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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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Shakespeare's Comedies: A Very Short Introduction£8.99 Bart van Es
9780198723356 In this Very Short Introduction Bart Van Es analyses Shakespeare's comedic plays, picking out the family resemblances across these works. He considers their shared themes such as confusion and cross dressing, misguided love, twins and substitutions, and explores the bard's verbal artistry and wit. |
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William Shakespeare: A Very Short Introduction£8.99 Stanley Wells
9780198718628 In this new offering from Stanley Wells comes an exploration of one of the world's greatest dramatists: William Shakespeare. Written with enthusiasm and flair, Wells looks at both the world Shakespeare lived in and all of his major works, to show how and why he continues to be so influential and important to society today. |
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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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Domestic Manners of the Americans£9.99 Frances Trollope, Elsie B. Michie
9780199676873 Domestic Manners of the Americans is an entertaining, witty, and often scathing account of Trollope's travels in America between 1827 and 1832 and her criticisms of American manners, from vulgarity to the treatment of slaves. One of the most influential travel books of the century, it also speaks to political debates on equality in England. |
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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£9.99 John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, Paul Davis
9780199584321 Rochester's scandalous reputation belies the variety and sophistication of his love poems and satires. This new edition, with modern spelling, is the most textually up to date, based not on the unreliable printed editions but on the most authoritative manuscripts. It includes a valuable introduction, helpful notes, and an index of manuscripts. |
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Praeterita£10.99 John Ruskin, Francis O'Gorman
9780192802415 Praeterita is the autobiography of John Ruskin (1819-1900), art critic and social commentator and one of the most influential figures of the nineteenth century. An elegy for lost places and people, Praeterita recounts Ruskin's childhood, and his travels across Europe with passion and intimacy. |
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London Labour and the London Poor£10.99 Henry Mayhew, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
9780199697571 This groundbreaking investigation into the lives of London's underclass was undertaken by Henry Mayhew in the 1850s. His interviews with street traders, beggars, and thieves results in a work as vivid as a Victorian novel. This new selection includes original illustrations and an illluminating introduction and notes. |
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The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook£10.99 Flora Annie Steel, Grace Gardiner, Ralph Crane, Anna Johnston
9780199605767 In The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook (1888), Flora Annie Steel and her co-author Grace Gardiner give practical and highly opinionated advice to young memsahibs in India. Covering all aspects of household management from the duties of servants to recipes, the manual sheds fascinating light on the entire imperial experience. |
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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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Studies in the History of the RenaissanceNew Edition £8.99 Walter Pater, Matthew Beaumont
9780199535071 Studies in the History of the Renaissance is a highly influential defence of aestheticism. Pater redefined the practice of criticism through his readings of some of the paintings, sculptures, and poems of the Renaissance, and shocked contemporaries for sponsoring a hedonistic ethic with his infamous 'Conclusion'. |
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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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The Major Works£10.99 Alfred Tennyson, Adam Roberts
9780199572762 This edition, previously published in the Oxford Authors series, includes all Tennyson's classic poems and The Princess, In Memoriam, Maud, Enoch Arden in full, as well as several of the Idylls of the King. It includes letters and extracts from Hallam Tennyson's Memoir of his father. |
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A Mad World, My Masters and Other Plays£11.99 Thomas Middleton, Michael Taylor
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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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A Life: The Humble Truth£8.99 Guy de Maupassant, Roger Pearson
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