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Pär Lagerkvist
Pär Lagerkvist (1891-1974)

poet, playwright, essayist, autobiographer

  • Uppsala University

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Mariamne
Prentice Hall Literature--World Masterpieces
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--World Literature
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Platinum
Barabbas
Dvärgen
Pilgrim på havet
Ahasverus död
The marriage feast
Sibyllan
The Holy Land
Sochinenii︠a︡ v dvukh tomakh
The eternal smile
The eternal smile, three stories
Sibyl.
Barabbas V134
Modern theatre
The eternal smile, and other stories
Det besegrade livet
Aftonland
Ett författarskap speglat i språket
Ames masquées
Den Svåra resan
Prosa
El Verdugo
Smert' Agasfera
Le nain
Valda dikter. Hjärtats saanger. Berättelser. Gäst hos verkligheten. Barabbas. Mariamne
The sibyl
Antecknat
Gäst hos verkligheten
El Enano
Guest of reality
Five early works
Barrabás
The eternal smile
Sång och strid
Dikter
The death of Ahasuerus
Das Heilige Land
Barabbas ...
Den lyckliges väg
Par Layerkvist in America
Det heliga landet
Plays
Ahasverus do d
The marriage feast and other stories
Motiv
Lagrkvst the Holy Land
Pilgrim paa havet
o nanos / ο νάνος
Brev
Bödeln
Ångest
Pilgrimen
Kaos
Modern theatre: points of view and attack
Barabbas
I den tiden
Midsommardröm i fattighuset
Valda dikter
Det eviga leendet
Onda sagor
The dwarf
No Royalty A/C Marriage Feast
Sagor, satirer och noveller
Dwarf (Quartet Encounters)
Jarn och manniskor
Mariamne: a novel
Marianne
The marriage feast, and other stories
The sibyl
Ordkunst og billedkunst
Teater: Den svåra stunden, tre enaktare
Vid lägereld
Kämpande ande
Pilgrim på havet
Kämpande ande
The sibyl
Contes cruels
ha-Gamad
La terra della sera
The marriage feast, and other stories
Dikter
Midsummer dream in the workhouse
La Mort d'Ahasverus
Det heliga landet
Dvärgen
Pär Lagerkvist om bildkonsten
Sagor, satirer och noveller
Ahasverus död
Pär Lagerkvist 100 år
Gäst hos verkligheten
Bödeln
Il pino
The marriage feast
Pays du soir
בר־אבא
Hemmet och stjärnan
Onda sagor
Dramatik
Literary art and pictorial art
Hjärtats sånger
Karlik
Låt människan leva
Gäst hos verkligheten
Prosa
De vises sten
Dvärgen
Barabasz
Jane Urquhart
Jane Urquhart (born 1949)

poet

  • University of Guelph

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Richard Hughes
Richard Hughes (1900-1976)

journalist, poet, playwright

  • Oriel College, Charterhouse School

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The Fox in the Attic
The Human Predicament
The Wooden Shepherdess
The Fox in the Attic
The Human Predicament: Vol.1
The Wooden Shepherdess
The fox in the attic
The Fox in the Attic
Fox in Attic
Innocent Voyage
Wolf's Complete Book of Terror
Leadership
Gertrude's Child
In Hazard
The Wonder Dog
A High Wind in Jamaica
A High Wind in Jamaica
In hazard
In Hazard
Gertrude's child
Fiction as Truth
A high wind in Jamaica, or, The innocent voyage
In Hazard
In Hazard
Bound for Boston
The Wonder Dog
In the Lap of Atlas
High Wind in Jamaica
Gipsy-Night and Other Poems
Capricorn
The Spider's Palace
False Accusation - Level 4
Queen bee
The Fox in the attic
Assemblies for secondary schools
Hong Kong, borrowed place, borrowed time
Plays
The Innocent Voyage
The Spider's Palace
A Secondary Religious Education Course
Lost in London
Don't Blame Me! and Other Stories
Byd y bigail
Those Things Which Are Above
The Man Born to Be Hanged
The Sisters' Tragedy
Gertrude and the Mermaid
Foreign Devil
The Sisters' Tragedy
In Hazard
Hazard Elimination Inc., Shaken, but Not Stirred
Cyclone à la Jamaïque
Hazard Elimination Inc
Richard Hughes
New Approach to Religious Education
Davy Jones, or, Harlequin and Mother Carey's chickens
A Moment of Time
Gertrude Child
Péril en mer
Guy, Earl of Warwick
A Primary Religious Education Course
A high wind in Jamaica
Gipsy-Night and Other Poems
Gertrude's Child
Hucarán en Jamaica
Confessio Juvenis
A Comedy of Good and Evil
A Moment of Time
Bringing Down the Safety Guy
The Spider's Palace
Ecstatic ode on vision
No Royalty A/C Spider's Palace
Richard Hughes
A rabbit and a leg
Demographic change and the measures that can be taken to attract and retain sewing machinists
Guidelines for Promoting Equal Opportunities in the Health Service
The spider's palace & other stories
Confessio juvenis
High Wind in Jamaica (1563)
The human predicament
A moment of time
Wooden Shepherdess
Plays Richard Hughes
Burial and the dark child
The human predicament
A high wind in Jamaica <The innocent voyage>
Hughes, Glyn in Hazard (Coll.edn.)\pan Only
The wonder-dog
A High Wind Jamaica
Daddy's Practising Again
Selected modern short stories
The Bus
The case of Richard Hughes, contractor and builder of the fish-market, Westminster
El perro prodigio
The sisters' tragedy
The wooden sheperdess
Plays
In hazard
Hughes Plays
Gipsy-night
Plays
Legends of the Heart
A moment in time
Adam Thorpe
Adam Thorpe (born 1956)

