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  • Chris McCully: Selected Poems

    by Chris McCully ...
    Featuring sonnets, sestinas, villanelles, and translations from Old English, this compilation by Dutch poet Chris McCully spans 16 years of his work. A meditation on extinction, this supple, sparing verse celebrates the fragile place in which we live as it reveals the author's engagement with language and the poetic form. Inspired in part by Anglo Saxon elegy, this rich and unique collection ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Serengeti Songs

    by Chris McCully ...
    Experience the heart of Africa through poetry and photography. Chris McCully's Serengeti Songs captures the raw beauty and fierce rhythms of Tanzania and Kenya. Through vivid poems and striking photographs, this collection brings the Serengeti to life, revealing its amazing wildlife, patterns of migration, and the delicate balance between nature and human presence.This collection is for poetry ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beowulf

    by Chris McCully ...
    Any translation is a reading. Chris McCully reads Beowulf as an epic written in English using all the complex metrical conventions of its time, as well as distinctive epic tropes including sea-crossings, oracular pronouncements, and encounters with the monstrous. This version renders the original in readable contemporary English, but also keeps as close as it can to the older, alliterative ... Read more

    $16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Earliest English

    An Introduction to Old English Language

    by Chris Mccully, Sharon Hilles ...
    Series series Learning about Language
    The Earliest Englishprovides a student-friendly introduction to Old English and the earliest periods of the history of the English Language as it evolved before 1215. Using non-technical language, the book covers basic terminology, the linguistic and cultural backgrounds to the emergence and development of OE, and the OE vocabulary that students studying this phase of the English language need to ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Goodbye, Mr. Wonderful

    Alcoholism, Addiction and Early Recovery

    by Chris McCully ...
    Alcohol thought Chris McCully was Mr. Wonderful. When Chris was drinking, he sometimes thought so too - Mr. Generous, Mr. Witty and Charming, Mr. Champagne. But there are other labels - 'chronic alcoholic' (all over the medical notes); 'high risk offender' (in the court record). Goodbye, Mr. Wonderful gives a detailed account of the early stages of recovery from alcoholism. From his admittance ... Read more

    $26.19 USD

  • Analysing Older English

    Edited by David Denison, Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero, Chris McCully, Emma Moore ...
    Series series Studies in English Language
    Is historical linguistics different in principle from other linguistic research? This book addresses problems encountered in gathering and analysing data from early English, including the incomplete nature of the evidence and the dangers of misinterpretation or over-interpretation. Even so, gaps in the data can sometimes be filled. The volume brings together a team of leading English historical ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

  • The Sound Structure of English

    An Introduction

    by Chris McCully ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to the English Language
    The Sound Structure of English provides a clear introduction to English phonetics and phonology. Tailored to suit the needs of individual, one-term course modules, it assumes no prior knowledge of the subject, and presents the basic facts in a straightforward manner, making it the ideal text for beginners. Students are guided step-by-step through the main concepts and techniques of phonetic and ... Read more

    $49.19 USD

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  • 100 Birds and How They Got Their Names

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  • The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún

    by J. R. R. Tolkien ...
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