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A Treasury of Best-Loved Fairy Tales: (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Omnibus Edition) by Various Authors
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classics
Once upon a time . . . Fantasy and enchantment await you in this beautifully illustrated treasury which features the best-loved fairy and folk tales from the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Perrault, The Arabian Nights, and other classic sources. Its thirty-five selections include: · ...Show more
Fourteen Poems to say I Love You by VARIOUS AUTHORS
Category: Poetry
How many ways are there to say the words "I love you"? According to poetry, the ways are countless and rich with room for humour, lust, tenderness and a healthy dose of self-mockery. These fourteen poems are not about love but declare it with an immediacy that's captivating and irresistible. Longing may ...Show more
Haiku by Various Authors
Category: Poetry | Series: Chinese Bound Classics Ser.
Beautifully produced in a traditional Chinese binding and with a timeless design, Haiku is an introduction to and celebration of one of the most appealing and accessible styles of poetry. The ancient form of Japanese verse known as haiku has become one of the world's best-known and most-loved types of ...Show more
Pocket Book of Romantic Poetry: (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions) by Various Authors
Category: Poetry | Series: Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Pocket Editions Ser.
This compact compendium contains the best work by the nineteenth-century British Romantic poets including William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats. This compact compendium contains the best work by the nineteenth-century British Romanti ...Show more
Ten Poems about Cats by VARIOUS AUTHORS
Category: Poetry
These lovely poetry pamphlets make perfect presents - unusual, beautiful, worthwhile and definitely not for throwing away. They come with an envelope and bookmark left blank for your message. Interesting and enjoyable to read they make an excellent introduction to the work of contemporary and historic p ...Show more
Ten Poems about Families by VARIOUS AUTHORS
Category: Poetry
Where would we be without families, to lift us up and love us, to make us who we are? This anthology celebrates all of the humour and warmth, the strength and joy, that families bring us. We meet a doting grandfather who makes a car out of sand for his granddaughter on the beach, spend time at a ghostly ...Show more
Ten Poems about Knitting by VARIOUS AUTHORS
Category: Poetry
Whether you're proficient with purl, canny with cable or don't know your size 9s from your shoe size, here are ten irresistible poems about the joys of knitting. Stitches morph into poems in which needles flash like rapiers, wool is wound into balls and the door of the local wool shop opens onto hushed ...Show more
Ten Poems about Mothers by VARIOUS AUTHORS
Category: Poetry
A beautiful alternative to a greeting card, this lovely collection of ten poems comes complete with an envelope - perfect to accompany a gift, or unusual enough to be a gift on its own. This wonderful mini-anthology of poems is a celebration of the many ways in which mothers are important in our lives. ...Show more
Ten Poems about Roses by VARIOUS AUTHORS
Category: Poetry
There's a fragrant, peachy-yellow rose called 'poetry in motion' proof (if needed) of poetry's love affair with roses, this most sumptuous of flowers. Our gorgeous mini-anthology contains all manner of roses. You'll find a climbing rose that longs for another life, a meditation on the simple pleasure of ...Show more
Ten Poems about Rubbish by VARIOUS AUTHORS
Category: Poetry
A load of rubbish? These poems are very far from being that! Always surprising, this selection finds that rubbish is far more than merely stuff we don't want any more. There's a poem in which a swing-bin complete with peelings and old tea-bags becomes a vivid still life and a moving elegy when a family ...Show more
Ten Poems about Wine by VARIOUS AUTHORS
Category: Poetry
John Keats' beaker of the warm South must be the most famous glass of wine in poetry. Who could fail to remember the beaded bubbles and the purple-stained mouth ? We can almost taste the rich berry notes as we read. This selection features part of that much-loved paean to a luscious red, alongside poems ...Show more
Ten Poems by the Romantics by VARIOUS AUTHORS
Category: Poetry
With an Introduction by Catherine Kay, Education Officer at The Wordsworth Trust, Ten Poems by The Romantics covers a lot of ground in a short space (not quite William Blake's a world in a grain of sand but something along those lines). The Romantics shared a passionate belief in the transforming power ...Show more