Author of the Month: Anonymous
Selected by the Bookshop
Our Author of the Month for April has an astonishingly broad and copious back catalogue, stretching back over 5400 years and including works in every genre and every language. It is of course that tireless writer Anonymous – we can only highlight a tiny portion of their work, but here are some of our favourites, from the scurrilous Spanish picaresque novel Lazarillo de Tormes, to the thrilling Middle English masterpiece Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, to the harrowing twentieth-century memoir of occupation A Woman in Berlin.
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Translated by Michael AlpertIncludes new map, chronology, bibliography, note on 16th and 17th Spanish currency.The unlikely heroes of the Spanish picaresque novels make their way - by whatever means they can - through a colourful and…
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Translated by Keith Harrison'The finest translation in and for our time' (Kevin Crossley-Holland) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is probably the most skillfuly told story in the whole of the English Arthurian cycle.…
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This is a devastating book. It is matter-of-fact, makes no attempt to score political points, does not attempt to solicit sympathy for its protagonist and yet is among the most chilling indictments of war I have ever read. Everybody, in…
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Translated by Malcolm Lyons & Ursula LyonsWith an introduction by Robert IrwinEvery night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her the next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to…
From the publisher:
Translated by Malcolm Lyons & Ursula LyonsWith an introduction by Robert IrwinEvery night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her the next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to…
From the publisher:
Translated by Malcolm Lyons & Ursula LyonsWith an introduction by Robert IrwinEvery night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her the next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to…
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The definitive collection of folk music - one of the great English popular art formsOne of the great English popular art forms, the folk song can be painful, satirical, erotic, dramatic, rueful or funny. This magical new collection brings…
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Translated and revised with an introduction by Andrew GeorgeThe definitive translation of the world's oldest known epic, now updated with newly discovered materialMiraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as far as four thousand…
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Translated by Michael AlexanderA spectacular verse translation of one the most foundational texts in world literatureBeowulf is the greatest surviving work of literature in Old English, unparalleled in its epic grandeur and scope. It…
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