Dylan Thomas: the Collected Letters by Dylan Thomas
35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
Dylan Thomas's letters bring the fascinating and tempestuous poet and his times to life in a way that no biography can. The letters begin in the poet's schooldays and end just before his death in New York at the age of 39. In between, he loved, wrote, drank, begged and borrowed his way through a flamboy ...Show more
The History Boys by Alan Bennett
22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
"Brilliantly funny, with lines that we will, I hope, be quoting for years to come and several show-stopping vignettes. Bennett is still naughty, impish, endlessly ironic. But by the end tears are as near as laughter. The History Boys is moving, disquieting: one follows it with a heart brimful...This is ...Show more
Leaves Of Grass And Selected Poems And Prose by Walt Whitman
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Category: Poetry and Drama
W is for Whitman. When Walt Whitman self-published his Leaves of Grass in July 1855, he altered the course of literary history. One of the greatest masterpieces of American literature, it redefined the rules of poetry while describing the soul of the American character. Throughout his life, Whitman cont ...Show more
The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses by Mr A.B. 'Banjo' Paterson
16.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
These books were originally published in 1914 as a 'pocket editions for the trenches', designed for soldiers to slip into their back pockets and carry with them through their war days. Probably purchased by wives, girlfriends and mothers, they were a little piece of Australia to relish amongst the horro ...Show more
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam P/B by Omar Khayyam; Tony Briggs (Editor); Edward Fitzgerald (Translator)
24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama | Series: The\Great Poets Ser.
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Omar Khayyam was born at Naishapur in Khorassan in the latter half of our Eleventh, and died within the First Quarter of our Twelfth Century. The Slender Story of his Life is curiously twined about that of two other very considerable Figures in their Time and Country: one of wh ...Show more
Henry Lawson Poems by Henry Lawson
14.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
First published in 1979, this edition includes 30 new selections, including highly significant poems addressed to his lost love, Hannah Thorburn, and some for young children.
Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996 by Seamus Heaney
39.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
When Seamus Heaney prepared Opened Ground it came as close to being a 'Collected Poems' as the author cared to make it. The edition draws from four decades of Seamus Heaney's verse, together with examples of his work as a translator, from his scintillating debut, Death of a Naturalist, to The Spirit Lev ...Show more
The Collected Poems by Robert Frost
14.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama
"No poet is more emblematically American than Robert Frost. Hailed as the most eminent, the most distinguished Anglo-American poet by T.S. Eliot, he is the only writer in history to have been awarded four Pulitzer Prizes. In iconic poems like Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, simple images summon th ...Show more
The Works of Banjo Paterson by A.B. Paterson
12.95 AUD
Category: Poetry and Drama | Series: Poetry Library
Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson may fairly be regarded as Australia's national poet. 'Waltzing Matilda', 'Clancy of the Overflow' and 'The Man from the Snowy River' still strike a chord in the hearts of Australians wherever they may be, evoking, as they do, the rough life and values of the outback. The a ...Show more
Coriolanus by William Shakespeare
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Category: Poetry and Drama | Series: RSC Shakespeare
'Jonathan Bate writes with as much elegance as insight about the making of theatre and the creation of the plays.'- Richard Eyre, Sunday Telegraph From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a fresh new edition of Shakespeare's gripping political and personal tragedyTHIS EDITION INCLUDES: • An illuminating int ...Show more
The Prophet Annotated Edition by Kahlil Gibran
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Category: Poetry and Drama
Originally published in 1923, The Prophet continues to inspire millions worldwide with its timeless words of love and mystical longing. Writing with insight, hope, and a remarkable compassion for the human condition, Kahlil Gibran explores ideas of joy and sorrow, friendship, good and evil, pleasure, re ...Show more