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Carcanet Press Ltd Golden Apple A Round of Stories Songs Spells
Book SynopsisOffers a selection from one of Europe's richest traditions of folk literature.Trade Review'Throughout there is the sense of the unadorned, unrationalized essence of folk tradition - This book entertains and startles afresh on each reading.' - Michael Cayley, PN Review ' - an absolute delight. The tales fly along relentlessly to their enigmatic endings, mixing up the ridiculous, the miraculous and the commonplace, putting to shame the puerile moralizing of many modern children's books. The irrational is sitting in the trees waiting to leap upon you - ' - George Szirtes, Quarto
£8.95
Shambhala One Robe One Bowl
Book SynopsisThe hermit-monk Ryokan, long beloved in Japan both for his poetry and for his character, belongs in the tradition of the great Zen eccentrics of China and Japan. His reclusive life and celebration of nature and the natural life also bring to mind his younger American contemporary, Thoreau. Ryokan''s poetry is that of the mature Zen master, its deceptive simplicity revealing an art that surpasses artifice. Although Ryokan was born in eighteenth-century Japan, his extraordinary poems, capturing in a few luminous phrases both the beauty and the pathos of human life, reach far beyond time and place to touch the springs of humanity.
£14.09
Wesleyan University Press Collected Poems
Book SynopsisA collection of authentic, profound and beautiful poems.
£17.07
Goose Lane Editions Poisonous If Eaten Raw
Book SynopsisWinner, J.M. Abraham Atlantic Poetry AwardIn this experimental long poem sequence, Alyda Faber transforms the portrait poem into runic shapes, ice shelved, sculpted, louvered on a winter shoreline. Twenty years after her mother’s death, Faber untethers herself from the mother she thinks she knows with wild analogies: depicting her mother variously as King Lear’s Kent, a Camperdown elm, a black-capped chickadee, Neil Peart, Pope Innocent X, and a funnel spider. While embodying the passionate relationship between mother and daughter, Faber’s poems also expose the thorn in the flesh — the inability of mother and daughter to give each other what they most want to give. Endlessly discovered, yet ultimately unknowable, the poet’s mother is complex, mystifying, and unwavering: courageous in her decision to leave all that she knew behind; bewildering in her fidelity to a damaging marriage; steadfast in her devotion to a God who is at once adamant and the source of ephemeral beauty.Trade Review“Each poem in Poisonous If Eaten Raw is a portrait and an ecosystem that makes meaning from memory and of a relationship that is the origin of longing and is singular to each of us. How do we make sense of our mothers? The pain they endured, the pain they created? This is a poet pushing past memory into a present and deeper understanding that’s brimming with empathy and a way forward. And this is remembering in motion: vivid and audacious, moving into and out from its source.” -- Sue Goyette“There is no way for a daughter to know her mother as anyone other than a mother. But in Poisonous if Eaten Raw, Faber creates evocative portraits that attempt to bridge this gap of knowing through a process of surreal re-imagination.” -- Manahil Bandukwala * The Fiddlehead *
£14.39
New Directions Publishing Corporation Glass Menagerie Rev New Directions Books
Book SynopsisNo play in the modern theatre has so captured the imagination and heart of the American public as Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie.Trade Review"The revolutionary newness of The Glass Menagerie . . . was in its poetic lift, but an underlying hard dramatic structure was what earned the play its right to sing poetically." -- Arthur Miller"With the advent of The Glass Menagerie . . . Tennessee Williams emerged as a poet-playwright and a unique new force in theatre throughout the world." -- Lyle Leverich in Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams
£9.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Master Class
Book SynopsisThe world can and will go on without us but I have to think that we have made this world a better place. That we have left it richer, wiser than had we not chosen the way of art.The 1996 Tony Award winner for Best Play.Terrence McNally''s Master Class presents the legendary opera diva, Maria Callas, as she puts aspiring young singers through their paces in a series of master classes. Both moving and entertaining, this theatrical tour de force dramatizes the Callas phenomenon and is an unembarrassed, involving meditation on Callas''s life and the nature of her art. Such subjects are not easily dramatized, certainly not with this brio. (New York Times)After opening on Broadway in 1995 with Zoe Caldwell and Audra McDonald, the play premiered in London in 1997 with Patti LuPone. It was last revived on Broadway and in the West End in 2011-12 starring Tyne Daly.Trade ReviewMcNally's well-crafted, quip-filled drama — which depicts Callas teaching at Juilliard, circa 1971 (her voice was virtually destroyed by then) — is less a biography and more a love letter to La Divina. * Entertainment Weekly *Terrence McNally's brusque and brilliant rendering of Callas is the sort of meaty role actresses love to sink teeth and claws into * New York Daily News *
