A fresh and questioning look at girlhood and its icons, unravelling the millennia of myth woven around girls.A sensual exploration of two female archetypes GuardianOne of our most gifted poets ... This is tender and exquisite poetry Mona Arshi, a...Lasīt vairāk
Alfred Tennyson, Andrew Sachs, John Gielgud, Hallam Tennyson, Tim Pigott-Smith, Holliday Grainger, Ruth Padel, Melvyn Bragg, Mary Wimbush, Peggy Ashcroft...
(Izdošanas datums: 14-Mar-2024, MP3, Izdevniecība: BBC Audio, ISBN-13: 9781529925845)
A definitive collection of Tennysons finest worksAlfred Lord Tennyson is one of Britains greatest and most popular poets. Even during his lifetime, he was considered a national institution: Queen Victoria appointed him Poet Laureate in 1850, a posi...Lasīt vairāk
Fintan O'Toole, Ruth Padel, Heather Jones, Various, Elif Shafak, David Edgerton, Sara LeFanu
(Izdošanas datums: 03-Nov-2022, MP3, Izdevniecība: BBC Audio, ISBN-13: 9781529187878)
The complete BBC Radio 3 series exploring how great creative minds responded to the First World War in individual works of art and scholarshipWorld War I saw an unprecedented loss of life in Western Europe, and destruction on a scale no one alive had...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Jul-2021, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Little, Brown Book Group, ISBN-13: 9781472156372)
An immersive novel, steeped in the history and folklore of Crete: transporting, historically informative story-telling Sunday TimesA moving, superbly written exploration of a family with dark secrets. Crete itself becomes one of the main character...Lasīt vairāk
*First published as The Mara Crossing, now with new and updated material*A prodigy, a book of wonders. Wonder, pity and terror, the searing section of voices in transit coercing compassion - and beyond that, empathy IndependentHome is where you st...Lasīt vairāk
From the author of the bestselling Darwin: A Life in Poems, Ruth Padel s new collection follows in the footsteps of one of the world s greatest composers, Beethoven, and investigates what his life and music might mean to us todayTwo hundred and fifty...Lasīt vairāk
An elegy to a lost mother, Emerald is the moving new collection from prize-winning poet Ruth Padel Here in deep earth, the blackblossom of mourning still sifting within meI remembered that emerald was my birthstone Prize-winning poet Ruth Padel s h...Lasīt vairāk
Beautifully illustrated and exquisitely musical, Tidings is a poem to be read out loud and cherished. Come with meto St Pancras Old Church, on a little London hill... It s Christmas Eve and on this enchanted night Charoum, the Angel of Silence, can s...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 26-Sep-2016, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9781400884322)
Ruth Padel explores Greek conceptions of human innerness and the way in which Greek tragedy shaped European notions of mind and self. Arguing that Greek poetic language connects images of consciousness, even male consciousness, with the darkness attr...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 26-Sep-2016, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9781400884322)
Ruth Padel explores Greek conceptions of human innerness and the way in which Greek tragedy shaped European notions of mind and self. Arguing that Greek poetic language connects images of consciousness, even male consciousness, with the darkness attr...Lasīt vairāk
Making is our defence against the dark...Through images of conflict and craftsmanship, Ruth Padel s powerful new poems address the Middle East, tracing a quest for harmony in the midst of destruction. An oud, the central instrument of Middle Easter...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 23-May-2013, MP3, Izdevniecība: Random House, ISBN-13: 9781448190034)
Home is where you start from, but where is a swallows real home? And what does native mean if the English oak is an immigrant from Spain In a selection of richly varied poems and illuminating prose interludes from her collection The Mara Crossing,...Lasīt vairāk
Home is where you start from, but where is a swallows real home? And what does native mean if the English oak is an immigrant from Spain In ninety richly varied poems and illuminating prose interludes, Ruth Padels original new book weaves science...Lasīt vairāk
Lyrical, imagistic, plaintive, haunting, always passionate and elegant - and never anything less than free.--Naomi Shihab NyeMahmoud Darwish was often cited as the poetic voice of the Palestinian people. In the summer of 2006, as Israel attacked Ga...Lasīt vairāk
In these extraordinary poems, using multiple viewpoints - from Darwin himself, to his beloved wife Emma, and even, at one point, the orangutang at London Zoo - Ruth Padel illuminates the development of Darwins thought, the drama of the discovery of...Lasīt vairāk
Beautiful, disturbing and a pleasure to read, Ruth Padels new poems are her most ambitious yet, adding animal legend and zoological science to her glitteringly imaginative canvas. With her gift for bringing together experiences and tones of voice th...Lasīt vairāk
Fusewire has the fierce historical awareness and linguistic energy of Ruth Padels previous collections but moves into new territory and new clarity. Poems on British activity in Ireland through the ages intrude on an intensely moving series of love...Lasīt vairāk
Ruth Padels passionate new collection is a womans eye view of a love affair, with darker undercurrents of mortality and loss. Shifting between vulnerability and guilt, innocence and doubt, tenderness and frustration, teasing reproach and the exalta...Lasīt vairāk
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an...Lasīt vairāk
Discover Charles Darwins most important ideas... When the eminent naturalist Charles Darwin returned from South America on board the H.M.S Beagle in 1836, he brought notes and evidence that would form the basis of his landmark theory: that species e...Lasīt vairāk
