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Walter de La Mare
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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A collection of verse from the British novelist and poet who wrote for both adults and children. The Listeners was De la Mare’s first successful book; the title poem is…
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Walter de la Mare
A selection of Walter de la Mare’s greatest poems presented alongside insightful, reader-friendly commentaries.
De la Mare described two distinct types of imagination - although aspects might be a better term: the childlike and the boylike. It was at the border between the two…
Walter De La Mare
For children, de la Mare wrote the fairy tale The Three Mulla Mulgars, which was praised by the literary historian Julia Briggs as a neglected masterpiece and by the critic…
The traveler who presents himself in this little book feels how tedious a person he may prove to be. Most travelers, that he ever heard of, were the happy possessors…
Walter John de la Mare, OM CH (1873-1956), was an English poet, short story writer, and novelist, probably best remembered for his works for children and The Listeners.
And though every nerve revolted at the thought, she was finally convinced, unwillingly even, but assuredly, that her husband was here. He seemed to haunt, like a ghostly emanation, this…
The Return by Walter de la Mare is an occult tale of possession. It is an interesting gothic psychological thriller, nebulous and dark, in the tradition of Edgar Allan Poe…
The book,
Collected Poems 1901-1918 in Two Volumes. (Volume I), has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made…
Collected Poems 1901-1918 in Two Volumes. (Volume II), has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made…
The second volume of Walter de la Mare's "Collected Poems 1901-1918" is a collection of poetry that explores a range of subjects, such as the paranormal, nature, love, memory, and…
Walter de la Mare – famous as a fantasist and as a poet – was a lot of things. Brilliant, well spoken, and just plain cool. But you know? In…
Walter de la Mare's 'Poems' is a collection of some of his best-loved works, including 'The Listeners' and 'Silver'. De la Mare's poetry is known for its evocative language and…
[…] UP AND DOWN Down the Hill of Ludgate, Up the Hill of Fleet, To and fro and East and West With people flows the street; Even the King of…
The Moon’s Miracle is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1897. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel…
One of the strangest and most enchanting works of fiction ever written. –from the foreword by Alison Lurie
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
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…
