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The Canterbury Tales
Written by Geoffrey Chaucer
Translated by Burton Raffel
Introduction by John Miles Foley
Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $17.00
Beyond its importance as a literary work of unvarnished genius, Geoffrey Chaucer’s unfinished epic poem is also one of the most beloved works in the English language–and for good reason: It is lively, absorbing, perceptive, and outrageously funny. But despite the brilliance of Chaucer’s work, the continual evolution of our language... Read more >
Written by Geoffrey Chaucer
Translated by Burton Raffel
Introduction by John Miles Foley
Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $17.00
Beyond its importance as a literary work of unvarnished genius, Geoffrey Chaucer’s unfinished epic poem is also one of the most beloved works in the English language–and for good reason: It is lively, absorbing, perceptive, and outrageously funny. But despite the brilliance of Chaucer’s work, the continual evolution of our language... Read more >
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The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton
Written by John Milton
Edited by William Kerrigan, John Rumrich and Stephen M. Fallon
Format: eBook, 1408 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2009
Price: $17.95
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Written by John Milton
Edited by William Kerrigan, John Rumrich and Stephen M. Fallon
Format: eBook, 1408 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2009
Price: $17.95
Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Selected Poetry of Lord Byron
Written by Lord George G. Byron
Edited by Leslie A. Marchand
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 26, 2009
Price: $16.00
Poet, celebrity, and revolutionary, Lord (George Gordon) Byron was one of the most influential and controversial figures of the first half of the nineteenth century, his distinctive, deeply felt work comprising one of the enduring high points of Romantic literature. From “Manfred,” with its evocation of the figure that came to... Read more >
Written by Lord George G. Byron
Edited by Leslie A. Marchand
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 26, 2009
Price: $16.00
Poet, celebrity, and revolutionary, Lord (George Gordon) Byron was one of the most influential and controversial figures of the first half of the nineteenth century, his distinctive, deeply felt work comprising one of the enduring high points of Romantic literature. From “Manfred,” with its evocation of the figure that came to... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Canterbury Tales
Written by Geoffrey Chaucer
Translated by Burton Raffel
Introduction by John Miles Foley
Format: Hardcover, 672 pages
On Sale: November 18, 2008
Price: $36.00
It would be impossible to overstate the influence of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. A work with one metaphorical foot planted in the Florentine Renaissance literary tradition of Boccaccio’s Decameron and the other in works ranging from John Bunyan, Voltaire, and Mark Twain to the popular entertainments of our own time... Read more >
Written by Geoffrey Chaucer
Translated by Burton Raffel
Introduction by John Miles Foley
Format: Hardcover, 672 pages
On Sale: November 18, 2008
Price: $36.00
It would be impossible to overstate the influence of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. A work with one metaphorical foot planted in the Florentine Renaissance literary tradition of Boccaccio’s Decameron and the other in works ranging from John Bunyan, Voltaire, and Mark Twain to the popular entertainments of our own time... Read more >
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The Canterbury Tales
Written by Geoffrey Chaucer
Translated by Burton Raffel
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 18, 2008
Price: $36.00
Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is a work of genius, an undisputed classic that has held a special appeal for each generation of readers. The Tales gathers twenty-nine of literature’s most enduring (and endearing) characters in a vivid group portrait that captures the full spectrum of medieval... Read more >
Written by Geoffrey Chaucer
Translated by Burton Raffel
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 18, 2008
Price: $36.00
Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is a work of genius, an undisputed classic that has held a special appeal for each generation of readers. The Tales gathers twenty-nine of literature’s most enduring (and endearing) characters in a vivid group portrait that captures the full spectrum of medieval... Read more >
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Paradise Lost
Written by John Milton
Edited by William Kerrigan, John Rumrich and Stephen M. Fallon
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $11.00
“Meticulously edited, full of tactful annotations that set the stage for his work and his times, this edition brings Milton, as a poet and a thinker, vividly alive before us.”
–Robert Hass, winner of the National Book Award
John Milton’s Paradise Lost, an epic poem on the clash between God and his fallen... Read more >
Written by John Milton
Edited by William Kerrigan, John Rumrich and Stephen M. Fallon
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $11.00
“Meticulously edited, full of tactful annotations that set the stage for his work and his times, this edition brings Milton, as a poet and a thinker, vividly alive before us.”
