Classic Poetry: Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, in a single file, improved 8/18/2010 [Kindle Edition]

Percy Bysshe Shelley (Author), Thomas Hutchinson (Editor)

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The 3-volume Oxford edition, edited by Thomas Huthchinson, in one file. According to Wikipedia: "Percy Bysshe Shelley (August 4, 1792 – July 8, 1822; pronounced /ˈpɝːsɪ ˈbɪʃ ˈʃɛlɪ/[1]) was one of the major English Romantic poets and is widely considered to be among the finest lyric poets of the English language. He is perhaps most famous for such anthology pieces as Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark, and The Masque of Anarchy. However, his major works were long visionary poems including Alastor, Adonais, The Revolt of Islam, Prometheus Unbound and the unfinished The Triumph of Life."

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• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 2752 KB
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Publisher: B&R Samizdat Express (January 9, 2008)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0012IZRC0
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #242,854 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Formatting off, February 15, 2011

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This review is from: Classic Poetry: Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, in a single file, improved 8/18/2010 (Kindle Edition)

The formatting on the 3rd generation Kindle is terrible, lines are cut off in the wrong places. This is mostly just a problem in the biographical portions. When viewed on Kindle for PC everything looks fine, but on the actual device its difficult to read. Tried changing settings but nothing helped.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Book, July 1, 2011

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Kinross Glengarry - See all my reviews

This review is from: Classic Poetry: Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, in a single file, improved 8/18/2010 (Kindle Edition)

The previous reviewer needed to take the type face down to the next to lowest setting to get the proper formating for the lines in this book. The poetry is great, and the typeface is very readable, even in the smaller font. As always, Shelley does not disappoint.

The table of contents does not highlight but if you go to the cover, you will find the table of contents with applicable links to each long poem; other poems are listed by year with the year being linkable. All of Shelley's translations are in one linked section, and another linked section has his juvenalia. This is the Oxford collection of P.B. Shelley's poetical works, as noted in its preface, and so, contains not only the works in Mary Shelley's collection, but others as well.

The reason for 4 stars is not all poems have individual links which makes getting to some of them a little more difficult that one would like.

1.0 out of 5 stars Formatting for Kindle is terrible, July 18, 2011

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larry_darrell "larry_darrell" (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Classic Poetry: Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, in a single file, improved 8/18/2010 (Kindle Edition)

The formatting is atrocious - no one would want to read this on a Kindle unless they played with font etc. for a very long time to get it to look acceptable (and presumably ending up with text that is either too big or too small). Download the sample to see what I mean.