The Sonnets and a Lover’s Complaint: The Sonnets and a Lover’s Complaint (Clothbound Classics) (Penguin Clothbound Classics)
£13.50£16.10 (-16%)
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.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Penguin Classics, Annotated edition (1 Oct. 2009) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Hardcover | 272 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 9780141192574 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0141192574 |
| Dimensions | 13.72 x 2.54 x 20.57 cm |
by Michelle O’Shea
Lovely book
by Georgia
Very pleased with this book, totally recommend
by Georgia
Orange paint keeps peeling off but apart from that a great copy
by Liberty
Nice book and good quality but the sticker took some of the design off
by Matt
To start, for the price you’ll be hard pushed to find an equally pleasing copy of Shakespeare’s Sonnets. Penguin has done an excellent job on it’s ‘Clothbound Classics’ series, but this particular book stands out among them. The cover art is excellent, a classic floral design on a deep red background. Another positive aspect of this book is that it makes a wonderful gift to an avid reader as a vegetarian doesn’t want to own leather-bound books (My significant other for example). This book looks brilliant when on a bookshelf alongside others of the series, (Wuthering Heights, Great Expectation, Emma etc etc) as they all share similar cover art. The only bad thing I have to say about this series of books, isn’t technically a fault of their own. As with most books they have a sticker on the back cover with a bar code and retail price attached, but due to the delicate nature of the artwork on the covers, if you aren’t very careful when removing this sticker, you can actually peel small pieces of the design off of the book. Despite this small issue I would still highly recommend this product and others in the series to anybody who wants affordable yet visually pleasing copies of the classics! 9.8/10
by cruthwyatt
I purchased this edition for a close friend who recently read Sonnet 116 at my wedding, and he absolutely loves it. I am even tempted to buy a copy for myself, as the cover is stunning and the price is impressive. A fitting volume for a remarkable body of work.
by sloom
Saw these books in a book shop in Paris and took a gamble to look for them on Amazon. Happy that I found them, at a good price as well. Great book with lovely material hard cover.
by mary
my only disappointment is i expected the cover to be completely cloth bound, the red section is where as the orange designs are in a plastic material, it takes away the luxury of the book on a visual level. Other than that lovely edition and it has rightfully taken its spot on my bookshelf.