Sir Philip Sidney: An Apology for Poetry & Astrophel and Stella
By: Philip Sidney
3.56
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
In 16th century Europe, poetry had lost much of its cultural value. It became known as a narrow and…
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1. Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams)
By: William Carlos Williams , Charles Tomlinson
4.16
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
Opening with Professor Tomlinson's superbly clear and helpful introduction this selection reflects … read more
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"they are mystified by certain instances."-William Carlos Williams, Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams)
"Sun benches at the curb bespeak another season, truncated poplars that having served for shade served also later for the fire."-William Carlos Williams, Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams)
"I have found that Lost World in the Lost and Found Columns whose gray illegible advertisements My soul has memorized world after world: LOST - NOTHING. STRAYED FROM NOWHERE. NO REWARD."-William Carlos Williams, Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams)
"When I was young and miserable and pretty And poor, I'd wish What all girls wish: to have a husband, A house and children. Now that I'm old, my wish Is womanish: That the boy putting groceries in my …"-William Carlos Williams, Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams)
2. Moll Flanders
By: Daniel Defoe
3.52
Format: 339 pages, Paperback
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781853260735. The Fortunes & Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Fla… read more
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"I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm."-Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders
"I had been tricked once by that Cheat called love, but the Game was over..."-Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders
"Thus the Government of our Virtue was broken and I exchang'd the Place of Friend for that unmusical harsh-sounding Title of Whore."-Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders
"He look'd a little disorder'd, when he said this, but I did not apprehend any thing from it at that time, believing as it us'd to be said, that they who do those things never talk of them; or that th…"-Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders
3. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Catherine Belsey
3.95
Format: 298 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Shakespeare's intertwined love polygons begin to get complicated from the start--Demetrius and Lysa… read more
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- literature
- poetry
"My soul is in the sky."-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
"Farewell, sweet playfellow."-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
"How now, spirit! Whither wander you?"-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
4. The Faerie Queene
By: Edmund Spenser , None , C. Patrick O'Donnell , Thomas P. Roche Jr.
3.77
Format: 52 pages, Paperback
The Faerie Queenewas the first epic in English and one of the most influential poems in the languag… read more
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- poetry
- classics
5. The Bacchae
By: Euripides , Kenneth McLeish , None
3.92
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Euripides' classic drama about the often mortifying consequences of the unbridled--and frequently h… read more
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- poetry
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"Cleverness is not wisdom."-Euripides, The Bacchae
"He who believes needs no explanation."-Euripides, The Bacchae
"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."-Euripides, The Bacchae
"Prepare yourselves for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!"-Euripides, The Bacchae
6. Waiting for Godot
By: Samuel Beckett
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Cuando en 1953 se estreno en Paris Esperando a Godot, casi nadie sabia quien era Samuel Beckett, sa… read more
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- classics
7. The Songs and Sonets of John Donne
By: John Donne , Theodore Redpath
2.50
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
There is perhaps no superior edition of Donne's Songs and Sonetsthan Theodore Redpath's wonderful a… read more
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- classics
8. King Lear
By: William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe
3.91
Format: 338 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain… read more
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- classics
"Fortune love you."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"She is herself a dowry."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"All dark and comfortless."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"Nothing can come of nothing."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
9. Beowulf
By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney
3.49
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more
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"Fate goes ever as fate must."-Unknown, Beowulf
"Fate will unwind as it must!"-Unknown, Beowulf
"Let whoever can win glory before death."-Unknown, Beowulf
"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."-Unknown, Beowulf
10. The Faerie Queene, Book One
By: Edmund Spenser , Andrew Hadfield , None , None , None
3.09
Format: None pages, Paperback
Framed in Spenser's distinctive, opulent stanza and in some of the trappings of epic, Book One of S… read more
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- poetry
- classics
11. Volpone
By: Ben Jonson
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
Bitter, satiric comedy in blank verse is one of the great Elizabethan dramatist's finest plays. The… read more
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- classics
12. Richard III
By: William Shakespeare , John Jowett
3.37
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Richard III is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays on the stage and has been adapted successful… read more
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- classics
13. Collected Poems, 1909-1962
By: T.S. Eliot
4.12
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
There is no more authoritative collection of the poetry that Eliot himself wished to preserve than … read more
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- classics
14. Utopia
By: Paul Turner , Thomas More
3.55
Format: 113 pages, Paperback
In his most famous and controversial book, Utopia, Thomas More imagines a perfect island nation whe… read more
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"The change of the word does not alter the matter"-Paul Turner, Utopia
"Isn't this conception of absolute justice absolutely unjust?"-Paul Turner, Utopia
"Dünyada kaygısız, rahat yürekle, sevinçle yaşamaktan daha büyük zenginlik olabilir mi?"-Paul Turner, Utopia
"Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all."-Paul Turner, Utopia
15. Gulliver’s Travels
By: Louis Rhead , Jonathan Swift , William Dean Howells , Robert DeMaria Jr.
