If a picture speaks a thousand words, a love letter speaks a thousand more . . . Even in this age of e-mail, faxes, and instant messaging, nothing has ever replaced the power of a love letter. Love letters express the spectrum of our emotions, offering a colorful glimpse into the soul of the writer, and of the writer's beloved. For passionate readers and lovers of words, a letter is irresistible. List of letters included: Ludwig van Bethoveen - The Immortal Beloved Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfr...

If a picture speaks a thousand words, a love letter or a poem speaks a thousand more... Even in this age of e-mail, faxes, and instant messaging, nothing has ever replaced the power of a love letter or that of a poem. LIST OF POEMS: 1. Lord Byron - She Walks in Beauty 2. Christina Rossetti - I Loved You First: But Afterwards Your Love 3. Walt Whitman - A Glimpse 4. W.Shakespeare - Let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds 5. John Donne - The Good-Morrow 6. K.Gibran - Love One Another 7. Rob...

The Anatomy of the World by John Donne is a profound and contemplative poetic work that reflects on the fragility of existence, the disorder of the age, and the spiritual dislocation of humanity. Written in the early seventeenth century, this elegiac poem responds to the death of Elizabeth Drury, but expands far beyond personal mourning to consider the moral and metaphysical condition of the entire world. Donne uses the occasion of loss as a lens through which to examine a universe in perc...

For nearly a century and a half, Hawthorne's masterpiece has mesmerized readers and critics alike. One of the greatest American novels, its themes of sin, guilt, and redemption, woven through a story of adultery in the early days of the Massachusetts Colony, are revealed with remarkable psychological penetration and understanding of the human heart. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

The bold and beautiful Bathsheba Everdene has arrived at weatherbury, creating a stir in the idyllic community of the countryside. Enamored by bathsheba's irresistible charm and wild, uninhibited spirit, three men are drawn to her—the humble shepherd Gabriel oak, who is eight years younger to her; the farmer William boldwood, who mistakes her prank for a proposal of marriage; and a Casanova in uniform, Sergeant Francis Troy. Will the fierce and independent Bathsheba finally fall in love? W...

If you were looking for the definitive Christmas anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it!This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs.Inside you'll find:· Novels, novellas and short stories from Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Hans Chri...

Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions & Death's Duel brings together John Donne's most searching prose on sickness, mortality, and salvation. Composed during a grave illness in 1623, the Devotions arrange bodily crisis into meditations, expostulations, and prayers, transforming fever into spiritual inquiry. Their style is characteristically metaphysical: learned, dramatic, paradoxical, and intensely self-scrutinizing. Death's Duel, Donne's final sermon, extends this meditation with grave eloqu...

On moving day, Pamela Prendergast, recently widowed under unusual circumstances, opens her front door and takes delivery of an unexpected gift from a complete stranger. Not long afterwards, she makes a series of unwelcome discoveries about her late husband, gets to know her new neighbours and makes the acquaintance of some interesting and, in several cases, sinister people. Her life becomes more complicated and mysterious – not to mention dangerous - for a while before things start to make...

Murder for Christmas Eve gathers Victorian, Edwardian, and early modern crime writing around the ironic proximity of festivity and menace. Its range extends from detective puzzles and sensation fiction to ghostly unease, comic reversals, moral parables, and tales of domestic secrecy. Christmas settings—houses crowded with guests, snowbound roads, inherited rituals, and shadowed hearths—become instruments of suspense rather than reassurance. Standout effects include ingenious investigations...

This is the 26th novel in the Pitkirtly Mysteries series.When a music festival takes over the town, most people predict some kind of trouble, but the presence of Amaryllis's former colleague Green makes this seem even more likely.So in the intervals between doughnut breaks, the usual suspects find themselves dealing with two violent deaths and an assortment of temper tantrums, not all from the musicians. Anyone who isn't arrested by a couple of unfamiliar police officers can ...

The story begins with the sudden death of an elderly clergyman named Anderby, who drops dead while hosing the garden ... death that is followed by another in circumstances which give rise to suspicion and to the local police calling upon Inspector MacDonald.

Far, far away, there is a beautiful Country which no human eye has ever seen in waking hours. Under the Sunset it lies, where the distant horizon bounds the day, and where the clouds, splendid with light and color, give a promise of the glory and beauty that encompass it. Sometimes it is given to us to see it in dreams. This Country is the Land Under the Sunset. This is the story of that Country, and what happened when evil came to abide there. It is a story all of us must hear.