Jamaica Inn
3.690 kr.She was a woman, and for no reason in heaven or earth she loved him. He had kissed her, and she was bound to him for ever. On a bitter November evening, Mary Yellan crosses the windswept Cornish moors to seek revenge with her Aunt Patience at Jamaica Inn.
But the crumbling inn is no safe haven, and Patience is a changed woman, cowering before her domineering husband Joss. In fear of her life, and disturbed by her powerful attraction to Joss’s younger brother, Mary is soon plunged into a brutal world of smuggling and murder in which she can trust no one – not even herself.
If Not, Winter: Fragments Of Sappho
4.690 kr.The definitive complete translation of Sappho, by one of the world’s greatest living poetsNot much is known about Sappho, the great poetess of Ancient Greece. Her relationships, her queerness, her family, her death – all these details are hazy, lost to time. Likewise, of the nine scrolls of lyrics Sappho is said to have composed during her life on the island of Lebsos, only one poem has survived complete – the rest are fragments.
In If Not, Winter, Anne Carson has collected and translated all the surviving fragments of Sappho’s verse. With the original Greek parallel to each poem, Carson leaves brackets and white space to signal the gaps where text has been lost to time – allowing us to imagine the poems as they were written. With her singular style and extensive translator’s notes, Carson pieces together the voice of Sappho. And through her, Sappho’s reflections on love and desire, suitors and rivals, goddesses and daughters, echo through millennia.