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Iconic political speeches are some of the best remembered and most repeated passages in contemporary English language. Especially in the United States of America, what child doesn't know Abraham Lincoln's "Fourscore and seven years ago..." or Roosevelt's "The only thing we have to fear..."?Taking as its source text Barack Obama's campaign speech from March 18, 2008, A More Perfect [ by Jimmy ... Read more

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Iconic political speeches are some of the best remembered and most repeated passages in contemporary English language. Especially in the United States of America, what child doesn't know Abraham Lincoln's "Fourscore and seven years ago..." or Roosevelt's "The only thing we have to fear..."?Taking as its source text Barack Obama's campaign speech from March 18, 2008, A More Perfect [ by Jimmy
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William Shakespeare: The Ultimate Collection - Every Play, Sonnet, and Poem at Your Fingertips

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Unearth the lost treasures of English literature with the "William Shakespeare: Complete Collection". This affordable edition boasts all 37 plays, 160 sonnets, and 5 enchanting poems, offering a deep dive into the genius of the Bard. From the tragic depths of "Hamlet" to the whimsical realms of "A Midsummer Night's Dream", experience the full spectrum of human emotion penned by the master himself. ... Read more

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Unearth the lost treasures of English literature with the "William Shakespeare: Complete Collection". This affordable edition boasts all 37 plays, 160 sonnets, and 5 enchanting poems, offering a deep dive into the genius of the Bard. From the tragic depths of "Hamlet" to the whimsical realms of "A Midsummer Night's Dream", experience the full spectrum of human emotion penned by the master himself.
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Beowulf is considered an epic poem in that the main character is a hero who travels great distances to prove his strength at impossible odds against supernatural demons and beasts. The poem also begins in medias res ("into the middle of affairs") or simply, "in the middle", which is a characteristic of the epics of antiquity. Although the poem begins with Beowulf's arrival, Grendel's attacks have
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A Complete Encyclopedia of Different Types of People

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People who rely on stereotypes are often vilified. But really, is there a better way to classify people? There are some taxonimical difficulties, though. Exactly how many types of people are there? What behaviours are characteristic of each particular group? How do you know if you’ve spotted an armchair psychologist or a kleptomaniac? Gabe Foreman's A Complete Encyclopedia of Different Types of ... Read more

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People who rely on stereotypes are often vilified. But really, is there a better way to classify people? There are some taxonimical difficulties, though. Exactly how many types of people are there? What behaviours are characteristic of each particular group? How do you know if you’ve spotted an armchair psychologist or a kleptomaniac? Gabe Foreman's A Complete Encyclopedia of Different Types of
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The Wrong Cat

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Like the people and animals in her new collection, Lorna Crozier “defies / the anecdotal, / goes for the lyric, / music made from / bone and muscle and the grace notes” of life. The poems in The Wrong Cat are vintage Crozier: sly, sexy, irreverent, and sad, and populated by fully realized characters whose stories take place in a small lyrical space. We learn about a mother’s last breath, the first ... Read more

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Men in the Off Hours

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Introspections of a Teenage Mind

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A Pretty Sight

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Like the rhapsodists, the storytellers of ancient Greece, A Pretty Sight shapes voices of the past and present into a stitched song lifted and sounded toward the next century. Haunted by ‘time's frame / that dark shape near the edge of the canvas,’ O’Meara's new book explores aspects of culture, art, war, rebellion and technology, offering defiance amid decay.‘O’Meara is a poet of the personal. Of ... Read more

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Like the rhapsodists, the storytellers of ancient Greece, A Pretty Sight shapes voices of the past and present into a stitched song lifted and sounded toward the next century. Haunted by ‘time's frame / that dark shape near the edge of the canvas,’ O’Meara's new book explores aspects of culture, art, war, rebellion and technology, offering defiance amid decay.‘O’Meara is a poet of the personal. Of
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I have to live

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Pause for Breath

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Diverse in subject, style and mood and rich in contrasts - from the lyrical to the rhetorical, from the public and collective to the personal and private - the poems in Pause for Breath are a meditation on the times and on time itself, sounding the human condition at a moment of world-change.
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