£10.44
Currency Press Pty Ltd Jandamarra
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Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US Hamlet
Book SynopsisTo thine own text be trueLisa Peterson's translation ofHamletinto contemporary American English makes the play accessible to new audiences while keeping the soul of Shakespeare's writing intact. Lovers of Shakespeare's language take heart: Lisa Peterson's translation ofHamletinto contemporary American English was guided by the principle of First, do no harm. Leaving the most famous parts ofHamletuntouched, Peterson untied the language knots that can make the rest of the play difficult to understand in a single theatrical viewing. Peterson's translation makesHamletaccessible to new audiences, drawing out its timeless themes while helping to contextualize To be, or not tobe:that is the question, and Something is rotten in the state of Denmark, so that contemporary audiences can feel their full weight. This translation ofHamletwas written as part of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Play On! project, which commissioned new translations of thirty-nine Shakespeare plays. These translati
£10.18
LEGARE STREET PR Caliban
£14.09
Broadview Press Ltd Julius Caesar (1599)
Book SynopsisJulius Caesar is a key link between Shakespeare’s histories and his tragedies. Unlike the Caesar drawn by Plutarch in a source text, Shakespeare’s Caesar is surprisingly modern: vulnerable and imperfect, a powerful man who does not always know himself. The open-ended structure of the play insists that revealing events will continue after the play ends, making the significance of the history we have just witnessed impossible to determine in the play itself.John D. Cox’s introduction discusses issues of genre, characterization, and rhetoric, while also providing a detailed history of criticism of the play. Appendices provide excerpts from important related works by Lucretius, Plutarch, and Montaigne.A collaboration between Broadview Press and the Internet Shakespeare Editions project at the University of Victoria, the editions developed for this series have been comprehensively annotated and draw on the authoritative texts newly edited for the ISE. This innovative series allows readers to access extensive and reliable online resources linked to the print edition.Trade Review“John Cox’s edition of Julius Caesar is very user-friendly—it has copious and concise explanatory notes, generous selections from Shakespeare’s sources, and a critical introduction that does a remarkable job of highlighting the main lines of interpreting the play over the centuries.” — Paul A. Cantor, Clifton Waller Barrett Professor of English, University of VirginiaTable of ContentsFOREWORDACKNOWLEDGEMENTSINTRODUCTIONSHAKESPEARE’S LIFESHAKESPEARE’S THEATREWILLIAM SHAKESPEARE AND JULIUS CAESAR:A BRIEF CHRONOLOGYA NOTE ON THE TEXTSCHARACTERS IN THE PLAYJULIUS CAESARAPPENDIX A: PLUTARCH’S LIVES From Life of Caesar From Life of Brutus From Life of Marcus Antonius APPENDIX B: MONTAIGNE ON STOICISM AND EPICUREANISM
£16.10
Graywolf Press 99 Poems: New & Selected
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£13.15
Graywolf Press Inferno
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£19.00
Graywolf Press Bellocqs Ophelia Poems
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£13.49
Copper Canyon Press,U.S. Death Song
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£11.40
Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd Early Poems
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£11.35
Association for Scottish Literary Studies 23 Poems of Edwin Morgan Read by Edwin Morgan
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£11.94
Banipal Books Generation 56 Banipal Magazine of Modern Arab
Book SynopsisGeneration '56 features nine influential Arab voices, all born in 1956, all of whom grew up to become major beacons of modernity, intellectual freedom and creativity in the Arab world and who established important cultural initiatives. Plus works by five more Sudanese authors, two poet film-makers and two fiction writers.
