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Price: £8.99
Pub date: 02/03/06 |
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Easter 1916
The Irish Rebellion
Charles Townshend
'A masterly tour de force … delivers an emotional punch'
Roy Foster, The Times Literary Supplementy
Ireland's Easter Rising of 1916 transformed millions of lives and created its own powerful mythology. Charles Townshend's remarkable book vividly re-creates this extraordinary time when, as Irish insurgents rose up and occupied Dublin, as British artillery retaliated ferociously, as the last haggard rebels surrendered and their leaders were shot, Ireland was launched into a new world.
Scraping away layer upon layer of myth, Easter 1916 brings to life the group of remarkable men and women - from eloquent intellectual Patrick Pearse to revolutionary socialist James Connolly - whose actions changed their nation forever. |
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Price: £9.99
Pub date: 30/03/06 |
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Selected Poems
William Blake
Edited with a preface and notes by G. E. Bentley, Jr
This new collection includes complete texts from many of Blake's major works, alongside extensive passages from poems including Vala or The Four Zoas. In his introduction, G. E. Bentley discusses Blake's life and influence. This edition also includes a chronology, further reading and notes. |
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Price: £9.99
Pub date: 30/03/06 |
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Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories
Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Translated by Jay Rubin
With an introduction by Haruki Murakami
Akutagawa (1892-1927) was one of Japan's foremost stylists - a modernist master whose stories are marked by original imagery, cynicism, beauty and wild humour. 'Rashömon' and 'In a Bamboo Grove' inspired Kurosawa's magnificent film and depict a past in which morality is inverted, while tales such as 'The Nose' and 'Loyalty' paint a richly imaginative picture of a medieval Japan peopled by Shoguns and priests, vagrants and peasants. In later works such as 'Death Register', 'The Life of a Stupid Man' and 'Spinning Gears', Akutagawa drew from his own life to devastating effect, revealing his intense melancholy and terror of madness in exquisitely moving impressionistic stories.
Including famous masterpieces and little-known works, some translated into English for the first time, this volume reveals Akutagawa in a new light. In his illuminating introduction, Haruki Murakami explores Akutagawa's place in Japanese culture and influence on his own writing, while Jay Rubin's translations capture the spirit and clarity of the originals. |
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Price: £10.99
Pub date: 30/03/06 |
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The Divine Comedy 1: Inferno
Dante Alighieri
Translated and edited with an introduction, commentary and notes by Robin Kirkpatrick
Dante's Inferno describes his descent into Hell midway through his life with the Roman Virgil as his guide, and is one unparalleled in its depiction of the tragedy of sin. It is a work inspired by a profound confidence in human nature, yet also expresses Dante's horror at the way individuals can destroy themselves and each other, creating Hell on Earth. A response to the violent society of thirteenth-century Italy, the Inferno reveals the eternal punishment reserved for sins such as greed, self-deception, political double-dealing and treachery. Portraying a huge diversity of characters culminating in a horrific vision of Satan, it broke new ground in the vigour of its language and its storytelling. It has had a particular influence on Modernist writers and their successors throughout the world.
The first of three volumes of Robin Kirkpatrick's new translation of the Commedia, this edition of the Inferno pays exceptional attention to the originality and force of Dante's narrative. Printed in English with facing pages in Dante's Italian, it also offers an introduction, along with commentaries and notes on each canto. |
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