Walter John De la Mare Knihy

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.

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

A beautiful new edition of a classic anthology of Walter de la Mare's finest poems for children.

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

Nineteen classic fairy tales, retold for younger readers in the early twentieth-century, including Rapunzel, Little Red Riding-Hood, Rumpelstiltskin, and The Sleeping Beauty.

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.

Walter de la Mare's classic poem is revisited in a stunning fashion in this picture book that celebrates the wonder of snow.

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.

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.

A collection of poems first published in 1913, describing the capers of fairies, princes, beasts, children, witches, farmers, and kings.