£10.58
Gracewing The Poems of Nakahara Chuya
£13.62
Simon & Schuster Macbeth
Book SynopsisThe authoritative edition of Macbeth from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers.In 1603, James VI of Scotland ascended the English throne, becoming James I of England. London was alive with an interest in all things Scottish, and Shakespeare turned to Scottish history for material. He found a spectacle of violence and stories of traitors advised by witches and wizards, echoing James’s belief in a connection between treason and witchcraft. In depicting a man who murders to become king, Macbeth teases us with huge questions. Is Macbeth tempted by fate, or by his or his wife’s ambition? Why does their success turn to ashes? Like other plays, Macbeth speaks to each generation. Its story was once seen as that of a hero who commits an evil act and pays an enormous price. Recently, it has been applied to nations that overreach themselves and to modern alien
£9.49
Simon & Schuster Ltd Poems That Make Grown Women Cry
Book SynopsisThe perfect companion volume to sit alongside the highest selling poetry book of 2014, Poems That Make Grown Men Cry
£12.74
Canterbury Classics The Poetry of Emily Dickinson
Book Synopsis“This is my letter to the world . . .” — Emily DickinsonThe Poetry of Emily Dickinson is a collection of pieces by 19th-century American poet Emily Dickinson, who insisted that her life of isolation gave her an introspective and deep connection with the world. As a result, her work parallels her life—misunderstood in its time, but full of depth and imagination, and covering such universal themes as nature, art, friendship, love, society, mortality, and more. During Dickinson’s lifetime, only seven of her poems were published, but after her death, her prolific writings were discovered and shared. With this volume, readers can dive into the now widely respected poetry of Emily Dickinson.
£10.79
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Philoctetes
Book SynopsisFirst published in Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff's Sophocles: Four Tragedies, this riveting translation by Peter Meineck of Sophocles' Philoctetes features a new Introduction by Paul Woodruff. "Peter Meineck has given us a superbly vivid rendering of the play, informed throughout by his practical experience in the theater. His is a Philoctetes that is supremely alive, from start to finish. . . . [I]deal for classroom use . . . accompanied by a new and thoughtful introduction from philosopher and classicist Paul Woodruff. Woodruff anchors the play in the complex web of fears and anxieties of 409 BCE, as both Sophocles' life and Athens' imperial heyday drew to a close. . . . [A]n exceptionally fine work of translation and scholarship that will go far toward demolishing dismissals of the play as inaccessible or unengaging for the modern reader. Sophocles, Meineck and Woodruff eloquently remind us, speaks to every age, not least our own."—Thomas R. Keith, Loyola University Chicago in CJ-OnlineTrade Review"An excellent translation of this always intriguing play: clear, simple, up-to-date English. . . . Clearly designed for stage performance as well as reading. Woodruff gives a good account of why the Athenian audience would have been on the edge of their seats. This translation would be appropriate for anyone doing a Classics or drama course, with or without the language. No prior knowledge of the mythological background is assumed; everything one needs to know is explained in the introduction and notes." —Colin McDonald, Journal of Classics Teaching"This translation makes a strong case for the use of Philoctetes both in the classroom and in performance. . . . A lively and energetic play with quick and exciting language. . . . The struggle of young Neoptolemus to find his way within the heroic world comes across as timely and relevant. The otherworldliness of Philoctetes' pain is perfectly rendered. . . . Paul Woodruff's Introduction is excellent. I have read this play many times and know the myth well, yet I still found myself thoroughly captivated by Woodruff’s narrative. . . . The bibliography would be a tremendous resource for an undergraduate student. All in all, this is among the best in Hackett's excellent and expanding series of Greek tragedy in translation. The combination of Meineck's skillful translation with an eye to performance and Woodruff’s enthusiastic and intelligent introduction makes this particular volume a great pleasure." —Kathryn Mattison, McMaster University, in Mouseion
