Download or read book The Limelight Book of Opera written by Arthur Jacobs and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1985 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographical sketches of the composers and critical interpretations of their productions accompany these summaries of eighty-seven famous operas

Download or read book The Wordsworth Book of Horror Stories written by Various and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 2005-01-05 with total page 1176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A superb collection of some of the greatest tales of the genre; many are classics while others are lesser-known gems unearthed from the vintage era of the supernatural.

Download or read book The Wordsworth Book of Days written by Gerald Masters and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Wordsworth Book of the Kings Queens of Britain written by G. S. P. Freeman-Grenville and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 1997 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr G.S.P. Freeman-Grenville was the consultant for Burke's Royal Families of the World, and his major work was the Chronology of World History. This specially commissioned Book of the Kings & Queens of Britain, a magisterial and entertainingly written overview of British monarchs from Cerdic, First King of Wessex, to George VI, is an invaluable guide to the regal chronology of Britain, and contains many insights into the foibles of one of the world's most interesting and resilient constitutional monarchies - through the vagaries of war, pestilence, regicide, civil wars and marriage.

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Download or read book The Wordsworth Book of Intriguing Words written by Paul Hellweg and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry written by Jonathan Wordsworth and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-05-26 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Romanticism that emerged after the American and French revolutions of 1776 and 1789 represented a new flowering of the imagination and the spirit, and a celebration of the soul of humanity with its capacity for love. This extraordinary collection sets the acknowledged genius of poems such as Blake's 'Tyger', Coleridge's 'Khubla Khan' and Shelley's 'Ozymandias' alongside verse from less familiar figures and women poets such as Charlotte Smith and Mary Robinson. We also see familiar poets in an unaccustomed light, as Blake, Wordsworth and Shelley demonstrate their comic skills, while Coleridge, Keats and Clare explore the Gothic and surreal.

Download or read book The Book of Nature written by William Wordsworth and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of Nature - Wordsworth's Poetry on Nature is a sublime collection of the best nature poetry by poet-laureate William Wordsworth, housed in a convenient pocket-sized edition. Along with many other Romantic poets of the time, the theme of nature features heavily in the work of Wordsworth - to him, it represented a living thing, a sublime teacher-god that contained all beauty and divine truth. Wordsworth expresses his view on the natural world through the poetry in this charming collection while articulating his relationship with nature and its essential connection with human beings. Poems featured in this collection include: - Influence of Natural Objects - Lines Written in Early Spring - My Heart Leaps Up - Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey - To the Clouds Carefully curated by Read & Co. Books, this collection of twenty-one poems also features an introductory excerpt on William Wordsworth by Thomas Carlyle from his 1881 work Reminiscences. The perfect gift for poetry readers and nature lovers alike, this beautiful pocket edition is a wonderful book of posey for those who love reading on the go.

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Download or read book The Book of Days written by Robert Chambers and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-04-29 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1863. A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in connection with the calendar. Including anecdote, biography, and history. Curiosities of literature and oddities of human life and character.

Download or read book Book of Humorous Quotations written by Connie Robertson and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 1998 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Oscar Wilde's witty observation in Lady Windermere's Fan that 'I can resist everything except temptation', to Zsa Zsa Gabor's admission that 'I know nothing about sex, because I was always married', and by way of Woody Allen's numerous bon mots to the anonymous definition of psychiatry as being 'the care of the id by the odd', Connie Robertson has woven together a hilarious, stimulating and thought-provoking collection of the best humorous quotations which will provide the reader with much to ponder over long after the book has been put aside.The Wordsworth Book of Humorous Quotations will delight the browser and the simply curious while also providing the student, journalist and after-dinner speaker with a wealth of valuable material.

Download or read book The Book of Days written by Robert Chambers and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Wordsworth the Poet written by Frances H. Kakugawa and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ages 4-8. The beautifully illustrated children's book tells the story of Wordsworth, a misunderstood mouse whose love of poetry set him apart from the others. Everyone in the Hawaiian rainforest makes fun of Wordsworth and his 'silly' poetry. But when a big thunderstorm darkens the forest for days on end, he takes pen in hand and shows the other mice how poetry can save the day.

Download or read book Wordsworth s Reading 1770 1799 written by Duncan Wu and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-01-29 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A directory of authors and books read by Wordsworth before the age of thirty.

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