The Loud Hill of Wales
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DYLAN THOMAS
= The Loud Hill of Wales =
Poetry of Place
- Selected and introduced by -
* Walford Davies *
Director of Extra-Mural Studies,
University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Publisher London EVERYMAN's Library
Dylan Thomas's crucial relationship to Wales, his intense 'sense of place', is manifested in his open admission that only in Wales was he able to write.
That relationship is fleshed out and illustrated in this new anthology.
Walford Davies has made a special selection from the full range of poems, with the backing of some prose, illustrating the attractiveness and complexity of that relationship. From the obscure teenager in the Swansea of the 1930s to the celebrated poets in Laugharne in the early 1950s, at the end of his still young life, the poet evoked by the anthology is one with a firm love for what he called 'loud hill of Wales' and the surest instinct for what we can call the 'poetry of place'.
Cover illustration: landscape near Dolgelly By Brian Horton, courtesy of David Messum Fine Paintings, London.
ISBN 0-460-87076-9
Issues: scraped barcode & have small creases near the corners of the cover. See pictures for details.
British Poetry and Prose 1870-1905
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The Oxford Authors
General Editor: Frank Kermode
- British Poetry and Prose 1870-1905 -
Edited by Ian Fletcher
This anthology of works written between 1870 and 1905 bridges the Victorian and Modernist periods. It is confined to imaginative literature, to poetry and short fiction, which together provide an image of an uneasy and pluralistic world, one which exerted peculiar pressures on the writer.
Naturalism, symbolism, and decadence were influential at this time, and in the selection included here we can distinguish the ideas and impulses that lay behind imperialism, socialism, and the early advance of the feminist movement. Rural culture is in decline, Romanticism has faded, and dogmatic religion is being replaced by attempts at elaborating a personal order.
Examples are also given of the literary innovations of the age, such as stream-of-consciousness narrative, experimentation in free verse, and the impressionist short story. Hopkins, Pater, Swinburne, Moore, Kipling, and Wells are among the authors included.
- The Oxford Authors -
is a new series of authoritative editions of the major English writers for the student and general reader.
Drawing on the best texts available, each volume contains a generous selection from the writings—poetry and prose, including letters—to give the essence of a writer's work and thinking. Where appropriate, texts have been tactfully modernized and all are complemented by essential Notes, an introduction, Chronology, and suggestions for Further Reading.
FRANK KERMODE, retired King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Campbridge, is at present dividing his time between Campbridge, London, and New York, where he teaches at Columbia University. He is the author of many books, including Romantic Image, The Sense of an Ending, The Classic, and The Genesis of Secrecy; he is also co-editor with John Hollander of The Oxford Anthology of English Literature.
Oxford Paperbacks
Oxford University Press
Oxford Newyork, 1987
ISBN 0-19-281375-7
issues: top edge of front cover has a crease.
The Steel Wave
New York Times Bestseller
JEFF SHAARA
Author of The Rising Tide
A Novel of World War II
= The Steel Wave =
"Magnificent...Intense, compelling, and thoroughly researched, this is much more than just an excellent historical novel." —Library Journal
"The indelible panorama [Jeff] Shaara paints draws us into the horror and heroism of war." —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
General Dwight Eisenhower commands a diverse army that must destroy Hitler's European fortress. On the coast of France, German commander Erwin Rommel prepares for the coming invasion, as the Führer thwarts the strategies Rommel knows will succeed. Meanwhile, Sergeant Jesse Adams, a veteran of the 82nd Airborne, parachutes with his men behind German lines. And as the invasion force surges toward the beaches of Normandy, Private Tom Thorne of the 29th Infantry Division faces the horrifying prospect of fighting his way ashore on Omaha Beach, a stretch of coast more heavily defended than the Allied commanders anticipate. From G.I. to general, The Steel Wave carries us through the war's most crucial juncture, the invason that altered the flow of the war and, ultimately, changed history.
