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100 Poets - A Little Anthology by John Carey
$30.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
A wonderfully readable anthology of our greatest poetry, chosen by the author of A Little History of Poetry A poem seems a fragile thing. Change a word and it is broken. But poems outlive empires and survive the devastation of conquests. Celebrated author John Carey here presents a uniquely valuable ...Show more
100 Poets: A Little Anthology by John Carey
$22.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
A wonderfully readable anthology of our greatest poetry, chosen by the author of A Little History of Poetry"Does anyone know more about poetry than John Carey? Almost certainly not."--The TimesA poem seems a fragile thing. Change a word and it is broken. But poems outlive empires and survive the devasta ...Show more
A Little History of Poetry by John Carey
$21.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Little Histories Ser.
A vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one of our greatest champions of literature--selected as the literature book of the year by the London Times " A] fizzing, exhilarating book."--Sebastian Faulks, Sunday Times, London "Delightful.'"--N ...Show more
A Little History of Poetry by John Carey
$33.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Little Histories Ser.
A vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one of our greatest champions of literatureWhat is poetry? If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing language. It is language made special so that it will be remembered and ...Show more
Believe in People: The Essential Karel Capek by John Carey
$32.99 AUD
Category: Essays
Playful and provocative, irreverent and inspiring, Capek is perhaps the best-loved Czech writer of all time. Novelist and playwright, famed for inventing the word 'robot' in his play "RUR", Capek was a vital part of the burgeoning artistic scene of Czechoslovakia of the 1920s and 30s. But it is in his j ...Show more
The Essential Paradise Lost by John Milton; John Carey
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary
After its publication in 1667, John Milton's Paradise Lost was celebrated throughout Europe as a supreme achievement of the human spirit.Now it is little read. To bring readers back to Milton's masterpiece, John Carey has shortened it to a third of its original length. In this fascinating reinterpretati ...Show more
The Unexpected Professor: an Oxford Life by John Carey
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Best known for his provocative take on cultural issues in The Intellectuals and the Masses and What Good Are the Arts?, John Carey describes in this warm and funny memoir the events that formed him - an escape from the London blitz to an idyllic rural village, army service in Egypt, an open scholarship ...Show more
William Golding - The Man Who Wrote "Lord of the Flies" by John Carey
$49.99 AUD
Category: Literary
The first authorized biography of one of the foremost novelists of the twentieth century. William Golding was born in 1911 and educated at his local grammar school and Brasenose College, Oxford. He published a volume of poems in 1934 and during the war served in the Royal Navy. After wards he returned t ...Show more
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