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Diana Wynne Jones
Diana Wynne Jones (1934-2011)

poet

  • University of Oxford, Friends School Saffron Walden

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Reflections: On the Magic of Writing
Dogsbody
Howl's Moving Castle (Howl's Moving Castle #1)
Castle in the Air (Howl's Moving Castle #2)
Dark Lord of Derkholm
The Ogre Downstairs
The Homeward Bounders
Mystery Stories
Conrad's Fate
The Time of the Ghost
A Tale of Time City
House of Many Ways (Howl's Moving Castle #3)
Stories
Stopping for a Spell
Fire and Hemlock
The Crown of Dalemark (The Dalemark Quartet #4)
The Year of the Griffin
Hexwood
Archer's Goon
Eight Days of Luke
Earwig and the witch
The tough guide to fantasyland
The Pinhoe Egg (Chrestomanci, Book 6)
Power of Three
The Game
The Four Grannies
The Magicians of Caprona
The Lives of Christopher Chant (Chrestomanci, Book 2)
Yes Dear
The Merlin Conspiracy
Minor Arcana
Witch's business
Deep secret
Enchanted Glass
Black Maria
Witch Week (The Chrestomanci)
A Sudden Wild Magic
Unexpected Magic
Charmed Life (Chrestomanci, Book 1)
Drowned Ammet (Dalemark Quartet, Book 2)
Fantasy Stories
Aunt Maria
Believing is seeing
Wild Robert
Vile Visitors
Spellbound
The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Volume 1
Stealer of Souls: World Book Day Edition
Who got rid of Angus Flint?
The Dragon Book
Wilkins' tooth
The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Volume 2
Mixed Magics (The Chrestomanci)
Warlock at the wheel
The Islands of Chaldea
Chair person
Cart and Cwidder (The Dalemark Quartet)
The Spellcoats (Dalemark Quartet, Book 3)
Cart and cwidder and drowned Ammat
The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Volume III (Chronicles of Chrestomanci)
Changeover
The Heroic Ideal
Freaky Families
Hidden Turnings
Wizard's Castle (Howl's Moving Castle #1-2)
The Chrestomanci quartet
3-Book Fantasy Collection
Enna Hittims
The Skiver's Guide
La casa de los mil pasillos
Year of the Griffin Reading Group Guide
Everard's ride
CHATEAU DE HURLE -LE
Puss in Boots (Everystory)
מגדלים פורחים באוויר
World of Howl Collection
The Dalemark Quartet
Dalemark Quartet, Volume 2
Firebirds
Diana Wynne Jones's Fantastical Journeys Collection (the Islands of Chaldea, a Tale of Time City, the Homeward Bounders)
El castillo ambulante
Chrestomanci Series
La congiura di Merlino
Chrestomanci or The World's of Chrestomanci
Year of the Griffin
Chrestomanci Series 22bk Bin
World of Chrestomanci
MA SOEUR EST UNE SORCIÈRE
Diana Wynne Jones's Magic and Myths Collection (the Game, the Power of Three, Eight Days of Luke, Dogsbody)
De Negen Levens
Chrestomanci Series
El castillo en el aire
Poems
El castell ambulant
Zamek w chmurach - Diana Wynne Jones [KSIÄĹťKA]
Das Dalemark Quartett 04. Die Krone von Dalemark.
Diana Wynne Jones Pack
Randall Jarrell
Randall Jarrell (1914-1965)

