Helen Plum Library

"A fascinating picture book biography of Benito Juárez, president of Mexico during its tumultuous time of Liberal Reform"--

"In light of Russia's aggressive 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Goodbye, Eastern Europe is a crucial, elucidative read, a sweeping epic chronicling a thousand years of strife, war, and bloodshed--from pre-Christianity to the fall of Communism--illuminating the remarkable cultural significance and richness of a place perpetually lost to the margins of history. Eastern Europe, the moniker, has gone out of fashion since the fall of the Soviet Union. Ask someone...

Peter Green is Professor of Classics at the University of Texas in Austin. The author of numerous scholarly works, he has also written several volumes of historical fiction, including The Laughter of Aphrodite (Murray/World; paperback forthcoming from University of California Press). Beverly Bardsley, a free-lance translator, lives in Austin. In the dramatic monologues that make up The Fourth Dimension--especially those based on the grim history...

Red Red Shoes was commissioned by the Unicorn Theatre for Children and The Place. Based on the Hans Christian Andersen tale, this play uses dance, music and drama to explore the inner world of a traumatised child fleeing from war in Eastern Europe. (Ages 9+) Eye of the Storm offers a contemporary version of Shakespeare's The Tempest, exploring father/daughter relationships and the need for independence. (Ages 12+) Playing From the Heart, commissioned...

This is a brief overview of Christian German poetry. Treated are Martin Luther, Paul Gerhardt, Paul Speratus, Nikolaus Herman, Bartholomäus Ringwaldt, Cyriacus Schneegass, Philipp Nicolai, Martin Opitz, Joachim Neander, Philipp Jakob Spener, Johann Heermann, Gerhard Tersteegen, Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf, Joseph Mohr, C. F. W. Walther, Carl Johann Hermann Fick, and many others. Included are a few of my own original...

"I desire a lot of women, almost all of them, really. It's my way of hating them, because they give me reason to. They won't have anything to do with me."In the séance that forms the backdrop to Italo Svevo's _The Broken Triangle_, a fantasy in one act, the spirit of the prematurely dead Clelia is summoned from the hereafter by her husband and by her lover. She appears in nebulous form to the two men to mediate a dispute between them, but their requests--one...

Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) - a poet who lived most his life in Lisbon, Portugal, and who died in obscurity there - has in recent years gained international recognition as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. Now Richard Zenith has collected in a single volume all the major poetry of one of the most extraordinary poetic talents the century has produced (Microsoft Network's Reading Forum). Fernando Pessoa was as much a creator of...

Luego del éxito de Corazón de miel, llega a nosotros La rosa que te viste. Un libro de poemas de amor que estremecerá a todos aquellos que viven apasionados.Contiene intensas y refrescantes poesías de amor cuya lectura te conducirán a un estado positivo e inspirador, a un estado donde la emoción dulce que habita en tu interior te transformará.Descubre el recorrido de un poeta enamorado y sus más profundas emociones."El amor verdadero de una...

Das Eigene, das Andere, die große Liebe in der Nachbetrachtung, im Festhalten am Unmöglichen, die Welt des Poetischen, das Poetische der Welt, Gefühl und Sprache, Gefühllosigkeit und Worte, die die Welt erschaffen.

Juan Latino, al que también se conocía como Juan de Sessa, nació en Etiopía en 1518 hijo de una esclava. Según la versión oficial, llegó a Granada siendo muy pequeño para servir en la casa del duque de Sessa. Por su dependencia y buena relación con el aristócrata, recibió una educación superior e ingresó en la Universidad de Granada, donde se doctoró. El duque, con el que se crió desde la infancia, lo acabó manumitiendo ─liberando─...