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  The Snow Globe

  Jenny Pagdin

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  The Snow Globe is Jenny Pagdin's powerful, sensitive and stark debut collection. Written from first-hand experience, under the glass dome of postpartum psychosis, her poetry depicts a fearsome, glittering inner storm of severe mental illness during new motherhood, moving through illness, through snow flurry and sunshine, to a place of recovery and love.
  Threaded through this book are illuminating and courageous poems that settle and unsettle in equal measure. They cluster moth-like around spiritual and mythical figures, unravelling and remaking themselves with needlework and yarn, threaded along shorelines and under starry night skies. Jenny Pagdin's skilful and attentive use of a variety of forms reflects multiple and jarring realities – with poems dancing their own chaotic, fragmented and strange glinting beauty towards resolution.

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  Kalevala: the Epic Poem of...

  Elias Lönnrot

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  This is the epic of Finland. It is the combined folk tales of the Finnish nation starting with the birth of the world from the egg of a seabird and continuing to the birth of the Kaleva District, the lands of Finland. (Summary by Squid B. Varilekova)

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  The Tempest

  William Shakespeare

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  ""Our revels now are ended... this rough magic I here abjure..."" 
  In Shakespeare hinting at the end of his own magnificent career in these and others lines spoken by the great magician, Prospero? The Tempest was the last of Shakespeare's comedies, completed just before he retired to his native Stratford-upon-Avon; perhaps this delightful comedy was intended to signal the playwright's farewell to his beloved theater. The Tempest reflects Shakespeare's mature genius, with its story of innocence tempered by intrigue, hilarity bounded by melancholy. Audiences the world over still thrill to The Tempest's dark comedy and magical fantasy. 
  Sir Michael Redgrave and Vanessa Redgrave helped to build one of England's foremost theatrical families-- a tradition that Ms. Redgrave continues today. And Hugh Griffith is one of the nation's greatest character actors. Together, they bring The Tempest majestically to life.

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  As the Sky Begins to Change - Poems

  Kim Stafford

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  In his third poetry collection from Red Hen Press, Kim Stafford gathers poems that sing with empathy, humor, witness, and story. Poems in this book have been set to music, quoted in the New York Times, posted online in the Academy of American Poets poem-a-day series, gathered in a chapbook sold to benefit Ukrainian refugees, posted online in response to Supreme Court decisions, composed for a painter’s gallery opening, and in other ways engaged a world at war with itself, testifying for the human project hungry for kinship, exiled from bounty, and otherwise thirsting for the oxygen of healing song.

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  50 Masterpieces you have to read...

  George Eliot, Charles Dickens,...

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  This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!
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  Jerome, Jerome K.: "Three Men in a Boat"
  Joyce, James: "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
  Joyce, James: "Ulysses"
  Kingsley, Charles: "The Water-Babies"
  Kipling, Rudyard: "Kim"
  La Fayette, Madame de: "The Princess of Clèves"
  Laclos, Pierre Choderlos de: "Dangerous Liaisons"
  Lawrence, D. H.: "Sons and Lovers"
  Lawrence, D. H.: "The Rainbow"
  Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan: "In a Glass Darkly"
  Lewis, Matthew Gregory: "The Monk"
  Lewis, Sinclair: "Main Street"
  London, Jack: "The Call of the Wild"
  Lovecraft, H. P.: "At the Mountains of Madness"
  Mann, Thomas: "Royal Highness"
  Maugham, W. Somerset: "Of Human Bondage"
  Maupassant, Guy de: "Bel-Ami"
  Melville, Herman: "Moby-Dick"
  Poe, Edgar Allan: "The Fall of the House of Usher"
  Proust, Marcel: "Swann's Way"
  Radcliffe, Ann: "The Mysteries of Udolpho"
  Richardson, Samuel: "Clarissa"
  Sand, George: "The Devil's Pool"
  Scott, Walter: "Ivanhoe"
  Shelley, Mary: "Frankenstein"
  Sienkiewicz, Henryk: "Quo Vadis"
  Sinclair, May: "Life and Death of Harriett Frean"
  Sinclair, Upton: "The Jungle"
  Stendhal: "The Red and the Black"
  Stendhal: "The Chartreuse of Parma"
  Sterne, Laurence: "Tristram Shandy"
  Stevenson, Robert Louis: "Treasure Island"
  Stoker, Bram: "Dracula"
  Stowe, Harriet Beecher: "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
  Swift, Jonathan: "Gulliver's Travels"
  Tagore, Rabindranath: "The Home and the World"
  Thackeray, William Makepeace: "Vanity Fair"
  Tolstoy, Leo: "War and Peace"
  Tolstoy, Leo: "Anna Karenina"
  Troloppe, Anthony: "The Way We Live Now"
  Turgenev, Ivan: "Fathers and Sons"
  Twain, Mark: "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
  Verne, Jules: "Journey to the Interior of the Earth"
  Wallace, Lew: "Ben-Hur"
  Wells, H. G.: "The Time Machine"
  West, Rebecca: "The Return of the Soldier"
  Wharton, Edith: "The Age of Innocence"
  Wilde, Oscar: "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
  Xueqin, Cao: "The Dream of the Red Chamber"
  Zola, Émile: "Germinal"

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  Viva Bartali!

  Damian Walford Davies

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  Inspired by the lyrical, mythic mode of Italian sports journalism from the 1930s to the 1950s, Viva Bartali! is a biography-in-verse of the iconic Italian cyclist Gino Bartali (1914—2000), two-time winner of the Tour de France (1938, 1948), known both as 'Gino the Pious' because of his fervent Catholic faith, and as Ginettaccio ('Gino the Terrible'), owing to the short shrift he so often gave the Press.
  Conjuring Bartali at crux moments in his personal and professional career, through joy and tragedy, defeat and victory, the collection places us alongside the young rider proving his mettle and adding to his palmarès in the edgy atmosphere of Mussolini's Fascist Italy, whose political ideology he loathed. From amateur races to the professional one-day classics and on to Tour de France glory, Bartali is seen alongside his fellow riders as both vulnerable body and élite athlete; both cycling's hard man and fond and bereaved father; both kneeling believer and climbing god.
  The collection gives us an insight into the complex relationship that underpinned his great rivalry with the campionissimo ('champion of champions') Fausto Coppi – the 'man of glass' against Bartali's 'man of iron'. It was a rivalry that a divided a nation and defined a sport. We are with Bartali at the 1948 Tour de France when he takes a phone call from the Italian prime minister, who asks him to do his part in diffusing a political crisis that could have tipped over into violence. And we witness his remarkable secret missions in the saddle as a courier throughout Tuscany during World War 2, carrying forged identity documents that helped save the lives of hundreds of Italian Jews. It was a deed he never spoke about – one for which he was named 'Righteous Among the Nations' by Yad Vashem in 2013.
  "A fascinating, original take on the epic life and career of an Italian hero." John Foot, author of 'Pedalare! Pedalare!'
  "Stylish and sophisticated, this poetic record of an extraordinary life confirms Damian Walford Davies' status as one of the finest poets writing in Wales today." Jem Poster

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