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Marge Piercy
Marge Piercy (born 1936)

poet, women's rights activist, activist, climate activist

  • University of Michigan, Northwestern University

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He, She and It
Body of glass
He, She and It
Prentice Hall Literature -- Gold
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold
Small changes
Sleeping with Cats
The third child
The longings of women
Vida
Summer People
The twelve spoked wheel flashing
City of Darkness City of Light
Gone to soldiers
Sex Wars
The Crooked Inheritance
Fly away home
Colors passing through us
Braided Lives
Living in the open
Paths of Resistance
So You Want to Write
Three women
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold Level
My mother's body
Storm tide
Circles on the water
Pesach for the Rest of Us
Dance the eagle to sleep
What are big girls made of?
The Art of Blessing the Day
Hard Loving
Summer people
Braided lives
Hard Loving Poems
Storm tide
Early grrrl
The high cost of living
The longings of women
Stone, paper, knife
Parti-colored blocks for a quilt
Going Down Fast
4-telling
To be of use
Mars and her children
The moon is always female
Breaking camp
Marge Piercy
Three women
Storm tide
Braided Lives
On the Way Out, Turn Off the Light
Early ripening
Early Ripening
The hunger moon
The cost of lunch, etc
Vida
Three women
Made in Detroit
City of Darkness, City of Light
Available light
The high cost of living
The Earth Shines Secretly
Vida
My Life, My Body
Will Work For Peace
High Cost of Living
Dance the Eagle to Sleep
Stufen aus Glas
The Cost of Lunch, Etc
Dance Eagle to Sleep
Hard Loving
Parti-colored blocks for a quilt
The Hunger Moon
The last white class
Sehnsüchte
Gone to soldiers
Sex wars
Mujer al borde del tiempo
Dance the Eagle to Sleep
Small changes
Louder: We Can't Hear You(Yet)
Going down fast
Small Changes 3
The Cost of Lunch, Etc
Sleeping with Cats
He, She and It (MM to TR Promotion)
The Cost of Lunch, Etc
City of Darkness, City of Light
The Longing of Woman
Mars & Her Children
The high cost of living
Breaking camp
Three Degrees Below Desperate
The faithless
Eight chambers of the heart
High Cost of Living
Marge Piercy, Interview
Fly Away Home
Sex Wars
Summer People
La saison jolie
Alternative Economics, Alternative Societies
So You Want to Write
Written in Bone
Three Women Proof Copy
Third Child
Dance the Eagle to Sleep
Er, Sie und Es
Vida
Summer People
Longings of Women
Storm Tide by Marge Piercy (1998-08-05)
He, She and It
Gone to Soldiers Lib/E
Örülü Hayatlar
Gone to soldiers
Fly Away Home
Small changes
Going down Fast
Longings of Women
Crooked Inheritance
Kucuk Degisimler
Woman on the Edge of Time
Breaking camp
When the drouth broke
Summer People-Open Mkt
The grand coolie damn
Subversions
Gone to Soldiers
Storm Tide
Sigbjørn Skåden
Sigbjørn Skåden (born 1976)

poet

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Karl Hans Strobl
Karl Hans Strobl (1877-1946)

poet lawyer, editing staff, poet, theatre critic, dramaturge

  • Charles University

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Bismarck
Bettina von Arnim
Der krieg im Alpenrot
Das Geheimnis der blauen Schwerter
Dorf im Kaukasus
Der zauberkäfer
Od
Bismarck
Unheimliche Geschichten
Der brennende Berg
Attentäter
Die Wunderlaube
Eleagabal Kuperus
Arno Holz und die jüngst-deutsche bewegung
Tschechen
Prozess Borowska
Rex, geschichte eines hundes und zweier menschen
Ein gute Wehr und Waffen
Heerkönig Ariovist
Die Flamänder von Prag
Gespenster im sumpf
Prag
Der betrogene Tod
Goya und das löwengesicht
Zwei Saltzenbrod
Totenhorn-Südwand
Alfred Mombert
Die Madonna mit der Armbanduhr
Bismarck
Franz Ferdinands Lebensroman
Das Frauenhaus von Brescia
Heimat im frühen Licht
Die knöcherne hand und anderes
Die weltgeschichte und das igelhaus
Die Starken
Das wirtshaus "Zum könig Przemysl"
Glückhafte Wanderschaft
Kaiser Rotbart
Die vier Ehen des Matthias Merenus
Bismarck
Feuer im Nachbarhaus
Ludwig Anzengruber
Bettina von Arnim
Naomi Mitchison
Naomi Mitchison (1897-1999)

