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    Holy Sonnets, The

    Incredible sonnets often compared to that of Shakespeares

    Unabridged

    24 min

    John Donne was born on the 22nd January 1572 in London, into a Roman Catholic family when Catholicism was illegal in England, and there was turbulence and unrest with both state and church throughout much of Europe.His father, also named John, died when he was four, and his mother, Elizabeth Haywood, married a wealthy widower, ensuring the family were looked after. He received a good education at ... Read more

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    Forgotten Authors, The - English Women

    Don't let great literature die

    Unabridged

    22 hours 55 min

    Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Frozen Earth & Other Poems, The

    Poems from the author of South Riding

    Unabridged

    19 min

    Winifred Holtby was born on 23rd June 1898 to a prosperous farming family in the village of Rudston in Yorkshire.A governess provided her early education before she went to Queen Margaret's School in Scarborough. After passing the entrance exam for Somerville College, Oxford in 1917, she decided to join the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in early 1918. However, soon after her arrival in France, the ... Read more

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  • The Anatomy of the World

    by John Donne ...
    The Anatomy of the World by John Donne is a profound and contemplative poetic work that reflects on the fragility of existence, the disorder of the age, and the spiritual dislocation of humanity. Written in the early seventeenth century, this elegiac poem responds to the death of Elizabeth Drury, but expands far beyond personal mourning to consider the moral and metaphysical condition of the ... Read more

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  • The Crowded Street

    Enriched edition. Navigating Class, Gender, and Identity in Early 20th Century England

    In "The Crowded Street," Winifred Holtby masterfully explores the intertwined lives of women in early 20th-century England, deftly capturing the constraints imposed by societal expectations and the quest for personal fulfillment. Characterized by its keen observational style and psychological depth, the narrative is enriched by Holtby's nuanced portrayal of her protagonists, who grapple with their ... Read more

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  • South Riding

    Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Winifred Holtby's great novel SOUTH RIDING was published posthumously. She died only a few months after finishing it and never saw it in print. It has since been reprinted a dozen times and remains in print to this day. ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

  • John Donne: Collected Poetry

    by John Donne ...
    Regarded by many as the greatest of the Metaphysical poets, John Donne (1572-1631) was also among the most intriguing figures of the Elizabethan age. A sensualist who composed erotic and playful love poetry in his youth, he was raised a Catholic but later became one of the most admired Protestant preachers of his time. The Collected Poetry reflects this wide diversity, and includes his youthful ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • South Riding - An English Landscape

    “South Riding” is a 1936 novel by Winifred Holtby, published posthumously. Set in fictional South Riding in Yorkshire, England, it revolves around the lives of young headmistress Sarah Burton, unhappy husband Robert Carne of Maythorpe Hall, socialist Joe Astell, and Alderman Mrs Beddows. Winifred Holtby (1898 – 1935) was an English novelist and journalist, best known for her novel South Riding. ... Read more

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  • Selected Prose

    by John Donne ...
    This selection of John Donne's most powerful prose shows that the man remembered predominantly for his poetry was also a preacher, and a prose writer of extraordinary power. In it, he explores the metaphysical collision between poetry and religion, suicide and duty, the secular and the spiritual that characterized his times.Edited with an introduction and notes by Neil Rhodes. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Complete English Poems

    by John Donne ...
    No poet has been more wilfully contradictory than John Donne, whose works forge unforgettable connections between extremes of passion and mental energy. From satire to tender elegy, from sacred devotion to lust, he conveys an astonishing range of emotions and poetic moods. Constant in his work, however, is an intensity of feeling and expression and complexity of argument that is as evident in ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Donne: Everyman's Poetry

    by John Donne ...
    The best of John Donne's poemsJohn Donne (1572-1631) was born into a Catholic family and studied law before sailing with Essex to attack Cadiz in 1596. He was appointed secretary to Sir Thomas Egerton, the Lord Keeper (later Lord Chancellor), in 1598, but forfeited his worldly prospects when he secretly married Ann More, Lady Egerton's niece, in 1601; he was dismissed by Egerton and briefly ... Read more

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  • Selected Poems: Donne

    by John Donne ...
    A selection of the finest works of John Donne, regarded by many as the greatest of the Metaphysical poets, and among the most intriguing figures of the RenaissanceJohn Donne was a complex and contradictory figure: a sensualist who composed erotic and playful love poetry in his youth, raised as a Catholic but later becoming one of the most admired Protestant preachers of his time. The Selected ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD