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Constantine Cavafy: A New Biography
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025
ISBN 10: 0374610428 ISBN 13: 9780374610425
Language: English
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Constantine Cavafy A New Biogr
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025
ISBN 10: 0374610428 ISBN 13: 9780374610425
Language: English
Seller: World of Books (was SecondSale), Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Condition: Good. Good condition ex-library book with usual library markings and stickers.
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Constantine Cavafy: A New Biography
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025
ISBN 10: 0374610428 ISBN 13: 9780374610425
Language: English
Condition: very_good. This book is in Very Good condition. The cover and pages have minor shelf wear. Binding is tight and pages are intact.
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Constantine Cavafy : A New Biography
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025
ISBN 10: 0374610428 ISBN 13: 9780374610425
Language: English
Condition: New.
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Constantine Cavafy : A New Biography
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025
ISBN 10: 0374610428 ISBN 13: 9780374610425
Language: English
Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.
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Constantine Cavafy: A New Biography
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025
ISBN 10: 0374610428 ISBN 13: 9780374610425
Language: English
Seller: Strand Book Store, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good.
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Constantine Cavafy: A New Biography
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025
ISBN 10: 0374610428 ISBN 13: 9780374610425
Language: English
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Constantine Cavafy: A New Biography
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025
ISBN 10: 0374610428 ISBN 13: 9780374610425
Language: English
Condition: New.
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Alexandrian Sphinx
Seller: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Ireland
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Constantine Cavafy
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025
ISBN 10: 0374610428 ISBN 13: 9780374610425
Language: English
Hardback. Condition: New.
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Constantine Cavafy: A New Biography
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux August 2025, 2025
ISBN 10: 0374610428 ISBN 13: 9780374610425
Language: English
Hardcover. Condition: New.
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Alexandrian Sphinx
Published by Simon and Schuster Ltd, GB, 2025
ISBN 10: 1398551236 ISBN 13: 9781398551237
Language: English
Seller: Rarewaves.com USA, London, LONDO, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardback. Condition: New. A gripping and revealing new biography of one of the greatest of modern poets, the queer, Greek-Egyptian Constantine Cavafy, whose admirers have ranged from E.M. Forster, T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf to Jackie Onassis, Leonard Cohen and Stephen Fry.'A deeply researched and engaging biography. Jeffreys and Jusdanis brilliantly recreate Cavafy's world' - Guardian'A nuanced and original portrait' - Literary Review'A richly detailed and clear-sighted account of Cavafy's life and work' - The Spectator'Melancholy and majesty. . . [an] extraordinary life story' - New Statesman'This thematically organised study restores to full and vivid life the writer' - The New WorldIn this illuminating book, Peter Jeffreys and Gregory Jusdanis reveal Cavafy as a troubled, brilliant poet who sacrificed love for his art and changed the course of world poetry. Alexandrian Sphinx chronicles the extraordinary story of his family, the vicissitudes of their fortunes, and their eventual poverty when they left Egypt and moved to Liverpool, London and Istanbul. As the poet reached adulthood, his story centred on his beloved Alexandria, the city that nourished his imagination and became for him a metaphor of both his poetry and modern life. Deep archival research uncovers the poet's relationships with his teenage companions, his friends of middle age, and the individuals whom in later life he enlisted in his steadfast pursuit of fame.Alexandrian Sphinx tells not only of Cavafy's life but of his work and his artistic journey, from his early poetic experiments to his startling reinvention in middle age, when he renounced much of what he had written and developed a radical new poetics. Erotic, philosophical, and linguistically suggestive, this widely imitated yet singular style is now recognized and revered as Cavafian.
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Alexandrian Sphinx
Published by Simon and Schuster Ltd, GB, 2025
ISBN 10: 1398551236 ISBN 13: 9781398551237
Language: English
Hardback. Condition: New. A gripping and revealing new biography of one of the greatest of modern poets, the queer, Greek-Egyptian Constantine Cavafy, whose admirers have ranged from E.M. Forster, T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf to Jackie Onassis, Leonard Cohen and Stephen Fry.'A deeply researched and engaging biography. Jeffreys and Jusdanis brilliantly recreate Cavafy's world' - Guardian'A nuanced and original portrait' - Literary Review'A richly detailed and clear-sighted account of Cavafy's life and work' - The Spectator'Melancholy and majesty. . . [an] extraordinary life story' - New Statesman'This thematically organised study restores to full and vivid life the writer' - The New WorldIn this illuminating book, Peter Jeffreys and Gregory Jusdanis reveal Cavafy as a troubled, brilliant poet who sacrificed love for his art and changed the course of world poetry. Alexandrian Sphinx chronicles the extraordinary story of his family, the vicissitudes of their fortunes, and their eventual poverty when they left Egypt and moved to Liverpool, London and Istanbul. As the poet reached adulthood, his story centred on his beloved Alexandria, the city that nourished his imagination and became for him a metaphor of both his poetry and modern life. Deep archival research uncovers the poet's relationships with his teenage companions, his friends of middle age, and the individuals whom in later life he enlisted in his steadfast pursuit of fame.Alexandrian Sphinx tells not only of Cavafy's life but of his work and his artistic journey, from his early poetic experiments to his startling reinvention in middle age, when he renounced much of what he had written and developed a radical new poetics. Erotic, philosophical, and linguistically suggestive, this widely imitated yet singular style is now recognized and revered as Cavafian.