–Robert Hass, winner of the National Book Award
John Milton’s Paradise Lost, an epic poem on the clash between God and his fallen... Read more >
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The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton
Written by John Milton
Edited by William Kerrigan, John Rumrich and Stephen M. Fallon
Format: Hardcover, 1408 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2007
Price: $55.00
John Milton is, next to William Shakespeare, the most influential English poet, a writer whose work spans an incredible breadth of forms and subject matter. The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton celebrates this author’s genius in a thoughtfully assembled book that provides new modern-spelling versions of Milton’s texts... Read more >
Written by John Milton
Edited by William Kerrigan, John Rumrich and Stephen M. Fallon
Format: Hardcover, 1408 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2007
Price: $55.00
John Milton is, next to William Shakespeare, the most influential English poet, a writer whose work spans an incredible breadth of forms and subject matter. The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton celebrates this author’s genius in a thoughtfully assembled book that provides new modern-spelling versions of Milton’s texts... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Kipling: Poems
Written by Rudyard Kipling
Edited by Peter Washington
Format: Hardcover
On Sale: October 16, 2007
Price: $13.50
Beloved for his fanciful and engrossing children’s literature, controversial for his enthusiasm for British imperialism, Rudyard Kipling remains one of the most widely read writers of Victorian and modern English literature. In addition to writing more than two dozen works of fiction, including Kim and The Jungle Book, Kipling was a... Read more >
Written by Rudyard Kipling
Edited by Peter Washington
Format: Hardcover
On Sale: October 16, 2007
Price: $13.50
Beloved for his fanciful and engrossing children’s literature, controversial for his enthusiasm for British imperialism, Rudyard Kipling remains one of the most widely read writers of Victorian and modern English literature. In addition to writing more than two dozen works of fiction, including Kim and The Jungle Book, Kipling was a... Read more >
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Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Set
Written by Everyman's Library
Format: Hardcover
On Sale: January 31, 2007
Price: $937.50
From the selected works of such celebrated and beloved poets as W. H. Auden, Robert and Elizabeth Browning, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, and William Shakespeare, to anthologies on Jazz and Blues and Beat Poets, to collections on the timeless themes of love and marriage, friendship and motherhood, the Everyman’s... Read more >
Written by Everyman's Library
Format: Hardcover
On Sale: January 31, 2007
Price: $937.50
From the selected works of such celebrated and beloved poets as W. H. Auden, Robert and Elizabeth Browning, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, and William Shakespeare, to anthologies on Jazz and Blues and Beat Poets, to collections on the timeless themes of love and marriage, friendship and motherhood, the Everyman’s... Read more >
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The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea
Poems
Written by Mark Haddon
Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
On Sale: April 11, 2006
Price: $13.95
From the phenomenally bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time comes Mark Haddon’s first collection of poems.
That Mark Haddon’s first book after The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time is a book of poetry may surprise his many fans; that it is also... Read more >
Poems
Written by Mark Haddon
Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
On Sale: April 11, 2006
Price: $13.95
From the phenomenally bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time comes Mark Haddon’s first collection of poems.
That Mark Haddon’s first book after The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time is a book of poetry may surprise his many fans; that it is also... Read more >
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Herbert: Poems
Written by George Herbert
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: November 2, 2004
Price: $12.50
George Herbert (1593-1633) has come to be one of the most admired of the metaphysical poets. Though he is a profoundly religious poet, even secular readers respond to his quiet intensity and exuberant inventiveness, which are amply showcased in this selection.
Herbert experimented brilliantly with a remarkable variety of forms, from hymns... Read more >
Written by George Herbert
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: November 2, 2004
Price: $12.50
George Herbert (1593-1633) has come to be one of the most admired of the metaphysical poets. Though he is a profoundly religious poet, even secular readers respond to his quiet intensity and exuberant inventiveness, which are amply showcased in this selection.