nurse, poet, linguist

  • Dragon School

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Caught in the Organ Draft
Memoirs of a Spacewoman
Memoirs of a spacewoman
Science Fiction Story Reader 10
Memoirs of a spacewoman
Memoirs of a spacewoman
The Corn king and the spring queen
The moral basis of politics
The Corn King and the Spring Queen
Travel light
The blood of the martyrs
Solution three
The bull calves
You may well ask
When the bough breaks, and other stories
The blood of the martyrs
Among you taking notes--
Memoirs of a Spacewoman
Sun and moon
Alexander the Great
The family at Ditlabeng
The blood of the martyrs
The Africans
Cloud cuckoo land
Images of Africa
Snake!
African heroes
The Fourth Pig
The Fourth Pig (Oddly Modern Fairy Tales)
When the Bough Breaks and Other Stories
Naomi Mitchison
Sunrise tomorrow
Socrates
The Conquered
Mucking around
Black Sparta
Margaret Cole, 1893-1980
Early in Orcadia
When the Bough Breaks, and Other Stories
Lobsters on the agenda
The blood of the martyrs
To the Chapel Perilous
FIVE MEN AND A SWAN
African Heroes
A life for Africa
The home and a changing civilisation
Small talk-
To the Chapel Perilous
Memoirs of a Spacewoman
The Vegetable War
The Conquered
The Young Alfred the Great
Friends and enemies
Solution three
Kornkönig und Frühlingsbraut
The Big House
Cleopatra's people
You May Well Ask
Five Men and a Swan
Sea-green Ribbons
Anna Comnena
Return to the fairy hill
As It Was
Small talk--: memories of an Edwardian childhood
Memoiren einer Raumfahrerin
Alexander the Great
Phoenix: Among You Taking Notes..
A girl must live
What Do You Think Yourself
Black Sparta
Oil for the highlands?
The far harbour
Cleansing of the Knife and Other Poems
All change here
Naomi Mitchison's Vienna diary
Comments on birth control
Other People's Worlds, and Mucking Around
Judy and Lakshmi
Blood of the Martyrs
Vienna diary
The laburnum branch, poems
Oil for the Highlands?
Vienna diary 1934
The Land the Ravens Found
Barbarian Stories, with the Hostages, and Boys and Girls and Gods
Blood of the Martyrs
Cloud cuckoo land
BLACK SPARTA (TRAVELLERS LIBRARY)
The Danish teapot
Graeme and the Dragon and Other Stories for Young Readers
Early in Orcadia
The Land the Ravens Found
Cleopatra's People
The land the ravens found
What the human race is up to
Life for Africa
Ketse and the chief
The Conquered
Behold Your King
The family at Ditlabeng
Spindrift
The Kingdom of Heaven
Judy and Lakshmi
Oath-Takers and Sea-Green Ribbons
Sittlichkeit
The Family at Ditlabeng
The Alban goes out
Rib of the Green Umbrella and Karensgaard
Naomi Mitchison (Saltire Pamphlets: Self-portrait Series)
THE PRICE OF FREEDOM. A PLAY IN THREE ACTS.
When the bough breaks and other stories
The swan's road
Blood of the Martyrs
Fairy Who Couldn't Tell a Lie
Solution Three
The Swan's Road
Five men and a swan
Black Sparta
Return to the fairy hill
The hostages
Judy and Lakshmi
Far Harbour with Henny and Crispies
Friends and enemies
Bull Calves
Not by Bread Alone
Re-educating Scotland
Conquered
The Oath-takers
Small Talk
Friends and Enemies
Travel Light
Blood of the Martyrs
When the Bough Breaks with Black Sparta
The Barbarian
Beyond this limit
The conquered
Bridges of Understanding
The big surprise
Sittlichkeit
African heroes
Presenting other people's children
Boys and girls and gods
Anna Comnena
The Young Alfred the Great
Presenting other people's children
When we become men
The conquered
When we become men
The Best war stories
Among You Taking Notes
Travel Light
Other people's worlds
Naomi Mitchison's Vienna Diary
The Conquered
What the Human Race is Up to
Barbarian stories
Sun and moon
Lobsters on the agenda
To the Chapel Perilous
The land the ravens found
To the Chapel Perilous
Not by bread alone
What Do You Think Yourself? with a Girl Must Live
Nix-nought-nothing
Among You Taking Notes...
Alexander the Great (Then & There)
Black Sparta
Behold your king
The big house
Graeme and the dragon
A fishing village on the Clyde
Small talk
Five men and a swan
Men and Herring
The corn king and the spring queen / by Naomi Mitchison ; with four pictures by Z. Stryjenska being decorations of the Polish National Pavilion in the Paris Exhibition of 1926
The far harbour
Six women of the world
The conquered
Comments on birth control
The hostages,and other stories for boys and girls
The Alban goes out
As it was in the beginning
The rib of the green umbrella
Images of Africa
Saunes Bairos
The bull calves
Nix-nought-nothing ; and Elfen Hill
The delicate fire
Memoirs of a spacewoman
The laburnum branch
Blood of the martyrs
Six women of the world
The powers of light
The Fourth Pig
The price of freedom
We have been warned
What the human race is up to
The Alban goes out
The fairy who couldn't tell a lie
The family of Ditlabeng
The Brave nurse and other stories
The delicate fire
Corn King & Spring Queen
The big house
An end and a beginning; and other plays
When we become men
The laburnum branch
Spindrift
Ketse and the chief
When the bough breaks
The barbarian
Man and herring
Don't look back
As it was in the beginning
R. H. Barlow
R. H. Barlow (1918-1951)

