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  Robert Holman: Plays (NHB Modern...

  Robert Holman

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  Robert Holman writes plays of startling beauty, combining close observation of the way people behave with a thrilling and often fiercely uncompromising mastery of dramatic form. He is the playwright most admired by other playwrights. To Simon Stephens, he is 'My favourite living writer'.
  Here, in this selection from Holman's first decade of playwriting, a monkey is taken for a French spy by an eighteenth-century fishing community; the inhabitants of a Greek island reside under the shadow of the atom bomb; and a group of lonely people converge on the North Yorkshire moors.
  With a new introduction by Holman himself, this volume contains The Natural Cause (Cockpit Theatre, London, 1974), Mud (Royal Court Theatre, London, 1974), Other Worlds (Royal Court, 1983), Today (Royal Shakespeare Company, 1984) and The Overgrown Path (Royal Court, 1985).
  'Holman's instinct for truth, and an unaffected ability to spot what's poignant in it, is what one remembers: that, and a paradoxical impression of spare richness, astringent abundance' - The Times

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  Sonnet

  Richard Watson Gilder

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  Librivox volunteers bring you 10 readings of The Sonnet by Richard Watson Gilder. This was the weekly poetry project for October 5, 2014.

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  The House (NHB Modern Plays)

  Arzé Khodr

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  Nadia wants to remain in the house she grew up in. For her sister, Reem, it is filled with painful memories. Are their differences over the future of the house irreconcilable?
  The House, by Lebanese writer Arzé Khodr, is taken from Plays from the Arab World, a collection of five extraordinary plays exploring and reflecting contemporary life across the Near East and North Africa, now available as individual ebooks.
  The full collection also includes:
  
  
  - Withdrawal by Mohammad Al Attar (Syria)
  - 603 by Imad Farajin (Palestine)
  - Egyptian Products by Laila Soliman (Egypt)
  - Damage by Kamal Khalladi (Morocco)
  In 2007 the Royal Court Theatre's International Department and the British Council embarked on an ambitious project working with twenty-one writers from across the Near East and North Africa. Seven of the resultant plays received rehearsed readings at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2008. Plays from the Arab World, introduced by Laila Hourani of the British Council, collects five of these unique new voices, each posing different but equally urgent questions.

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  And the Prophet Said - Kahlil...

  Khalil Gibran

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  Newly discovered writings from the author of the classic bestseller, The ProphetAnd the Prophet Said is a new complete gift edition of Gibran's classic text with over 150 newly discovered poems, aphorisms, and epigrams. Originally published in 1923 by Knopf, The Prophet is a teaching fable that has been cherished by millions for nearly 100 years.  It is a book of wisdom that to live, provides guidance for readers on how to live a life imbued with meaning and purpose. He explores all of life's important issues--including love, marriage, the human condition, friendship, prayer, beauty, death, and much more.What makes this edition of The Prophet especially exciting is the inclusion of newly discovered Gibran material. In 2017, Dalton Hilu Einhorn gained access to the Gibran/Haskell archives at the University of North Carolina. Buried among this treasure trove of papers, he discovered over 150 of Kahlil Gibran poems, aphorisms, and sayings that had never been published.Here is classic Gibran wisdom and inspiration that leads readers to contemplate love, beauty, mortality, and meaning. The words have an immediacy and depth that will appeal to the millions who have read The Prophet.

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  History of Forgetfulness

  Shahe Mankerian

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  Shahé Mankerian releases his critically-acclaimed debut collection, taking readers back to 1975 Beirut, where an un-civil war is brewing. Mankerian asks, "Who said war didn't love / the children?" setting the tone for a darkly humorous collection in which memories of love, religion and childhood are entangled amongst street snipers and the confusion of misguided bombings.
  
  "Distinguished California poet Shahé Mankerian reminds us in this powerful debut poetry collection that we forget painful memories deliberatively, yet his gut-punching poems relive for himself as well as for us the horrific shredding of humanity that war, especially civil war, inflicts. A survivor of the Lebanese civil war in the late 20th century, Mankerian unspools in devastating simplicity and directness, in seemingly inconsequential scenes, the horrors and suffering of children, parents, neighbors, schoolmates, friends, lovers navigating daily bombardments, scavenging for food, dodging snipers' bullets, and trying to find a modicum of normalcy among the ruins. Mankerian's clear-eyed, honest poetry paints unforgettable pictures of human beings we relate to, ordinary heroes and victims that uplift us with their resiliency and stoic determination to prevail."
  
  -Thelma T. Reyna, Poet Laureate Emerita; Author of Dearest Papa: A Memoir in Poems
  
  "In these accessible and irresistible poems, a character wonders if he should tell his mother the lentil soup needs salt, ponders the laws of war, and prescribes a generic brand Jesus. The great Russian poet Osip Mandelstam wanted poetry to achieve "a heightened perception of what already existed." That is precisely what Mankerian does in this eminently readable and memorable collection. Buy three copies: read one, give one to a friend, keep the third so you'll have it handy when you wear the first one out."
  
  -Ron Koertge, author of "Negative Space," shortlisted for a 2018 Oscar in Animated Short Films.
  
   "As we proceed through these sharply etched memories of a childhood in wartime Lebanon, it seems increasing remarkable that the poet emerged alive, and even more remarkable that he was able to convey the violence and mayhem-both in and outside the home-in such spare but vivid, harrowing poems. They are not marred by the dreaded bugaboos, sentimentality, melodrama, or self-pity. Few survivors emerge with the will, wherewithal, talent, and opportunity to tell their stories with such power."
  
  -Suzanne Lummis, Author of Open 24 Hours - Winner of 2013 Blue Lynx Prize
  
   
  
  Sample poem:
   
  
  La Quarantaine
  
  During the Karantina Massacre, 
  Father wired the stereo directly 
  to the generator in the basement
  
  so that he could block the bloodshed 
  with the Requiem. From our bedroom 
  window, the rise of the satanic smoke
  
  swallowed the Palestinian shanty town.
  Amadeus seemed demure next to 
  the screaming children. Father
  
  pulled the abat-jours and demanded 
  we give Mozart our attention.
  The timpani competed with the rat-
  
  a-tat-tat of Kalashnikovs.
  I felt lightheaded from the mazout
  fumes of the generator. "Son, listen!"
  
  Kyrie, eleison. Christe, eleison.
  I preferred the sirens over the harrowing 
  howl of the angels concocted by Wolfgang.

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  The Death of Ivan Ilych -...

  Leo Tolstoy

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  Leo Tolstoy's timeless tale of a court official's long and drawn out death is both a masterful metaphysical exploration of the meaning of death, and a masterstroke of inspirational storytelling. First published in 1886, this classic of Russian literature is considered one of the great examples of the novella in all of literary fiction. An absorbing listen of a classic story. 
  The Death of Ivan Ilych, by Leo Tolstoy 
  Narrated by Edison McDaniels.

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