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paperback. Depicts a cruel underworld in which desperate figures are condemned to eternal damnation for committing one or more of seven deadly sins. In this title, the author encounters doomed souls including the pagan Aeneas, the liar Odysseus, the suicide Cleopatra, and his own political enemies, damned for their deceit. Editor(s): Kirkpatrick, Robin. Translator(s): Kirkpatrick, Robin. Num Pages: 576 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 25. Weight in Grams: 388.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140448955
ISBN
9780140448955
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.53

paperback. Depicting a realm of intense sensation and physical experience, this poem transforms the traditional Christian idea of Purgatory by showing how the free will of the aspiring soul could change wordly perversions into perfection. Editor(s): Kirkpatrick, Robin. Translator(s): Kirkpatrick, Robin. Num Pages: 592 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140448962
ISBN
9780140448962
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Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.53

paperback. Continuing his soul's search for God, guided by his beloved Beatrice, Dante progresses through the spheres of Paradise. Examining eternal questions of faith, desire and enlightenment, Dante exercised all his learning and wit, wrath and tenderness in his creation of these Christian allegories. Editor(s): Kirkpatrick, Robin. Num Pages: 576 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140448979
ISBN
9780140448979
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.30

paperback. A selection of the author's early poems, interspersed with his own prose commentary. It tells the story of his love for Beatrice, from their first meeting at a May Day party in her father's house, through the author's sufferings, to his overwhelming grief at her death, ending with the transformative vision of her in heaven. Translator(s): Reynolds, Barbara. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 10. Weight in Grams: 92.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140449471
ISBN
9780140449471
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 11.14

paperback. Focusing on the conflict between man and nature, this book, in each of its three distinct parts, gives centre stage to a different character from a different century - the last being W G Sebald himself. Translator(s): Hamburger, Michael. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 100.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780141003368
ISBN
9780141003368
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.45

paperback. Presents chronologically works such as "Paterson", selections from "White Shroud", "Cosmopolitan Greetings", and including the poems "Howl" and "Kaddish" as well as songs, and notes by Ginsberg. This volume brings together the personal verse of an American poet. Num Pages: 464 pages, music, portraits. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 320.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780141184760
ISBN
9780141184760
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.53

paperback. Features a collection of Nabokov's poems span the decades of his career, from 'Music', written in 1914, to the short, playful 'To Vera', composed in 1974. this title also includes verse written on America, lepidoptery, sport, and love. Translator(s): Nabokov, Dmitri. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 125 x 19. Weight in Grams: 240.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780141192260
ISBN
9780141192260
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 10.64

paperback. Covers radical public poems of Leopardi on history and politics; philosophical satires; his great, dark, despairing odes such as "To Silvia"; and, later masterworks such as "The Setting of the Moon", written not long before Leopardi's death. Translator(s): Galassi, Jonathan. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 360.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780141193878
ISBN
9780141193878
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.91

mass_market. Presents the true horror of the trenches. Series: Penguin Little Black Classics. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 113 x 161 x 8. Weight in Grams: 54.
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780141397603
ISBN
9780141397603
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 5.71

paperback. A collection of poems. Num Pages: 464 pages, frontispiece. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 320.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780143106081
ISBN
9780143106081
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.53

paperback. This selection of the Byron's poetical works includes such masterpieces as Childe Harold, The Corsair, Manfred, Bebbo, and Don Juan. There are many other less familiar works and shorter lyrics, and Jerome J. McGann's introduction and notes give fascinating insight into Byron's world. Editor(s): McGann, Jerome J. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 192.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
OUP Oxford
Condition
New
SKU
9780199538782
ISBN
9780199538782
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.06

paperback. Heine was a restless and homeless poet, a Jew among Germans, a German in Paris, a rebel among the bourgeoisie and always, as his famous doppelganger poems show, a man divided against himself. This selection, with the German originals accompanied by English prose translations, provides an introduction to Heine. Editor(s): Branscombe, Peter. Translator(s): Branscombe, Peter. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 230.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140420982
ISBN
9780140420982
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.14

