Penguin book of russian poetry

Penguin Book of Russian Poetry

Traces Russian poetry from its Golden Age to the modern era, including work by several great poets - Georgy Ivanov and Varlam Shalamov among them - in

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Penguin Book of French Poetry

The period 1820-1950 is particularly rich for students and lovers of poetry. While this anthology contains, of course, generous selections from establ

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Penguin Book of Irish Poetry

Features the work of the greatest Irish poets, from the monks of the ancient monasteries to the Nobel laureates along with a profusion of lyrics, love

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Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry

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Penguin Book of First World War Poetry

Unrivalled for its range and intensity, the poetry of the First World War continues to have a powerful effect on readers. This title reflects the dive

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Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry

A comprehensive anthology of African poetry with wide-ranging contents: war songs and political protests jostle with poems about human love, African n

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New Penguin Book of Love Poetry

An anthology of poems that represents man's changeless responses to the changeless changing seasons of his heart.

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New Penguin Russian Course

Whether you're learning alone or attending classes, you'll find this complete Russian language course for beginners both accessible and indispensable. Designed to provide the student with an excellent command of basic Russian (the equivalent of A level standard) this book features thirty lessons punctuated by revision exercises to ensure you have fully understood what you...

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New Penguin Russian Course

Features a Russian language course for beginners. This book is designed to provide the student with an excellent command of basic Russian (the equival

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Puffin Book of Utterly Brilliant Poetry

An anthology of the best of Puffin poetry, that includes poems by Roger McGough, Michael Rosen, Charles Causley, Benjamin Zephaniah, Spike Milligan, J

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Introduction to English Poetry

Covers different varieties of poetic practice in English. This book discusses the work of poets as wide ranging as W H Auden, Dylan Thomas, Tennyson,

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Penguin Book of Japanese Verse

A collection of verse that contains poetry from the earliest, primitive period, through the Nara, Heian, Kamakura, Muromachi and Edo periods, ending w

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Penguin Book Of Spanish Verse

Spanish poetry is astonishing in its richness and variety. This anthology covers the two great flowerings of Spanish verse: the first, which lasted to

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Penguin Book of Victorian Verse

Includes poetry written and published during the reign of Queen Victoria, (1837-1901). This volume offers selections from major poets such as Arnold,

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Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse in English

Even at its most literary, Caribbean poetry shares the vigour of the oral tradition. Many established writers and exciting new voices, are exploring w

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Book of Longing

Leonard Cohen made his name as a poet before he came to worldwide attention as a singer and songwriter. This collection of his poetry was written in M

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Book of Longing - Leonard Cohen

<p>Leonard Cohen made his name as a poet before he came to worldwide attention as a singer and songwriter. This collection of his poetry was written in Montreal, Mumbai and during his retirement in Mt Baldy.</p>

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A Short History of Russia - Galeotti Mark

Anotace: Can anyone truly understand Russia?Russia is a country with no natural borders, no single ethos, no true central identity. At the crossroads of Europe and Asia, it is everyone`s `other`. And yet it is one of the most powerful nations on earth, a master game-player on the global stage with a rich history of war and peace, poets and revolutionaries.In this essenti...

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Puffin Book of Fantastic First Poems

A poetry book, in which the poems span time, from Robert Louis Stevenson and Walter de la Mare right up to Roger McGough and Michael Rosen. It include

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Wessex Poems and Other Verses - Hardy Thomas

Anotace: A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet`s most famous book of verse as it was originally published. Designed by the acclaimed Coralie Bickford-Smith and beautifully set, these slim, A format volumes are the ultimate gift editions for poetry lovers.Wessex Poems was Hardy`s first coll...

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Lost Kingdom - Plokhy Serhii

Anotace: `Brisk and thoughtful, this book could hardly be more timely` Dominic Sandbrook, BBC History Magazine, Books of the YearFrom a preeminent scholar of Eastern Europe and the prize-winning author of Chernobyl, the essential history of Russian imperialismIn 2014, Russia annexed Crimea and attempted to seize a portion of Ukraine. While the world watched in outrage, t...