£10.44
Orion Publishing Co Summer Requiem: From the author of the classic
Book Synopsis'I have so carefully mapped the corners of my mindThat I am forever waking in a lost country...'SUMMER REQUIEM traces the immutable shifting of the seasons, the relentless rhythms of a great world that both 'gifts and harms'. Luminous, resonant and profound, these poems trace the dying days of summer, 'the hour of rust', when memory is haunted by loss and decay. But in the silence that follows, as the soul is cast adrift, there is also reconciliation with the transience of all things; the knowledge that there is a place, 'changeable, that will not betray'.Trade ReviewImpressive . . . quietly affecting * TELEGRAPH *A soulful collection, haunting yet peaceful * We Love This Book *Seth's display of technical dexterity pulses with the kind of warmth that can only come from the heart * The Lady *
£7.19
Orion Publishing Co The Rivered Earth: From the author of A SUITABLE
Book SynopsisThe Rivered Earth contains four libretti written by Vikram Seth to be set to music by Alec Roth - together with an account of the pleasures and pains of working with a composer.Entitled 'Songs in Time of War', 'Shared Ground', 'The Traveller' and 'Seven Elements', they take us all over the world - from Chinese and Indian poetry to the beauty and quietness of the Salisbury house where the poet George Herbert lived and died.Spanning centuries of creativity and humanity, these poems pulse with life, energy and inspired brilliance.They are accompanied by four pieces of calligraphy by the author.Trade ReviewThe language has a remarkably direct, almost naive fullness of rhythm and rhyme . . . extraordinary - GUARDIANVikram Seth is already the best writer of his generation - THE TIMESA phenomenon, a prodigy, a marvel ... It is hard to believe that Seth is only one man - EVENING STANDARDSuch writing reminds us that there are secrets beyond technique, beyond style, which have to do with a quality of soul on the part of the writer, a giving of oneself - Guardian on A SUITABLE BOYA SUITABLE BOY may prove to be the most fecund as well as the most prodigious work of the latter half of this century - perhaps even the book to restore the serious reading public's faith in the contemporary novel . . . You should make time for it. It will keep you company for the rest of your life - THE TIMES
£9.99
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc The Figaro Plays
Book Synopsis[Beaumarchais'] fame rests on Le Barbier de Seville (1775) and Le Mariage de Figaro (1784), the only French plays which his stage-struck century bequeathed to the international repertoire. But his achievement has been adulterated, for ‘Beaumarchais’ has long been the brand name of a product variously reprocessed by Mozart, Rossini, and the score or so librettists and musicians who have perpetuated his plots, his characters, and his name. The most intriguing question of all has centered on his role as catalyst of the Revolution. Was his impertinent barber the Sweeney Todd of the Ancien Régime, the true begetter of the guillotine? . . . Beaumarchais' plays have often seemed to need the same kind of shoring up as his reputation, as though they couldn't stand on their own without a scaffolding of good tunes. Yet, as John Wells' lively and splendidly speakable translations of the Barber, the Marriage, and A Mother's Guilt demonstrate, they need assistance from no one. [Beaumarchais] thought of the three plays as a trilogy. Taken together, they reflect, as John Leigh’s commentaries make clear, the Ancien Régime’s unstoppable slide into revolution. --David Coward in The