Author: T. L. Haddix
Publisher: T L Haddix
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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Hidden in an attic, tucked under the eaves, is a dusty box containing a treasure more precious than gold… Every year, Sarah Campbell throws an annual spring cleaning party. These days, she recruits some of her grandkids to get the job done. She knows to expect joking, teasing, friendly shenanigans, and not a little laughter from her family. This year’s crew doesn’t disappoint - with Colin, Easton, and Sadie helping, there’s never a dull moment. But in the middle of cleaning, Colin stumbles across an old chest in the attic, a chest that contains a box of letters thought to have been lost decades earlier. The housework screeches to a halt as she and her husband, Owen, surrounded by family, explore the memories contained within the wooden box. Spanning more than a decade, the correspondence tells the story of the early years of their marriage, commemorating the events that pepper a relationship through time - births, deaths, losses, joys, arguments, frustrations… and, most of all, love. Letters from Owen is a bonus, standalone novella. While it can be read at any point, to avoid spoilers, it’s probably best to read it after Burning Springs.
Author: Peter Owen Jones
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1846041333
Category : Asceticism
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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On a journey that would take him deep into the wilderness, the author sets out in the footsteps of St Anthony, the founder of monasticism. In a hermit's cell in the heart of the Egyptian Sinai Desert, he lived alone. This book contains letters which are an honest exploration of the ways in which we are formed by others.
Author: Wilfred Owen
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Poets, English
Languages : en
Pages : 410
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Wilfred Owen, one of the finest poets of World War I, was also one of its most-mourned casualties. The poet was survived not only by the verse upon which his reputation is founded, but also by the thousands of letters he wrote from the age of five to the eve of his death at the age of twenty-five. Selected Letters of Wilfred Owen includes some early examples, but concentrates on the correspondence of the poet's last seven years--the period in which he came into his own as an artist.
Author: Wilfred Owen
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781853264238
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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This volume contains all of Owen's best known work, only four of which were published in his lifetime. His war poems were based on his acute observations of the soldiers with whom he served on the Western front, and reflect the horror and waste of World War One.
Author: Jane Potter
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191003654
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 473
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This new, select edition of Wilfred Owen's letters provides a fresh understanding of the poet's life in his own words. Wilfred Owen's fame as one of the great war poets of the twentieth century is unsurpassed, with Dulce et Decorum est possibly the defining piece of World War literature. Owen's letters reveal the man behind the cultural icon; human with all his foibles, whose 25 years were marked by great highs and lows, by emerging modernity, and the violence of war. Evocative, lyrical, and often surprisingly funny, the letters act as both autobiography and companion to the famous war poems. He was both an accomplished poet and one of the finest letter-writers of the twentieth century. Accompanied by new notes and new introduction, as well as previously redacted and omitted material, the new edition of Owen's Selected Letters brings together past and contemporary scholarship to provide fresh insights into Owen's character and poetic development.
Author: Owen Sheers
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307385833
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Resistance is a beautifully written and powerful story set during an imagined occupation of Britain by Nazi Germany in World War II. In a remote and rugged Welsh valley in 1944, in the wake of a German invasion, all the men have disappeared overnight, apparently to join the underground resistance. Their abandoned wives, a tiny group of farm women, are soon trapped in the valley by an unusually harsh winter—along with a handful of war-weary German soldiers on a secret mission. The need to survive drives the soldiers and the women into uneasy relationships that test both their personal and national loyalties. But when the snow finally melts, bringing them back into contact with the war that has been raging beyond their mountains, they must face the dramatic consequences of their choices.
Author: Wilfred Owen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781906259372
Category : War poetry, English
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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This volume contains all of Owen's poetry, including his own Preface, an Introduction by Siegfried Sassoon and a Memoir by Edmund Blunden. It has been said that Owen's poems shaped the attitude of a generation to the futility and tragedy of war, exemplified by his own life.
Author: Santanu Das
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139915657
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 27
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The First World War ravaged the male body on an unprecedented scale, yet fostered moments of physical intimacy and tenderness among the soldiers in the trenches. Touch, the most elusive and private of the senses, became central to war experience. War writing is haunted by experiences of physical contact: from the muddy realities of the front to the emotional intensity of trench life, to the traumatic obsession with the wounded body in nurses' memoirs. Through extensive archival and historical research, analysing previously unknown letters and diaries alongside literary writings by figures such as Owen and Brittain, Santanu Das recovers the sensuous world of the First World War trenches and hospitals. This original and evocative study alters our understanding of the period as well as of the body at war, and illuminates the perilous intimacy between sense experience, emotion and language as we try to make meaning in times of crisis.
Author: Jane Potter
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781851243945
Category : Poets, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Wilfred Owen is the poet of pity, the voice of the soldier maimed, blinded, traumatised and killed, not just in the Great War, but in all wars since, so resonant has his message become. Although he saw only five of his poems published in his lifetime, he left behind a portfolio of poetry and letters that created a powerful legacy.This generously illustrated book tells the story of Wilfred Owen's life and work anew, from his birth in 1893 until his death one week before the Armistice on 4 November 1918. It chronicles Owen's journey from a romantic youth, steeped in the poetry of Keats, to mature soldier awakened to the horrors of the Western Front. Drawing on rich archival material such as personal books, artefacts, family photographs and numerous manuscripts, the volume takes a fresh look at Owen's apprenticeship and eventual mastery of poetry, giving a comprehensive view of the relationship between his lived experience and his writing. Those already familiar with or well-versed in Owen's work will find new material in this book, and those coming to Owen for the first time will enjoy a well researched, yet accessible, illustrated introduction to one of the twentieth century's greatest poets.
Author: Guy Cuthbertson
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300198558
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 369
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One of Britain’s best-known and most loved poets, Wilfred Owen (1893–1918) was killed at age 25 on one of the last days of the First World War, having acted heroically as soldier and officer despite his famous misgivings about the war's rationale and conduct. He left behind a body of poetry that sensitively captured the pity, rage, valor, and futility of the conflict. In this new biography Guy Cuthbertson provides a fresh account of Owen's life and formative influences: the lower-middle-class childhood that he tried to escape; the places he lived in, from Birkenhead to Bordeaux; his class anxieties and his religious doubts; his sexuality and friendships; his close relationship with his mother and his childlike personality. Cuthbertson chronicles a great poet's growth to poetic maturity, illuminates the social strata of the extraordinary Edwardian era, and adds rich context to how Owen's enduring verse can be understood.
