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Just before the turn of the century, a renegade Russian aristocrat named Madame Blavatsky came to America claiming that man was descended not from ... More

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This volume draws on a wide variety of translations--from the early 20th century to the present--of Rumi's deeply moving, sensually vibrant poetry.

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Simple yet capable of great complexity, the haiku is a tightly structured verse form that has a remarkable power to distill the essence of a moment ... More

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The fourth volume in the successful Everyman ''s Library pocket series on love poems, Love Songs and Sonne ts takes a wide view of love, covering all ... More

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These poems, selected from most of the cultures and histories of world literature, provide magnificent witness to the fact that love is as much an ... More

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This book contains a collection of the great est love letters of all time from 200 of the world''s most ar ticulate lovers. They include Napoleon, ... More

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This is a glorious collection of some of the best sleuths in the business. It includes creators such as Poe and Conan Doyle to Hammet, Christie, ... More

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This treasury of humorous poems brings together a sparkling constellation of witty poets--from Lord Rochester to Lewis Carroll, from Edward Lear to ... More

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Ever since Pushkin, Russian poets have been famous for their ability to combine private and public experience in lyric poetry of a comprehensiveness ... More

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Augmented with a generous selection of the marvelous letters Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote to each other, this collection ... More

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In the delightfully small Pocket Poets format that has proved so popular, a selection of the early poems of one of the greatest and most influential ... More

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Eating and drinking and the rituals that go with them are at least as important as loving in most people's lives, yet for every hundred anthologies ... More

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Like music and dance, poetry is an art that antedates our secular civilization, and it has always borne the marks of its origin as a means by which ... More

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A collection of urban and pastoral poetry of the Roman republic, and of the empire that succeeded it.

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A treasury of great and beautiful poems from around the world and through the ages that explore bereavement and grief and offer the consolations of ... More

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Mozart's remarkable life was well and richly documented in letters: his own and those concerning him written by others. This volume brings together a ... More

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This is a pocket book devoted to the world''s classic poets. The pieces are taken from all religions and traditions with the purpose of providing ... More

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The chilling classic ghost stories gathered here offer a remarkable variety of approaches to the theme of haunting. It includes stories by such ... More

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It has often been said that love, both sacred and profane, is the only true subject of the lyric poem. Nothing better justifies this claim than the ... More

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This collection of wonderful anthologies from the Everyman's Library Pocket Poets series celebrates love and friendship in all of their delightful ... More

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This anthology of comic verse is drawn from sources which range from the Greek Anthology to the present day. Divided into thematic sections (to be ... More

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