Twelve Poems and A Story for Christmas Publication Date: October 24, 2005The poems describe the journey of a newlywed couple, Mary and Joseph, to their ancestral homeland where they are to be registered in a census decreed by a tyrant.Mary is pregnant and Joseph knows that the child she is carrying is not his. As they travel through the harsh landscape, they are joined by strangers who have been summoned by dreams, visions, and supernatural events to bear witness to a child whose birth they are told is destined to change the course of human history.In A Miami Christmas Story Raymond Allen, a despairing musician and family man, wr...
Walden and Other Writings Publication Date: December 1994| ISBN-10: 0606030328 | ISBN-13: 978-0606030328With their call for "simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!”, for self-honesty, and forharmony with nature, the writings of Henry DavidThoreau are perhaps the most influential philosophicalworks in all American literature. The selections in this volume represent Thoreau at his best. Included in their entirety are Walden, his indisputable masterpiece, and his two great arguments for nonconformity, Civil Disobedience and Life Without Principle. A lifetime of brilliant observation ofnature--and of himself-...
Times Book of English Verse Publication Date: April 5, 2004The most comprehensive survey of English Verse available, covering seven centuries, from Chaucer to Heaney, and including longer poems -- such as Paradise Lost and The Prelude -- in their entirety. Seven centuries of English Verse, attractively laid out and lightly annotated: from anonymous medieval lyrics to the finest contemporary poets, and also embracing ballads, dialect poems and important translations. Compiled by one of Britain's leading anthologists, this is the poetry collection for all the family. From the Introduction by Harold Bloom: 'The full range...