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Shakespeare for Every Night of the Year
Author: Colin Salter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 Immerse yourself in the sublime words of the Bard with this sumptuous anthology of Shakespearean snippets, with one extract for every...
Lobster: and other things I'm learning to love: 'energising, [...]
A brand-new collection from the award-winning poet, the companion piece to the Sunday Times bestselling Slug'Funny, so smart and refreshingly honest' SARAH MILLICAN'Hollie McNish's words always sweep me away' GIOVANNA...
Letters to a Young Poet
Rilke's powerfully touching letters to an aspiring young poet, now in Penguin Classics At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a...
The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
Robin Kirkpatrick's superb translation of the most famous work of Italian literature, in a one-volume edition The Divine Comedy describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide; his...
Selected Poems
Elegant and rich Persian poetry Thirteenth-century Persian philosopher, mystic, scholar and founder of the order of the Whirling Dervishes, Jelaluddin Rumi was also a poet of transcendental power. His inspirational...
Night Sky with Exit Wounds
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Winner of the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize Winner of the 2017 Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection A Guardian / Daily Telegraph Book of the Year PBS Summer...
The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
Author: Franny ChoiFormat: Paperback, 152mm x 229mm, 454g, 144 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States, 2024 Named A Most Anticipated Book by: LitHub * Vulture * Time * A PW...
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Much-loved poems from one of the [...]
'How do I love thee? Let me count the ways'Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a poet of passion, wit and conscience. She was also a woman who wrote to speak the...
Another America/Otra America
Author: Barbara KingsolverFormat: Paperback, 138mm x 208mm, 127g, 144 pagesPublished: Basic Books, United States, 2022Before becoming the bestselling author we know today, Barbara Kingsolver was a fresh college graduate who...
The Odyssey
Penguin Classics relaunch The epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan War forms one of the earliest and greatest works of Western literature. Confronted by...
Paradise Lost
Penguin Classics relaunch In Paradise Lost Milton produced poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and ranging across huge tracts of space and time. And yet, in...
Faust: A Tragedy In Two Parts with The Urfaust
Translated, with an Introduction and Notes by John R. Williams. Goethe's 'Faust' is a classic of European literature. Based on the fable of the man who traded his soul for...
The Prophet
Introduced by Robin Waterfield First published in the 1920's, THE PROPHET an inspirational, allegorical guide to living, the book is perhaps the most famous work of religious fiction of the...
Metamorphoses
"I think this version is terrific. The light enjambed English hexameters are a great success. The effect is properly propulsive." - Prof A D Nuttall, Oxford Ovid's deliciously witty and...
Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe
A deluxe edition of Whitman's crowning achievement, with an introductory essay by Harold Bloom I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom...
Shakespeare for Every Night of the Year
Immerse yourself in the sublime words of the Bard with this sumptuous anthology of Shakespearean snippets, with one extract for every night of the year. Chosen especially by a Shakespeare...
The War Poems Of Wilfred Owen
Wilfred Owen was the greatest poet of the First World War - his best work is collected here, published in a new hardback edition to commemorate the end of the...
The RubaIyat of Omar KhayyaM: First and Fifth Editions
One of the best-known, most often-quoted English classics. Edward FitzGerald's free translation of skeptical, hedonistic verse attributed to Omar Khayyam (1048-1122), Persian mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher. Explanation of Persian names...
The Iliad
The greatest literary achievement of Greek civilization, now in a gorgeous new clothbound edition The Iliad is the first and the greatest literary achievement of Greek civilization - an epic...
The Heart is Strange
A lively sampling from the work of one of the most celebrated and daring poets of the twentieth century John Berryman was perhaps the most idiosyncratic American poet of the...
Taller When Prone
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"Les Murray has earned his reputation not only as one of Australia's finest writers but as one of the most engaging poets writing in English today." -- Kate Kellaway, The...
The Prophet
'The Prophet', by Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931) is a book composed of twenty-six poetic essays. Continually in print since its publication in 1923, its ongoing popularity is a continuation...
Dropbear: 2022 Stella Prize Winner
An innovative collection of poetry and prose from a vibrant new Indigenous voice on the Australian literary scene. Winner of the 2022 Stella Prize. I told you this was a...
Collected Poems: 1958 - 2015
The "technically and emotionally heart-stopping poems" (Spectator) of Clive James are collected in this decades-spanning volume. Clive James's reputation as a poet has become impossible to ignore. His recent poems...
The Complete Poems
The complete collection of the poetry of Walt Whitman, one of the most influential American voices In 1855 Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass, the work which defined him as...