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100 Poets: A Little Anthology by John Carey
$25.99 NZD
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A wonderfully readable anthology of our greatest poetry, chosen by the author of A Little History of Poetry"Does anyone know more about poetry than John Carey? Almost certainly not."--The TimesA poem seems a fragile thing. Change a word and it is broken. But poems outlive empires and survive the devasta ...Show more
A Little History of Poetry by John Carey
$49.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Little Histories Ser.
A vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one of our greatest champions of literatureWhat is poetry? If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing language. It is language made special so that it will be remembered and ...Show more
A Little History of Poetry by John Carey
$28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Little Histories Ser.
A vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one of our greatest champions of literature--selected as the literature book of the year by the London Times " A] fizzing, exhilarating book."--Sebastian Faulks, Sunday Times, London "Delightful.'"--N ...Show more
Dead Cat Bounce: New & Selected Poems by John Carey
$29.99 NZD
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'John Carey possesses a wicked, intelligent sense of humour and a deft feel for the play of language. His poetry is a finely calibrated device for detecting and skewering absurdity, cant, hypocrisy, humbug, mendacity, and institutional cruelty. Underlying the fun is the humanist's lament that we should ...Show more
The Essential Paradise Lost by John Milton; John Carey
$36.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Reading Level: very good
After its publication in 1667, John Milton's Paradise Lost was celebrated throughout Europe as a supreme achievement of the human spirit.Now it is little read. To bring readers back to Milton's masterpiece, John Carey has shortened it to a third of its original length. In this fascinating reinterpretati ...Show more
The Faber Book of Science by John Carey
$39.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The Faber Book of Science introduces hunting spiders and black holes, gorillas and stardust, protons, photons and neutrinos. In his acclaimed anthology, John Carey plots the development of modern science from Leonardo da Vinci to Chaos Theory. The emphasis is on the scientists themselves and their own a ...Show more
The Unexpected Professor: An Oxford Life in Books by John Carey
$28.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
Best known for his provocative take on cultural issues in The Intellectuals and the Masses and What Good Are the Arts?, John Carey describes in this warm and funny memoir the events that formed him - an escape from the London blitz to an idyllic rural village, army service in Egypt, an open scholarship ...Show more
The Unexpected Professor: an Oxford Life by John Carey
$40.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
Best known for his provocative take on cultural issues in The Intellectuals and the Masses and What Good Are the Arts?, John Carey describes in this warm and funny memoir the events that formed him - an escape from the London blitz to an idyllic rural village, army service in Egypt, an open scholarship ...Show more
What Good Are the Arts? by John Carey
$28.99 NZD
Category: Art & Design | Reading Level: very good
Looking at the true value of art, Carey both asks and answers many questions regarding our perception of the arts, as well as making a self-confessedly personal and subjective case for the superiority of literature over all other arts.
William Golding: The Man Who Wrote "Lord of the Flies" by John Carey
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
William Golding was born in 1911 and educated at his local grammar school and Brasenose College, Oxford. He published a volume of poems in 1934 and during the war served in the Royal Navy. Afterwards he returned to being a schoolmaster in Salisbury. "Lord of the Flies", his first novel, was an immediate ...Show more
William Golding - The Man Who Wrote "Lord of the Flies" by John Carey
$59.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: good-very good
The first authorized biography of one of the foremost novelists of the twentieth century. William Golding was born in 1911 and educated at his local grammar school and Brasenose College, Oxford. He published a volume of poems in 1934 and during the war served in the Royal Navy. After wards he returned t ...Show more
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