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by Dorothy Parker, William Maxwell, A. E. Housman, W. H. Davies, D. H. Lawrence, Carl Sandburg, Christopher Marlowe, François Villon, Karin Boye, Charles Baudelaire, James Weldon Johnson, Young, Andrew, Claude McKay, Hart Crane, Pratt, E. J., Blaise Cendrars, George Eliot, W. Heath Robinson, Robert Frost, John Milton, J. E. Neale, Martin, Kingsley
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Dorothy Parker

> "I like to have a martini, > Two at the very most. > After three I'm under the table, > after four I'm under my host." > — Dorothy Parker Dorothy Parker was an American writer and poet, best known for her wit, wisecracks, and sharp eye for 20th century urban foibles.. From a conflicted and unhappy childhood, Parker rose to acclaim, both for her literary output in such venues as [The New Yorker]and as a founding member of the [Algonquin Round Table]. Following the breakup of that circle, Parker traveled to Hollywood to pursue screenwriting. Her successes there, including two Academy Award nominations, were curtailed as her involvement in left-wing politics led to a place on the infamous Hollywood blacklist. Parker went through three marriages (two to the same man) and survived several suicide attempts, but grew increasingly dependent on alcohol. Dismissive of her own talents, she deplored her reputation as a "wisecracker". Nevertheless, her literary output and her sparkling wit have endured. See more at :

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Jonathan Cape is a British publishing firm headquartered in London, founded in 1921 by Herbert Jonathan Cape and Wren Howard. It is now an imprint of Penguin Random House. Cape and his business partner Wren Howard (1893–1968) set up the publishing house in 1921. They established a reputation for high-quality design and production and a fine list of English-language authors, fostered by the firm's editor and reader Edward Garnett. Cape's list of writers ranged from poets including Robert Frost and C. Day Lewis, to children's authors such as Roald Dahl, Hugh Lofting and Arthur Ransome, to James Bond novels by Ian Fleming, to heavyweight fiction by James Joyce and T. E. Lawrence.

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Complete poems
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Complete poems

Dorothy Parker, William Maxwell, A. E. Housman, W. H. Davies, D. H. Lawrence, Carl Sandburg, Christopher Marlowe, François Villon, Karin Boye, Charles Baudelaire, James Weldon Johnson, Young, Andrew, Claude McKay, Hart Crane, Pratt, E. J., Blaise Cendrars, George Eliot, W. Heath Robinson, Robert Frost, John Milton
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This volume of E.J. Pratt's selected poems introduces Pratt's poems to the college and university student, providing the background necessary for an informed reading of the poems. The volume offers a full sampling of Pratt's poems chosen both for their representativeness and for their intrinsic value. Included are the major long poems, The Witches' Brew, The Iron Door, The Titanic, Brébeuf and His Brethren, and Towards the Last Spike, and important shorter lyrics such as 'Newfoundland,' 'Come Away, Death,' and 'From Stone to Steel.' The editorial approach is historical, chronological, and biographical. The introduction locates E.J. Pratt in his Newfoundland and Canadian contexts, and discusses the development of his work in relation to his early modernist contemporaries, concluding that Pratt remains the most important and influential Canadian poet up to the mid-fifties. As such, he has been a key figure in shaping the Canadian literary imagination of his day and the later poetics of landscape adopted by Earle Birney and Margaret Atwood. The editors provide annotations, textual notes, and a biographical chronology. The printed volume is supplemented by the electronic resources of the Selected Pratt website at www.trentu.ca/pratt/selected.

The age of Catherine de Medici

J. E. Neale
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The life of Catherine de Medici Queen and Regent of France.

Harold Laski, 1893-1950

Martin, Kingsley
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