Selected Poems
By: Lawrence Durrell
3.66
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
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1. Serious Concerns
By: Wendy Cope
3.88
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
A collection of poems featuring works by Cope such as "Bloody Men", "Men and their Boring Arguments… read more
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"Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion."-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns
"The day he moved out was terrible – That evening she went through hell. His absence wasn’t a problem But the corkscrew had gone as well."-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns
"At lunchtime I bought a huge orange The size of it made us all laugh. I peeled it and shared it with Robert and Dave— They got quarters and I had a half. And that orange it made me so happy, As ordin…"-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns
"Bloody men are like bloody buses — You wait for about a year And as soon as one approaches your stop Two or three others appear. You look at them flashing their indicators, Offering you a ride. You’r…"-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns
2. The Emigrants
By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald
4.17
Format: 237 pages, Paperback
At first The Emigrants appears simply to document the lives of four Jewish émigrés in the twentieth… read more
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"It is hard, said Mme Landau, when I told her about those railway lessons, in the end it is hard to know what it is that someone dies of. Yes, it is very hard, said Mme Landau, one really doesn't know."-Michael Hulse, The Emigrants
"The tiny features below, taken together with the gentle mass of Montblanc towering above them, the Vanoise glacier almost invisible in the shimmering distance, and the Alpine panorama that occupied h…"-Michael Hulse, The Emigrants
3. Selected Poems of Mervyn Peake
By: Mervyn Peake
3.90
Format: 1 pages, Paperback
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4. Book of Longing
By: Leonard Cohen
4.00
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Leonard Cohen is one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our … read more
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"I am this thing that needs to sing."-Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing
"need to see I never saw your need for me your longing raw"-Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing
"How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings"-Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing
"My animal howls My angel's upset But I'm not allowed A trace of regret"-Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing
5. Four Quartets
By: T.S. Eliot
3.67
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
The Four Quartets is a series of four poems by T.S. Eliot, published individually from 1936 to 1942… read more
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6. The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
By: Robert Fagles , Aeschylus , William Bedell Stanford
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Alternate covers of this ISBN here, here, here, here. Most recent cover is here. In the Oresteia… read more
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"I cannot not grieve."-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
"Learning comes through pain."-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
"Do I not live? Badly, I know, but I live."-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
"Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain"-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
7. Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
By: Hilary Mantel
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the countr… read more
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8. Eumenides (Oresteia, #3)
By: Aeschylus , Alan H. Sommerstein
3.85
Format: 320 pages, cloth
Sommerstein presents a freshly constituted text, with introduction and commentary, of Eumenides, th… read more
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"My heart's a dance of fear."-Aeschylus, Eumenides (Oresteia, #3)
"Quando dorme la mente scintilla di mille occhi"-Aeschylus, Eumenides (Oresteia, #3)
"Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community."-Aeschylus, Eumenides (Oresteia, #3)
"ATHENA: There are two sides to this dispute. I've heard only one half the argument. (...) So you two parties, summon your witnesses, set out your proofs, with sworn evidence to back your stories. Onc…"-Aeschylus, Eumenides (Oresteia, #3)
9. Orlando
By: Virginia Woolf , Sandra M Gilbert
3.87
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully const… read more
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"Life and a lover"-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"Thoughts are divine."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"All extremes of feeling are allied with madness."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
10. A Moveable Feast
By: Ernest Hemingway
5.00
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Begun in the autumn of 1957 and published posthumously in 1964, Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast… read more
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11. If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
By: Sappho , Anne Carson
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
From poet and classicist Anne Carson comes this translation of the work of Sappho, together with th… read more
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12. A Field Guide to Getting Lost
By: Rebecca Solnit
2.84
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
Whether she is contemplating the history of walking as a cultural and political experience over the… read more
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13. The Libation Bearers (Oresteia, #2)
By: Aeschylus
3.80
Format: 43 pages, None
Produced in 458 BC, Aeschylus' Choephori is the second play in the Oresteian trilogy. Many years af… read more
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14. The Sick Bag Song
By: Nick Cave
3.95
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The Sick Bag Song is an exploration of love, inspiration and memory shaped around the events of Cav… read more
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15. Invisible Cities
By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver
4.11
Format: 15 pages, Paperback
"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities v… read more
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16. The Spirit Level
By: Seamus Heaney
3.66
Format: None pages, Paperback
The poems in Seamus Heaney's collection The Spirit Levelkeep discovering the possibilities of 'a ne… read more
