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Unbreakable Bonds: Poems and a Play for Voices - In Remembrance of WW1 (Hardcover, New edition): John S Langley Unbreakable Bonds: Poems and a Play for Voices - In Remembrance of WW1 (Hardcover, New edition)
John S Langley
R436 Discovery Miles 4 360 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Shadows on Hadrian's Wall: A Journey in Free Verse (Hardcover, New edition): John S Langley Shadows on Hadrian's Wall: A Journey in Free Verse (Hardcover, New edition)
John S Langley
R669 Discovery Miles 6 690 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Norton Anthology of American Literature (Paperback, Tenth Volume): Robert S. Levine The Norton Anthology of American Literature (Paperback, Tenth Volume)
Robert S. Levine; Edited by Lisa Siraganian
R988 Discovery Miles 9 880 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Tenth Edition introduces diverse, compelling, relevant texts-from Civil War songs and stories to The Turn of the Screw to The Great Gatsby to poems by Juan Felipe Herrera and Claudia Rankine to a science fiction cluster featuring Octavia Butler and N. K. Jemisin. And continuing its course of innovative and market-responsive changes, the anthology now offers resources to help instructors meet today's teaching challenges. Chief among these resources is InQuizitive, Norton's award-winning learning tool, which includes interactive questions on the period introductions and often-taught works in the anthology. In addition, the Tenth Edition maintains the anthology's exceptional editorial apparatus and generous and diverse slate of texts overall. Available in print and as an annotatable ebook, the anthology is ideal for online, hybrid or in-person teaching.

Kitaar My Kruis (Afrikaans, Paperback): Adam Small Kitaar My Kruis (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Adam Small
R186 Discovery Miles 1 860 Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Kitaar my kruis is vir die eerste keer in 1962 deur H.A.U.M. gepubliseer, en die tweede uitgawe het sewe herdrukke beleef.

Small se identifikasie met sy karakters vind neerslag in sy gebruik van Kaaps – volgens hom ’n volwaardige taal waarin mense hul eerste skreeu en hul laaste doodsroggel gee. Wat in heelparty gedigte opval, is die gebruik van refreine en herhaling, wat as ’t ware die gemeenskap se vrese waarskuwings en aanklagte van die tyd eggo (Van Wyk, 2006). Verder is daar ’n sterk Ou Testamentiese inslag, maar ook talle verwysings na die geboorte en wederkoms van Christus.

Volgens Steward van Wyk word dié gegewe op die lotgevalle van onderdruktes van toepassing gemaak, oa die geskiedenis van Moses en die Israelitiese volk onder Egiptiese slawerny: Soos Moses met sy staf, moet die digter met sy kitaar sy mense lei, maar omdat die taak so moeilik is, word die kitaar ironies ook sy kruis.

Different Coins in the Fountain - Volume 1 (Hardcover): Carlos V Cornejo Different Coins in the Fountain - Volume 1 (Hardcover)
Carlos V Cornejo
R697 Discovery Miles 6 970 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Met die Oog Op More - 'n Versdrama (Afrikaans, Paperback): Antjie Krog Met die Oog Op More - 'n Versdrama (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Antjie Krog
R191 Discovery Miles 1 910 Ships in 4 - 8 working days
Republic (Paperback): Plato Republic (Paperback)
Plato
R95 R76 Discovery Miles 760 Save R19 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Plato's Republic has influenced Western philosophers for centuries, with its main focus on what makes a well-balanced society and individual.

I Wish I'd Said: Volume 2 - A Product Of The AVBOB Poetry Project (Paperback): Johann de Lange, Mandla Maphumulo I Wish I'd Said: Volume 2 - A Product Of The AVBOB Poetry Project (Paperback)
Johann de Lange, Mandla Maphumulo
R10 R8 Discovery Miles 80 Save R2 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Now in its third year, the AVBOB Poetry Project has garnered several industry prizes.

I Wish I'd Said: Volume 2 includes 101 poems with English translations: 55 specially commissioned poems and 44 poems drawn from the 2018 competition. And, following the blueprint of the first volume, we pay homage to the Khoisan languages, by including two poems by the |Xam poet Dia!kwain. South African poets old and new were asked to submit poems on loss, grieving, love and consolation in their mother tongues.

