Reading Walter de la Mare
- 320 pages
- 12 hours of reading
Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) was one of the best-loved English poets of the twentieth century, his verse admired by contemporaries including Thomas Hardy, Robert Frost, W.
Walter de la Mare Books
April 25, 1873 – June 22, 1956
Walter de la Mare was an English poet and prose writer whose work often explores the wondrous realm of childhood imagination as well as subtle psychological horror. His approach to writing was deeply informed by an interest in the imagination, lending his texts a unique, ethereal quality. De la Mare masterfully wove together reality and fantasy, crafting unsettling yet captivating narratives that resonate across generations.
Collected Poems of Edward Thomas
- 240 pages
- 9 hours of reading
Though sometimes classified with Owen, Rosenberg and Sassoon as a 'war poet', he was rather a poet who died tragically in the war, and whose main subjects were the English countryside and its people, and the solitude of the observing self. The present edition offers the complete poems together with detailed editorial apparatus in what has become acknowledged as the standard edition by R. George Thomas. It also includes Thomas's remarkable prose War Diary of 1917
Peacock Pie
- 107 pages
- 4 hours of reading
A beautiful new edition of a classic anthology of Walter de la Mare's finest poems for children.
Walter de la Mare, Short Stories 1927-1956
- 566 pages
- 20 hours of reading
A collection of short stories that starts with Broomsticks and Other Tales of 1925, with its twelve stories, and continues with The Lord Fish of 1933 with seven stories. The famous story called 'The Riddle' is also included as it is a story that appeals equally to adults and children. schovat popis
Told Again
- 248 pages
- 9 hours of reading
Nineteen classic fairy tales, retold for younger readers in the early twentieth-century, including Rapunzel, Little Red Riding-Hood, Rumpelstiltskin, and The Sleeping Beauty.
Collected Rhymes and Verses
- 320 pages
- 12 hours of reading
Complementing his Collected Poems, this volume gathers together all Walter de la Mare's poems for children. The book includes what, for the adult, are among his greatest pure lyrics. His descriptions of birds, beasts and natural phenomena are judged particularly sharp and accurate.
Snow
- 32 pages
- 2 hours of reading
Walter de la Mare's classic poem is revisited in a stunning fashion in this picture book that celebrates the wonder of snow.
The Ride-by-Nights
- 32 pages
- 2 hours of reading
Up on their brooms the Witches stream, Crooked and black in the crescent's gleam It's Halloween and a family is preparing to go trick-or-treating. Little do they know that up above them a coven of witches flies unseen through the starry sky... Carolina's stunning illustrations beautifully illuminate Walter de la Mare's thrilling, magical poem, published as a picture book for the first time. Part of the Four Seasons series.
Memoirs of a Midget
- 528 pages
- 19 hours of reading
Miss M., a pretty and diminutive young woman with a passion for shells, fossils, flints, butterflies and stuffed animals, struggles to deal with her isolation from the rest of society due to her extraordinarily small size. When her father dies, she must make her own way in a world that treats her as an entertaining curiosity.
