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  Paradise Lost

  John Milton

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  "Paradise Lost" by John Milton is an epic poem that delves into the biblical story of the Fall of Man, deftly exploring themes of temptation, sin, and redemption. With majestic language and sweeping imagery, Milton recounts the rebellious uprising of Satan and his angels against God, their subsequent exile to Hell, and Satan's sinister plot leading to the downfall of Adam and Eve in Eden. This monumental work not only illuminates the human condition but also wrestles with questions of free will, divine justice, and the struggle between good and evil.

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  The Dublin Fosterling

  Thomas Kennedy

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  This novel is an engaging, witty blend of comic fantasy, Irish mythology, romance and taut modern-day thriller, located mainly in Dublin, Ireland.Following the suicide of her teenage mother, baby Fiona is put into State care. Fiona doesn’t know her absent father was the disgraced God of Love. Growing up, she suffers abuse and bullying and begins to see Otherworld creatures such as trolls and faeries, and worries for her sanity. Fiona discovers she has a physical strength beyond what is normal, and can fight the bullies, but is branded as violent and held in an Institution for the criminally insane. She is released on her eighteenth birthday into a hostel in Dublin City, Ireland.Joey, one of the bullies who made her past miserable, is now a Dublin gang member. They meet but agree to forget the past and romance blossoms. But someone is killing his friends, former bullies, now gang members, and Joey fears he is next. Meanwhile, the Celtic Goddess Danu of Otherworld has discovered Fiona’s existence and wants her dead. The Drimnagh Witches are tasked to find her and Wizard Drowe is released from Otherworld prison tasked to kill her. Fiona survives his initial attempt to murder her and befriends him before entering a strange, mystical Otherworld beyond her current reality. She has to figure out how to survive in both worlds, on the tough streets of Dublin and in Otherworld.

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  Symphonies - The first Southern...

  John Gould Fletcher

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  John Gould Fletcher was born in Little Rock, Arkansas on the 3rd of January 1886 to a socially prominent family.  
   
  He was educated at Phillips Academy, Andover before advancing to Harvard University, which he attended from 1903 to 1907, before dropping out after his father's death. 
   
  As a young man Fletcher spent many years in England where he became part of the influential Imagist group of poets together with Amy Lowell and Ezra Pound.   
   
  His first marriage came from a resumed relationship with the now married Florence Emily ‘Daisy’ Arbuthnot.  Her adultery with Fletcher was the grounds for her divorce.  They married on 5th July 1916 but later divorced.  
   
  Fletcher first published in 1912, with ‘The Dominant City’ to much praise and admiration and followed this with other well-regarded volumes such as ‘Irradiations: Sand and Spray’, and ‘Goblins and Pagodas’. 
   
  In the late 1920s and 1930s Fletcher became increasingly active with a group of Southern writers and poets known as the Southern Agrarians. They published the classic ‘I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition’. 
   
  Although he was highly regarded as a poet, he was not very prolific.  However, such was the undoubted quality that in 1939 he received the Pulitzer Prize for his work ‘Selected Poems’.  He was the first poet from the south to receive such an accolade.  Fletcher’s other passion and pursuit was as an authority on modern painting, a subject on which he also published. 
   
  A second marriage followed in 1936 to the children’s author, Charlie May Simon.  They built ‘Johnswood’, a residence on the bluffs of the Arkansas River and travelled frequently to New York for shots of modern culture and intellectual stimulation as well as to the American West and South for the climate after Fletcher developed chronic arthritis. 
   
  In 1937 he wrote his autobiography, ‘Life is My Song’. 
   
  His developing passion for his roots and background resulted in the writing of a history of his State and published in 1947; ‘Arkansas’. 
   
  By now Fletcher was suffering from bouts of depression and on 10th May 1950, he committed suicide by drowning himself in a pond near his home in Little Rock, Arkansas.  He was 64.

