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Literature
Product Highlights : Literature
Australian Authors (Aussie Tales)
As You Like It
Ernest Hemingway: "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place"
Elizabeth Bishop (Voices And Visions Series)Showing products 1 to 12 of 264
 | "The Raven" and Other Poems If "The Raven" is not the best-known American poem, then "Annabel Lee" is. Both have endured because they successfully illustrate Poe's esthetic theories of poetics; they use natural, comprehensible language whose music weaves a spell that underscores and heightens the language. These two poems and "The Dream within a… | $100.00ex GST
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 | A Critical Guide to the Odyssey It is said that every road movie and novel about a defining journey owes a debt to the Odyssey. This imaginative program uses the poem's division into groupings of books as a framework to allow Dr. Tom Winnifrith, of Warwick University; Dr. Douglas Cairns, of Leeds University; and Ken Dowden,… | $160.00ex GST
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 | A Midsummer's Night Dream Produced by Jonathan Miller. Helen Mirren. Robert Lindsay. Brian Glover. This BBC drama video, A Midsummer's Night Dream is part of a unique collection of some of the finest dramatic masterpieces in the English language, was originally broadcast on BBC television and has been highly acclaimed worldwide. A Midsummer's Night… | $199.00ex GST
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 | A Portrait of Katherine Mansfield Filmed in five countries, this program traces the life of New Zealand's most beloved writer from her birth in Wellington in 1888, to her untimely death in France in 1923. Mansfield's extraordinary ability as a writer was influenced by the many fascinating aspects of her complex and often enigmatic personality.… | $160.00ex GST
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 | A Raisin in the Sun: Character Studies Conversations Hosted by Eli Wallach, this program dissects Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun through the sharp insights of Joe Morton (Walter Lee Younger); Kim Yancey (Beneatha Younger); Phylicia Rashad (Lena Younger); Ruby Dee, Audra McDonald, Starletta DuPois, and Ernestine Jackson (Ruth Younger); Ralph Carter (Travis Younger); John Fiedler (Carl… | $160.00ex GST
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 | A Raisin in the Sun: Character Studies Conversations Hosted by Eli Wallach, this program dissects Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun through the sharp insights of Joe Morton (Walter Lee Younger); Kim Yancey (Beneatha Younger); Phylicia Rashad (Lena Younger); Ruby Dee, Audra McDonald, Starletta DuPois, and Ernestine Jackson (Ruth Younger); Ralph Carter (Travis Younger); John Fiedler (Carl… | $164.00ex GST
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 | A Walk With Words "Romaine Moreton uses poetry to make us rethink our attitudes towards Aboriginal people and culture. But this is not a PC rant ... The last poem 'I Shall Surprise You By My Will' is delivered with a triumphant and menacing punch."- Sydney Morning Herald "If books aren't supposed to make… | $184.00ex GST
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 | Adventure Of English Episode 1 The origins of English are traced to the tribes from the wetlands of northern Holland who in the fifth century invaded Southern England and wiped out the language of the existing Celtic inhabitants. In the north-east, the languages of the Latin church and Viking invaders enriched English, and King Alfred… | $54.00ex GST
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| Adventure Of English Episode 2 For three centuries after the Conquest by a French-speaking king and court, Latin was used for official business. English was the language of the peasants, the third-class tongue in its own country. It took two centuries of bloody war with France, and the death of a third of the population… | $54.00ex GST
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 | Adventure Of English Episode 3 English became the battleground in the fight for men's souls. The medieval church establishment kept the Bible in Latin only whilst those possessing an English translation risked death. Henry VIII brought the English Bible out of hiding and William Tyndale's translation brought dozens of familiar phrases - from "Let there… | $54.00ex GST
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 | Adventure Of English Episode 4 Naval enterprise and foreign trade encouraged by Queen Elizabeth the First brought scores of new words into the language - anchovy from Spain, ketchup form Malay, and knapsack from Dutch are just three familiar exports from this time. Scholars were also bringing new Latin terms into the language, but there… | $54.00ex GST
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 | Adventure Of English Episode 5 Bragg follows the spread of English across the ocean to America, exploring how the language of one empire became the language of another. The colonists claimed to speak English better than the English and the King's English became the People’s English. But as the language went west, it went wild; America… | $54.00ex GST
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