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17. The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun #1)
By: Gene Wolfe
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Shadow of the Torturer is the first volume in the four-volume series, The Book of the New Sun. … read more
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18. Leaves of Grass
By: Walt Whitman
3.50
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
A collection of quintessentially American poems, the seminal work of one of the most influential wr… read more
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19. Inferno (The Divine Comedy #1)
By: Dante Alighieri , Anthony Esolen
3.93
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante plunges to the very depths of Hell and embarks on his arduous jour… read more
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20. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
By: John Le Carré
3.94
Format: 322 pages, Paperback
In this classic, John le Carre's third novel and the first to earn him international acclaim, he cr… read more
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21. Hogfather (Discworld, #20; Death, #4)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.00
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Susan had never hung up a stocking . She'd never put a tooth under her pillow in the serious expect… read more
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22. Heart of Darkness
By: Joseph Conrad
3.99
Format: 284 pages, Paperback
Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the inf… read more
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23. The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30; Tiffany Aching, #1)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.29
Format: 375 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Librarian's Note: For an alternate cover edition of the same ISBN, click here. "Another world is… read more
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"Crivens!"-Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30; Tiffany Aching, #1)
"That'll do"-Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30; Tiffany Aching, #1)
"Witches are naturally nosy,"-Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30; Tiffany Aching, #1)
"(...) or there will be a reckoning!"-Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30; Tiffany Aching, #1)
24. The Complete Poems
By: Catullus , Guy Lee
3.37
Format: None pages, Paperback
Of all Greek and Latin poets Catullus is perhaps the most accessible to the modern reader. Dealing … read more
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25. Shakespeare's Sonnets
By: William Shakespeare , Katherine Duncan-Jones
4.45
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
T.S. Eliot once wrote that, "Shakespeare gives the greatest width of human passion," and it is this… read more
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26. The Collected Poems
By: Sylvia Plath , Ted Hughes
3.96
Format: 286 pages, Paperback
"By the time of her death, on 11 February, 1963, Sylvia Plath had written a large bulk of poetry. T… read more
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27. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
By: Mosab Abu Toha
4.74
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2022 Palestine Book Awards Creative Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Cir… read more
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"Borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"A country that exists only in my mind. Its flag has no room to fly freely, but there is space on the coffins of my countrymen."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"In Gaza, some of us cannot completely die. Every time a bomb falls, every time shrapnel hits our graves, every time the rubble piles up on our heads, we are awakened from our temporary death."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"PALESTINE A–Z A An apple that fell from the table on a dark evening when man-made lightning flashed through the kitchen, the streets, and the sky, rattling the cupboards and breaking the dishes. “Am"-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
28. Mr Salary
By: Sally Rooney
3.78
Format: 33 pages, Paperback
My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him cl… read more
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"My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him clearly at all."-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary
"He watched me at first but then looked away. "Would it be a major bereavement for you if I died?" I said. "The most major one I can think of, yeah." "Nobody else would grieve."-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary
"Death was, of course, the most ordinary thing that could happen, at some level I knew that. Still, I had stood there waiting to see the body in the river, ignoring the real living bodies all around m…"-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary
"Nothing inside my body was trying to kill me. Death was, of course, the most ordinary thing that could happen, at some level I knew that. Still, I had stood there waiting to see the body in the river…"-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary
29. The Secret Commonwealth (The Book of Dust, #2)
By: Philip Pullman
4.04
Format: 784 pages, ebook
It is twenty years since the events of La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One unfolded and s… read more
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"We need to imagine as well as measure."-Philip Pullman, The Secret Commonwealth (The Book of Dust, #2)
"You're in a world full of color and you want to see it in black and white."-Philip Pullman, The Secret Commonwealth (The Book of Dust, #2)
"But he was a human being, or part of one, and he felt just as Lyra did: unhappy, and guilty, and wretchedly lonely."-Philip Pullman, The Secret Commonwealth (The Book of Dust, #2)
"What is the world of the spirits? It is nothing I know about. I don't know what spirit is." "Spirit is what matter does."-Philip Pullman, The Secret Commonwealth (The Book of Dust, #2)
30. Selected Poems
By: Lawrence Durrell
3.66
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Peter Porter has drawn on the full range of the published work, from "A Private Country" (1943) to … read more
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31. The Aeneid
By: Virgil
3.87
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
The founding epic of Rome, rendered in a fluid, metrical translation that sings Virgil’s stately ve… read more
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"Death's brother, sleep."-Virgil, The Aeneid
"No help or hope of help existed."-Virgil, The Aeneid
"Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit."-Virgil, The Aeneid
"Non ignora mali, miseris succurrere disco."-Virgil, The Aeneid
