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A Girl in Winter by Philip Larkin
Category: Fiction
Philip Larkin's second novel was first published in 1947. This story of Katherine Lind and Robin Fennel, of winter and summer, of war and peace, of exile and holidays, is memorable for its compassionate precision and for the uncommon and unmistakable distinction of its writing.
Collected Poems by Philip Larkin
Category: Gift
One of the best-known and best-loved poets of the English-speaking world, Philip Larkin had only a small number of poems published during his lifetime. "Collected Poems" brings together not only all his books--"The North Ship," "The Less Deceived," "The Whitsun Weddings," and "High Windows-"-but also hi ...Show more
High Windows by Philip Larkin
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Larkin's final collection of poems shows, as does all his best work, his ability to adapt contemporary speech rhythms and everyday vocabulary to subtle metrical patterns and poetic forms. Many of the poems in the collection, which includes some of his best-known pieces ('The Old Fools', 'This Be the Ver ...Show more
High Windows by Philip Larkin
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Larkin's final collection of poems shows, as does all his best work, his ability to adapt contemporary speech rhythms and everyday vocabulary to subtle metrical patterns and poetic forms. Many of the poems in the collection, which includes some of his best-known pieces ("The Old Fools", "This Be the Ver ...Show more
Jill by Philip Larkin
Category: Classic Fiction
Jill is Philip Larkin's first novel, originally published in 1946. A subtle and moving account of a young English undergraduate from the provinces, this portrait of Oxford during the war is now regarded by many critics as a classic of its kind.
Philip Larkin: Letters Home by Philip Larkin
Category: Biography
The last outstanding unpublished facet of Larkin's writing life: his correspondence 'home' to his father, mother and sister - now in paperback. Letters Home gives access to the last major archive of Larkin's writing to remain unpublished: the letters to members of his family. These correspondences help ...Show more
Philip Larkin: Letters Home by Philip Larkin
Category: Biography | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Letters Home gives access to the last major archive of Larkin's writing to remain unpublished: the letters to members of his family. These correspondences help tell the story of how Larkin came to be the writer and the man he was: to his father Sydney, a 'conservative anarchist' and admirer of Hitler, w ...Show more
Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica by Philip Larkin
Category: Poetry
Philip Larkin met Monica Jones at University College Leicester in autumn 1946, when they were both 24, he was the newly-appointed assistant librarian and she was an English lecturer. This title consists of nearly 2000 letters, postcards and telegrams, which chronicle various aspects of Larkin's life and ...Show more
Philip Larkin - Letters to Monica by Philip Larkin; Anthony Thwaite (ed.)
Category: Poetry
Philip Larkin met Monica Jones at University College Leicester in autumn 1946, when they were both twenty-four; he was the newly-appointed assistant librarian and she was an English lecturer. In 1950 Larkin moved to Belfast, and thence to Hull, while Monica remained in Leicester, becoming by turns his c ...Show more
Philip Larkin Poems: Selected by Martin Amis by Philip Larkin
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
For the first time, Faber publish a selection from the poetry of Philip Larkin. Drawing on Larkin's four collections and on his uncollected poems. Chosen by Martin Amis. "Many poets make us smile; how many poets make us laugh - or, in that curious phrase, "laugh out loud" (as if there's another way of d ...Show more
Philip Larkin: The Sunday Sessions by Philip Larkin
Category: Poetry
"The Sunday Sessions" consists of twenty-six poems, the contents of two tapes recorded by Philip Larkin in Hull in February 1980 - reportedly, each on a Sunday, after lunch with John Weeks, a sound engineer and colleague of the poet. The tapes, which contain work from Larkin's first major collection, "T ...Show more
Selected Letters of Philip Larkin - 1940-1985 by Philip Larkin; Philip Larkin; Anthony Thwaite (Editor); B. C. Bloomfield
Category: Biography and Memoir
The enormous popular appeal of Philip Larkin's poetry has long been established; but oddly little is known to his admiring public about the personality behind the work. The Selected Letters will change this, throwing light on a more complex, and in many ways more remarkable, figure than most readers wil ...Show more