London Review of BooksTrade Review[Beaumarchais'] fame rests on Le Barbier de Seville (1775) and Le Mariage de Figaro (1784), the only French plays which his stage-struck century bequeathed to the international repertoire. But his achievement has been adulterated, for 'Beaumarchais' has long been the brand name of a product variously reprocessed by Mozart, Rossini, and the score or so librettists and musicians who have perpetuated his plots, his characters, and his name. The most intriguing question of all has centered on his role as catalyst of the Revolution. Was his impertinent barber the Sweeney Todd of the Ancien Régime, the true begetter of the guillotine? . . . Beaumarchais' plays have often seemed to need the same kind of shoring up as his reputation, as though they couldn't stand on their own without a scaffolding of good tunes. Yet, as John Wells' lively and splendidly speakable translations of the Barber , the Marriage , and A Mother's Guilt demonstrate, they need assistance from no one. [Beaumarchais] thought of the three plays as a trilogy. Taken together, they reflect, as John Leigh's commentaries make clear, the Ancien Régime's unstoppable slide into revolution. --David Coward in The London Review of Books
£13.29
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc The Lays of Marie de France
Book SynopsisThis edition includes Edward Gallagher's prose translations of The Lays of Marie de France; a general introduction; a map; commentaries on the lays; two anonymous Breton lays—-The Lay of Melion and The Lay of Tyolet; a glossary of proper names; a glossary of specialized terms; and an appendix of selected texts in the Old French, including Marie's Prologue, Guigemar, Bisclavret, and Yonec.Trade ReviewWith admirable sensitivity to the meaning and style of the originals, Edward J. Gallagher has skillfully rendered these charming Old French verse narratives from the late twelfth century into engaging and readable modern English prose. Gallagher includes a detailed commentary on each of the twelve lays, two useful glossaries, and a selection of lays in Old French. Readers will appreciate his substantial and informative introduction to the works of Marie de France and to the illustrious literary and cultural context within which these masterpieces in miniature took shape. --Donald Maddox, University of Massachusetts AmherstEditions and translations of Marie de France's Lais have appeared at a steady rate since 1885, indeed in every decade since the 1940s. Edward Gallagher's prose translation (which also translates two anonymous lais, Melion and Tyolet) is the latest, a lively, readable version. . . . [T]his book is welcome: it should help introduce yet more students to these fascinating poems in a clear and energetic prose. --Modern Language ReviewProfessor Gallagher’s translation is a very timely one. It is produced in a handsome paperback and is highly accessible in price and in its level of critical language to undergraduates, graduates, and lay (no pun intended) readers alike. Students of medieval literature, French or European, will find it a congenial text, written in clear English prose, of Marie’s twelve Lays, along with two other lays not attributed to Marie. Each Lay is followed by an illuminative commentary. The body of the text is preceded by an excellent Introduction wherein Gallagher provides the chief facts about Marie, her oeuvre, and recent critical scholarship on Marie, without indulging in unneeded pedantry. --Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures
£14.24
Martino Fine Books The Importance of Being Earnest
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£8.06
Flying Chipmunk Publishing Tales from Shakespeare
£20.54
Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co Philoktetes
Book SynopsisThis is an English translation of Sophocles' tragedy of Philoctetes, an archer who had been abandoned on Lemnos by the rest of the Greek fleet while on the way to Troy. Focus Classical Library provides close translations with notes and essays to provide access to understanding Greek culture.
