Casa editrice: Publishdrive
Speakerbox is a soulful mixture of poems aimed to represent our voices. We are loud and boisterous, but also quiet and reserved at the same time. These poems are meant to touch us, remind us, make us smile, and at times make us angry and sad. We all have a voice that needs to be heard, and by hearing mine, you can also hear yours as well.
Isolated brings together two inventive, disturbing plays by one of Canada’s most intriguing dramatic voices. In Recovery, people around the world are addicted to a mysterious substance. Large recovery centres are set up, promising refuge, treatment and healing to millions of addicts. But all is not what it seems. Following three residents of a facility in Antarctica, McArthur delivers a quirky and unsettling play that reveals the fear and isolation of the oppressed individual, and the consequences of a medicalized society. In Get Away, David finds two beautiful teenagers when he escapes to an isolated cabin where he hopes to cure his unusually persistent listlessness. Sensing that they might need protecting – and may be crucial to his survival – he invites them in, but the roles of predator and prey become unclear as the three become dangerously intertwined. Both fantastical and horrifying, Get Away provides a resonating look at the destructive nature of longing and our desperate need for love. ‘[MacArthur] has a beautiful voice and his analysis of the unpredictability of our sexuality, at once nurturing and predatory, is shrewd.’ – The Globe and Mail (about Get Away)Mostra libro
Alfred Lichtenstein was born on the 23rd August 1889, in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, the son of a Jewish manufacturer. He grew up in Berlin before studying law at Erlangen in Bavaria. A writer in the Expressionist style his poems and stories are short but beautifully honed works. His tragically curtailed life allowed only a small part of his talents to rest with us. Undoubtedly a full life would have given the world a very gifted literary force. Alfred Lichenstein volunteered for duty in the German Army for World War I. He died on the front at the Somme in the early months of combat on the 25th September 1914. He was 25.Mostra libro
Arms and the Man is a satirical drama play written by George Bernard Shaw published in 1898. It has become one of the most popular of his plays. Like his other works, Arms and the Man questions conventional values and uses war and love as his satirical targets. He delightfully pops the bubble of the 'brave soldier' always wishing to charge into battle and shows (I think) how people stay the same whether in uniform or not and are not magically changed into different people. A cautious soldier can be just as admirable as a reckless one.Mostra libro
This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! Novels 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"Mostra libro
Spring arrives with a rush of words, and Ralph Waldo Emerson stands at the threshold, pen in hand. May-Day and Other Pieces is not just a collection of poems—it is an invitation to witness the shifting tides of nature, thought, and destiny through the eyes of one of America's sharpest philosophical minds. From the awakening landscapes of May-Day to the untamed wilderness of The Adirondacs, Emerson moves effortlessly between the grandeur of the world and the depths of the soul. The mysticism of Brahma, the inevitability of Fate, the defiance of Freedom—each poem is a meditation, a spark meant to ignite the reader's own reflection. History echoes in the Boston Hymn, sung as the Civil War reshaped a nation, while the lyrical simplicity of My Garden and Seashore captures fleeting moments of peace amid the rush of existence. Yet, Emerson never lingers too long in stillness. He follows the restless course of Two Rivers, listens to the quiet solitude of Waldeinsamkeit, and faces the finality of Terminus with unwavering clarity. This is poetry that questions, poetry that endures. It is a journey through seasons, through America, through the self—one that leaves the reader standing on the shore, looking out at the vastness, changed. May-Day and Other Pieces is more than verse. It is a conversation with the universe, and Emerson, ever the sage, is still speaking. Contents • May-Day • The Adirondacs A Journal Dedicated to my Fellow Travellers IN August, 1858 • Brahma • Nemesis • Fate • Freedom • Ode Sung in the Town Hall, Concord, July 4, 1857 • Boston Hymn, Read in Music Hall, January 1, 1863 • Voluntaries • Love and Thought • Una • Boston • Letters • Rubies • Merlin's Song • The Test • Solution • Hymn Sung at the Second Church, at the Ordination of Rev. Chandler Robbins • Nature I • Nature II • The Romany Girl • Days • My Garden • The Chartist's Complaint • The Titmouse • The Harp • Seashore • Song of Nature • Two Rivers • Waldeinsamkeit • Terminus • The Nun's Aspiration • April • Maiden Speech of the Aeolian Harp • Cupido • The Past • The Last Farewell Lines written by the author's brother, Edward Bliss Emerson, whilst sailing out of Boston Harbor, bound for the island of Porto Rico, in 1832 • In Memoriam E. B. E.Mostra libro
In recent years, our poetic landscape has evolved in profound and exciting ways. So has our planet. Edited and introduced by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, Ada Limón, this book challenges what we think we know about "nature poetry," illuminating the myriad ways our landscapes—both literal and literary—are changing. You Are Here features fifty previously unpublished poems from some of the nation's most accomplished poets, including Joy Harjo, Diane Seuss, Rigoberto González, Jericho Brown, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Paul Tran, and more. Each poem engages with its author's local landscape—be it the breathtaking variety of flora in a national park, or a lone tree flowering persistently by a bus stop—offering an intimate model of how we relate to the world around us and a beautifully diverse range of voices from across the United States. Joyful and provocative, wondrous and urgent, this singular collection of poems offers a lyrical reimagining of what "nature" and "poetry" are today, inviting listeners to experience both anew.Mostra libro
