to both the ideas and the debate, fully equipping student readers for an encounter with this most influential of thinkers.Table of Contentsintroduction Why Foucault?; Part 1 Key Ideas; Chapter 1 Foucault’s intellectual and political development; Chapter 2 Power and institutions; Chapter 3 Discourse; Chapter 4 Power/Knowledge; Chapter 5 The body and sexuality; Chapter 6 Questioning the subject; Chapter 7 After Foucault;
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Taylor & Francis Greek Thought Arabic Culture
Book SynopsisFrom the middle of the eighth century to the tenth century, almost all non-literary and non-historical secular Greek books, including such diverse topics as astrology, alchemy, physics, botany and medicine, that were not available throughout the eastern Byzantine Empire and the Near East, were translated into Arabic.Greek Thought, Arabic Culture explores the major social, political and ideological factors that occasioned the unprecedented translation movement from Greek into Arabic in Baghdad, the newly founded capital of the Arab dynasty of the ''Abbasids'', during the first two centuries of their rule. Dimitri Gutas draws upon the preceding historical and philological scholarship in Greco-Arabic studies and the study of medieval translations of secular Greek works into Arabic and analyses the social and historical reasons for this phenomenon.Dimitri Gutas provides a stimulating, erudite and well-documented survey of this key movement in the transmission of ancient GrTrade Review'important for any classicist interested in the legacy and transmission of Greek culture and provides excellent comparative material for those working on the interaction of all ancient cultures, including especially the development of greek thought at Rome.' - Simon Swain, The Classicla Review'A remarkable work. It has all the makings of a classic.' - Remke Kruk, Boekbesprekingen'Gutas' book is a most welcome tool for classicists and oreintalists...Gutas' informative book arouses the curiosity of specialists as well as of a broader public.' - Hans Daiber, Classical World, Winter 2001.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part 1 Translation and Empire; Chapter 1 The Background of the Translation Movement; Chapter 2 Al-Man??r; Chapter 3 Al-Mahd? and his Sons; Chapter 4 Al-Ma’m?n; Part 2 Translation and Society; Chapter 5 Translation in the Service of Applied and Theoretical Knowledge; Chapter 6 Patrons, Translators, Translations; Chapter 7 Translation and History; Chapter 8 Epilogue;
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Princeton University Press Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness
Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018""Learned and lengthy . . . Lewis’s deeply researched monograph repays close attention."---Jonathan Bate, Times Literary Supplement"Rhodri Lewis’s absorbing and original Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness is the first major reinterpretation of the play in some time. . . . Lewis’s brilliant analysis here gives fresh meaning to long-familiar if half-understood phrases."---James Shapiro, New York Review of Books"Rhodri Lewis has taken one of the most studied plays of this and earlier centuries, Shakespeare's Hamlet, and turned on their head many of the grand notions we have all had about Shakespeare. Lewis's ideas are breathtakingly original."---Ian Lipke, Queensland Reviewers Collective"A striking account . . . fresh and compelling." * The Australian Book Review *"Lewis has written a wonderful book: one that breaks free of the 'many confines, wards and dungeons' of the solely scholarly or academic. It’s a volume that all prospective producers of the play should examine assiduously."---Barry Gillard, The Australian"Lewis does a great service to Hamlet scholarship. . . . Highly recommended."---Anthony DiMatteo, Choice"Lewis uses his book as a broad canvas, tracking Shakespeare’s themes and characterizations across a huge number of discursive, visual, and historical examples, not only Ciceronian moral philosophy but also rhetoric and political writing, painting, the early English humanism of Erasmus and More, Philip Sidney, and too many Shakespearean examples to mention."---Henry Turner, Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900"It made me look at the play and the character of Hamlet with fresh eyes, and showed me that modern productions of the play ignore or miss a lot of the play's true substance, even though it's right there in the text. Perhaps the main lesson I've learned here when it comes to Hamlet is: Look again – nothing is as it seems."---Pat Reid, Shakespeare Magazine"A work of tremendous erudition, channeling a formidable range of classical and humanist texts as well as contemporary criticism into chapters on Hamlet’s sustained engagement with early modern discourses of selfhood, hunting, cognitive theory, poetics, and moral and speculative philosophy. With highly original but also extensively documented discussions of nearly every line and textual crux, it has the impact of a variorum."---Heather Hirschfeld, Modern Philology"It is an original take on what must be the most written-about play in literary critical history, and the result is an erudite yet absorbing book that is as refreshingly unwilling to patronize the possibilities of Shakespeare's learning as it is willing to uphold the status of his creative genius."