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Product Description: From time immemorial, merchants, pilgrims, and invaders from East and West have penetrated the high valleys of Afghanistan. In this resonant account, Peter Levi seeks the clues which each migration left, in the company of the young Bruce Chatwin...read more

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9781906011550 | Dufour Editions, March 15, 2014, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: From time immemorial, merchants, pilgrims, and invaders from East and West have penetrated the high valleys of Afghanistan.

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9780415920087 | Routledge, March 1, 1998, cover price $65.00

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9781780761398 | Tauris Parke Paperbacks, August 21, 2012, cover price $18.00
9780415920094 | Routledge, March 1, 1998, cover price $18.95

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Product Description: Born in 70 BC, in a small village near Mantua, Publius Vergilius Maro—Virgil—grew up to be hailed as the greatest Roman poet. And although his work has influenced Western literature for two millennia, little is known about the man himself...read more

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9781848859043 | Reprint edition (Tauris Parke Paperbacks, May 8, 2012), cover price $19.00 | About this edition: Born in 70 BC, in a small village near Mantua, Publius Vergilius Maro—Virgil—grew up to be hailed as the greatest Roman poet.

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Presents a portrait of the Greece the author came to know through a lifetime of exploration. This work is a fusion of experience, a gift of insight from one philhellene to all those who have come to love Greece.

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9780525124955 | E P Dutton, September 1, 1981, cover price $12.50 | About this edition: Presents a collection of personal reminiscences and observations of Greece and its people, detailing its history, cities, countryside, literature and art, sufferings, and way of life
9780002161626 | Wm Collins & Sons & Co, August 1, 1980, cover price $19.95

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9780955010545, titled "The Hill of Kronos" | Dufour Editions, February 15, 2008, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: Presents a portrait of the Greece the author came to know through a lifetime of exploration.

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9780856463310 | Carcanet Pr, April 1, 2002, cover price $10.95

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Product Description: In 1970, Peter Levi—classical scholar, archaeologist, and poet—set off with Bruce Chatwin in search of the classical heritage of Afghanistan. Greek conquerors, Buddhist monks, Moghul emperors, doomed British soldiers—all have traveled Afghanistan, one of the great crossroads of history...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781873429358 | Pallas Athene Pub, October 1, 1999, cover price $24.99 | About this edition: In 1970, Peter Levi—classical scholar, archaeologist, and poet—set off with Bruce Chatwin in search of the classical heritage of Afghanistan.

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An intriguing biography provides readers with an in-depth look at the life of ancient Rome's most famous poet, while presenting the influencial effects Virgil's work has had on civilization throughout time. (view table of contents)

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9780312193522 | St Martins Pr, December 1, 1998, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Traces the life of the Roman poet, describes his major works, and depicts the historical background of his period

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Product Description: "Reed Music" is Peter Levi's first collection of completely new work since "Shadow and Bone" (1989). In these exhilarating poems he combines a watercolourist's gift for the spontaneous evocation of a scene with a very different gift for formal elegy...read more

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9780856462795 | Anvil Pr Poetry Ltd, August 1, 1997, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: "Reed Music" is Peter Levi's first collection of completely new work since "Shadow and Bone" (1989).

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A biography of The Bard focuses on the society in which he lived, his works, and the subtle connections between them.

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9780517146989, titled "The Life and Times of William Shakespeare" | Reprint edition (Random House Value Pub, November 1, 1995), cover price $10.99
9780805011999 | Henry Holt & Co, October 1, 1989, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The first modern biography of 'The Bard' turns its attention to his life and times, his works, and the subtle connections between them

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9780805015522, titled "The Life and Times of William Shakespeare" | Reprint edition (Henry Holt & Co, April 1, 1991), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The first modern biography of 'The Bard' turns its attention to his life and times, his works, and the subtle connections between them

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9780786108664, titled "The Life and Times of William Shakespeare" | Blackstone Audio Inc, August 1, 1997, cover price $85.95 | About this edition: A biography of The Bard focuses on the society in which he lived, his works, and the subtle connections between them.

