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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
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
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
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
Mozart's Letters by Michael Rose; Peter Washington (Editor); W. A. Mozart; Michael Rose (Editor)
Category: Performing Arts
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ranks high among letter writers of any age or occupation, and the 1200 or so surviving letters of Mozart and his family form the most fascinating correspondence by any artist of the 18th century or earlier. This volume includes letters from his father, a dominant but loving paren ...Show more
Persian Poems by Peter Washington (Editor)
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
Still little known in the West, Persian poetry offers extraordinary riches. While celebrating the beauty of the world in poems about love, wine and poetry itself, or telling anecdotes of everyday life, Persian poetry set these themes in the wider religious and philosophical context of Islam. Omar, Rumi, ...Show more
Poems of Food and Drink by Peter Washington (Editor)
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
Eating and drinking and the rituals that go with them are at least as important as loving in most peopleâe(tm)s lives, yet for every hundred anthologies of poems about love, hardly one is devoted to the pleasures of the table. Poems of Food and Drink abundantly fills the gap. All kinds of foods and beve ...Show more
Rumi: Poems by Peter Washington (Editor); Jalal Al-Din Rumi
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
The poetry of the medieval Persian sage Rumi combines lyrical beauty with spiritual profundity, a sense of rapture, and acute awareness of human suffering in ways that speak directly to contemporary audiences. Trained in Sufism--a mystic tradition within Islam--Rumi founded the Sufi order known to us ...Show more
Sanditon and Other Stories (Everyman's Library) by Jane Austen; Peter Washington (Editor, Introduction by)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Everyman Library Classics Ser.
In time for the highly-awaited TV series, a new edition of Jane Austen's delightful final work, set in a newly established seaside resort with a glorious cast of hypochondriacs and speculators In the final months of Jane Austen's life, she began work on a new novel about social drama in the small seasi ...Show more
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