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It is a few weeks before Christmas and everyone except Catherine seems to be gearing up for the big day with excitement. Catherine is a single mum, struggling to bring up her five year old daughter, she has little time for romance, and when she learns she has lost her job and her flat is deemed unliveable, she wonders just what else life is about to fling at her. Where or to whom can she turn to for help? Kismet in the shape of handsome, bachelor,...
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Moscow, 1938. Stalin has been in power for sixteen years and his purges are underway. Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita is lying unpublished in a desk drawer, and his latest play Molière has been banned following terrible reviews in Pravda. As a secret policeman dryly puts it, this has opened up a convenient "gap in his schedule." This "gap" is to be filled by writing a play about Stalin's life.
As Bulgakov loses himself in a world of secrets,...
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David Hare, "Britain's leading contemporary playwright," has established a unique reputation for plays that are at once personal and political, deeply serious and incredibly funny (The Times). He is the author of seventeen plays, many of which have been presented on Broadway. Included in this collection are Fanshen; A Map of the World; Saigon: Year of the Cat; The Bay at Nice; and The Secret Rapture. Of the title play, Frank Rich of The New York Times...
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Self PortraitAre we the sum of our partsOr what makes us humanUnderneath?Are we our faceOr our passions?Are we a body? Or a soul?This collection of poetry by E.M. McConnell is designed to be more introspective, looking at nature, how it affects us, our inner worlds, how mirth can lift us, and of course what drives us, inspiration, and love.
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Croydon, England, was the setting of the famous three-way friendship of D. H. Lawrence, Jessie Chambers, and Helen Corke, all of whom made literary records of their association, and all of whom appeared as characters in Lawrence novels. Perhaps the most objective of these records were Helen Corke's, which became difficult to acquire. Their scarcity and their continuing usefulness were the stimulus for publication of this volume, which contains in...
6) Oliver Twist
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Numa pequena cidade de Inglaterra, uma jovem dá à luz um menino e morre em seguida. O pequeno órfão recebe o nome de Oliver Twist e vive os seus primeiros nove anos em instituições de caridade. Não suportando tantos maus-tratos,Oliver foge para Londres, onde inadvertidamente se junta a um bando de marginais comandado por um grande vilão: Fagin...
7) Oyster
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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...
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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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A collection of critical writings on music from the Nobel Prize—winning playwright behind Saint Joan and Man and Superman.
The Critical Shaw: On Music is a comprehensive selection of renowned Irish playwright and Nobel Laureate Bernard Shaw's extensive writings on a wide range of musical topics. Still recognized as one of Great Britain's most important music critics, Shaw enriched London's musical scene for some twenty years with his provocative,...
11) Simply Joyce
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Generally considered one of the greatest modern writers, James Joyce (1882—1941) grew up in Dublin, Ireland, but spent his adult life in the European cities of Trieste, Zurich, and Paris.
12) Simply Austen
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One of the most beloved novelists of all time, Jane Austen (1775-1817) is also one of the most scrutinized. Since the early 20th century, she has been a favorite topic of academic researchers and scholars; at the same time, the popularity of her books has
13) Simply Dickens
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Oliver Twist. A Christmas Carol. David Copperfield. Bleak House. A Tale of Two Cities. Great Expectations. The novels of Charles Dickens (1812—1870) read like a "Who's Who" of canonical works. Yet, less well known is the fact that Dickens himself was some
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The editor of Discovering the Character of God presents further devotional selections from the poetry, sermons, and stories of George Macdonald.
One of the nineteenth-century's greatest thinkers, George MacDonald has inspired generations with his fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Now his words of wisdom are available in a series of devotionals compiled and edited by MacDonald scholar and biographer, Michael Phillips.
Knowing the Heart of God presents...
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A collection of fiction and nonfiction by the Scottish author of Treasure Island, selected by two acclaimed Argentinian writers.
First imagined in the 1960s but never published, this collection of Robert Louis Stevenson's essays, fables and short stories was imagined by Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares-a collection of their favorite works of nonfiction, short stories, and fables. The themes-integrity, intellectual and imaginative truth,...
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The most prolific woman writer of the eighteenth century, Eliza Haywood (1693—1756?) was a key player in the history of the English novel. Along with her contemporary Defoe, she did more than any other writer to create a market for fiction prior to the emergence of Richardson, Fielding, and Smollett.
Also, one of Augustan England's most popular authors, Haywood came to fame in 1719 with the publication of her first novel, Love in Excess. In addition...
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A reflection on Orwell-as-idea that "outlines some of the misconceptions and misuses of the Orwell name" (Modern Fiction Studies).
The year 1984 is just a memory, but the catchwords of George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four still routinely pepper public discussions of topics ranging from government surveillance and privacy invasion to language corruption and bureaucratese. Orwell's work pervades the cultural imagination, while others of his literary...
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