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  The Dramatic Literature of Nawal...

  Nawal El Saadawi

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  Nawal El Saadawi's most recent play, God Resigns at the Summit Meeting, created an uproar in her native Egypt. On the basis of the title alone, officials declared the work heretical and charged El Saadawi with insulting the "Almighty God", not just Islam. Her prosecutors requested that all her books be destroyed, that she be arrested on return to Egypt and her Egyptian nationality be revoked. In the play, the prophets and great women gather for a meeting with God. Satan arrives to tender his resignation but neither Jesus, nor Mohammad, nor Moses are willing to replace him. Finally, God himself resigns. The second play in this collection is Isis, a critique of the discriminatory rules that control women, the daughters of Isis. Both God Resigns and Isis incorporate key themes to El Saadawi's work: that all religions are inimical to women and the poor, that the oppression of women is reprehensible and not uniquely characteristic of the Middle East or the ''Third World'', and that free speech is fundamental to any society. "El Saadawi writes with directness and passion" New York Times Book Review 'A poignant and brave writer' Marie Claire 'The leading spokeswoman on the status of women in the Arab World' Guardian 'More than any other woman, El Saadawi has come to embody the trials of Arab feminism.' San Francisco Chronicle

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  Fifty Shades of Mothers - 50 of...

  Christina Georgina Rossetti,...

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  There is one universal word which all babies instinctively sound in every language and that is ‘mama’.  It produces a bond the like of which there is no other. 
   
  Women are hard-wired by Nature to nurture and raise.  Along the human chain of generations we would wish that every infant has depended on this woman, found shelter within her arms, food within her breast and the confidence to experience life and all its wonders from her love. 
   
  Whether we understand it or recognise it, it is women who have shaped the course and journey of humanity. 
   
  It is true, that mothering, the maternal instinct, comes in all shapes and shades and sizes.  Some women find it difficult and others easy.  Society with its norms and ever-readiness to make all conform, places pressures and difficulties in the paths of many.  Families may not all be harbours of milk and honey but in this volume we take a different view.   
   
  Here we journey with our classic poets from Christina Georgina Rossetti and Thomas Hardy to Frances W Harper and Kipling, not only the ways, the wonders and the women who take on the responsibility to raise children no matter the problems or dangers to themselves, but also the difficulties and sometimes desperate tragedies that motherhood can involve.   
   
  We hope these poems inspire every generation to reach out and better themselves and those around.   This is our tribute to mothers everywhere. 
  1 - 50 Shades of Mothers - An Introduction 
  2 - The Bravest Battle by Joaquin Miller 
  3 - The Hand That Rocks The Cradle by William Ross Wallace 
  4 - Mama's Mama by Anonymous 
  5 - Sonnets Are Full of Love by Christina Rossetti 
  6 - Mother O' Mine by Rudyard Kipling 
  7 - My Mother by Ann Taylor 
  8 - My Mother Dear by Samuel Lover 
  9 - To My Mother by Christina Georgina Rossetti 
  10 - My Mother by Francis Ledwidge 
  11 - To My Mother by Lucretia Maria Davidson 
  12 - Shall We Not Love Thee Mother Dear by Henry Williams Baker 
  13 - Mother's Eyes by Mary D B Hull 
  14 - My Mother's Hands by Anonymous 
  15 - I Am Your Mother by Daniel Sheehan 
  16 - The Bedtime Kiss by Anonymous 
  17 - To A Little Invisible Being by Anna Laetitia Barbauld 
  18 - Infant Sorrow by William Blake 
  19 - Babies Don't Keep - Anonymous 
  20 - Songs From Prince Lucifer II. Mother Song by Alfred Austin 
  21 - Untitled by Alice Carey 
  22 - The Modern Mother by Alice Meynell 
  23 - Mother's Treasures by Frances Ellen Watkins 
  24 - Monologue Of A Mother by D H Lawrence 
  25 - Mother & Daughter (Extract) by Augusta Weber 
  26 - The Jigalo's Son by Jean Graham 
  27 - Somebody's Mother by Anonymous 
  28 - To My Mother by Edgar Allan Poe 
  29 - To Mother by Marina Ivanova Tsvetaeva 
  30 - The Mother Of God by William Butler Yeats 
  31 - San Lorenzo Giustiniani's Mother by Alice Meynell 
  32 - To a Young Lady Whose Mother Was Insane by Lucretia Maria Davidson 
  33 - Mothers of Men by Edwin J Ellis 
  34 - The Slave Girl's Address to Her Mother by Sarah Louisa Forten 
  35 - The Farewell of a Virginia Slave Mother by John Greenleaf Whittier 
  36 - The Slave Mother by Frances E W Harper 
  37 - The Mother's Son by Rudyard Kipling 
  38 - Mother's Day Proclamation by Julia Ward Howe 
  39 - The Mother by May Herschel-Clarke 
  40 - The Young Mother by Katharine Tynan 
  41 - Mother and Poet by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
  42 - Pensive on Her Dead Gazing by Walt Whitman 
  43 - On Receipt Of My Mother's Picture by William Cowper 
  44 - The Sailor's Mother by William Wordsworth 
  45 - The Old Arm Chair by Eliza Cook 
  46 - My Mother's Kiss by Frances E W Harper 
  47 - The Mother's Grave by Peter John Allen 
  48 - Where

