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 Christian Andersen, O. He...

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 Christian Andersen, O. He...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

In "Fighting France," St√©phane Lauzanne offers a poignant examination of the realities of World War I through the lens of French soldiers and civilians. Written in a vivid, almost cinematic style, Lauzanne'Äôs narrative weaves together first-hand accounts and rich historical context, effectively immersing readers in the struggles and resilience of those who endured the Great War. Furthermore, the book serves as a critical reflection on patriotism, sacrifice, and the haunting specter of co...

William Blake (28 November 1757 ? 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. His prophetic poetry has been said to form what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language.His visual artistry has led one contemporary art critic to proclaim him far and away the greatest artis...

William Blake is one of the giants of poetry. He is often overlooked because of the obliqueness of many of his poems. But this affordable (read: cheap) collection of poems is well worth the price of admission. Most of Blakes most famous and well loved poems are included in this volume. Most of us had to read at least a couple of these poems in school. The Tyger still stands as one of the great poems of the English language. The Fly, The Lamb, Children of a Future Age, London and Ah, Sunflo...

Discover the Contrasts of Humanity with "Songs of Innocence and of Experience" by William Blake"Songs of Innocence and of Experience" is a profound collection of poetry that explores the dualities of human existence—innocence and experience, purity and corruption, childhood and maturity. William Blake masterfully juxtaposes these contrasting states to reveal the complexities of the human soul and society. The collection is divided into two parts: "Songs of Innocence," which celebrates the ...

Discover the provocative vision of William Blake's "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" — a revolutionary exploration of morality, spirituality, and human nature that challenges conventional beliefs and invites readers to reconsider the dualities of good and evil.William Blake (1757–1827) was an English poet, painter, and visionary artist whose work transcended traditional boundaries of art and literature. A pioneering figure of Romanticism, Blake's unique blend of poetic lyricism and vivid i...

William Blake (1757 – 1827) was an English poet, painter and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake has become a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age. What he called his "prophetic works" were said by the 20th-century critic Northrop Frye to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language". While he lived in London his entire life, except for three years spent in Felpham, he ...

‘The Marriage of Heaven and Hell’ is a series of texts written in imitation of biblical prophecy by William Blake, an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age. The text expresses Blake's own intensely personal Romantic and revolutionary beliefs. The book is about the narrator's visit to Hell, a concept taken by Blake from Dantes's Inferno and Milt...

Love on the Line is a book that establishes love as a strong foundation for individual relationships as well as a solid grounding in our turbulent world. The book is in three sections. The first has the author in specific situations, which are stated and then commented upon. This opens up to the author's worldview as well as advice to the reader on how to conduct themselves in daily life.The second section is romantic poetry, where the author speaks about his one true love and how ...

Jerusalem, The Emanation of the Giant Albion (c. 1804–1820) is Blake's culminating prophetic book: a visionary epic of Albion's fall and regeneration through Jerusalem, Los, and the Spectre. Its biblical cadences and Miltonic reach mingle with Blake's mythopoeia to contest Urizenic rationalism and industrial modernity. Relief-etched pages braid text and image, mapping London and Britain as spiritual terrains in long, flexible unrhymed lines, and staging a Romantic-era counter-Enlightenment...