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The Flowers of Evil: Dual Language and New Verse Translation
Unique edition in dual language Judicially condemned in 1857 as offensive to public morality, The Flowers of Evil is now regarded as the most influential volume of poetry published in...
Translations
The action takes place in late August 1833 at a hedgeschool in the townland of Baile Beag, an Irish-speaking community in County Donegal. In a nearby field camps a recently...
The Miracles Of Saint James: Translations From The Liber Sancti Jacobi
$35.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Appears unread. Few texts illuminate the medieval world of pilgrimage and sacred wonder as vividly as...
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Preserved on a single surviving manuscript dating from around 1400, composed by an anonymous master, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was rediscovered only 200 years ago, and published for...
Remembrance of Things Past: Volume 1
One of the greatest translations of all time- Scott Moncrieff's classic version of Proust, published in three stunning clothbound volumes designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith Proust's masterpiece is one of the...
The Odyssey: Translated by Robert Fitzgerald
The best poetic version of The Odyssey to have appeared this century - Hugh Lloyd-Jones Penelope has been waiting for her husband Odysseus to return from Troy for many years....
The Odyssey
Robert Fagles's stunning modern-verse translation-available at last in our black-spine classics line Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Christopher Nolan A Penguin Classic The Odyssey is literature's...
In Search of Lost Time: Volume 3: The Guermantes Way
Brilliant reception for the hardcover edition- 'The latest Penguin Proust is a triumph, and will bring this inexhaustible artwork to new audiences throughout the English-speaking world.' Sunday Telegraph Since the...
The Complete Poetry
A wonderful edition of Herbert's poetry, edited by his acclaimed biographer John Drury, and including elegant new translations of his Latin verse by Victoria Moul George Herbert wrote, but never...
The Canterbury Tales
David Wright's new translation of The Canterbury Tales into modern verse--the first to appear in over thirty years--makes one of the greatest works of English literature accessible to all readers...
The Saga of the Volsungs
Legends from the Ancient North brings together some of the magical texts that most influenced Tolkien 'They summoned their friends, readied their horses, and prepared their helmets, shields, swords, coats...
Birds, Beasts and a World Made New
A revelatory volume of two of the twentieth century's great poetic innovators, Guillaume Apollinaire and Velimir Khlebnikov, in vibrant new translations by Robert Chandler Guillaume Apollinaire and Velimir Khlebnikov never...
The Divine Comedy: Paradise
The final volume in this brilliant translation destined to take its place among the great English versions of The Divine Comedy. The final volume in a brilliant translation destined to...
Selected Poetry
This is to be the first verse translation of Goethe's poetry in Penguin Classics This is to be the first verse translation of Goethe's poetry in penguin classics and replaces...
The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary
A landmark event: the complete Hebrew Bible in the award-winning translation that delivers the stunning literary power of the original. A masterpiece of deep learning and fine sensibility, Robert Alter's...
A Celtic Miscellany: Selected and Translated by Kenneth Hurlstone
The classic introduction to Celtic literature and culture Including works from Welsh, Irish and Scottish Gaelic, Cornish, Breton and Manx, this Celtic Miscellany offers a rich blend of poetry and...
The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters
$40.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Very Good. Jacket: in good condition with minor shelf wear. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No visible markings. Binding: Appears tight and intact. Stickers/Labels: None visible. A landmark...
Chaucer: Complete Works
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures loom as large in the English literary tradition as Geoffrey Chaucer, the 14th-century poet whose vivid imagination and masterful verse transformed the...
If This Be Magic: The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation
Why might Hamlet be even longer in Italian? How does the story of Romeo and Juliet begin . . . in Thai? How do you build a joke in German,...
Selected Poems and Fragments
Michael Hamburger's distinguished translation of a selection of poems by German poet Friedrich Holderlin Friedrich H lderlin (1770-1843) is now recognized as one of Europe's supreme poets. He first found...
Works of Love: A New Translation
First published in 1847, Works of Love is among Soren Kierkegaard's most explicitly religious works. Intended to awaken rather than convince-to replicate "the stinging, impatient character of a 'gadfly,'" as...
Translations
Shortlisted, Readings New Australian Fiction Prize Winner, 2025 SMH Best Young Australian Novelists Shortlisted for the 2025 Stella Prize Shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards 'Jumaana Abdu is extraordinary...
The Murder Of Charles The Good
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the winter of 1127, the peaceful county of Flanders was shattered by an act of brutal treachery...