The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts by Arthur Miller
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Category: writing poetry literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"The Crucible" is a 1952 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatization of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory of McCarthyism, when the US government blacklisted accused communists. M ...Show more
The Immortal Evening by Stanley Plumly
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On 28 December 1817, Benjamin Robert Haydon hosted what he refers to in his diaries and autobiography as the "immortal dinner". He wanted to introduce his young friend John Keats to the great William Wordsworth and to celebrate his progress on his most important historical painting so far, Christ's Entr ...Show more
Leaves Of Grass by Walt Whitman
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Category: writing poetry literature | Series: Penguin Clothbound Poetry Ser.
In 1855 Walt Whitman published his first collection of poetry, Leaves of Grass. The volume received great praise from leading Transcendentalist poet Ralph Waldo Emerson. This encouraged what would become a lifelong project as Whitman expanded and rewrote the volume until his death in 1892. Whitman's inn ...Show more
Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
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The #1 New York Times bestselling poetry and prose collection by Rupi Kaur, which has sold over 3 million copies worldwide. Milk and Honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. This clothbound edition features deckled edg ...Show more
The Oxford Illustrated History of Theatre by John Russell Brown
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Category: writing poetry literature | Series: Oxford Illustrated History
Authoritative and wide-ranging, this absorbing account of the history of theatre draws on the latest scholarly research to describe and celebrate theatre's greatest achievemenst over 4,500 years, from festival performances in ancient Egypt to international multicultural theatre in the late twentieth cen ...Show more
THE FIGHTER by Tim Parks
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"One of Britain s outstanding novelists, Tim Parks has also published two acclaimed essay collections, Adultery and Other Diversions and Hell and Back. This new volume finds him as provocative and entertaining as ever. The title piece addresses D.H. Lawrence s fundamental belligerence and how all the si ...Show more
I Before E, Except After C by Laurie Rozakis
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Dr. Rozakis offers this fun, engaging refresher course on spelling for adults, teens, and preteens alike, who--thanks in part to online instant messaging and text messaging--are quickly and quietly forgetting how to spell.
What Is the Matter with Mary Jane? by Wendy Harmer
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Spelling it Out: How Words Work and How to Teach Them by Misty Adoniou
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Spelling can be a source of anxiety for school children and working professionals alike. Yet the spelling of words in English is not as random or chaotic as it is often perceived to be; rather, it is a system based on both meaning and a fascinating linguistic history. Misty Adoniou's public articles on ...Show more
Prefaces to Shakespeare: Coriolanus by Harley Granville-Barker
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This is one of a series of books that provide a guide to Shakespeare's plays. The prefaces include endorsements by both actors and directors.
Brush by Joanne Burns
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Category: writing poetry literature | Series: Giramondo Poets Ser.
The title of Joanne Burns' new collection brush highlights the reader's first experience of a poem, its initial electricity; and the way the poem offers a surface of words that proceeds to reveal their possibilities or intentions. The central sequence 'road' is an animated display of the fashions of bei ...Show more
Oxford A-Z of English Usage by Jeremy Butterfield
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Readers and writers of all levels will find the Oxford A-Z of English Usage essential. Based on Oxford's world-leading dictionary research programmes and contemporary language monitoring and giving examples of real usage, this book provides the essential information about usage and correct English that ...Show more