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Forewords and Afterwords
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerThis collection features a selection of Auden's forewords and afterwords, offering insights into his thoughts on various literary works and...
Another Time
Another Time was the first volume that Auden published after his departure to America with Christopher Isherwood in January 1939. It was dedicated to Chester Kallman. The poems, some of...
Stop All the Clocks: Poems of Love and Loss
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone . . . W. H. Auden was the consummate poet of love and...
Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957
W. H. Auden was once described as the Picasso of modern poetry - a tribute to his ceaseless experimentation with form and subject matter. Beginning with Anglo-Saxon poetry and ending...
What W. H. Auden Can Do for You
Bestselling novelist Alexander McCall Smith's charming account of how the poet W. H. Auden has helped guide his life - and how he might guide yours too When facing a...
Literary Lives
John Sutherland has picked out over 100 biographies from the "Dictionary of National Biography" to create this lively anthology of a selection of the most prominent figures in British 20th-century...
For The Fallen: The Poetry of the First World War
By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell In 1914, the age of European Imperialism came to its inevitable end, and the Twentieth Century was born in fire...
The Poet's Tongue: An Anthology
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. The Poet's Tongue stands as one of the most...
The Selected Writings of Sydney Smith
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Photo is of the actual book - please note wear and tear. A description...
The Whispering Gallery: Autobiography I
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the gilded drawing rooms of Eton to the literary salons of 1930s Vienna and London, The Whispering Gallery is the first volume of...
Lions And Shadows
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBefore Christopher Isherwood became one of the twentieth century's most celebrated literary voices, he was a...
The Viking Book Of Aphorisms: A Personal Selection
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, with some minor wear at the edges and corners. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Intact hardcover binding. A landmark anthology of...
Memories
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew figures in twentieth-century Oxford cut as distinctive a silhouette as Sir Cecil Maurice Bowra — classicist, wit, Warden of...
Stephen Spender: A Portrait with Background
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Hugh David Format: Hardback...
Markings
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the intersection of politics and the sacred, Markings stands as one of the most extraordinary...
Friends Of Promise: Cyril Connolly And The World Of Horizon
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Edition: 1st ed., 1st pr.,Condition remarks: Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Very good, minor wear to edges. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding: Tight and secure. A richly detailed work...
Classic Readings and Poems: a collection for weddings, christenings,
A beautiful collection of poems and readings to mark any occasion, including christenings, weddings and funerals those special occasions in life all need to be marked with words bigger and...
Dylan Thomas: The Collected Letters Volume 2: 1939-1953
Author: Dylan Thomas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 Dylan Thomas's letters bring the fascinating and tempestuous poet and his times to life in a way that no...
Love is Strong as Death: Poems chosen by Paul Kelly
A collection of more than 300 of Paul Kelly's favourite poems. Paul Kelly's songs are steeped in poetry. And now he has gathered from around the world the poems he...
Garden Of Eden: Masterpieces Of Botanical Illustration
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFrom the gilded halls of the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek in Vienna emerges one of the most breathtaking tributes to the art of botanical...
Stephen Spender: The Authorized Biography
Seven years after Stephen Spender's death, John Sutherland offers the authorised life of this brilliant, but famously enigmatic, man. Sutherland's account ranges from the depiction of Spender's cosmopolitan family (and...
Collected Poems 1925-1948
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few poets of the twentieth century captured the turbulent...
Wow!: A Novel
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World within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender
Virtually from its first appearance in 1951, this book was considered one of the most illuminating literary autobiographies to have come out of the 1930s and 40s. In writing it...
Stephen Spender: A Literary Life
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: John Sutherland (University College...
Songs of Mihyar the Damascene
The landmark poetry collection that transformed 20th-century Arabic poetry, in a brilliant new translation by Kareem James Abu-Zeid and Ivan Eubanks Written in the early 1960s by Adonis, 'the most...
Parade's End
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A Song Of Legends Lost: Book One Of The Invoker Trilogy (SIGNED)
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Edition: 1st ed., 1st pr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedIn a world where legends are not merely stories but living, breathing forces that shape the fate of nations,...
A Song Of Legends Lost: Book One Of The Invoker Trilogy (SIGNED)
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Edition: 1ts ed., 1st pr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedIn a world where ancient power and forgotten myth collide, A Song of Legends Lost launches M. H. Ayinde's...
Benjamin Britten 1913-1976: Pictures From A Life
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in twentieth-century classical music cast as long a shadow as Benjamin Britten, and Benjamin Britten 1913–1976: Pictures from a Life stands as...
Recollections: Mainly Of Artists And Writers
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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodGeoffrey Grigson — poet, critic, and one of the twentieth century's most formidably opinionated literary figures — presents in Recollections: Mainly of Artists and...
Collected Poems 1954
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom one of the twentieth century's most celebrated poet laureates comes Collected Poems 1954, a sweeping compendium that...
The Garden of Lost Secrets
Secrets, mystery and bravery meet in this bestselling, gripping historical adventure, from critically-acclaimed Ann-Marie Howell.OCTOBER, 1916.Clara has been sent to stay with her aunt and uncle while England is at...
The Neurosurgeon's Unexpected Family/Reunited with Doctor Deve
The Neurosurgeon's Unexpected Family - Deanne Anders From single surgeon... to family man? Dr William Cooper has been truly thrown in at the deep end. His eleven- month old, half-sister,...
Sackcloth and Ashes: The Bloomsbury Lent Book 2014
What is our modern concept of penance? Is it giving up chocolates for Lent or is it a lasting state of the awareness of sin? Is it public or private?...
Wink
Surviving school with one eye open. Ross Maloy just wants to fit in But after he is diagnosed with a rare eye cancer in Year Seven, he suddenly becomes the...
The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey (Aubrey-Maturin, Book 21)
At the time of his death, Patrick O'Brian had begun to write a novel to follow on from Blue at the Mizzen, the twentieth book in the classic series. These...
Where the Road Leads: An Australian Woman's Journey of Love and
An outstanding and unassuming woman, Jean has led an extraordinary life, bringing hope and joy to people living in some of the most dangerous areas of the Middle East. Jean's...
Josiah's Fire: Autism Stole His Words, God Gave Him a Voice
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Josiah's Fire is an amazing true story of family, hope, and hearing God's voice through a speechless boy. Joe and Tahni Cullen were thrust into a nightmare when their two-year-old...
Evangeline Mudd & The Golden Haired Apes
Evangeline Mudd has had an unusual childhood. Her primatologist parents have taken their child-rearing cues from the golden-haired ape, whose resourceful and fun-loving lifestyle they deeply admire. But one day...
Summer Blockbuster 2023/Contracted To Her Greek Enemy/Forbidden
Passion and desire flare in paradise... Contracted To Her Greek Enemy - Annie West Stephanie Logan would love to throw Damen Nicolaides's outrageous proposal that she pose as his girlfriend...
Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who
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The #1 national bestseller and basis for the hit film 21, this true story of an MIT blackjack team reveals how brilliant math students used card counting to beat Las...