---Joe Jarrett, Journal of British Studies"Extraordinary learning and critical insight. . . . Endlessly productive, exciting, and original."---David Bevington, Renaissance Quarterly"A new and startling perspective on a familiar subject. . . . Lewis supports his ground-breaking theories with a critical approach that is both thorough and systematic. . . . His argument certainly convinced this reader."---Bríd Phillips, Parergon"Page for page, this book offers more gripping textual insights than any other book on Hamlet since de Grazia’s. . . . The close readings are beautiful, interesting, and insightful."---Joshua R. Held, Sixteenth Century Journal"Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness is an original and valuable addition to the critical field, and compelling reading for those interested in expanding their understanding of the intersection between early modern drama and contemporary moral philosophy."---Anna Hegland, Symbolism"Bold and impressive. . . . Lewis deserves the gratitude of scholars for his sensitive close readings and contextualizations of those readings. . . . His book, no doubt, will encourage new debates about issues that were previously thought settled."---Benjamin V. Beier, Moreana"The pleasure of reading this book comes not only from being constantly stimulated by the freshness of ideas and the acuity with which they are generated, and by the connections and associations that Lewis establishes, but also from the author’s display of the gift of bridging expansive micro-analysis of the play with compelling macro-analysis of ideas from moral philosophy that underlie the dramatic text."---Goran Stanivukovic, Renaissance and Reformation"A major new interpretation of the play."---Vanessa Lim, The Year's Work in English Studies
£38.25
University of California Press The Poems of Hesiod
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsCONTENTS List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Spelling, the Pronunciation of Ancient Names, and Map References Maps General Introduction: Hesiod and His Poems Introduction to the Theogony Theogony Introduction to the Works and Days Works and Days Introducton to The Shield of Herakles The Shield of Herakles Bibliography Glossary / Index ILLUSTRATIONS Maps 1. The Mediterranean 2. The Aegean Sea 3. Central Greece Figures 1. Drunken symposiast and lyre 2. Anatolian storm god 3. Zeus throwing lightning at Typhon 4. A Muse playing the lyre 5. The birth of Aphrodite 6. Amphitritê stands before Poseidon 7. The head of Medusa 8. The Chimaira 9. The punishment of Atlas and Prometheus 10. Hades and Persephone 11. Zeus fights Typhon 12. Dawn pursues the Trojan prince Tithonos 13. Egyptian relief of Maat 14. Pandora born from the Earth 15. The Cretan princess Ariadnê and Retribution 16. A naked plowman 17. A winged North Wind (Boreas) rapes Oreithyia 18. A satyr presents a tripod with handles to Dionysos 19. The theater and reconstructed columns of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi 20. The Lapith Kaineus being destroyed by a centaur 21. A centaur tries to carry off Hippodameia 22. The Gorgons pursue Perseus 23. Zeus parts Athena and Ares Genealogical Charts 1. The primordial gods 2. The children of Earth and Sky 3. The off spring of Earth and the blood of Sky and the birth of Aphroditê 4. The descendants of Night (Nyx) and Strife (Eris) 5. The descendants Earth and Sea 6. The descendants of Phorkys and Keto 7. Other descendants of Phorkys and Keto 8. The children of Okeanos and Tethys 9. The descendants of Th eia and Hyperion and Kreios and Eurybia 10. The children of Pallas and Styx 11. The descendants of Koios and Phoibê 12. The children of Kronos and Rhea 13. The descendants of Iapetos and Klymenê 14. The off spring of Zeus and his many wives 15. The descendants of Ares and Aphrodite 16. The descendants of Helios and Perseïs 17. Other children of Kadmos and Harmonia 18. The children of Dawn (Eos) 19. The descendants of Kalypso, Circe, and Aiëtes 20. The descendants of Perseus and Andromeda
£12.34
Taylor & Francis Doing English
Book SynopsisDoing English presents the ideas and debates that shape how we âdoâ English today, explaining arguments about the value of literature, the canon, Shakespeare, theory, politics and the subject itself.In his lucid and engaging style, Robert Eaglestone: orients students by encouraging them to think about what they are doing when they study literature; bridges the gap between English at A-level and International Baccalaureate to English in Higher Education by exploring traditional and theoretical approaches to literature and explaining key ideas and trends; explains to students why English, more than any other subject, is the cause of public debate and concern in the media and amongst politicians and educators. This popular and classic guide has been fully updated throughout to take account of recent research, educational changes and current events, and it now includes a chapter called âWhy Study English?