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Pandora's Box 3
Ebury Publishing 2013; US$ 7.99This is the third of the popular Pandora's box anthologies of erotic writing by women. The book includes extracts from the best-selling and most well-liked titles of the past year as well as four completely new stories. Pandora's Box 3 is a celebration of five years of this ground-breaking imprint which has pushed the boundaries of explicit... more...
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
The Floating Press 2009; US$ 5.95Edward FitzGerald gave the title The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam to his translation of poetry attributed to the Persian poet, astronomer and mathematician Omar Khayyam (1048-1123). The word "Rubaiyat" means quatrains - verses of four lines. These works by Fitzgerald are the best known English translations. This edition contains both the first... more...
The Divan of Hafiz
The Floating Press 2012; US$ 3.99Connoisseurs of world literature need to spend some time acquainting themselves with the Divan of Hafiz, one of the foremost collections of Persian verse. Scholars agree this volume has exerted a singularly important influence on Middle Eastern culture, akin to Shakespeare's role in the sphere of Western letters. more...
Muscovy
Faber and Faber 2013; US$ 14.57Like his acclaimed Mandeville (2008), Matthew Francis's fourth Faber collection explores a world of marvels, real and fantastic. A man takes off for the moon in an engine drawn by geese, a poltergeist moves into a remote Welsh village, and a party of seventeenth-century Englishmen encounter the wonders of Russia - sledges, vodka, skating and... more...
River
Faber and Faber 2013; US$ 14.57First published in 1983, River celebrates fluvial landscapes, their creatures and their regenerative powers. Inspired by Hughes's love of fishing and by his environmental activism, the poems are a deftly and passionately attentive chronicle of change over the course of the seasons. West Country rivers predominate ('The West Dart' and 'Torridge'),... more...
Mean Time
Pan Macmillan UK 2013; US$ 18.98In her prize-winning fourth collection, Mean Time , Carol Ann Duffy dramatizes scenes from childhood, adolescence and adulthood, finding moments of grace or consolation in memory, love and language amid the complexities of life. These are powerful poems of loss, betrayal and desire. more...
The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Electric Book Company 1998; US$ 4.95The year after his release from prison in 1897, while in Berneval, France, Wilde wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol, a poem that explored the harsh nature of prison life. It was published anonymously in England under the pseudonym of C33 (Wilde's prison number), and became his last significant work. more...
The Startled Land
Wind River Press 2003; US$ 5.00With a woman's grace and a survivor's determination, Rochelle Mass has crafted The Startled Land , an epic exploration of honesty and hope in a world brocaded with the trials of everyday life and the tragedies of an embattled land. more...
Chapter and Verse
Hard Shell Word Factory 2004; US$ 6.00Chapter And Verse is a collection of poems that tell of the suffering and splendor, the pain and the passion of love. more...
The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry, Donne to Marvell
Cambridge University Press 1993; US$ 30.00Introductory essays by major scholars provide individual studies of the major poets of the early seventeenth century, together with an exploration of political, social, religious and literary issues of the time, enhancing an outstandingly rich and varied body of verse by setting it in its cultural and ideological context. more...









