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  A Flea in Her Ear: Full Text and...

  Georges Feydeau

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  Drama Classics series
  The world's great plays at a great little price.
  Each pocket-sized volume contains:
  a full introduction
  an author biography notes on historical and theatrical context
  a plot synopsis key dates
  a further reading list a glossary of unusual words and phrases (English-language texts)
  A Flea in her Ear is a classic French farce from 1907.
  A suspicious wife sets a trap to expose her supposedly faithless husband. The husband however bears an uncanny resemblance to a drunken porter, and when circumstances bring the two into proximity in the seedy Hotel Casablanca, all hell breaks loose.
  With an introduction by Stephen Mulrine.

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  The Poetry of Walt Whitman

  Walt Whitman

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  Walt Whitman was an immense talent.  And a prodigious one at that.  Associated with the Free Verse movement his poems are usually on the longer side.  Iconic works such as Leaves Of Grass divided opinion on their publication.  Some argued it was obscene others such as Ralph Waldo Emerson rallied to his cause.  Whitman was born on May 31st 1819 on Long Island. By the age of 11 his schooling was finished and he embarked on a series of jobs that eventually led to various newspaper editorships. He began to write poetry in the 1840s and in 1855 published his first of many versions of Leaves Of Grass.  Thereafter he wrote solidly until his death on March 26, 1892. He is buried in Camden, New Jersey. Whitman wrote that “The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it."

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  Paradise

  Alighieri Dante

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  I have been in the Heaven that takes up most of his light, and saw things there that those who descend from that height cannot speak of or forget…’ Led by his guide Beatrice, Dante leaves the Earth behind and soars through the heavenly spheres of Paradise. In this third and final part of The Divine Comedy, he encounters the just rulers and holy saints of the Church. The horrors of Inferno and the trials of Purgatory are left far behind. Ultimately, in Paradise, Dante is granted a vision of God’s Heavenly court – the angels, the Blessed Virgin and God Himself.

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  Little Girl to Her Flowers

  Anonymous Anonymous

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  This is a small volume with short poems about flowers. Listeners may wish to refer to the online text, which includes very neat illustrations. - Summary by Carolin

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  Gothic Poems

  Rachel Lawson

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  The Ravens 
  A flock of ravens floats upon the air over their prey, 
  Like a looming black storm cloud of gloom, 
  In the later hours of the death of the day, 
  They fight each other for room, 
  In the melee, one is injured it falls, 
  Blood and gore fill the air, 
  The air is filled with their dire calls, 
  Little did the observers of this carnage care, 
  To them, it was merely a display of the nature of the raven, 
  Upon the hour they fled, 
  They were neither crazed nor craven, 
  They were happy and well-fed.

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  Touch to Affliction

  Nathalie Stephens

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  From the ruins of poetry, fiction and philosophy comes Touch To Affliction, a meditation on the notion of homeland, on patrie and the inhumanity that arises from it.
   
  This is a text obsessed with ruins: the ruins of genre, of language, of the city, of the body. The history of the twentieth century is a history of barbarism, and Stephens walks, like a fl̢neur, through its midst, experiencing through her own body the crumbled buildings, the dessicated cities, the eviscerated language and humanity of our time, calling out in passing to those before her who have contemplated atrocity: Martin Buber, Henryk Gorecki, Simone Weil. In the end, it considers what we are left with Рindeed, what is left of us Рas both participants in and heirs to the twentieth century.
   
  Insistently political but never polemical, Touch To Affliction, at the interstices of thought and theunnameable, is at once lament, accusation and elegy.
   
  Praise for Paper City:
   
  ‘Understanding is almost antithetical to the project Stephens seems to have assigned herself, that of unraveling or radically altering our sense of logic, of language, of narrative, of body, of desire, of words on paper. She wants the book to burn in our hands and, indeed, it does.’
   
  – NewPages

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