Deadtree Publishing: 166 books
The Prose Poetry - Volume 1
“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Charles Pierre Baudelaire was born on April 9 1821 in Paris to an amateur artist mother and professional father. His father died when Charles was 6 but his mother remarried shortly after to Lieutenant Colonel Jacques Aupick who later became a prominent ambassador. Consequently Charles received a good...
The Poetic Principle
“I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.”
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe) was born in Boston Massachusetts on January 19th 1809 and was orphaned at an early age. Taken in by the Allan family his education was cut short by lack of money and he went to the military academy, West Point where he failed to become an officer. His early literary...
The Great War
The British Campaign in France and Flanders
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
If ever a writer needed an introduction Arthur Conan Doyle would not be considered that man. After all, Sherlock Holmes is perhaps the foremost literary detective of any age. Add to this canon his stories of science fiction and horror, his historical novels, his political campaigning, his efforts in...
Touch and Go
"People always make war when they say they love peace."
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
For many of us DH Lawrence was a schoolboy hero. Who can forget sniggering in class at the mention of Women In Love or Lady Chatterley’s Lover? Lawrence was a talented if nomadic writer whose novels were passionately received, suppressed at times and generally at odds with Establishment values....
The Merry-Go-Round
“I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.”
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
For many of us DH Lawrence was a schoolboy hero. Who can forget sniggering in class at the mention of Women In Love or Lady Chatterley’s Lover? Lawrence was a talented if nomadic writer whose novels were passionately received, suppressed at times and generally at odds with Establishment values....
Poems & Prose Sketches
"When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck."
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Poet and author James Whitcomb Riley was born on October 7th 1849 in Greenfield, Indiana. Better known as the “Hoosier Poet” for his work with regional dialects, and also as the “Children’s Poet” Riley was born into an influential and well off family. However his education was spotty but he...
Out Of Town & Other Short Stories
"Life is made of ever so many partings welded together."
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) is regarded by many readers and literary critics to be THE major English novelist of the Victorian Age. He is remembered today as the author of a series of weighty novels which have been translated into many languages and promoted to the rank of World Classics. The latter...
by Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Shakespeare
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
‘If music be the food of love play on.’ The evocative words of William Shakespeare not only capture the addictive quality of love but also of music. Poets have an ability with their words and phrases to provide a rhythm, an atmosphere. When this is allied to their musings on music we are captivated....
The Tinker's Wedding
"What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only?"
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Edmund John Millington Synge was born on April 16th 1871 born in Newtown Villas, Rathfarnham, County Dublin on 16 April 1871 the youngest son of eight children. Synge was educated privately at schools in Dublin and Bray, and was later to study piano, flute, violin, music theory and counterpoint at the...
by Shams Al
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Shams Al-Din Hafiz, poet, mystic and scholar, was born between 1315-1317 in the central Iranian city of Isfahan, although was better known for his time spent in Shiraz, further south of the country, where he lived most of his life and wrote most of his poetry. His title Hafiz is given to someone who...
The Poetry Of Sant Tukaram
"For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad."
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
It is unclear the exact year of Sant Tukaram's birth although 1577 and 1597 have both been cited by scholars. It is clear that he was born in a small village called Dehu in Maharasthtra in India to Bolhoba and Kanakai, a lower Sudra class family and had two brothers. Despite this status the family...
by Emily Jane Bronte
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
In the small village of Haworth in Yorkshire the Bronte family created novels and poems that are still admired to this day around the world. The middle of the three Bronte sisters, Emily Jane was born on 30th July 1818. The author of ‘Wuthering Heights’ she was also a very talented poet as witnessed...
The Poetry Of Jane Taylor
"Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well? My mother."
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Jane Taylor was born in London on September 23rd 1783. She and her sisters were part of a large literary family. She is of course most famous for ‘The Star’, a poem which we now all know by its first line ‘Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star’. However she was rather more accomplished than that poem...
