Peter Washington
Author
Language
English
Description
A beautiful new clothbound edition of Alexandre Dumas's classic novel of wrongful imprisonment, adventure and revenge. Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of the Château d'If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and becomes determined not only to escape but to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the three men responsible...
Author
Publisher
Schocken Books
Pub. Date
©1995
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
470 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The New Age is not so new. Peter Washington traces it back to ideas that entered our cultural bloodstream just before the dawn of the twentieth century, when a mysterious renegade Russian aristocrat named Madame Blavatsky appeared in America. Darwin was wrong, she claimed. Man was not descended from apes but from spirit beings. As a reminder, she kept a stuffed baboon in her parlor dressed in wing collar, tail-coat, and spectacles, and holding a...
4) Comic poems
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
©2001
Physical Desc
249 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents a collection of humorous poems, featuring limericks, clerihews, ballads, sonnets, and verse by Robert Frost, Dorothy Parker, Odgen Nash, Edward Lear, Noel Coward, and many others.
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
©1995
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
Gathers poems about various aspects of friendship by Walt Whitman, Ben Jonson, Robert Frost, Boris Pasternak, Richard Wilbur, Robert Lowell, Derek Walcott, Alexander Pushkin, and Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
©2003
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
All kinds of foods and beverages are laid out in these pages, along with picnics and banquets, intimate suppers and quiet dinners, noisy parties and public celebrations - in poems. Eating and drinking and the rituals that go with them are at least as important as loving in most people's lives, yet for every hundred anthologies of poems about love, hardly one is devoted to the pleasures of the table. This book abundantly remedies this deficiency.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was the master impresario of English Romanticism, an enormously erudite and tireless critic, lecturer, and polemicist who almost single-handedly created the intellectual climate in which the Romantic movement was received and understood. He was also, in poems such as The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Christabel, and Kubla Khan, the most uncanny, surreal, and startling of the great English poets.
8) Poems
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1994
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
To the nineteenth-century reader, George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824), was the archetype of the Romantic literary hero, a figure admired and emulated as much for the revolutionary panache with which he lived his life as the brio and allure of his verse. Our century has seen him more clearly as a poet whose intellectual toughness, satiric gifts, and utter inability to be boring have made him one of the great comic spirits in our literature.
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
©1997
Physical Desc
253 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
A new collection of songs, sonnets and lyric poems that focus on love in the widest sense, encompassing relationships of all kinds. Love Songs and Sonnets includes a variety of delights by everyone from Thomas Wyatt to Langston Hughes, from Aphra Behn to John Updike.
10) Love letters
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
©1996
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
Here are 200 irresistible love letters from over the centuries, love letters both historic and fictional, love letters by poets and by princes, love letters enchanting, tragic, comic, superbly selected, beautifully printed, conveniently portable, to have with you wherever and whenever you're in the mood for love.
12) Eugénie Grandet
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A provincial French miser, intent on marrying his daughter to a man of means, refuses to accept her love for his nephew, the son of a ruined man.
13) Poems
Author
Language
English
Description
These Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover editions are popular for their compact size and reasonable price which do not compromise content. Poems: Blake contains a full selection of Blake's work, including Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience, poems from Blake's Ms. book, poems from The Prophetic Books, and an index of first lines.
