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Anna Adolph, Sterling Hale

In "Arqtiq: A Study of the Marvels at the North Pole," Anna Adolph embarks on an ambitious exploration of the Arctic's multifaceted ecosystems and cultures, blending rigorous scientific inquiry with lyrical prose. The book traverses themes of environmentalism, indigenous knowledge, and the impact of climate change, offering a rich tapestry woven with firsthand accounts and meticulous research. Adolph's stylistic approach combines vivid imagery with a compelling narrative voice, drawing rea...

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Anna ADOLPH

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Elian Joey

"Described by author Liza Daly as a ""strange masterpiece of outsider art,"" Arqtiq is a bizarre, borderline hallucinatory work of feminist utopian fiction. Equal parts sci-fi adventure, philosophical tract, and pro-Symmesian pamphlet, Anna Adolph’s strange, self-published novella centers its narrative around an aviator (also named Anna) who, along with a ragtag group of family and friends, charts an expedition to the North Pole in a retro-futuristic airship of her own invention. There, An...

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Elizabeth Smart

Elizabeth Smart’s passionate fictional account of her intense love-affair with the poet George Barker, described by Angela Carter as ‘Like MADAME BOVARY blasted by lightning … A masterpiece’.One day, while browsing in a London bookshop, Elizabeth Smart chanced upon a slim volume of poetry by George Barker – and fell passionately in love with him through the printed word. Eventually they communicated directly and, as a result of Barker’s impecunious circumstances, Elizabeth Smart fl...

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T. S. Eliot

Four Quartets is the culminating achievement of T.S. Eliot's career as a poet. While containing some of the most musical and unforgettable passages in twentieth-century poetry, its four parts, 'Burnt Norton', 'East Coker', 'The Dry Salvages' and 'Little Gidding', present a rigorous meditation on the spiritual, philosophical and personal themes which preoccupied the author. It was the way in which a private voice was heard to speak for the concerns of an entire generation, in the midst of w...

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Herman Melville

Don Benito faltered; then, like some somnambulist suddenly interfered with, vacantly stared at his visitor, and ended by looking down on the deck. He maintained this posture so long, that Captain Delano, almost equally disconcerted, and involuntarily almost as rude, turned suddenly from him, walking forward to accost one of the Spanish seamen for the desired information. But he had hardly gone five paces, when with a sort of eagerness Don Benito invited him back, regretting his momentary a...

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John Galsworthy

I knew him from the days of my extreme youth, because he made my father's boots; inhabiting with his elder brother two little shops let into one, in a small by-street-now no more, but then most fashionably placed in the West End.

The 20th century was a time of great change, particularly in the arts, but seldom explored were the female poets of that time. Robert Hass and Paul Ebenkamp have put together a comprehensive anthology of poetry featuring the poems of Gertrude Stein, Lola Ridge, Amy Lowell, Elsa Von Freytag–Loringhoven, Adelaide Crapsey, Angelina Weld Grimke, Anne Spencer, Mina Loy, Hazel Hall, Hilda Doolittle, Marianne Moore, Djuna Barnes, and Hildegarde Flanner. With an introduction from Hass and Ebenkamp...

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John Gould Fletcher, D. H. Lawrence, Amy Lowell

This edition features• a linked Table of ContentsCONTENTSRichard AldingtonChildhoodThe PoplarRound-PondDaisyEpigramsThe Faun sees Snow for the First TimeLemuresH. D.The PoolThe GardenSea LilySea IrisSea RoseOreadOrion DeadJohn Gould FletcherThe Blue SymphonyLondon ExcursionF. S. FlintTreesLunchMaladyAcciden...

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Helen Rowland

“A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.”First published in 1922, this classic guide to the foibles of men is inspired, accurate and hilarious! Helen Rowland was an American humorist and journalist who had an unerring knack of getting to the crux of the matter – all too often the faults and peccadilloes of the male of the species – and as she states, the material within “was collected directly from nature at great personal...

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Denise Levertov

"I have savored her poems like salt, like honey." —Sam Hamill, The American Poetry ReviewAs Denise Levertov comments in her brief foreword to The Life Around Us, she has “shared with most poets in every time and place an ardent love of what my eyes and other senses revealed to me in the world we call nature. Yet in this selection of sixty-two poems chosen by the author “celebration and fear of loss are necessarily conjoined.” The Life Around U...

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Logan Pearsall Smith

In "More Trivia," Logan Pearsall Smith presents a captivating compilation of delightful and eclectic observations that delve into the nuances of everyday life and human experience. Written in an engaging and witty prose style, the book features a series of essays and reflections that display Pearsall Smith's mastery of the art of trifling yet profound inquiry. Each piece blends humor and keen insight, illuminating the seemingly mundane with rich detail and intellectual depth, making the re...

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Shigemi Shiukichi

The earliest recollection I have of my school life is my entrance with a number of playmates into a private gentleman's school. At that time the common school system which now exists in Japan had not been adopted; some gentlemen of the town kept private schools, in which exercises consisted mainly of penmanship; for arithmetic we had to go somewhere else. In Imabari there lived a keen-eyed little man who was wonderfully quick at figures, and to him we repaired for instruction in mathematic...