"Pounding with fierce action and human drama, and packed with accurately rendered history, The Steel Wave is an eye-opening reminder of the bitterly high price that combat soldiers have been called upon to pay." —St. Petersburg Times
"In this great, often moving novel of conflict, Shaara channels the roiling experiences of men in the midst of a tumultuous enterprise whose outcome was by no means certain." —St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Stirring...Shaara [is the] master of the war novel." —Chicago Tribune
Cover painting © Jim Griffin
A 2009 Ballantine Books Trade Paperback Edition
Book design by Mary A. Wirth
ISBN 978-0-345-46140-7
In good condition
Searching for Schindler
"Had I read Searching for Schindler before making the film, I may have made it an hour longer. I owe you so much. The world owes you more."
Steven Spielberg
= Searching for Schindler =
Thomas Keneally
A Memoir
The extraordinary tale of Oskar Schindler, the Aryan who saved hundreds of Jews from the Nazis, is now legendary – but it could have been otherwise. As Tom Keneally reveals in this absorbing memoir, luck and the persistence of Poldek, one of "Schindler's Jews", were vital in the process that led to his Booker Prize-winning novel, Schindler's Ark, and the film Schindler's List.
Entertaining, inspiring and filled with anecdotes about the many people involved, from the survivors Keneally met to Steven Spielberg, Searching for Schindler traces the creation of a modern classic as it sheds renewed light on an intriguingly flawed, heroic man.
"Such a fascinating story, surrounded by so many enigmas that it is well worth another visit"
Ed King, Sunday Times
"It is Poldek who is the star of this memoir... He is a genial luftmensch, a benign fixer, and an altogether suitable figure to introduce Oskar Schindler."
Elaine Feinstein, The Times
"A fascinating, absorbing book, replete with anecdote and a quality of writing that continues to mark Keneally out as one of our finest living authors"
Barclay McBain, Herald
"It has charm, narrative torque and heart-rending testimony"
Carlo Gebler, Irish Times
ISBN 978-0340-96326-5
Cover photography courtesy of Steven Spielberg
An imprint of Hodder & Stoughton
issue: There's a number written on top left corner of the last page.
The Playmaker
A Novel by the Author of Schindler's Ark
Thomas Keneally
= The Playmaker =
~ from back cover ~
The
Recruiting
Officer
A
Comedy
by
Mr. George Farquhar
As it was first acted at the
Theatre Royal in Drury Lane,
April 8th, 1706
Performed now to honour
the King's Birthday,
Thursday June 4th 1789
by the Convicts of the Penal
Settlement, Sydney Cove.
~ front & back flap ~
A group of young convicts in a remote penal station stage the first play ever to be performed in that part of the universe. Is this science fiction? No. On the contrary, for his enthralling new novel, Booker prizewinner Thomas Keneally returns to his native Australia 200 years ago.
Lieutenant Ralph Clark's production of The Recruiting Officer started life under handicaps less often encountered in professional theatrical circles. With only two copies of the play, and a cast of convicted criminals, many of whom were illiterate, Clark had also to rehearse in the open air or at best in a tattered marquee.
Never before, he believed, had a play been performed at so southerly a latitude, and he could speak with absolute certainty that this was the first theatrical venture in the penal colony of New South Wales. Clark, an officer in the Royal Marines, had a year before accompanied the convicts transported to his new land from England following the reports of Captain Cook.
Clark has been a troubled man. With his wife remaining at home in Devon, he suffers nightmares of doubt about their relationship and argues passionately with the only man of the cloth in the party about the desirability of second 'marriages' under the southern cross.
Thomas Keneally's magical new novel celebrates the bi-centenary of the first fleet that set out from England in 1787, through the thoughts and deeds of the convicts and their captors forced to make a way of life in uncharted and often frightening territory. The production of The Recruiting Officer is an historical fact, so too are Keneally's characters – villains many of them may have been in England, but the unknown continent breeds new alliances and attitudes, not least for Ralph Clark and a pretty young convict, Mary Brenham.
Keneally, adept at writing novels with a strong factual background as he showed with his Booker prizewinner, Schindler's Ark, brings this unusual community to life with as many twists and turns of fate and fortune off the stage of The Recruiting Officer as on.
