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Marcus Clapham
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The Wordsworth Book of First World War Poetry
Автор: Marcus Clapham Жанр: Wordsworth Издательство: Wordsworth Год: 1995 Страниц: 160 Дата загрузки: 25 июня 20091997-10-07
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The First World War was one of seemingly endless and unremitting waste and sacrifice. Who will remember, passing through this Gate, The unheroic Dead who fed the guns? was Siegfried Sassoon's anguished cry for those whose sacrifice seemed futile. Yet eighty years later it is because of Sassoon and his fellow poets — Owen, Rosenberg, Sorley and many others — that we do remember. This new anthology will serve as an introduction to the poetry of that great conflict, and the inclusion of a number of rarely anthologised poets, many from the ranks, as well as anonymous poems and songs, serves to bring a quality of freshness to the selection.
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Limericks
Автор: Marcus Clapham Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2009 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 28 июля 20102010-12-07
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The Limerick packs laughs anatomical into space that is quite economical, but the good ones I've seen so seldom are clean, and the clean ones so rarely are comical. This collection of witty Limericks, some clean, many filthy, and some packed with double-entendre has been assembled to add gaiety to nations. It contains over 1,000 Limericks historical, wistful, whimsical, clerical, medical, cynical and gastronomical, all of which will delight connoisseurs of the English language.
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Best Fairy Stories of the World
Автор: Marcus Clapham Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2010 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 06 мая 20132013-04-12
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An anthology that brings together «The Frog Who Became an Emperor from China», «The Thee Billy Goats Gruff from Norway», and «Pinocchio» from Italy as well as the classic stories of Aesop, Andersen, the Grimm Brothers, Charles Perrault and Oscar Wilde, among many others.
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Best Ghost Stories
Автор: Marcus Clapham Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2010 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 06 мая 20132013-04-12
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The short story is the perfect format for traditional ghost stories. They have their roots in folklore, but in modern form they can be traced back to the romanticised writers of the Gothic tradition. Authors include Charles Dickens, Sheridan Le Fanu, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Mrs Henry Wood, F. Marion Crawford, Elizabeth Gaskell and H. H. Munro (Saki). Perhaps the finest exponent of the genre was M. R. James whose sly, academic tales are well represented in this collection, as well as those of Le Fanu, whom James acknowledged as his inspiration. This is a book to be relished by the fireside, with the curtains drawn against ghoulies and ghosties and long-legged beasties, and things that go bump in the night.
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