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The T.E. Lawrence Poems

Macewen, Gwendolyn
The T.E. Lawrence Poems
The T.E. Lawrence Poems is Gwendolyn MacEwen's most integrated, complete and respected work. It is now recognized as her signature poetic achievement."In 1962, I was staying in a hotel in Tiberias, Israel, the tall, white-haired proprietor invited me downstairs one evening and served me syrupy tea and a plate of fruit. He showed me a series of old sepiatone photographs which lined the walls - photographs of blurred riders on camels riding to t...

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Soldier Poetry of the Second World War: An Anthology

Morgan, Jane / Morgan, Walter C.
Soldier Poetry of the Second World War: An Anthology
From Wilfred Owen, to Siegfried Sassoon and Rupert Brooke to John McCrae, poetry has been recognized as a significant voice of war. This volume adds another dimension to that voice. The Maple Leaf was a Canadian Army newspaper published during the World War II, featuring a weekly column, "Rhyme and Reason, " that collected soldiers' poems. Though these poets were not professionals, each writer crafted their words carefully to convey their expe...

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Last Night of the World

Wayne, Joyce
Last Night of the World
On a hot Ottawa night in August 1945, Soviet agent Freda Linton's world is about to fall apart. She's spent the war infiltrating the highest levels of the Canadian government as an undercover operative for the fledging Canadian Communist Party and for Moscow's military police. As the global conflict nears its conclusion, her Soviet embassy handler and darling of the diplomatic scene Nikolai Zabotin sends her to retrieve atomic secrets from the...

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Clever Adulteress and Other Stories: A Treasury of Jain L...

Granoff, Phyllis
Clever Adulteress and Other Stories: A Treasury of Jain Literature
The stories in this collection span almost one thousand years of story-telling in India. Most originate in North India and all were written by Jain monks for the education and amusement of the faithful. Jain literature is both righ and varied. Stories were told in verse and prose, in Sanskrit and in vernacular languages. Some resemble simple folk tales while others are as sophisticated as courtly romances. The stories in Jain literature are ab...

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