This essential Middle English textbook now in its third edition introduces students to the wide range of literature written in England between 1150 & 1400 It is a new thoroughly revised edition of this essential Middle English textbook It introduces the language of the time giving guidance on pronunciation spelling grammar metre vocabulary & regional dialects It now

Includes:: extracts from ' Pearl' & Chaucer's Troilus & Criseyde Bibliographic references have been updated throughout Each text is accompanied by detailed notes

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Morrison&s intense examination of the world of things that accompany our lives & shape our environment Jasper Morrison has the ability to bestow things with a distinctive style His signature style is evident in many of the everyday objects that surround us His repertoire of essential designs is characterized by simplicity yet complexity as well as a sense of poetry & humor Morrison works on a global scale & is one of the most onfluential product designers in the world today A Book of Things is a collection of products & projects across the broad spectrum of his activities & demonstrates the continuity of his interests & methods ehich he describes in succinct texts ...

Andrea Newman's controversial series explores the secrets of a middle-class family who attempts to keep these tangled sexual & emotional relationships of incest & betrayal a private matter in this melodrama A BOUQUET OF BARBED WIRE is a powerful study in the fragility of family unity & the destructive consequences of forbidden desire Featuring performances from Frank Finlay Sheila Allen & Susan Penhaligon A BOUQUET OF BARBED WIRE was one of the most celebrated & controversial British television dramas ever made ...

From the author of the international bestseller In & Out of the Garden & the wondrous sketchbook Sara Midda&s South of France comes a long-awaited treasure of a book Drawn from the artist&s wealth of impressions & memories it is a book for lovers of food & art & fine gift books a book for anyone who upon arriving in a new town seeks first the local market or who believes the best thing to do on a given night is to share a table with friends Sara Midda is a watercolourist whose delicate & beautiful paintings shine like jewels evoking the sweet violet taste of a summer raspberry or the silvery greens & gnarled burnt umber of an olive grove And she is also a collagist weaving together photographs line drawings her personal swatches all the hues of a spice cabinet or the sensations of a picnic the colors of the breeze sunshine laughter the cooling grass & a poet in love with words that sing like podding & wicker nettle & snug By turns reverent & playful A Bowl of Olives is a work of pure enchantment celebrating food of the seasons of family of travel & memory It is as richly layered as a favorite meal The book is cloth-bound jacketed & printed on uncoated stock to convey the feeling of an artist s sketchbook" ...

Beetles are ravishingly beautiful & engagingly odd often at the same time A Box of Beetles offers you 100 examples of the most striking species in a very photogenic family from the glittering metallic rose beetles that were worn by the Etruscans as jewellery to the vast (and aptly named) Titanic beetle which is almost 8inches long & strong enough to snap a pencil between its jaws Flip through the pack marvelling at its inhabitants then choose the most awesome to send or display ...

Travis & Charley have just met It Charley last night in town & Travis can let her leave without getting her to go on a date In a future where real people are rapidly being supplanted by lifelike androids sometimes one shot is all you get! Intelligence may be artificial but the emotion is real in this futuristic romance from the writer of 12 Reasons Why I Love Her & the cartoonist behind Between Gears ...

BELIEVE IN THE IMPOSSIBLEYou are about to read THE TRUE STORY OF FATHER CHRISTMAS If you are one of those people who believe that some things are impossible you should put this book down right away (Because this book is FULL of impossible things) Are you still reading? Good Then let us begin ...

I'm Dan Hope & deep inside my head I keep a list of things I want to come true For example I want my sister Ninja Grace to go to university at the North Pole & only come back once a year I want to help Sherlock Holmes solve his most daring mystery yet & if it could be a zombie mystery all the more exciting I want my dog to stop eating the planets & throwing them up on the carpet & finally the biggest dream of all I want my dad to love me ...

From the Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Dark Room an extraordinary new novel A spellbinding evocation of fear & threat tinged with the possibility of hope & change&
- Philippe Sands author of East West Street Early on a grey November morning in 1941 only weeks after the German invasion a small Ukrainian town is overrun by the SS A Boy In Winter tells of the three days that follow & the lives that are overturned in the process & in the midst of it all is the determined boy Yankel who will throw his & his young brother&s chances of surviving to strangers A Boy In Winter is a story of hope when all is lost & of mercy when the times have none& Superb delicately poised& FT& Magnificent& Linda Grant&A joy to read & Helen Dunmore
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From the Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Dark Room an extraordinary new novel A spellbinding evocation of fear & threat tinged with the possibility of hope & change&
- Philippe Sands author of East West Street Early on a grey November morning in 1941 only weeks after the German invasion a small Ukrainian town is overrun by the SS A Boy In Winter tells of the three days that follow & the lives that are overturned in the process & in the midst of it all is the determined boy Yankel who will throw his & his young brother&s chances of surviving to strangers A Boy In Winter is a story of hope when all is lost & of mercy when the times have none& Superb delicately poised& FT& Magnificent& Linda Grant&A joy to read & Helen Dunmore
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