poet, literary critic, journalist, translator

  • Kenyon College, Vanderbilt University

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Randall Jarrell's letters
Raymond F. Dasmann
The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience
The United States in Literature -- The Glass Menagerie Edition
The United States in Literature
The United States in Literature -- All My Sons Edition
Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience
The juniper tree, and other tales from Grimm
Poetry and the age
Poems
The animal family
Fly by Night
Pictures from an institution
Kipling, Auden & Co
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
No other book
The Gingerbread Rabbit
The Anchor book of stories
The complete poems
A bat is born, from The bat-poet
The bat-poet
Bat-Poet
Snow-White and the seven dwarfs
The third book of criticism
Randall Jarrell on W.H. Auden
The lost world
The animal family
Kenneth S. Norris, naturalist, cetologist & conservationist, 1924-1998
A sad heart at the supermarket
Bat-Poet
Pictures from an Institution
Jerome: the biography of a poem
Raymond F. Dasmann
Six Russian short novels
Kipling, Auden and Company
Randall Jarrell, selected poems
Kipling, Auden and co
Letters of Randall Jarrell
The seven-league crutches
Goethe's Faust: Part One
The fisherman and his wife
The woman at the Washington Zoo
Losses
The achievement of Randall Jarrell
Poetry and the Age (Faber Library Ser.)
LA Familia Animal/the Animal Family
A Bat Is Born, from the Bat-poet
The Complete poems
Pictures from an Institution
Randall Jarrell's book of stories
The complete poems
Il coniglio di panpepato
Fly by night
Animaux pour toute famille
About popular culture
ANIMAL FAMILY
The Animal Family
Strawberry-growing in the Pajaro Valley
The gingerbread rabbit
THIRD BOOK OF CRITICISM
Lost World
Blood for a stranger
Baixue gong zhu he qi ge xiao ai ren
El murciélago poeta
A sad heart at the supermarket
Randall Jarrell Reads and Discusses His Poems Against War (Swc 1363)
Little friend, little friend
The Fisherman and His Wife
Randall Jarrell on W. H. Auden
Pictures from an institution
Volar de noche
Five young American poets
Poets, critics, and readers
Selected poems
The third book of criticism
Poetry and the age
A sad heart at the supermarket
Le lapin de pain d'épice
Poetry and the age
Poetry and the age
Selected poems
About popular culture
The lost world
A sad heart at the supermarket
The animal family
The gingerbread rabbit
Vladimir Voinovich
Vladimir Voinovich (1932-2018)

poet, painter, playwright, lyricist, dissident

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Avtoportret
In plain Russian
Pretendent na prestol
The Ivankiad
Monumental propaganda
The anti-Soviet Soviet Union
The fur hat
The Ivankiad
Monumental propaganda
The anti-Soviet Soviet Union
Die denkwürdigen Abenteuer des Soldaten Iwan Tschonkin
Obrazy i slova
Putem vzaimnoi perepiski =
Moskorep
[Tribunal
Fur Hat
Zamysel
Personalʹnoe delo
Portret na fone mifa
Stepen' doveriya
Moskva 2042
Delo No. 34840
Monumentalʹnai︠a︡ propaganda
Antologiya satirȳ i yumora Rossii XX veka
Moscow 2042
Vladimir Voĭnovich
Maloe sobranie sochineniĭ
Ivan'kiada
Zapakh shokolada
Ivan'kiada
Shapka
The fur hat
Ivankiad
Delo N⁰ 34840
Zamysel
Maloe sobranie sochinenii v 5 tomakh
Monumental Propaganda
Putem vzaimnoĭ perepiski
Жизнь и необычайные приключения солдата Ивана Чонкина / Дюжина ножей в спину революции
Tribunal
A displaced person
Pretendent na prestol
[Shapka
Dva tovarischa
Derevi︠a︡nnoe i︠a︡bloko svobody
Stepen' doveriia
Khochu bytʹ chestnym
Skazka o glupom Galilee
Pretendent na prestol
Ivankiada
Anti Sovietskii Sovietski Soyuz
Faktor Murzika
Nulevoe Reshenie
Skazki dli͡a︡ vzroslykh
The Ivankiad, or, The tale of the writer Voinovich's installation in his new apartment
Czapka
The fur hat
Putet vzaimnoi perepiski
Chonkin i dr.
Monumentalʹnai͡a propaganda
Pute m vzaimno i perepiski
Ivanʹki︠a︡da, ili rasskaz o vselenii pisateli︠a︡ Voĭnovicha v novui︠u︡ kvartiru
Ivan'iada ili rasskaz o vselenii pisatelya Voinovicha v novuyu kvartiru
Povesti
Alʹbom
Tribunal
Monumentalʹnai͡a︡ propaganda
Mon pays bien-aimé
Monumentalnaia propaganda
Malinovyĭ pelikan
Putem vzaimnoĭ perepiski
Putem vzaimnoĭ perepiski
Zwei Freunde
Tribunal
Dvapli︠u︡sodin v odnom flakone
In Plain Russian
Ivan'kiada
Avtoportret
Zamysel
Moskva 2042
V stile Andre Sharli︠a︡ Buli︠a︡
Miklós Radnóti
Miklós Radnóti (1909-1944)

