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Bronte Poems by Emily Brontë; Peter Washington
$30.00 AUD
Category: Everyman's Library | 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.
DETECTIVE STORIES by WASHINGTON PETER
$40.00 AUD
Category: Everyman's Library | 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.
Haiku by Peter Washington
$27.00 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
Simple yet capable of great complexity, the haiku is a tightly structured verse form that has a remarkable power to distill the essence of a moment keenly perceived. For centuries confined to a small literary elite in Japan, the writing of haiku is now practiced all over the world by those who are fasci ...Show more
Love Letters by Peter Washington
$33.00 AUD
Category: Books about Books & Writing | 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.
Persian Poems by Peter Washington (Editor)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays | 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
Poems of Food and Drink by Peter Washington (Editor)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Everyman's Library | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
Eating and drinking and the rituals that go with them are at least as important as loving in most peopleâe(tm)s lives, yet for every hundred anthologies of poems about love, hardly one is devoted to the pleasures of the table. Poems of Food and Drink abundantly fills the gap. All kinds of foods and beve ...Show more
Rumi Poems by Peter Washington
$33.00 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
It is often said that Rumi (aka Jalal al-Din, 1207-73) is now the most popular poet in the United States. This conquest of the new world by a middle-eastern medieval writer who died before Chaucer was even born has been achieved with extraordinary speed in less than thirty years. The main key to Rumi's ...Show more
The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens; Peter Washington (Introduction by)
$32.95 AUD
Category: Everyman's Library | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
'Where is my nephew?, asked Mr Jasper, wildly. 'Where is your nephew?' repeated Neveille. 'Why do you ask me?' 'I ask you,' retorted Jasper, 'because you were the last person in his company, and he is not to be found.' The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Dickens's last novel, lay unfinished at his death. Specul ...Show more
The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens; Peter Washington (Introduction by)
$38.95 AUD
Category: Everyman's Library | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
An unforeseeable story about life If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.-Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop The adventures of Nell Trent and her grandfather, both residents of The Old Curiosity Shop in London, that go on a journey with no destination. The novel focuses on the p ...Show more
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