A fascinating, contemporary take on a traditional practice – A modern Commonplace Book; amassed over several decades by a redoubtable, erudite non-conformist minister in the North-West of England. Covering all areas of life, hundreds of examples have been taken from classic philosophy and theology, from poems and essays, from hymns, novels and children’s poetry; there are wise men’s observations of the simple life of simple folk, as well as well-chosen snippets from radio and television. An engrossing and inspiring gift.  “Preachers have always looked for inspiration beyond the books of the bible. What is remarkable about Leslie Pugh’s Commonplace is the breadth of his interest and vision. This anthology of quotations is not only a fascinating window into the thought world of a mid-twentieth  century Congregational Church minister, but a contemporary resource for meditation and prayer. With quotations from the saints of the early church to the martyrs of the twentieth century, from passionate believers to ardent atheists, this is a rich and inspiring compendium.”  – Rev. Canon Steven Mitchell (author of God in the Bath)  For thus it was made out to me; I loved thee while thou wast committing this sin, I loved thee before, I love thee still, and I will love thee for ever. – John Bunyan  We will go before God to be judged and God will ask us, “Where are your wounds?” And we will say, “We have no wounds.” And God will ask, “Was nothing worth fighting for?” – Alan Boesak  If a man is going to sleep in my congregation, don’t wake him up, wake me up. – C. H. Spurgeon

Pugh's Commonplace: A Twentieth-Century Commonplace Book

Religion & Spirituality

Pugh, Leslie

Worship & Devotion

Oleander Press, The

ROMONTSCH first became known to the world in general with its promotion to Switzerland's fourth national language in 1938. This was in recognition of the fact that a certain percentage of her population had as their native tongue neither French nor German nor Italian, but a form of Romance descended from the original inhabitants of most of their territory, the Raeti. For that reason it is known as Raeto-Romance, a term which has the advantage of covering all five forms of the language spoken in the Canton Grisons. Strictly, it includes some of the vernaculars of the Dolomites, which, with Romontsch and Friulan, are believed to constitute a single independent Romance idiom called Ladin. What makes Romontsch, especially in its Sursilvan form, of particular interest to linguists, is the effect on it of close contact with the Germanic language of the Alemanni. This has cost it some features believed integral to Romance; and the Germanic substitute, together with Romontsch's own peculiar verbal system, make it a language of surpassing interest. The prose-extracts in the Anthology show that Romontsch is a mature language with the power of expression necessary for literary creation. It is remarkable that so small a territory has produced so much prose of high quality in novels such as Toni Halter's "Culan da Crestaulta," Gion Deplazes' Passiun, and Ludovic Hendry's "Discuors cugl Assassin," in short stories like those of Gian Fontana, and in satires such as the "Historias da Gion Barlac" of Theo Candinas. As for verse, Raeto-Romance poetry can stand comparison with the best western lyric, and the patriotic poets of the nineteenth century have had worthy successors to justify their faith in their mother-tongue. Flurin Darms, Hendri Spescha, Felix Giger, Silvio Camenisch, and many others, sing each with his personal note, but all with the musicality which is one of Romontsch's most precious qualities. Sits alongside "Romagnol: Language and Literature" (9780902675124) and "Friulan: Language and Literature" (9780902675391). For D. B. GREGOR a language is a mechanism that can and should be set out with the same coherence that one expects from a manual on the parts of a machine. Doubtless this conception derives in large measure from the Greek and Latin Grammars on which he was brought up in the 'Twenties, and from his personal experience in discovering that this is the quickest way to acquire a reading and writing knowledge of a language, which in turn accelerates the acquisition of an ability to speak it. He is no stranger to such an exposition, having thus presented also Romagnol, and features of the six Celtic tongues. In now offering his analysis of a second Ladin language, he hopes that it will not only excite the interest of linguists, but do something to rouse Romontschers themselves to the necessity of rallying to the defence of their threatened tongue. Part of the Oleander Classics series, this title has been reproduced using the highest-quality modern scanning technology. This is done in order to keep important works from the Press's 50-year history from going out of print. In this way, the invaluable resources provided by this and other books in the series remain available for general readers, academics and other interested parties.