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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - le Carré John

Anotace: Discover the new Penguin Crime and Espionage seriesA Russian mole has infiltrated the British establishment - and the spymaster Smiley must dig them out...George Smiley, formerly of the Secret Intelligence Service, is contemplating his new life in retirement when he is called back on an unexpected mission. His task is to hunt down an agent implanted by Moscow Ce...

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The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse - Christopher Childers

<p>Newly translated according to a scheme of staggering ambition, an anthology unlike any now availableComposed between the early-agricultural 'song culture' of 800 BCE, when praise poems and dirges mingled in a world peopled with gods and monsters, and the time of Imperial Rome, the corpus of Greek and Latin lyric poetry is as densely rich in formal interrelation a...

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Circles of Hell - Dante Alighieri

<p>Takes us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. This book features stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.</p>

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The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy

<p>'It is only a bruise' A carefree Russian official has what seems to be a trivial accident... One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fab...

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A History of the World in 100 Objects (0241951771)

Kniha - autor Neil MacGregor, 614 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná A paperback reader's edition of this original and very successful history of humanity. The book's range is enormous, with each chapter immersing the reader in a past civilisation, not just describing the objects and how they were made, but what their significance is. 'Magnificent...brings hom...

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Selected and Last Poems 1931-2004 - Czeslaw Milosz

<p>The most beautiful and powerful of Milosz's poems from across his writing lifeThis selection brings together the most beautiful and powerful of Czeslaw Milosz's poems, spanning his writing life. In verses such as 'Cafe' he considers the upheaval, revolutions and two world wars that he had witnessed, while 'My Faithful Mother Tongue' reflects the loyalty he felt t...

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One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each

A prize-winning translation of the most widely known and popular collection of Japanese poetryHyakunin Isshu is the most famous and popular collection of Japanese poetry, and the first work of Japanese literature ever to be translated into English. Compiled in the fourteenth century, the book is a collection of one hundred waka poems (a precursor of haiku), dating back to...

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Citizen

Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2015 and National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry 2015, this book examines the experience of race

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Unweaving the Rainbow

Keats accused Newton of destroying the poetry of the rainbow by explaining the origin of its colours, thus dispelling its mystery. In this book, the a

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Strange Pilgrims

Combining terror and nostalgia, surreal comedy and the poetry of the commonplace, this book is a triumph of storytelling by our writer.

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Queer and Fearless

Learn about the lives of some of the most important LGBTQ heroes in this unique picture book that combines poetry and biographical information to hon

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The Gift - Vladimir Nabokov

<p>The Gift is the phantasmal autobiography of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdynstev, a writer living in the closed world of Russian intellectuals in Berlin shortly after the First World War. This gorgeous tapestry of literature and butterflies tells the story of Fyodor's pursuits as a writer. Its heroine is not Fyodor's elusive and beloved Zina, however, but Russian prose and...

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Early Levy

Lapinski, a manipulative and magical Russian exile, summons forth a number of highly contemporary urban pilgrims. This book explores broken dreams and

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Ten Days That Shook the World

Presents an account of the Russian revolution. This book describes the events in Petrograd in November 1917, when Lenin and the Bolsheviks finally sei

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Lonesome Traveler

The author roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and London, Kerouac records, in prose of pure poetry, life on the road. In this book, he reveals both

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Poems

Features poetry that affirms author's belief in a whole natural order. This book deals with his delicately observed descriptions of landscapes that ar

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Shakespeare's Sonnets

Presents a collection of Shakespeare's sonnets. This book contains poetry and themes such as love and infidelity, memory and mortality. It is a pocket

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Ticket That Exploded

An outrageous hybrid of pulp science fiction, obscene experimental poetry, and manifesto for revolution, this book is a last chance antidote to the vi

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Celtic Miscellany

Including works from Welsh, Irish and Scottish Gaelic, Cornish, Breton and Manx, this book offers a blend of poetry and prose from the eighth to the n

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Lonesome Traveller - Jack Kerouac

<p>The author roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and London, Kerouac records, in prose of pure poetry, life on the road. In this book, he reveals both the endless diversity of human life and his own high-spirited philosophy of self-fulfilment.</p>

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Collected Poems - Vladimir Nabokov

<p>These masterly poems span the decades of Nabokov's career, from 'Music', written in 1914, to the short, playful 'To Vera', composed in 1974. 'The University Poem', one of Nabokov's major poetic works, is here in English for the first time: an extraordinary autobiographical poem looking back at his time at Cambridge, with its dinners, girls and memories, it is suf...

