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Price: £9.99
Pub date: 04/08/05 |
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Forgotten Armies
The Fall of British Asia 1941-1945
Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper
'A spectacular book' Guardian
'Extraordinary … invaluable … gives the viewpoints of the Japanese, Malays, Chinese, Burmans, Indians, Thais, as well as the British' Literary Review
The war that tore Asia apart between 1941 and 1945, as Japan invaded Singapore and swept through British-ruled territories to India, is one of the most tragic and overlooked conflicts of the twentieth century.
This gripping account brings to life the stories of the 'forgotten armies of these terrible times: not just soldiers fighting on jungle battlefields, but armies of prisoners and slave labourers, nurses and doctors, coolies and comfort women, all battling to stay alive. Vividly capturing events from the Bengal famine to the building of the Thailand-Burma 'Death Railway', it tells the story of the birth of modern Southeast Asia as the old hierarchies of colonialism collapsed amid invasion, flight, famine and revolution. |
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Price: £9.99
Pub date: 04/08/05 |
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A World Apart
A Memoir of the Gulag
With an introduction by Anne Applebaum
Translated by Andrzej Ciolkosz
Gustav Herling
'Should be published and read in every country' Albert Camus
In 1940, Gustav Herling fell into Soviet hands while attempting to join the Polish army in France, and was sent to Yercevo camp in northern Russia. Written years before Solzhenitsyn's exposes of Russian prison camps, A World Apart (1951) is Herling's compelling, devastating memoir of two years in a 'house of the dead' - a witness to the horrors inflicted upon millions of people across the gulag system, slowly dying of hard labour and starvation in the Arctic cold.
He vividly depicts the dehumanizing effects of the camp on his fellow inmates, yearning for liberty yet unable to imagine freedom. But he also describes small glimpses of beauty - even if just the sight of a star-filled sky at night - and the strong friendships that offer hope beyond the desperate reality of life in the gulag. |
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Price: £10.99
Pub date: 25/08/05 |
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Satires and Epistles
Horace
Satires
Translated with an introduction and notes by Niall Rudd
Persius
The Satires of Horace (65-8 BC), written in the troubled decade ending with the establishment of Augustus' regime, provide an amusing treatment of men's perennial enslavement to money, power, glory and sex. Epistles I, addressed to the poet's friends, deals with the problem of achieving contentment amid the complexities of urban life, while Epistles II and the Ars Poetica discuss Latin poetry - its history and social functions, and the craft required for its success. Both works have had a powerful influence on later western literature, inspiring poets from Ben Jonson and Alexander Pope to W. H. Auden and Robert Frost. The Satires of Persius (AD 34-62) are highly idiosyncratic, containing a courageous attack on the poetry and morals of his wealthy contemporaries - even the ruling emperor, Nero.
Niall Rudd's extensively revised verse translation conveys the flavour of the original. In his introduction he discusses earlier Roman satire and places the two poets in their literary and historical contexts. This edition also includes notes, updated further reading, and an index. |
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Price: £8.99
Pub date: 25/08/05 |
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Phadrus
Translated with an introduction and notes by Christopher Rowe
Plato
Set in the idyllic countryside outside Athens, the Phaedrus is a dialogue between the philosopher Socrates and his young friend Phaedrus, inspired by their reading of a clumsy speech by the writer Lysias about love. After first considering the virtues of romantic love, their conversation develops into a wide-ranging discussion on such subjects as the pursuit of beauty, the nature of humanity, the immortality of the soul and the attainment of truth, and ends with an in-depth consideration of the principles of rhetoric. Probably a work of Plato's maturity, the Phaedrus represents a high point in his achievement as a writer. It remains a fascinating exploration of love, mortality, destiny and what it means to be human.
New to Penguin, Christopher Rowe's translation of Phaedrus conveys the lucidity and humour of Plato's great work, while his introduction considers the philosophy of the work and places it in context. This edition also includes detailed notes, an appendix and a comprehensive further reading list. |
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Price: £9.99
Pub date: 25/08/05 |
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Collected Poems
Edited with an introduction by Antoinette Quinn
Patrick Kavanagh
'Illuminated with passion and with a sense of the power of natural everyday things' Sunday Telegraph
'Indispensable … a book that should jolt readers back to an awareness of this poet's place in the twentieth-century pantheon' Seamus Heaney
One of the most significant Irish poets of the twentieth century, Patrick Kavanagh came from a humble background to compose passionate poems on everyday rural and urban life in an uninhibited and groundbreaking style. Bringing together his most popular pieces, including the sonnet 'Inniskeen Road: July Evening' and the celebrated epic 'The Great Hunger', alongside lesser-known works such as the naïve 'The Hired Boy' and the optimistic late poem 'Canal Bank Walk', this major edition of his collected poems reveals to the full a unique creative genius. |
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