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The battle of Maldon : together with The homecoming of Beorhtnoth, Beorhthelm's son, and The tradition of versification in Old English / by Tolkien, J. R. R.(John Ronald Reuel),1892-1973,author.; Grybauskas, Peter,editor.; container of (work):Tolkien, J. R. R.(John Ronald Reuel),1892-1973.Homecoming of Beorhtnoth.; container of (work):Tolkien, J. R. R.(John Ronald Reuel),1892-1973.Tradition of versification in Old English.; translation of:Tolkien, J. R. R.(John Ronald Reuel),1892-1973.Maldon (Anglo-Saxon poem).English.(Tolkien);
Includes bibliographical references."First ever standalone edition of one of J.R.R. Tolkien's most important poetic dramas, that explores timely themes such as the nature of heroism and chivalry during war, and which features unpublished and never-before-seen texts and drafts. In 991 AD, vikings attacked an Anglo-Saxon defence-force led by their duke, Beorhtnoth, resulting in brutal fighting along the banks of the river Blackwater, near Maldon in Essex. The attack is widely considered one of the defining conflicts of tenth-century England, due to it being immortalised in the poem, The Battle of Maldon. Written shortly after the battle, the poem now survives only as a 325-line fragment, but its value to today is incalculable, not just as an heroic tale but in vividly expressing the lost language of our ancestors and celebrating ideals of loyalty and friendship. J.R.R. Tolkien considered The Battle of Maldon 'the last surviving fragment of ancient English heroic minstrelsy'. It would inspire him to compose, during the 1930s, his own dramatic verse-dialogue, The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son, which imagines the aftermath of the great battle when two of Beorhtnoth's retainers come to retrieve their duke's body. Leading Tolkien scholar, Peter Grybauskas, presents for the very first time J.R.R. Tolkien's own prose translation of The Battle of Maldon together with the definitive treatment of The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth and its accompanying essays; also included and never before published is Tolkien's bravura lecture, 'The Tradition of Versification in Old English', a wide-ranging essay on the nature of poetic tradition. Illuminated with insightful notes and commentary, he has produced a definitive critical edition of these works, and argues compellingly that, Beowulf excepted, The Battle of Maldon may well have been 'the Old English poem that most influenced Tolkien's fiction', most dramatically within the pages of The Lord of the Rings."--
Subjects: English poetry;
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Five little ducks : first book of nursery games / by Busby, Ailie.;
Printed on durable board, these chunky treasuries makes excellent gifts for new parents. Suggestions for actions accompany many of the verses, encouraging participation. Colourful illustrations by Ailie Busby depict a diverse cast of children acting out the rhymes. These visual aids can be used to give context to the verses, and inspire conversations. Rhymes are a brilliant way to increase the number of words a baby hears. The ones in this series are short and easy to remember - why not sing some of them while you're waiting for your toast to pop-up?
