Best of
English-Literature

2012

The Girl Under the Olive Tree


Leah Fleming - 2012
    60 years later, Lois West and her young son, Alex, invite feisty Great Aunt Pen to a special 85th birthday celebration on Crete, knowing she hasn't been back since the war. When word spreads of her visit, and old friends come to greet her, Lois and Alex are caught up in her pilgrimage and the journey which leads her to a reunion with the friend she thought she had lost - and the truth behind a secret buried in the past.

Keats: Poems Published in 1820


John Keats - 2012
    The length of his life was not one-third that of Wordsworth, who was born twenty-five years before him and outlived him by twenty-nine. Yet before his tragic death at twenty-six Keats had produced a body of poetry of such extraordinary power and promise that the world has sometimes been tempted, in its regret for what he might have done had he lived, to lose sight of the superlative merit of what he actually accomplished. Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to publications@publicdomain.org.uk This book is found as a public domain and free book based on various online catalogs, if you think there are any problems regard copyright issues please contact us immediately via DMCA@publicdomain.org.uk

The Complete Works of Emily Dickinson


Emily Dickinson - 2012
    Many poetry collections are often poorly formatted and difficult to read on eReaders. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents the complete poetical works of Emily Dickinson, with beautiful illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version: 1)* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Dickinson's life and works* Concise introductions to the poetry and other works* For the first time in digital print, all 1775 poems by Dickinson* Images of how the poetry books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts* Excellent formatting of the poems* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry* Easily locate the poems you want to read* Includes Dickinson's letters - spend hours exploring the poet's literary life* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genresCONTENTS:The Poetry CollectionsPOEMS : SERIES ONEPOEMS : SERIES TWOPOEMS : SERIES THREEThe PoemsTHE COMPLETE 1775 POEMSLIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDERLIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDERThe LettersTHE LETTERS OF EMILY DICKINSON

Complete Works of John Keats


John Keats - 2012
    Many poetry collections are often poorly formatted and difficult to read on eReaders. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents the complete poetical works of John Keats, with beautiful illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version: 1)* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Keats' life and works* Concise introductions to the poetry and other works* Images of how the poetry books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts* Excellent formatting of the poems* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry* Easily locate the poems you want to read* Includes Keats' letters - spend hours exploring the poet's personal correspondence* Features three detailed biographies - discover Keats' literary life* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genresCONTENTS:The Poetry CollectionsPOEMS, 1817ENDYMION: A POETIC ROMANCELAMIA, ISABELLA, THE EVE OF ST. AGNES, AND OTHER POEMSPOSTHUMOUS AND FUGITIVE POEMSPOEMS WRITTEN LATE IN 1819The PoemsLIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDERLIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDERThe PlaysOTHO THE GREATKING STEPHENThe LettersTHE LETTERS OF JOHN KEATSThe BiographiesLIFE OF JOHN KEATS by William Michael RossettiA DAY WITH KEATS by May ByronLIFE OF JOHN KEATS by Sidney Colvin

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit / Bombs on Aunt Dainty


Judith Kerr - 2012
    But when her father is suddenly, unaccountably missing, and her family flees Berlin in secrecy, Anna is forced to learn the skills needed to be a refugee and finds she's much more resilient than she thought.

Edgar Allan Poe Novels


Edgar Allan Poe - 2012
    Poe and his work appear throughout popular culture in literature, music, films, and television.

If You Were the Only Girl


Anne Bennett - 2012
    But Hitler's troops are gathering and fate has something very different in store for both of them...

The Collected John Carter of Mars


Edgar Rice Burroughs - 2012
    Originally published between 1934 and 1943, Swords of Mars; Synthetic Men of Mars; Llana of Gathol; John Carter and the Giant of Mars; and Skeleton Men of Jupiter are science fiction classics!

A Life with Books


Julian Barnes - 2012
    A Life with Books is an essay specially commissioned for Independent Booksellers Week, supplied exclusively to independent bookshops. In it, Julian Barnes writes about his early awareness of books and about his obsessive book-collecting and time spent in second-hand bookshops around the country. He ends by praising the physical book and expressing the confident hope that it will survive.A Life with Books is published as a pamphlet, with cover art by Suzanne Dean, the renowned designer responsible for the cover of Julian Barnes’ Man Booker-winning The Sense of an Ending.

