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  • The Dream Songs

    Poems

    by John Berryman ...
    Series series FSG Classics
    The complete Dream Songs--hypnotic, seductive, masterful--as thrilling to read now as they ever wereJohn Berryman's The Dream Songs are perhaps the funniest, saddest, most intricately wrought cycle of oems by an American in the twentieth century. They are also, more simply, the vibrantly sketched adventures of a uniquely American antihero named Henry. Henry falls in and out of love, and is in and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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    The Vimy Trap

    or, How We Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Great War

    by Ian McKay, Jamie Swift ...
    Narrated by John Lane ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 17 min

    The story of the bloody 1917 Battle of Vimy Ridge is, according to many of today’s tellings, a heroic founding moment for Canada. This noble, birth-of-a-nation narrative is regularly applied to the Great War in general. Yet this mythical tale is rather new. “Vimyism”—today’s official story of glorious, martial patriotism—contrasts sharply with the complex ways in which veterans, artists, clerics, ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • 77 Dream Songs

    Poems

    by John Berryman ...
    Series series FSG Classics
    A wild, masterful Pulitzer Prize-winning cycle of poems that half a century later still shocks and astoundsJohn Berryman was hardly unknown when he published 77 Dream Songs, but the volume was, nevertheless, a shock and a revelation. A "spooky" collection in the words of Robert Lowell-"a maddening work of genius."As Henri Cole notes in his elegant, perceptive introduction, Berryman had discovered ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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    Wish You Were Here

    by Graham Swift ...
    Narrated by John Lee ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 40 min

    On an autumn day in 2006, on the Isle of Wight, Jack Luxton, former Devon farmer and now the proprietor of a seaside caravan park, receives the news that his soldier brother, Tom, not seen for years, has been killed in Iraq.For Jack and his wife, Ellie, this will have a potentially catastrophic impact. For Jack in particular it means a crucial journey—to receive his brother’s remains, but it is ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Indigenous Men and Masculinities

    Legacies, Identities, Regeneration

    by Warren Cariou, Ty P. Kāwika Tengan, Brendan Hokowhitu, Daniel Heath Justice, Gregory Scofield, Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair, Sam McKegney, Bob Antone, Phillip Borell, Kimberly Minor, Richard Van Camp, Robert Henry, Allison Piché, Sasha Sky, Leah Sneider, Erin Sutherland, John Swift, Lisa Tatonetti, Lloyd L. Lee, William Kahalepuna Richards Jr., Thomas Ka’auwai Kaulukukui Jr., Scott L. Morgensen ...
    What do we know of masculinities in non-patriarchal societies? Indigenous peoples of the Americas and beyond come from traditions of gender equity, complementarity, and the sacred feminine, concepts that were unimaginable and shocking to Euro-western peoples at contact. Indigenous Men and Masculinities, edited by Kim Anderson and Robert Alexander Innes, brings together prominent thinkers to ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Heart Is Strange

    New Selected Poems

    by John Berryman ...
    A lively sampling from the work of one of the most celebrated and daring poets of the twentieth centuryJohn Berryman was perhaps the most idiosyncratic American poet of the twentieth century. Best known for the painfully sad and raucously funny cycle of Dream Songs, he wrote passionately: of love and despair, of grief and laughter, of longing for a better world and coming to terms with this one. ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Gulliver's Travels

    by Jonathan Swift, Nick Eliopulos ...
    Illustrated by John Walker ...
    Series series A Stepping Stone Book
    Jonathan Swift's classic travel adventure has been adapted into an easy-reading Stepping Stones early chapter book, while keeping all the fun, humor, and unusual perspectives of the original story.Gulliver has an itch to travel around the world, but whenever he steps on a ship, bad luck seems to find him. He is shipwrecked, abandoned, marooned, and mutinied against, and each time lands in a ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • The Top 10 Poets - The Clergy

    by John Donne, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Jonathan Swift ...
    The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives. Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives.But finding a starting point can be ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Jonathan Swift Complete Works – World’s Best Collection

    300+ Works - All Books, Sermons, Gulliver Travels, Poetry, Poems, Rarities Plus Biography And Bonuses

    by Jonathan Swift, Leslie Stephen, John Bowles Daly ...
    Series Book 1 - Library of Alexandria Collection - World’s Best Collected Works - Swift
    JONATHAN SWIFT COMPLETE WORKS – WORLD’S BEST COLLECTION300+ WORKS - ALL BOOKS, SERMONS, GULLIVER TRAVELS, POETRY, POEMS, RARITIES PLUS BIOGRAPHY AND BONUSESThis is the world’s best Jonathan Swift collection, including the most complete set of works available plus many free bonus materials.JONATHAN SWIFTJonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet and cleric, ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

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    Gulliver's Travels

    Experience the classic masterpiece of Satirical Fiction, where a shipwrecked surgeon awakens as a giant captive among tiny warring empires, exposing the absurdities of human nature.

    by Jonathan Swift ...
    Narrated by John Montoya ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 19 min

    A devastating shipwreck, a prisoner of miniature empires, and a hilarious, biting mirror held up to human folly.Washed ashore after a violent storm, the ambitious surgeon Lemuel Gulliver awakens on the strange island of Lilliput—only to find himself bound to the earth by thousands of microscopic threads. His captors are a civilization of humans barely six inches tall, yet possessed of massive ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Complete Popular Children Fantasy Magic Books Anthologies (27 in 1)

    Kidnapped Black Beauty Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Pinocchio Little Lord Fauntleroy Legends of King Arthur and His Knights A Little Princess Pollyanna Voyages Story of Dr. Doctor Dolittle Moonfleet Robinson Crusoe Gulliver's Travels Andersen's

    by Hugh Lofting, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Carlo Collodi, Anna Sewell, Howard Pyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, Andrew Lang, Eleanor H. Porter, John Meade Falkner, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, H. C. Andersen, Oscar Wilde, Norman Lindsay, Beatrix Potter, R. D. Blackmore, Lewis Carroll, George MacDonald, Ethel Sybil Turner, E. Nesbit ...
    This is a perfect collection for a long journey, rainy days, or for any quiet moments. This wonderful collection of books will bring adults back to their childhoods and create many happy memories for middle and young adult readers. These classics include books of adventure, animals, family life, fantasy and science fiction, coming of age, and romance. Includes an active table of contents so you ... Read more

    $6.87 CAD

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    A Modest Proposal

    by Jonathan Swift, Jonathan Swift ...
    Narrated by John Gonzalez ...

    Unabridged

    24 min

    A Modest Proposal is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift. Swift suggests that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food for rich gentlemen and ladies. This satirical hyperbole mocked heartless attitudes towards the poor, as well as British policy toward the Irish in general. In English writing, the ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBooks

    Also available as: eBooks