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  • My Grandmother's Glass Eye

    A Look at Poetry

    by Craig Raine ...
    From critic and poet Craig Raine comes a fresh, bold examination of the meaning of poetry and some of the great poetical works of our time"By poetry we—we the masses—mean something vague, something untrue, something uplifting, something beautiful, something so eloquent it isn't for everyday. The word "poetry" is up there with "soul". And I am against it.'Craig Raine's new work of criticism deploys ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • T. S. Eliot

    by Craig Raine ...
    Series series Lives and Legacies Series
    The winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the twentieth century's most famous poet and its most influential literary arbiter, T.S. Eliot has long been thought to be an obscure and difficult poet--forbiddingly learned, maddeningly enigmatic. Now, in this brilliant exploration of T.S. Eliot's work, prize-winning poet Craig Raine reveals that, on the contrary, Eliot's poetry (and drama and ... Read more

    $24.79 CAD

  • How Snow Falls

    by Craig Raine ...
    In his first poetry collection for a decade, Craig Raine addresses themes of transformation in human nature and the natural world and confronts the quiddities of death and sex, memory and desire, commemoration and love. At the core of How Snow Falls are four long poems that explore the possibilities of the form; there are two ardent elegies, one for the poet's mother and one for a dead lover; a ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Divine Comedy

    by Craig Raine ...
    The Divine Comedy is a fugue and a black comedy. In delicious and bawdy detail, an unnamed narrator offers snapshots into the lives and loves of an astonishing cast of philanderers and fuckups while along the way, the evidence amasses for a comic, cosmic conspiracy. Craig Raine's second novel, The Divine Comedy, is a voyeuristic meditation on sex and insecurity, God and the nature of the human ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Haydn and The Valve Trumpet

    by Craig Raine ...
    A selection of literary essays written since 1972, this book addresses in detail the work of Dickens, Donne, T. S. Eliot, Coleridge, Dr Johnson, Betjeman, Elizabeth Bishop, Saul Bellow, James Joyce, and many others. Vigilant, sceptical, mistrustful of consensus, Craig Raine stands in the tradition of poet-critics whose task, as Eliot said, is ‘the elucidation of works of art and the correction of ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • T. S. Eliot

    by Craig Raine ...
    Series series Lives and Legacies Series
    The twentieth century's most famous poet and its most influential literary arbiter T.S. Eliot has long been thought to be an obscure and difficult writer-forbiddingly learned maddeningly enigmatic. In this compelling exploration prize-winning poet Craig Raine finds a way to read and make sense of Eliot's full corpus. He illuminates a paradoxical Eliot--an exacting anti-romantic realist skeptical ... Read more

    $24.79 CAD

  • In Defence of T. S. Eliot

    by Craig Raine ...
    His pieces, on the literary world and some of its most fascinating figures and classics, bear his hallmark of vitality and distinctive approach. Raine’s knowledge of the span of literary theory (and anecdote) and the incisiveness of his thinking uncover as far more contradictory and complex in their successes writers customarily held in reverence. The essays range from a powerful piece on the KGB ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • The Scorpion God

    With an introduction by Craig Raine

    by William Golding ...
    Lose yourself in ancient civilizations in these three historical novellas by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies.Even when he leapt from the parapet he talked.Ancient Egypt. The Prince is set to marry Pretty Flower, his sister, in the Great House's incestuous society. But the Liar speaks a truth that transforms everything .A primiti... ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • The Wish House and Other Stories

    by Rudyard Kipling ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    Rudyard Kipling, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1907, has long been considered an important and vibrant, even controversial, storyteller and poet. The Wish House and Other Stories is a collection of Kipling’s finest works, including the stories “In the House of Suddhoo,” “The Disturber of Traffic,” and “The Eye of Allah,” the poems “The Runners,” “The Return of the Children,” and “The ... Read more

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  • The Double Tongue

    With an introduction by Meg Rosoff

    by William Golding ...
    With an introduction by Meg RosoffWilliam Golding's final novel, left in draft at his death, tells the story of a priestess of Apollo. Arieka is one of the last to prophesy at Delphi, in the shadowy years when the Romans were securing their grip on the tribes and cities of Greece. The plain, unloved daughter of a local grandee, she is rescued from the contempt and neglect of her family by her ... Read more

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  • Pincher Martin

    Introduced by Marlon James

    by William Golding, Philippa Gregory ...
    Experience a shipwrecked sailor's psychic disintegration into 'a naked madman on a rock' by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies.An hour on this rock is a lifetime.Glistening limpets. The claws of a lobster. Wild tangles of seaweed. Slowly, his eyes open. Everywhere, there is sea. Only this jagged peak interrupts the vast expanse of the Atlantic: a tooth in a gaping jaw. But ... Read more

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  • The Spire

    Introduced by Benjamin Myers

    by William Golding ...
    Succumb to one churchman's apocalyptic vision in this prophetic tale by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies, William Golding (recorded by Benedict Cumberbatch as an audiobook).There were three sorts of people. Those who ran, those who stayed, and those who were built in.Dean Jocelin has a vision: that God has chosen him to erect a great spire. His master builder fearfully ... Read more

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