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“john passfield”

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  • Water Lane

    The Pilgrimage of Christopher Marlowe

    by John Passfield ...
    Water Lane, the last stop on Medieval pilgrimages to Canterbury, is located in the ancestral village that John Passfield shares with the, Elizabethan playwright, Christopher Marlowe. In this novel, the water in the lane becomes a central image in an imaginary pilgrimage that the dying artist recalls as he lies bleeding from a stab wound on the floor of Eleanor Bulls house in Deptford, in May of ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Inside the Wright Brothers

    Flight Is Possible

    by John Passfield ...
    This novel, presents the Wright Brothers as idealists who build a dream out of the nuts and bolts of their everyday reality. There is a hard core of steel in the Wrights that, however compassionate, polite, accommodating and modest they appear to be to other people, is the straight arrow that allows them to see their life's work clearly, to make every decision and action move towards the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Out of the Park

    The Cogitations of Babe Ruth

    by John Passfield ...
    When we go to a baseball stadium and cheer a person like Babe Ruth for hitting the ball harder, higher, further and more often than the other players, we are cheering him as our representative. We cheer people of exceptional accomplishment whose achievements are so highly visible and so obviously measurable because we, too, are faced with the complexity of the lives that we live and are challenged ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Death Day

    The Apology of Sergei Eisenstein

    by John Passfield ...
    On March 19, 1937, world-renowned Soviet film-maker, Sergei Eisenstein, appears before the All-Union Creative Conference of Workers in Soviet Cinematography, accused of having failed to create films which reflect the social and political orthodoxy of the Stalinist regime. Reeling from an unrelenting barrage of questions, accusations and threats, the film-maker struggles to respond to the dilemma ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Raskolnikov: Murder with an Axe

    by John Passfield ...
    Raskolnikov: Murder with an Axe a novel This novel is an imaginative re-creation of Dostoyevskys Crime and Punishment. After killing the old pawnbroker, Ilyona Ivanovna, and her sister, Lizabeta, the young student, Raskolnikov, is haunted by the savagery of the double-murder. As he tosses and turns in his misery reviewing his situation, his motives and his view of himself as an "Extraordinary Man" ... Read more

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  • Geoffrey Chaucer: Canterbury Bound

    by John Passfield ...
    While riding with a group of pilgrims on the road to Canterbury, Geoffrey Chaucer makes plans for the writing of his next poem, the Canterbury Tales. ... Read more

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  • Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (Delphi Classics)

    by Geoffrey Chaucer, Delphi Classics ...
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    Geoffrey Chaucer, regarded by many as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages, whose ‘Canterbury Tales’ helped establish the legitimacy of Middle English, at a time when the dominant literary languages in England were French and Latin. The first volume of Delphi Classics’ Series Three offers the complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer, with ... Read more

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  • Poetry Please

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    BBC Radio 4's Poetry Please is the longest-running broadcast of verse anywhere in the world. First aired in 1979, the programme, a request show which broadcasts to two million listeners a week, has become a unique record of the country's best-loved poems over the decades since its inception.The BBC has looked back through its rich archive of recordings to produce a poll of the most asked for and ... Read more

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  • I Can Live No Longer: The Story of an Indomitable Man, the only Volunteer to Auschwitz.

    by Jeremy Kowalski ...
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  • The Smart Words and Wicked Wit of William Shakespeare

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    “Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit,” said the world’s greatest and most preeminent English writer of all time, William Shakespeare.Have you ever wanted to quote the most quoted writer in the English language? Deliver the most inventive and debasing Shakespearean insult (“Would thou wert clean enough to spit upon!”)? Recite titillating love poetry like a modern-day Romeo to his (or her) ... Read more

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