Subjects: Board books.; Nursery rhymes, English;
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Alice. by Ver, Krystin,film director.; Witt, Alicia,actor.; Common,actor.; Charles, Gaius,actor.; Lee, Johnny,actor.; Palmer, Keke,actor.; Photon Films (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Alicia Witt, Common, Gaius Charles, Johnny Lee Miller, Keke PalmerOriginally produced by Photon Films in 2022.A slave in the antebellum South escapes her secluded plantation only to discover a shocking reality that lies beyond the tree line.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Motion pictures.; Horror films.; Crime.; Thrillers (Motion pictures, television, etc.).;
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Murder on the poet's walk / by Adams, Ellery.;
"As Jane eagerly anticipates the wedding of her best friend Eloise Alcott, Storyton Hall is overrun with poets in town to compete for a coveted greeting card contract. They're everywhere, scrawling verses on cocktail napkins in the reading rooms or seeking inspiration strolling the Poet's Walk, a series of trails named after famous authors. But the Tennyson Trail leads to a grim surprise: a woman's corpse drifting in a rowboat on a lake, posed as if she were "The Lady of Shallot." When a second body is discovered, also posed as a poetic character, a recurring MO emerges. Fortunately, Jane is well versed in sleuthing and won't rest until she gives the killer a taste of poetic justice..."--
Subjects: Cozy mysteries.; Detective and mystery fiction.; Steward, Jane (Fictitious character); Contests; Resorts; Murder;
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The Dante chamber / by Pearl, Matthew,author.;
"The year is 1870. Five years after a series of Dante-inspired killings disrupted Boston, a man is found murdered in the public gardens of London with an enormous stone around his neck etched with a verse from the Divine Comedy. When more mysterious murders erupt across the city, all in the style of the punishments Dante memorialized in Purgatory, poet Christina Rossetti fears her brother, the Dante-obsessed artist and writer Gabriel Rossetti, will be the next victim. Christina enlists poets Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson, and famous scholar Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, to assist in deciphering the literary clues. Together these unlikely investigators rush to unravel the secrets of Dante's verses in order to find Gabriel and stop the killings. Racing between the shimmering mansions of the elite and the dark corners of London's underworld, they descend further and further into the mystery. But when the true inspiration behind the gruesome murders is finally revealed, Christina realizes that the perpetrator has even bigger and more horrific plans than she had initially thought"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Historical fiction.; Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321; Murder; Authors, English;
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Corner Gas [videorecording] : the movie / by Butt, Brent.; Cardinal, Lorne.; Ewaniuck, Fred.; Miller, Gabrielle.; Peterson, Eric,1946-; Robertson, Nancy.; Spencer-Nairn, Tara.; Thompson, Virginia.; Wright, Janet.; Prairie Pants Productions.; Video Service Corp.;
Brent Butt, Gabrielle Miller, Fred Ewanuick, Eric Peterson, Janet Wright, Lorne Cardinal, Tara Spencer-Nairn, Nancy Robertson.It's been a few years, and there's still not a lot going on 40 kilometers from nowhere. But that's all about to change as the fine folks of Dog River, Saskatchewan face their biggest crisis ever. Brent and the gang discover that the town's been badly mismanaged, leaving residents with little choice but to pack up and leave. As residents make one last rally to save Dog River as they know it, they discover a devious plan by a corporate chain that would change life for Dog reveries forever.PG.DVD ; Dolby digital ; widescreen presentation.
Subjects: Automobile service stations; Comedy films.; Diners (Restaurants); Feature films.; Gasoline stations; Small cities; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Waiters and waitresses;
© c2014., Distributed by Video Service Corp.,
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Au temps de la ruée vers l'or / by Hammonds, Heather.; Botté, Elizabeth.; Drolet, Louise.;
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Subjects: Or; Lieux historiques; Gold mines and mining; Historic sites;
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Fred Pooulet enquete sur un microbe / by Tremblay, Carole,1959-; Germain, Philippe,1963-;
© c2005., Dominique et compagnie,
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The Tale of Tsar Saltan. by Ptushko, Aleksandr,film director.; Ryabinkina, Kseniya,actor.; Golubkina, Larisa,actor.; Vidov, Oleg,actor.; Andreyev, Vladimir,actor.; MVD Entertainment Group (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Kseniya Ryabinkina, Larisa Golubkina, Oleg Vidov, Vladimir AndreyevOriginally produced by MVD Entertainment Group in 1967.Based on a famous fairy tale in verse by Alexander Pushkin, THE TALE OF TSAR SALTAN is one of director Aleksandr Ptushko's most sublime creations: a ravishingly beautiful fantasy about love, magic, betrayal, and abandoned family. Newly restored by Deaf Crocodile and Mosfilm. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Foreign films.; Motion pictures.; Science fiction.; Motion Pictures.; Fantasy fiction.;
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La princesa y la arveja : un cuento en Perú / by Elya, Susan Middleton,1955-; Martinez-Neal, Juana.; Zarate Figueroa, Dario.;
Un giro que rima en un cuento de hadas clásico en el que una reina coloca un guisante debajo del colchón de una joven para ver si ella es realmente un príncipe.
Subjects: Picture books.; Stories in rhyme.; Princesses; Princes; Spanish language materials.;
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