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Electra and Other Plays

Electra and Other Plays

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Author: Euripides Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Of all the ancient Greek tragedians, Euripides was the most sensitive to the lives of women and other outcasts in...
The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths, and Their Year of Marvels

The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths, and Their Year of Marvels

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Author: Adam Nicolson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Brimming with poetry, art, and nature writing--Wordsworth and Coleridge as you've never seen them before June 1797 to September 1798 is...
The Odyssey

The Odyssey

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Author: Homer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 Homer's best-loved and most accessible poem, recounting the great wandering of Odysseus during his ten-year voyage back home to Ithaca,...
The Penguin Book of Oulipo: Queneau, Perec, Calvino and the Adventure of Form

The Penguin Book of Oulipo: Queneau, Perec, Calvino and the Adventure of Form

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Author: Philip Terry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 A celebration of one of the most curious and playful literary groups of the twentieth century Brought together for...
Faust, Part I

Faust, Part I

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Author: Goethe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Goethe's Faust reworks the late medieval myth of Dr Faust, a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a...
Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense

Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense

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Author: Jenny Uglow Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 Edward Lear's poems follow and break the rules. They abide by the logic of syntax, the linking of rhyme...
The Sixteen Satires

The Sixteen Satires

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Author: Juvenal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Perhaps more than any other writer, Juvenal (c. AD 55-138) captures the splendour, the squalor and the sheer energy of...
PARADISE: Dante's Divine Trilogy Part Three. Englished in Prosaic Verse by Alasdair Gray

PARADISE: Dante's Divine Trilogy Part Three. Englished in Prosaic Verse by Alasdair Gray

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Author: Alasdair Gray Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Dante, now guided by Beatrice, faces the final third of his epic journey through the wheels of divine justice. Yet as...
Pessoa: An Experimental Life

Pessoa: An Experimental Life

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Author: Richard Zenith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 1088 A monumental biography of one of the twentieth century's greatest and most enigmatic writers 'A completely superb and magisterial life of...
The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem

The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem

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Author: Amanda Gorman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 Amanda Gorman's powerful and historic poem 'The Hill We Climb,' read at President Joe Biden's inauguration, is now available as a...