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Peter Washington

Peter Washington

·4.2·15,052 Ratings
“ You're not going to master the rest of your life in one day. Just relax. Master the day. Than just keep doing that every day. ” ― Anonymous
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  • Sanditon and Other Stories

    1996·
    ·3.65·258 Ratings
    Readers of Jane Austen’s six great novels are left hungering for more, and more there is: the marvelous unpublished manuscripts she left behind, collected here.Sanditon might have been Austen’s greatest novel had she lived to finish it. Its subject ma
  • Love Poems

    1993·
    ·3.8·232 Ratings
    It has often been said that love, both sacred and profane, is the only true subject of the lyric poem. Nothing better justifies this claim than the splendid poems in this volume, which range from the writings of ancient China to those of modern-day Americ
  • Byron: Poems

    1994·
    ·4.06·136 Ratings
    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.
  • Bronte: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)

    1996·
    ·4.09·198 Ratings
    The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Poems: Bronte contains poems that demonstrate a sensibility elemental in its force with an imaginative discipline
  • Wordsworth: Poems

    1995·
    ·4.12·343 Ratings
    Of all the lasting innovations that William Wordsworth (1770-1850) brought to our literature, it is his discovery of nature and his fresh vision of human lives in the context of nature that have most influenced our cultural climate. Here, collected in thi
  • Haiku

    2003·
    ·3.91·147 Ratings
    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 pr
  • Madame Blavatsky's Baboon: A History of the Mystics, Mediums, and Misfits Who Brought Spiritualism to America

    1996·
    ·3.59·171 Ratings
    Just before the turn of the century, a renegade Russian aristocrat named Madame Blavatsky came to America claiming that man was descended not from the ape but from spiritual beings. Thus began Theosophy, the very first "new age" religion. This thought-pro
  • Tennyson: Poems

    2004·
    ·4.27·438 Ratings
    Alfred, Lord Tennyson was a more complex writer than his status as Queen Victoria’s favorite poet might suggest. Though capable of rendering rapture and delight in the most exquisite verse, in another mode Tennyson is brother in spirit to Poe and Baudel
  • Erotic Poems

    1994·
    ·3.6·99 Ratings
    These poems, selected from most of the cultures and histories of world literature, provide magnificent witness to the fact that love is as much an act of the imagination as it is of the body. From fourth-century Li Ch'ung's "Parody of a Lover" to John Bet
  • Love Letters

    1996·
    ·3.91·97 Ratings
    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
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