Romontsch: Language and Literature

Reference

Gregor, D. B.

Words, Language & Grammar

"Outstanding poetry and excellent translations. The poems have a genuine simplicity and force that overlies the genius and layers of the lyrics." ~ Andrew Hamilton  CONTAINS ENGLISH AND CHINESE TEXTS OF XU'S POEMS  The first English edition of poems by China's foremost modern poet Xu Zhimo, who studied in Cambridge in the early 20th Century. Whilst here he became enchanted by the Romantic poets such as Keats and Shelley; this form of poetry was to infuse his work from that point on, inspiring him to break through traditional Chinese poetic reserve and constraints and changing the medium forever. His poetry is revered by young and old alike in China, but especially amongst the teenagers and young adults. One of the most renowned romantic poets of 20th-century Chinese literature, Xu Zhimo is known for his promotion of modern Chinese poetry and making great contributions to modern Chinese literature. This selection contains some of his most famous and well-loved works including By Chance, You Are in His Eyes, For Whom, The Weak Flame of a Star, A Pipa Tune in an Alley at Midnight and the seminal Saying Goodbye to Cambridge Again.  FEATURES XU'S TRANSLATIONS OF HIS FAVOURITE ENGLISH POEMS  Xu Zhimo was an early 20th-century Chinese poet who sought to promote a modern Chinese poetry that broke with convention and followed Western forms, especially the style of the Romantic and Symbolist poets, with whose work he fell in love while studying at King’s College, Cambridge in 1922. Verses from his most famous poem, ‘Saying Goodbye to Cambridge Again’, are inscribed on a monument to him behind King’s College Chapel in the city. In light of his immense and ongoing popularity in China, Xu Zhimo can be counted as one of Cambridge’s most influential alumni. The Oleander Press is proud to have produced this first collection of his poems with contemporary English translations, alongside many of his translations of the work of his favourite poets.  XU's TRANSLATIONS OF HIS FAVOURITE ENGLISH POEMS William Blake - The Tiger Thomas Hardy - A Week, The Wound, The Division, Her Initials, To The Moon, I Look into My Glass Katherine Mansfield - The Meeting, The Gulf, Sleeping Together James Elroy Flecker - Tenebris Interlucentem V. II Matthew Arnold - Requiescat Christina Rossetti - Song, The Hour and the Ghost  XU'S ORIGINAL POEMS - CHINESE & ENGLISH By Chance, Go, It is Not Easy to Survive Nowadays, Spring, Saying Goodbye to Cambridge Again, Cricket, I Don’t Know Which Direction the Wind is Blowing, Insignificance, You Are in His Eyes, Wind in the Pines at Midnight, The Wide Sea, A P'i-pa Tune in an Alley at Midnight  Please Note- Chinese simplified characters are used in this title.

Xu Zhimo - Selected Poems

Literature & Fiction

Xu, Zhimo

Poetry

NEW EDITION WITH INTRODUCTION FROM THE BROOKE SOCIETY "Very pleased to see that, unlike many of the other versions available, this edition has not just been scanned and printed but completely reset, and is a much higher quality as a result. Lorna Beckett's great, all-new introduction gives an interesting and informative perspective of a fascinating character whose work had so much potential. A beautifully produced edition, well done!" Today Rupert Brooke is probably best known as one of the famous First World War poets. His War Sonnets, including ‘The Soldier’, are present in this new edition of his Collected Poems which, with a new introduction by the Rupert Brooke Society’s Chair, Lorna Beckett, aims to introduce a new generation of readers to his passionate and accomplished poetry. THE ESSENTIAL COLLECTION Brooke has continued to fascinate people of all ages and walks of life ever since his untimely death en route to Gallipoli on St George’s Day 1915, at the age of 27. He lived his short life with intensity – he was not only a poet, but also a scholar, dramatist, literary critic, travel writer, political activist and soldier. Brooke had a large circle of friends, many of them leading figures of their generation including Virginia Woolf, Winston Churchill and W. B. Yeats. COMPLETE EDITION OF ALL BROOKE POEMS Oh, is the water sweet and cool, Gentle and brown, above the pool? And laughs the immortal river still Under the mill, under the mill? Say, is there Beauty yet to find? And Certainty? and Quiet kind? Deep meadows yet, for to forget The lies, and truths, and pain?… oh! yet Stands the Church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea? The Old Vicarage, Grantchester

