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Coleridge’s Poetry and Prose
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His writings are wide-ranging in form andcontent, and vast in number. Norton’s long-awaited edition is the mostcomprehensive and user-friendly student edition available. Supportingapparatus includes detailed headnotes, footnotes (both Coleridge’s andthe editors’), biographical register, glossary, and an index of poemsand first lines. “Criticism” includes twenty assessments of Coleridge’s poetry and proseby British and American authors. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive
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‘A grand sweep from a master storyteller of the human race’ DAILY MAIL ‘Riveting, superb, terrifying’ OBSERVER From the ghostly stone heads of Easter Island to crumbling Mayan cities hidden deep in the jungle, the mysterious ruins of lost worlds and vanished civilizations continue to haunt us. How could such mighty societies fall? And could our skyscrapers one day stand derelict and overgrown like ancient temples? Jared Diamond takes us on an epic journey around the globe, through the history of humanity and on to the future, to discover how – when tomorrow comes – we can be survivors. ‘A book that has to be read . . . highly readable, highly persuasive and richly informative’ INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY ‘Gripping . . . the book fulfils its huge ambition, and Diamond is the only man who could have written it’ ECONOMIST ‘This book shines like all Diamond’s work’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘Magnificent’ THE NEW YORK TIMES
Collected Ghost Stories
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Considered by many to be the most terrifying writer in English, James’s stories draw on the terrors of the everyday. Documents and objects unleash terrible forces, often in closed rooms and night-time settings where imagination runs riot.
Collected Plays
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The Lion and the Jewel alone is enough to establish Nigeria as the most fertile new source of English-speaking drama since Synge’s discovery of the Western Isles.’ The Times The ironic development and consequences of progress’ may be traced through both the themes and the tone of the works included in this second volume of Wole Soyinka’s plays. The Lion and the Jewel shows an ineffectual assault on past tradition soundly defeated. In Kongi’s Harvest, however, the pretensions of Kongi’s regime are also fatal. The denouement points the way forward. The two Brother Jero plays pursue that way, the comic propheteering’ of the earlier play giving way to the sardonic reality of Jero’s Metamorphosis . Madmen and Specialists, Soyinka’s most pessimistic play, concerns the physical, mental, and moral destruction of modern civil war.