The Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint

Author: Shakespeare, William

Brand: Penguin

Color: Brown

Edition: Reprint

Binding: hardcover

Format: roughcut

Number Of Pages: 272

Release Date: 28-09-2010

Part Number: 9780141192574

Details: Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.

When this volume of Shakespeare's poems first appeared in 1609, he had already written most of the great plays that made him famous. The 154 sonnets - all but two of which are addressed to a beautiful young man or a treacherous 'dark lady' - contain some of the most exquisite and haunting poetry ever written, and deal with eternal subjects such as love and infidelity, memory and mortality, and the destruction wreaked by Time. Also included is A Lover's Complaint, originally published with the sonnets, in which a young woman is overheard lamenting her betrayal by a heartless seducer.

EAN: 9780141192574

Package Dimensions: 8.0 x 5.4 x 1.0 inches

Languages: English