Biography, Literature and Literary studies

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'Do you see your son, standing over there, in the antechamber?

'But I, while vineyards ring with the cicadas' scream,Retrace your steps, alone, beneath the burning sun.

'She kissed and kissed her with a hungry mouth'A selection of Rossetti's most famous poems, from the hallucinatory 'Goblin Market' to 'In the bleak mid-winter' Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday.

'An ass, clothed in the skin of a lion.

'Tonight he noticed how the women's eyesPassed from him to the strong men that were whole.

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'Because of his baldness and hairiness, he announced it was a capital offence for anyone either to look down on him as he passed or to mention goats in any context.

'With one's face in the wind you were almost burned with a shower of Firedrops'A selection from Pepys' startlingly vivid and candid diary, including his famous account of the Great FireIntroducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday.

'Ye Ice-Falls!

'But I ran up the broken stairway, and came out suddenly, as if by a miracle, clean on the platform of my San Tommaso, in the tremendous sunshine.

The public has always had a fascination with true crime, from the Victorian era to the present day.

'Enchanting, often moving and sometimes hilarious' Daily MailFull of wit, hilarity, acute observation and a deeply held sense of duty, the Queen Mother's letters give readers a vivid insight into the person behind the public face.

A body is found in the woods .

'Enchanting, often moving and sometimes hilarious' - Daily MailFull of wit, hilarity, acute observation and a deeply held sense of duty, the Queen Mother's letters give readers a vivid insight into the person behind the public face.

Mountain Interval (1916), Robert Frost's third published poetry collection describes a certain sense of the future as circumscribed by the choices of the past one has made.

The public has always had a fascination with true crime, from the Victorian era to the present day.

'Enchanting, often moving and sometimes hilarious' - Daily MailFull of wit, hilarity, acute observation and a deeply held sense of duty, the Queen Mother's letters give readers a vivid insight into the person behind the public face.

A special edition of The Dam Busters by Paul Brickhill reissued with a bright retro design to celebrate Pan's 70th anniversary.