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paperback. Brings together eleven of the author's shorter fairy stories as well as his essay "The Fantastic Imagination". This title includes fairy stories that range from traditional fantasy - good and wicked fairies, children embarking on elaborate quests, and journeys into unsettling dream worlds. Num Pages: 384 pages, notes. BIC Classification: DNF; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140437379
- ISBN
- 9780140437379
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 9.74
€ 13.99
€ 9.74
Paperback. Father Brown first made his appearance in "The Innocence of Father Brown" in 1911. This collection contains all of the Father Brown stories, showing thr quiet wit and compassion that has endeared him to many, whilst solving his mysteries by a mixture of imagination and a sympathetic worldliness in a totally believable manner. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 800 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 37. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions Hertfordshire
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- Revised & enlarged
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781853260032
- ISBN
- 9781853260032
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 6.33
€ 6.33
Hardback. Editor(s): Walker, Pierre A.; Zacharias, Greg W. Series: The Complete Letters of Henry James. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JH; BJ; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 6452 x 4039 x 28. Weight in Grams: 825.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803269859
- ISBN
- 9780803269859
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.82
€ 103.82
paperback. 'Nonsense is the breath of my nostrils', wrote Edward Lear (1812-88), and this collection demonstrates the varied ways in which he pursued his philosophy of life. Gently pointing out human follies and the absurdities of the conventional Victorian society in which he lived, Lear's nonsense has enchanted children and adults alike for generations. Editor(s): Noakes, Vivien. Num Pages: 624 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 37. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140424652
- ISBN
- 9780140424652
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.91
€ 16.99
€ 13.91
paperback. The author was the greatest nonsensicalist of all time. He was the inventor of the limerick and created the Jumblies and The Owl and the Pussycat. This book features his nonsense verse - including the limericks, longer verses, alphabets and his own illustrations. Series: Faber Children's Classics. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 5AK; DCF; YDP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 181 x 137 x 32. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571314805
- ISBN
- 9780571314805
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
€ 13.99
€ 11.76
Paperback. The Greek poet Pindar (c. 518-428 BC) composed victory odes for winners in the ancient Games, including the Olympics. The Odes contain versions of some of the best known Greek myths and are also a valuable source for Greek religion and ethics. Verity's lucid translations are complemented by insights into competition, myth, and meaning. Editor(s): Instone, Stephen. Translator(s): Verity, Anthony. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 166.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199553907
- ISBN
- 9780199553907
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.47
€ 16.99
€ 13.47
Paperback. This is a superb new translation of the great Augustan poet Horace's Odes and Epodes - brilliantly crafted and diverse poems of politics, friendship, love, and wine. The edition is supplemented by a lucid introduction, extensive notes, and glossary of names. Translator(s): West, David. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 4KL; DCF. Category: (UA) A / AS level. Dimension: 196 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 180.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199555277
- ISBN
- 9780199555277
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.61
€ 15.99
€ 12.61
Hardcover. At long last we have Craig Williamson's beautiful and haunting translations of all of the Old English poems into modern strong-stress, alliterative verse, along with his introductions, his essay on translation, and noted medievalist Tom Shippey's introduction on the literary scope and vision of these timeless poems. Translator(s): Williamson, Craig. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 1248 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABA; 3D; 3F; 3H; DSB; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 169 x 247 x 59. Weight in Grams: 1870.
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812248470
- ISBN
- 9780812248470
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 163.23
€ 163.23
Hardcover. This edition of Shakespeare's complete works aims to combine accessibility with scholarship. Each play or poetry collection has an introduction which includes textual and literary-historical issues and there are same-page notes for ease of reference. Editor(s): Harbage, Alfred. Num Pages: 1520 pages, glossaries. BIC Classification: 2AB; DDS; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 190 x 60. Weight in Grams: 1918.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 1520
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 2Rev Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141000589
- ISBN
- 9780141000589
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 78.88€ 72.73
€ 78.88
€ 72.73
paperback. In the victories of Tamburlaine, Faustus' encounters with the demonic, the irreverence of Barabas and the humiliation of Edward II in his fall from power and influence. Num Pages: 752 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 33. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 752
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140436334
- ISBN
- 9780140436334
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Bantam Books Inc
- Publication date
- 1991
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780553213546
- ISBN
- 9780553213546
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.82
€ 9.82
Paperback. Sophocles was the dominant Athenian playwright of the fifth century BCE. This translation includes his best-known work, such as the "Oedipus cycle" ("Oedipus the King", "Oedipus at Kolonos", and "Antigone"), "Elektra and the Women of Trakhis" "Philoktetes" and "Aias". Num Pages: 880 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 184 x 160 x 38. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 928
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780062020345
- ISBN
- 9780062020345
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.50
€ 15.99
€ 14.50