£12.34
Penguin Publishing Group Disobedience Penguin Poets
Book SynopsisAlice Notley has earned a reputation as one of the most challenging and engaging radical female poets at work today. Her last collection, Mysteries of Small Houses, was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize in poetry and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Structured as a long series of interconnected poems in which one of the main elements is an ongoing dialogue with a seedy detective, Disobedience sets out to explore the visible as well as the unconscious. These poems, composed during a fifteen-month period, also deal with being a woman in France, with turning fifty, and with being a poet, and thus seemingly despised or at least ignored.Table of ContentsDisobedienceA Scarf of Bitter Water (July 30-October 6,1995)Change the Forms in DreamsWhat's SuppressedSun Is Very Near Hot and ButtockslikeI Suppose This Is All a Lefthand PathWhere Is the Babylonian Meter with Its Lovely Caesura?CircorpseHelp Me Corpus SagradaThe Islanders Remember That There Are No Women and No MenRed FishEnuma ElishThe Forest/Swamp/Gorge/Alp HotelLana Turner at Versailles"You"". . . I Thought She Was Going to Be a Ghost Story"Just Under Skin of Left Leg"Have Made Earth as the Mirror of Heaven"Left Side Liberation from EThe Strike (October 7-December 18, 1995)Dante's Ass a Noble PrizeParticle DollThere Isn't Much to Do If You Aren't GeologyAnd Still No Story, How Will You Know When It's Over?More of the Assholes of GiantsRita, a Red Rose, Hates Her ClothesAn Impeccable Sexism I Mean an Elegant Idea or Procedure Haunts the StarsBreaking the Sound BarrierThe Morbid Managers Are Serving Trays of Charnel FleshThe Big Slip on the Dead Woman Is PinkDancing into the Shadows of the Hideous Future City We Don't Think So During This StrikeWhite Rice Words Are the Means of ExchangeSeems to Be Heading for MexicoBeing with People a Cliche Eating DinnerIn the Motherless, Homogenized and E-EpistolaryShit, Fire, and Crystal (December 19, 1995-March 9, 1996)Breaking an Unsound Barrier . . .The Veil Is, Like, Sexism or Is It Like ItBeing WiggyExposing My Breasts So You'llIn That Room, In That Time, But LaterYou Cover All the Windows with Your Manuscript PagesWill Die and Die in So Many Ways, as Professional and Cultural EntityDo I Have to Be Mad Now Later and AlwaysLost the Plumbing Lost My Story GoodOh Put Some Obscenely Concrete Nouns Back in Your PoemsHealthy and Foolish the Mainstream Stars of Kneejerk Joy and Despair May Win the FutureIt's Dumb to Be a Member of a Dominant SpeciesPeople Could Live in This Town, They Don't But I'm Going ToMy Hair Is Terribly Dirty and the Dress Looks DrabMeet Me at La Chapelle for Some More SalamiBut My Real Dreams Are Objective (Objects Made of Me by the Secret)Don't Give Me Drovel, Give Me a Shovel (Popular Poem)Open-Stomach WomanLeveling (March 10, 1996-June 17, 1996)I Know You'll Make Fun of the Clothes the Magi Are WearingCrowded into a Breathless Bubble of Bad Thinking Our Poem the World Owned by a FewComing Down the Spiral Almanac StaircaseCould I Ever Share a Tableau with Miss January's Murderers?Echoes the Past Fucks Me Over and OverIn Any Movie Whatsoever, in Order to Be Working ActorsDo You Want to Be Excellent an A Actress No Not That EitherWe Should All Live Like Rocks in a Flat FieldEveryone's out After Some Emotional ActionSeen the Whale-Skate and Seen a TombKeep Going Down to the TombNot That Person Anymore, Mitch Being Ever FainterFour Scarves and a Lion (June 18, 1996-August 28, 1996)Have I Been Here Before Is Something UnfamiliarThere Was Also Valium in the Drink, Placed There by Two Other PeopleI Don't Have Sympathy We're EqualsPouring Rain No Love from the Weather Except in My DreamRoaring Being a Given, My Roaring's a GivenThe Lines Fall Away SometimesThe Subterranean Senses Are Already There in New AirRemember the Station with No NameFurther Figuration of My Regressive BackashDon't Think That Thought It Will Poison This MomentThe Longest Vampiric History Vs. the SoulPlease Don't Anyone Save My Life PassimLionA New HairdoThe Chaplet on the Donkey's Head: Both Keep DissolvingThe One Thousand Arms of Poking and Pinching LoveThe Usual and the Most Tenuous of Goodbyes
£20.00
Bordighera Press Ellis Island
£19.00
Penguin Books Ltd The Saga of Grettir the Strong
