Deadtree Publishing: 166 books
by James Beattie
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
James Beattie was born on October 25th, 1735 at Laurencekirk in the Mearns in Scotland. In 1749 James began his studies at Marischal College, Aberdeen. In 1753, he was awarded an MA degree. He then spent several years as a schoolteacher and briefly contemplated becoming a minister. At only 25, he was,...
by Edmund Spenser
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Edmund Spenser was born in 1552 in East Smithfield, London. Here we publish The Shepheardes Clendar a much admired work that was first published in 1579. In July of 1580, he departed for Ireland in the service of the newly appointed Lord Deputy, Arthur Grey, 14th Baron Grey de Wilton. Grey was recalled...
by Archibald Lampman
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Archibald Lampman was born on November 17th 1861 at Morpeth, Ontario in Canada. Perhaps the finest Canadian Poet of his time he is classed as a Confederation Poet. A lover of camping it inspired much of his verse and helped him to become known as The Canadian Keats. Most of his poems are about the...
The Short Stories
"The ripest peach is highest on the tree."
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
James Whitcomb Riley was born on October 7th 1849. Riley began his career writing verses as a sign maker as well as submitting poems to newspapers for publication. Helped by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow he began to work at a succession of Indiana newspapers. During the 1880’s a series of poetry tours...
Afterwhiles
“In fact, to speak in earnest, I believe it adds a charm, To spice the good a trifle with a little dust of harm”
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...
Songs of Friendship
"Think of him still as the same, I say. He is not dead—he is just away.”
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...
Neghborly Poems and Dialect 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...
Child Rhymes & Farm Rhymes
“In fact, to speak in earnest, I believe it adds a charm, To spice the good a trifle with a little dust of harm”
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...
Love-Lyrics & Songs Of Home
"Think of him still as the same, I say. He is not dead—he is just away.”
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...
The Poetry of Swami Vivekananda
"You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself."
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Swami Vivekananda, born Narendranath Dutta was the chief disciple of the 19th century mystic Ramakrishna and the founder of Ramakrishna Mission. He was a key figure in the introduction of Vedanta and Yoga to Europe and America. His inspiring speech at the Parliament of the World Religions at Chicago...
The Poetry Of Robert Bridges - Volume 2
New Poems, Later Poems & Poems in Classical Prosody
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Robert Bridges was born in Walmer, Kent on the 23rd of October 1844. He went to study medicine intending to practise until the age of forty and then retire to write poetry. Lung disease forced him to retire in 1882, and from that point on he devoted himself to writing and literary research. However,...
The Poetry Of Charlotte Mew
“Before I die I want to see, the world that lies behind the strangeness of your eyes”
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Charlotte Mary Mew was born on 15th November, 1869 in London to professional parents - her father was responsible for the design of Hampstead Town Hall. Charlotte, one of seven children; three of whom died in early childhood, was educated at Lucy Harrison's School for Girls and attended lectures at...
by Rudyard Kipling, GK Chesterton, Arthur Conan Doyle
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
We all love a good crime story. An anthology of short crime stories, written by the finest of craftsman of their age, is always a welcome treat. The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel. But it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages...
by Lucy Fitch Perkins
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Lucy Fitch Perkins was forty-eight when she was approached by a publisher friend who, impressed by her talents as both an illustrator and writer, which he knew through correspondence, urged her to write. He was so earnest that she thought of an idea for a children’s book the next morning, and she immediately...