The Beauties - Essential Stories by Anton Chekov; Nicolas Slater Pasternak (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Pushkin Press Classics Ser.
The essential edition of the greatest stories by the Russian master of the form Chekhov was without doubt one of the greatest observers of human nature in all its untidy complexity. His short stories, written throughout his life and newly translated for this essential collection, are exquisite masterpie ...Show more
Days Like These: An Alternative Guide to the Year in 366 Poems by Brian Bilston
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Category: Poetry and Drama
In this playful, innovative collection, Brian Bilston writes a poem to accompany every day of the year. Each poem is inspired by a significant - often curious - event associated with that day: from Open an Umbrella Indoors Day to the day on which New York banned public flirting; from the launch of the R ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Elegy by Andrew Motion; Stephen Regan
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Category: Poetry and Drama
The comprehensive guide to a deeply human tradition of memory, mourning and consolationElegy is among the world's oldest forms of literature- a continuous poetic tradition which stretches back beyond the time of Virgil and Horace to Ancient Greece, speaking eloquently and movingly of the experience of l ...Show more
Metamorphoses: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Ovid
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
The first female translator of the epic into English in over sixty years,Stephanie McCarter addresses accuracy in translation and its representation of women, gendered dynamics of power, and sexual violence in Ovid's classic. A Penguin Classic Ovid's Metamorphoses is an epic poem, but one that upturns ...Show more
Gawimarra Gathering by Jeanine Leane
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Category: Poetry and Drama
A stunning work of poetry from an award-winning First Nations writer, seamlessly weaving the personal and the political. This superb collection moves from deeply tender meditations on Country, culture and kinship, to experimental archival poems dissecting the violence and destruction of the settler-colo ...Show more
Birds and Fish: Life on the Hawkesbury by Robert Adamson
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Category: Poetry and Drama
The final collection from the award-winning 'poet of the Hawkesbury River' In the old days I used to think art That was purely imagined could fly higher Than anything real. Now I feel a small fluttering Bird in my own pulse, a connection to the sky. -from 'The Kingfisher's Soul' In the last year of his ...Show more
A Christmas Carol and Other Holiday Treasures (Word Cloud Classics) by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
Brighten the season with tales from the master of Christmastime fiction. Most famous in the realm of holiday literature for his 1843 publication, A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens was in fact a prolific writer in the yuletide genre and a great contributor to many now-prevalent traditions of the hol ...Show more
Wuthering Heights (Word Cloud Classics) by Emily Bronte
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Category: Classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics
Emily Bront 's only novel, a work of tremendous and far-reaching influence. Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, situated on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events ...Show more
William Shakespeare Comedies (Word Cloud Classics) by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
Bring on the merriment whenever you open this collection of Shakespeare's entertaining comedies. The comedies of William Shakespeare--including The Tempest, The Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and As You Like It--have entertained readers and theatergoers for centuries. This elegant Word ...Show more
Love Poems (Word Cloud Classics) by Editors of Canterbury Classics
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Category: Poetry and Drama | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
A collection of the world's finest love poems--from ancient Greece to the twentieth century. For thousands of years, poets across the world have expressed their thoughts on love with profound and memorable verses. Love Poems is a collection of works from more than fifty prolific poets, including Sap ...Show more
Emma (Word Cloud Classics) by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
Best-selling Victorian author Jane Austen has created many memorable female characters, with intriguing Emma Woodhouse being perhaps the most popular. Emma, a matchmaker at heart, is obsessed with love and romance--for others. As for her own love life, she wants nothing of it. She even feels repulsed by ...Show more
English Romantic Poets by Jonathan Bate (Editor)
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Category: Poetry and Drama
A greatest-hits selection from some of the most popular poets in the English language, in a gorgeously-jacketed small hardcover. William Wordsworth defined good poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings," and no generation of poets has felt more powerfully than the Romantics of the late e ...Show more