When Debra Gordon Zaslow first ventured into Jewish storytelling in the mid-1980s, she was surprised at how difficult it was to find Jewish tales featuring powerful female characters. This seemed odd, given the obvious strength of Jewish women. Over...Lasīt vairāk
Selima Hills twenty-second collection A Man, a Woman & a Hippopotamus presents ten sequences of short poems, prose poems and short pieces on relationships and doings between people, animals and the world at large. Self...Lasīt vairāk
Lovers of Kit Wrights poetry for its range and virtuosity, deep feeling and rich humour may find his new gathering exceeds expectations. Jug Band Jag is a wonderfully spirited bout of poetry-making whose forms and themes...Lasīt vairāk
Until now Menna Elfyn wrote only in Welsh. In this hybrid book for the first time she has written many of the poems direct into English, and translated some of them herself, now describing herself as a proud bilingual. Other poems in the collectio...Lasīt vairāk
The virtues and vices of medieval literature can sound historically complicated or dried out. But perhaps the saints and mystics had found the wholeness we long for now. Exploring vibrant, strange, and essential teaching for ordinary people through...Lasīt vairāk
Through this genuine and personal collection of poems, Joey Kidney shares gentle reminders that though life can be overwhelming and unpredictable, we all have the ability to hold tight to hope. Sometimes we just need a little help remembering....Lasīt vairāk
THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER Grim, forensic and often eye-opening meticulously researched and soberly written Sunday Independent A fascinating book Pat Kenny, Newstalk --- Kinahan Assassins is the extraordinary st...Lasīt vairāk
This volume presents a chronological biography of Alexander Pushkin, often held to be Russias national poet and writer. Lotman pays special attention to the development of Pushkins social and political thought throughout the poets life, painting...Lasīt vairāk
An invigorating pair of essays exploring exile, language and national identity from one of Europes most celebrated literary stars, the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being. 89 Words, published in 1985, is an expanded version of th...Lasīt vairāk
From Marginalian Editions: a far-seeing essay collection by the iconoclastic historian Jane Ellen Harrisonheroine to generations of writers from Virginia Woolf to Mary Beardthat explores the invisible tendrils between science and the sacred, the psy...Lasīt vairāk
David McCullough, Dorie McCullough Lawson, Michael Hill
(Izdošanas datums: 23-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Simon & Schuster, ISBN-13: 9781668098998)
A collection of thought-provoking essays on the importance of history -- many of which have never been published before -- by beloved historian David McCullough....Lasīt vairāk
Provides a comprehensive account of the evolution of literary criticism from antiquity to the present Spanning more than two millennia of intellectual history, Literary Criticism from Plato to Post-Theory: An Introduction offers the most...Lasīt vairāk
Delightful new versions of the great Welsh medieval poets lyrics - intimate, urgent and timeless Dafydd ap Gwilym, the pre-eminent poet of Wales, explored love, desire and the natural world with startling frankness and virtuoso wit....Lasīt vairāk
