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A prominent British conservative warns Americans to stop President Obama from leading their country down the path to European-style socialism.
In March 2009, British conservative Daniel Hannan became a celebrity overnight when he assailed prime minister Gordon Brown on the floor of the European Parliament. The YouTube clip went viral, leading to whirlwind appearances on FOX News and other conservative media outlets. A thoughtful and articulate spokesman...
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A stunning, intimate collection by the late, great Polish poet Adam Zagajewski.
...I think I sought wisdom
(without resignation) in poems
and also a certain calm madness.
I found, much later, a moment's joy
and melancholy's dark contentment.
In True Life, the Polish writer Adam Zagajewski, one of the world's most admired and beloved poets, turns his gaze to the past with piercing clarity and a tone of wry, lyrical melancholy. He captures the...
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Dive into the compelling world of Arrive Dead at the Same Place, a poignant poetry collection by Ken Eaton-Dykes. This anthology bridges the ordinary and the extraordinary, capturing life's diverse tapestry with wit, wisdom, and a touch of cynicism.
Eaton-Dykes' poetry traverses a vast emotional landscape, from reflective musings on war and its indelible impact on society to the humorous absurdities of daily existence. Written in an array of styles,...
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For this early 20th century French poet-philosopher, life, in its most dynamic sense, can only be experienced after the facade of self-identity has been systematically negated through a kind of metaphysical suicide. In Le Contre-Ciel, Daumal invites us, his readers, to go through this process of regeneration-through-negation with him in order to revive in ourselves a knowledge and understanding of our primordial sources.
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Maurice Maeterlinck, acclaimed for his prose and drama, delves into the realm of poetry in this collection. His verses explore the intricacies of nature, love, and the human spirit. Through poetic expression, Maeterlinck weaves emotions, reflections, and
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HOW HURTFUL CAN A TRANSFORMATION BE? "Dysphoria" is a poignant collection of eighty poems that traverse the emotional landscape of personal transformation.Amidst the turmoil of loss and rebirth, the author bids farewell to the old self, embracing the journey of self-discovery with raw vulnerability and resilience.Through the veil of grief, each verse becomes a testament to the human spirit's capacity to evolve, to shed its former skin and emerge anew.With...
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If you really wanna get to the meat a potatoz of the story, you want to understand and experience what it's like to be married to big powerful man? With more leaf letter and marijuana dollars then you could ever imagine? Well your in luck! Herez the knows and the hows, a man mobbed up, lotta money, lotta cars, cigars and knows bars. He is the guy, you will feel and live each moment at a time but no skipping, you're gonna wanna be patient, this book...
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"A Window in at a Moment in Time" is a collection of poems written almost thirty years ago when Francois was a teenager. These poems were influenced by Francois' experiences as a teenager including his arising awareness of the need for conservation and the damage we as humanity were causing even then.Closer to home, some poems reflect his opinions which were more socially influenced by subjects that were discussed by teenagers at the time and which...
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A magician conjures a dramatic adventure of romance and intrigue in this seventeenth-century French tragicomedy by the author of Le Cid.
In Pierre Corneille's sparkling play, The Theatre of Illusion, magicians, lovers, and heroes prove that all the world truly is a stage. First performed in 1636, it was pioneering in its use of meta-theatrical storytelling. It then vanished from the stage for the next three-hundred years, to be revived in 1937 at...
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Musaicum Books presents to you this unique collection of the greatest classics of all time:
Hamlet (Shakespeare)
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare)
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
Pride & Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Pygmalion (George Bernard Shaw)
Ivanhoe (Sir Walter Scott)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis...
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Celebrating Germany with Poetry belongs to the Celebrating Nations Book Series by Walter the Educator. Collect them all at WaltertheEducator.com. Creating a poetry book celebrating the nation of Germany serves as a means to explore and showcase the rich cultural heritage, history, and the vibrant spirit of the country. It can also be a way to acknowledge and appreciate the contributions of Germany to the world in various fields such as literature,...
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A chaque édition son empreinte et son partage.En 2020, les poètes auront aussi écrit sur la notion de différence. La Covid-19 a-t-elle influencé de quelque manière que ce soit le ressenti et une expressivité poétique sous la contrainte d'un adverbe imposé dans le premier vers ? Après "D'une rive à une autre" (édition 2018) et "Transcendance" (édition 2019), le recueil des nominés et lauréats "La Différence - Poésie 2020" nous ramène...
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When I was young I used to painstakingly collect postcards and albums with reproductions of Van Gogh's paintings, which were rare in the Soviet Union. Nowadays the Internet and big size monitors give you possibility to endlessly enjoy master's canvases, and see details you never paid attention to before. And so I saw that the majority of the artist's works painted not long before his death started to depict the endless movement of the matter, invisible...
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History Encounters unearths the greatest stories with the major events from The Berlin Wall to expand reader horizons for readers to be best informed. The Berlin Wall was the concrete manifestation of the Iron Curtain, which signified the profound ideological difference between the capitalist, democratic Western powers and the socialist, communist Soviet Union. After WWII ended, the Allied Powers carved up defeated Germany into four blocks. They did...
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José María de Pereda es uno de los grandes novelistas españoles de la segunda mitad del siglo XIX. Manuel Marañón fue no solo su amigo «más querido», sino también su alter ego según nos dice en una carta del 5 de febrero de 1895. Este intenso epistolario, que se daba por perdido, se compone de más de 260 cartas que Pereda escribió a Marañón y que fueron conservadas por la familia del destinatario en el archivo de la Fundación Cigarral...
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How come Shakespeare keeps challenging and fascinating us? Why do we keep watching his plays and reading his poetry? Maybe because he knows us so well. His irresistible, playful comedies, full of love and joy, show us at our happiest moments, his tragedies show us the darkest dungeons of the human mind, and his romances have this strong and wonderful tone of reconciliation and forgiveness, that we all need now and then, and his poetry lends words...
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Acclaimed literary critic George Steiner on two of the literary canon's greatest and most influential writers "Literary criticism," writes Steiner, "should arise out of a debt of love." Abiding by his own rule, Tolstoy or Dostoevsky is an impassioned work, inspired by Steiner's conviction that the legacies of these two Russian masters loom over Western literature. By explaining how Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky differ from each other, Steiner...
19) À fleur de terre
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Jean-Pierre Fabien est né à Montréal en 1955. Il est biologiste et a enseigné l'écologie au secondaire pendant 25 ans tout en favorisant l'approche terrain avec ses élèves afin d'établir un réel contact avec la nature. En 2005, il quitte l'enseignement afin d'offrir son soutien aux écoles d'éducation internationale à titre de professionnel. En 1990, il devient cofondateur du CORDEM, un club d'ornithologie dont le siège social est situé...
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These chapters provide a chronological overview of the history of poetry in Europe, covering ancient origins, medieval lyricism, Renaissance humanism, Romanticism, and modernist experimentation. They highlight key poets, movements, and themes that have shaped European poetic traditions over the centuries.
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