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This large-scale anthology of early Scottish Literature, now revised, has been designed as a teaching text for use by school and university students. Longer works are either presented complete - e.g. James I, King is Quair, as long extracts with explanatory linking passages - e.g. Urquhart, The Jewel, or by sections which sum up the main themes and concerns of the text - e.g. Barbour's Bruce Book I. There are full critical and linguistic introductions,...

In this collection, the author loses, finds and redefines herself, in poems that are sometimes visceral and often humorous. She ultimately shows how meaningful life can become after a period of darkness and how transformative those experiences can be. Sample poem; 1957-1959 On the hottest Sunday in July, the same day Mam got her first period, she was sent to her father's room to wake him for tea. She cried when she touched his tepid skin and,...

A radical reassessment of the famed Victorian author, revealing the true story behind the creator of some of literature's best-known novels. This dynamic new study of Charles Dickens will make readers re-examine his life and work in a completely different light. First, partly due to the massive digitalization of papers and letters in recent years, Helena Kelly has unearthed new material about Dickens that simply wasn't available to his earlier biographers....

Patrick Reginald Chalmers (1872-1942) was an Irish writer and banker…His work covered many different areas, including horse racing, hunting, and field sports. Although he is not often credited with it, Chalmers coined the phrase "Roundabouts and Swings," which has become a common phrase in the English language. His most notable works include: "Green Days and Blue Days" (1912) and "A Peck of Malt (1915)." Pancakes is a charming and moving poem that...

In between family life, work life and author life I get these poems forming in my head. They wriggle, squirm and prod till I let them out. I squeeze them, manipulate them and push them through my fingers to the screen. They drag themselves into words from the media into your open, willing mind. They dig deep, embed themselves into your world, your life, your dreams.

Extrait : "Vous chercheriez en vain sur la carte d'Europe l'État de Grunewald. Principauté indépendante et membre infinitésimal de l'Empire d'Allemagne, ayant joué pendant quelques siècles son rle dans les discordes européennes, elle disparut enfin à la maturité des âges et sous la baguette magique de certains diplomates déplumés, comme disparaît un spectre à l'aube." À PROPOS DES ÉDITIONS LIGARAN Les éditions LIGARAN proposent...

"The Grey Wig" is a 1923 collection of short stories by British author Israel Zangwill (1864—1926). They include: "The Grey Wig", "Chassé-Croisé", "The Woman Beater", "The Eternal Feminine", "The Silent Sisters", "The Big Bow Mystery", "Merely Mary Ann", "The Serio-Comic Governess", etc. Israel Zangwill was a leading figure in cultural Zionism during the 19th century, as well as close friend of father of modern political Zionism, Theodor Herzl....

Beowulf is one of the most universally studied of the English classics, and considered to be the most important and most often translated works of Old English literature. The title character is a warrior with superhuman strength who honors his king by performing glorious deeds, the first of which is to rescue the royal house of Denmark from two violent monsters. After killing them, he returns triumphantly and rules his people wisely as their King...

Décryptez l'univers d'Oscar Wilde en moins d'une heure ! Entre le dandy amoureux du beau et défenseur du plaisir des sens, et l'écrivain provocateur et bourré d'humour, il n'y avait qu'un pas, qu'Oscar Wilde a franchi. « Je n'ai rien à déclarer si ce n'est mon génie » : il ne croyait pas si bien dire ! Son unique roman, Le Portrait de Dorian Gray, est aujourd'hui considéré comme un chef-d'œuvre de la littérature mondiale et le héros...

Kipling's poem 'The Dead King' was written as a eulogy to King Edward Vii as a wise devoted monarch who had served his people well. King Edward Vii died on May 6th, 1910 and this poem was first printed in The Times, the Morning Post, and other English newspapers on 18 May 1910. Here the poem is decorated with the wonderful illustrations of W. Heath Robinson, an English cartoonist and illustrator. He was best known for drawings of ridiculously complicated...