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Covik One Nine: Stories and Poems – Ibiso Graham-Douglas
₦7,500.00We are working with the Ministry of Health on protecting our citizens from Covik One Nine virus. As a government, this is now a key priority for us.
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Esu At The Library and Other Poems – Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún
₦10,000.00A native son meets a familiar deity in a foreign town, in books, in the faces and voices of strangers, on trains, in the histories that intersect with traumas and pleasures, in flirtations at a bank on Euston Road, in food, in contemplations of space, accents, missed connections, and police shootings in Lagos; all as part of one travel experience …
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Girls and the Silhouette of Form – Star Zahra
₦5,000.00Beneath this austere appearance of simplicity in Star Zahra’s Girls and the Silhouette of Form, come flashes of an otherworldliness, sudden unearthly transports, mingled with the unassumingness of a child at play. Alluring dream images juxtapose with broken scenes of reality, clothed with the fascinating language of self-grown metaphors.
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Like Butterflies Scattered about by Art Rascals: Poems – Umar Abubakar Sidi
₦5,000.00There is a luminescence of words in Umar’s sophomore collection of poetry, an audacity to employ poetic license without boundaries; a rascality, sometimes verging on creative mischief, to explore all perceptive and expressive possibilities. To probe, using the language as pathfinder, through dense uncharted regions of experience.
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Moby Dick – Herman Melville
₦15,000.00Moby Dick is the story of Captain Ahab’s quest to avenge the whale that ‘reaped’ his leg. Among the crew is Ishmael, the novel’s narrator, ordinary sailor, and extraordinary reader.
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Romeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare
₦16,500.00Romeo and Juliet is a hymn to youth and the thrill of forbidden love, charged with sexual passion and violence, but also a warning of death: a dazzling combination of bawdy comedy and high tragedy. Used and Recommended by the National Theatre
General Editor Stanley Wells
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The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats – William Butler Yeats
₦16,000.00With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. Yeats was Romantic and Modernist, mystical dreamer and leader of the Irish Literary Revival, Nobel prizewinner, dramatist and, above all, poet.
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The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth – William Wordsworth
₦16,000.00With an Introduction by Antonia Till. His remarkable autobiographical poem ‘The Prelude’ was completed in 1805, but was not published until after his death, and it is included in this full edition of Wordsworth’s poetry.
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The Epic of Gilgamesh – Translated by Andrew George
₦17,500.00The story tells of Gilgamesh’s adventures with the wild man Enkidu, and of his arduous journey to the ends of the earth in quest of the Babylonian Noah and the secret of immortality. Alongside its themes of family, friendship and the duties of kings, The Epic of Gilgamesh is, above all, about mankind’s eternal struggle with the fear of death.
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The Flame – Leonard Cohen
₦27,000.00Featuring poems, excerpts from his private notebooks, lyrics, and hand-drawn self-portraits, The Flame offers an intimate look inside the life and mind of a singular artist. A reckoning with a life lived deeply and passionately, with wit and panache, this collection is a valedictory work.
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The Iliad – Homer
₦14,000.00With an Introduction and Notes by Adam Roberts, Royal Holloway, University of London. In muscular, onward-rolling verse Chapman retells the story of Achilles, the great warrior, and his terrible wrath before the walls of besieged Troy, and the destruction it wreaks on both Greeks and Trojans.
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The Inferno – Dante Alighieri
₦15,000.00Cary With an Introduction by Claire Honess. The Comedy tells the story of the journey of a character who is at one and the same time both Dante himself and Everyman.
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The Mystic Of Small Dreams – Romeo Oriogun
₦6,000.00The Mystic of Small Dreams chronicles the movement of migrants as they navigate borders both internal and external. In The Mystic of Small Dreams, Oriogun, one of Africa’s most important contemporary poets have written a book that is heavy with lyrical beauty and profound emotions.
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The Odyssey – Homer
₦14,000.00Homer’s great epic describes the many adventures of Odysseus, Greek warrior, as he strives over many years to return to his home island of Ithaca after the Trojan War. Chapman believed himself inspired by the spirit of Homer himself, and matches the breadth and power of the original with a complex and stunning idiom of his own.
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The Poems & Sonnets of William Shakespeare – William Shakespeare
₦16,000.00They divide into two parts; the first 126 sonnets are addressed to a fair youth for whom the poet has an obsessive love and the second chronicles his love for the notorious ‘Dark Lady’. In addition to the sonnets, this volume includes Shakespeare’s two lengthy narrative poems on classical themes, The Rape of Lucrece which looks forward to the dark…
