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  • District and Circle

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    Seamus Heaney’s new collection starts In an age of bare hands and cast iron and ends as The automatic lock / clunks shut in the eerie new conditions of a menaced twenty-first century. In their haunted

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    • Author: Heaney, Seamus
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: April 03 2007
    • ISBN10: 0374530815
    • Language: English
  • Jane Austen’s England: Daily Life in the Georgian and Regency Periods

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    An authoritative account of everyday life in Regency England, the backdrop of Austen’s beloved novels, from the authors of the forthcoming Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History (March 2018)[more below]

    • Author: Adkins, Roy
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 464
    • Publish Date: July 29 2014
    • ISBN10: 0143125729
    • Language: English
  • The Complete Poems

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    Rossetti is unique among Victorian poets for the sheer range of her subject matter and the variety of her verse form. This collection brings together fantasy poems, such as Goblin Market, and terrifyi… [more below]

    • Series: Penguin Classics
    • Author: Rossetti, Christina
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 1312
    • Publish Date: November 01 2001
    • ISBN10: 0140423664
    • Language: English
  • City Psalms

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    City Psalms was Benjamin Zephaniah’s first collection from Bloodaxe back in 1992. It includes some of his best-known poems, including ‘Dis Poetry’, ‘Money’ and ‘Us and Dem’.

    Best known for his performa

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  • The Singing Bowl

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    Malcolm Guite’s eagerly awaited second poetry collection includes poems that seek beauty and transfiguration in the everyday; sonnets inspired by Francis and other outstanding saints; poems centred on… [more below]

    • Author: Guite, Malcolm
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: June 06 2014
    • ISBN10: 1848256957
    • Language: English
  • The Skriker

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    Premiered at the Royal National Theatre, this extraordinary play by one of Britain’s leading playwrights combines English folk tales with modern urban life. In terms of its language alone, it is as ex… [more below]

    • Author: Churchill, Caryl
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 64
    • Publish Date: September 01 1994
    • ISBN10: 1559360976
    • Language: English
  • Closer: A Play

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    New York Dram Critc’s Circle Award for Best Foreign Play

    Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy

    London Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play

    Time Out Award for Best West End Play

    The award-winning play

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    • Author: Marber, Patrick
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 120
    • Publish Date: December 01 1999
    • ISBN10: 0802136451
    • Language: English
  • York Mystery Plays: A Selection in Modern Spelling

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    The York Corpus Christi cycle is the oldest and best-known of the English mystery cycles, and its depth and scope are reflected in the selection of twenty-two pageants offered in this volume. Included… [more below]

  • The Rover and Other Plays

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    Aphra Behn (1640-89) was both successful and controversial in her own lifetime; her achievements are now recognized less equivocally and her plays, often revived, demonstrate wit, compassion and remar… [more below]

  • The Complete Plays

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    Marlowe’s seven plays dramatise the fatal lure of potent forces, whether religious, occult or erotic. In the victories of Tamburlaine, Faustus’s encounters with the demonic, the irreverence of Barabas… [more below]

    • Series: Penguin Classics
    • Author: Marlowe, Christopher
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 752
    • Publish Date: January 06 2004
    • ISBN10: 0140436332
    • Language: English
  • Chaucer: A European Life

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    An acclaimed biography that recreates the cosmopolitan world in which a wine merchant’s son became one of the most celebrated of all English writers

    Geoffrey Chaucer is often called the father of Engl

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    • Author: Turner, Marion
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 624
    • Publish Date: September 22 2020
    • ISBN10: 691210152
    • Language: English
  • The Man with Night Sweats: Poems

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    The Man with Night Sweats is a haunting depiction of a world ravaged by illness that is part elegy for those who have been lost and part evocation of the changes that await those who survive. It is al

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    • Series: FSG Classics
    • Author: Gunn, Thom
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: April 17 2007
    • ISBN10: 0374530688
    • Language: English
  • Love’s Labor’s Lost

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    The authoritative edition Love’s Labor’s Lost from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers.

    At first glance, Shakespeare’s early

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    • Series: Folger Shakespeare Library
    • Author: Shakespeare, William
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: November 03 2020
    • ISBN10: 1982164956
    • Language: English
  • The Complete Poems

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    One of the great English Romantic poets, William Blake was also an artist, mystic, and visionary. His work ranges from the deceptively simple and lyrical Songs of Innocence and their counterpoint Expe… [more below]

    • Author: Blake, William
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 1072
    • Publish Date: March 30 1978
    • ISBN10: 0140422153
    • Language: English
  • Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays

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    God’s creations of man in a lyrical dramatization; Noah’s cantankerous and hilariously funny wife refusing to leave without her friends; the Massacre of the Innocents

    Miracle Plays were a popular form

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    • Author: Cawley, A. C.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: April 12 2022
    • ISBN10: 0804855404
    • Language: English
  • Bent: The Play

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    Martin Sherman’s worldwide hit play Bent took London by storm in 1979 when it was first performed by the Royal Court Theatre, with Ian McKellen as Max (a character written with the actor in mind). The… [more below]

    • Series: Applause Books
    • Author: Sherman, Martin
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 82
    • Publish Date: April 01 2000
    • ISBN10: 1557833362
    • Language: English
  • Jumpers

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    “Jumpers is simply dazzling. It takes your breath away with its sheer exuberance of literacy, its cascade of words and conspicuous display of intellect. It is also extraordinarily funny. Jumpers is on[more below]

    • Series: Tom Stoppard
    • Author: Stoppard, Tom
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: December 05 2023
    • ISBN10: 0802160816
    • Language: English
  • Blackbird Singing: Poems and Lyrics, 1965-1999

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    The publication of “Blackbird Singing,” the first collection of Paul McCartney’s poems and lyrics, was an international cultural event celebrated in concert halls, at literary festivals, and in newspa

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    • Author: McCartney, Paul
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: October 01 2002
    • ISBN10: 0393324095
    • Language: English
  • My Country Right or Left: 1940-1943

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    Essays, journalism and essays by the brilliant, indispensable George Orwell from 1940 to 1943. Even many decades after his death, the more we read of Orwell, the more clearly we can think about our wo

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  • The Importance of Being Earnest & Other Plays

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    Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector’s Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high q

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    • Author: Wilde, Oscar
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 472
    • Publish Date: March 21 2017
    • ISBN10: 1509827846
    • Language: English
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