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Goodbye to All That and Other Great War Writings
ISBN: HB: 9781857546651, Carcanet, December 2007
404 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
This volume brings together all three of Robert Graves's most significant prose writings on the meaning of the Great War: the original 1929 edition of "Good-bye to All That", the essay "A Postscript to Good-bye to All That" (1930), and the play "But...
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£45,00
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Journey to the Center of the Earth
ISBN: HB: 9781402743375, GMC Group, Sterling, December 2007
256 pp., 20.3x15.6 cm, black&white illus.
What a stunning discovery: an old, coded note that actually contains directions for reaching the Earth's very core! And once he finds it, renowned geologist Professor Liedenbrock can't resist setting out with his 16-year-old nephew to go where only o...
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£8,99
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Jungle Book
ISBN: HB: 9781402743405, GMC Group, Sterling, December 2007
352 pp., 20.3x15.6 cm, black&white illus.
Children will delight in this unabridged version of Rudyard Kipling's classics, Jungle Books One and Two! Not only does this attractive volume feature the beloved tales of Mowgli, the "man cub" raised by wolves, and Rikki Tikki Tavi, but also the les...
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£8,99
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Gulliver's Travels
ISBN: HB: 9781402743399, GMC Group, Sterling, December 2007
320 pp., 20.3x15.6 cm, black&white illus.
At once satiric and magical, rich in philosophy and astonishing adventure, Gulliver's Travels transports children into worlds unknown. The entire voyage is seen through the eyes of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon whose amazing account begins with a...
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£8,99
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Pessimism for Beginners
ISBN: PB: 9781857548785, Carcanet, November 2007
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Sophie Hannah's sharp pen dissects modern life and relationships with insouciant honesty and ruthless wit, and her love poems evoke timeless feelings with a shrewd simplicity that deepens her range. An edge of desolation, tenderness – an occasional f...
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£9,95
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Instruction Manual for Swallowing
ISBN: PB: 9781905583041, Carcanet, November 2007
216 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm
Robotic insects, in-growing cutlery, flesh-serving waiters in a zombie cafe... Welcome to the surreal, misshapen universe of Adam Marek's first collection; a bestiary of hybrids from the techno-crazed future and mythical past; a users' guide to the...
PB:
£9,99
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Dark Age
ISBN: PB: 9780856464041, Carcanet, November 2007
72 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
James Harpur's fourth collection includes intimate responses to love, birth and death, and explores faith and vision in searching and unsentimental terms. His powerful poetry gives a new perspective on the travels and travails of early Irish saints a...
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£7,95
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Quidnunc
ISBN: PB: 9781857549461, Carcanet, November 2007
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
A quidnunc is a gossip, one who is constantly asking, "What now?" "Quidnunc" is a poem in which four individuals are haunted in different ways by what they have not forgotten. And Quidnunc is a collection in which, whether recent or distant, personal...
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£9,95
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Midnight's Gate
ISBN: PB: 9780856463945, Carcanet, November 2007
272 pp., 19.7x13 cm
Bei Dao, described by Michael Hofmann as "one of the great poets of our time", has gained international acclaim for his haunting interior poetic landscapes. Now he brings to the essay the elliptical precision of his poetry, combined with a diarist's...
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£10,95
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Mountain Home The Wilderness Poetry of Ancient China
ISBN: PB: 9780856463952, Carcanet, November 2007
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
China's tradition of rivers-and-mountains poetry is the earliest and most extensive literary engagement with the idea of wilderness. David Hinton traces the tradition in his concise introductions to the nineteen poets featured here, who included virt...
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£14,95
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