The Waste Land [Facsimile of 1922 First Edition]

Paper quality is cheap and worst

oeuvre intéressante.

spedizione veloce.

Perfecto

I bought this book as an extra to my literary studies seminar and it was really useful. The annotations at the back are a life safer, specially when it comes to analysing Prufrock.

The Waste Land is an incredible poem, almost cinematic in its tone and breadth, longer than some short stories, more intelligent than most books. It doesn't pay to try and describe something that is already so absorbed into the English language. Suffice it to say, I think it is an essential poem, an historical tract in its own right (it captures that post-Great War ambivalence of gratitude for surviving, but being presented with a far from golden future). The kindle edition includes Prufrock and many other famous Eliot poems. Well worth buying for The Waste Land alone, if you don't already own it.