The Rattle Bag

The Rattle Bag

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  • Author: Seamus Heaney
  • Publisher: Macmillan
  • ISBN: 0571225837
  • Category : Poetry
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 497

A collection of more than 400 hundred poems from all around the world.


The English Dialect Dictionary

The English Dialect Dictionary

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  • Author: Joseph Wright
  • Publisher:
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  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 378


All for Nothing

All for Nothing

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  • Author: Walter Kempowski
  • Publisher: New York Review of Books
  • ISBN: 1681372061
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 368

A wealthy family tries--and fails--to seal themselves off from the chaos of post-World War II life surrounding them in this stunning novel by one of Germany's most important post-war writers. In East Prussia, January 1945, the German forces are in retreat and the Red Army is approaching. The von Globig family's manor house, the Georgenhof, is falling into disrepair. Auntie runs the estate as best she can since Eberhard von Globig, a special officer in the German army, went to war, leaving behind his beautiful but vague wife, Katharina, and her bookish twelve-year-old son, Peter. As the road fills with Germans fleeing the occupied territories, the Georgenhof begins to receive strange visitors--a Nazi violinist, a dissident painter, a Baltic baron, even a Jewish refugee. Yet in the main, life continues as banal, wondrous, and complicit as ever for the family, until their caution, their hedged bets, and their denial are answered by the wholly expected events they haven't allowed themselves to imagine. All for Nothing, published in 2006, was the last novel by Walter Kempowski, one of postwar Germany's most acclaimed and popular writers.


Transcending Boundaries

Transcending Boundaries

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  • Author: Sandra L. Beckett
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 113568586X
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 304

Transcending Boundaries: Writing for a Dual Audience of Children and Adults is a collection of essays on twentieth-century authors who cross the borders between adult and children's literature and appeal to both audiences. This collection of fourteen essays by scholars from eight countries constitutes the first book devoted to the art of crosswriting the child and adult in twentieth-century international literature. Sandra Beckett explores the multifaceted nature of crossover literature and the diverse ways in which writers cross the borders to address a dual readership of children and adults. It considers classics such as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Pinocchio, with particular emphasis on post-World War II literature. The essays in Transcending Boundaries clearly suggest that crossover literature is a major, widespread trend that appears to be sharply on the rise.


A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles

A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles

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  • Author: James Augustus Henry Murray
  • Publisher:
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  • Category : English language
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 1030


Trigger Warning

Trigger Warning

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  • Author: Neil Gaiman
  • Publisher: Harper Collins
  • ISBN: 0062330292
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 339

Multiple award winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman returns to dazzle, captivate, haunt, and entertain with this third collection of short fiction following Smoke and Mirrors and Fragile Things—which includes a never-before published American Gods story, “Black Dog,” written exclusively for this volume. In this new anthology, Neil Gaiman pierces the veil of reality to reveal the enigmatic, shadowy world that lies beneath. Trigger Warning includes previously published pieces of short fiction—stories, verse, and a very special Doctor Who story that was written for the fiftieth anniversary of the beloved series in 2013—as well “Black Dog,” a new tale that revisits the world of American Gods, exclusive to this collection. Trigger Warning explores the masks we all wear and the people we are beneath them to reveal our vulnerabilities and our truest selves. Here is a rich cornucopia of horror and ghosts stories, science fiction and fairy tales, fabulism and poetry that explore the realm of experience and emotion. In Adventure Story—a thematic companion to The Ocean at the End of the Lane—Gaiman ponders death and the way people take their stories with them when they die. His social media experience A Calendar of Tales are short takes inspired by replies to fan tweets about the months of the year—stories of pirates and the March winds, an igloo made of books, and a Mother’s Day card that portends disturbances in the universe. Gaiman offers his own ingenious spin on Sherlock Holmes in his award-nominated mystery tale The Case of Death and Honey. And Click-Clack the Rattlebag explains the creaks and clatter we hear when we’re all alone in the darkness. A sophisticated writer whose creative genius is unparalleled, Gaiman entrances with his literary alchemy, transporting us deep into the realm of imagination, where the fantastical becomes real and the everyday incandescent. Full of wonder and terror, surprises and amusements, Trigger Warning is a treasury of delights that engage the mind, stir the heart, and shake the soul from one of the most unique and popular literary artists of our day.


Historical Common Names of Great Plains Plants Volume I: Historical Names (paperback)

Historical Common Names of Great Plains Plants Volume I: Historical Names (paperback)

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  • Author: Elaine Nowick
  • Publisher: Lulu.com
  • ISBN: 1609620585
  • Category : Reference
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 505

Containing thousands of entries of both vernacular and scientific names of Great Plains plants, the literature that informs this exhaustive listing spans nearly 300 years. Author Elaine Nowick has drawn from sources as diverse as Linnaeus, Lewis and Clark, and local university extension publications to compile the gamut of practical, and often fanciful, common plant names used over the years. Each common name is accompanied by a definitive scientific name with references and authority information. Interspersed with scientifically-correct botanical line drawings, the entries are written in standard ICBN format, making this a useful volume for scholars as well as lay enthusiasts alike. Volume 1 presents, in alphabetical order, all the historical common names of plants recorded in Great Plains flora, herbaria, and botanical collections, together with the scientific names of species to which those common names have been applied.


Recorder from the Beginning: Pupil's Book 1

Recorder from the Beginning: Pupil's Book 1

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  • Author: John Pitts
  • Publisher: EJA Publications
  • ISBN: 0857129384
  • Category : Music
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 48

Recorder From The Beginning: Pupil's Book 1 (2004 Edition) is the full-colour revised edition of John Pitts' best-selling recorder course. The eight extra pages in Book 1 have allowed for some new tunes and rounds, whilst retaining the well-known favourites that have helped to make the scheme such an enduring success. This is the book we all learned from as children and is still, successfully, teaching today's youth how to play the Recorder.


“The” West Somerset Word-book

“The” West Somerset Word-book

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  • Author: Frederick Thomas Elworthy
  • Publisher:
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  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 926


The Dialect of West Somerset

The Dialect of West Somerset

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  • Author: Frederick Thomas Elworthy
  • Publisher:
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  • Category : English language
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 1150