1500 to 1800
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- 1500 to 1800
- 1500 to 1800
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Scottish Poetry, 1730-1830£12.99 Daniel Cook
9780198803553 Featuring 218 poems and songs in Scots, English, and Gaelic, this collection places Robert Burns, Walter Scott, and other major writers of the period alongside lesser known or even entirely forgotten figures. A significant number of important long poems are given in full, and many of the shorter works feature for the first time in a modern edition. |
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Medieval English Travel: A Critical Anthology£20.00 Anthony Bale, Sebastian Sobecki
9780192848604 The first anthology dedicated to medieval English travel writing, with a focus on the later Middle Ages. It features concise introductory essays written by leading specialists; an anthology of important and less well-known texts, grouped by destination; and a selection of supporting bibliographies organised by type of voyage. |
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Milton's Poetical Thought: The Literary Agenda£15.99 Maggie Kilgour
9780198808824 At a time when literature is thought to have limited value in a world dominated by scientific thinking, this volume offers close readings of John Milton's major works to argue that poetry is a vital means of knowing the world and answering the most fundamental questions. |
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Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings£21.99 David Womersley
9780198859246 This volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Samuel Johnson (1709-1784). This edition presents Johnson's texts in chronological order, and includes an Introduction, Chronology, and full commentary notes. |
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Machiavelli: A Very Short IntroductionSecond Edition £8.99 Quentin Skinner
9780198837572 Quentin Skinner introduces Niccolò Machiavelli, Florentine diplomat, politician, and the writer known for that most infamous Early Modern work, The Prince. He explores Machiavelli's theory of princely virtù, tracing its roots in ancient historians and moralists, and considering its influence on contemporary politics. |
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Reading: A Very Short Introduction£8.99 Belinda Jack
9780198820581 Reading can inform, inspire, emancipate, and motivate us. Down the centuries, it has brought huge educational and social benefits. It can also unleash subversion, and its spread has been accompanied by censorship and control. Belinda Jack explores the global development and impact of reading - from ancient texts to digital texts today. |
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Thomas Browne: Selected Writings£17.99 Kevin Killeen
9780198797654 This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682). The edition introduces students to one of the most brilliant and wide-ranging of writers in Renaissance England and includes an Introduction and full commentary notes. |
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Shakespeare's Sonnets and Poems: A Very Short Introduction£8.99 Jonathan F. S. Post
9780198717577 Jonathan Post introduces all of Shakespeare's poetry, including the sonnets and his great narrative poems, and explores themes of love and lust in these works. He also considers the debates surrounding their disputed authorship, and the impact these poems had, from contemporary readers right up to today. |
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Shakespeare's Tragedies: A Very Short Introduction£8.99 Stanley Wells
9780198785293 Shakespeare's tragedies contain an astonishing variety of suffering, from suicides and murders to dismemberments and grief. Stanley Wells considers how the bard's tragic plays drew on the literary and theatrical conventions of his time. Discussing the individual plays, he also explores why tragedy is regarded as a fit subject for entertainment. |
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The Natural History of Selborne£8.99 Gilbert White, Anne Secord
9780198737759 The Natural History of Selborne (1789)is written as a series of letters, which describe with wit and precision the flora and fauna White observes in his Hampshire parish. A classic of nature writing, this edition includes contemporary illustrations, a contextualizing introduction, and an appendix of readers' responses over 200 years. |
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The Compleat Angler£8.99 Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton, Marjorie Swann
9780198745464 The Compleat Angler is the most famous work in the literature of sport and a unique celebration of the English countryside. This new edition highlights its celebration of natural history, the environment, conservation, and the power of friendship. |
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The MonkNew Edition £8.99 Matthew Lewis, Nick Groom
9780198704454 The Monk (1796) is a masterpiece of Gothic fiction and the first horror novel in English literature. It tells of the pious monk Ambrosio's descent into depravity, his passion leading to rape, blasphemy, black magic, incest, and murder. Its sensational story also reflects the terrors of the French Revolution. |
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The Poetic EddaSecond Edition £9.99 Carolyne Larrington
9780199675340 A fully revised translation of the great collection of Norse-Icelandic mythological and heroic poetry known as the Poetic Edda, containing the narratives of the creation of the world and the coming of Ragnarok, the Doom of the Gods. Gods, giants, and human heroes populate the poems. This edition includes three new poems. |
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Three Plays: Six Characters in Search of an Author, Henry IV, The Mountain Giants£8.99 Luigi Pirandello, Anthony Mortimer
9780199641192 Pirandello is a seminal figure in modern drama. This is the only one-volume edition of his two most famous plays, Six Characters in Search of an Author and Henry IV, and his last unfinished masterpiece The Mountain Giants, in lively and performable new translations that remain faithful to the letter and spirit of the originals. |
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Selected Poems: with parallel German text£10.99 Rainer Maria Rilke, Robert Vilain, Susan Ranson, Marielle Sutherland
9780199569410 Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is one of the leading poets of European Modernism, whose poetry explores themes of death, love, and loss. This bilingual edition fully reflects Rilke's poetic development and includes the full text of the Duino Elegies and the Sonnets to Orpheus in accurate and sensitive new translations. |
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The Complete Fairy Tales£7.99 Charles Perrault, Christopher Betts
9780199585809 Perrault's fairy tales in a scintillating new translation, including the less familiar verse tales and with illustrations by Gustave Doré. The introduction explores the imaginative power of the stories and the many interpretations to which they have been subject. |
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The Nibelungenlied: The Lay of the Nibelungs£10.99 Cyril Edwards
9780199238545 The Nibelungenlied is the greatest medieval German heroic poem, a revenge saga on an epic scale, which tells how dragon-slayer Sivrit acquires the priceless hoard of the dwarvish Nibelungs, and of the tragic conflict between Kriemhilt and Hagen. This is the first prose translation for over forty years, with full introductory materials. |
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Boris Godunov and Other Dramatic Works£9.99 Alexander Pushkin, James E. Falen, Caryl Emerson
9780199554041 James E. Falen's verse translation consists of Boris Godunov, A Scene from Faust, the four Little Tragedies and Rusalka. It is accompanied by a penetrating Introduction by Caryl Emerson on Russia's most cosmopolitan playwright. |
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Grettir's Saga£9.99 Jesse Byock
9780192801524 A sweeping epic of the Viking Age, Grettir's Saga follows the life of the outlaw Grettir the Strong as he battles against sorcery, bad luck, and the vengefulness of his enemies. Among the most famous and widely read of Iceland's sagas, this new translation features extensive illustrative material to elucidate the story. |
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Peer Gynt£9.99 Henrik Ibsen, James McFarlane, Christopher Fry, Johann Fillinger
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