Paperback. Since time immemorial, life and death have been the preoccupation of all our greatest writers, whether mourning a tragic loss or seizing the moment to live life to its full. Here is a collection of classic poetry and prose to make you laugh with delight and weep in sympathy.Included in this volume are poems by Matthew Arnold, Byron, Donne, Robert Frost and Keats, as well as extracts from Wuthering Heights, The Divine Comedy and The Pilgrim's Progress. Since time immemorial, life and death have been the preoccupation of all our greatest writers, whether mourning a tragic loss or seizing the moment to live life to its full. Here is a collection of classic poetry and prose to make you laugh with delight and weep in sympathy. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Title: Life and Death (Paperback)
Publisher: Icon Books, Duxford
Publication Date: 2004
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1840465670
ISBN 13: 9781840465679
Binding: Paperback
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: new

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Includes poems by Matthew Arnold, William Cowper, Byron, Donne, Robert Frost and Keats, as well as extracts from Wuthering Heights, The Divine Comedy and The Pilgrim's Progress.

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Philip Pullman has won many awards for his children's books, including the Carnegie Medal, the Guardian Award, the Smarties Prize, and, most recently, the Whitbread Book of the Year Award for The Amber Spyglass. The acclaimed fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials has been published in more than twenty languages and came second in the recent BBC Big Read Top 100 poll. He was awarded the CBE in 2004. Kate Agnew has chaired the Booksellers Association Children s Group and has served as a judge for the Smarties Prize and the Whitbread Award. She was a contributor to the Cambridge Guide to Children's Books, co-wrote Children at War with Geoff Fox and has recently edited a series of short story collections for Egmont. In 1999 she won a special British Book Award for her contribution to the National Year of Reading.

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