Book SynopsisComposed at the end of the fourteenth century by an unknown author, The Saga of Grettir the Strong is one of the last great Icelandic sagas. It relates the tale of Grettir, an eleventh-century warrior struggling to hold on to the values of a heroic age becoming eclipsed by Christianity and a more pastoral lifestyle.Trade Review“An amazing epic—as revenge-driven as the Greeks, with fight scenes rivaling today’s superhero action films.” ―Rita Dove, The New York Times Book Review“The [translation is] generally excellent; accurate and readable. . . . Sure to become the standard.” —The Times Literary Supplement
£11.69
Random House USA Inc Chinese Erotic Poems
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Random House USA Inc Markings
Book SynopsisPerhaps the greatest testament of personal devotion published in this century. — The New York Times A powerful journal of poems and spiritual meditations recorded over several decades by a universally known and admired peacemaker. A dramatic account of spiritual struggle, Markings has inspired hundreds of thousands of readers since it was first published in 1964.Markings is distinctive, as W.H. Auden remarks in his foreword, as a record of the attempt by a professional man of action to unite in one life the via activa and the via contemplativa. It reflects its author''s efforts to live his creed, his belief that all men are equally the children of God and that faith and love require of him a life of selfless service to others. For Hammarskjöld, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action. Markings is not only a fascinating glimpse of the mind of a great man, but also a moving spiritual classic that has left its mark on generations of readers.
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Penguin Putnam Inc As You Like It
Book Synopsis The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare’s time, an introduction to the individual play, and a detailed note on the text used. Updated by general editors Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller, these easy-to-read editions incorporate over thirty years of Shakespeare scholarship undertaken since the original series, edited by Alfred Harbage, appeared between 1956 and 1967. With definitive texts and illuminating essays, the Pelican Shakespeare will remain a valued resource for students, teachers, and theater professionals for many years to come. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700Trade Review“Gorgeous new Shakespeare paperbacks.” —Marlon James, author of A Brief History of Seven Killings“I have been using the Pelican Shakespeare for years in my lecture course--it's invaluable, the best individual-volume series available for students.”—Marjorie Garber, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English and Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University
£9.50
Nick Hern Books Dara
Book SynopsisAn intense domestic drama of global consequence – for India then and for our world now. 1659. Mughal India. The imperial court, a place of opulence and excess; music, drugs, eunuchs and harems. Two brothers, whose mother's death inspired the Taj Mahal, are heirs to this Muslim empire. Now they fight ferociously for succession. Dara, the crown prince, has the love of the people – and of his emperor father – but younger brother Aurangzeb holds a different vision for India's future. Islam inspires poetry in Dara, puritanical rigour in Aurangzeb. Can Jahanara, their beloved sister, assuage Aurangzeb's resolve to seize the Peacock Throne and purge the empire? Originally performed by Ajoka Theatre, Pakistan, Tanya Ronder's adaptation of Shahid Nadeem's play Dara premiered at the National Theatre, London, in 2015.Trade Review'Electrifying' * The Times *'Cuts to the thrust of the most critical, insoluble dilemma of our times; faith's absolutism against liberalism's tolerance... a huge dramatic force' * WhatsOnStage *'Magnificently ambitious... throws both light and darkness on a crucial moment in world history' * Time Out *
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Nick Hern Books Crushed Shells and Mud
