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Bronte Poems by Emily Brontë; Peter Washington
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
Emily Bronte's poems throw fascinating light on both her life and her work. Many were written for inclusion in the prose epic about the mythical land of Gondal that she co-authored with her sister Anne and, although the epic is lost, the poems survive.
Comic Verse by Peter Washington
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
This anthology of comic verse is drawn from sources which range from the Greek Anthology to the present day. Divided into thematic sections (to be determined) for case of use, it covers a wide range of forms including limericks, clerihews, ballads, sonnets and nonsense verse. The prevailing tone is ligh ...Show more
DETECTIVE STORIES by WASHINGTON PETER
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS Ser.
This is a glorious collection of some of the best sleuths in the business. It includes creators such as Poe and Conan Doyle to Hammet, Christie, Chandler, Rendell and Rankin.
Erotic Poems by Everyman Staff; Peter Washington
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
Intended to follow on from and complement Love Poems - also part of the Everyman's Pocket Poets series - this book contains a selection of erotic verse. The emphasis is on the tender, sensuous, witty and passionate aspects of erotic poetry.
Friendship Poems by Peter Washington
$32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
A companion to Love Poems and Erotic Poems, this selection draws on literature of many periods and languages to illuminate aspects of friendship, ranging from social acquaintance through personal devotion to estrangement and antipathy.
Hardy Poems by Thomas Hardy; Peter Washington
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
Distinguished as both a great novelist and a great poet, Thomas Hardy's writing career spanned more than 60 years. A master of the short lyric and the vivid narrative, Hardy is the poet of remembrance and tender regret; but he is also an ironist with sharp observations of human frailty.
Love Letters by Peter Washington
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Pocket Poets Ser.
This is a collection of some of the greatest love letters of all time, from 200 of the world's most articulate lovers. Love letters both historic and fictional, tragic and comic; love letters written by both poets and princes; and each one enchanting.
Love Poems by WASHINGTON PETER
$21.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
A collection of poems about love and romance by famous poets from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries.
Love Poems by Everyman Staff; Peter Washington; World Collect Staff
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Pocket Poets Ser.
"It has often been said that love, both sacred and profane, is the only true subject of the lyric poem. Nothing better justifies this claim than the splendid poems in this volume, which range from the writings of ancient China to those of modern-day America and represent, at its most piercing, a univers ...Show more
Love Songs and Sonnets by Peter Washington
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Love Songs and Sonnets includes Ronsard's famous sonnets to Helene, Dorothy Parker's sardonic reflections on men and Anne Bradstreet's touching poem "To my Husband ...Show more
Mozart's Letters by Michael Rose; Peter Washington (Editor); W. A. Mozart; Michael Rose (Editor)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Music
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)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | 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