The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs


Steve Roud - 2012
    Farewell and adieu to you ladies of Spain, for we've received orders for to sail for old England but we hope in a short while to see you again. One of the great English popular art forms, the folk song can be painful, satirical, erotic, dramatic, rueful or funny. They have thrived when sung on a whim to a handful of friends in a pub; they have bewitched generations of English composers who have set them for everything from solo violin to full orchestra; they are sung in concerts, festivals, weddings, funerals and with nobody to hear but the singer. This magical new collection brings together all the classic folk songs as well as many lesser-known discoveries, complete with music and annotations on their original sources and meaning.

Jorge Luis Borges: The Last Interview and Other Conversations


Jorge Luis Borges - 2012
    If I could see, I would never leave the house, I’d stay indoors reading the many books that surround me.”—Jorge Luis BorgesDays before his death, Borges gave an intimate interview to his friend, the Argentine journalist Gloria Lopez Lecube. That interview is translated for the first time here, giving English-language readers a new insight into his life, loves, and thoughts about his work and country at the end of his life.   Accompanying that interview are a selection of the fascinating interviews he gave throughout his career. Highlights include his celebrated conversations with Richard Burgin during Borges's time as a lecturer at Harvard University, in which he gives rich new insights into his own works and the literature of others, as well as discussing his now oft-overlooked political views. The pieces combine to give a new and revealing window on one of the most celebrated cultural figures of the past century.

A Valediction Forbidding Mourning


John Donne - 2012
    This wonderful work starts with "As virtuous men pass mildly away" and ends with "And makes me end where I begun."

The Solitary Reaper


William Wordsworth - 2012
    The famous poem "The Solitary Reaper" by William Wordsworth.

My Mommy


Neville Astley - 2012
    A board book featuring Peppa -- a lovable, slighty bossy little piggy!Celebrate mothers everywhere with this adorable board book brought to you by Peppa and her little brother, George! This delightful story shows the many reasons why Peppa and George love Mummy Pig, from comforting cuddles to sharing splashes in muddy puddles.

The Mystery of Manor Hall (Oxford Bookworms Library)


Jane Cammack - 2012
    Written for Learners of English by Jane Cammack.Manor Hall is an old dark house with a mystery. Nobody can go into the music room. But one night Tom and Milly hear something. The noise is coming from the music room. Tom and Milly open the door. Someone in the music room is singing. Tom and Milly are afraid, but they can't move. Can Tom and Milly discover the mystery of Manor Hall?

Tired of London, Tired of Life: One Thing A Day To Do in London


Tom Jones - 2012
    With seasonally appropriate suggestions for each day of the year, you can explore East London by canoe, search for Fagin's lair in Clerkenwell, play petanque in Southwark, seek out Aphrodite in the British Museum on Valentine's Day and enjoy a host of unusual ways to enjoy the capital. So grab your A-Z and start discovering a whole other side to this majestic city.

A Fine Brother: The Life of Captain Flora Sandes


Louise Miller - 2012
    This account charts her incredible story, from her tomboyish childhood in genteel Victorian England, her mission to Serbia as a Red Cross volunteer and subsequent military enrolment, her celebrity lecture tours of Europe, her marriage to a fellow officer and her survival of a Gestapo prison during the Second World War to her final years in Suffolk. A fascinating character of her times and an inspiration to women the world over, Flora Sandes is brought to life and restored to her rightful place in history by this authorized biography - compiled with the help of her family, and using hitherto unused private papers and photographs.

The Birdman Cycle


Thomas Rose-Masters - 2012
    They have just moved into a new apartment.Reese now has her own room; Nick and Laura have their own room too. Everything is grand.Can that be? (It can never be.)For there are strange, disturbing things happening in their new apartment. Nick believes it's Laura. Laura believes it's Nick. Only Reese knows the truth. Can she tell?

