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  • Livre audio

    Holy Sonnets, The

    Incredible sonnets often compared to that of Shakespeares

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    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 ... En savoir plus

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    Frozen Earth & Other Poems, The

    Poems from the author of South Riding

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    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 ... En savoir plus

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    Forgotten Authors, The - English Women

    Don't let great literature die

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    22 heure 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. ... En savoir plus

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  • Selected Poems: Donne

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

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  • The Shadow on the Blind

    par Louisa Baldwin ...
    Collection series Black Heath Gothic, Sensation and Supernatural
    Best known as the mother of British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, Louisa Baldwin also wrote several volumes of fiction including, in 1895, this classic collection of spine chillers. Within its pages is a Victorian twilight world of curses and the second sight, of haunted houses and scary spectres - perfect reading for the small hours when the fire burns low... ... En savoir plus

    1,14 €

  • South Riding

    par Winifred Holtby ...
    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. ... En savoir plus

    2,05 €

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    Many Waters Cannot Quench Love

    From their pens to your ears, genius in every story

    par Louisa Baldwin ...
    Lu par Richard Mitchley ...

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    19 min

    Louisa MacDonald was born in 1845, one of eleven children of part Scottish descent. Together with three of her sisters they were known as the ‘MacDonald sisters’ primarily because of their marriages to well-known men.In 1866 she married the wealthy industrialist Alfred Baldwin in a double wedding with her sister Anne.After giving birth to Stanley on the 3rd August 1867, who would go on to become ... En savoir plus

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  • South Riding

    par Winifred Holtby ...
    Collection Livre 28 - Virago Modern Classics
    'One of my favourite novels: a life-enhancing, twentieth-century masterpiece' CHARLOTTE MENDELSON'Rich in humour and worldly insight' INDEPENDENT'A novel that works beautifully on all sorts of levels, capturing the life of a whole community even as it offers us the passions, frustrations and tragedies of individual lives. . . I can't say enough good things about this book' SARAH WATERS***<b... ... En savoir plus

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  • The Complete John Donne

    The Complete Poems, Prose and Letters.

    par John Donne ...
    The Complete Works of John Donne! The Complete Poems, Prose and Letters.The Ultimate Collection of John Donne! - In One Beautifully Formatted Volume!John Donne was one of England's greatest writers of Poetry and Prose, and the pre-eminent representative of the metaphysical poets. His works have grown in prominence throughout the 20th Century and are now held in very high esteem.His poetry is noted ... En savoir plus

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  • The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne

    par John Donne ...
    This Modern Library edition contains all of John Donne's great metaphysical love poetry. Here are such well-known songs and sonnets as "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," "The Extasie," and "A Nocturnall Upon S. Lucies Day," along with the love elegies "Jealosie," "His Parting From Her," and "To His Mistris Going to Bed." Presented as well are Donne's satires, epigrams, verse letters, and holy ... En savoir plus

    7,20 €

  • South Riding

    par Winifred Holtby ...
    The community of South Riding, like the rest of the country, lives in the long shadow of war. Blighted by recession and devastated by the loss, they must also come to terms with significant social change.Forward-thinking and ambitious, Sarah Burton is the embodiment of such change. After the death of her fianc�, she returns home to Yorkshire focused on her career as headmistress of the local ... En savoir plus

    12,99 €

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    Louisa Baldwin - A Short Story Collection

    Stories written by the mother of prime minister Stanley Baldwin

    par Louisa Baldwin ...
    Lu par Richard Mitchley ...

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    3 heure 19 min

    Louisa MacDonald was born in 1845, one of eleven children of part Scottish descent. Together with three of her sisters they were known as the ‘MacDonald sisters’ primarily because of their marriages to well-known men.In 1866 she married the wealthy industrialist Alfred Baldwin in a double wedding with her sister Anne.After giving birth to Stanley on the 3rd August 1867, who would go on to become ... En savoir plus

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