No poetry has touched readers` hearts more deeply than the soldier poets of the First World War. Published to commemorate the centenary of 1914, this stunning set of books, with specially commissioned covers by leading print makers, is an essential gathering of our most beloved war poets introduced by leading poets & biographers of our present day. When Edward Thomas was killed at the Battle of Arras in 1917 his poems were largely unpublished. But in the years since his death, his work has come to be cherished for its rare, sustained vision of the natural world & as `a mirror of England` (Walter de la Mare). This edition, drawn from Thomas` manuscripts & typescripts as well as from his published works, offers an accessible introduction to this most resonant
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When Edward Thomas was killed at the Battle of Arras in 1917 his poems were largely unpublished. But in the years since his death, his work has come to be cherished for its rare, sustained vision of the natural world & as `a mirror of England` (Walter de la Mare). This new edition offers a selection of some of Thomas` most memorable nature poetry. This heart, some fraction of me, happily Floats through the window even now to a tree. Down in the misting, dim-lit, quiet vale, Not like a pewit that returns to wail, For something it has lost, but like a dove That slants unswerving to its home & love. Beauty. ...

This is the perfect gift for Valentine`s Day. Selected Poems contains Neruda`s resonant, exploratory, intensely individualistic verse, rooted in the physical landscape & people of Chile. Here we find sensuous songs of love, tender odes to the sea, melancholy lyrics of heartache, fiery political statements & a frank celebration of sex. This is an enticing, distinctive & celebrated collection of poetry from the greatest twentieth century Latin American poet. ...

This selection provides a perfect introduction to Armitage`s work as well as offering a timely retrospective of one of the brightest stars of contemporary poetry. Made by Simon Armitage himself from his poetry to date, Selected Poems

Includes:: work from six published volumes, from Zoom! (1989) through to the poem commissioned for the Millennium, Killing Time.

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Virginia Woolf tested the boundaries of fiction in these short stories, developing a new language of sensation, feeling & thought, & recreating in words the `swarm & confusion of life`. Defying categorization, the stories range from the more traditional narrative style of ` Solid Objects` through the fragile impressionism of ` Kew Gardens` to the abstract exploration of consciousness in ` The Mark on the Wall`. ...

A new collection of the seminal writings of America`s first naturalist & the founder of the modern conservation movement. AN EVERYMAN`S LIBRARY ORIGINAL. This volume of John Muir`s selected writings chronicles the key turning points in his life & study of the American wilderness. The Story of My Boyhood & Youth is Muir`s account of his childhood on a Wisconsin farm, where his interest in nature was first piqued; in The Mountains of California, The Yosemite, & Travels in Alaska, we follow him on long journeys into stunning mountain ranges & valleys, where he records native flora & fauna & finds proof of his theories of the effect of glaciers on landscape formation. These four full-length works--along with a selection of important essays--helped galvanize American naturalists, leading to the founding of the Sierra Club & several national parks. In these pages, written with meticulous thoroughness & an impassioned lyricism, we witness Muir`s awakening to the incredible beauty of our planet, & the honing of an eye turned as acutely toward the scientific as the spiritual. ...

Selected Writings

Includes:: the bext of Richard Mabey`s important & wide-ranging journalism, from nature

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` The most exciting novelist writing in English today` A. N. Wilson Manjunath Kumar is fourteen. He knows he is good at cricket
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Selection Day is a captivating, witty novel by the Man Booker Prize winning author of The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga.` The most exciting novelist writing in English today` A. N. Wilson Manjunath Kumar is fourteen. He knows he is good at cricket
- if not as good as his elder brother Radha. He knows that he fears & resents his domineering & cricket-obsessed father, admires his brilliantly talented sibling & is fascinated by the world of CSI & by curious & interesting scientific facts. But there are many things, about himself & about the world, that he doesn`t know... Sometimes it seems as though everyone around him has a clear idea of who Manju should be, except Manju himself. When Manju begins to get to know Radha`s great rival, a boy as privileged & confident as Manju is not, everything in Manju`s world begins to change & he is faced with decisions that will challenge both his sense of self & of the world around him...
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Alone in her native St Petersburg, Maria Glover sends an urgent summons to London & New York. Her son & daughter arrive too late to see her, but the end of their mother`s life marks the beginning of their own story: one of secrets, strangers, & the ultimate retelling of everything they thought they knew. ...