The Darkest Corner of the World


Urve Tamberg - 2012
    She longs for the safety of her grandparents' farm. Days later, the Nazis invade her country. Friends and family find themselves divided as they try to choose which dictator they'd rather live under - Hitler or Stalin. Madli is horrified by either choice, but how long can she remain neutral? Every day brings new dangers and unimaginable decisions. In order to survive, Madli knows she can't fight the enemy, so she is determined to outwit them.

The Wild Swans and Other Tales


Hans Christian Andersen - 2012
    The story tells of a faraway kingdom where lives a widowed King with his twelve children: eleven princes and one princess. One day, he decides to remarry. He marries a wicked queen who was a witch.

The Soul of Wit: G.K. Chesterton on William Shakespeare (Dover Books on Literature & Drama)


G.K. Chesterton - 2012
    K. Chesterton took a keen interest in the English literary tradition, particularly in terms of the plays by the country's greatest dramatist. In this original collection, Chesterton expert Dale Ahlquist collects and introduces the best of the noted author and critic's Shakespeare-related essays and reviews.

Thomas Wyatt: The Heart's Forest


Susan Brigden - 2012
    'Chieftain' of a 'new company of courtly makers', he brought the Italian poetic Renaissance to England, but he was also revered as prophet-poet of the Reformation. His poetry holds a mirror to the secret, capricious world of Henry VIII's court, and alludes darkly to events which it might be death to describe. In the Tower, twice, Wyatt was betrayed and betrayer.This remarkably original biography is more - and less - than a Life, for Wyatt is so often elusive, in flight, like his Petrarchan lover, into the 'heart's forest'. Rather, it is an evocation of Wyatt among his friends, and his enemies, at princely courts in England, Italy, France and Spain, or alone in contemplative retreat. Following the sources - often new discoveries, from many archives - as far as they lead, Susan Brigden seeks Wyatt in his 'diverseness', and explores his seeming confessions of love and faith and politics. Supposed, at the time and since, to be the lover of Anne Boleyn, he was also the devoted 'slave' of Katherine of Aragon. Aspiring to honesty, he was driven to secrets and lies, and forced to live with the moral and mortal consequences of his shifting allegiances. As ambassador to Emperor Charles V, he enjoyed favour, but his embassy turned to nightmare when the Pope called for a crusade against the English King and sent the Inquisition against Wyatt. At Henry VIII's court, where only silence brought safety, Wyatt played the idealized lover, but also tried to speak truth to power.Wyatt's life, lived so restlessly and intensely, provides a way to examine a deep questioning at the beginning of the Renaissance and Reformation in England. Above all, this new biography is attuned to Wyatt's dissonant voice and broken lyre, the paradox within him of inwardness and the will to 'make plain' his heart, all of which make him exceptionally difficult to know - and fascinating to explore.

Charles Dickens: The Complete Novels in One Sitting


Joelle Herr - 2012
    All fans of great literature can enjoy these perfectly portable renditions of Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, and all the Dickensian classics. Featuring synopses, character profiles, and illustrations, this mini book brings to life twenty classic tales and the iconic characters that populate the world of Dickens.

The Good-Morrow


John Donne - 2012
    

Complete Works of George Gissing (Illustrated)


