Poetry & Plays

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew writers of the eighteenth century managed to master the novel, the stage, and verse with equal brilliance — Oliver Goldsmith was one such rare exception,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the fractured urban landscape of late twentieth-century Britain, Edward Bond's The Worlds confronts the reader with a raw and unflinching collision between capitalism, terrorism,...

Edition: ReprintCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersLong before the age of screens and social media, Australian children entertained themselves with...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,SignedA rare and intimate glimpse into a life lived with remarkable breadth and spirit, Up Here and Down There is a self-published memoir and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the sunburnt plains and dusty droving tracks of the Australian interior comes a rich chorus of voices in Australian Bush Verse, a celebrated...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the lyrical imagination of David Martin comes I Rhyme My Time, a carefully curated anthology of verse crafted expressly for young...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodFrom the sun-scorched landscapes of mid-twentieth-century Australia emerges a literary voice of rare and enduring power — The Hand of Memory: Selected Stories and Verse...

The Aeneid is a journey of Aeneas, a survivor of the siege of Troy. The themes within this classic work include piety, respect, destiny, war and peace. The city of...

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: 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...

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: 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: 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: 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...

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...

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: 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: 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: 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: 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...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Ex-library with usual markingsFrom the lyrical devotions of the thirteenth century to the bold modernism of the twentieth, Collins Albatross Book of Verse presents...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersW. B. Yeats — Nobel laureate, visionary poet, and one of the twentieth century's...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Price clipped, some fading to DJ and small tear to edge of DJ....

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodFew works in the Western canon have commanded the awe and reverence of Homer's The Iliad, and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedFew Sanskrit texts have captured the devotional imagination of India as profoundly as Saundaryalahari — the Wave of Beauty —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodShe was imperious, eccentric, and utterly unlike anyone who had come before her — Dame Edith Sitwell, one of the...