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Poetry, Anthologies & Drama
Poetry, Anthologies and Drama has many literary writings, plays and poetry to feed the mind with.
 | The 20th Century in Poetry(Hardback )This ground-breaking anthology presents in chronological order over 400 poems written in the twentieth century. The authors, both published poets themselves, give an overview of each period of history, while notes to the poems place each one in its historical context and trace the century's poetic development.
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 | Storyteller: The Life of Roald Dahl(Paperback)The authorised biography of one of the greatest storytellers of all time, written with complete access to the archives stored in the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre. Roald Dahl is one of the greatest storytellers of all time. He pushed children's literature into uncharted territory and almost twenty years after his death his popularity continues to grow -- worldwide....
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 | Old Bucky & Me: Dispatches from the Christchurch Earthquake(Paperback)On February 22, 2011, journalist Jane Bowron had been living back in her hometown of Christchurch for three years when the city was struck by a magnitude 6.3 earthquake - just five months after a 7.1 earthquake. The first quake had caused damage but no fatalities. This time it was the ultimate horror story. Countless city buildings crashed to the....
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 | A Point of View(Paperback)This is the book of the radio series. The BBC Radio 4 series, 'A Point of View', has been on the air since 2007. Over the years, it's had a variety of presenters - including the national treasure that is Clive James - talking for ten minutes about anything and everything that has captured their imagination, piqued their interest, raised....
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 | Janet Frame In Her Own Words(Hardback )For the first time ever, this collection brings together Janet Frame’s published short non-fiction in one collected volume, as well as material never seen before. Letters spanning 50 years of Frame’s life are published alongside essays, reviews, speeches and extracts from interviews.
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 | In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination(Hardback )The new non-fiction from the inimitable Margaret Atwood - IN OTHER WORLDS is a must. IN OTHER WORLDS: SF AND THE HUMAN IMAGINATION is Margaret Atwood's account of her relationship with the literary form we have come to know as 'science fiction'.
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 | Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats(Paperback)T.S. Eliot's collection of cat poems, written originally to amuse his godchildren and friends, has become one of the all-time favourites of children's literature. This lovely edition is illustrated by Axel Scheffler.
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 | The Monster's Corner: Stories Through Inhuman Eyes(Paperback)An all-original anthology from some of today's best supernatural writers with a unique twist on a very popular genre: these are stories of monsters ... from the monster's point of view!
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 | Other People's Wars: New Zealand in Afghanistan, Iraq and the War on Terror(Paperback)The 'war on terror' in Afghanistan and beyond has been the longest foreign war in New Zealand history, yet most New Zealanders know almost nothing about their country's part in it. For ten years, nearly everything controversial or potentially unpopular was kept secret, and obscured by a steady flow of military public relations stories.
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 | Arguably - Essays(Paperback)A collection of the most important and controversial writings from the unapologetically provocative yet universally admired Christopher Hitchens.
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 | The Cat's Whiskers: New Zealand Writers on Cats(Hardback )The cat has purred its way into the hearts of many a New Zealander, and into the pages of this country's writers. Katherine Mansfield, Janet Frame, James K. Baxter and Frank Sargeson all wrote about cats, and here many current writers - from Fiona Kidman to Sarah Quigley, Brian Turner to Kevin Ireland - celebrate their feline friends in articles,....
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 | Coctel Breve Poemario(Paperback / softback)Sobrevivientes a un per odo err tico e inestable de mi no muy pr spera o venturosa vida (!), tal como n ufragos que han llegado finalmente a una orilla, son estos versos, queridos lectores, que han surgido desde lo hondo del alma m a, y que hoy les ofrezco para compartir sencillamente un sentimiento de amor, dolor o alegr....
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 | Parallel to Life(Paperback)This book celebrates the life of the writer, its passions, its rewards and of course its conflicts and pain. One is tempted to call it a Journal, but there are no anecdotes. Roy's write short fragments, much like epigrams. The passion of writing is present on every page.
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| The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles(Hardback)With this volume, poet Robert Bagg completes his translation of the three plays in which Sophocles dramatized the agony and destruction inflicted on Oedipus and his family, the royal house of Thebes. To the newly revised Oedipus the King, first published in 1982, Bagg adds Antigone and Oedipus at Kolonos.
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 | A Celebration of Mothers(Hardback)This brand-new collection of Rice's touching poetry, interwoven with relevant devotional readings, features her best work on the many facets of motherhood. With poems like "God Made Loving Mothers," "At My Mother's Knee," and "Mother Puts the Joy in Every Day," mothers of all ages will continue to be inspired and refreshed.
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 | The Personal Opinions of Honore de Balzac (1899)(Paperback / softback)This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place....
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 | In Flanders Field(Paperback)This anthology addresses Scotlands unique contribution to the literature of the First World War. Well-known writers such as John Buchan, Eric Linklater, Hugh MacDiarmid, Compton Mackenzie, are included, as well as poets like Joseph Lee and Roderick Watson Kerr.
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 | Wills of George Washington and His Immediate Ancestors(Hardback)This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place....
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| Unbinding Medea(Hardback)Medea - simply to mention her name conjures up echoes and cross-connections from Antiquity to the present. She is the vengeful wife, the murderess of her own children, the frail, suicidal heroine, the archetypal Bad Mother, the smitten maiden, the barbarian, the sorceress, the abused victim, and the case study for a pathology.
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 | Sights and Insights V1(Paperback / softback)This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our....
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