ISBN: 9781841597874 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 256 Rok wydania: 2011
This anthology contains a cross-section covering his career, including such legendary songs as "Suzanne", "Sisters of Mercy", "Bird on the Wire", "Famous Blue...
ISBN: 9781841597911 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 224 Rok wydania: 2011
A poet in a former life, Archy has been reincarnated as a cockroach who types by diving headfirst onto a typewriter (and is famously unable to operate the shift key to produce capital letters); his...
ISBN: 9781857157291 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 256 Rok wydania: 1996
This volume contains extensive selections fr om Paradise Lost, chosen to illustrate its author''s genius f or high drama, vivid description and savage irony. '
ISBN: 9781857157178 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 256 Rok wydania: 1995
Distinguished as both a great novelist and a great poet, Thomas Hardy's writing career spanned more than 60 years. A master of the short lyric and the vivid narrative, Hardy is the poet of...
ISBN: 9781857157352 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 256 Rok wydania: 1997
Kubla Khan, Christabel and The Ancient Marin er remain among the most celebrated works in the English lan guage. All are included in this volume, together with many o ther superb but lesser-known...
ISBN: 9781857150193 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 176 Rok wydania: 1991
Set in the post-Great War Long Island/New York world of the rich. The narrator, Nick Carraway, sympathetically records the pathos of Gatsby's romantic dream which founders on the reality of...
ISBN: 9781857151503 Oprawa: twarda Autor: Orwell George Wydawnictwo: Everyman Library Ilość stron: 168 Rok wydania: 1993
A biting satire on dictatorship written during the Second World War and published in 1945, ANIMAL FARM is perhaps the most celebrated twentieth-century English satire after the same writer's...
ISBN: 9781857150636 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 240 Rok wydania: 1992
A collection of Stevenson's short stories found in one volume. Titles include "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde", "Markheim", "Lodging for the Night", "Thrawn Janet",...
ISBN: 9781857150292 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 344 Rok wydania: 1991
Set in British India in the 1920s, this book looks at racial conflict. The characters struggle to overcome their own differences and prejudices, but when the Indian Dr Aziz is tried for the alleged...
ISBN: 9781841593562 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 408 Rok wydania: 2013
Set in the bleak Fen Country of East Anglia, and spanning some 240 years in the lives of its haunted narrator and his ancestors, Waterland is a book that takes in eels and incest, ale-making and...
ISBN: 9781857151688 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 320 Rok wydania: 2001
First assembled on paper in the fourteenth century, the eleven stories in The Mabinogion reach far back into the oral traditions of Welsh poetry. Closely linked to the Arthurian legends - King...
ISBN: 9781857151466 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 344 Rok wydania: 1993
Graham Greene's classic study in the banality of evil is set in the unforgettably evoked underworld of pre-war Brighton where Pinkie, a small-time ganster, meets his nemesis at the hands of...
ISBN: 9781841598185 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 256 Rok wydania: 2020
ISBN: 9781841597591 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 256 Rok wydania: 2004
This collection includes, of course, such celebrated poems as "The Lady of Shalott" and "The Charge of the Light Brigade." There are extracts from all the major...
ISBN: 9781841597461 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 256 Rok wydania: 2001
Throughout history, poets have felt the ancient pull of the sea, exploring the full range of mankind's nautical fears, dreams, and longings. This collection includes classics old and new, from...
ISBN: 9781857157154 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 256 Rok wydania: 1994
The major male poet of nineteenth-century America (his female counterpart is Emily Dickinson), Whitman is the poet of grand passions great open spaces, lofty mourning and male love. Written in free...
ISBN: 9781841597706 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 256 Rok wydania: 2006
From her appearance in a small magazine in 1906 to her death in 1965, Anna Akhmatova was a dominant presence in Russian literary life. But this friend of Pasternak and Mandelstam was a poet in a...
ISBN: 9781857157062 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 256 Rok wydania: 1994
Keats is celebrated as a writer in three forms: lyric verse, narrative verse and letters. All three are represented here in a volume which reprints all the famous odes, a selection os sonnets and...
ISBN: 9781841597966 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 256 Rok wydania: 2014
In 2009 Knopf published a new translation of Cavafy's Complete Poems żeby the brilliant and award-winning writer and scholar Daniel Mendelsohn. Now Mendelsohn has made a selection of the...
ISBN: 9781841597980 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 256 Rok wydania: 2014
The Arabic poetic legacy is as vast as it is deep, spanning a period of fifteen centuries in regions from Morocco to Iraq. As a unifying principle, editor Marle Hammond has selected eighty poems...