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In this extraordinary collection of stories, New York Times bestselling author Maeve Binchy once again reveals her incomparable understanding of matters of the heart with powerfully compelling stories of love, loss, revelation, and reconciliation.
A secretary's silent passion for her boss meets the acid test on a business trip. . . .
A man and a woman's mutual disdain at first sight shows how deceptive appearances can...
A secretary's silent passion for her boss meets the acid test on a business trip. . . .
A man and a woman's mutual disdain at first sight shows how deceptive appearances can...
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"Assembling at the Tabard Inn in Southwark, a group of pilgrims begin their journey to Canterbury Cathedral. To entertain themselves on the long road, their host suggests that they regale each other with stories, with the teller of the best tale set to earn a free supper. The pilgrims correspond to all sections of medieval society, from the crusading knight to the drunken cook, and their tales span a range of genres, including the comic ribaldry and...
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Collection centers on a sonnet sequence set in Glanmore, where the poet lived for four years after having left the turbulence of Belfast in 1972. Also includes love poems and elegies--in memory of Francis Ledwidge, Robert Lowell, and Sean O'Riada, among others--as well as a translation of 'Cantos XXXII' and XXXIII' from Dante's 'Inferno'."--Front flap, dust jacket
7) Dubliners
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CLASSIC FICTION (PRE C 1945). Contains stories that show us truants, seducers, gossips, rally-drivers, generous hostesses, corrupt politicians, failing priests, amateur theologians, struggling musicians, moony adolescents, victims of domestic brutishness, sentimental aunts and poets, patriots earnest or cynical, and people striving to get by. This book contains introduction and notes by Laurence Davies, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. Living overseas...
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Farrar, Straus, Giroux
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In this collection, as ever with Heaney, personal memory and humble domestic objects -- a whitewash brush, a sofa, a swing -- are endowed with talismanic significance, and throughout the collection he addresses his growing concerns, which inevitably include the political situation in his native Northern Ireland, in a poetry that never ceases to be fluid, alert, and completely truthful.
10) The haw lantern
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Seamus Heaney describes the haw lantern as "small light for small people" but there is more than tiny illumination emanating from one of Ireland's premier poets. Heaney peppers this short collection of poems with crafty language and natural objects: "I heard the hatchet's differentiated/Accurate cut, the crack, the sigh/And collapse of what luxuriated/Through the shocked tips and wreckage of it all." The Haw Lantern won England's Whitbread Prize in...
12) Howdie-skelp
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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2021.
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"The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet delivers a sharp wake-up call with his fourteenth collection of poetry"--
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