The words Merry Christmas first appeared in Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol which has become probably the best-loved of all Christmas stories & it appears here with the four other stories that combined to make The Christmas Books first published in 1852. Somehow Christmas & ghost stories go well together & here too Dickens was a master of the art. Compiled here is a complete collection of his supernatural tales including such classics as The Signalman & The Trial for Murder. The collection is completed by a selection of Dickens other tales which amply demonstrate the great range of his writing. The stories include illustrations from the original editions featuring the works of John Tenniel Edwin Landseer & many others. Combine these elements together & you have a book that would make a wonderful present throughout the year. ...

Selected Piano Exam Pieces contains the printed music for nine pieces from ABRSMs 2011 & 2012 Grade 1 Piano syllabus.



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Selected Piano Exam Pieces with CD contains the printed music for nine pieces from ABRSMs 2011 & 2012 Grade 1 Piano syllabus as well as recordings of all the pieces for the grade. Features printed music for three pieces from each of Lists A B & C providing an appealing & varied repertoire from which to create a balanced programme for the exam or a concert. Also

Includes:: helpful information about the pieces & the exam.

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Selected Piano Exam Pieces contains the printed music for nine pieces from ABRSMs 2011 & 2012 Grade 3 Piano syllabus.



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Selected Piano Exam Pieces contains the printed music for nine pieces from ABRSMs 2011 & 2012 Grade 4 Piano syllabus.



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This selection of the works of W B Yeats

Includes:: the final book from the unfairly neglected narrative poem

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Robert Browning was one of the greatest of English poets whose intense & original imagination enabled him to transform any subject he chose
- whether everyday or sublime
- into startling memorable verse. In his work he brought to life the personalities of a diverse range of characters & introduced a new immediacy colloquial energy & psychological complexity to the poetry of his day. This selection brings together verse ranging from early dramatic monologues such as the chilling My Last Duchess" & the ribald " Fra Lippo Lippi" which show his gift for inhabiting the mind of another to the popular children's poem " The Pied Piper of Hamelin" & many lesser known works. All display his innovative techniques of diction rhythm & symbol which transformed Victorian poetry & influenced major poets of the twentieth century such as Ezra Pound T. S. Eliot & Robert Frost."

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This work is an updated selection of Roger Mc Goughs finest best-loved verse. The complete span of Mc Goughs writing from the 1960s to the new millennium is represented. Mc Goughs trademarks: the craft worn as lightly as the crown the jokes that are something more the underlying heartache the acute sense of the way time slips away"
- Ian Mc Millan " Poetry Review". " Mc Gough has done for poetry what champagne does for weddings"
- " Time Out"."

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One of the major poets of Romanticism Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of the natural world & the spontanous expression of feeling. This volume contains a rich selection from the most creative phase of his life including extracts from his masterpiece The Prelude & the best-loved of his shorter poems such as Composed Upon Westminster Bridge Tintern Abbey I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud Lucy Gray & Michael. Together these poems demonstrate not only Wordsworths astonishing range & power but the sustained & coherent vision that informed his work. ...

This generous selection of Tony Harrisons poems

Includes:: sixty-three poems from his famous sonnet sequence

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