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  • Narrative, Piety and Polemic in Medieval Spain

    Biblical Rhetoric in the Reconquest Chronicles of León-Castile

    by Alun Williams ...
    This book presents an original perspective on the variety and intensity of biblical narrative and rhetoric in the evolution of history writing in León-Castile during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. It focuses on six Hispano-Latin chronicles, two of which make unusually overt and emphatic use of biblical texts. Of particular importance is the part played by the influence of exegesis that ... Read more

    $42.19 CAD

  • Ageing and Poverty in Africa

    Ugandan Livelihoods in a Time of HIV/AIDS

    by Alun Williams ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2003. The rapid demographic aging of populations worldwide, and most dramatically in developing countries, will result in unprecedented increases in the absolute and relative numbers of the aged in these countries. Whilst developed economies already have the basic infrastructure in place through which to support their ageing populations, developing nations ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

  • Transitioning Medical Care

    Through Adolescence to Adulthood

    Edited by Dan Wood, Alun Williams, Martin A. Koyle, Andrew D. Baird ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This book provides a guide to the complexities of medical care through adolescence and into adulthood. The principles of transition, the management of patients and parents, and developmentally appropriate adolescent health care are discussed and evaluated. The academic importance of understanding long-term outcomes of treatments and diseases that began in childhood is also covered.This book aims ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Wordsworth: Lyrical Ballads

    Edited by Alun R. Jones, William Tydeman ...
    Series series Casebooks Series
    This is a Bloomsbury Academic title. For our full Academic Catalogue, please visit https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/academic/ ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

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    Last Inspection, The

    A story written during WW2, from a author that tragically died in it

    by Alun Lewis ...
    Narrated by Keith Williams ...

    Unabridged

    12 min

    Alun Lewis was born on the 1st July 1915 in Cwmaman in South Wales.He studied history at Aberystwyth and Manchester Universities before beginning a career as a teacher.In 1940, despite his pacifism, he enlisted to serve in the Royal Engineers and later received a commission in the South Wales Borderers.His first poetry collection ‘Raider’s Dawn’ was published in 1942 as was his short story ... Read more

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    Trio of Stories, A - Alun Lewis

    A great introduction to a great author

    by Alun Lewis ...
    Narrated by Robert Maskell, Keith Williams ...

    Unabridged

    43 min

    Alun Lewis was born on the 1st July 1915 in Cwmaman in South Wales.He studied history at Aberystwyth and Manchester Universities before beginning a career as a teacher.In 1940, despite his pacifism, he enlisted to serve in the Royal Engineers and later received a commission in the South Wales Borderers.His first poetry collection ‘Raider’s Dawn’ was published in 1942 as was his short story ... Read more

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  • Selected Literary Essays

    by C. S. Lewis ...
    Selected Literary Essays includes over twenty of C. S. Lewis’s most important literary essays, written between 1932 and 1962. The topics discussed in this volume range from Chaucer to Kipling, from "The literary impact of the authorized version" to "Psycho-analysis and literary criticism," to Shakespeare and Bunyan, and Sir Walter Scott and William Morris. Common to each essay, however, are the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Shakespeare's Festive Comedy

    A Study of Dramatic Form and Its Relation to Social Custom

    by C. L. Barber ...
    "A book ahead of its time. . . . revolutionized the ways that Shakespeareans thought of comedy in relation to its social setting—especially festive comedy." —James Shapiro, Columbia UniversityIn this classic work, acclaimed Shakespeare critic C. L. Barber argues that Elizabethan seasonal festivals such as May Day and Twelfth Night are the key to understanding Shakespeare's comedies. Brilliantly ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cambridge Companion to English Poets

    by Claude Rawson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This volume provides lively and authoritative introductions to twenty-nine of the most important British and Irish poets from Geoffrey Chaucer to Philip Larkin. The list includes, among others, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Wordsworth, Browning, Yeats and T. S. Eliot, and represents the tradition of English poetry at its best. Each contributor offers a new assessment of a single poet's achievement ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • Victorian Poetry

    by John Drinkwater ...
    This book is called Victorian Poetry for convenience. It does not, it need hardly be said, pretend to anything like a thorough examination of the voluminous poetry of the Victorian era in all its aspects. Significant criticism of Tennyson alone, to take a single instance, has already filled many volumes, a reflection which may well make the title chosen for this little book look like an ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Berryman's Shakespeare

    Essays, Letters, and Other Writings

    by John Berryman, Robert Giroux ...
    The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet discusses Shakespeare's background, the early dramas, as well as the more mature plays, their texts, and the sonnets."As this book demonstrates, [Berryman] was the greatest Shakespearean of twentieth-century American poets." — The New RepublicJohn Berryman, one of America's most talented modern poets, won the Pulitzer Prize for 77 Dream Songs and the National Book ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Radical Wordsworth

    The Poet Who Changed the World

    by Jonathan Bate ...
    The life and times of the celebrated Romantic poet is revealed in this "magnificent biography . . . Both erudite and utterly absorbing" ( Daily Mail ).This is the biography of a great poetic genius, a revolutionary who changed the world. William Wordsworth rejoiced in the French Revolution and played a central role in the cultural upheaval that we call the Romantic Revolution. He and his fellow ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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