Herbert experimented brilliantly with a remarkable variety of forms, from hymns... Read more >
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Marvell: Poems
Written by Andrew Marvell
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: June 15, 2004
Price: $12.50
The great seventeenth-century metaphysical poet Andrew Marvell was one of the chief wits and satirists of his time as well as a passionate defender of individual liberty. Today, however, he is known chiefly for his brilliant lyric poems, including “The Garden,” “The Definition of Love,” “Bermudas,” “To His Coy Mistress,” and... Read more >
Written by Andrew Marvell
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: June 15, 2004
Price: $12.50
The great seventeenth-century metaphysical poet Andrew Marvell was one of the chief wits and satirists of his time as well as a passionate defender of individual liberty. Today, however, he is known chiefly for his brilliant lyric poems, including “The Garden,” “The Definition of Love,” “Bermudas,” “To His Coy Mistress,” and... Read more >
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Tennyson: Poems
Written by Lord Alfred Tennyson
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: February 17, 2004
Price: $13.50
Alfred, Lord Tennyson was a more complex writer than his status as Queen Victoria’s favorite poet might suggest. Though capable of rendering rapture and delight in the most exquisite verse, in another mode Tennyson is brother in spirit to Poe and Baudelaire, the author of dark, passionate reveries. And though he... Read more >
Written by Lord Alfred Tennyson
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: February 17, 2004
Price: $13.50
Alfred, Lord Tennyson was a more complex writer than his status as Queen Victoria’s favorite poet might suggest. Though capable of rendering rapture and delight in the most exquisite verse, in another mode Tennyson is brother in spirit to Poe and Baudelaire, the author of dark, passionate reveries. And though he... Read more >
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Selected Poetry of Lord Byron
Written by Lord George G. Byron
Edited by Leslie A. Marchand
Introduction by Thomas M. Disch
Format: Trade Paperback, 768 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2002
Price: $16.00
Poet, celebrity, and revolutionary, Lord (George Gordon) Byron was one of the most influential and controversial figures of the first half of the nineteenth century, his distinctive, deeply felt work comprising one of the enduring high points of Romantic literature. From “Manfred,” with its evocation of the figure that came to... Read more >
Written by Lord George G. Byron
Edited by Leslie A. Marchand
Introduction by Thomas M. Disch
Format: Trade Paperback, 768 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2002
Price: $16.00
Poet, celebrity, and revolutionary, Lord (George Gordon) Byron was one of the most influential and controversial figures of the first half of the nineteenth century, his distinctive, deeply felt work comprising one of the enduring high points of Romantic literature. From “Manfred,” with its evocation of the figure that came to... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Troilus and Cressida
Written by Geoffrey Chaucer
Translated by George Philip Krapp
Introduction by Peter G. Beidler
Format: Trade Paperback, 348 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2002
Price: $19.00
Often called the first great English novel, Troilus and Cressida, a tragic love story set during the siege of Troy, is Chaucer’s masterpiece. Troilus, a valiant warrior, is scornful of love until he catches a glimpse of Cressida. With the help of his friend and her uncle Pandarus, Troilus wins Cressida... Read more >
Written by Geoffrey Chaucer
Translated by George Philip Krapp
Introduction by Peter G. Beidler
Format: Trade Paperback, 348 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2002
Price: $19.00
Often called the first great English novel, Troilus and Cressida, a tragic love story set during the siege of Troy, is Chaucer’s masterpiece. Troilus, a valiant warrior, is scornful of love until he catches a glimpse of Cressida. With the help of his friend and her uncle Pandarus, Troilus wins Cressida... Read more >
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Selected Poetry of William Wordsworth
Written by William Wordsworth
Edited by Mark Van Doren
Introduction by David Bromwich
Format: Trade Paperback, 784 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2002
Price: $12.95
Selected Poetry of William Wordsworth represents Wordsworth’s prolific output, from the poems first published in Lyrical Ballads in 1798 that changed the face of English poetry to the late “Yarrow Revisited.” Wordsworth’s poetry is celebrated for its deep feeling, its use of ordinary speech, the love of nature it expresses, and... Read more >
Written by William Wordsworth
Edited by Mark Van Doren
Introduction by David Bromwich
Format: Trade Paperback, 784 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2002
Price: $12.95
Selected Poetry of William Wordsworth represents Wordsworth’s prolific output, from the poems first published in Lyrical Ballads in 1798 that changed the face of English poetry to the late “Yarrow Revisited.” Wordsworth’s poetry is celebrated for its deep feeling, its use of ordinary speech, the love of nature it expresses, and... Read more >
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