â â showing how and why Trade Review'This new edition of Doing English is stunningly good. It manages the tough feat of bettering the earlier editions, which were themselves an invaluable introduction to literary study. The introduction of new material not only updates but also adds new lines of thought and addresses fresh issues at the heart of the subject. Always written in admirably clear prose, it never oversimplifies, opening up the nature of the discipline, its practices and debates, for those engaging with it for the first time.' Barbara Bleiman, Education Consultant and Co-Editor of emagazine, the English and Media CentreTable of ContentsPart I - How We Read1. Studying EnglishWho is this book for?What is it for?How to use this book2. Where did English come from?What are disciplines?How did English develop?How do those ideas still shape today?3. Studying English Today?Why did English change?What do these changes mean?What is literary theory?What does this mean for you, studying English?4. The Discipline of EnglishHow do changes in the discipline affect your study of English?What is ‘disciplinary consciousness’?Is there a right answer in English?Why is there ‘jargon’ in English?How do you learn a ‘disciplinary consciousness’?5. Critical AttitudesWhere should we start with thinking about how we read?What is the intrinsic attitude?What is the extrinsic attitude?Part II - What We Read6. Literature, Value and the CanonCan literature be defined?What is literary value?What is the canon?How does the canon affect you?7. Castle ShakespeareWhy is Shakespeare so central to studying English literature?What are the traditional arguments for studying Shakespeare?What are some of the new ideas about studying Shakespeare?How do these ideas affect the way we study Shakespeare?8. The Author is Dead?Who decides what a text means: the author or the reader?What is the traditional view of the author, meaning and the text?What are the problems with this view?How else can we determine the meaning of the text?Why has the author always seemed so important?What are the consequences of all of this?9. Metaphors and Figures of SpeechWhat is a figure of speech?What are metaphors, and how do they work?How do they affect us?10. Narrative and ClosureWhy are stories important?How do we understand narrative and narrators?What is closure?11. Creative Writing and Critical RewritingWhat is creative writing?What is intertextuality?What is critical rewriting?How is creative writing marked?How has creative writing changed doing English?12. English, Politics and IdentityWhat is politics, and what does English have to do with it?What do different critical attitudes mean for the issue of literature and politics?How does the study of literature become involved with national identity?Why has English been a political battleground?13. Why Study English?Why do English at University?Is English useful?Is English valuable?What skills does it involve?Conclusion – The Importance of English
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Harvard University, Asia Center Sound Rising from the Paper
Book SynopsisChinese martial arts novels from the late nineteenth century are full of suggestive sounds. Characters curse in colorful dialect accents, and action scenes come to life with the loud clash of swords. Paize Keulemans examines the relationship between these novels and earlier storyteller manuscripts to explain the purpose and history of these sounds.
£35.66
Harvard University Press Metaphor
Book SynopsisMetaphor supposes that an ordinary word could have been used, but instead something unexpected appears. The point of a metaphor is to enrich experience by bringing different associations to mind, by giving something a different life. The prophetic character of metaphor, Denis Donoghue says, changes the world by changing our sense of it.Trade ReviewFor almost half a century Denis Donoghue has written stylish, weighty books, distinguished by the way they interweave an intricate sense of literary pleasure with an interest, no less intricate, in philosophical ideas… Now we have Metaphor, a characteristically intelligent and suggestive account, which reconsiders these grand philosophical tensions on the small stage of a figure of speech… Metaphor becomes an index of spiritual freedom: not a bit of tame likeness-making, like a simile. A metaphor is more like a heroic gesture towards autonomy, a rejection of the world of ‘common usage and the values it enforces.’ Donoghue pursues this theme with all his urbane powers of implication and range, finding in the metaphor a miniaturized instance of the idealist imagination… Donoghue is vivid and clever about a whole range of metaphorical uses in these pages. -- Seamus Perry * Times Literary Supplement *[A] civilized and informative book… When he discusses Yeats, Joyce or Heaney, Donoghue doesn’t just understand their language but feels it too, and the whole book explains through close analysis of poems by Pound, Stevens and Eliot why image and metaphor have come to occupy such a central position in modernist poetry and 20th-century criticism. -- Colin Burrow * London Review of Books *[There is a] difference between metaphor that illuminates and metaphor that obscures. It is one of the merits of Denis Donoghue’s book, with its rich store of examples and its intimacy with the secondary literature, that he is constantly inciting us to wrestle with