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The Macmillan Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"In the Seven Woods: Being Poems Chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age" is a volume of poems by W. B. Yeats, published in 1903 by Elizabeth Yeats's Dun Emer Press, the first edited by this publishing house.
Dun Emer published two editions of the book in 1903. The more expensive collection was published on Dutch and Irish paper and is bound with a vellum cover with Irish linen ties.
This is the first book of Yeats's "middle period," in which he eschewed...
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Series
Publisher
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
With satire, adventure, and imagination, Phantasmagoria and Other Poems explores subjects such as the supernatural, love, friendship, and nature. Featuring sixteen of Lewis Carroll's poems, Phantasmagoria and Other Poems has something to appeal to everyone. Among this collection is A Sea Dirge, in which the speaker, equipped with evocative figurative language, explains their contempt for the sea. In Echoes, a young girl discloses her encounter with...
103) Macbeth
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English
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New unique literature Study Guide made super super easy on Shakespeare's renowned play Macbeth. Its unique structure with detailed explanations next to the text, its in depth identification of language devices, exploration of themes, character analysis, typical exam questions, gives students the information to achieve outstanding results.
104) Found at Sea
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English
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Andrew Greig has won much acclaim and numerous awards for his novels, poetry, and nonfiction evoking the natural beauty of rural Scotland or chronicling his far-flung adventures. In this volume, his love for his home and his passion for travel come together.
One summer evening, Greig embarked upon a micro-odyssey from his home in Stromness to the island of Cava, and Found at Sea recounts in poetic sequence the tale of his open dinghy voyage. Written...
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How did this nineteenth-century novelist change the way we think?
What are the sources of the commonly held presumption that reading literature should make people more just, humane, and sophisticated? Looking at literary history in relation to the cultural histories of reading, publishing, and education, The Pleasures of Memory illuminates the ways in which Dickens's serial fiction shaped not only the popular practice of reading for pleasure and...
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English
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Croeso i gyfrol sy'n gynnwys darnau o waith barddonol yr awdur sy'n dechrau yn nawdegau'r ganrif ddiwethaf ac yn arwain at heddiw.
Mae'n dangos gwaith barddonol dros y blynyddoedd o fynychu dosbarthiadau Cymraeg.
Hefyd mae yma ddarnau o "Ficro lên" ysgrifennodd i ymarfer idiomau a dywediadau Cymraeg.
Mae barddoniaeth yn amrywio o'r ddigri i'r ddifri ac yn mynd o'r byd dysgu Cymraeg i'r byd natur ac yn cyffwrdd a'r byd gwleidyddiaeth hefyd.
This...
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English
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Poetry has long been regarded as the least accessible of literary genres. But how much does the obscurity that confounds readers of a poem differ from, say, the slang that seduces listeners of hip-hop? Infidel Poetics examines not only the shared incomprensibilities of poetry and slang, but poetry's genetic relation to the spectacle of underground culture.
Charting connections between vernacular poetry, lyric obscurity, and types of social relations-networks...
108) Play With Me
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English
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Writer and performer Michael Pederson has built a reputation as a critically acclaimed poet-provocateur. His live readings are as memorable as they are witty, laced with an electric energy, as he recites his accessible yet deeply layered poetry from memory.
From NHS overdose clinics to overrun gardens, talking Cambodian treehouses to the teenage perversion of a young Scot on a French Exchange, the poems in Pedersen's first collection offer a rich...
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English
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The central argument of Edward Said's Orientalism is that the relationship between Britain and its colonies was primarily oppositional, based on contrasts between conquest abroad and domestic order at home. Saree Makdisi directly challenges that premise in Making England Western, identifying the convergence between the British Empire's civilizing mission abroad and a parallel mission within England itself, and pointing to Romanticism as one of the...
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English
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In the early twentieth century, publicly staged productions of significant historical, political, and religious events became increasingly popular-and increasingly grand-in Ireland. These public pageants, a sort of precursor to today's opening ceremonies at the Olympic games, mobilized huge numbers of citizens to present elaborately staged versions of Irish identity based on both history and myth. Complete with marching bands, costumes, fireworks,...
