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Poems of Healing by Karl Kirchwey (Editor)
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
A remarkable Pocket Poets anthology of poems from around the world and across the centuries about illness and healing, both physical and spiritual. From ancient Greece and Rome up to the present moment, poets have responded with sensitivity and insight to the troubles of the human body and mind. Poe ...Show more
Poems of Paris by Emily Fragos (Editor)
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
Perhaps no other European city has so captured the poetic imagination as Paris. Poems of Paris spans the centuries from the Renaissance to the present, and includes a pantheon of French (and Francophone) poets - Ronsard, Deschamps, Villon, Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Verlaine, Apollinaire, Paul Eluard, Robert ...Show more
Prague Stories by Richard Bassett (Editor)
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS Ser.
The Golden City of Prague has long been an intellectual centre of the western world. The writers collected here range from the early nineteenth century to the present and include both Prague natives and visitors from elsewhere. Here are stories, legends, and scenes from the city's past and present, from ...Show more
Railway Children by NESBIT E
Category: Classics | Series: Everymans Library Childrens Classics
Edith Nesbit wrote with supreme confidence about the lives of children and Roberta, Peter, and Phyllis, the trio in The Railway Children, reflect her faith in the resourcefulness, capacity for adventure, and instinctive heroism of the young. This edition of her most popular book restores the splendid or ...Show more
Rumi: Unseen Poems by Rumi
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
Rumi- Unseen Poems - the second volume of Rumi in the Everyman Pocket Poet series - is a treasury of poems which have never been translated before, researched and translated by Rumi biographer Brad Gooch and the Iranian writer Maryam Mortaz. The thirteenth-century Persian poet Rumi was trained in Sufism ...Show more
Sondheim: Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; Peter Gethers (Editor); Russell Perreault (Editor)
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
A beautiful Pocket Poets hardcover selection of the most memorable and beloved lyrics of Stephen Sondheim. Legendary composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim made his Broadway debut with West Side Story in 1957 at the age of twenty-seven. His remarkable and wide-ranging career has spanned more than si ...Show more
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
Category: Classics | Series: Everymans Library
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Introduction by David Ellis The struggle for power at the heart of a family in conflict, the mysteries of sexual initiation, and the pain of irretrievable loss are the universal motifs with which D. H. Lawrence fashions one of the world's most original autobiographical nov ...Show more
The Adventures of Robin Hood by Roger Lancelyn Green
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Everyman's library children's classics | Reading Level: From 2 to 12
Recounts the life and adventures of Robin Hood, who, with his band of followers, lived as an outlaw in Sherwood Forest dedicated to fighting tyranny.
The Best Medicine - Stories of Healing by Theodore Dalrymple (Editor)
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
This unique collection of medical stories approaches its theme from many eras and perspectives. Some of the authors included were themselves physicians, notably Chekhov, Conan Doyle, Somerset Maugham and William Carlos Williams. Bulgakov, too, draws on his own experience as a doctor in rural Russia a ce ...Show more
The Collected Works by Kahlil Gibran
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) For the first time, all the major works of this beloved writer are gathered together in one hardcover volume. Poet, artist, and mystic, Kahlil Gibran was born in 1883 to a poor Christian family in Lebanon and immigrated to the United States as an adolescent. His masterpiec ...Show more
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Alexandre Dumas's epic novel of justice, retribution, and self-discovery--one of the most enduringly popular adventure tales ever written--in a newly revised translation. This beloved novel tells the story of Edmond Dantes, wrongfully imprisoned for life in the supposedly ...Show more
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library
This splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante's great poem of penance and hope. As Dante ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly Paradise and his beloved Beatrice, through "that second kingdom in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, " al ...Show more