paperback. An anthology of Stevenson's poetic achievements. As a poet, he was inspired by a vast range of verse forms, and in this collection, Angus Calder has brought together many uncollected poems, substantial extracts from unpublished collections, and the complete "Child's Garden of Verse". Editor(s): Calder, Angus. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 238.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140435481
ISBN
9780140435481
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.14

paperback. A spiritual allegory that explores man in relation to his ultimate destiny against the background of teeming, colorful medieval life. Translator(s): Goodridge, J. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 13. Weight in Grams: 240.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140440874
ISBN
9780140440874
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.53

paperback. Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) is universally celebrated as one of the greatest artists of all time, yet iconic Renaissance creator was also a prolific and gifted poet. This is a collection of verses which are devoted to love and religion. Editor(s): Mortimer, Anthony. Translator(s): Mortimer, Anthony. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JB; BJ; DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 216.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140449563
ISBN
9780140449563
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.14

paperback. War is raging between the Greeks and the Trojans. Achilles, the great warrior champion of the Greek army, is angrily sulking in his tent and refusing to fight, after a row with his leader Agamemnon. But when the Trojan king Hector kills Achilles' beloved friend, he plunges back into the battle to seek his bloody revenge. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 284.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140455601
ISBN
9780140455601
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.53

paperback. This collection of three plays and one cine poem captures the essence of Zakes Mda's method as a dramatist. Included is the story of two women who meet during a long wait to buy subsidized rice and discover they have more in common than their poverty. Num Pages: 176 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF; DD; DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 125. Weight in Grams: 185.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Wits University Press South Africa
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9781868142224
ISBN
9781868142224
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 20.93

Paperback. Features letters that are addressed, with just two exceptions, to Sylvia Plath, the American poet to whom the author was married. This book became an instant bestseller on its publication in 1998 and won the Forward Prize for Poetry in the same year. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 214 x 133 x 15. Weight in Grams: 242.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571194735
ISBN
9780571194735
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.07

Paperback. Circle adopts the shape as a trope for gender, family, and history. These lyrical, narrative, and hybrid poems trace the spiral trajectory of womanhood and growth and plot the progression of self as it ebbs away from and returns to its roots in an Asian American family and context. Series: Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 7. Weight in Grams: 145.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780809326181
ISBN
9780809326181
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.25

hardcover. Sir John Betjeman (1906-84) was born in Highgate, the son of a manufacturer of Dutch descent. His poetry enjoyed immense popularity, as did his personality, and his knighthood in 1969 and appointment as Poet Laureate in 1972 were universally welcomed. Editor(s): Williams, Hugo. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 135 x 13. Weight in Grams: 184.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
9780571247028
ISBN
9780571247028
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.14

Paperback. A remarkable example of Christian poetry expressing St Ephrem's awareness of the sacramental character of the created world, and of the potential of everything in the created world to act as witness to the Creator. With a translation from Ephrem's Commentary on Genesis. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 128 x 183 x 18. Weight in Grams: 250.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
St Vladimir's Seminary Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780881410761
ISBN
9780881410761
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.62

Paperback. Previously out of print, Shelley's long poem explores issues of sexuality, revolution, art, and the nature of love. Editor(s): Nersessian, Anahid. Series: Broadview Editions. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 24. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd Canada
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9781554811946
ISBN
9781554811946
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.04

paperback. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 125 x 12. Weight in Grams: 172.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Counterpoint United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9781593761073
ISBN
9781593761073
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.36

This volume presents translations of over 200 poems by the master of The Way of Poetry, who is generally considered to be the last great poet of the classical uta form. Translator(s): Carter, Steven D. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages, glossary. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231105767
ISBN
9780231105767
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 83.23
€ 78.77

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