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Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection

Homer: The Iliad

The Iliad

'Very thin indeed is the curtain between us and the unknown'

The short stories of H. G. Wells are about many things, but they are nearly always about contact between the extraordinary and the everyday. There are few mighty statesmen or square-jawed heroes in his writing-it's a junior teaching assistant-who ends up being handed the fruit of the tree of knowledge in a railway carriage, a domestic housekeeper who must save a botanist from a murderous orchid, and a Lancashire engineer who ends up, high in the Amazon, witnessing the rise of an empire of insects. Even in Wells's non-fantastic stories, people are propelled out of their elements, forced to reckon with their place in the world-or that of humanity at large. 

Wells is best-known today for his science fiction novels and his prophetic writings, but he began his career as a journalist and wrote an extraordinary number of tales, sketches, and thought-experiments, forty of which are collected here. This edition contains many acknowledged classics, but also collects some of the less celebrated gems found in the pages of the magazines and newspapers in which Wells learned his craft. This book contains text based on the stories' first magazine appearances, with an introduction, commentary, and notes on the periodicals for which Wells wrote.

ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around theglobe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of othervaluable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies forfurther study, and much more.

The Empire of the Ants and Other Stories

'Grey-eyed Athena sent them a following breeze, the fresh- 
blowing westerly, whistling over the wine-dark sea'

Twenty years after setting out to fight in the Trojan War, Odysseus is yet to return home to Ithaca. His household is in disarray: a horde of over 100 disorderly and arrogant suitors are vying to claim Odysseus' wife Penelope, and his young son Telemachus is powerless to stop them. Meanwhile, Odysseus is driven beyond the limits of the known world, encountering countless divine and earthly challenges. But Odysseus is 'of many wiles' and his cunning and bravery eventually lead him home, to reclaim both his family and his kingdom. 

The Odyssey rivals the Iliad as the greatest poem of Western culture and is perhaps the most influential text of classical literature. This elegant and compelling new translation is accompanied by a full introduction and notes that guide the reader in understanding the poem and the many different contexts in which it was performed and read.

The Odyssey

The Mabinogion is one of the great epics of medieval literature. Weaving together Celtic mythology and Arthurian romance, the eleven Welsh tales include stories of dragons and giants, kings and heroes, and shape-shifters and magicians. This lively translation re-invests the tales with the power of performance.

The Mabinogion is one of the great epics of medieval literature. Weaving together Celtic mythology and Arthurian romance, the eleven Welsh tales include stories of dragons and giants, kings and heroes, and shape-shifters and magicians. This lively translation re-invests the tales with the power of performance.

The Mabinogion

'One death, in exchange for thousands of lives - it's simple arithmetic!'

A new translation of Dostoevsky's epic masterpiece, Crime and Punishment (1866). The impoverished student Raskolnikov decides to free himself from debt by killing an old moneylender, an act he sees as elevating himself above conventional morality. Like Napoleon he will assert his will and his crime will be justified by its elimination of 'vermin' for the sake of the greater good. But Raskolnikov is torn apart by fear, guilt, and a growing conscience under the influence of his love for Sonya. Meanwhile the police detective Porfiry is on his trail. It is a powerfully psychological novel, in which the St Petersburg setting, Dostoevsky's own circumstances, and contemporary social problems all play their part.

Crime and Punishment is one of the most important novels of the nineteenth century. It is the story of a murder committed on principle, of a killer who wishes to set himself outside and above society. It is marked by Dostoevsky's own harrowing experience in penal servitude, and yet contains moments of wild humour.

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Crime and Punishment

Many have called Patricia Lockwood a wordsmith, but in the latest iteration of her life, she has become, quite literally, a metalsmith too. Stones, gems, metals, fossils - she forges them into bodies, faces and, with her typical irreverence, vaginas. In these poems, a robot dog discovers the Lascaux caves in France. Jane Austen shoots a perfect 147. A rock gets a girlfriend. The Pope blesses McLovin (kind of). Lockwood's most successful work of metal- and wordsmithing yet is her blend of the Internet world with the natural one, as she slips meme references and algospeak into evocations of geological time, explorations of organic bodies, and observations of youth. Her most personal collection of poetry yet, you may find you understand yourself - and Patricia - more than you'd like to by the end.