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9780333674482 | Macmillan Pub Ltd, May 1, 1997, cover price $22.95

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The first full work on Milton in more than thirty years offers readers a unique glimpse into the mind of one of the greatest poets in the English language, tracing his life through its literary and political themes and including fresh interpretations of his most important writings. (view table of contents)

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9780312151164 | St Martins Pr, April 1, 1997, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Traces the life of the great English poet through its literary and political themes and includes interpretations of his most important writings

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Presents the life of a beloved children's writer and illustrator, describing his life as one of twenty-one children, his secret and violent struggle with epilepsy, his struggles with depression, and the inspiration for his works.

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9780684196886 | Scribner, May 1, 1995, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Presents the life of a beloved children's writer and illustrator, describing his life as one of twenty-one children, his secret and violent struggle with epilepsy, his struggles with depression, and the inspiration for his works.

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A look at the life of the author of 'Idylls of the King,' 'Maude,' and 'In Memoriam' describes his close friendship with actress Ellen Terry, satirist Edward Lear, and Queen Victoria, his childhood, and his work.

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9780684196626 | Scribner, January 1, 1994, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: A look at the life of the author of 'Idylls of the King,' 'Maude,' and 'In Memoriam' describes his close friendships with actress Ellen Terry, satirist Edward Lear, and Queen Victoria; his childhood; and his work

Product Description: On the Greek island of Patmos, in the 1st century AD, a man known only as John set down a book of awesome omens and enigmas and conversations with God. This fresh translation of John's vision of the tortured advent of the new heaven and new earth is prefaced by an exploration of its origins and authorship, its extraordinary spectrum of symbolism and its echoes in Blake and Milton...read more
By Peter Levi (trans)

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9781856260527 | Trafalgar Square, August 1, 1993, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: On the Greek island of Patmos, in the 1st century AD, a man known only as John set down a book of awesome omens and enigmas and conversations with God.

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A bizarre whodunit spoof about critics, editors, and writers asks the question--who killed famous writer Mortimer Gussage?

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9780679404330 | Pantheon Books, October 1, 1991, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A bizarre whodunit spoof about critics, editors, and writers asks the question--who killed famous writer Mortimer Gussage?

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Product Description: A biography of the Russian writer Boris Pasternak, written to mark the centenary of his birth. Best known for "Dr Zhivago", he also wrote an autobiography called "Safe Conduct", two books of poetry, and translations of Shakespeare's tragedies...read more

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9780091738860 | Hutchinson, May 1, 1991, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: A biography of the Russian writer Boris Pasternak, written to mark the centenary of his birth.

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Traces the history of monasteries, describes monastic leaders, and compares the monastic traditions of the East and West

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9781555841973 | Grove Pr, April 1, 1988, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Traces the history of monasteries, describes monastic leaders, and compares the monastic traditions of the East and West

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9781557782885 | Athena, July 1, 1990, cover price $10.95

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9780856462115 | Anvil Pr Poetry Ltd, May 1, 1989, cover price $11.90

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Product Description: `Goodbye to the Art of Poetry' is the text of Peter Levi's valedictory lecture as Oxford Professor of Poetry. Unlike his inaugural lecture `The Lamentation of the Dead', it is written in verse - in the couplets which he first used for a series of sermons in the sixties...read more

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9780856462122 | Anvil Pr Poetry Ltd, May 1, 1989, cover price $7.90 | About this edition: `Goodbye to the Art of Poetry' is the text of Peter Levi's valedictory lecture as Oxford Professor of Poetry.

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By Peter Levi (editor)

Hardcover:

9780819214270 | Morehouse Pub Co, September 1, 1988, cover price $11.95

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Product Description: a book of English Christian verse . first edition. published in 1988.

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9780140586022 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, September 1, 1988), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: a book of English Christian verse .

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When French archeologists announce the invention of a machine that can read indecipherable documents, Oxford scientist Ben Jonson finds skeletons in many closets

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9780802756886 | Walker & Co, December 1, 1987, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: When French archeologists announce the invention of a machine that can read indecipherable documents, Oxford scientist Ben Jonson finds skeletons in many closets

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