poet, translator

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Nineteen Twenty-One
The Rules of Perspective
Ulverton
Pieces of light
The standing pool
Shifts
Still
No Telling
Hodd
Notes from the Cévennes
Mornings in the Baltic
Meeting Montaigne
Birds With a Broken Wing
Between each breath
From the Neanderthal
Flight
Between each breath
Nine lessons from the dark
Still Postcard
Taktverschiebung
John Cowper Powys
John Cowper Powys (1872-1963)

poet, philosopher, literary critic

  • University of Cambridge, Sherborne School

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Owen Glendower
Porius
Morwyn
After My Fashion
Rodmoor
A Glastonbury Romance
Wolf Solent
Maiden Castle
Weymouth Sands
The Meaning of Culture
Visions and revisions
The Brazen Head
Wood and Stone
The Art of Happiness
The complex vision
Atlantis
Homer and the Aether
The letters of John Cowper Powys to Hal W. and Violet Trovillion
Autobiography
Confessions of two brothers, John Cowper Powys [and] Llewellyn Powys
Suspended judgments
Mortal strife
One hundred Dante books
Samphire
Mandragora
Ducdame
Three fantasies
Dostoevsky
Letters from John Cowper Powys to Glyn Hughes
Les sables de la mer
The pleasures of literature
The diary of John Cowper Powys 1931
Essays On De Gourmont And Byron
One hundred best books, with commentary and an essay on books and reading
John Cowper Powys letter, 1937-54
Odes and Other Poems
In defense of sensuality
Essays on de Maupassant, Anatole France, William Blake
Romer Mowl and other stories
Up and Out
The letters of John Cowper Powys to Ichiro Hara
The letters of John Cowper Powys to G.R. Wilson Knight
The letters of John Cowper Powys to Philippa Powys
La fosse aux chiens
The diary of John Cowper Powys, 1930
Rabelais, his life
The letters of John Cowper Powys to Frances Gregg
John Keats, or, Popular paganism
The art of growing old
The Dorset year
The diary of John Cowper Powys
Wolf's-Bane
Powys on Keats
The Inmates
All or Nothing
The letters of John Cowper Powys to Sven-Erik Täckmark
Les enchantements de Glastonbury
In spite of
The war and culture
Dorothy M. Richardson
Letters of John Cowper Powys to his brother Llewellyn
An Englishman up-state
Real Wraiths
Letters from John Cowper Powys to Clifford Tolchard
A philosophy of solitude
The letters of John Cowper Powys to Frank Warren
The letters of John Cowper Powys and Dorothy Richardson
Jobber Skald
Letters to Henry Miller
The religion of a sceptic
John Cowper Powys
Psychoanalysis and morality
The diary of John Cowper Powys for 1929
Granit
Obstinate Cymric
Paddock calls
Letters from John Cowper Powys to C. Benson Roberts
100 Best Books
Letters of John Cowper Powys to Louis Wilkinson, 1935-1956
Poems 1899
Rabelais : His life
Suspended judgments, essays on books and sensations
The pleasures of literature;
Owen Glendower T1 Les tours de Mathrafal
John Cowper Powys
Wolf's-Bane Rhymes
Den Otidsenlige och den aktuelle
Brazen Head
Letters to His Brother Llewellyn Volume I (1975)
Poems
John Cowper Powys Autobiography
LES ENCHANTEMENTS DE GLASTONBURY (DU MONDE ENTIER)
Samphire
Visions and Revisions; a Book of Literary Devotions
Powys and Lord Jim
V & a Style Calendar 2006
Complex Vision
John Cowper Powys on vivisection in "Autobiography."
Wolf Solent
Confessions of Two Brothers, John Cowper Powys [and] Llewellyn Powys
Syllabus of a course of six lectures on English novelists
Dostoievsky
John Cowper Powys on Thomas Hardy
Dulce Chacón
Dulce Chacón (1954-2003)

poet

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Anna Antonovska
Anna Antonovska (1885-1967)

poet, literary critic

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Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai (born 1973)

woman of letters, poet, translator

  • Monash University, University of Lancaster

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