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  • Gift of the Hit

    de Peter Davison ...
    What if, within every tragedy, adversity and setback in our lives, there is a blessing to unwrap? How would our lives then change? The stories in the Gift of the Hit collection showcase the strength of the human spirit through the accounts of amazing individuals, ordinary people who have embraced extraordinary events, and who have chosen to find the GIFT within their HIT. ... Leer más

    $5.80 USD

  • The Poems of Peter Davison

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    de Peter Davison ...
    The poetry of Peter Davison, of which this is the ninth volume, covers a broad range of subject matter. Musical and supple, with rewards for the eye, the ear, and the mind, concerned as much with country as with city matters, Davison's poems move past personality. They open questions of identity, explorations of the natural world, personal and religious conflict, and the mysterious workings of ... Leer más

    $15.79 USD

  • Is There Life Outside The Box?

    An Actor Despairs

    de Peter Davison ...
    His fans have spoken, but despite their requests, Peter Davison has gone ahead and written his autobiography anyway. It wasn’t the book they tried to stop – it was more like the book they didn’t want him to start. An aspiring singer-songwriter, once dubbed Woking’s answer to Bob Dylan (by his mum, who once heard a Bob Dylan song), Peter actually penned a hit for Dave Clark but soon swapped a life ... Leer más

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  • The Great Ledge

    de Peter Davison ...
    James Dickey, in reviewing Peter Davison's last book, Praying Wrong: New and Selected Poems, 1957-1984, said, ' Davison will not let things break him. His voice is his; he has earned it and can use it, and as a result is surely one of our better poets.' That sense of this poet's singularity is one of the great strengths of this new book; these deeply felt poems are uniquely his. From the almost ... Leer más

    $5.49 USD

  • Breathing Room

    Poems

    de Peter Davison ...
    "Peter Davison, for years, has pondered with clear insight the perspectives of affection, attachment, loss, and memory, his language spare and his tone classical and deceptively quiet. The poems of this new collection look at the same world with surprise and speak of it with a startled and startling freedom, feeling 'entitled to / the liberty of breathing easy'--a freedom that brings with it the ... Leer más

    $5.49 USD

  • The Fading Smile

    Poets in Boston, from Robert Frost to Robert Lowell to Sylvia Plath,

    de Peter Davison ...
    "A beautiful and richly instructive book, a worthy and welcome sequel to Eileen Simpson's Poets in Their Youth."Louis S. AuchinclossAn intimately perceptive account, by a poet who knew them all, of the brilliant circle of poets who lived and worked in Boston through the half-decade beginning in 1955. That was the year Peter Davison, coming to Boston as a book editor. was swept up in a world -- in ... Leer más

    $13.19 USD

  • George Orwell

    A Life in Letters

    de George Orwell ...
    Appearing for the first time in one volume, these trenchant letters tell the eloquent narrative of Orwell’s life in his own words.From his school days to his tragic early death, George Orwell, who never wrote an autobiography, chronicled the dramatic events of his turbulent life in a profusion of powerful letters. Indeed, one of the twentieth century’s most revered icons was a lively, prolific ... Leer más

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  • De Sortibus

    A Letter to a Friend about the Casting of Lots

    Traducido por Peter Carey ...
    This book makes De Sortibus, Thomas Aquinas's letter to a friend on the casting of lots, available in clear English for the first time. The letter was written around 1270 and was prompted by the question of whether lots could be used to seek God's will in the appointment of a bishop. We've all tossed a coin, or pulled straws to see who goes first, or opened the Bible to see if we could resolve an ... Leer más

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  • The Orwell Diaries

    de George Orwell ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    George Orwell was an inveterate keeper of diaries. The Orwell Diaries presents eleven of them, covering the period 1931-1949, and follows Orwell from his early years as a writer to his last literary notebook. An entry from 1931 tells of a communal shave in the Trafalgar Square fountains, while notes from his travels through industrial England show the development of the impassioned social ... Leer más

    $16.59 USD

  • Diaries

    de George Orwell ...
    A major literary event—the long-awaited publication of George Orwell's diaries, chronicling the events that inspired his greatest works.This groundbreaking volume, never before published in the United States, at last introduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books throughout his career, the eleven surviving ... Leer más

    $15.09 USD

  • George Orwell: A Life in Letters

    de George Orwell ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    Personal as well as political, Orwell's letters offer a fascinating window into the mind of a phenomenal man. We are privy to snatched glimpses of his family life: his son Richard's developing teeth, the death of his wife Eileen, and his own illness. Candid portraits of Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War, his opinions on bayonets, and on the chaining of German prisoners display his magnificent ... Leer más

    $18.79 USD

  • Night Music

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    Selected by Peter Davison with an introduction by Edward Hirsch. Sissman was a true phenomenon in American poetry. He published his first book, a collection of antic, autobiographical episodes in blank verse, in 1968. Eight years and three books later, he died of Hodgkin's disease at the age of forty-eight. Of Sissman's remarkable final poems John Updike wrote, "What other poet had ever given such ... Leer más

    $8.79 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus