Twentieth century church music
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Coupled with the most newsworthy stories of the period and other relevant backdrop information, the book attempts an understanding of life in donegal during the 20th centuryoxfam bookshop wallingford donegal is a county which is steeped in historysee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe book is an attempt to present a sampling of these storieseach locality has its own rich plethora of lore, tales anecdotes and historical data
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Oxfam bookshop st albans a history told largely in pictures of the first third of the twentieth century, seen through british eyessee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Early twentieth century mirror backed sideboard 58inches wide 22inches deep hieght 64inches very heavy one piece pick up only read more
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Oxfam shop magdelen street performed by the the sharakan early music ensemble, the music of armenia presents one of the world's most ancient traditions in this series; armenian church musicthis volume focuses in particular focuses on medieval music see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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One of the first to be nominated royal designer for industry, murphy was a widely revered figure who seemed in his many skills to encapsulate that early twentieth century dream, the successful marriage of art and industryoxfam books & music beaconsfield with a reputation second to none during his lifetime, harry murphy was britain's leading jewellery designer of the first half of the twentieth century, and one of the most influential and accomplished silversmiths of the art deco and arts & crafts periodsfeaturing a broad spectrum of murphy s work - domestic silver and flatware, church silver, regalia, civic and corporate silver, enamels and a fascinating range of gold and gem-set jewellery - the jewellery and silver of hthis book, published to coincide with an exhibition of murphy's work at goldsmith's hall in london, redresses the balance and brings murphy once again to the forefront of the public's attention there is a dedication signed by john benjaminmurphy is the definitive book on the subjectyet today, he is little known  see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Stroeher is professor of music history at marshall university where she is also coordinator of the music history & literature areaabove all, when read together, britten and pears's letters allow the clearest possible look 'behind the scenes' of one of the most productive creative partnerships of the twentieth centuryentertaining to read, domestic and intimate, the letters provide glimpses of cultural and artistic life in the twentieth century, including pacifism and conscientious objection, critical assessments of music and other artists, transport and communications development in the twentieth century, the 'aldeburgh corpses', art collecting, gossip, everyday life in an english country house, the development of the aldeburgh festival, performance practice in early music, looking after dachshunds, travel, and a host of other topicsoxfam shop magdelen street 'to read these letters is to climb up a wall and peer into the secret garden of two giantsthe 365 letters written throughout their 39-year relationship are here brought together and published, as pears intended, for the first time nicholas clark is the librarian at the britten-pears foundation at the red house, britten and pears's home in aldeburgh, suffolk' from the foreword by fiona shawthis volume comprises the complete surviving correspondence between benjamin britten and peter pears jude brimmer is an archivist at the britten-pears foundationsee oxfam website for delivery information read morewhile the correspondence provides valuable evidence of the development of britten's works, more significant is the insight into his relationship with pears and their day-to-day life together
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Oxfam bookshop victoria book appears as new longlisted for the penderyn music book prize: in victorian times, england was famously dubbed the land without music - but one of the great musical discoveries of the early twentieth century was that england had a vital heritage of folk song and music which was easily good enough to stand comparison with those of other parts of britain and overseasbut after over a century of collection and discussion, publication and performance, there are still many things we don't know about traditional song - where did the songs come from? who sang them, where, when and why? what part did singing play in the lives of the communities in which the songs thrived? more importantly, have the pioneer collectors' restricted definitions and narrow focus hindered or helped our understanding?this is the first book for many years to investigate the wider social history of traditional song in england, and draws on a wide range of sources to answer these questions and many moresee oxfam website for delivery information read morececil sharp, ralph vaughan williams, percy grainger, and a number of other enthusiasts gathered a huge harvest of songs and tunes which we can study and enjoy at our leisure