This new collection – and the online poetry portal – forms a space where the voiceless may be heard, and where we find common ground. Loss is a universal language and poetry its voice.

Patient - Play (Paperback): Agatha Christie Patient - Play (Paperback)
Agatha Christie
R320 Discovery Miles 3 200 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Patient, known as Mrs. Wingfield, has been horribly injured in a fall from her balcony. Unable to communicate, it could have been an accident, attempted suicide or worse still a coldblooded killer bent on murder. While relatives gather around her hospital bed the tension builds as an ingenious device helps Mrs. Wingfield convey a message that could solve the mystery.

Love in a Suburb (Paperback): Philip Johnson Love in a Suburb (Paperback)
Philip Johnson
R322 Discovery Miles 3 220 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The genteel thin-lipped Mrs Dobson is irked by her paying-guest, Miss Queenie Tremayne, a vulgar good-natured actress who is fully a match for her, and whose money she needs. She pins her hopes on the marriage of her daughter Sadie to Tony Mortimore, a millionaire's adopted nephew and heir. 5 women, 2 men

The Sunshine Girl - A Mother's Love Story to Her Daughter (Hardcover): Debra Harder The Sunshine Girl - A Mother's Love Story to Her Daughter (Hardcover)
Debra Harder
R859 R708 Discovery Miles 7 080 Save R151 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Brecht On Art & Politics (Hardcover): Bertolt Brecht Brecht On Art & Politics (Hardcover)
Bertolt Brecht; Edited by Steve Giles, Tom Kuhn; Translated by Laura Bradley, Steve Giles, …
R1,748 Discovery Miles 17 480 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The first single-volume anthology of Brecht's writings on both art and politics This volume contains new translations to extend our image of one of the twentieth century's most entertaining and thought provoking writers on culture, aesthetics and politics. Here are a cross-section of Brecht's wide-ranging thoughts which offer us an extraordinary window onto the concerns of a modern world in four decades of economic and political disorder. The book is designed to give wider access to the experience of a dynamic intellect, radically engaged with social, political and cultural processes. Each section begins with a short essay by the editors introducing and summarising Brecht's thought in the relevant year.

Is God Is (Paperback): Aleshea Harris Is God Is (Paperback)
Aleshea Harris
R355 Discovery Miles 3 550 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Is God Is is a modern myth about twin sisters who sojourn from the Dirty South to the California desert to exact righteous revenge. Winner of the 2016 Relentless Award, Aleshea Harris collides the ancient, the modern, the tragic, the Spaghetti Western, and Afropunk in this darkly funny and unapologetic world premiere.

The Complete Euripides Volume V - Medea and Other Plays (Hardcover, Critical): Euripides The Complete Euripides Volume V - Medea and Other Plays (Hardcover, Critical)
Euripides; Edited by Peter Burian, Alan Shapiro
R1,926 Discovery Miles 19 260 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals.
This volume collects Euipides' Alcestis (translated by William Arrowsmith), a subtle drama about Alcestis and her husband Admetos, which is the oldest surviving work by the dramatist; Medea (Michael Collier and Georgia Machemer), a moving vengeance story and an excellent example of the prominence and complexity that Euripides gave to female characters; Helen (Peter Burian), a genre breaking play based on the myth of Helen in Egypt; and Cyclops (Heather McHugh and David Konstan), a highly lyrical drama based on a celebrated episode from the Odyssey. This volume retains the informative introductions and explanatory notes of the original editions and adds a single combined glossary and Greek line numbers.

The Fall Of Arthur (Hardcover): J. R. R. Tolkien The Fall Of Arthur (Hardcover)
J. R. R. Tolkien; Edited by Christopher Tolkien 1
R543 Discovery Miles 5 430 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The world first publication of a previously unknown work by J.R.R. Tolkien, which tells the extraordinary story of the final days of England's legendary hero, King Arthur.