poet, translator

  • University of Szeged

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In the footsteps of Orpheus
Under Gemini, a prose memoir and selected poetry
Forced march
Foamy sky
FORCED MARCH: SELECTED POEMS; TRANS. BY CLIVE WILMER
Clouded sky
The complete poetry
Napló
Under Gemini
The complete poetry
Subway Stops
Postcards
Clouded sky
Radnóti Miklós összes versei és műfordításai
Radnóti Miklós összegyűjtött prózai írásai
Meredek út
Naptár
Radnóti Miklós művei
Clouded Sky
Orpheus nyomában
The witness
Próza
Don Quijote
Tajkékos ég
33 poems
Camp Notebook (Visible Poets)
Camp notebook =
Miklós Radnóti
The witness
Foamy sky
Forced March
Napló
Radnóti Miklós összegyűjtött versei és versfordításai
Tajtékos ég
Válogatott művei
Bori notesz
Radnóti Miklós 1909-1944
Forced march
Naptár
Borske beležnice
Levél a hitveshez
Pogány köszöntő
Radnótitól Radnótiról
Próza, novellák és tanulmányok
Összes versei és müfordításai
Be-ʻiḳvot Orfeʾos
Összes versei és versfordításai
Különben magyar költő vagyok
Ikrek hava
Subway stops
Bori notesz
Válogatott versek, 1930-1940
Kein Blick zurück, kein Zauber
Összegyűjtött prózai írások
Bori notesz abdai dokumentumok
Erőltetett menet
Ikrek hava
RADNOTI MIKLOS KOLTEMENYEI
Ezerkilencszáznegyvennégy
Ikrek hava
Művei
Gewaltmarsch
33 poems
Válogatott versei
Tsaʻadat-parekh
Sem emlék, sem varázslat
Be-ʻiḳvot Orfeʾos
Összes versei és versfordításai
Tanulmányok, cikkek
Radnóti Miklós összes versei és műfordításai
RADNOTI MIKLOS MUVEI
Karunga a holtak ura
All that still matters at all
Napló
RADNOTI MIKLOS KOLTEMENYEI
Költeményei
ECLOGÁK
Simon Armitage
Simon Armitage (born 1963)

poet

  • University of Portsmouth, Victoria University of Manchester

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Gig
Tyrannosaurus Rex versus the Corduroy Kid
All points north
King Arthur in the East Riding
The Shout
The Death of King Arthur
Eclipse
Zoom!
The Dead Sea Poems
The Universal Home Doctor
The odyssey
Jerusalem
Little green man
Book of matches
Homer's Odyssey
The white stuff
Little Green Man
Kid
The Wild Blue Yonder
Killing time
CloudCuckooLand
Moon country
Travelling Songs
All Points North Yorkshire
Mister Heracles
The Forward Book of Poetry
Pearl
Penguin Book of Poetry
Kid (Faber Pocket Poetry)
Simon Armitage, Sean O'Brien, Tony Harrison
Seeing stars
Around Robinson
Human geography
Short and Sweet (Faber Poetry)
Xanadu
Selected Poems
Walking home
The walking horses
The shout
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Barbara Hepworth
The poetry of birds
Short and sweet
Landmarks
Seeing stars
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The anaesthetist
Kid
The Penguin book of poetry from Britain and Ireland since 1945
Short and sweet
Resistance
Walking away
The white stuff
Pavel Florensky
Pavel Florensky (1882-1937)

mathematician, inventor, physicist, philosopher, engineer, priest, poet

  • Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Moscow Imperial University

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Obretai︠a︡ putʹ
Sobranie sochineniĭ
Ikonostas
Beyond vision
La perspective inversée ; L'iconostase et autres écrits sur l'art
Opravdanie Kosmosa
The pillar and ground of the truth
Imena
Arest i gibelʹ
Sochinenii͡a︡ v chetyrekh tomakh
Perepiska svi︠a︡shchennika Pavla Aleksandrovicha Florenskogo so svi︠a︡shchennikom Sergiem Nikolaevichem Bulgakovym
Vse dumy -- o vas
Stolp i utverzhdenie istiny
Maloe sobranie sochineniĭ
Analiz prostranstvennosti i vremeni v khudozhestvenno-izobrazitelʹnykh proizvedenii͡a︡kh
Iconostasis
Salt of the earth, or, A narrative on the life of the Elder of Gethsemane Skete, Hieromonk Abba Isidore
Izbrannye trudy po iskusstvu
Perepiska svi︠a︡shchennika Pavla Aleksandrovicha Florenskogo i Mikhaila Aleksandrovicha Novoselova
Pawel Florenski
Vse dumy--o vas
La colonna e il fondamento della verità / Pavel Florenskij ; traduzione dal russo di Pietro Modesto ; introduzione di Elémire Zolla
Deti͡a︡m moim
La prospettiva rovesciata e altri scritti
Oro
Predpolagaemoe gosudarstvennoe ustroĭstvo v budushchem
Taĭna imeni
Die umgekehrte Perspektive
Iz istorii antichnoĭ filosofii
Imena
[Stolp i utverzhdenie istiny
Ikonostas
Pavel Florenskiĭ i simvolisty
Le porte regali
Cartas de la prisión y de los campos
Filosofii͡a kulʹta
Werke in zehn Lieferungen
Sobranie chastushek Kostromskoĭ gubernii Nerekhtskogo uezda
Smisao idealizma
[U vodorazdelov mysli
Svi︠a︡shchennoe pereimenovanie
Stolp i utverzhdenīe istiny
Bogoslovskie trudy
U vodorazdelov mysli
Troit︠s︡e-Sergieva lavra
La colonne et le fondement de la vérité
Brendan Behan
Brendan Behan (1923-1964)