that distinction. -- Paul Dean * New Criterion *You think you know what a metaphor is, but you don’t, not really. Denis Donoghue’s new book, Metaphor, is here to help, tracing the genealogy of the metaphor—along with its siblings, like the simile—throughout history, offering a more complete understanding of this ubiquitous literary device… Chock-full of entertaining examples and informative lessons on all types of metaphor. * Sewanee Review *Let us be clear: this is one of the more important books written by an Irish author so far this century… [Donoghue’s] magnum opus. -- Mark Patrick Hederman * The Furrow *[A] subtle and engrossing new book… Full of wild and beautiful examples. -- Michael Wood * Irish Times *Compelling… [It] meanders gently from the charmingly personal to the keenly microscopic in its treatment of its (largely literary and philosophical) material… A true readerly pleasure in Metaphor is the intense, tactile connection Donoghue strikes between himself and the text at hand… This is the purpose of Metaphor: to make us see how and why metaphor can revitalize our understanding not just of what we read but of how we read… What [Donoghue] succeeds at doing is to force us to scrutinize with greater care, to convince us to bring a portion of ourselves to what we read, and to get us to think outside the (metaphorical) box to which our everyday associations has confined us. Making metaphor personal is the key to eliciting deeper reading. -- Lianne Habinek * Open Letters Monthly *Wonderfully combines the scholarly and the personal. Recalling his metaphor-rich Catholic childhood and hearing ‘Panis Angelicus,’ [Donoghue] unlocks Aquinas’ word-play to elucidate the view that divinity conceals itself in physical symbols. He forces us to reconsider ordinary language, what makes (or doesn’t) make one thing like another and ultimately what truth and reality actually are. -- Jane O’Grady * The Tablet *In this prodigiously learned meditation, Donoghue takes readers through the history of the rhetorical device and its incarnations in poetry, fiction, philosophy, and everyday life… Rummaging through an exhaustive collection of linguistic authorities from Aristotle and Aquinas to Vico, Paul de Man, and J. L. Austin, Donoghue analyzes conflicting accounts of how metaphor shapes language and our experience of reality… Donoghue strives to show how metaphors ‘offer to change the world by changing one’s sense of it.’ Along the way, he studies verse by Shakespeare, Milton, Keats, and Stevens, among many others, weaving a thick tapestry of examples to show how metaphors are used and abused… The book successfully plunges readers into the complexities of figurative language and its power to revivify experience. * Publishers Weekly *Donoghue’s gentle, appreciative reflection on literary language here comes with the wisdom of accumulated decades of wide reading and robust insight. This is a book all about imaginative life, and it is a celebration of such life par excellence. It is a treat to watch a far-ranging, first-rate mind range over poetry and prose of centuries with so much zest for more life. -- Leslie Brisman, author of Romantic OriginsA wide-ranging, deeply learned account of the ‘daring vivacities’ language can achieve from the man who wrote the book on eloquence. -- Denise Gigante, author of Life: Organic Form and Romanticism
£30.56
Princeton University Press The Inward Turn of Narrative
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£28.80
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries
Book SynopsisThis is the first English-language study of bestiaries, mediaeval works that described and illustrated animals, birds, and other creatures. Florence McCulloch describes the nature of the Latin Physiologus, which is frequently cited as among the earliest examples of serious works of natural history.
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Random House USA Inc The Vonnegut Encyclopedia
Book SynopsisNow expanded and updated, this authorized compendium to Kurt Vonnegut’s novels, stories, essays, and plays is the most comprehensive and definitive edition to date.Over the course of five decades, Kurt Vonnegut created a complex and interconnected web of characters, settings, and concepts. The Vonnegut Encyclopedia is an exhaustive guide to this beloved author’s world, organized in a handy A-to-Z format. The first edition of this book covered Vonnegut’s work through 1991. This new and updated edition encompasses his writing through his death in 2007. Marc Leeds, co-founder and founding president of the Kurt Vonnegut Society and a longtime personal friend of the author’s, has devoted more than twenty-five years of his life to cataloging the Vonnegut cosmos—from the birthplace of Kilgore Trout (Vonnegut’s sci-fi writing alter ego) to the municipal landmarks of Midland City (the midwestern metropolis that is the setting for
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Seven Stories Press,U.S. A Life In Words
Book SynopsisA fascinating discussion with one of America's greatest living writers about language, literature, and life.
£13.49
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group The Complete Poetry Prose of William Blake
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