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Including fully illustrated 16 page booklet with extensive notes by music historian derek barker, this delightful package finally reveals what it was that informed so much of frank zappa s extraordinary musicfeaturing nineteenth and twentieth century mavericks as diverse as wagner, holst, ravel, boulez, stockhausen, schoenberg, penderecki, harry partch and john cage in addition to the aforementioned stravinsky and varese this collection illustrates the impulse for many of zappa s own compositions and works as both an introduction to a style of music rarely heard outside of the most elite communities in the third millennium and as a guide to the music frank vincent took to his very heart and cherished throughout the major part of his tragically short lifeon that same sunday evening more than 30 years ago, zappa also played records by edgar varese and igor stravinsky, representing his love of modern classical musicoxfam books & music aberdeen a man of hugely eclectic tastes, frank zappa was a lover of everything from doo-wop to heavy metal and from jazz-funk to new wavevarese was one of zappa s very earliest influences and after discovering the dissonant sounds that this french born composer created, he was hooked on a genre of music that for most of us is anything but easy listeningboth cds in excellent condition see oxfam website for delivery information read morebut while an acquired taste the tracks that fill this 2 disc compilation may be, the acquisition of such a taste is a rewarding journey with an even more rewarding destinationindeed a radio show he produced for the bbc in found him spinning records by artists as varied as frankie valli, howlin wolf, the channels, lene lovich, wild man fisher, uk subs, traffic and the rolling stones
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But coal, one of the most emotive issues in twentieth century british politics, lies at its heartthis is the extraordinary story of how the fabric of english society shifted beyond recognition in fifty turbulent years in the twentieth centuryshe is a successful, award-winning television producer and director, making a range of critically acclaimed documentary films inspired by her interest in twentieth century historyshe is the author of black diamonds and the secret rooms: a true gothic mysteryfascinating insights into the dynasty that once ruled this yorkshire roost' daily mail'an aristocratic tale of epic proportions, this gripping novel cleverly interweaves interviews, letters and historical factblack diamonds tells the story of its demise: family feuds, forbidden love, class war, and a tragic and violent death played their partsee oxfam website for delivery information read morewentworth in yorkshire was surrounded by 70 collieries employing tens of thousands of menfascinating' easy livingcatherine bailey read history at oxford universitypeels back the grand façade of wentworth toreveal a family riven with fueds, mental illness and forbidden love' tatler'a compelling new historyshe lives in west londonit is england's forgotten palace which belonged to britain's richest aristocratsit is the finest and largest georgian house in britain and belonged to the fitzwilliam familyoxfam bookshop cheltenham catherine bailey's black diamonds is an extraordinary tale of family feuds, forbidden love, civil unrest and the downfall of a mining dynasty
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Oxfam books & music fareham analytical strategies and musical interpretation: essays on nineteenth and twentieth century music edited by craig ayrey and mark everistthis book is devoted to music analysis as an interpretive activitythe unifying theme of the essays is the interpretive transformation of concepts, ideas and forms that constitutes the heart of the compositional process of nineteenth- and twentieth-century musicin very good condition1st edition published by cambridge university presssee oxfam website for delivery information read morehardback with dust jacketowners book plate stamp on fly leaftwo associated types of practice are emphasised: 'translation', the transformation of one type of experience or art object into the musical work, the artistic attempt to persuade us that the new product is as valid as its original, or more so than its origin; and 'rhetoric', the attempt to persuade us, through structure, to accept the signifying power of the workthe repertoire discussed ranges from schumann through wagner, mahler, zemlinsky, debussy, schoenberg, berg, webern and stravinsky to carter and birtwistleinterpretation is often considered only in theory, or as a philosophical problem, but this book attempts to demonstrate and reflect on the interpretive results of analysis
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Exceptionally rich and diverse, artistic production in spain at the dawn of the twentieth century remains poorly known outside his country of originoxfam books & music totnes the catalogue accompanying the hermitage foundation's exhibition "el modernismode sorolla à picasso, ", offers a global vision of spanish art at the dawn of the 20th centurythanks to this exhibition, the fondation de l hermitage offers its visitors the discovery of some of spain's hidden treasures, many of which are presented for the first time in switzerlandmany reproductions of the artworks of picasso and his contemporariesoscillating between respect for hispanic traditions and modernity, their works are part of the openness of the spanish avant-gardethe catalogue accompanying the exhibition contains texts from william hauptman, curator of the exhibition, blanca pons-sorolla (great-granddaughter of painter joachin sorolla) and javier baron (curator at the museo nacional del prado, madrid)the hundred or so works exhibited are entirely reproduced in colour and include artists as diverse as anglada, beruete, casas, mir, picasso, pinazo, regoyos, rusiñol, sorolla and zuloaga ** please note - the text in this catalogue is entirely in french** 5 continents fondation de l'hermitage paperback in very good condition with no markings and good bindingsee oxfam website for delivery information read morecentred on painters of the " generation" resulting from the extreme turbulence traversed by spain throughout the nineteenth century, the exhibition shows the evolution experienced by these artistsbetween the death of goya and the cubist period of picasso however extend some fascinating decades, which see forming the beginnings of modern hispanic art
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At the time of publication these volumes formed the standard twentieth century authority on british constitutional history, law and practicein it sir ivor jennings analyses the nature of politics by discussing some of the political ideas such as church and king, liberty, nationalism, imperialism, free trade and the welfare state, which were instrumental in shaping the british political system there is a very slight crease to the top cover cornerthe three volumes of party politics complete the survey of british political institutions which sir ivor jennings began with parliament and cabinet governmentoxfam bookshop hampstead party politics: volume 3 the stuff of politics by sir ivor jennings originally published in , this is the final volume of party politics following appeal to the people and the growth of parties, which appeared in andsee oxfam website for delivery information read morein very good condition
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Oxfam bookshop ipswich karl barth () was the most prolific theologian of the twentieth centurydrawing on a german debate largely ignored by anglo-saxon theology dr gorringe shows that barth responds to the events of his time not just in his occasional writings, but in his magnum opus, the church dogmaticsin conclusion dr gorringe asks what this admittedly patriarchal author still has to contribute to contemporary theology, and in particular human liberationhis attempt to deepen this during the turbulent years of the weimar republic made him a focus of theological resistance to hitler after the rise to power of the nazi partysee oxfam website for delivery information read morebarth initiated a theological revolution in his two commentaries on romans, begun during the first world waravoiding simple paraphrasing, dr gorringe places the theology in its social and political context, from the first world war through to the cold war by following barth's intellectual development through the years that saw the rise of national socialism and the development of communismexpelled from germany, he continued to defy fashionable opinion by refusing to condemn communism after the second world war
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Oxfam shop clitheroe for centuries, duelling played an integral role in the preservation of the aristocratic order in europe, defying attempts by both church and state to ban the practicein the duel in european history, renowned historian victor kiernan writes with his characteristic wit and insight of duelling's evolution from its medieval origins - when it was regarded as a badge of rank - to the early twentieth century, by which time it was seen as an irrational anachronismmoreover, the romance and drama of the duel has made it an enduring fixture in films, literature, and the theatredrawing on a vast range of historical and cultural sources, this is the definitive account of a violent ritual that continues to fascinate even todaysee oxfam website for delivery information read morein doing so, he shows how the duelling tradition was something unique to europe and its colonies, and, in its contribution to the development of the officer corps, played a key part in shaping european military power
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Oxfam shop colne road in this first major biography of cardinal arthur hinsley, james hagerty traces the life and ministry of one of the most popular english churchmen of the twentieth centuryto his surprise, he was appointed archbishop of westminster in and had to deal with governments not always sympathetic to the catholic community's demand for equalitythough a supporter of franco's spain, he ferociously condemned nazism and fascism during the second world war and castigated those italian cardinals who favoured mussolinihis time at westminster coincided with a turbulent period in european and global politicsperhaps his most surprising initiative was support for the ecumenical sword of the spirit movement, an attempt to reach out to other christian denominations in a crusade to restore christian ideals in public lifehe had also to address social and economic issues which affected his church, and lead an episcopal bench which included experienced bishops who were intensely jealous of their diocesan jurisdictionssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreborn into a working-class family in yorkshire, hinsley was ordained for the diocese of leeds in and proceeded to hold important posts in rome, where he restored the fortunes of the venerable english college, and africa, where he successfully promoted catholic education and missionary activity
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Sharp went on to collect nearly tunes in england and north america and played a role fundamental in the restoration of folk music as part of popular culture in england in the twentieth centuryoxfam bookshop exeter was a turning point for folk music in englandin august that year cecil sharp, a music teacher from south london, noted down his first folk song from a vicarage gardener in somerset, and the rest, as they say, is history condition: covers shelfworn, corner bumped, general scuffing; foreedges lightly thumbed, pages clean and clear and binding tightsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe book is a collection of fifty songs from sharp's manuscripts, specially selected for musicians and singers"still growing" was published to commemorate the centenary of "the seeds of love", as sung by john england in hambridge on that historic day one hundred years ago
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His pictorial activity was less known, which saw him exhibit at the first exhibition of the twentieth century and at the venetian biennials of andthe illustrations for "giro giro tondo" are placed in the splendor of its geometric period, later the sign will crumble into sapid shadows, acquiring a definitive body in the twentieth centurybruno angoletta "masters of drawing" editorial series | 100 italian artists - 20th century box noeach work is accompanied by a certificate of uniqueness and will be published in the raisonnè catalog "reference guide to italian master of drawing" published by unique edition press exclusively for collectorscatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitelaunched by podrecca, he made his debut in "primavera", he collaborated on the podrecca and galantara editions, he was among the main set-ups of the "teatro dei piccoli" and from he collaborated continuously on about forty publications, such as "la donna", "il dramma", " novella "," scena illustrata "," il secolo xx ", but above all to the" corriere dei piccoli ", to which, in 18 years of work, it will provide the characterizing figure of characters such as marmittone and centerbe ermeteshipped by express courier and professionally packed5 cm titled in pencil on the front and indications in pencil on the back: "angoletta" written at the top rightbruno angoletta (belluno - milan ) self-taught painter, illustrator and set designerour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storethis work is part of a collection of original drawings created by 100 italian artists selected by the i-am foundation for unique edition pressthe little creso | original illustration mixed media on paper 17 x 27he illustrated a hundred books, especially for mondadori
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But throughout all this, he never loses his love of music, eventually becoming a grammy award-winning icon and one of the most popular musicians of the twentieth centuryeven though he had lost his sight as a young boy and grew up in a segregated, racist society, ray charles (jamie foxx) is determined to follow his love of music and begins a successful tour of the american southsee oxfam website for delivery information read moredisc and case in very good conditionoxfam bookshop carlisle biopic of the legendary blues and jazz musician ray charles ()with a career that begins to grow beyond all expectations throughout the s and s, ray starts struggling with drug addiction and with failed relationships that take their toll on his health
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But throughout all this, he never loses his love of music, eventually becoming a grammy award-winning icon and one of the most popular musicians of the twentieth centuryeven though he had lost his sight as a young boy and grew up in a segregated, racist society, ray charles (jamie foxx) is determined to follow his love of music and begins a successful tour of the american southoxfam shop wolverhampton academy award-winning biopic of the legendary blues, soul and jazz musiciansee oxfam website for delivery information read morewith a career that begins to grow beyond all expectations throughout the s and s, ray starts struggling with drug addiction and with failed relationships that take their toll on his health
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The extensive research he embarked upon afterwards revealed not only the scope of the people's hardship and amazing resilience; it located in the american effort to help the armenians a unique perspective on our own nation's experience of the twentieth centuryas the new york times carried stories about the ""slow massacre of a race,"" public outrage over this tragedy led to an unprecedented philanthropic crusade spearheaded by near east relief, an organization rooted in protestant missionary endeavors in the near east and dedicated to saving the survivors of the first genocide of the twentieth centuryin ""starving armenians,"" merrill peterson explores the american response to these atrocities, beginning with the initial reports to president wilson from his ambassador to the ottoman empire, henry morgenthau, who described turkey as ""a place of horror5 million