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This index will facilitate in-depth research into 20 of Soyinka's major works including plays, novels, and poetry.

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First published in 1879 by Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London.

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The collection also includes gripping accounts of real-life adventures on the ocean from such experienced sailors as Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Alan West and Tracy Edwards.

A literary tribute to the last earthly frontier - the ocean.

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abyat-e montakhab dar in majmoo-e' az divanhay-e besyari az sha'eran kelasik va moa'ser Iran ast, ke be soorat-e alefba-ie tanzim shod-e va mitavan az 'an baray-e bayt-bazi va moshae'r-e estefadeh kard.

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Includes commentary on the letters, appendices, chronology, glossary, and index.

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Explores the evolution of the obituary in the English-language press, through extracts drawn from newspapers and journals published since 1625. This book explores and analyses the characteristic wit, charm, candour and cultural significance of the obituary art with many examples.

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By gathering together some of the very best Stuart succession writing, Literature of the Stuart Successions offers fresh perspectives upon the history and culture of the period. It includes fifty texts (or extracts), selected to demonstrate the breadth and significance of succession writing, as well as introductory and explanatory material.

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By gathering together some of the very best Stuart succession writing, Literature of the Stuart Successions offers fresh perspectives upon the history and culture of the period. It includes fifty texts (or extracts), selected to demonstrate the breadth and significance of succession writing, as well as introductory and explanatory material.

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This book offers a translation and critical introduction to Lusophone African postcolonial poetry and short stories

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An authoritative collection of Australian Aboriginal writing over two centuries, across a wide range of fiction and non-fiction genres. Including some of the most distinctive writing produced in Australia, it offers rich insights into Aboriginal culture and experience.

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This is a story of a young girl who discovers her true essence through her encounter with a creature that reflects her shadow. Instead of running from this creature, she befriends it and heals it with kindness and love. Along the way, she learns about her family lineage, her spiritual beliefs and her innate healing gifts.

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Turns the critical spotlight on the London suburbs by showing how the expanding city created new literary locations, genres and themes between 1880 and 1925.

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St. Louis-born Martha Gellhorn (1908-98) was the doyenne of twentieth century war correspondence. In this first critical study of her Second World War fiction and journalism, Kate McLoughlin makes the connection between Gellhorn's intrepid progress through the war zone and her textual construction of the woman war reporter. -- .

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Masques of difference' presents an annotated edition of four seventeenth-century entertainments written by Ben Jonson, which reflect the royal courts self-representation as moral and just, in contrast to stylised images of chaotically (and exotically) 'othered' groups: Africans, the Irish, witches, and the homoeroticised figure of the Gypsy.

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This book gives students and general readers an introduction to ten masterpieces of Jewish American literature.

Each chapter provides biographical information, a plot summary, a discussion of characters, an analysis of themes, an examination of narrative style, an exploration of historical context, and suggestions for further reading.

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The philosophy of La Rochefoucauld, which influenced French intellectuals as diverse as Voltaire and the Jansenists, is captured here in more than 600 penetrating and pithy aphorisms.

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In the summer edition of Meanjin, Miles Franklin award winner Alexis Wright puts a challenging question: who should have the right to tell Aboriginal stories Also includes writing from Katharine Murphy, Tim Dunlop, Arnold Zable, Fiona Wright, John Kinsella, Beejay Silcox, Anna Kerdijk Nicholson, Geoff Page and John Clarke.

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Memory, Metaphor and Mysticism in Kalidasas Abhijnakuntalam aims to read Klidsas masterpiece through poetic and philosophical resonances as evidenced in the metre, rhythm and symbolism carefully embedded in the narrative and dramatic text.

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'Ring magic is different from the magic of the theatre, because the curtain never comes down - because the blood in the ring is real blood, and the broken noses and the broken hearts are real, and sometimes they are broken forever.

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Like her award-winning novels, Marina Warner's stories conjure up mysteries and wonders in a physical world, treading a delicate, magical line between the natural and the supernatural, between openness and fear. whereas other stories give voice to the traditionally voiceless - the artist's model and the film double.

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