Binding: Hardcover
Description: 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.
Title: The Sonnets And A Lover's Complaint
Author(s): Shakespeare William
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Barcode: 9780141192574
Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Date: 9/28/2010
Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
Category: Shakespeare Studies & Criticism