Book Synopsis'She came out of the sea Crawled out of the mud, quietly Shy and beautiful, brushing off sand and shells' England trembles in the grip of a devastating epidemic. But in a remote coastal village, quiet Derek waits for love and life to really begin. Then Lydia arrives. She burns brightly, beyond Derek’s wildest dreams. And she is hiding something. When Derek discovers her secret, they are both propelled into a strange new world of conflicted desire and dangerous loyalties, where terrifying forces test their courage and humanity. But can love survive the fear inside? Ben Musgrave's play Crushed Shells and Mud premiered at the Southwark Playhouse, London, in October 2015.Trade Review'Musgrave writes so beautifully: these intricate, intimate moments – psychological dances of persuasion, rivalry and cruelty' * WhatsOnStage *'A sensitive portrait of a teenage love triangle... the nuances of relationships are finely rendered' * Evening Standard *
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Carcanet Press Ltd This is Yarrow
Book SynopsisThe poems in Tara Bergin's debut collection combine sensuous, supple lyricism with the unsettling familiarity of folklore, fairytale and dream. They are inhabited by characters who seem at first widely different from one another, yet share nervous energy, a troubled state of mind: 'I am unwell, little crow, / I am unwell and far from home / where longing lives in my house'. In This is Yarrow Bergin gathers language from a wide range of sources and places to create a music and vision entirely her own.Trade Review'The voicing and line technique is bold, edgy, risking or withholding violent.' --Adam Piette, professor, University of Sheffield '[...] Bergin succeeds in creating a clear voice and a dramatic situation. This is Yarrow is primarily a book of monologues, establishing voices whose skewed attitudes invite an engaged critical response from the reader. The monologues are sometimes reminiscent of Paul Durcan and at other times Sylvia Plath and they can be very cutting and funny at the expense of their speakers [...]' -- John McAuliffe, Irish TimesTable of ContentsLooking at Lucy's Painting of the Thames at Low Tide Without Lucy Present Acting School Water is Difficult All Fools' Day: An Academic Farewell Questions You Could Show a Horse Himalayan Balsam for a Soldier Dancing Sonnets for Tracey i. Permission to Fire ii. Handbook iii. X Prostitutism iv. Tambour Cafe, Marienstr. 16 Composition for the Left Hand Christmas Window, Armistice Day Sonnet for Catherine Who Never Turned Up Military School White Crow The Undertaker's Tale of the Notebook Measuring 1 x 2 cm Rapeseed Red Flag The Passion Flower The Sick Child, at the Time of the Diamond Jubilee Restriction Bridal Song The Confession Glinka The Pressed Iris Pilinszky at the Tenshi no Tobira Swiss Station Room St Patrick's Day Address, 1920 Photograph of Therese of Lisieux Holding Lilies Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon Studying the Fresco of St Nikolai of Myra At the Garage from The Ballad of Tom Gun Training Camp, Whit Monday My Personal Injuries Claim Garrison Supermarket At the Lakes with Roberta Portrait of the Artist's Wife as a Younger Woman Stag-Boy If Painting Isn't Over Queen of the Rodeo Candidate Feverfew This is Yarrow Notes Acknowledgements
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The Gresham Publishing Co. Ltd Romeo and Juliet - The Student's Shakespeare:
Book SynopsisThe drama of Romeo and Juliet is one of the most famous of all tragedies. It tells the story of two 'star-crossed' lovers whose young lives are cruelly cut short because of a bitter feud between their families. Since it was published in 1597, Romeo and Juliet has been performed all round the world, made into box office recordbreaking films, ballets and adapted by Leonard Bernstein for his world-famous musical, West Side Story. Shakespeare was young when he wrote the play, and the exquisite language captures his sympathy for the lovers. This new edition includes the complete text with explanatory notes and a full introduction that describes the setting, summarises the plot and profiles the main characters. It discusses Shakespeare's language and the play's themes, and it gives typical essay and test questions to help students prepare for exams. Includes: Introduction The Story of Romeo and Juliet The Play's Characters Themes and Language Examining the Play The Play NotesTable of ContentsIntroduction The Story of Romeo and Juliet The Play's Characters Themes and Language Examining the Play The Play Notes
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Peepal Tree Press Ltd Coming up Hot: 8 New Caribbean Poets
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