Collected Poems (New Official Brooke Society Introduction Included)

BROOKE, Rupert

“It’s very, very comforting, it’s very funny and whenever you think things in this country are pretty bonkers then you can read this book from the thirties and realise ‘Ah, they’ve always been fairly similar’ ... I love it.” IAN HISLOP As a young Scot exiled to the alien landscape of 1920s England, Douglas Cameron finds himself navigating his way through the intimacies and excesses of a nation undergoing great cultural and social upheaval. Witnessing the last gasps in the demise of a privileged earlier world, our hero finds himself negotiating archetypal English situations, including the lavish country house weekend, a traditional fox hunt, international diplomacy at the League of Nations and, most famously, a village cricket match – all as part of his efforts to compile a book capturing the essence of Englishness. Affectionately narrated, eloquent and poignant, yet at times just slightly ruthless and often with an acerbic note of satire, this description of England in the throes of social turmoil remains an hilarious, irreverent yet compassionate portrait.
"5 stars A CLASSIC OF ENGLISH HUMOUR"Since winning the James Tait Black Memorial Prize on publication in 1933, England, Their England has retained an enduring appeal for generations and is now regarded as a classic of literary humour.5 stars - "So much more than just the cricket match."
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England, Their England

Macdonell, A.G.

Classics

TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY EXTREME SPORT “The distant towers of the Great, New and Cloister Courts looming against the dark sky, lit by the flickering lamps far below; the gradations of light and shadow, marked by an occasional moving black speck seemingly in another world; the sheer wall descending into darkness at his side, above which he has been half-suspended on his long ascent; the almost invisible barrier that the battlements from which he started seem to make to his terminating in the Cloisters if his arm slips; all contribute to making this deservedly esteemed the finest view point in the College Alps.” By turns sage and foolhardy, the advice contained within represents the cumulative experience of three inquisitive, ambitious and daring men – the authors of the three editions of The Roof-Climber’s Guide to Trinity – and their accomplices. Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, John Hurst andRichard Williams were each their generations’ luminaries in an historic sport, now known as Night Climbing; one by its very nature sparsely populated and largely anonymous. THE ORIGINAL NIGHT CLIMBING CLASSIC This Omnibus Edition contains the full texts and images from each of those editions, as well as the appendices to the First Edition, and features a special introduction by Richard Williams, author of the Third Edition, in which he details the collected wisdom and history of Night Climbing, andfinally removes the cloak of anonymity that has until now protected the identities of those first intrepid nocturnal explorers. Although many may baulk at the methods described in the narrative, few could question the diligence spent obtaining that content, or deny the impeccable locution and erudition displayed in presenting the illicit achievements in this cult classic. As the Guide itself posits, its existence “will have been justified if it has succeeded in providing the young stegophilist making his first night venture upon the Trinity Roofs with a clue, however poor, to the creditable unravelling of their somewhat complex mazes.” OTHER UNMISSABLE NIGHT CLIMBING TITLES FROM OLEANDER: The Bible of All Climbing Disciplines - The Night Climbers of Cambridge by Whipplesnaith Cut and Paste 9781909349551 to search)

The Roof-Climber's Guide to Trinity: Omnibus Edition (Climbing Cambridge)

