Based on events that took place in Oyo, Nigeria in 1946, Wole Soyinka's play intertwines the lives of Elesin Oba, the king's chief horseman; his son, Olunde, now studying medicine in England; and Simon Pilkings, the colonial district officer.
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This book revolutionises our understanding of what it means to be human in the digital age.
Three decades after the publication of Forrest Gump, Winston Groom returns to fiction with a sweeping epic.
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“The world’s greatest naturalist” (Jeffrey Sachs) proposes a plan to save Earth’s imperiled biosphere.
The author of America’s Hidden Success launches a daring and appealing political and economic plan to restore American unity and prosperity.
An historic publication in which the legendary dramatist emerges, quite like Goethe, as a poet driven by Eros.
The twenty-first-century revival of James Purdy continues with his classic novel of innocence and corruption.
Hailed as Elizabeth Spencer s best novel (Michael Gorra, New York Review of Books), this lost masterpiece of mid-century America finally returns to print."
Fresh and candid, by turns earthy, tender, defiant, and romantic, Cummings's poems celebrate the uniqueness of each individual, the need to protest the dehumanizing force of organizations, and the exuberant power of love.