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Tempest in a Flat Hat
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De los nombres de Cristo
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Fray Luis de León empezó a escribir en 1572 De los nombres de Cristo, y la terminó en 1585. Esta obra muestra su idea definitiva de los temas que esbozó en sus poemas en forma de diálogo ciceroniano donde se comentan las diversas interpretaciones de los nombres que se dan a Cristo en la Biblia. El (...)
Ariel
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The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy' and 'Fever 103 degrees', were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963.'If the poems are despairing, vengeful and destructive, they are (...)
Sirk on Sirk
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Douglas Sirk is one of the most neglected directors in American cinema. This book aims to rectify that and, through a survey of his career, to re-establish Sirk as one of the great stylists of Hollywood cinema.In 1937 Sirk left Germany, after a successful career in theatre and film, and came to (...)
Istanbul
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Turkey s greatest living novelist guides us through the monuments and lost paradises, dilapidated Ottoman villas, back streets and waterways of Istanbul the city of his birth and the home of his imagination. An extraordinary and transcendentally beautiful book . . . It is a long time since I (...)
Autobiographies I
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'I thought that no man liveth and dieth to himself, so I put behind what I thought and what I did the panorama of the world I lived in the things that made me.' Sean O'Casey, 1948 Sean O'Casey's six-part Autobiographies, originally published between 1939 and 1955, is an eloquently (...)
Innocent Birds
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'A village is like a stage that retains the same scenery throughout all the acts of the play. The actors come and go, and walk to and fro, with gestures that their passions fair or foul use them to… A country village has a way now and again of clearing out all its inhabitants in one rush, as though (...)
Franklin
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In 1845 Captain Sir John Franklin led a large, well equipped expedition to complete the conquest of the Canadian Arctic, to find the fabled North West Passage connecting the North Atlantic to the North Pacific. Yet Franklin, his ships and men were fated never to return. The cause of their loss (...)
Two Cures for Love
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The idea for this book grew out of Wendy Cope s experience of meeting her audience, when reading her poems in schools. This is an edition of the poems which identifies the references, verse-forms, contexts and occasions of her work, and which offers readers a new arrangement of the poetry as a (...)
Three Days in May
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Ben Brown's political thriller takes us behind the doors of Number Ten in May 1940 during three pivotal days in British History when, extraordinarily, giving in to Hitler was seriously considered.Having urgently assembled the British war cabinet, the new Prime Minister is confronted with an intense (...)
The Memsahibs
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Thousands of British women lived in India during Victorian times. They first went out as wives, mothers, sisters; others followed as teachers, doctors, missionaries. What they did and how they responded to their strange environment were seldom thought worthy of record, and writers have handed down (...)
Selected Poems of Sylvia Plath
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When Sylvia Plath's Ariel was published posthumously, A. Alvarez in the Observer wrote: 'If the poems are despairing, vengeful and destructive, they are at the same time tender, open to things, and also unusually clever, sardonic, hard-minded . . . They are works of great artistic purity and, (...)
Blue Murder
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A car mowing its way through Flaxborough market (and almost over Constable Cowdry) dramatically signals the presence of fearless, crusading journalist - Clive Grail, bent on uncovering scandal in that town s quiet and overtly respectable back streets. In answer to published hints of revelations to (...)
The Storm at the Door
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Just outside Boston, in 1963, Frederick Merrill found himself a patient in the country's premiere mental hospital, a world of structured authority and absolute control - a forced regression to a simpler time even as the pace of the outside world accelerated into modernity. Meanwhile, in a (...)
Admirals
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The true story of how Britain s maritime power helped gain this country unparalleled dominance of the world s economy, Admirals celebrates the rare talents of the men who shaped the most successful fighting force in world history. Told through the lives and battles of eleven of our most remarkable (...)
The Ultimate Book of Heroic Failures
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Anyone can be a success, but it takes real and original genius to foul up big time. These are the all-time greats, Gods in our field of study, surreal artists, who spurn mere drab success ( I m a winner, Lord Sugar ) to explore the vast, magical, life-enhancing possibilities of getting it wrong. (...)
City of the Dead
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New Orleans, and Vic Willing, Assistant District Attorney for the prosecutors office, has been missing since Hurricane Katrina hit. Called in from San Francisco is Claire DeWitt, a detective whose expertise and methods derive from some unique sources. What Claire discovers takes us into the (...)
Erskine Childers
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Immortalized as the author of The Riddle of the Sands, Erskine Childers led a life quite as enigmatic and adventurous as his classic novel.Childers was orphaned at an early age. Though he was brought up in County Wicklow, he received an English education that culminated in a clerkship to the House (...)
American Trade
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When life in New York gets to hot to handle, charismatic hustler Pharus escapes the clutches of rap star Jules and moves to London. A funny, uncompromising about surviving in the big city that challenges our assumptions about racial and sexual identity, American Trade celebrates (...)
Crocodiles & Obelisks
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Crocodiles and obelisks are ancient symbols of empire. The poems in Jamie McKendrick s astonishing new collection sift the debris of power and range from Mussolini s Italy and Franco s Spain to the Belgian Congo and to the Roman, the Austro-Hungarian and British empires. But crocodiles and (...)