Poetry & Plays

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the bleak and luminous landscape of Ill Seen Ill Said, Samuel Beckett presents one of his most hauntingly distilled visions of human endurance...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersCondition remarks: Rebound first edition.Few rivers in the British Isles have inspired as much verse...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingFew voices have captured the soul of the Australian bush with such enduring power as A.B. Banjo Paterson, whose verses pulse with the...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Minor foxing to page edge, tanned DJ with minor tears.Few figures in the...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: DamagedPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: DJ is damaged with multiple tears to spine.At the glittering heart of the Restoration stage stands William Congreve, a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew literary treasures rival the breadth and beauty of The Greek Anthology, a monumental collection of ancient Greek...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Previous owner annotations in margins / underlining - all in pencilFew poets have so thoroughly reshaped...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodPoetry Workshop is an essential anthology and instructional guide for anyone seeking to understand, appreciate, and engage with the art of verse. Edited by N. Russell...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: DJ: faded, in mylar. From one of Australia's most celebrated literary voices comes First Things Last, a poetry...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodThe vast, unforgiving ocean has always been both a barrier and a bridge for those who dared to seek a new life on distant shores,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodA window into the soul of a nation's childhood, The Illustrated Treasury of Australian Stories & Verse for Children presents a rich and carefully...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew voices have captured the soul of Australia with as much vitality and enduring charm as A.B. Banjo Paterson, whose ballads transformed the rugged...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in the literary canon cast as long a shadow as William Butler Yeats — poet, mystic, playwright, and Irish nationalist — and...

The book titled The Canterbury Tales by the author Geoffrey Chaucer. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew poets have conjured the numinous from the everyday with the same quiet mastery as Walter de la Mare, and this curated...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodShe was a creature utterly unlike any other — imperious, bizarre, and incandescently gifted — and Victoria Glendinning's Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedFew names in the English language carry the weight of William Shakespeare, whose works have endured for over four centuries as the pinnacle of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn Journey to the Ends of Time: Volume 1: Lost in the Dark Wood, Sacheverell Sitwell — one of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew literary love affairs have burned as fiercely — or as tragically — as the one chronicled in Love is the Heart of Everything, a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew works in the Western canon have matched the shattering emotional power of The Tragedy of King Lear, William Shakespeare's towering masterpiece of pride, betrayal, and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedRobert Graves, one of the twentieth century's most versatile and commanding literary minds, presents in Steps a rich and eclectic...

Edition: 2nd aus ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerLong before Winnie-the-Pooh captured the world's imagination, A. A. Milne gifted children and adults alike...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: Text: English & Russian. Price clipped dj. From one of the Soviet Union's most daring and celebrated voices comes Stolen Apples, a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFew voices in literary history burn with the same fierce, incandescent brilliance as Percy Bysshe Shelley's — a poet who turned radical...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew literary figures cast as long a shadow over the twentieth century as T. S. Eliot, and The Letters of T. S. Eliot, Volume I:...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBehind the dramatic elopement, the passionate verse, and the towering reputation of Victorian poetry's most restless genius lies a far more complex human story...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew figures in twentieth-century theatre cast as long a shadow as Bertolt Brecht, and Klaus Völker's definitive Brecht: A Biography...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedAt the chaotic crossroads of Symbolism, Surrealism, and outright theatrical anarchy stands Alfred Jarry — the maverick French writer whose...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew literary figures cast as long and luminous a shadow as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the Romantic visionary whose poetry, prose, and letters together constitute...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFew literary figures in the English canon burn with the singular, visionary intensity of William Blake — poet, painter, and prophet —...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: small sticker residue on dj. Few myths have haunted the Western imagination with the ferocity of Sophocles' Antigone — and in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat does it mean to write poetry — and more importantly, what does it mean to read it well? In The Cave and the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat if Shakespeare's most enigmatic problem play was never meant for the public stage at all, but was instead a lavish gift crafted for...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFew tragedies in the Western canon cut as deeply as Euripides' The Medea, a searing portrait of a woman scorned to the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat happens when a man confesses to murder — not in a courtroom, but on a stage within a stage, blurring the boundaries between...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew figures in Victorian England burned with as fierce and multifaceted a brilliance as William Morris — poet, craftsman, socialist,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew literary figures have burned as brightly — or as dangerously — as George Gordon, Lord Byron, the Romantic poet whose genius was matched...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodAt the crossroads of feeling and form, E.M.W. Tillyard's Poetry Direct and Oblique presents one of the twentieth century's most...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodAt the crossroads of philosophy, aesthetics, and poetry, English Romantic Irony presents a rigorous and illuminating study of one of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedByron's Don Juan is one of the most audacious and virtuosic poems in the English language, and Jerome J. McGann's Don Juan in Context is...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFrom the prophetic visions of ancient scripture to the surreal landscapes conjured by modern poets and novelists, The Oxford Book of Dreams presents one of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingGeorge Essex Evans, one of colonial Australia's most celebrated poets, left behind a body of verse that captures the vast, sunburned spirit of a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedFrom the sun-scorched plains of rural Australia rises a voice of extraordinary lyrical tenderness — the Collected Poems of John...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Some moisture damageCondition remarks: Board is worn, some silverfish damage to edges.Few figures in the history of art and literature...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the bustling streets and banquet halls of first-century Rome comes one of antiquity's sharpest and most enduring literary voices — Marcus Valerius Martialis,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodAt the crossroads of sensation, mortality, and sublime artistic vision stands John Keats — and John Keats's Dream of Truth...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew literary figures cast as long a shadow over the twentieth century as William Butler Yeats, and Memoirs offers an...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingLong before the Romantics reshaped English verse, William Cowper was quietly revolutionising poetry from his modest retreat in...