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The Essential Homer
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£42.99| /Selections from both Iliad and Odyssey , made with an eye for those episodes that figure most prominently in the study of mythology.
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The Essential Iliad
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£11.99| /While preserving the basic narrative of the Iliad , this selection also highlights the epic's high poetic moments and essential mythological conten...
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The Essential Iliad
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£31.99| /While preserving the basic narrative of the Iliad , this selection also highlights the epic's high poetic moments and essential mythological conten...
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The Essential Jefferson
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£13.99| /Through substantial selections from Jefferson's writings--including his earliest writings, Notes on Virginia , and key public papers and personal c...
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The Essential Odyssey
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£32.99| /This generous abridgment of Stanley Lombardo's translation of the Odyssey offers more than half of the epic, including all of its best-known episod...
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The Essential Petrarch
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£17.99| /Petrarch fashioned so many different versions of himself for posterity that it is an exacting task to establish where one might start to explore. ....
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The Essential Petrarch
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£48.99| /Petrarch fashioned so many different versions of himself for posterity that it is an exacting task to establish where one might start to explore. ....
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The Face of the Other
Interactive Press Australia£19.99| /An evocative and thought-provoking collection of poetry that reveals more to the reader with each reread. Clara Joseph covers a wide range of theme...
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The Faerie Queene, Book Five
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£14.99| /Book Five of The Faerie Queene is Spenser's Legend of Justice. It tells of the knight Artegall's efforts to rid Faerie Land of tyranny and injustic...
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The Faerie Queene, Book Five
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£35.99| /Book Five of The Faerie Queene is Spenser's Legend of Justice. It tells of the knight Artegall's efforts to rid Faerie Land of tyranny and injustic...
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The Faerie Queene, Book One
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£15.99| /Framed in Spenser's distinctive, opulent stanza and in some of the trappings of epic, Book One of Spenser's The Faerie Queene consists of a chivalr...
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The Faerie Queene, Book Six and the Mutabilitie Cantos
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£35.99| /Book Six and the incomplete Book Seven of The Faerie Queene are the last sections of the unfinished poem to have been published. They show Spenser ...
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The Faerie Queene, Book Six and the Mutabilitie Cantos
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£14.99| /Book Six and the incomplete Book Seven of The Faerie Queene are the last sections of the unfinished poem to have been published. They show Spenser ...
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The Faerie Queene, Book Two
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£14.99| /From its opening scenes--in which the hero refrains from fighting a duel, then discovers that his horse has been stolen--Book Two of The Faerie Que...
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The Faerie Queene, Book Two
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£35.99| /From its opening scenes--in which the hero refrains from fighting a duel, then discovers that his horse has been stolen--Book Two of The Faerie Que...
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The Faerie Queene, Books Three and Four
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£16.99| /These paired Arthurian legends suggest that erotic desire and the desire for companionship undergird national politics. The maiden Britomart, Queen...
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The Faerie Queene: Complete in Five Volumes
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£60.99| /The Faerie Queene from Hackett Publishing Company: Spenser's great work in five volumes. Each includes its own Introduction, annotation, notes on t...
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The Farewell Tourist
Otago University Press (NZ)£14.00| /Pushing against the boundaries of what poetry might be, Alison Glennys The Farewell Tourist is haunting, many-layered and slightly surreal. In The...
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The Glassblowers
Goose Lane Editions£13.99| /George Sipos hears the frog song at two in the morning and wonders if it is passion that drives it or the loneliness of spring. In another poem, th...
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The Gleaming Clouds
Digital Publishing Centre£19.99| /Alfredson has many moods, many dictions, many themes. He at once glories in and laments the ephemeral, the only lasting quality in his world. This ...
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The Gun that Starts the Race
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /The Gun That Starts the Race, alternately like a David Lynch film or an episode of The Simpsons, finds the uncanny in the everyday, surprise you, m...
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The Hammer of Witches
Caitlin Press (CA)£11.99| /"Blending lore and magic with contemporary questions around belief and beauty, power and fear, this stunning new poetry collection from Kelly Rose ...
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The Home Place
University of Alberta Press (CA)£42.99| /"He wants to sit and visit at the kitchen table, and he can hardly wait to get on the road again." --From Chapter 1 Robert Kroetsch, one of Canada'...
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The Homeric Hymns
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.£15.99| /This is a collection of the standard texts of ancient Greek which are important components of what we know about Greek myth, religion, language and...
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The House is Still Standing
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /The house is still standing is peopled with charlatans, gingerbread men, children, and savants -- the thousands and the particular. Adrienne Bartle...
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The House That Stands
Anchorage Press£15.99| /An impressionistic long poem in twenty-two parts by Stefan Rose about residence life through a reimagining of the 60-history of the Trueman House r...
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The Iliad
Paul Dry Books (US)£22.99| /Homer's epic about the horrors and heroism of the final year of the Trojan War is one of Western literature's most enduring and moving tales. Joe S...
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The Joy of a Ming Vase
Otago University Press (NZ)£8.90| /As American critic Tom Disch quipped of many vintage poets: 'friends and pets die, the garden takes on a new significance.' There are poems in this...
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The Last Temptation of Bond
University of Alberta Press (CA)£16.99| /you can't stop it. everyone's expendable, James. everyone's replaceable. even you. especially you. In a penetrating, violent, sexy, and often hilar...
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The Lays of Marie de France
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£14.99| /This edition includes Edward Gallagher's prose translations of The Lays of Marie de France ; a general introduction; a map; commentaries on the lay...
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The Lays of Marie de France
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£40.99| /This edition includes Edward Gallagher's prose translations of The Lays of Marie de France ; a general introduction; a map; commentaries on the lay...
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The Legend of Rabbi Ben Levi
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£15.99| /"Give me back my sword! screams the Angel of Death at the renowned Jewish sage Rabbi Yehoshua Ben Levi of Zippori as they battle high above the gat...
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The Life & Death of Peter Stubbe
Birch Brook Press (US)£15.99| /Startlingly original poetry in which the human monster roams from past to present and back again, wreaking his havoc. "Glass interlaces bizarre, ar...
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The Lifers
Otago University Press£14.00| /Get in! Hurry the fuck up! Go! Go! Go! From Sean Macgregors lounge occupied by stoned youths, to three bank robbers en route to the Penrose ANZ, M...
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The M Poems
Goose Lane Editions£6.99| /Sparse and elegant poems by the author of Songs and Dances. A subtle rhythmic sense and distaste for redundancies characterize this volume, which w...
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The Measure of Paris
University of Alberta Press (CA)£25.99| /Paris remains one of the most fascinating cities in the world. It provides a measure of excellence in many areas of culture, and it is itself const...
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