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  Julius Caesar (Argo Classics)

  William Shakespeare

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  William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic prose and verse read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly remastered stories are now available to download for the first time. 
  ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.’ 
  Shakespeare's political thriller tells the story of the conspiracy against Caesar, his assassination and the defeat of his conspirators. 
  Jealous conspirators convince Caesar's friend Brutus to join their assassination plot against Caesar. To stop Caesar from gaining too much power, Brutus and the conspirators kill him on the Ides of March. Mark Antony drives the conspirators out of Rome and fights them in a battle. Brutus and his friend Cassius lose and kill themselves, leaving Antony to rule in Rome. 
  All of the Shakespeare plays within the ARGO Classics catalogue are performed by the Marlowe Dramatic Society and Professional Players. The Marlowe was founded in 1907 with a mission to focus on effective delivery of verse, respect the integrity of texts, and rescue neglected plays by Shakespeare’s contemporaries and the less performed plays of Shakespeare himself. The Marlowe has performed annually at Cambridge Arts Theatre since its opening in 1936 and continues to produce some of the finest actors of their generations. 
  Thurston Dart, Professor of Music at London University and a Fellow of Jesus College Cambridge, directed the music for this production. 
  The full cast includes: John Wilders; George Rylands; Anthony White; Clive Swift; John Dover Wilson; Donald Beves; John Barton; Anthony Jacobs; Tony Church; Roger Prior; Denys Robertson; Michael Jaffe; Gary Watson; Roderick Cook;John Arnott; David Buck; John Arnott; Noel Annan; David Buck; Gary Watsom; Julian Pettifer; John Bird; John Arnott; Chris Renard; Chris Renard; Mark Griffiths; Clive Swift; Wendy Gifford; Dorothy Mulcahy. 
  The theatre production, short in duration but rich in content, showcases the best of European dramatic arts. The performing skills of the actors are truly commendable. 
  For fans of Richard Parsons (GCSE English Shakespeare Text Guide), and Arthur Miller (Incident at Vichy).

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  "In the Clover Forest...

  curtis schweiger jr

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  In the Clover Forest Collection" is a collection of poems that was written in the month of march around S.T. Patrick's Day these are some of my favorites,curtis schweiger jr

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  The Museum of Clear Ideas - Poems

  Donald Hall

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  “With The One Day, this is his best work, a modest, skeptical, and brave poetry that embodies something essential about this late American century.” —Harvard Review 
   
  This is Donald Hall’s most advanced work, extending his poetic reach even beyond his recent volumes. Conflict dominates this book, and conflict unites it. Hall takes poetry as an instrument for revelation, whether in an elegy for a (fictional) contemporary poet, or in the title series of poems, whose form imitates the first book of the Odes of Horace. The book’s final section, “Extra Innings,” moves with poignancy to questions about the end of the game. 
   
  “A stunning volume of testamentary verse . . . an often perfect American blend of rue and buoyancy, narrative verve and grace.” —The New Yorker 
   
  “Donald Hall is our finest elegist. The Museum of Clear Ideas is as original, idiosyncratic, and un-museumlike a poetic work as we are likely to see for a long time to come.” —Richard Tillinghast, The New Criterion 
   
  “Hall’s poems make ‘durable relics’ of late twentieth-century life in much the same way that Byron’s Don Juan does for the early nineteenth. The ‘clear ideas,’ however, are timeless.” —Beloit Poetry Journal 
   
  “These are some of the darkest lines Donald Hall has ever composed. They move through aching poignancy through illness diagnosed, sorrow, and poignant revelation, yet the final chord is not one of despair.” —Robert Taylor, Boston Globe 
   
  “A collection of powerful new poems . . . Hall’s voice is more mature and classically spare than ever, offering revelatory glimpses of wisdom.” —Publishers Weekly 
   
  “A brilliantly inventive tour de force . . . A significant and engaging book.” —Library Journal

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  The (Other) F Word - A...

  Angie Manfredi

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  “This outstanding anthology of essays, illustrations, poems, and letters . . . is a celebration of every body and presents a revolutionary message” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). 
   
    
   
  The time has come for fat people to tell their own stories. The (Other) F Word combines the voices of Renée Watson, Julie Murphy, Jes Baker, Samantha Irby, Bruce Sturgell, and many others in a relatable, revelatory and inspiring exploration of body image and fat acceptance.  
   
  This dazzling collection of art, poetry, essays, and fashion tips is meant for people of all sizes who desire to be seen and heard in a culture consumed by a narrow definition of beauty. By combining the talents of renowned fat YA and middle-grade authors, as well as fat influencers and creators, The (Other) F Word offers teen readers and activists of all ages a tool for navigating our world with confidence and courage.

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