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"Doomed to Bloom" is a unique combination of a narrative and a poetic collection. Sequences of events and rhythmic variations are blended harmoniously, revealing a gothic romance between two young individuals.A girl – the main character of this poetic narration - lives in a "nightmare" from which she cannot escape. She attributes her troubles to a powerful witch, who entertains herself by setting traps to unsuspecting victims. The helpless girl...
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The complete playtext for use in schools and youth theatres. Imagine swapping places with a monster for the day. Ben has a BIG problem. His mum is acting grumpy, his best friend Vince has stolen his precious binoculars and his Dad is far, far away… Oh, and there's a monster under his bed. But when Ben swaps places with the underbed monster, Ben's life – and his school – is turned inside out and upside down. A funny and thrilling play for children...
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"Winner of the 1993 Translation Prize, American-Scandinavian Foundation" Göran Sonnevi has written twelve books of poems and assembled and revised collections of his poems (most of which are in print in Sweden in mass-market paperback editions). Rika Lesser is a poet and has translated numerous works of poetry, including a selection of the poems of Rilke, Rilke: Between Roots (Princeton). For a group of poems from A Child Is Not a Knife, she received...
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Five women, four forty years old, and one matron of sixty-one take a holiday to France anxious to escape their robotic lives in Cape Elizabeth, Maine.Wendy, the travel agent, Penny, owner of a needlework shop, Sarah, accomplished artist, Vernie, executive director of the Portland Symphony, and Rose, who is a recent widow all wind their way through Provence with adventures conflicts, and a generous portion of food and wine.Each evening they gather...
5) New Poems
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The formative work of the legendary poet who sought to write "not feelings but things I had felt"
When Rainer Maria Rilke arrived in Paris for the first time in September 1902, commissioned by a German publisher to write a monograph on Rodin, he was twenty-seven and already the author of nine books of poems. His early work had been accomplished, but belonged tonally to the impressionistic, feeling-centered world of a late-nineteenth-century aesthetic.
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6) Hard Times
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Brilliant adaptation of Charles Dickens biting novel Hard Times.
Dominated by Gradgrind and Bounderby, Coketown's prosperity is built on the cotton mills where thousands of men and women slave away for long hours and little pay. Gradgrind's obsession with material progress damages his children Louisa and Tom, leading to scandal and disaster. 'Hard Times' celebrates the importance of the human heart in an age obsessed with materialism. Circus, music,...
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Unlock the principles of visual harmony with Denman W. Ross's Theory of Pure Design: Harmony, Balance and Rhythm. This foundational text delves into the core elements of design, offering timeless insights into the creation of aesthetically pleasing and structurally sound works of art.
Denman W. Ross, a distinguished artist and educator, meticulously articulates the fundamental concepts that underpin successful design. His exploration of harmony,...
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Charles Dahlberg (1919–2008) was professor emeritus of English at Queens College, City University of New York.
Many English-speaking readers of the Roman de la rose, the famous dream allegory of the thirteenth century, have come to rely on Charles Dahlberg's elegant and precise translation of the Old French text. His line-by-line rendering in contemporary English is available again, this time in a third edition with an updated critical apparatus....
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El cuaderno recoge una selección de artículos de crítica literaria y ensayos breves de Gaziel, seudónimo del periodista y escritor Agustí Calvet i Pascual, considerado por Josep Pla como "la figura más señera del periodismo peninsular durante un cuarto de siglo". Más conocido como corresponsal de guerra durante la primera contienda mundial y como analista político en tiempos de la Segunda República española, Pláticas literarias da a conocer...
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"What are the fundamental differences between classic and baroque art? Is there a pattern underlying the seemingly helter-skelter development of art in different cultures and at different times? What causes our entirely different reactions to precisely the same painting or to the same painter?
In this now-classic treatise, published originally in Germany in the early 1920s, Professor Wölfflin provides an objective set of criteria to answer these...
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The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation, Bilingual Edition
This widely praised version of Dante's masterpiece, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award of the Academy of American Poets, is more idiomatic and approachable than its many predecessors. Former U.S. Poet Laureate Pinsky employs slant rhyme and near rhyme to preserve Dante's terza rima form without distorting the flow of English idiom....
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1811: As Britain stands on the brink of great change, Mina is far from home. Stolen and put to dangerous work, she longs to return to her family and farm. Instead, when one of her friends is killed, Mina finds herself risking everything on a perilous journey that will see her change the shape of history.
Two centuries later, Evie, daughter of legendary stars, has rejected fame for a secluded life in London. When her father is rushed to hospital...
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Macho men or metrosexual guys? Mummy's boys or blokes under their missus' thumbs? Self-made entrepreneurs, pukka professionals and successful executives with their Mercedes Benz lives and designer-clad wives; husbands, sons, uncles, brothers and fathers – these successful, soulful and spirited Asian men have come a long way from their origins but they've all got roots! The Trouble with Asian Men is a vital, tender and hilarious insight into lives...
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From the original "Brexit Fantasy" right up to the controversial "Try a Yellow Hammer round the Whole Country", all of Brexit, a little of Trump and the World Cup is here. Theresa May calls out to Maggie Thatcher in "Maggie May", while the strains of "Brexit Pie" tell us:"Them good old boys climb the leadership treeSaying 'Look what it's doing for meLook what it's doing for me'."Mike Cashman writes serious and satirical items on Brexit and other topics....
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Heir To The Old Masters contains a biographical essay on Reynolds by Chadwick Hagan, and images and the original seven discourses by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Discourses have been edited and annotated. 2023 was the 300th birthday of Sir Joshua Reynolds, born July 16, 1723.
16) Whiskey & Weed
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Whiskey & Weed is a collection of poems by Qumber Rizvi. Including the title poem itself, the collection contains 20 poems. Themes of the poems vary from love stories and their sad and happy consequences to 'dark of the realms'.
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El cuento de hadas de un príncipe quien es desterrado de su reino y sirve como criado en el reino de una princesa de quién se enamora. Pero el giro de los acontecimientos y los conflictos internos de los amantes, que representa cada batalla para cristalizar su amor, los hará vivir este amor a través del sufrimiento y la alegría. Y este romance toma un giro inesperado cuando el príncipe-criado reconquista su reino y se presenta en el reino de...
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This is a book of poems soaked in the spirit of Sheffield through and through, then and now, by Michael Glover, a Sheffielder by birth, and author of the bestselling 111 Places in Sheffield That You Shouldn't Miss.It listens in to local talk, watches how local folk booze and goster, frolic, caper, saunter around, let their hair down or get it done specially for Saturday night out on the town, or just sit back in Millhouses Park in the sun, gently...
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In Jewish Literary Eros, Isabelle Levy explores the originality and complexity of medieval Jewish writings. Examining medieval prosimetra (texts composed of alternating prose and verse), Levy demonstrates that secular love is the common theme across Arabic, Hebrew, French, and Italian texts. At the crossroads of these spheres of intellectual activity, Jews of the medieval Mediterranean composed texts that combined dominant cultures' literary stylings...
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***THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER****A FINANCIAL TIMES, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN AND TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR****A WATERSTONES BEST POLITICS BOOK OF 2023***After his dramatic rise to power in the summer of 2019 amid the Brexit deadlock, Boris Johnson presided over the most turbulent period of British history in living memory. Beginning with the controversial prorogation of Parliament in August and the historic landslide election victory later that...
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