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The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series, now in a dazzling new series design

The Sonnets explore many of Shakespeare's most common themes: jealousy, betrayal, melancholy. They ache with unfulfilled longing, and, for many, they are the most complete and moving meditations on love ever written.

Read Shakespeare's sonnets in all their brilliance--and understand what every word means

Shakespeare's sonnets is the title of a collection of 154 sonnets by William Shakespeare, which covers themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty and mortality. The first 126 sonnets are addressed to a young man; the last 28 to a woman. The sonnets were first published... Read Full Overview

The First-Ever, Fully Illustrated Collector's Edition of William Shakespeare's Celebrated Sonnets

In celebration of the momentous 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death in April 2016, this enhanced edition of Shakepeare's Sonnets features... Read Full Overview

First published in 1609, "The Sonnets" of William Shakespeare are a collection of 154 loosely connected 14 line poems. Considered by many to be among some of the greatest love poetry ever written much debate surrounds the context of the poetry. It has been suggested that the... Read Full Overview

Without a doubt the most important of Shakespeare's nondramatic works, the sonnets have engendered reams of scholarly disputation as to the identity of "the dark lady" and the "lovely boy" to whom the vast majority are addressed. Controversy has also long simmered over the... Read Full Overview

William Shakespeare's immortal sonnets, collected in one volume.

.0000000000The Sonnets of William Shakespeare, a cycle of 154 linked poems, were first published or 'entered' at Stationers' Hall by the publisher Thomas Thorpe on 20th May 1609. This 400th-anniversary edition contains all of the poems and they deal with many of Shakespeare's... Read Full Overview

Sin lugar a dudas el m s importante de obras nondramatic de Shakespeare, los sonetos han engendrado resmas de discusi n acad mica sobre la identidad de "la Dama Oscura" y el "ni o bonito" que la gran mayor a es tratados. Controversia ha tambi n mucho tiempo a fuego lento sobre... Read Full Overview

The Signet Classic Shakespeare Series--the work of the world's greatest dramatist edited by outstanding scholars

A dual language edition of Shakespeare's 154 sonnets with the English version facing the Russian version. A book the world has been waiting for!

A bestselling, beautifully designed edition of William Shakespeare's sonnets, complete with valuable tools for educators.The authoritative edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general... Read Full Overview

T.S. Eliot once wrote that, "Shakespeare gives the greatest width of human passion," and it is this passion that has traditionally made The Sonnets appealing to literati and laymen alike. Surrounded by mystery, these poems of devotion and jealousy, of a young courtier... Read Full Overview