3.58
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and… read more
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"Anlamadığınız bir insanı "delidir" diye nitelemek o kadar kolaydır ki!"-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels
"we neither of us are able to deliver our conceptions in a manner intelligible to the other."-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels
"معظم ابناء جلدتك هم أخبث سلالة من الحشرات المؤذية البغيضة التي سمحت لها الطبيعة بالزحف على وجخ الأرض"-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels
"... a wife should be always a reasonable and agreeable companion, because she cannot always be young."-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels
16. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
By: Unknown , None , Burton Raffel
4.50
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Written by an anonymous 14th-century poet, this epic poem is recognized as an equal of Chaucer's ma… read more
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17. The Temple: The Poetry of George Herbert
By: George Herbert , Henry L. Carrigan Jr.
3.65
Format: None pages, Paperback
George Herbert, a priest at Salisbury Cathedral in seventeenth-century England, is known as the aut… read more
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18. The Mill on the Floss
By: George Eliot , A.S. Byatt
3.83
Format: 579 pages, Paperback
'If life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie?' Brought up at Dorlcote Mill, Maggie… read more
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- classics
"Don't judge a book by its cover"-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
"Don't judge a book by its cover."-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
"Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure."-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
"I desire no future that will break the ties of the past."-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
19. The Rape of the Lock
By: Alexander Pope
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
A satirical poem that intentionally over-dramatizes an incident in which a lock of a woman's hair i… read more
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20. The Tempest
By: William Shakespeare
4.27
Format: 127 pages,
In The Tempest, long considered one of Shakespeare's most lyrical plays, Prospero--a magician on an… read more
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21. The Prelude
By: William Wordsworth
3.63
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
This book is the first to present Wordsworth's greatest poem in all three of its separate forms. It… read more
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22. Theogony/Works and Days
By: Hesiod , None
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Hesiod, one of the oldest known Greek poets, stands out as the first personality in European litera… read more
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23. The Winter's Tale
By: William Shakespeare
4.75
Format: 14 pages, Paperback
The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emph… read more
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24. King Henry IV, Part 1 (Wars of the Roses, #2)
By: William Shakespeare , David Scott Kastan
3.87
Format: None pages, Paperback
David Scott Kastan lucidly explores the remarkable richness and the ambitious design of King Henry … read more
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25. The Spanish Tragedy
By: Thomas Kyd , None
4.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
Large Format for easy reading. Highly popular and influential in the development of Elizabethan dra… read more
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26. Billy Budd and Other Stories
By: Herman Melville , Frederick Busch
3.74
Format: 646 pages, Paperback
Tales of compelling power by one of America's greatest writers Stung by the critical reception and … read more
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27. The Duchess of Malfi
By: John Webster
3.00
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
More widely studied and more frequently performed than ever before, John Webster's The Duchess of M… read more
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28. Paradise Lost
By: John Milton , John Leonard
3.84
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the… read more
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"What hath night to do with sleep?"-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Solitude sometimes is best society."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
29. Joseph Andrews
By: Henry Fielding
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Joseph Andrews refuses Lady Booby's advances, she discharges him, and Joseph and his old tutor, Par… read more
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30. Sir Philip Sidney: An Apology for Poetry & Astrophel and Stella
By: Philip Sidney
3.56
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
In 16th century Europe, poetry had lost much of its cultural value. It became known as a narrow and… read more
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31. The Adventures of Master F.J.
By: George Gascoigne
2.46
Format: 4 pages, Audio CD
This story presents through letters, poems and third-person commentary the love affair between a yo… read more
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