Paperback. Member of Parliament, tutor to Oliver Cromwell's ward, satirist and friend of John Milton, Andrew Marvell was one of the most interesting and important poets of the seventeenth century. The Complete Poems demonstrates his unique skill and immense diversity to the full, and includes lyrical love-poetry, religious works and biting satire. Editor(s): Donno, Elizabeth Story. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140424577
- ISBN
- 9780140424577
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33
Hardcover. Features poetry that is both passionate and brilliant, erotic and comic, cool courtly and seductive. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 137 x 211 x 31. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Publisher
- Everyman's Library
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857151534
- ISBN
- 9781857151534
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.47
€ 16.99
€ 13.47
Paperback. In 1855 Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass, the work which defined him as one of America's most influential voices, and which he added to throughout his life. A collection of astonishing originality and intensity, it spoke of politics, sexual emancipation and what it meant to be an American. Editor(s): Murphy, Francis. Num Pages: 912 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 39. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 912
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140424515
- ISBN
- 9780140424515
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.69
€ 23.99
€ 16.69
Paperback. Graves created a rich mythology where love, fear, fantasy and the supernatural play an essential role. Intimate yet universal, passionate yet precise, their brilliant alchemy of realism and magic made Graves' poems some of the finest. This book presents the achievement of Graves' seventy productive years. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 944 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 136 x 40. Weight in Grams: 642.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 944
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141182063
- ISBN
- 9780141182063
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 19.06
€ 26.99
€ 19.06
Paperback. The poems of Emily Jane Bronte are passionate and powerful works that convey the vitality of the human spirit and of the natural world. This book contains poems attributed to her that describe the mythic country of Gondal and its citizens that she imagined with Anne, and remain the only surviving record of their joint creation. Editor(s): Gezari, Janet. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 336
- Publication date
- 1992
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140423525
- ISBN
- 9780140423525
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33
Paperback. This is a complete collection of the poetry of Christina Rossetti, whose work ranges from poems of fantasy and verses for the young, to ballads - "Goblin Market" - love lyrics, sonnets and religious poetry. Num Pages: 1280 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 56. Weight in Grams: 860.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 1280
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140423662
- ISBN
- 9780140423662
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 18.28
€ 25.99
€ 18.28
Paperback. John Keats lost both his parents at an early age. His decision to commit himself to poetry, rather than follow a career in medicine, was a personal challenge, unfounded in any prior success. His first volume of poetry, published in 1817, was a critical and commercial failure. This book tells his story. Editor(s): Barnard, John. Num Pages: 752 pages, index. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1977
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140422108
- ISBN
- 9780140422108
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33
Paperback. Combines the Christian with the classical in its description of the fall of Man. This title draws a parallel with the author's own life in the hero's struggle to renew his faith in God. Editor(s): Leonard, John. Num Pages: 1024 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DCF; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 45. Weight in Grams: 684.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 1024
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140433630
- ISBN
- 9780140433630
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.36
€ 26.99
€ 20.36
Paperback. Gaspara Stampa (1523-1554) is one of the finest female poets ever to write in Italian. This title translation of Stampa into English collects all of her passionate and lyrical verse. Editor(s): Tower, Troy; Tylus, Jane. Translator(s): Tylus, Jane. Num Pages: 490 pages, 4 halftones. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Number of pages
- 490
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226770727
- ISBN
- 9780226770727
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 41.39
€ 52.99
€ 41.39
paperback. One of the great English Romantic poets, William Blake (1757-1827) was an artist, poet, mystic and visionary. Throughout his life Blake drew on a rich heritage of philosophy, religion and myth, to create a poetic worlds illuminated by his spiritual and revolutionary beliefs that have fascinated, intrigued and enchanted readers for generations. Editor(s): Ostriker, Alicia. Num Pages: 1072 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 46. Weight in Grams: 722.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1977
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140422153
- ISBN
- 9780140422153
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 15.29
€ 17.99
€ 15.29
paperback. One of the great English Romantic poets, William Blake (1757-1827) was an artist, poet, mystic and visionary. Throughout his life Blake drew on a rich heritage of philosophy, religion and myth, to create a poetic worlds illuminated by his spiritual and revolutionary beliefs that have fascinated, intrigued and enchanted readers for generations. Editor(s): Ostriker, Alicia. Num Pages: 1072 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 46. Weight in Grams: 722. Clean copy with minor tear to cover at spine. Remains a good copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1977
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KMK0021701
- ISBN
- 9780140422153
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 17.99€ 15.29
€ 17.99
€ 15.29
Paperback. As a diplomat in Renaissance Europe, and a luminary at the court of Henry VII, Sir Thomas Wyatt wrote in an incestuous world where anyone was uneasily subject to the royal whims and rages. Conveying the actuality of betrayal or absence, and the intense pressure of his longing for a love that could be trusted, these are some of his haunting poems. Num Pages: 560 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 200 x 34. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 560
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1978
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140422276
- ISBN
- 9780140422276
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.77
€ 23.99
€ 17.77