armenian men, women, and children died in ottoman turkey, victims of execution, starvation, and death marches to the syrian desert"" the west gradually began to take noticebetween and as many as 1oxfam bookshop knutsford the persecution and suffering of the armenian people, a religious and cultural minority in the ottoman empire, reached a peak in the era of world war i at the hands of the turksthe book also addresses the armenian aspirations for an independent republic under american auspices; these hopes went unfulfilled in the peacemaking after the war and ended altogether when armenia was absorbed into the soviet unionfirst edition see oxfam website for delivery information read more""starving armenians"" is an eloquent narrative of an all but forgotten part of that experiencepart of a generation who were admonished as children to ""remember the starving armenians,"" peterson went to armenia in as a peace corps volunteer and became fascinated by the country's troubled history
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham how was it possible, by the later twentieth century, to have erased women as artists from art history so comprehensively that the idea of the artist was exclusively masculine? why was this erasure more radical in the twentieth century than ever before? why is everything that compromises greatness in art coded as feminine? has the feminist critique of art history history yet effected real change? see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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British occupational therapy had its dawning and development early in the twentieth century when it became a separate and acknowledged professionalthough the use of occupation foe health has a history that is as old as human existence, a specific group of people committed to learning more about the relationship, namely occupational therapists, did not emerge until the second decade of the twentieth centuryinitially, they applied that knowledge to assist people with psychological and physical illness and handicapsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop hexham in this book the second of two volumes devoted to the history of occupational therapy, the story of the british association of occupational therapists is toldoverall in very good condition, some slight rubbing to the corners and a dint on the front cover
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The items are all believed to be early twentieth centuryoxfam shop devizes this collection comprises a hand-made valentines card, a felt us flag with 48 stars, believed to be issued by nebo cigarettes in the early twentieth century, thirteen silk national flags from nebo cigarettes, three silks with flags and national songs, a larger silk english flag and three picture silks, the battle of fish creek, a sioux chief and queen eleanor of italyall pieces bear the stains and marks of their age but are in quite good conditionplease see photographs for detailssee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe flags with songs are for holland, ireland and mexicothe other flags are for columbia, belgium, england, greece, liberia, servia, russia, sweden, new portugal, peru, poland, hayti and france
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The voices of the women and men who shaped the twentieth century with the written versions of their wordsoxfam shop herne hill this incredible three-cd set drawn from the archives of the bbc captures the voices of poets from the twentieth century, one of the most prolific and significant periods in american lettersthese unique broadcasts are a wonderful collector& ;s item for aspiring poets and fans of american poetry& ;chicago tribune, on the spoken word: american writers see oxfam website for delivery information read morecapturing the enormous energy and variety in american poetry at this time, the compilation includes recordings of robert frost, e& ;after spending a few hours reveling in this diverse collection, there will be voices in the listener's headeach of the thirty poets gathered here is heard reading his or her own workcummings, william carlos williams, ezra pound, robinson jeffers, langston hughes,wallace stevens, conrad aiken, archibald macleish, ogden nash, theodore roethke, john berryman, allen ginsberg, john ashbery, anne sexton, adrienne rich, and gregory corso
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Publisher: twentieth century foxlabel: twentieth century foxrelease date: 13 aprilpublication date: 27 april
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Circa mid 19th century1 antique 19th century reclaimed architectural carved stone old church exterior small cross statueit was reclaimed from above an exterior door way of an old church in lancashirerather unusual and exquisiteit would make a fine feature for your home or gardendimensions in inches & centimetres approx 10having some chips, scuffs commensurate with old agecan deliver around the country please askoffered in fine old used condition5" high (27cm) 10heavy quality approx weight 7kgbeautifully hand carved solid stone by a master stonemason5" wide (27cm) 3" length thickness (8cm) read more