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Constantine Cavafy
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025
ISBN 10: 0374610428 ISBN 13: 9780374610425
Language: English
Seller: Rarewaves.com USA, London, LONDO, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardback. Condition: New.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 534pp, with 31 b&w plates. A Fine (New) 1st Impression copy in Fine dust wrapper - please see five pictures attached for a closer look. Carefully packaged and dispatched within 24 hours.
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Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 560 pages. 6.02x1.48x9.21 inches. In Stock.
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Constantine Cavafy : A New Biography
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025
ISBN 10: 0374610428 ISBN 13: 9780374610425
Language: English
Seller: GreatBookPricesUK, Woodford Green, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.
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Constantine Cavafy : A New Biography
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025
ISBN 10: 0374610428 ISBN 13: 9780374610425
Language: English
Seller: GreatBookPricesUK, Woodford Green, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Condition: New.
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Alexandrian Sphinx
ISBN 10: 1398551236 ISBN 13: 9781398551237
Language: English
Seller: GreatBookPricesUK, Woodford Green, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Condition: New.
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Constantine Cavafy: A New Biography
Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2025
ISBN 10: 0374610428 ISBN 13: 9780374610425
Language: English
Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 544 pages. 9.01x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.
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Constantine Cavafy: A New Biography
Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2025
ISBN 10: 0374610428 ISBN 13: 9780374610425
Language: English
Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 544 pages. 9.01x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.
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Alexandrian Sphinx
ISBN 10: 1398551236 ISBN 13: 9781398551237
Language: English
Seller: GreatBookPricesUK, Woodford Green, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.
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Constantine Cavafy: A New Biography
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2025
ISBN 10: 0374610428 ISBN 13: 9780374610425
Language: English
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st US Edition. "The first biography in nearly fifty years of the greatest Greek poet of the twentieth century" This long-awaited study captures the complexities of Constantine Cavafy's life and work, showing him to have been a troubled, brilliant poet who sacrificed love for his art. In rich detail, Gregory Jusdanis and Peter Jeffreys chronicle the young poet's life with his family, the vicissitudes of their fortunes, and their eventual poverty after they left Egypt and moved successively to Liverpool, London, and Istanbul. The biography then centers on Constantine's adulthood in his beloved Alexandria, the city that nourished his imagination and became for him a metaphor for modern life. Deep archival research uncovers the poet's relationships with his teenage companions, his friends of middle age, and the individuals whom in later life he enlisted in his steadfast pursuit of fame.534p.+ Plates. copious notes [pages 429-486] bibliography, index. inscribed by author. Inscribed by Author(s).
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Constantine Cavafy
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025
ISBN 10: 0374610428 ISBN 13: 9780374610425
Language: English
hardcover. Condition: New. Special order item direct from the distributor.
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Constantine Cavafy
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025
ISBN 10: 0374610428 ISBN 13: 9780374610425
Language: English
Hardback. Condition: New.
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Alexandrian Sphinx
Published by Simon and Schuster Ltd, GB, 2025
ISBN 10: 1398551236 ISBN 13: 9781398551237
Language: English
Hardback. Condition: New. A gripping and revealing new biography of one of the greatest of modern poets, the queer, Greek-Egyptian Constantine Cavafy, whose admirers have ranged from E.M. Forster, T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf to Jackie Onassis, Leonard Cohen and Stephen Fry.'A deeply researched and engaging biography. Jeffreys and Jusdanis brilliantly recreate Cavafy's world' - Guardian'A nuanced and original portrait' - Literary Review'A richly detailed and clear-sighted account of Cavafy's life and work' - The Spectator'Melancholy and majesty. . . [an] extraordinary life story' - New Statesman'This thematically organised study restores to full and vivid life the writer' - The New WorldIn this illuminating book, Peter Jeffreys and Gregory Jusdanis reveal Cavafy as a troubled, brilliant poet who sacrificed love for his art and changed the course of world poetry. Alexandrian Sphinx chronicles the extraordinary story of his family, the vicissitudes of their fortunes, and their eventual poverty when they left Egypt and moved to Liverpool, London and Istanbul. As the poet reached adulthood, his story centred on his beloved Alexandria, the city that nourished his imagination and became for him a metaphor of both his poetry and modern life. Deep archival research uncovers the poet's relationships with his teenage companions, his friends of middle age, and the individuals whom in later life he enlisted in his steadfast pursuit of fame.Alexandrian Sphinx tells not only of Cavafy's life but of his work and his artistic journey, from his early poetic experiments to his startling reinvention in middle age, when he renounced much of what he had written and developed a radical new poetics. Erotic, philosophical, and linguistically suggestive, this widely imitated yet singular style is now recognized and revered as Cavafian.