'A gem of a collection' GUARDIAN

Agate Head / Stone Soup

Tradd Street Press

"Verse Writing" by William Herbert Carruth serves as a comprehensive and practical guide for aspiring poets and students of literature. This instructional work explores the fundamental principles of poetic composition, offering a structured approach to understanding the mechanics of verse. Carruth delves into the intricacies of meter, rhythm, rhyme, and stanzaic forms, providing clear explanations and illustrative examples to guide the reader through the creative process.The book emphasizes the importance of both technical skill and artistic expression, encouraging writers to master the formal constraints of poetry to better articulate their thoughts and emotions. By breaking down complex concepts into accessible lessons, "Verse Writing" aims to cultivate a deeper appreciation for the craft and to equip writers with the tools necessary to produce polished and meaningful poetry. Whether used as a classroom textbook or a self-study manual, this work remains a valuable resource for anyone seeking to improve their mastery of the English language through the medium of verse. Its focus on the discipline and beauty of poetic structure highlights the enduring relevance of traditional forms in the world of creative writing.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you may see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Verse Writing

In "Ein weitgereister Gast trinkt lang-sam aus" versammelt Detlef Färber satirische und philosophische Gedichte der letzten drei Jahre - vom Urgedicht über Kultur- und Kreaturgedichte bis zu visionären Futurgedichten. Pünktlich zur Urzeit fängt die Reise an: Ein gewisser Lutz Evolutz stellt sich plötzlich auf die Hinterbeine und läuft los. Wo will er hin? Einen "Gipfel namens Illusion" besteigen? Oder beginnt hier gerade "Urahns Urlaub"? Unterwegs trinkt ein schon weitgereister Gast mit Goethe, Kafka &amp; Co. ein paar "Schlucke aus der Pulle Unsterblichkeit" und macht sich für "Das jüngste Gedicht" auf alles seinen eigenen Reim. Ein spielerischer, zugleich nachdenklicher Band über Mensch, Kultur, Zeit und das Universum.

Ein weitgereister Gast trinkt langsam aus

SHORTLISTED FOR THE TS ELIOT PRIZE 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2026 '(c) Codex' SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST SINGLE POEM LONGLISTED FOR THE GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE 2026 'Profound, sheer originality... a tantalising jigsaw puzzle of a book' Tristram Fane-Saunders, Telegraph In The New Carthaginians, time - and with it the world - is out of joint. A hijacked plane lands at Entebbe International Airport in 1976, triggering the crisis that will lead to Idi Amin's Uganda becoming a pariah state and, within a few years, to the young Nick Makoha's flight from the country. A mysterious writer daubs poetic slogans on the walls of late-'70s New York City, signing them SAMO(c). Three characters who are also one - the Poet, a Black Icarus and a resurrected Jean-Michel Basquiat - journey through a time that is both our own and not, watching TV, discussing art and literature and tucking their wings into their jackets on the way to airport security. Concerned throughout with flight and falling, the sample and the loop, The New Carthaginians is a poetry collection of staggering originality: a work by an author at the height of his powers, in which the familiar Western canons of art, history and philosophy are prised apart and reassembled in a new configuration. Drawing on Basquiat's technique of the 'exploded' collage, our heroes' odyssey gathers the symbols of a new mythos, through which the othering of Black life might be undone and the stage set for some fresh emergence, some transfigured understanding of myth and life. 'Hold that note,' writes the poet. 'In this place you are no longer the chorus ... In any future, remember you are a New Carthaginian.' A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST SUMMER BOOK OF POETRY 2025 'In this book, Nick Makoha has found an otherworldly, visionary voice and diction that arrest you from the first page and never let you go.' Jason Allen-Paisant, Winner of the TS Eliot Prize

The New Carthaginians

A spirited and stirring return to the poet's boyhood and the town that made him This autobiographical collection explores Daljit Nagra's experiences growing up in the white, working-class suburban town of Yiewsley close to Heathrow airport in Outer London, from the 1960s to 80s. As Britain transitions from a postwar manufacturing economy to the Thatcher period and the computer age, we see a young boy navigating childhood friendships and mishaps. The poems bring to life a bustling house filled with relatives from India who arrived, legally or otherwise, in the UK: "devout realists - already, and always, knuckled into work". They also offer powerful insight into the makings of the writer: the "messy English" at home fusing with Bollywood ballads, Top of the Pops and hymns at school, to develop a voice entirely his own.

Yiewsley

Der Fluss des Lebens - dargestellt durch die Kraft des Windes, dem "Atem des Lebens", und die Übertragung von Schwingungen - ist mit all seinen Schwankungen die metaphorische Übersetzung, die den Prozess unserer Lebenswege beschreiben kann.

Lyrik

Im Spiel des Windes

This pocketable volume presents a fresh introduction to the vivid and surprising work of a Nobel Prize-winning poet. how cunningly he weaves himself through his own former shapeand works to seize this swaying worldby stretching out the arms he has conceived - beautiful beyond belief at this passingat this very passing moment that's just passed. These intimate, immediate poems were written during the precarious years of Soviet occupation in Poland. Rooted in the pains and joys of the everyday, they ask us what it means to live out our lives amid global conflict and its aftermath. Underlying Szymborska's work is a continual sense of astonishment at having survived, as well as the disbelief and delight that life goes on - that the acrobat's hands have caught the trapeze. Featuring Szymborska's Nobel Prize acceptance speech as an afterword. Translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh.

The Acrobat

Oxford World's Classics

'Some verses flow on out of men
like headstreams course through a canal.
The same holds true for mine, old pal-
though I can't say they're worth a lick,
they still pour out of me real quick,
like sheep escapin' a corral.'

