Author: Ted Hughes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 Alcestis is the story of a king, Admetus, who escapes death when his wife, Alcestis, volunteers to die in...
Author: William Wordsworth Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 "Though absent long, These forms of beauty have not been to me, As is a landscape to a blind...
Author: Najwa Zebian Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 As the phoenix emerges from its ashes, Zebian emerges ablaze in these pages, not only as a survivor of...
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 This book includes a general introduction to Shakespeare's life and the Elizabethan theatre, a separate introduction to Coriolanus, a...
Author: Ian Rankin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 It's been 25 years since Alfred Chalmers was convicted of the gruesome murder of four young women in Edinburgh....
Author: Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Gunter Grass (1927-2015) was Germany's foremost writer for more than half a century, and his books were and remain bestsellers across...
Author: Sei Shonagon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 From short tales to lists of beautiful and ugly things, Sei Shonagon tells of a leisurely life in the...
Author: Dinah Roe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 The Pre-Raphaelite Movement began in 1848, and experienced its heyday in the 1860s and 1870s. Influenced by the then...
Author: John Donne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 No poet has been more wilfully contradictory than John Donne, whose works forge unforgettable connections between extremes of passion...
Author: Lord Byron Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 880 Described as 'Mad, bad and dangerous to know' by one of his lovers, Lady Caroline Lamb, Lord Byron was...
Author: Lord Byron Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 Byron's exuberant masterpiece tells of the adventures of Don Juan, beginning with his illicit love affair at the age...
Author: Dante Alighieri Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 This vigorous and swift blank verse rendition of the poet's journey through the circles of Hell re-creates for the...
Author: Michael Alexander Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A spectacular verse translation of one the most foundational texts in world literature Beowulf is the greatest surviving work...
Author: Jodi Egerton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Both a visual feast and a reference book in the style of Brandon Stanton's Humans of New York, Typewriter...
Author: Vera Brittain Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 This collection of Vera Brittain s poetry and prose, some of it never published before, commemorates the men she...
Author: Adonis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The landmark poetry collection that transformed 20th-century Arabic poetry, in a brilliant new translation by Kareem James Abu-Zeid and Ivan...
Author: Max Egremont Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 2014 marks the hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of what many believed would be the war to end all...
Author: Rabindranath Tagore Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 The poems of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) are among the most haunting and tender in Indian and in world literature,...
Author: Omar Khayyam Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Revered in eleventh-century Persia as an astronomer, mathematician and philosopher, Omar Khayyam is now known first and foremost for...
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Living in a revolutionary age, Coleridge's poetry was written in a spirit of moral and emotional inquiry into...
