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SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM THE SONNETS

Designed to appeal to the book lover  the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of
beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth
printed on high quality paper  and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges  Macmillan
Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. This edition features an afterword by Peter
Harness.    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.   The Sonnets of William Shakespeare  a cycle of 154
linked poems first published in 1609  are reproduced in full in this Macmillan Collector's
Library edition. Filled with ideas about love  beauty and mortality  the sonnets are written in
the same beautiful and innovative language that we have come to know from Shakespeare's plays.
The first 126 sonnets are addressed to a young man known as the 'Fair Youth'  while others are
directed at a 'Rival Poet'  and a 'Dark Lady'.

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