The Fall Of Arthur, the only venture by J.R.R. Tolkien into the legends of Arthur King of Britain, may well be regarded as his finest and most skilful achievement in the use of the Old English alliterative metre, in which he brought to his transforming perceptions of the old narratives a pervasive sense of the grave and fateful nature of all that is told: of Arthur s expedition overseas into distant heathen lands, of Guinevere's flight from Camelot, of the great sea-battle on Arthur's return to Britain, in the portrait of the traitor Mordred, in the tormented doubts of Lancelot in his French castle.

Unhappily, The Fall Of Arthur was one of several long narrative poems that he abandoned in that period. In this case he evidently began it in the earlier nineteen-thirties, and it was sufficiently advanced for him to send it to a very perceptive friend who read it with great enthusiasm at the end of 1934 and urgently pressed him "You simply must finish it"!

But in vain: he abandoned it, at some date unknown, though there is some evidence that it may have been in 1937, the year of the publication of The Hobbit and the first stirrings of The Lord Of The Rings.

Years later, in a letter of 1955, he said that he hoped to finish a long poem on The Fall Of Arthur; but that day never came. Associated with the text of the poem, however, are many manuscript pages: a great quantity of drafting and experimentation in verse, in which the strange evolution of the poem's structure is revealed, together with narrative synopses and very significant if tantalising notes. In these latter can be discerned clear if mysterious associations of the Arthurian conclusion with The Silmarillion, and the bitter ending of the love of Lancelot and Guinevere, which was never written.

Medicine in Brief - Name the Disease in Haiku, Tanka and Art (Paperback): Cynthia Cooper Medicine in Brief - Name the Disease in Haiku, Tanka and Art (Paperback)
Cynthia Cooper; Illustrated by Pamela Chen
R593 R513 Discovery Miles 5 130 Save R80 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Churchill Plays: 2 - Softcops; Top Girls; Fen; Serious Money (Hardcover, POD): Caryl Churchill Churchill Plays: 2 - Softcops; Top Girls; Fen; Serious Money (Hardcover, POD)
Caryl Churchill
R1,907 Discovery Miles 19 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Softcops renders the philosophy of Foucault as a music-hall turn and Victorian freakshow "theatre and history combine to give such intelligent fun" (TLS); Top Girls brings five great and less-than-great women from history together for a dinner party and "has a combination of directness and complexity which keeps you both emotionally and intellectually alert" (Sunday Times); Fen scrutinises the lives of the low-paid women potato pickers of the fens (in Eastern England) and "the playwright pins down her poetic subject matter in dialogue of impressive vigour and economy" (Financial Times) while Serious Money is a satirical study of the effects of the Big Bang - "Pure genius...the first play about the city to capture the authentic atmosphere of the place." (Daily Telegraph)

Kameleon (Afrikaans, Paperback): Charlotte Van den Broeck Kameleon (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Charlotte Van den Broeck; Translated by Daniel Hugo
R186 Discovery Miles 1 860 Ships in 4 - 8 working days
Inevitable Moor Wombman (Paperback): J D Dionne Inevitable Moor Wombman (Paperback)
J D Dionne
R446 R378 Discovery Miles 3 780 Save R68 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Book of Small (Hardcover): Emily Carr The Book of Small (Hardcover)
Emily Carr
R611 Discovery Miles 6 110 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Book of Small is a collection of thirty-six short stories about a childhood in a town that still had vestiges of its pioneer past. Emily Carr tells stories about her family, neighbours, friends and strangers-who run the gamut from genteel people in high society to disreputable frequenters of saloons-as well as an array of beloved pets. All are observed through the sharp eyes and ears of a young and ever-curious girl. Carr's writing is a disarming combination of charm and devastating frankness.