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Talking Turkeys

Playful, clever and provocative, this book offers a collection of children's poetry from a street poet.

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Sketchy, Doubtful, Incomplete Jottings - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

<p>'I can promise to be candid, not, however, to be impartial.' A selection of the most insightful maxims and reflections from one of Germany's greatest ever thinkers. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across...

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Poems - Wilfred Owen

<p>A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most famous book of verse as it was originally published. Designed by the acclaimed Coralie Bickford-Smith and beautifully set, these slim, A format volumes are the ultimate gift editions for poetry lovers. Poems is Wilfred Owen's only volum...

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Goblin Market and Other Poems - Christina G. Rossetti

<p>A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most famous book of verse as it was originally published. Designed by the acclaimed Coralie Bickford-Smith and beautifully set, these slim, A format volumes are the ultimate gift editions for poetry lovers. Goblin Market and Other Poems was ...

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Lost Kingdom - Serhii Plokhy

<p>'Brisk and thoughtful, this book could hardly be more timely' Dominic Sandbrook, BBC History Magazine, Books of the Year From a preeminent scholar of Eastern Europe and the prize-winning author of Chernobyl, the essential history of Russian imperialism In 2014, Russia annexed Crimea and attempted to seize a portion of Ukraine. While the world watched in outrage...

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Little Black Classics Box Set

<p>GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015The irresistibly collectible box set of all 80 Little Black Classics In celebration of Penguin's 80th birthday, this box set of the 80 books in the Little Black Classics series showcases the many wonderful and varied writers in Penguin Black Classics. From India to Greece, Denmark to Iran, and not forgetting Britain, this assortment...

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The Temple - George Herbert

<p>A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most famous book of verse as it was originally published. Designed by the acclaimed Coralie Bickford-Smith and beautifully set, these slim, A format volumes are the ultimate gift editions for poetry lovers. On his deathbed George Herbert ent...

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The Rodchenkov Affair - Grigorij Rodčenkov

<p>***Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, 2020 - the inside story of the Russian doping programme by the man behind it all*** One of the Financial Times's 'Fifty people who shaped the decade' 'The biggest sports scandal the world has ever seen' In 2015, Russia's Anti-Doping Centre was suspended by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) following reve...

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On the Road, 1. vydání - Jack Kerouac

<p>On the Road by Jack Kerouac is the exhilarating novel that defined the Beat Generation and is a 2012 major motion picture starring Kristen Stewart, Kirsten Dunst and Sam Riley, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range. 'What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody ...

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Things in Poems - Josef Hrdlička,Mariana Machová

Anotace: In this volume, fifteen scholars and poets, from Austria, Britain, Czechia, France, Germany, Ireland, Lithuania, and Russia, explore the topic of things and objects in poetry written in a number of different languages and in different eras. The book begins with ancient poetry, then moves on to demonstrate the significance of objects in the Chinese poetic traditi...

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Things in Poems

In this volume, fifteen scholars and poets, from Austria, Britain, Czechia, France, Germany, Ireland, Lithuania, and Russia, explore the topic of things and objects in poetry written in a number of different languages and in different eras. The book begins with ancient poetry, then moves on to demonstrate the significance of objects in the Chinese poetic tradition. From t...

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Things in Poems - Josef Hrdlička

<p>In this volume, fifteen scholars and poets, from Austria, Britain, Czechia, France, Germany, Ireland, Lithuania, and Russia, explore the topic of things and objects in poetry written in a number of different languages and in different eras. The book begins with ancient poetry, then moves on to demonstrate the significance of objects in the Chinese poetic traditio...

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Language, Eros, Being

This long-awaited, magisterial study - an unparalleled blend of philosophy, poetry, and philology - draws on theories of sexuality, phenomenology, comparative religion, philological writings on Kabbalah, Russian formalism, Wittgenstein, Rosenzweig, William Blake, and the very physics of the time-space continuum to establish what will surely be a highwater mark in work on ...

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