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Matthew Arnold
Poetical Works
Wandering between two worlds, one dead,
The other powerless to be born,
With nowhere yet to rest my head,
Like these, on earth I wait forlorn.
Their faith, my tears, the world deride —
I come to shed them at their side.
Matthew Arnold’s poems are intimate and delicate, while still maintaining the dignity and clarity of thought we know from his critical work. With a masterful use of diction and clear rhythmical structures, some of his poems are among the best Victorian poetry has to offer. ‘Dover Beach,’ arguably his most famous piece, is widely anthologised and speaks to a modern desolation almost anticipating the early twentieth century.
This new edition contains the entirety of Matthew Arnold’s œuvre, from his 1849 collection The Strayed Reveller and Other Poems, to New Poems from 1867, and other poems not gathered in collections.

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Imprint: Cardenio Press Ltd
Published: 20/09/2021
ISBN: 978 1 8383574 9 8
Length: 541 Pages
Dimensions: 195mm x 26mm x 129mm
Weight: 280gm
RRP: £25

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Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
OLIVER TWIST needs little introduction; it remains one of the most popular and widely read classics of all time. This new edition from Cardenio, with reproductions of the original illustrations by George Cruikshank, follows the exact text with which Dickens first introduced the story of Oliver Twist, publishing it in serial form in Bentley’s Miscellany between February 1837 and April 1839. The Bentley edition is the only edition in which Dickens, famously, in the very opening line of the novel, lets us know the town of Oliver Twist’s birth, by assigning it the fictitious name he had invented as the location for his anthology of stories known as The Mudfog Papers. Shocking in its revelations of a seedy underworld teeming with ruthless characters such as the arch-villain Fagin and Bill Sikes, Oliver Twist is the first of Dickens’ novels to speak out against the deplorable inhumanity of Victorian society.
Imprint: Cardenio Press Ltd
Published: 20/09/2021
ISBN: 978 1 8383574 1 2
Length: 519 Pages
Dimensions: 195mm x 26mm x 129mm
Weight: 257gm
RRP: £12.99