Sports & Outdoors

Winthrop-Young, Geoffrey

Williams, Richard

Hurst, John

Miscellaneous

Randalls Round

Scott, Eleanor

Genre Fiction

This is the personality of a region. The reader will never again move eastwards from Bologna without the sensation of crossing a frontier. Romagnol: Language and Literature This book aims to put Romagnol squarely on the literary map of Europe, and in so doing to suggest that the secret backwaters of dialect contain treasures which deserve to be more widely known. Everyone has heard of Mistral: but who outside Romagna knows the name of Aldo Spallici? Yet his poetry and example entitle him to be called the Mistral of Romagna. He and such poets as Vincenzo Strocchi, Enzo Guerra, and Cino Pedrelli have made of Romagnol a dialect which the reader of poetry will quickly appreciate. After all, it was also the mother-tongue of Pascoli.  Not only poets, however, will find Romagnol of interest. The linguist will find a Grammar and the philologist an Etymology. There is something for the student of folklore: and a map will enable the tourist to find the places that have excited his curiosity.  This is the personality of a region. The reader will never again move eastwards from Bologna without the sensation of crossing a frontier.   D.B. Gregor was a professional teacher of Classics and Romance languages, whose wife was from Romagna. He is also the author of Friulan: Language and Literature (9780902675391) and Romontsch: Language and Literature (9780900891397).  Part of the Oleander Classics series, this title has been reproduced using the highest-quality modern scanning technology. This is done in order to keep important works from the Press’s 50-year history from going out of print. In this way, the invaluable resources provided by this and other books in the series remain available for general readers, academics and other interested parties.

Romagnol: Language and Literature

Discover Lipari, Vulcano, Salina, Stromboli, Filicudi, Alicudi and Panarea  Everyone has his own Italy: the Rome of Bernini and the Colosseum, the beaches of Rimini or Cattolica, the slimy canals and aristocratic palaces of decaying Venice, or the small towns encountered as if by sheer inspiration: Anagni, Bevagna, Pienza, Palestrina, Monselice. Erice...  My Italy is rocky Perugia of the windy winters, magnificent Florence whose streets are paved with sculpture, and something more than a handful of infinitesimal volcanic peaks rising like greeny-brown icebergs from the Tyrrhenian sea north of Sicily.  This is not the Sicily one reads of in Pirandello or Verga: the Catania of Capuana or Martoglio; the Syracuse of Vittorini; the Palermo recorded by Lampedusa and discovered again, teeming and afraid, by the saintly Danilo Dolci. It is not the Sicily that Plato knew.  Civilization brought Lipari and her sisters some neolithic villages, shipwrecks of course without number, a great citadel, a few nondescript churches and simple houses. Otherwise, the Aeolians are timeless. Their scale is geological rather than historical and the spitting, fiery Stromboli is their symbol. With an unerring sense of the dramatic. Jules Verne chose Stromboli for the climax to his Journey to the Centre of the Earth.  I have kept the dialogue to a minimum, not because talk isn't important to an Aeolian (not one I met would read or write rather than talk) but because straightforward translations miss the range of modulation and intonation on which a Sicilian prides himself and because any reported conversation with Italians necessarily lacks the accompanying vocabulary and gesture and facial contortion. If you haven’t listened to a Sicilian argument, I can’t do it for you. If you have, you'll never forget it anyway, and will easily imagine whatever I omit.  PHILIP WARD  Part of the Oleander Classics series, this 1973 title has been reproduced using the highest-quality modern scanning technology in order to keep this and other important works from the Press’s 50-year history from going out of print. In this way, the invaluable resources provided by books in the series remain available for general readers, academics and other interested parties.

The Aeolian Islands: The Original History and an Exploration of the Islands

Travel

Ward, Philip

Europe

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French Key Words: The Basic 2, 000 Word Vocabulary in a Hundred Units Arranged by Frequency, with Comprehensive French and English Indexes

Escande, Xavier-Yves

Foreign Language Study & Reference

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