111) Boulevard
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English
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Boulevard, a poetic journey forged amid the crucible of the COVID-19 pandemic, encapsulates a year of the poet's life confined to working from home due to travel restrictions to Australia and Ireland, his cherished homelands.
Comprising 76 sections, this collection beckons readers into a nuanced exploration of the extraordinary events unfolding on a boulevard and its neighboring surroundings during this unprecedented time.
Is it a book-length...
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English
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From crumpets to beans on toast, Cornish pasties to sausage rolls, fish and chips to cottage pie, spotted dick to rhubarb crumble, British cuisine is as unique as it comes and, despite many of the stereotypes about British food being bland or boring, the truth is, British foods whether a full English breakfast, Yorkshire pudding, strawberry trifle or cauliflower cheese, is packed full of flavorful ingredients that combine in some of the world's most...
113) Oyster
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English
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The second poetry collection from the Robert Louis Stevenson Fellow and author of Play With Me-with illustrations by Scott Hutchison.
From festive nights in Grez-sur-Loing, France, to sizzling summers stretched out in the Edinburgh Meadows, Michael Pedersen's unique brand of poetry captures a debauchery and a disputation of characters. It is narrated with an intense honesty and a love of language that is playful, powerful and penetrative. He vividly...
114) Coffee Table Rhymes
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English
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"My sister cleans her bedroom
In twenty seconds flat.
She sweeps the dirt into a pile
Then underneath the mat."
A selection of comic verse on such subjects as fraught relationships, untrustworthy professionals, quirky pets and even quirkier family members.
Nothing too dark or serious here, just a set of cleverly written, instantly quotable epigrams, along with a handful of longer poems that combine humour with insight. Truly, the perfect book to leave...
115) The Handsome Man
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English
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About the Book
New York hitman arrives in London for what should be a
simple job. It unravels fast and he wakes up in hospital, then
finds himself on the run into the wilds of Essex. Can he stay
in front long enough to get away?
About the Author
Ian Jones loves to write, and has published several books to
great reviews. When he's not working he loves walking,
music and motorbikes. He lives in London with his family
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English
Description
Welcome to my journey - an antidote for extreme delays and utter frustration, a book of poetry and verse aimed to amuse and entertain weary travellers. If you can read it, it's something you won't easily forget. The poems include Daisy White and the Saga of Captain Black about a pair of shire horses, The Alarm Cock which was made into an animated film and shown at the Cannes Film Festival, Gun Dog, Saturday Night at the Movies and many more. It's...
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English
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The author of The Magicians of Edinburgh returns with a new volume that celebrates and interrogates Scotland and its people at a crucial turning point in their history. Themes explored include the country's past, present, and future, its landscape and its people, its myths and its politics-from Bannockburn, Flodden to Faslane, the Loch Ness Monster, wind farms, Hutton to Higgs, Bonnie Prince Charlie to Donald Trump.
118) Gens de Dublin
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Français
Description
Une édition de référence des Gens de Dublin de James Joyce, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.
« Nous arrivâmes ensuite à la rivière, et restâmes longtemps à nous promener parmi les rues bruyantes, flanquées de hauts murs de pierre, surveillant le travail des grues et des machines, rudoyés souvent, parce que nous ne nous garions pas, par les conducteurs des camions gémissants. Il était midi quand nous...
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Français
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Dorian Gray est un jeune homme d'une très grande beauté. Son ami artiste peintre Basil Hallward est obsédé par cette dernière et en tire toute son inspiration. Sa fascination pour le jeune homme le mène à faire son portrait, qui se révèle être la plus belle œuvre qu'il ait jamais peinte, et qu'il ne souhaite pas exposer : « J'y ai mis trop de moi-même ».
Dorian va faire la connaissance de Lord Henry, dit Harry, un ami de Basil.
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English
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Amid the crowded streets of Chester, guild players portraying biblical characters performed on colorful mobile stages hoping to draw the attention of fellow townspeople. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, these Chester plays employed flamboyant live performance to adapt biblical narratives. But the original format of these fascinating performances remains cloudy, as surviving records of these plays are sparse, and the manuscripts were only...
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