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  • Audiolibro

    Forgotten Authors, The - English Women

    Don't let great literature die

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    22 hora 55 minutos

    Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Leer más

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    Frozen Earth & Other Poems, The

    Poems from the author of South Riding

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    19 minutos

    Winifred Holtby was born on 23rd June 1898 to a prosperous farming family in the village of Rudston in Yorkshire.A governess provided her early education before she went to Queen Margaret's School in Scarborough. After passing the entrance exam for Somerville College, Oxford in 1917, she decided to join the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in early 1918. However, soon after her arrival in France, the ... Leer más

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    Holy Sonnets, The

    Incredible sonnets often compared to that of Shakespeares

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    24 minutos

    John Donne was born on the 22nd January 1572 in London, into a Roman Catholic family when Catholicism was illegal in England, and there was turbulence and unrest with both state and church throughout much of Europe.His father, also named John, died when he was four, and his mother, Elizabeth Haywood, married a wealthy widower, ensuring the family were looked after. He received a good education at ... Leer más

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  • The Forgotten Authors - English Women

    Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Leer más

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  • John Donne: Collected Poetry

    de John Donne ...
    Regarded by many as the greatest of the Metaphysical poets, John Donne (1572-1631) was also among the most intriguing figures of the Elizabethan age. A sensualist who composed erotic and playful love poetry in his youth, he was raised a Catholic but later became one of the most admired Protestant preachers of his time. The Collected Poetry reflects this wide diversity, and includes his youthful ... Leer más

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  • South Riding

    Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Winifred Holtby's great novel SOUTH RIDING was published posthumously. She died only a few months after finishing it and never saw it in print. It has since been reprinted a dozen times and remains in print to this day. ... Leer más

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  • The Crowded Street

    Series Libro 214 - Virago Modern Classics
    'They promise us all sorts of things,' she said, 'happiness, success, adventure - don't you know? Then suddenly we find ourselves left alone in a dull crowded street with no one caring and our lives unneeded, and all the fine things that we meant to do, like toys that a child has laid aside . . . 'This is the story of Muriel Hammond, at twenty living within the suffocating confines of Edwardian ... Leer más

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  • South Riding

    The community of South Riding, like the rest of the country, lives in the long shadow of war. Blighted by recession and devastated by the loss, they must also come to terms with significant social change.Forward-thinking and ambitious, Sarah Burton is the embodiment of such change. After the death of her fianc�, she returns home to Yorkshire focused on her career as headmistress of the local ... Leer más

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  • The Complete English Poems

    de John Donne ...
    No poet has been more wilfully contradictory than John Donne, whose works forge unforgettable connections between extremes of passion and mental energy. From satire to tender elegy, from sacred devotion to lust, he conveys an astonishing range of emotions and poetic moods. Constant in his work, however, is an intensity of feeling and expression and complexity of argument that is as evident in ... Leer más

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  • The Complete John Donne

    The Complete Poems, Prose and Letters.

    de John Donne ...
    The Complete Works of John Donne! The Complete Poems, Prose and Letters. The Ultimate Collection of John Donne! - In One Beautifully Formatted Volume! John Donne was one of England's greatest writers of Poetry and Prose, and the pre-eminent representative of the metaphysical poets. His works have grown in prominence throughout the 20th Century and are now held in very high esteem. His poetry is ... Leer más

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  • Selected Prose

    de John Donne ...
    This selection of John Donne's most powerful prose shows that the man remembered predominantly for his poetry was also a preacher, and a prose writer of extraordinary power. In it, he explores the metaphysical collision between poetry and religion, suicide and duty, the secular and the spiritual that characterized his times.Edited with an introduction and notes by Neil Rhodes. ... Leer más

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  • The Crowded Street

    The story delves into the lives of women from different generations within the same family, exploring their experiences, struggles, and aspirations against the backdrop of societal norms and changing times. Holtby's narrative provides insights into the societal expectations, challenges, and the evolving role of women in a rapidly changing world."The Crowded Street" is considered a significant work ... Leer más

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