2008, ISBN: 9780486419220

Immortal Muse Publishers. Very Good. 163 x 230mm. Paperback. 2008. 288 pages. <br>Res Publica is the story seven years and fifty wee ks in the life of Arcady Robinson, an intelligen… More...

Immortal Muse Publishers. Very Good. 163 x 230mm. Paperback. 2008. 288 pages. <br>Res Publica is the story seven years and fifty wee ks in the life of Arcady Robinson, an intelligent, gifted, recent ly married -- and recently disillusioned -- young poet who one da y makes a revolutionary discovery at longitude 175 58 .35E, latit ude 36 16 .10S, off the eastern coast of New Zealand. Editorial Reviews Review A tour de force, almost, perhaps, a tour d'addres se after the manner of Lord George Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgri mage (1812-1818) and more particularly, Don Juan (1819-24)....Zir eaux presents us with an irreverent wisdom directed against conve ntional values and the politico-social system. --Alistair Paterso n, Editor, Poetry New Zealand Magazine Some of Zireaux's rhymes have a twinkling ingenuity not unworthy of Byron, W S Gilbert or Cole Porter: Mona [Lisa]/persona, tingle/commingle, muscular/crep uscular, Kerouac/Alamanac, greed/Mr. Sayeed. But what impresses m ost of all is his ability to sustain the flow over dozens of stan zas, sounding natural, indeed conversational. Nor is his work jus t an exercise in antiquarianism...Zireaux is thoroughly contempor ary -- with references to NASA satellite photographs, KFC, Viagra , Clinique cosmetics, Pamela Anderson's breast implants, Martha S tewart's imprisonment, Tim Tam biscuits, Gavin Menzies' theory th at the Chinese discovered New Zealand centuries before Europeans, and other current fads and foibles....[Zireaux] captivates with a singular charm. --Iain Sharpe, Book reviewer for New Zealand's Sunday Star Times About the Author Zireaux was born in Californi a. He migrated to New Zealand in the mid-1990s and now lives with his wife and two children in Auckland. Over the last few years, Zireaux has given poetry recitals to audiences in America, Canada , the U.K., South Africa, India, Pakistan, Italy, Turkey, Lithuan ia, Australia, and, of course, New Zealand, where he has received significant critical acclaim and where news of his public readin gs always attract eager audiences. ., Immortal Muse Publishers, 2008, 3, Dover Publications Inc.. Paperback. NEW. In this classic 1888 novella, an anonymous narrator relates his obsessive quest to acquire some letters and other private documents that once belonged to the deceased Romantic poet Jeffrey Aspern. Attempting to gain access to the papers, the property of Aspern's former mistress, he rents a room in a decaying Venetian villa where the woman lives with her aging niece. Led by his zeal into increasingly unscrupulous behavior, the narrator is faced in the end with relinquishing his heart's desire or attaining it an an overwhelming price. Inspired by an actual incident involving Claire Clairmont, once the mistress of Lord Byron, this masterfully written tale incorporates all those elements expected from James: psychological subtlety, deft plotting, the clash of cultures, and profoundly nuanced representation of scene, mood, and character. This volume also contains James's celebrated Preface from the New York edition of his collected works., Dover Publications Inc., 6<

2001, ISBN: 9780486419220

Dover Publications, 2001-08-20. Paperback. New. New Paperback. From The Civil War Book Shop- As close as your computer; as dependable as old Abe., Dover Publications, 2001-08-20, 6

ISBN: 9780486419220

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2001, ISBN: 9780486419220

Dover Publications, 2001-08-20. Paperback. New., Dover Publications, 2001-08-20, 6