poet, journalist, playwright

  • Dublin Institute of Technology

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Borstal Boy (Nonpareil Book)
The hostage
Brendan Behan's New York
Brendan Behan's island
Poems and a Play in Irish
Confessions of an Irish rebel
The complete plays
Hold your hour and have another
Richard's cork leg
The Dubbalin [i.e. Dublin] man
Behan Complete Plays
The quare fellow
After the Wake
The letters of Brendan Behan
The quare fellow, and The hostage
The King of Ireland's Son
The Scarperer
The Letters
El Principe y el Gigante / The Prince and the Giant
An Giall/the Hostage (Irish Dramatic Texts)
The Hostage
Kathleen
Brendan Behan, interviews and recollections
James Joyce
The quare fellow : a comedy-drama
Sayings of Brendan Behan
The wit of Brendan Behan
Stücke
Moving out, and A garden party
Un otage =
An Giall ; The hostage
The quare fellow, and The hostage
An Giall
The Dubbalin man
The wit of Brendan Behan
Encore un verre avant de partir
An giall
The Quare Fellow, and the Hostage
Bekenntnisse eines irischen Rebellen
L'Escarpeur
Complete text of the hostage
Poems and stories
The quare fellow
Deux otages
The hostage
Complete text of the hostage
Poetry, Kavanagh back to Keats
El príncep i el gegant
Moving out
Confessions of an Irish Rebel
Letters of Brendan Behan
Mother of All the Behans
The Brendan Behan Quotation Book
John Mortimer
John Mortimer (1923-2009)

