Download or read book A Scarlet Poppy written by Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1894 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Harriet Prescott Spofford written by Elizabeth K. Halbeisen and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life and writings of one of the most popular and talented authoresses of the nineteenth century whose work has a permanent value for American literature.

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Download or read book The Poppy written by Nicholas J. Saunders and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the aftermath of the horrific trench warfare of the First World War, the poppy – sprouting across the killing fields of France and Belgium, then immortalised in John McCrae’s moving poem – became a worldwide icon. Yet the poppy has a longer history, as the tell-tale sign of human cultivation of the land, of the ravages of war and of the desire to escape the earthly realm through inspired Romantic opium dreams or the grim reality of morphine drips. This is a story spanning three thousand years, from the ancient Egyptian fights over prized medicinal potions to the addicted veterans returning home from the American Civil War, from the British political machinations during the Opium Wars with China to the struggle to end Afghanistan’s tribal narcotics trade. Through it all, there stands the transformative poppy. Nicholas J. Saunders brings us the definitive history of this ever-enduring but humble flower of the fields, a story that is at turns tragic, eye-opening and, most essentially, life-affirming – a gift to us all.