Traffic

The radical Victorian art critic's excoriating defence of dignity and creativity in a world obsessed by money.

Wailing ghost

These delightful miniature tales of macabre hauntings, monsters and magic tricks are Classic China's greatest stories.

A modest proposal

Swift's ferocious, landmark eighteenth-century political satire on how to solve a famine in Ireland

Three tang dynasty poets

Pastoral, lyrical verse evoking the rural landscapes and peoples of eight-century China from three of its finest poets

Woman much missed

Moving, elegiac verse set in rural landscapes, penned by the grief-stricken Hardy after his wife's death.

The eve of st agnes

The Romantic poet's most lyrical, enchanting verse on myth, sensuality, dreams and superstition.

How to use your enemy

A seventeenth-century Spanish priest's shrewd maxims on using guile and pragmatism to succeed in a dangerous world

A cup of sake beneath the cherry trees

Moonlight, spring blossom, a woman's hair - a medieval Japanese monk reflects on idle moments and life's fleeting joy.

On the beach at night alone

The visionary nineteenth-century American poet celebrates nature and the human spirit in these verses from Leaves of Grass

The doorman

Edition

Ed. 1

ISBN/ISSN

9781250437921

Collation

388 p. ; 22 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

823 PAV t