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Ruth(2011) GASKELL, ELIZABETHGaskell's depiction of a fallen woman as her heroine shocked contemporary readers. Ruth is seduced and heartlessly abandoned but finds shelter and love with her illegitimate child until a twist of fate brings her past back to haunt her. This new edition eVezava: Mehka11,87 € -
Love Among the Chickens(2011) WODEHOUSE, P.G.This is the tale of Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge, one of Wodehouse's favourite protagonists, and his fraught attempt to establish a business farming chickens on the coast of Dorset.Vezava: Trda21,03 € -
Poetry of Birds(2011) ARMITAGE, SIMONBirds are the most obvious wild things we have around us. Some of the best known, and most loved, poems in English are bird poems. This title features poems according to ornithological notes and provides fascinating information on the birds.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Third World Girl(2011) BREEZE, JEAN BINTAThis book brings together new poems with poetry and reggae chants from four previous collections. Many of the poems were included in two performances by Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze filmed by Pamela Robertson-Pearce at Leicester’s Y Theatre available by scanning QVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Georgics: A Poem of the Land(2010) VIRGIL'Georgic' means 'to work the earth'. This poetic guide to country living combines practical wisdom on tending the land with fantasy and eulogies to the rhythms of nature. It describes hills strewn with wild berries in 'vine-spread autumn', and gives guidaVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Phantom Noise(2010) TURNER, BRIANSecond collection by American soldier-poet who served in Bosnia and Iraq relating to war and its aftermath. Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize.Vezava: Mehka16,82 € -
I Won't Let You Go(2010) TAGORE, RABINDRANATHRevised and enlarged second edition of a substantial selection of Tagore's poems and songs first published by Bloodaxe in 1991, translated with an illustrated introduction, notes and glossary by the bilingual writer Ketaki Kushari Dyson, who lives in OxfoVezava: Mehka16,82 € -
Penguin's Poems for Love(2010)An anthology of poems that takes you on a journey from the 'suddenly' of love at first sight to the 'truly, madly, deeply' of infatuation and on to the 'eternally' of love that lasts beyond the end of life, along the way taking in flirtation, passion, furVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Cousin Phillis and Other Stories(2010) GASKELL, ELIZABETHThis representative selection includes five tales of very different kinds written in the 1850s and the longer Cousin Phillis. Immensely readable and sophisticated works of art, they show Gaskell's mastery of the genre, in an edition that celebrates her acVezava: Mehka11,87 € -
Flappers and Philosophers: The Collected Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald(2010) FITZGERALD, F. SCOTTCovering some of the very best of F Scott Fitzgerald's short fiction, this collection spans his career, from the early stories of the glittering Jazz Age, through the lost hopes of the thirties, to the last, twilight decade of his life. It brings togetherVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Return of the Native(2010) HARDY, THOMAS'Tremendous...utterly absorbing' Independent Proud, passionate Eustacia Vye marries Clym Yeobright in the hope that he will help her escape her cramped rural existence.Vezava: Mehka11,20 € -
The Canterbury Tales: A retelling by Peter Ackroyd (Penguin Classics)(2010) CHAUCER, GEOFFREY,ACKROYD, PETERFrom the exuberant Wife of Bath's Arthurian legend to the Miller's worldly, ribald farce, this title includes tales which can be taken as a mirror of fourteenth-century London.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Eating Fire(2010) ATWOOD, MARGARET* EATING FIRE - Margaret Atwood's poetry - reissued with a stunning new jacket along with other titles from Margaret Atwood's backlistVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Darwin(2010) PADEL, RUTHIncludes poems that use multiple viewpoints - from Darwin himself, to his beloved wife Emma, and even, at one point, the orangutang at London Zoo - and illuminates the development of Darwin's thought, the drama of the discovery of evolution, and the fluctVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Speaking in Tongues(2009) BOVELL, ANDREWA powerful study of infidelity and interwoven lives, filmed as the award-winning Lantana.Vezava: Mehka19,62 € -
Last Witch(2009) MUNRO, RONAA play about the last woman to be executed for witchcraft in Scotland, The Last Witch explores the psychological rifts that can divide close communities and drive families apart.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Spanish Tragedy(2009) KYD, THOMASRevenge plays became the most durable and commercially successful type of drama on the Elizabethan stage. The Spanish Tragedy brings to life the intrigues of the Spanish court, dramatically contrasting romantic passion with violent deaths and clandestineVezava: Mehka18,28 € -
Restoration(2009) TREMAIN, ROSERobert Merivel is a dissolute young medical student when an accident of fate leads him to the attention of King Charles II. Finding favour with the King, Merivel embarks on the time of his life, enthusiastically enjoying the luxury, women and wine of theVezava: Mehka15,41 €
