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81) The Bone Library
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These poems are alive with electricity, pulsating with a frequency that vibrates throughout.
In a journey from there to here, The Bone Library examines and interprets all of human life. Throughout the collection Jenni Fagan responds to broader themes of identity, of place, of love and the unloved.
Written in the old Dick Vet Bone Library during the author's time as writer-in-residence there, this is a vivid exploration that is honest and searching...
82) Christmas Eve
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Christmas-Eve is a long poem by English author Robert Browning (1812-1889). It was published in 1850. Christmas Eve was the first work published by the author after his marriage to Elizabeth Barrett Browning and their departure for Italy and it shows the influence of his wife's religious beliefs.
83) The Fugitive
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This 1913 play is a study of that peculiar English malady: good form. Clare Dedmond, the unhappy wife of George Dedmond, longs for a life of freedom and art. A friendship with the novelist Malise seems to offer her the chance to escape the deadening Dedmond household.... but at a great cost.
84) Twenty
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Twenty (1918) is a poetry collection by Stella Benson. Largely recognized for her work as an activist in the women's suffrage movement and for her popular novels, Benson was also an accomplished poet. Twenty, her debut volume, is a collection indebted to symbolism in which Benson reflects on her experiences as a young woman in a rapidly changing world.
85) Last Poems
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This vintage book contains a wonderful collection of poems by Edward Thomas. A great addition to any bookshelf, this text is a veritable must-have for fans of Thomas's work and is not to be missed by the discerning collector of such literature. The poems contained herein include: “I Never Saw that Land Before”, “The Dark Forest”, “Celandine”, “The Ash Grove”, “Old Man”, “The Thrush”, “A Built Myself a House of Glass”, “February...
86) The Eldest Son
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This 1912 play focuses on one of Galsworthy's perennial subjects: the injustice inherent in an economic and political system that privileges the rich over the poor, in this case, in the realm of marriage. Through a plot involving two forced marriages, Galsworthy exposes middle, and upper-class hypocrisy.
87) The Melting-Pot
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The Melting Pot (1908) is a play by Israel Zangwill. Raised in London by parents from Latvia and Poland, Zangwill understood the plight of the city's Jewish community firsthand. Having risen through poverty to become an educator and author, he dedicated his career to the voiceless, the oppressed, and the needy, advocating for their rights and bearing witness to their suffering in some of the most powerful novels and stories of the Victorian era. When...
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Composed by Alfred Tennyson as a requiem for his college friend Arthur Henry Hallam, who died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1833, "In Memoriam A. H. H." is a poem written over a seventeen-year period and completed in 1849. Widely considered as one of the greatest poems of the Victorian era it is a richly lyrical work, which meditates on the search for hope in the wake of a great loss. The length of this work and the period of time in which...
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Troilus and Criseyde (c.1385) is an epic poem written by English poet Geoffrey Chaucer. Composed in Middle English, Troilus and Criseyde is the story of two lovers forced apart by the Greek siege of Troy. Often considered Chaucer's finest work for its structural consistency and completeness, the poem adapts Homer's Iliad and other ancient sources which expand on its tradition to tell a Christian moral tale about the importance of faith and the sacred...
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Les Fleurs du mal is a collection of poems by Charles Baudelaire, encompassing almost all of his production in verse, from 1840 until his death at the end of August 1867. Flowers of Evil It is a major work of modern poetry. His pieces break with agreed style, in use until then and rejuvenate the structure of the verse by regular use of crossings, rejects and counter-rejects. This renovates the rigid form of the sonnet. He uses suggestive images by...
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Culled from nearly twenty years of the playwright's career, a showcase for Tom Stoppard's dazzling range and virtuosic talent, The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays is essential reading for fans of modern drama. The plays in this collection reveal Stoppard's sense of fun, his sense of theater, his sense of the absurd, and his gifts for parody and satire.
94) No man's land
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Set against the decayed elegance of a house in London's Hampstead Heath, in No Man's Land two men face each other over a drink. Do they know each other, or is each performing an elaborate character of recognition? Their ambiguity-and the comedy-intensify with the arrival of two younger men, the one ostensibly a manservant, the other a male secretary. All four inhabit a no man's land between time present and time remembered, between reality and imagination-a...
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One of the greatest of all Restoration comedies, this knowing comedy of manners depicts the scheming of a nest of shallow, deceitful aristocrats to prevent two lovers from marrying. The play abounds with felicitous phrasing, delicious verbal battles of the sexes and a depth of feeling and sensitivity.
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The Countess Cathleen (1892) is a verse drama by W.B. Yeats. Dedicated to Maud Gonne, an actress and revolutionary whom Yeats unsuccessfully courted for years, The Countess Cathleen underwent several editions before being performed in its final version at Dublin's Abbey Theatre in 1911.
Based on an Irish legend, the play, set during a period of intense famine, follows a land-owning Countess who decides to sacrifice her wealth and property in order...
99) Horse latitudes
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A collection of poems by Irish poet Paul Muldoon that explore the areas of life that often come to a standstill and force action.
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Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850) is a collection of sonnets by English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Written between 1845 and 1846, Sonnets from the Portuguese is a series of love poems written by Browning to her husband, the prominent Victorian poet Robert Browning. Although Elizabeth was initially unsure of the poems, Robert encouraged their publication, suggesting she title them to make readers believe they were translations and not personal...
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