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  Age is a Feeling (NHB Modern Plays)

  Haley McGee

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  Your life from the day you turn twenty-five through to your death. All the chances you get to change course and all the things you leave unsaid.
  Inspired by interviews with hospice workers, conversations with mystics and trips to the cemetery, Age is a Feeling is a gripping story that wrestles with the glorious and melancholy uncertainties of human life. A covert rallying cry against cynicism and regret, it's an uplifting exploration of chance, morality and living with verve.
  First performed at Summerhall during the 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Haley McGee's one-person play was produced by Soho Theatre and directed by Adam Brace. Each performance was shaped by random selections made by the audience. This published edition, illustrated by Jason Logan, contains the full text of the play and offers readers a complete experience, as well as a blueprint for future performances.

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  The Armchair Detective and the...

  Ian Shimwell

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  A missing girl...  The manipulative aristocrat, Marcus Dreadbury.  A local gangster with a drug-dealing problem.  The Manor's locked room, with a dusty handle.  Stables, but with no sign of any horses.  A subterranean stream.  Marcus' madcap father.  And a Manor-House full of surprises.   Trench and Old Tom must somehow make the connection, if they are to succeed at playing find-the-lady...

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  Perfection Comes at a Price

  Ulla Beattie

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  Eric has a miserable childhood in a violent, drunken family in a tough London housing estate. He compensates by looking for perfection. For him, this means worldly success in a diplomatic career as far away from his childhood as possible. His single-minded ambition comes at a price. It makes him leave his childhood sweetheart Katie behind, since he knows that she can’t keep up with him. Their ways part. Eric marries an upper-class woman and becomes an Ambassador. However, Katie and he never quite lose touch. After his wife’s death Eric and Katie come together again. There is action and pace, fun and sadness, a huge variety of life experiences and a sense of providence and redemption.

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  The Poetry of William Butler Yeats

  William Yeats

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  William Butler Yeats's early poetry is suffused with the radiant lyricism of Irish folklore and myth; the yearning romance and distinctly Irish voice of these first works of the Nobel laureate have inspired scores of poets. This splendid selection offers a distinctive sampling of the Yeatsian voice. Among the many famed works included are "The Everlasting Voices," "Reconciliation," and "The Song of the Wandering Aengus." Each of these poems is filled with the sparkling magic and mysticism Yeats absorbed as a boy in Ireland. This sweetness is juxtaposed against an anguished realism grounded in the master poet's nationalist and political sympathies.

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  Four Arthurian Romances

  Chrétien de Troyes

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  Four twelfth-century epic poems detailing the quests of the knights of King Arthur, as well as their loves.Erec and Enide: One of King Arthur’s knights, Erec, is assigned to keep Guinevere and her maiden company when a strange group of visitors arrive. Guinevere orders Erec to follow one of them, and his journey leads him to the fair Enide . . . Cligès: The tale of Cligès begins with his father, Alexander, who leaves his home in Greece to serve King Arthur. In England, he marries Arthur’s niece, and together they have a son, Cligès. Alexander and his family return to Greece where his son becomes a man and falls for a married woman . . . Yvain, the Knight of the Lion: In his search for revenge, Yvain finds love with a beautiful widow. But when Gawain encourages him to pursue a chivalric quest, it places their relationship in jeopardy . . . Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart: This epic story details the knight Lancelot’s trials in his rescue of the beautiful Guinevere from the hands of Meleagant, son of Bademagu, King of Gorre . . . Four Arthurian Romances collects some of the greatest works of medieval literature. Chrétien de Troyes is credited with inventing the Arthurian romance genre and originating the character of Lancelot. The adventure and romance contained in these epic poems is sure to delight readers.

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  The Unfolding - An Invitation to...

  Arielle Estoria

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  Arielle Estoria is known for her moving and empowering words that encourage women and all people to be confident in who they are, compassionate about where they’ve been, and loving about who they are becoming. In this stunning collection of essays, poems, and meditations, Estoria tenderly reveals the places in her life where she has been broken open, mended back together in new ways, and shows us how this process of “unfolding” helps us discover and return home to the person we were always meant to be.   
  In order to let something in, 
  you have to let some things go 
  In order to heal, you must hurt, 
  In order to grow, you will experience discomfort 
  and all of this is to make more room for hope 
  less room for perfectionism and more room for simply being. 
  This is the Unfolding

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