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A Girl in Winter by Philip Larkin
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Category: Fiction
Philip Larkin's second novel was first published in 1947. This story of Katherine Lind and Robin Fennel, of winter and summer, of war and peace, of exile and holidays, is memorable for its compassionate precision and for the uncommon and unmistakable distinction of its writing.
High Windows by Philip Larkin
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Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Larkin's final collection of poems shows, as does all his best work, his ability to adapt contemporary speech rhythms and everyday vocabulary to subtle metrical patterns and poetic forms. Many of the poems in the collection, which includes some of his best-known pieces ("The Old Fools", "This Be the Ver ...Show more
High Windows by Philip Larkin
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Larkin's final collection of poems shows, as does all his best work, his ability to adapt contemporary speech rhythms and everyday vocabulary to subtle metrical patterns and poetic forms. Many of the poems in the collection, which includes some of his best-known pieces ('The Old Fools', 'This Be the Ver ...Show more
Jazz Writings by Philip Larkin
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Category: Music | Series: Continuum Impacts S.
Philip Larkin (1922?85) was not only one of the foremost English poets of the twentieth century, but also a notable novelist and a distinguished writer on jazz. He was jazz critic for The Daily Telegraph between 1961 and 1971. Jazz Writings brings together Larkin's reviews, articles and essays written f ...Show more
Jill by Philip Larkin
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Category: Fiction
Jill is Philip Larkin's first novel, originally published in 1946. A subtle and moving account of a young English undergraduate from the provinces, this portrait of Oxford during the war is now regarded by many critics as a classic of its kind.
Philip Larkin - Collected Poems by Philip Larkin
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Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Since its publication in 1988, Philip Larkin's Collected Poems has become essential reading on any poetry bookshelf. This new edition returns to Larkin's own deliberate ordering of his poems, presenting, in their original sequence, his four published books: The North Ship, The Less Deceived, The Whitsun ...Show more
Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica by Philip Larkin
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Category: Biography & Memoir
Philip Larkin met Monica Jones at University College Leicester in autumn 1946, when they were both 24, he was the newly-appointed assistant librarian and she was an English lecturer. This title consists of nearly 2000 letters, postcards and telegrams, which chronicle various aspects of Larkin's life and ...Show more
Selected Poems of Philip Larkin by Philip Larkin
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Category: Poetry
For the first time, Faber publish a selection from the poetry of Philip Larkin. Drawing on Larkin's four collections and on his uncollected poems, it is chosen by Martin Amis. 'Many poets make us smile; how many poets make us laugh - or, in that curious phrase, 'laugh out loud' (as if there's another wa ...Show more
The Complete Poems of Philip Larkin by Philip Larkin; Archie Burnett (editor)
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Category: Poetry
This entirely new edition brings together all of Philip Larkin's poems. In addition to those in "Collected Poems (1988)', and in the "Early Poems and Juvenilia (2005)", some unpublished pieces from Larkin's typescripts and workbooks are included, as well as verse (by turns scurrilous, satirical, affecti ...Show more
The Less Deceived by Philip Larkin
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Category: Display & Gift
Philip Larkin's second collection, "The Less Deceived" was published by The Marvell Press in 1955, and now appears for the first time in Faber covers. The eye can hardly pick them out. From the cold shade they shelter in, Till wind distresses tail and mane; Then one crops grass, and moves about - The ot ...Show more
The North Ship by Philip Larkin
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Category: Poetry
"The North Ship", Philip Larkin's earliest volume of verse, was first published in August 1945 and reissued in 1966 by Faber. The introduction, by Larkin himself, explains the circumstances of its publication and the influences which shaped its content. This is the first thing I have understood: Time is ...Show more
The Whitsun Weddings by Philip Larkin
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Category: Poetry
Philip Larkin (1922-1985) remains England's best-loved poet - a writer matchlessly capable of evoking his native land and of touching all readers from the most sophisticated intellectual to the proverbial common reader. The late John Betjeman observed that 'this tenderly observant poet writes clearly, r ...Show more