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"The untold story of how the First World War shaped the lives, faith, and writings of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis"--Amazon.com.
"For a generation of men and women, the First World War brought the end of innocence-- and the end of faith. Yet for J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, the Great War deepened their spiritual quest. Both men served as soldiers on the Western Front, survived the trenches, and used the experience of that conflict to ignite their...
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Teaching Co
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[2003]
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English
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The Italians have a word for the sense of dazzling beauty produced by effortless mastery: sprezzatura. And perhaps no cultural form associated with Italy is as steeped in the love of sprezzatura as opera, a genre the Italians invented. No composer has embodied the ideal of sprezzatura as magnificently as Giuseppe Verdi, the gruff, self-described "farmer" from the Po Valley who gave us 28 operas and remains to this day the most popular composer in...
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National Endowment for the Arts
Pub. Date
[2006]
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English
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Readings of excerpts from and critical analysis of Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club, a novel about four mothers, four daughters, and four families whose paths cross in 1949 in San Francisco as four Chinese women begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk.
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Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
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English
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In this course, Walt Whitman and the Birth of Modern American Poetry, we'll explore how Walt Whitman broke with the tyranny of European literary forms to establish a broad, new voice for American poetry. By throwing aside the stolid conventions and clichEd meters of old Europe, Walt Whitman produced a vital, compelling form of verse, one expressive of the nature of his new world and its undiscovered countries, both physical and spiritual, intimate...
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National Endowment for the Arts
Pub. Date
[2006]
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English
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Readings of excerpts from and critical analysis of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, a novel about a poor family of sharecroppers who are driven from their home by drought, economic hardship, and changes in the agriculture industry during the Great Depression.
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"Tavis Smiley recounts the story of his friendship with Maya Angelou. Tavis Smiley and Maya Angelou met in 1986, when he was twenty-one and she was fifty-eight. For the next twenty-eight years, Angelou was a teacher and a maternal figure to Smiley, and they talked often of art, politics, history, music, religion, and race. In My Journey with Maya, Smiley beautifully recounts a friendship filled with conversation that began when he, a recent college...
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[2020]
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English
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"How do we read William Faulkner in the twenty-first century? asks Michael Gorra, one of America's most preeminent literary critics. Should we still read William Faulkner in this new century? What can his works tell us about the legacy of slavery and the Civil War, that central quarrel in our nation's history? These are the provocative questions that Michael Gorra asks in this historic portrait of the novelist and his world. Born in 1897 in Mississippi,...
99) Dickens' women
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AudioGO Ltd
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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Actress Miriam Margolyes performs her one-woman show, as she plays over 20 roles from various Dickens' works to tell the story of Charles Dickens' life.
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Recorded Books
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[2013]
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English
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Shakespearean scholar Matthew Wagner presents an overview of the tragic form and of the particular themes and characteristics of Shakespearean tragedies. He offers striking analysis on nine of the immortal playwright's tragedies.
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