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Series
Genealogist's pocket library volume 1st v
Publisher
Chas. A. Bernau
Pub. Date
1908
Physical Desc
96 p. ; 15 cm.
Language
English
4) The prophet
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A classic, published in 1923, containing 28 prose poems. This edition features twelve full-page mystical drawings by the famous Lebanese poet, philosopher and artist.
5) Silas Marner
Author
Language
English
Description
Falsely accused of theft, Silas Marner is cut off from his community but finds refuge in the village of Raveloe, where he is eyed with distant suspicion. Like a spider from a fairy-tale, Silas fills fifteen monotonous years with weaving and accumulating gold. The son of the wealthy local Squire, Godfrey Cass also seeks an escape from his past. One snowy winter, two events change the course of their lives: Silas's gold is stolen and, a child crawls...
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Meet Asey Mayo, Cape Cod's answer to Sherlock Holmes. Settled down from his former life as a seafaring adventurer, Asey is a Jack-of-all-trades who uses his worldly knowledge, folksy wisdom, and plain common sense to solve the most puzzling crimes to strike the peninsula. And in this, his first case, Asey finds himself embroiled in a scandal that will push his deductive powers to their limits. A massive heatwave is scorching the Northeast, and vacationers...
7) ...Poems
Author
Language
English
Description
Rainer Maria Rilke is perhaps the most import German poet. His powerful and lyrical poetry has, captured generations of readers. Both mystical and compelling his influence cannot be overstated.
Collected here are more than 40 poems, full of beauty and mastery of language. It's not hard to see why Rilke remains one of the most popular and bestselling poets to this very day.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
King Lear is a prosperous but older man who plans to distribute his wealth among his three daughters in accordance to their declarations of love. Two shower him with compliments while the other is unable to participate in a false display of affection.
King Lear decides to step down from the throne and gift his daughters with the spoils of his kingdom. As a test, the size of their inheritance will correlate with how well they flatter him. The two...
9) Thomas Hardy
Author
Series
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
1958
Physical Desc
286 p. 18 cm.
Language
English
10) Poems
Author
Language
English
Description
These Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover editions are popular for their compact size and reasonable price which do not compromise content. Poems: Blake contains a full selection of Blake's work, including Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience, poems from Blake's Ms. book, poems from The Prophetic Books, and an index of first lines.
12) Poems
Author
Language
English
Description
A collection of poems by Soviet poet Anna Akhmatova that explore a wide range of topics related to religion, politics, social injustice, love, loss, and tragedy.
17) Animal poems
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1994
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
From the East and West, from ancient times to modern, from Mei Yu Ch'en on swarming mosquitoes to William Cullen Bryant's solitary waterfowl and Rainer Maria Rilke's enchanted gazelle, from Auden on cats and dogs to James Merrill's vision of the octopus, here are 136 poems that provide access to literature's lyric zoo.
18) Poems
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1994
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
To the nineteenth-century reader, George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824), was the archetype of the Romantic literary hero, a figure admired and emulated as much for the revolutionary panache with which he lived his life as the brio and allure of his verse. Our century has seen him more clearly as a poet whose intellectual toughness, satiric gifts, and utter inability to be boring have made him one of the great comic spirits in our literature.
19) Friendship poems
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
©1995
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
Gathers poems about various aspects of friendship by Walt Whitman, Ben Jonson, Robert Frost, Boris Pasternak, Richard Wilbur, Robert Lowell, Derek Walcott, Alexander Pushkin, and Gerard Manley Hopkins.
20) Poems
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
©1995
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Poems: Auden is just another reminder of his exhilarating lyric power and his understanding of love and longing in all their sacred and profane guises. One of English poetry's great 20th century masters, Poems: Auden is the short collection of an exemplary champion of human wisdom in its encounter with the mysteries...
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