barrister, poet lawyer

  • University of Oxford, Harrow School

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where there's a will
Murderers and other friends
Rumpole and the angel of death
Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders
Rumpole rests his case
Rumpole and the primrose path
Dunster
Rumpole on Trial
The sound of trumpets
Like men betrayed
Paradise postponed
Felix in the underworld
Regina v. Rumpole
The narrowing stream
Rumpole à la carte
Rumpole and the age of miracles
The third Rumpole omnibus
Rumpole of the Bailey
The summer of a dormouse
Murderers and other friends
Quite honestly
A voyage round my father
Titmuss regained
Will Shakespeare
Murderers and Other Friends
Charade
Trials of Rumpole
Three plays
Character parts
Rumpole's Return
Summer's lease
Charade
Paradise postponed
The first Rumpole omnibus
Clinging to the wreckage
Where there's a will
Rumpole
Rumpole's Return
The best of Rumpole
QUITE HONESTLY
The best of Rumpole
Rumpole and the Reign of Terror (Rumpole Novels)
Rumpole's Last Case
A Rumpole Christmas
Rumpole on Trial (Rumpole)
THE SCALES OF JUSTICE
A voyage round my father.
Quite Honestly
Collected Plays
Quite Honestly
Rumpole and the Reign of Terror
Collaborators
Summer's lease
Famous trials
The Rapstone chronicles
Rumpole à la carte
A voyage round my father ; The dock brief ; What shall we tell Caroline?
Rumpole and the Younger Generation
Dunster
Rumpole misbehaves
RUMPOLE A LA CARTE
Statistical Process Control
Rumpole Misbehaves
Rumpole and the golden thread
Clinging to the wreckage
Voyage Round My Father
Rumpole and the golden thread
In Character
Where there's a will
Felix in the underworld
Forever Rumpole
Charles Dickens' A Christmas carol
Will Shakespeare
Rumpole for the Defense
Rumpole's Last Case
The Rumpole Collection
Rumpole Rests His Case
Under the hammer
Advanced manufacturing in the automotive industry
A Rumpole Christmas
Idaho Table
Rumpole rests his case
The wrong side of the park
Rumpole of the Bailey
Rumpole and the reign of terror
The bells of hell
Lunch Hour
Come as You Are
Rumpole Omnibus
Knightsbridge
Rumpole of the Bailey
Rumpole's Last Case (Rumpole)
The second Rumpole omnibus
Rumpole Rests His Case
Five Plays
The second Rumpole omnibus
Rumpole and the Judges Elbow
The Captain of Köpenick
Plays
Naked Justice
Rumpole at the Bar
Selected Works of John Mortimer
Rumpole and the reign of terror
Charade
The Anti-social Behaviour of Horace Rumpole
With love & lizards
Narrowing Stream, the
Rumpole and the Reign of Terror
ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR OF HORACE RUMPOLE
In character
Clinging to the wreakage
RUMPOLE AND THE PENGE BUNGALOW MURDERS
Lunch hour
The Best of Rumpole
A Voyage round my father
Day dreams of a pioneer
Under the Hammer
Titmuss regained
Rumpole and the Age of Miracles
Rumpole at Christmas
Just-in-time
Rumpole a la Carte
The fear of heaven
Voyage Round my Father and Other Plays
The Second Rumpole Omnibus
Clinging to the wreckage
Titmuss Regained
Felix in the underworld
Life with Will
The Oxford Book of villains
Rumpole
Character parts
The Oxford book of villains
English fashions
Dn Titmus Regained
Dunster
Hock and soda water
Rumpole's return
Rumpole and the reign of terror
Rumpole of the Bailey
Great Law and Order Stories
Logistics in Manufacturing
Quite honestly
Clinging to the Wreckage
Rumpole on Trial
Voyage Round my Father and Other Plays
Edwin and other plays
Thou Shalt Not Kill
Where there's a will
Rumpole for the defence
Rumpole at Christmas
The Penguin book of great law & order stories
Felix in the Underworld
Rumpole on trial
Rumpole a la Carte
Zerah Colburn The Spirit of Darkness
Two stars for comfort
Like men betrayed
Rumpole of the Bailey
The Summer of a Dormouse
Collect your hand baggage
Trials of Rumpole, The counter display
The dock brief
Charade. Spoken Word. CAB 268. 4 audio cassettes
Titmuss regained
Dock Brief
Rumpole: The Confessions of Guilt : The Dear Departed : The Man of God
Rumpole and the age of miracles
What shall we tell Caroline?
COLLECTED PLAYS; V. 2; THE WRONG SIDE OF THE PARK/ MILL HILL/BERMONDSEY/KNIGHTSBRIDGE/MARBLE ARCH/ EDWIN
Rumpole Rests His Case:a Book of Rumpole Stories
Rumpole Omnibus (786x)
Rumpole
Sketches from one to another
Rumpole & the Man of God
Edwin
The judge
A voyage round my father
Cotton spinning
RUMPOLE AND THE REIGN OF TERROR
Answer yes or no
Rumming park
Rumpole 2
An essay, to the pious memory of that late reverend divine, Mr. George Trosse, of the City of Exon, who died suddenly upon the eleventh day of January, 1712-13. ... By J. M
Famous Trials
A voyage round my father
Rumpole misbehaves
The Trials of Rumpole
Rushforth and Bindtheboy
Knightsbridge
The sound of trumpets
The Rapstone chronicles
Rumpole Unabridged
Where theregass a will
Voyage Round my Father
Rumpole and the angel of death
Rumpole's last case
Rumpole and the angel of death
Break Point
All his world's a stage
I, Claudius
Rumpole and the Age for Retirement
I Spy
Edwin
The dock brief
I spy
The judge
Just-In-Time
The wrong side of the park
Rumpole for the Defence (Rumpole of the Bailey, 4th)
The silver hook
Rumpole's Return (Rumpole)
Regina V. Rumpole
BBC Radio Presents
What Shall We Tell Caroline?
Two stars for comfort
Come as you are! Four plays
A voyage round my father ; The dock brief ; What shall we tell Caroline?
Lunch hour
Voyage Around My Father Dock Brief What
Collect your hand baggage
Rumpole and the primrose path
Advanced Manufacturing in the Automotive Industry
The narrowing stream
Rumpole: affaires classées
The summer of a dormouse
David and Broccoli
Lunch hour, and other plays. --
With love & lizards
John Mortimer plays
Three winters
Rumpole
The anti-social behaviour of Horace Rumpole
Rumpole a la carte
Rumpole and the Primrose Path
Collaborators
Evolution of the early proterozoic Toumodi volcanic group and associated rocks, Ivory Coast
Felix aux enfers
El regreso de Titmuss
Un paraíso inalcanzable
Rumpole and the reign of terror
Lunch hour