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  Oedipus at Colonus

  Sophocles

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  Dive into the mesmerizing conclusion of Sophocles' Theban Trilogy with 'Oedipus at Colonus,' a captivating audiobook that stands as a testament to the enduring power of Greek tragedy.In the final chapter of his tumultuous life, Oedipus, once a proud king brought low by fate and his own actions, seeks solace and redemption in the town of Colonus. Blinded and exiled, he embarks on a profound journey toward tranquility, only to find himself once more at the center of earthly and divine conflicts.This audiobook brings Sophocles' timeless text to life with skillful narration, immersing you in Oedipus' poignant quest for peace. Experience the deeply human themes of repentance, forgiveness, and the desire for rest after a life filled with hardship. Observe how Oedipus, in his final hours, grapples with the repercussions of his past, the nature of his present, and the uncertainty of his legacy.'Oedipus at Colonus' is more than a tragic tale—it is a profound exploration of human endurance in the face of suffering, and the possibility of redemption even in the bleakest of circumstances. Whether you're a student of classical literature, a lover of timeless dramas, or an audiobook enthusiast seeking a thought-provoking listen, this rendition of 'Oedipus at Colonus' offers a rich, immersive experience that will resonate long after the final words have been spoken.Step into the world of ancient Greek drama and explore the depths of human resilience and the quest for peace with 'Oedipus at Colonus.' Let this immortal story touch your heart, challenge your perceptions, and leave you with timeless insights into the human condition.

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  Out for Air

  Olly Todd

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  Infused with movement, surprise and play, Out for Air presents a unique vision of the built environment, celebrating places where 'the bridges are endless / beyond the cantilever / of reality'. Expansive in scope but intricate in form, a masterclass in precision engineering. Todd rewires T. S. Eliot's Waste Land in his strange, compelling descriptions of the modern city: melting asphalt; a U-turning taxi; a diner swallowed by a sinkhole. In this disorientating landscape the skateboarder-poet is genius loci, the spirit of the place.
  From Manhattan's 'silky streets' and the Pacific Coast Highway to inner-city London and his native Cumbria, together these poems record a life lived on the move, in motion, on the cusp of things.
  'I'm dazzled by this wonderful debut...The language itself crunches, glides, grinds. A radically different way of experiencing the built and natural environment and an endlessly engaging, witty, serious and astute new voice.' - Luke Kennard
  'Out for Air is an inventive and alluring debut...With shades of Kleinzahler and Eliot, these poems explore angles and movement, friendship and distance, in a voice that is genuinely original, graceful and often strange.' - Martha Sprackland
  'Through his words a whole world and potential opens up, a distillation of experience that feels universal and intimate.' - Nick Jensen
  'Out for Air creates a world of familiarity gone strange, a world of signs of the human in motion, where the living in place becomes its constant study. It makes a hard-to-pin-down language which is all its own, and which mirrors its subjects' international scope, its playful, sometimes arch, worldview, and which announces a wholly original voice.' - Will Burns

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  Charlotte Mew - Chapter & Verse...

  Charlotte][AUTHOR Mew

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  Literature is a world of words and wonder, able to take us on almost unimaginable journeys from the wild and fantastic to the grind and minutiae of life. 
   
  An author’s ideas are his building blocks, his architecture of the mind, building a structure on which all else will rest; the narrative, the characters, the words - those few words that begin the adventure. 
   
  In this series we look at some of our leading classic authors across two genres: the short story and the poem.  In this modern world there is an insatiable need to categorise and pigeon-hole everyone and everything.  But ideas, these grains and saplings of the brain, need to roam, to explore and find their perfect literary use vehicle.  Our authors are masters of many literary forms, perhaps known for one but themselves favouring another. 
   
  Story. Poems. Story.  Within these boundaries come all manner of invention and cast of characters.  And, of course, each author has their own way of revealing their own chapter and verse.    
   
  1 - Chapter & Verse - Charlotte Mew - An Introduction 
  2 - Some Ways of Love by Charlotte Mew 
  3 - Fin de Fete by Charlotte Mew 
  4 - The Fete by Charlotte Mew 
  5 - In the Fields by Charlotte Mew 
  6 - Moorland Night by Charlotte Mew 
  7 - The Farmer's Bride by Charlotte Mew 
  8 - The Forest Road by Charlotte Mew 
  9 - On the Road to the Sea by Charlotte Mew 
  10 - Sea Love by Charlotte  Mew 
  11 - Madeline in Church by Charlotte Mew  
  12 - Ken by Charlotte Mew 
  13 - The Centoaph by Charlotte Mew 
  14 - In Nunhead Cemetery by Charlotte Mew 
  15 - Passed by Charlotte Mew

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