George Gissing - 2012
    For the first time in publishing history, Delphi Classics is proud to present Gissing’s complete works in this comprehensive eBook, with all 23 novels, the entire non-fiction and special bonus texts. (18MB Version 1)* Illustrated with images relating to Gissing's life and works* Detailed introductions to the novels and other works* ALL 23 novels, with individual contents tables* Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts* Excellent formatting of the texts* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories* Easily locate the poems or short stories you want to read* Rare poems and short stories appearing for the first time in digital print* Includes Gissing's complete non-fiction, with all of the Dickensian criticism works* Special criticism section, including both Swinnerton and Yates’ seminal studies of Gissing* Features Morley Roberts' semi-biographical novel based on Gissing’s life Roberts* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genresPlease visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titlesPlease note: some obscure short stories and poems cannot appear in this eBook, being the result of recent scholarship and so protected by copyright. Once these works enter the public domain, they will be added to the eBook as a free update.CONTENTS:The NovelsWORKERS IN THE DAWNTHE UNCLASSEDDEMOSISABEL CLARENDONTHYRZAA LIFE’S MORNINGTHE NETHER WORLDTHE EMANCIPATEDNEW GRUB STREETDENZIL QUARRIERBORN IN EXILETHE ODD WOMENIN THE YEAR OF THE JUBILEEEVE’S RANSOMSLEEPING FIRESTHE PAYING GUESTTHE WHIRLPOOLTHE TOWN TRAVELLERTHE CROWN OF LIFEOUR FRIEND THE CHARLATANTHE PRIVATE PAPERS OF HENRY RYCROFTVERANILDAWILL WARBURTONThe Short Story CollectionsHUMAN ODDS AND ENDSTHE HOUSE OF COBWEBSTHE SINS OF THE FATHER AND OTHER STORIESA VICTIM OF CIRCUMSTANCES AND OTHER STORIESBROWNIEUNCOLLECTED SHORT STORIESThe Short StoriesLIST OF SHORT STORIES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDERLIST OF SHORT STORIES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDERThe PoetryLIST OF POEMSThe Non-FictionCHARLES DICKENS: A CRITICAL STUDYBY THE IONIAN SEAFORSTER’S LIFE OF DICKENSTHE IMMORTAL DICKENSThe CriticismGEORGE GISSING: A CRITICAL STUDY by Frank SwinnertonGEORGE GISSING, AN APPRECIATION by May YatesLONDON NOTES: JULY 1897 by Henry JamesThe Biographical NovelTHE PRIVATE LIFE OF HENRY MAITLAND by Morley RobertsPlease visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles

Scenes from an Execution


Howard Barker - 2012
    Darkly humorous and provocative, Barker's play makes sixteenth-century Venice the setting for a fearless exploration of sexual politics and the timeless tension between personal ambition and moral responsibility.

Tim Crouch: Plays One


Tim Crouch - 2012
    Includes The Author, joint winner of the 2010 John Whiting Award and winner of a Total Theatre award for innovation; England; An Oak Tree, winner of a Village Voice Obie; and My Arm

The Child's Book of the Seasons


Arthur Ransome - 2012
    You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Late Lyrics and Earlier : with Many Other Verses


Thomas Hardy - 2012
    You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

The Girl with green Eyes


John Escott - 2012
    

Roadkill


Stef Smith - 2012
    This explosive, multimedia story of a young woman trapped in a living nightmare combines direct, chilling performances with video and animation to create a site-specific experience that is both intimate and immersive.

The Canterbury Tales In Plain and Simple English (Translated) (Classics Retold)


BookCaps - 2012
    Let BookCaps help with this modern translation.If you have struggled in the past reading old English, then BookCaps can help you out.We all need refreshers every now and then. Whether you are a student trying to cram for that big final, or someone just trying to understand a book more, BookCaps can help. We are a small, but growing company, and are adding titles every month.

Bible Studies Essays On Phallic Worship And Other Curious Rites And Customs


Joseph Mazzini Wheeler - 2012
    

Classic Poems for Boys


Felicia HemansEdward Lear - 2012
    From rousing favourites like Felicia Dorothea Hemans's 'Casabianca' and John Keats's 'A Song About Myself', to dreamy, thoughtful poems by Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, this is a collection to be treasured.

A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World, Vol 2


James Cook - 2012
    The inhabitants of Ulietea speak of an uninhabited island about this situation called by them Mopeha to which they go at certain seasons for turtle.

Starving the Anger Gremlin: A Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Workbook on Anger Management for Young People


Kate Collins-Donnelly - 2012
    

Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes


Samuel Johnson - 2012
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The Village of Lost Souls


Sam Kates - 2012
    A family devastated by war. A flight from despair.John Andrews leaves industrial Newcastle for a remote village in post-war Cornwall. A village of reclusive inhabitants, where the birds don’t sing. A village haunted by its past that intrudes upon the present.He falls in love, but it is overshadowed by a series of increasingly terrifying events. He encounters members of a tragic family, sees his maternal grandfather, meets his older brother; not so remarkable, perhaps, except that all are dead.Events spiral out of control and John is forced to battle to save what remains of his family, his first love, his very sanity. Not to mention his life.The Village of Lost Souls is hungry to claim more…

Miscellaneous Pieces


John Bunyan - 2012
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