Selected Letters of Stephen Leacock (Hardcover, New): David Staines Selected Letters of Stephen Leacock (Hardcover, New)
David Staines
R1,130 Discovery Miles 11 300 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Widely recognized as Canada's finest literary humorist, Stephen Leacock was a prolific author, publishing over sixty books during his lifetime, in addition to countless articles and pamphlets. He was also a devoted correspondent, writing hundreds of letters to friends, relatives, and business associates. Illustrated with several original photographs, The Letters of Stephen Leacock brings together over 800 letters, most of them never before published. Together they give a vivid picture of one of the twentieth century's most distinguished men of letters, a man who was honest, compassionate, and committed to his craft. From the brief, unpolished lines he wrote as a boy to his father, to the final letters he wrote before his death, Leacock's correspondence reveals much about the man behind the humour: the devoted son, husband, and father; the distinguished McGill professor; the proud Canadian; the generous uncle; the social critic; and the private citizen consumed and deeply troubled by the two world wars. Fans of Leacock's many books of humour will find glimpses of his trademark wit in letters on subjects ranging from the Scottish penchant for whiskey to the beauty of the west. More than a humorist, Leacock was an intellectual and an educator who wrote serious works on many topics, including political economy, education, and social reform, and many of his strong views on these subjects are laid out plainly in letters to associates and friends. He was also an astute businessman, and was, as letters to numerous publishers show, a writer by profession. As Leacock himself wrote of his letters to a friend and associate, 'We wrote in the plain straighforward way only possible in such an interchange of letters, about what we thought of this new world that seemed to overwhelm us in our old age.' These are the letters of a gentleman, written with charm, grace, and humour, occassionally blunt and assertive in dealings with publishers, but - in keeping with his humour - never mean-spirited or designed to injure. Together, they represent a fascinating collection that will captivate anyone who enjoys Canadian fiction or history. David Staines has spent 15 years bringing together Leacock's letters, many of them from private collections in Britain, the United States, and Canada. His ten chapter introductions place these carefully selected and annotated letters in the context of Leacock's life and work.

Chekhov Plays - The Seagull; Uncle Vanya; Three Sisters; The Cherry Orchard (Hardcover, POD): Anton Chekhov Chekhov Plays - The Seagull; Uncle Vanya; Three Sisters; The Cherry Orchard (Hardcover, POD)
Anton Chekhov; Translated by Michael Frayn
R2,247 Discovery Miles 22 470 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume includes The Seagull, a about the battle for power between a mother and her son which ends in tragedy; Uncle Vanya tells of two obsessive love affairs that lead nowhere, and a flirtation that brings disaster; Three Sisters in which three siblings wrestle with their futures and The Cherry Orchard where the old must inevitably give way to the new. Haunting and elusive, these four great late masterpieces have found in Michael Frayn a translator who perfectly captures their delicate balance of the tragic and the absurd. The volume also contains four of Chekhov's early short 'vaudevilles' as well as a substantial introduction by Michael Frayn. "The critical clamour for a Complete Chekhov in Michael Frayn's translation has borne fruit" (Sunday Times)

Vuvuzela Verses (Paperback): Imagnary Seele Vuvuzela Verses (Paperback)
Imagnary Seele
R155 R124 Discovery Miles 1 240 Save R31 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days
Posterior Analytics (Hardcover, 2Rev ed): Aristotle Posterior Analytics (Hardcover, 2Rev ed)
Aristotle; Edited by Jonathan Barnes; Translated by Jonathan Barnes
R5,091 Discovery Miles 50 910 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The "Posterior Analytics" contains some of Aristotle's most influential thoughts in logic, epistemology, metaphysics and the philosophy of science. The first book expounds and develops the notions of a demonstrative argument, and of a formal, axiomatized science. The second discusses a cluster of problems raised by the axioms of principles of such a science, and investigates in particular the theory of definition.;This volume, like the others in the "Clarendon Aristotle" series, is intended to serve the needs of readers of Aristotle without a knowledge of Greek. For this second edition the translation has been completely rewritten, with the aims of greater elegance and greater fidelity to the Greek. The commentary elucidates and assesses Aristotle's arguments from a philosophical point of view. It has been extensively revised to take account of the scholarship of the last 20 years.

Your Thoughts, Feelings and Essence Became Ours - Poems Meditations & Reflections Inspired by Others and Self-Experiences... Your Thoughts, Feelings and Essence Became Ours - Poems Meditations & Reflections Inspired by Others and Self-Experiences (Paperback)
Maggie Ramos
R538 R446 Discovery Miles 4 460 Save R92 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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