José Hernández's long narrative poems The Gaucho Martín Fierro (1872) and Martín Fierro's Return (1879) relate the often harrowing story of a gaucho's misfortunes against the backdrop of Argentina's nation-building a few decades after its independence from Spain. The first poem relates Martín Fierro's forced conscription, the hardships of irregular military service, and his desertion, followed by the discovery of his home and family gone upon his return, murder, and life as a fugitive from the law among the same tribe he was earlier drafted to exterminate. The second continues the narrative, taking in an epic singing contest against an itinerant musician, and culminating in Fierro and his sons going their separate ways in an attempt to live out lives of peace under assumed names.

G. J. Racz provides the first metrical, rhyming translation into English in almost a century. Considered classics of Latin American literature, the works embrace the psychology of their oppressed 'common man' protagonist while depicting the larger sociopolitical forces slowly marginalizing his once vibrant cohort of skilled horsemen, itinerant cowhands, and modest livestock ranchers.

The Gaucho Martín Fierro and Martín Fierro's Return

Late Heaney

My Reading

A book on the experience of reading the works of Samuel Beckett.

After a life of writing about Victorian novelists, Rosemarie Bodenheimer found herself entranced by the work of Samuel Beckett. In this book she shares her journey of discovery with readers who may or may not be familiar with Beckett's novels and stories. She follows his trajectory from the first unpublished novel, Dream of Fair to Middling Women, through the great postwar trilogy of Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable, and on to the ever more experimental inventions in the shorter, later fictions and monologues. Through readings of his work alongside extracts from his published correspondence, Beckett emerges as a sympathetic human figure, a poet of productive doubt, and a brilliant stylist of mood changes and second thoughts. 

Professor Bodenheimer considers Beckett's treatments of memory, nostalgia, and grief, and the forms he finds to convey those essential human experiences while avoiding melodrama or sentimentality. His dramatized relationship with his own writing is a crucial part of that emotional landscape. His playful jousts with the conventions of novel-writing show how, from the start, Beckett challenged the notion of character and other inherited novel conventions. The book also emphasizes his dismantling of the autobiographical "I," his moving narratives of attachment and loss, and the inimitable mixture of comedy and pathos he creates by inventing outlandish situations to which his characters respond in very recognizable human ways.

Samuel Beckett

Ediciones de Iberoamericana

¿Qué es la poesía? ¿Cuál es la función del poeta? En el cruce entre la universalidad de los supuestos artísticos y sociales del Occidente de fines del siglo XIX y la aspiración a una modernidad propia en su tierra -la cuestión de cómo debe ser la poesía en América-, estas preguntas atraviesan la escritura de Rubén Darío, tanto en su poesía como en su prosa. Este libro se propone delinear continuidades, oscilaciones y contradicciones en la poética de Darío, mediante el estudio de sus textos críticos y ensayísticos: los prólogos a sus volúmenes y a los de otros autores, y los artículos publicados en diversos medios periodísticos. La lectura pone de relieve cómo estos textos dialogan, implícita y explícitamente, con entornos humanos, sociales y artísticos, a lo largo de cinco capítulos organizados según su itinerario migratorio, que parte de Nicaragua (1882-1886) y se dirige hacia Chile (1886-1889), Centroamérica (1889-1892), Argentina (1893-1898) y Europa (1899-1914). Este recorrido ilumina la dinámica de la modernidad hispanoamericana, que, desde una periferia, se construye en diálogo con las estéticas finiseculares europeas. Lejos de buscar una teoría cerrada, el libro recompone la red textual de reflexiones darianas que trazan, en conjunto, un pensamiento poético siempre en movimiento.

El pensamiento poético de Rubén Darío : una estética en movimiento

Penguin Modern Classics

'His writing is not about something; it is that something itself' Samuel BeckettJames Joyce's towering genius as a novelist has often overshadowed his achievements as a poet, yet his verse occupies a pivotal position in his career. This new edition comprises all the poetry that was published in Joyce's lifetime, including his highly accomplished 1907 debut Chamber Music, which fused exuberant lyricism with sharp irony, and the later collection Pomes Penyeach, which confronted adultery, jealousy and betrayal. Also included here are the satirical poems 'The Holy Office' and 'Gas from a Burner', and 'Ecce Puer', written for his new-born grandson.With a new introduction and notes by Clare Hutton.

It is only James Joyce's towering genius as a novelist that has led to his comparative neglect as a poet. And yet his poems not only occupy a pivotal position in Joyce's career, they are also magnificently assured achievements in their own right. 'Chamber Music' is an extraordinary début, fusing a broad swathe of styles with characteristically sharp irony and joyful verbal exuberance. 'Pomes Penyeach' confronts painful personal issues of adultery, jealousy and betrayal and so paves the way for the more detached and fully realized treatment of these feelings in Joyce's masterpiece, Ulysses. Also included here is 'Ecce Puer', written for his new-born grandson, as well as juvenilia, satires, translations, limericks and a parody of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Poems

The Iliad

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