anthropologist, linguist, poet, historian

  • University of California, Kansas City Art Institute

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Tlatelolco
Los mexicas y la Triple Alianza
Nombre de Dios, Durango
Fuentes y estudios sobre el México indígena
The extent of the empire of the Culhua Mexico
The extent of the empire of the Culhua Mexica
Codex Azcatitlan
Poems for a competition
Diccionario de elementos fonéticos en escritura jeroglífica
Anales de Tlatelolco
Nombre de Dios, Durango
Ferdinand Bordewijk
Ferdinand Bordewijk (1884-1965)

poet lawyer, lawyer, resistance fighter

  • Gymnasium Haganum

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Karakter
Kritisch proza
Centrum van stilte
Het eiberschild
Studiën in volksstructuur
De korenharp
Fantastische vertellingen ; De laatste eer ; De wingerdrank
De doopvont
Apollyon
Mevrouw en meneer Richebois
Gesprekken met F. Bordewijk
Blokken
Vertellingen van generzijds ; De korenharp, nieuwe reeks ; Studiën in volksstructuur ; Mevrouw en meneer Richebois ; Onderweg naar de Beacons
De korenharp ; Bij gaslicht ; Zwanenpolder ; Het eiberschild
De Golbertons
Lente
Bloesemtak ; Tijding van ver ; De Golbertons
Blokken, Knorrende beesten, Bint
Apollyon
Fantastische vertellingen
Wandelingen door Den Haag en omstreken
Kelders en paleizen
Dreverhaven Katadreuffe
Vijf kleine verhalen
Verspreide verhalen ; Idem ; Gedichten ; Drie toneelstukken ; Halte Noordstad
Zeven fantastische vertellingen
Noorderlicht
Nagelaten documenten
De fruitkar
Bloesemtak
Veuve Vesuvius
Bint
De Golbertons
Paarlen avond
De Laatste Eer
Verzameld werk
Vertellingen van generzijds
Tijding van ver
Rood paleis
Idem
Tien verhalen
Karakter
Eiken van Dodona ; Noorderlicht
De zigeuners ; De aktentas ; Centrum van stilte ; Lente ; Verspreide verhalen
Character
Haagse mijmeringen
Drie tooneelstukken
Het vegetarisme van Mr. J. P. de Vries
Zwanenpolder
Haagse mijmeringen
Onderweg naar de Beacons
Geachte confrère
Dreverhaven en Katadreuffe
De publieke fotolach
Knorrende beesten
Jade, jaspis en de jitterbug
Verbrande erven
Karakter
Een bundel novellen, 1938
De zigeuners
Bint ; Blokken ; Keizerrijk
De aktentas
Vijf fantastische vertellingen
Haagse mijmeringen ; Wandelingen door Den Haag en omstreken ; Geachte confrère ; Juridische varia ; Plato's dood ; Bint scenario's ; Varia
De Joodse cel
De hoogten van Doyle, de trog van Bordewijk
Het Gele huis te huur
Arenlezing uit De korenharp
Paddestoelen
Huissens
Huis te huur
De wingerdrank
Halte Noordstad, vermeerderd met drie eenacters en een monoloog
Nachtelijk paardengetrappel
Bij gaslicht
F. Bordewijk
Keizerrijk
't Ongure Huissens
Huis te huur
Karakter, roman van zoon en vader
De zwoeger
IJzeren agaven
Blokken ; Knorrende beesten ; Bint ; Rood paleis ; Karakter
Drie tooneelstukken
Bint
Blokken ; Knorrende beesten ; Bint ; Rood paleis ; Karakter
Bloesemtak
Over Louis Couperus
Keizerrijk
Paddestoelen
Dames
Onderweg naar de Beacons
Kritisch proza
Straatnamen
Bezuidenhout 3 maart 1945
Kojo Laing
Kojo Laing (1946-2017)

poet

  • University of Glasgow

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Sergey Chekmarev
Sergey Chekmarev (1909-1933)

poet

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