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Beyond the Lyric
by Fiona SampsonPublished: 06/09/2012
A groundbreaking as FR Leavis' New Bearings in English Poetry, this enthusiastic critical book maps the state of contemporary British poetry
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Hooking Up
by Tom WolfePublished: 01/06/2012
A perfect introduction to Tom Wolfe's brilliant and masterful journalism.
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The Art of Love
by OvidPublished: 02/04/2012
‘Any man who shows, with such poetic readability, that what is happening between the sexes today was happening two thousand years ago – and that, therefore, the beating out of one's guilt-ridden, female brains is something of a waste of time – has to be a hero’ Independent
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The 20th Century in Poetry
by Simon Rae and Michael HulsePublished: 15/10/2011
The history of the 20th century through the poets' eyes, starting with Thomas Hardy and John Masefield and finishing with Carol Ann Duffy and Jeffrey Harrison
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Crusoe: Daniel Defoe, Robert Knox And The Creation Of A Myth
by Katherine FrankPublished: 01/09/2011
A remarkable literary hybrid - part biography, part detective story - about the enduring figure of Robinson Crusoe.
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Strange Meetings: The Poets of the Great War
by Harry RickettsPublished: 15/11/2010
An unusual and moving account of the lives and work of the poets of the Great War, 1914-1918.
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Bright Star: The Complete Poems and Selected Letters
by John KeatsPublished: 01/12/2009
'O soft embalmer of the still midnight,/ Shutting, with careful fingers and benign,/ Our gloom-pleas'd eyes, embower'd from the light, / Enshaded in forgetfulness divine' John Keats, 'Ode to Sleep'
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Annals and Histories
by TacitusPublished: 15/10/2009
This new Everyman edition includes Tacitus’s complete historical works - The Annals, the Histories, the Agricola and the Germania.
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Sonnets
by William ShakespearePublished: 01/05/2009
The complete sonnets - available for the first time in Vintage Classics
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Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained
by John MiltonPublished: 02/02/2009
‘Paradise Lost was the first literary work in English written on a planetary scale... In sublimity and magnitude, it comes closer than anything in our language to the swollen red sun sinking in a tropical sea…’ Guardian
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Christmas Blessings
by Helen Steiner RicePublished: 03/12/2007
An attractive new package for Helen Steiner Rice's popular religious verse.
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Patrick O'Brian: The Making of the Novelist
by Nikolai TolstoyPublished: 01/12/2005
The definitive account of the early life of the revered author of the Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin novels.
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Chaucer: Brief Lives
by Peter AckroydPublished: 01/06/2005
'Ackroyd reinvented the biography genre, pushing at the boundaries - he pulls of the feat of climbing inside Chaucer's soul by immersing himself in the history and literature of the period' Scotland on Sunday
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The Rise And Fall Of The Woman Of Letters
by Norma ClarkePublished: 01/07/2004
While many nineteenth- century women writers- such as George Eliot, Mrs Gaskell, the Brontes- are now widely written about, the women who paved the way for them in the eighteenth- century are only now being given the attention they deserve.
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The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
by Samuel Taylor ColeridgePublished: 01/04/2004
With illustrations by Mervyn Peake & a new introduction by Marina Warner
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Metaphysics As A Guide To Morals
by Iris MurdochPublished: 01/05/2003
'Iris Murdoch has written a book which concerns all of us as human beings-There are pages here that one wants to embrace her for, pages that say things of fundamental human importance in a way that they have never quite been said before' Sunday Telegraph
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The Common Reader: Volume 2
by Virginia WoolfPublished: 15/02/2003
'He reads for his own pleasure rather than to impart knowledge ro correct the opinions of others. Above all, he is guided by an instinct to create for himself, out of whatever odds and ends he can come by, some kind of whole - a portrait of a man, a sketch of an age, a theory of the art of writing.'
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The Forty-Nine Steps
by Roberto CalassoPublished: 02/09/2002
A unique and fascinating exploration of the essential thinkers of our time - by the author of the bestselling THE MARRIAGE OF CADMUS AND HARMONY.
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Stranger Shores
by J M CoetzeePublished: 01/08/2002
A superb collection of essays by an author who has won the Booker Prize twice.