Thomas Keneally began writing in 1964. His novels include `The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith`, `Confederates` and `Gossip from the Forest` (each shortlisted for the Booker Prize) as well as `Schindler's Ark` (which won the 1982 Booker and has sold more copies than any other Booker prizewinner before or since). His most recent novel, `A Family Madness`, was acclaimed on publication in 1985 ('Mr. Keneally seems to me to have pulled off a major Australian work of art... a memorable reading experience,' wrote Auberon Waugh in the Daily Mail). He is also the author of `Outback`, an account of life in Central Australian (1983). Born in northern New South Wales in 1935, he now lives in Sydney with his wife and two daughters.
Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 0-340-34154-8
(in good condition)
The Daughters of Mars
Thomas Keneally
Booker Prize-Winning Author of Schindler's Ark
= The Daughters of Mars =
"No Australian author has written more eloquently or extensively of war than Tom Keneally...Now, at last and triumphantly, there is a full-scale Keneally novel of the Great War...
[It] has a tragic and humane span that few recent novels have attempted, let alone equalled."
Canberra Times
"A new prism through which to think about World War I...Keneally draws you in and pins you as the Durance sisters and their fellow nurses face the full gamut of war, from Gallipoli up to the Western Front."
The Australian
"Keneally's fascination with the roles of ordinary people like these young women play in momentous events gives The Daughter Of Mars its terrific energy and freshness."
Adelaide Advertiser
ISBN 978-0-340-95187-3
Hodder and Stroughton Ltd
2012
issue: water damage.
8th Confession
From the world's bestselling thriller writer
A brutal killer is stalking the rich and famous
= 8th Confession =
James Patterson
with Maxine Paetro
The `Sunday Times` No. 1 Bestseller
~ from back cover ~
APPEARANCES CAN BE DECEIVING,
BUT THE TRUTH CAN BE DEADLY...
LET THE CONFESSIONS BEGIN.
When a rock star, a fashion designer, a software tycoon and a millionaire heiress are all murdered in mysterious circumstances, Detective Lindsay Boxer is quickly assigned to the high-profile investigation.
Few people are as interested when a local hero, Bagman Jesus, is found brutally executed. Reporter Cindy Thomas, however, becomes fascinated by his story. He was loved by so many – who would want to kill him? Could the down-and-out Samaritan have been hiding a dark secret?
Both Lindsay and Cindy need the help of their fellow members of the Women's Murder Club to crack these complicated cases; but the tensions running high, will the friends be strong enough to stick together, or will the strain tear them apart?
Women's Murder Club
PRAISE FOR 7th HEAVEN
"Fast-moving, intricately plotted story in which Boxer steals the show as the tough cop with a good heart."
Mirror
ISBN 978-0-0995-1458-9
Fiction
Postcard Killers
From the world's bestselling thriller writer
JAMES PATTERSON
= POSTCARD KILLERS =
The most terrifying holiday thriller you'll ever read
and LIZA MARKLUND
The Scandinavian No. 1 Bestselling Thriller Writer
~ from back cover ~
James Patterson teams up with number one bestselling author Liza Marklund to create the most terrifying holiday thriller ever written.
NYPD detective Jacob Kanon is on a tour of Europe's most gorgeous cities. But the sights aren't what draw him – he sees each museum, each cathedral, and each café through the eyes of his daughter's killer.
Kanon's daughter, Kimmy, and her fiancé were murdered while on holiday in Rome. Since then, young couples in Madrid, Salzburg, Amsterdam, Berlin, Athens and Paris have been found dead. Little connects the murders, other than a postcard sent to the local newspaper prior to each attack.
Now Kanon teams up with the Swedish reporter, Dessie Larsson, who has just received a postcard in Stockholm – and they think they know where the next victims will be...
* Praise for James Patterson
"Patterson's annual summer thriller is another exceptional treat"
Mirror
"Brilliant. It feels just like you're reading a Bruce Willis film ... a great holiday read"
News of the World
Published in the UK by Arrow Books in 2011
ISBN 978-0-09-955005-1
Fiction