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Attilia dorigato study focuses with particular attention on the master glass-makers of the late part of the twentieth centuryoxfam books & music belper book has some shelf wear but in otherwise good conditionspecial illustrated appendices are included to reveal the techniques and secrets of this fascinating craft; what tools the master glassblowers use; what goes into making specific glass pastes (with such exotic names as lattimo, calcedonio and avventurina); what is involved in the various procedures for working and finishing glass that have been invented and developed in murano itselfrunning from the middle ages to the heart of the contemporary worldsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe volume is completed with a comprehensive glossary which provides an essential key to the professional language of glass-making on murano, explaining such local terms as murrine, vetro ghiaccio or vetro pulegosothis up-to-date survey draws on an extraordinary range of photographs, some of them being published for the first time, and constitutes a fundamental work for anyone who wishes to understand the history of glass
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Indispensable for any historian, the transformation of the world sheds important new light on this momentous epoch, showing how the nineteenth century paved the way for the global catastrophes of the twentieth century, yet how it also gave rise to pacifism, liberalism, the trade union, and a host of other crucial developmentshe explores the changing relationship between human beings and nature, looks at the importance of cities, explains the role slavery and its abolition played in the emergence of new nations, challenges the widely held belief that the nineteenth century witnessed the triumph of the nation-state, and much moreoxfam bookshop knutsford a monumental history of the nineteenth century, the transformation of the world offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transitionosterhammel describes a world increasingly networked by the telegraph, the steamship, and the railwaysthis is the highly anticipated english edition of the spectacularly successful and critically acclaimed german book, which is also being translated into chinese, polish, russian, and frenchfirst edition see oxfam website for delivery information read morejĂĽrgen osterhammel, an eminent scholar who has been called the braudel of the nineteenth century, moves beyond conventional eurocentric and chronological accounts of the era, presenting instead a truly global history of breathtaking scope and towering eruditionhe examines the powerful and complex forces that drove global change during the "long nineteenth century," taking readers from new york to new delhi, from the latin american revolutions to the taiping rebellion, from the perils and promise of europe's transatlantic labor markets to the hardships endured by nomadic, tribal peoples across the planet
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Oxfam books & music romsey 3 disc box set featuring roosevelt, churchill, stalin and hilter disc 1 - the rising tide, the storm explodes, disc 2 - trial by fire, the price of glory, disc 3 never surrender, peace at last with just over 20 years separating the two most cataclysmic conflicts of the twentieth century wwi and wwii many historians argue that they were not separate wars, but one bloody continuum that first gripped the people of europe but eventually spread across the entire globebenito mussolininumber of discs: 5 region 0 language: english 300 minutes running time see oxfam website for delivery information read morecharles de gaulleand so it happens that the most iconic figures of wwii, the household names that we associate with either battlefield glory or murderous fascism, were themselves caught up in both conflictsbefore they were giants, they were infantrymen and privates in the 'war to end all wars'douglas macarthurthis is the story of these devastating three decades of war, through the eyes of the men who were shaped by the battles of world war i and came to command a world on the brink of disaster decades later
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Oxfam shop colne road the reputation of rainer maria rilke has grown steadily since his death in ; today he is widely considered to be the greatest poet of the twentieth centurythis modern library edition presents stephen mitchell's acclaimed translations of rilke, which have won praise for their re-creation of the poet's rich formal music and depth of thoughtit contains representative poems from his early collections the book of hours and the book of pictures; many selections from the revolutionary new poems, which drew inspiration from rodin and cezanne; the hitherto little-known "requiem for a friend"; and a generous selection of the late uncollected poems, which constitute some of his finest workmitchell's versions more clearly than in any others," said w" ahead of all parting is an abundant selection of rilke's lifework" see oxfam website for delivery information read more"rilke's voice, with its extraordinary combination of formality, power, speed and lightness, can be heard in mr"his work is masterful"if rilke had written in english," denis donoghue wrote in the new york times book review, "he would have written in this englishincluded too are passages from rilke's influential novel, the notebooks of malte laurids brigge, and nine of his brilliant uncollected prose piecesfinally, the book presents the poet's two greatest masterpieces in their entirety: the duino elegies and the sonnets to orpheus
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