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    Monkey’s Paw, The

    by W.W. Jacobs ...
    Narrated by Edmund Thorne ...

    Unabridged

    25 min

    Be careful what you wish for…The Monkey’s Paw by W.W. Jacobs is one of the most chilling and enduring tales of supernatural horror ever written. First published in 1902, this short story explores the terrifying consequences of tampering with fate. When an old family receives a magical monkey’s paw—an object that grants its owner three wishes—they soon learn that every gift comes at a dreadful cost ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Dynamic Risk Assessment

    The Practical Guide to Making Risk-Based Decisions with the 3-Level Risk Management Model

    by Stephen Asbury, Edmund Jacobs ...
    Dynamic Risk Assessment is the key tool to support a holistic risk management framework. This book aims to help employers, managers and staff alike to understand how they can effectively integrate dynamic risk assessment into business management processes and systems to improve safety.With tips, examples and solutions throughout, this multi-disciplinary text delivers an effective and comprehensive ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

  • Endarkenment

    Selected Poems

    by Arkadii Dragomoshchenko ...
    Translated by Lyn Hejinian, Genya Turovskaya, Bela Shayevich, Jacob Edmund, Elena Balashova ...
    Series series Wesleyan Poetry Series
    The poet Arkadii Dragomoshchenko made his debut in underground magazines in the late Soviet period, and developed an elliptic, figural style with affinities to Moscow metarealism, although he lived in what was then Leningrad. Endarkenment brings together revisions of selected translations by Lyn Hejinian and Elena Balashova from his previous American titles, long out of print, with translations of ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Bluets

    by Maggie Nelson ...
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  • Ten Windows

    How Great Poems Transform the World

    by Jane Hirshfield ...
    A dazzling collection of essays on how the best poems work, from the master poet and essayist“Poetry,” Jane Hirshfield has said, “is language that foments revolutions of being.” In ten eloquent and highly original explorations, she unfolds and explores some of the ways this is done—by the inclusion of hiddenness, paradox, and surprise; by a perennial awareness of the place of uncertainty in our ... Read more

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  • Autobiography of a Corpse

    by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky ...
    Translated by Joanne Turnbull ...
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    by Loren Eiseley ...
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    Literary Judgments and Accounts

    by William H. Gass ...
    A dazzling new collection of essays—on reading, writing, form, and thought—from one of America’s master writers.It begins with the personal, both past and present. It emphasizes Gass’s lifelong attachment to books and moves on to the more analytical, as he ponders the work of some of his favorite writers (among them Kafka, Nietzsche, Henry James, Gertrude Stein, Proust). He writes about a few ... Read more

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  • Later Poems: Selected and New

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    by Adrienne Rich ...
    The final volume of poems by America’s most powerful and distinctive poetic voice.Later Poems: Selected and New brings together a remarkable body of work by the celebrated poet. Included are Adrienne Rich’s own selections from twelve volumes of published works, including the National Book Award–winning Diving into the Wreck, An Atlas of the Difficult World, and her final volume, Tonight No Poetry ... Read more

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  • A Night of Serious Drinking

    A Novel

    by René Daumal ...
    Series series Tusk Ivories
    The French poet and author of Mount Analogue shares a satirical allegory of the absurdities of intellectual society.As in Rene Daumal's cult classic Mount Analogue, A Night of Serious Drinking concerns an autobiographical protagonist on a mind-expanding journey. But rather than seeking enlightenment, the anonymous narrator recounts an evening getting drunk with a group of friends. As the party ... Read more

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  • My Life and My Life in the Nineties

    by Lyn Hejinian ...
    Series series Wesleyan Poetry Series
    Lyn Hejinian is among the most prominent of contemporary American poets. Her poem My Life has garnered accolades and fans inside and outside academia. First published in 1980, and revised in 1987 and 2002, My Life is now firmly established in the postmodern canon. This Wesleyan edition includes the 45-part prose poem sequence along with a closely related ten-part work titled My Life in the ... Read more

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