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Kew Guide
The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew boasts more than 325 acres, more than thirty thousand plant species, and more than 1.35 million visitors a year. With so many sights and more than two centuries of history, the Kew Guide is the perfect introduction for anyone wishing for a memorable visit-and a perfect keepsake for those wanting
Lullabies and Poems for Children
In this enchanting collection, favourite bed-time songs for children – `Rock-a-bye, Baby`, `Bye, Baby Bunting`, `Golden Slumbers` – mingle with less familiar lullabies from around the world. Added to these are beautiful lyrics to sing or read to your little ones, from Brahms` `Lullaby` to Gershwin`s `Summertime`; from Shakespeare`s lullaby for the fairy queen Titania
The Art of War
This great Chinese classic is finally presented, in its entirety, with the true elegance and simplicity of which it is worthy. Skillfully worded and carefully edited, this modern translation flows easily across the pages. Uncluttered by the scholarly notes and endless commentary found in other editions, Sun Tzuโ€s wisdom unfolds to todayโ€s reader as if
Solitude
A collection of poems which capture the experience of solitude- by day or night, in the city or in the country, in waking or in dreams. There are contented reveries, expressions of loneliness and despair, reflections on mind and soul, and meditations recorded in the stillness of the night. Poets can be said to be
Rumi Poems
It is often said that Rumi (aka Jalal al-Din, 1207-73) is now the most popular poet in the United States. This conquest of the new world by a middle-eastern medieval writer who died before Chaucer was even born has been achieved with extraordinary speed in less than thirty years. The main key to Rumi`s success
Anna Akhmatova: Poems
From her appearance in a small magazine in 1906 to her death in 1965, Anna Akhmatova was a dominant presence in Russian literary life. But this friend of Pasternak and Mandelstam was a poet in a country where poetry was literally a matter of life and death, as she found when Mandelstam and her own
Four Seasons
Here are poets past and present, from Chaucer, Shakespeare and Wordsworth to Whitman, Dickinson and Thoreau; from Keats, Blake and Hopkins to Elizabeth Bishop, Ted Hughes and Amy Clampitt. Here are poems that speak of the seasons as measures of earthly time or as states of mind or as the physical expressions of the ineffable.
Leonard Cohen Poems
This anthology contains a cross-section covering his career, including such legendary songs as โ€Suzanneโ€, โ€Sisters of Mercyโ€, โ€Bird on the Wireโ€, โ€Famous Blue Raincoatโ€ and โ€I`m Your Manโ€ and searingly memorable poems from many collections including โ€Flowers for Hitlerโ€, โ€Beautiful Losersโ€ and โ€Death of a Lady`s Manโ€. Encompassing the erotic and the melancholy, the mystical
Poems of the American South
The arc of poetry of the South, from slave songs to Confederate hymns to Civil War ballads, from Reconstruction turmoil to the Agrarian movement to the dazzling poetry of the New South, is richly varied and historically vibrant. No other region of the United States has been as mythologized as the South, nor contained as
Nothing Serious
This book contains further stories of members of the Drones Club and several adventures related by the Oldest Member of the golf club. Many old friends reappear – Bingo Little and Mrs Bingo, Freddie Widgeon, Ambrose Gussett, Agnes Flack, Horace Bewstridge and many more. It includes: โ€The Shadow Passesโ€, โ€Bramley is so Bracingโ€, โ€Up From
The Bridge on the Drina
The town of Visegrad was long caught between the warring Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Empires, but its sixteenth-century bridge survived unscathed–until 1914 when tensions in the Balkans triggered the first World War. Spanning generations, nationalities, and creeds, The Bridge on the Drina brilliantly illuminates a succession of lives that swirl around the majestic stone arches. Among
Selected Stories
During his most productive decade, the 1880s, Maupassant wrote more than 300 stories, including `Boule de Suif`, `The Necklace`, `The House of Madame Tellier`, `The Hand`, `The Horla` and `Mademoiselle Fifi`. Marked by the psychological realism that he famously pioneered, the tales in this selection lead us on a tour of the human experience-lust and
