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Bronte Poems by Emily Brontë; Peter Washington
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
Emily Bronte's poems throw fascinating light on both her life and her work. Many were written for inclusion in the prose epic about the mythical land of Gondal that she co-authored with her sister Anne and, although the epic is lost, the poems survive.
COMIC POEMS by Peter Washington (Editor)
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
This treasury of humorous poems brings together a sparkling constellation of witty poets-from Lord Rochester to Lewis Carroll, from Edward Lear to Ogden Nash, from Dorothy Parker to W. H. Auden-and embraces a wide range of forms, including limericks, clerihews, ballads, sonnets, and nonsense verse. Comi ...Show more
Comic Verse by Peter Washington
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
This anthology of comic verse is drawn from sources which range from the Greek Anthology to the present day. Divided into thematic sections (to be determined) for case of use, it covers a wide range of forms including limericks, clerihews, ballads, sonnets and nonsense verse. The prevailing tone is ligh ...Show more
DETECTIVE STORIES by WASHINGTON PETER
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS Ser.
This is a glorious collection of some of the best sleuths in the business. It includes creators such as Poe and Conan Doyle to Hammet, Christie, Chandler, Rendell and Rankin.
Detective Stories by Peter Washington
Category: Short Stories | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
Now, in the appealing and collectible Pocket Classics format, an anthology of beloved, classic detective stories--riveting and irresistibly addictive tales of crimes and those who unravel them. Beginning with modern masters such as Sara Paretsky, Ruth Rendell, and Ian Rankin, this collection works its w ...Show more
Emerson: Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson; Peter Washington (Editor)
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
"Known for challenging traditional thought and for his faith in the individual, Emerson was the chief spokesman for the Transcendentalist movement. His poems speak to his most passionately held belief- that external authority should be disregarded in favor of one's own experience. From the embattled far ...Show more
Erotic Poems by Everyman Staff; Peter Washington
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
Intended to follow on from and complement Love Poems - also part of the Everyman's Pocket Poets series - this book contains a selection of erotic verse. The emphasis is on the tender, sensuous, witty and passionate aspects of erotic poetry.
Friendship Poems by Peter Washington
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
A companion to Love Poems and Erotic Poems, this selection draws on literature of many periods and languages to illuminate aspects of friendship, ranging from social acquaintance through personal devotion to estrangement and antipathy.
Ghost Stories by Peter Washington (Editor)
Category: Short Stories | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Ser.
A new anthology of classic ghost stories--the second volume in the beautiful and collectible Pocket Classics format. The chilling classic stories gathered here offer a remarkable variety of approaches to the theme of haunting. Revenge comes from beyond the grave in Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Body ...Show more
Hardy Poems by Thomas Hardy; Peter Washington
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
Distinguished as both a great novelist and a great poet, Thomas Hardy's writing career spanned more than 60 years. A master of the short lyric and the vivid narrative, Hardy is the poet of remembrance and tender regret; but he is also an ironist with sharp observations of human frailty.
Kipling: Poems by Peter Washington (Editor); Rudyard Kipling
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
Beloved for his fanciful and engrossing children's literature, controversial for his enthusiasm for British imperialism, Rudyard Kipling remains one of the most widely read writers of Victorian and modern English literature. In addition to writing more than two dozen works of fiction, including Kim and ...Show more
Love Letters by Peter Washington
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Pocket Poets Ser.
This is a collection of some of the greatest love letters of all time, from 200 of the world's most articulate lovers. Love letters both historic and fictional, tragic and comic; love letters written by both poets and princes; and each one enchanting.