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Anne Carson

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Dalkey Archive Essentials

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all timeA book about romantic love, Eros the Bittersweet is Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros" in both classical philosophy and literature. Beginning with, "It was Sappho who first called eros 'bittersweet.' No one who has been in love disputes her," Carson examines her subject from numerous points of view, creating a lyrical meditation in the tradition of William Car...

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Anne Carson

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Princeton Classics

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZENamed one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time by the Modern LibraryAnne Carson’s remarkable first book about the paradoxical nature of romantic loveSince it was first published, Eros the Bittersweet, Anne Carson’s lyrical meditation on love in ancient Greek literature and philosophy, has established itself as a favorite among an unusually broad audience, including classicis...

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Anne Carson

** WINNER OF THE 2026 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE **A personal and searching new work about handwriting, Parkinson's and boxing in Anne Carson's trademark idiosyncratic and visionary writing'This is an essay about hands and handwriting. I think of handwriting as a way to organize thought into shapes. I like shapes. I like organizing them. But because of recent neurological changes in my brain I find shapes fall apart on me. My responsibility ...

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Anne Carson

**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2026**In a stunningly original mix of poetry, drama, and narrative, Anne Carson brings the red-winged Geryon from Autobiography of Red, now called ‘G’, into manhood, and through the complex labyrinths of the modern age.We join him as he travels with his friend and lover ‘Sad’ (short for Sad But Great), a war veteran, and with Ida, an artist, across a geography that ranges from plains of gla...

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Anne Carson

WINNER OF THE 2026 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREThe first collection of poems by the winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize for Literature.Short Talks is a series of profound, elegiac prose poems that touch on subjects like travel, animals, philosophy, and art, delivered with Anne Carson’s now-signature—and singular—heart and wit.First published in 1992, the 2015 reissue features a foreword by poet Margaret Christakos, a “Short Talk on...

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Anne Carson

**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2026**A long-time love, now a crumbling marriage, unfolds in 29 'tangos' of narrative verse.The unnamed narrator - sometimes 'I', sometimes 'the wife' - speaks of the man she calls only 'the husband', illuminating moments that are by turn sensual, erotic, painful and heart-breaking.The Beauty of the Husband is a work that explores these oldest of lyrical subjects - beauty, desire, l...

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Jo-Ann Carson

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Mystic Keep Box Sets

When Cassie Black, a clumsy young witch who likes to party with vampires, inherits a sentient coffeehouse in a small Pacific Northwest town, her life turns upside down and becomes a living nightmare. Her new home is a battleground for supernaturals, where primal forces of good and evil fight for ultimate control. As darkness threatens to consume everything around her, Cassie realizes it's up to her to stop it.Cassie's estranged aunt built the magical coffee house called The Perfect...

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Jo-Ann Carson

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Fangsters

Fangsters, a novelGangsters with bite.I should have known better than to sign a deal with a blood-sucking blackmailer. But what choice did I have? Alessandro, one of the most powerful vampires in all the realms, holds my deepest, darkest secret in the palm of his hand.Within fourteen days, I must start an academy for delinquent teenage vampires, or he’ll expose me. If my skeleton ever fell out of the closet, I would be ruined. My family would disown me, my ...

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Anne M Carson

Set in Nazi Germany, Massaging Himmler: A Poetic Biography of Dr Felix Kersten tells in verse the remarkable story of a little-known humanitarian. Kersten was a Finnish-born therapeutic masseur who found himself at the centre of the Nazi web, treating Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler (head of the SS and the Gestapo) for stomach cramps, which sometimes rendered him unconscious, and which no other practitioner could relieve. Dr Kersten massaged Himmler daily during the war, so...

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Anne Carson

**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2026**Wrong Norma is Anne Carson's first book of original material in eight years'Effortlessly readable and…fun' DAILY TELEGRAPH'I'm a big fan...' TEJU COLEAnne Carson is probably our most celebrated living poet, winner of countless awards and the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. Famously reticent, asking that her books be published w...

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Anne Carson

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Oberon Modern Plays

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2026Norma Jeane Baker of Troy is a partly spoken, partly sung performance piece by poet, essayist, and scholar Anne Carson, and an exploration of the lives and myths of Marilyn Monroe and Helen of Troy-iconic beauties who lived millennia apart.A thrilling and thoughtful meditation on the destabilising and destructive power of beauty, it had its world premiere at The Shed in New York City, starring Ben Whishaw and Ren...

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Jo-Ann Carson

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Fangsters

~ a tasteful tale of murderWhen the Swedish, vampire, librarian, Professor Goreson is savagely murdered, the future of Fangsters, my academy for delinquent teenagers with fangs, is threatened. Now I have to catch the killer and restore peace to our school quickly, or my blackmailing boss will expose my secret.The biggest complication to me getting anything done is Onyx, a vampire who oversees security and acts as my second-in-command. He wants to get rid of me and is making...