Gossamer
Gossamer

Author: Lois Lowry

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2006-04-24

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 0547345003

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A novel “as haunting as a dream” from the New York Times-bestselling, Newbery Medal-winning author of The Giver (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Where do dreams come from? What stealthy nighttime messengers are the guardians of our most deeply hidden hopes and our half-forgotten fears? This imaginative novel confronts these questions and explores the conflicts between the gentle bits and pieces of the past that come to life in dream, and the darker horrors that find their form in nightmare. In a haunting story that tiptoes between reality and fantasy, two people—a lonely, sensitive woman and a damaged, angry boy—face their own histories and discover what they can be to one another, renewed by the strength that comes from a tiny, caring creature they will never see. “Lyrical, richly descriptive prose ushers readers into a fascinating parallel world inhabited by appealingly quirky characters.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “A beautiful novel with an intriguing premise.”—School Library Journal (starred review)

The Unfolding of The Seasons
The Unfolding of The Seasons

Author: Ralph Cohen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-12-29

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 1000505626

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First published in 1970, The Unfolding of The Seasons provides an interpretation and evaluation of James Thomson’s poem The Seasons. Professor Cohen urges its reconsideration as a major Augustan poem, arguing that Thomson’s unity, diction and thought combine with a conception of man, nature and God which is poetically tenable and distinctive. The case for The Seasons as an important work of art depends upon its effectiveness as a moving vision of human experience, and Professor Cohen believes that many critics have not felt this effectiveness because they have misconceived Thomson’s vision and misunderstood his idiom. His study aims to persuade them to return to the poem and to examine it within the context of an Augustan tradition. Professor Cohen shows that Thomson’s great achievement is to have fashioned a conception which, by bringing nature to the forefront of his poem, became a new poetic way of defining human experience. Thomson was not the first nature poet in English, but he was the first to provide an effective idiom in which science, orthodox religion, natural description, and classical allusions blended to describe the glory, baseness and uncertainty of man’s earthly environment, holding forth the hope of heavenly love and wisdom. This study shows that Thomson found a personal idiom by means of which he created an artistic vision. It will appeal to those with an interest in English literature and in philosophy.

Delphi Complete Works of William Henry Hudson (Illustrated)
Delphi Complete Works of William Henry Hudson (Illustrated)

Author: William Henry Hudson

Publisher: Delphi Classics

Published: 2024-08-15

Total Pages: 4897

ISBN-13: 1801701989

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Born in Argentina, W. H. Hudson was a late Victorian author, naturalist and ornithologist, best known today for his exotic romances, including his masterpiece ‘Green Mansions’. He also published important works of non-fiction, including a series of books on the English countryside, which due to their imaginative descriptions helped foster the “back-to-nature” movement of the 1920’s and 1930’s. For the first time in publishing history, this eBook presents Hudson’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Hudson’s life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * All the novels, with individual contents tables * Rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Famous works are fully illustrated with their original artwork * Rare story collections * Includes Hudson’s complete non-fiction – spend hours exploring the author’s naturalist works * Features the compelling memoir of the author’s early years in Argentina * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres CONTENTS: The Novels The Purple Land that England Lost (1885) A Crystal Age (1887) Ralph Herne (1888) Fan (1892) Idle Days in Patagonia (1893) Green Mansions (1904) A Little Boy Lost (1905) The Shorter Fiction El Ombú (1902) Tales of the Pampas (1916) Dead Man’s Plack and An Old Thorn (1920) A Traveller in Little Things (1921) The Non-Fiction Argentine Ornithology (1888) The Naturalist in La Plata (1892) Birds in London (1898) Nature in Downland (1900) Birds and Man (1901) Hampshire Days (1903) Land’s End (1908) Afoot in England (1909) A Shepherd’s Life (1910) Adventures among Birds (1913) An Outline History of English Literature (1913) The Book of a Naturalist (1919) Birds in Town and Village (1919) A Hind in Richmond Park (1922) Rare Vanishing and Lost British Birds (1923) Articles from ‘Popular Science Monthly’ The Autobiography Far Away and Long Ago (1918)

The Shell Country Alphabet
The Shell Country Alphabet

Author: Geoffrey Grigson

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2009-07-02

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 0141959681

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In the 1960s Geoffrey Grigson travelled around England writing the story of the secret landscape that is all around us, if only we take the time to look and see. The result is a book that will take you on an imaginative journey, revealing hidden stories, unexpected places and strange phenomena. From green men, ice-scratches, cross-legged knights and weathercocks to rainbows, clouds and stars; from place-names and poets to mazes, dene-holes and sham ruins, via avenues, dewponds and village greens, The Shell Country Alphabet will help you discover the world that remains, just off the motorway. 'Geoffrey Grigson resurrected the minor, the provincial and the parochial ... [he was] an erudite and unrivalled topographer ... ardent in promoting informed awareness of the distinctiveness of place' Toby Barnard 'An anthologist of genius' P.J. Kavanagh