Poetry & Plays

Simon Armitage's new collection brings news from unusual places, whether from the recent past (an island being born off the coast of Iceland, the 'Women of Merrie England' coffee houses...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedPart of the prestigious Studies in Modern European Literature and Thought series, Rob Lyle's Mistral presents a focused and illuminating critical study...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the halls of Otago University comes a rare and intimate collection of verse and reflections...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the twilight years of one of Russia's most defiant literary voices, Osip Mandelstam produced a body of verse that stands as both a...

Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerAt the intersection of faith and verse, Poetry and Life: An Anthology of English...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the front lines of the Western Desert to the cramped quarters of an English childhood, A Prose Miscellany presents the full breadth of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFew comic performers have ever captured the exquisite chaos of the nursery school classroom with quite the precision and wit of Joyce...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodBehind every great poet stands a life rarely told — and Dorothy Wordsworth's story is one of extraordinary devotion, intellectual...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew works in the English literary canon offer as intimate and authoritative a portrait of an age's greatest poets as Samuel Johnson's Lives of the English...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodFew literary figures cast as long a shadow over Western civilization as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and...

Edition: 2nd ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFew literary lives have burned as brightly — or as turbulently — as that...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew works in the Western canon have endured with such transcendent power as The Divine Comedy, Dante...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the winter seasons between 1913 and 1916, two of the twentieth century's most towering literary figures — Ezra Pound and W.B. Yeats —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFew figures in twentieth-century literature provoke as much fascination, controversy, and reverence as Ezra Pound — poet, propagandist, mentor, and maverick —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew writers have shaped the landscape of American literature as profoundly as Edgar Allan Poe, and Essays and Reviews reveals the brilliant, incisive critical...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Few poets have so profoundly reshaped the English literary tradition as T. S....

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the turbulent crossroads of Tsarist repression and revolutionary idealism stands Kondratiy Fyodorovich Ryleev — poet, conspirator, and martyr — whose short life burned...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerSome books whisper wisdom so quietly that they stay with you for a lifetime — The Thoughts of Nanushka is one such treasure....

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew names loom as large in the canon of world literature as Alexander Pushkin, and this magnificent Modern Library collection...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingEdmund Wilson, one of the twentieth century's most formidable literary minds, steps beyond his celebrated role as critic and chronicler to present...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markings,Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.First published in 1807, Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Few works have made the genius of William Shakespeare as universally...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew poets have lived as ferociously and as brilliantly as Dylan Thomas, the Welsh wordsmith whose voice, verse, and vices made him one of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedFew voices in American theatre have cut as deeply into the nation's conscience as Arthur Miller's, and Collected Plays...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: FEP missingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: price clipped dj. Pages: tanning and foxing. Internally sound. At the crossroads of...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the fall of Troy, one man is chosen by fate to carry the legacy of a dying civilization across storm-tossed seas and...

Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: dj: worn edges with small chip and sticker residue. Binding - remains tight. Clean and bright...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodRobert Lowell stands as one of the towering figures of twentieth-century American poetry, and Collected Poems presents the full, magnificent arc of his literary...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in twentieth-century American poetry cast as long a shadow as Robert Lowell, and The Letters of Robert Lowell lays bare the brilliant,...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodA landmark in twentieth-century literary curation, The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse stands as one of the most celebrated and debated...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew voices in the English literary canon cut as sharply or as wittily as that of Jonathan Swift, and the Collected Poems of Jonathan...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew voices in the English literary canon burn with the intensity of John Donne's — a poet who transformed the raw material...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew poets have shaped the English literary tradition as profoundly as John Milton, and The Poetical Works of John Milton...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: fep clipped. Few figures in twentieth-century literature cast as long a shadow as T.S. Eliot, and poet and critic Stephen...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerWhere science meets the sublime, Poetry in Pictures: The Great Barrier Reef unites the lyrical vision of poet Mark O'Connor with the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIan Mudie's Look, the Kingfisher! is a vibrant collection of poetry rooted in the Australian landscape, capturing the raw beauty and spirit...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWith the quiet precision of a beachcomber cataloguing rare finds, Blue Glass and Turtle's Eggs by Marilla North presents a delicate and luminous collection...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodThe ocean has always called to those willing to answer, and Voices from the Sea gathers the literary responses of those who answered most...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerA haunting meditation on survival, conflict, and the fragile relationship between humanity and the land it inhabits, Wherever We Step the Land...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFew dramatists captured the glittering hypocrisy of Georgian society with the razor-sharp wit of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and this authoritative collection brings...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodShe was a figure of towering eccentricity and volcanic talent — a poet who declared war on mediocrity and made herself into a living...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerOne of the most celebrated works in the English literary canon, Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales presents a vivid...

Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsBehind the glittering curtain of Moscow's theatrical world lies a labyrinth of vanity, bureaucracy, and creative...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFew artistic visions have captured the brutal grandeur of Russian history as powerfully as Sergei Eisenstein's monumental two-part...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the grand tradition of Australian bush poetry, How M'Dougall Topped the Score is a rollicking, comic masterpiece that immortalises a hilariously chaotic...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt the very dawn of Western civilization, a remarkable flowering of human thought produced works of poetry and philosophy that continue to...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodTwo of the most transcendent works in all of Western literature, Purgatorio and Paradiso form the concluding canticles of Dante Alighieri's immortal epic The...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFrom the sun-scorched plains and dusty droving tracks of the Australian outback, Bush Songs, Ballads, and Other Verse presents a rich and resonant collection of verse...