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An enchanting collection of stories from the heartland of India Ruskin Bond’s simple characters, living amidst the lush forests of the Himalayan foothills, are remarkable for their quiet heroism, courage and grace, and age-old values of honesty and fidelity. Residents of nondescript villages...

Doing Time: For the prison writers whose work is included in this anthology, it means more than "serving a sentence"; it means staying alive and sane, preserving dignity, reinventing oneself, and somehow retaining one's humanity. For the last quarter century the prestigious writers' organization PEN has sponsored a contest for writers behind bars to help prisoners face these challenges. The contest honors the best short stories, plays, essays, and poems among hundreds submitted annually by men and women nationwide.

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UNA EXTRAORDINARIA SELECCIÓN DE OBRAS ESENCIALES, EN SU MAYORÍA INÉDITAS, QUE CELEBRAN LA FUERZA, EL TALENTO Y LA DIVERSIDAD DE LAS MUJERES LATINAS, Y TIENDEN PUENTES QUE NOS CONECTAN LAS UNAS CON LAS OTRAS. Desde la prosa implacable de sor Juana Inés de la Cruz hasta los poderosos cantos de...

Gothic master Edgar Allan Poe's complete works are collected in this multivolume set by Blackstone Audio. Here are his short stories, detective fiction, and poems in all their mysterious and macabre glory. Also included are Poe's literary reviews and editorial musings, comprising an often caustic analysis of the poetry, drama, and fiction of the period.

A selection illustrating the breathtaking variety of Byron’s poetry. Read by Linus Roache, star of the critically acclaimed film Wings of the Dove, this collection includes She Walks in Beauty, The Destruction of Sennacherib, The Vision of Judgment and selections from Childe Harold, The...

Brought to you by Penguin. Dancing by the Light of the Moon, a collection of poetry to last you a lifetime - poems that will bring you joy, solace, celebration and love for every occasion Includes an updated chapter of poems to bring you hope and happiness this year A POEM CAN . . . Comfort ·...

Delight in the most wonderful time of the year with a collection of old-fashioned works from classic authors including L. M. Montgomery, Louisa May Alcott, Charles Dickens, and many more, who invite you to a feast of holiday nostalgia in this beautiful, giftable Christmas collection. Filled with...

Delight in the most wonderful time of the year with a collection of heartwarming and heartfelt Christmas classics in this beautiful, giftable Christmas collection, featuring stories from O. Henry, L. M. Montgomery, Louisa May Alcott, and many more. In this beautifully packaged anthology...

Delight in the most wonderful time of the year with a collection of heartwarming and heartfelt Christmas classics in this beautiful, giftable Christmas collection, featuring stories from Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, and many more. Perhaps no Christmas novel is more beloved than Charles...

Seven At The Sevens is a collection of stories, poems, and thoughts, all exactly seven words long. Among the contributors are a senior Harvard executive, a senior software engineer from MIT, a classically trained musician, a securities trader and entrepreneur, a psychologist as well as a scientist for Harvard Medical School, and a world-renowned biomedical researcher from Cornell who has focused the past 30 years of his life on studying Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases.

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe (1809 – 1849), The Raven Edition, presents his complete literary output in five volumes. Although best known for his works of macabre fiction, Poe also had a deep interest in scientific discovery and speculative philosophy. This volume contains stories about wild and wonderful experiments and other objects of public curiosity, and essays about language and thought.

A unique collection of original Australian bush ballads and the stories that inspired them. Waltzing Australia is a wonderful celebration of the Australian bush and the people who live there, written by a gifted storyteller who has spent much of his life working on the land. Featuring 50 poems and stories that tell of the heartbreak, humour and hard yakka that come with living and working in the bush - many of which were written on long days droving sheep and cattle or on the back of a motorbike.

The G.K. Chesterton Classics Collection brings together some of the most celebrated works of one of the 20th century's most influential writers, spanning his diverse contributions to detective fiction, theology, storytelling, and poetry. This richly illustrated edition includes key works such as The Innocence of Father Brown, featuring the iconic amateur detective whose sharp intellect and moral insight unravel complex mysteries; Orthodoxy, Chesterton's profound defense of Christian faith; and The Ballad of the White Horse, a lyrical epic about King Alfred the Great.

William Wordsworth was amongst the greatest of English Poets. Included here are selections that put into perspective his great talent. The works are brought beautifully to life by Sir Cedric Hardwicke.

Ugo Foscolo esprime tutte le vicissitudini esistenziali di uno scrittore alle prese con gli anni difficili del mutamento dall'Illuminismo al Romanticismo, dalla Rivoluzione Francese alla Restaurazione, dal materialismo del 1700 all'angoscia religiosa dei romantici. Foscolo ha dato voce ad una fede tutta terrena e laica basata sui più alti valori umani di verità, giustizia, bellezza, patriottismo e libertà.

Lass Liebe Deine Welt regieren. Wenn die Blitze Dein Herz taumeln lassen, wenn der Abgrund Dich ruft und alles Glück verloren scheint, dann trage ich Dich auf den Flügeln meiner Liebe. Koste vom Glück, entdecke das verborgene Licht und spüre den Sommerregenduft. "Ich trage Dich auf Flügeln" lässt Herzen höherschlagen und passt gut auf das Kopfkissen eines geliebten Menschen.

Egal ob Weihnachtsschmaus oder Bescherung, Silvester oder Wintersport – Joachim Ringelnatz hat für jedes Ereignis der kalten Jahreszeit ein passendes Gedicht geschrieben. Die Mischung aus witzigen Begebenheiten, scharfzüngiger Gesellschaftskritik, melancholischen Naturbeobachtungen und lautmalerischen Vergnügen stellt die große Vielseitigkeit des Autors zur Schau. Ringelnatz’ rhythmische Reimspiele wecken besinnliche Vorfreude und erinnern daran, wie schön es ist, an den Feiertagen mit seinen Liebsten zusammenzukommen.

Fiction, poetry, and music come together to create something new: Verb. Original stories and poems you won't find anywhere else, by the best writers in the country, brought to you in an innovative format. Verb is the ancient oral tradition and the venerable literary magazine combined into a fresh new package: the audioquarterly.

Christmas may come but once a year but human emotions, the driving force of our characters, are with us every day. Yet, somehow these same emotions when they happen at Christmas seem amplified; we seem more tender to their touch, their words. In this volume we take the verse and poems of our classic poets and put them alongside our short story masters to reveal a Christmas that everyone remembers and that everyone wants to be part of.