The Nightingales are Drunk

Author	Hans Christian Andersen
ISBN	0141398043

I love the fairy tales by Hans Christian Anderson, I think there really quite enchanting. The Tinderbox is one of the short tales in this edition and it depicts the life of a greedy, and quite cunning, solider. A witch has tasked him with fetching her tinderbox from a well, as a reward he gets to keep the silver...

Author

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

'Ye Ice-Falls! Ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain -...'

A selection of Coleridge's poems, including 'This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison' and 'Frost at Midnight'

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Author	Thomas Hardy
ISBN	0141398310

'Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me...'

After the death of his wife Emma, a grief-stricken Hardy wrote some of the best verse of his career. Moving and evocative, it ranks among the greatest elegiac poetry in the language.

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Author	John Keats
ISBN	0141398299

This poem has a real good story to it; it wasn’t a conveyance of metaphor, but a story of love and longing. It’s a narrative poem, which means it’s fairly long and plot driven. It’s really quite imaginative in this because it explores different types of dreams and wishes through a few different...

Author	Dante Alighieri
ISBN	0141980222

'I truly thought I'd never make it back.'

Ten of the most memorable and most terrifying cantos from Dante's Inferno.

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Author	Apollonius of Rhodes
ISBN	0141397942

'The Argonauts were terrified at the sight. But Jason planting his feet apart stood to receive them, as a reef in the sea confronts the tossing billows in a gale.'

The tragic, epic love affair that allowed Jason to get the Golden Fleece.

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Author	Emily Brontë
ISBN	0141398477

'... ever-present, phantom thing; My slave, my comrade, and my king'

Some of Emily Brontë's most extraordinary poems

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Author	Mary Henrietta Kingsley
ISBN	0141397284

'While engaged on this hunt I felt the earth quiver under my feet, and heard a soft big soughing sound, and looking round saw I had dropped in on a hippo banquet...'

Told with verve and self-mocking wit, the adventures of doughty female Victorian explorer Mary Kingsley describe stumbling upon...

Author	Wang Wei
ISBN	0141398205

'Can I bear to leave these blue hills?'

A generous selection from three of the greatest and most enjoyable of Chinese poets

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Author	Henry Mayhew
ISBN	0141980249

...a good bit of spice to give the critlings a flavour, and plenty of treacle to make the mince-meat look rich'

Radical Victorian reformer Henry Mayhew walked the streets of London interviewing ordinary flower girls, market traders, piemen and costermongers to create the first ever work...

Author	Jane Austen
ISBN	0141397071

'She has many rare and charming qualities, but Sobriety is not one of them.'

A selection of Austen's dark and hilarious early writings - featuring murder, drunkenness, perjury, theft, poisoning, women breaking out of prison, men forging wills and babies biting off their mothers' fingers......

Author	Robert Louis Stevenson
ISBN	1419137883

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving,...

Author	Catullus
ISBN	0141398590

Dazzling modern lyrical poems from Catullus - by turns smutty, abusive, romantic and deeply moving.

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