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Sons and Pioneers
ISBN: PB: 9780856359958, Carcanet, November 1992
96 pp., 21.5x13.5 cm
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Cyrano De Bergerac
ISBN: PB: 9781857540284, Carcanet, November 1992
144 pp., 21.6x14 cm
Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac, an "heroic comedy" of love and honour, has enjoyed various revivals in the cinema and on the stage, and undergoes yet another metamorphosis in this brilliant translation by Edwin Morgan. Made for the Communicado T...
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Peregrination A Selection
ISBN: HB: 9780856359699, Carcanet, October 1992
450 pp., 23.7x15.8 cm
"The Peregrination of Fernao Mendes Pinto, soldier of fortune, trader, pirate, agent, ambassador. During twenty-one years in Ethiopia, Persia, Malaya, India, Burma, Siam, China, Japan, sailing uncharted oriental seas, he was five times shipwrecked, t...
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£29,95
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Older Masters Essays and Reflections on English and American Literature
ISBN: HB: 9780856359798, Carcanet, October 1992
320 pp., 22.2x13.5 cm
Donald Davie is a poet-critic: his admirable essays are free of jargon, full of the clarity and insight of a major practitioner of the poetic art. His writing is in every sense refreshing: a pleasure to read and an inspiration to re-read the writers...
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£25,00
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Hotel Lautreamont
ISBN: PB: 9780856359934, Carcanet, October 1992
144 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
The Count of Lautreamont – a nineteenth-century poet about whom little is known, except that he spent his brief adult life in various hotels in Paris, checking out of his transient existence at the age of 24 – is one of the forgotten presences alive...
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No Walls of Stone An Anthology of Literature by Deaf and Hard of Hearing Writers
ISBN: HB: 9781563680199, Gallaudet University Press, October 1992
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 photos
They also will discover emotional insights capable of enhancing their own lives: Finding new truths as old as the Greeks.
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£25,00
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Sidney Psalms
ISBN: PB: 9780856359835, Carcanet, September 1992
96 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke, (1561-1621) is now regarded as one of the considerable poets of her time, and "The Sidney Psalms" as one of the most important but now least-known works of the Elizabethan period. These verse translations of the Psa...
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£9,95
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Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9780856359842, Carcanet, September 1992
128 pp., 22.8x13.6 cm
The life and works of Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) have a perennial fascination for the theatre-going and reading public, and it is surprising that no separate edition of the poetry has been published for decades. Malcolm Hicks provides a generous and tim...
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£8,95
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Cousin Basilio
ISBN: HB: 9780856359675, Carcanet, August 1992
296 pp., 21.6x14 cm
Returning from Brazil, Bazilio tells his cousin Louisa of the brave new world. His revelation leads to a devastating conclusion. "O Primo Bazilio has a far deeper tragedy than Madame Bovary", wrote Roy Campbell, "because the girl involved is not a bi...
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Poorhouse Fugitives Self Taught Poets and Poetry in Victorian Britain
ISBN: PB: 9780856359705, Carcanet, August 1992
80 pp., 20x13 cm
Three traditions are represented in this anthology: a Chartist and radical literature, a Parnassian strand, and a deliberately local manner, often steeped in dialect. This is a literature poised between speech and print, between the anonymous street...
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