Classic Nature

As the celebrated author of Akenfield, Ronald Blythe, turns 100 this year, Next to Nature brings together a seasonal collection from the very best of a lifetime of writing. Ronald Blythe lives at the end of an overgrown farm track deep in the rolling countryside of the Stour Valley, on the...

A collection of thirty wonderful stories about the nature and the countryside from one of the world's best-loved children's authors. Enjoy the freedom of the outdoors, the beauty of the countryside and the charm of all creatures great and small in this bumper short-story collection. Enid Blyton...

Lucretius was born in 99 BC, and On the Nature of Things is his only surviving work. His aim was to free the Roman world from its two great terrors - the gods and death. Lucretius argues that the gods are not actively involved in life, so need not be appeased; and that death is the end of everything human - body and soul - and therefore should not be feared. But On the Nature of Things is also a poem of striking imagery, intimate natural observation and touching pathos.

Brought to you by Penguin. What would killing him accomplish? Nothing, mostly. Then again, neither would letting him live. When Hester is diagnosed with cancer on her fortieth birthday, she knows immediately what she must do: abandon her possessions and drive to California to kill her estranged...

What if a walk in the woods could lead you straight into a world of wonder? Step into the enchanted charm of the Hundred Acre Wood and rediscover Winnie-the-Pooh, the beloved original classic written by A. A. Milne. Here, every rustling leaf whispers a secret, every adventure begins with curiosity, and even the smallest moment can turn into something extraordinary.

Nature is a book-length essay written by Ralph Waldo Emerson, and published by James Munroe and Company in 1836. In the essay, Emerson put forth the foundation of transcendentalism, a belief system that espouses a non-traditional appreciation of nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson, who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.

नदी का बदलना संस्कृतियों को बदल देता है। विहंगम इसी बदलाव को समझने की एक छोटी-सी कोशिश है। गंगापथ पर फैली...

The Unbecoming will help you to : See how identity, ego, and expectations can blur our experience of the present moment. Understand what real detachment looks like - free from fear and greed. Realize that creativity is born from stillness, not struggle. Embrace honest, authentic self-expression...

Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Nature" is perhaps the greatest original work of philosophy written by an American. This specially-prepared edition includes a foreword on the origin and significance the book.

इस संग्रह में शामिल कहानियाँ, हमारी दुनिया में नई शक्ति से फैलते अन्याय और असमानता के अंधेरे के साथ ही...

One Warm Fox, a new HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks book, full description to follow when available...

As he was composing what was to become his most enduring and popular book, E. B. White was obeying that oft-repeated maxim: "Write what you know." Helpless pigs, silly geese, clever spiders, greedy rats - White knew all of these characters in the barns and stables where he spent his favorite hours. In The Story of Charlotte's Web, Michael Sims shows how White solved what critic Clifton Fadiman once called "the standing problem of the juvenile-fantasy writer: how to find, not another Alice, but another rabbit hole."

William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic fiction read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly abridged and remastered stories are now available to download for the first...

The Origin and Nature of Folk Music: As Exemplified in the Welsh National Melodies was originally published in 1911. Kenneth Morris was a fantasy writer and Theosophist from Wales. In this short piece, he looks at the bardic poetry and chants of Ireland, Wales and England, called a "hwyl".

Black Beauty is a horse with a glossy coat and a white star on his forehead. Life in the peaceful fields with his mother is idyllic, but when Beauty is sold to a new owner he embarks on a dramatic journey that will take him from the stables of the rich to the streets of Victorian London...

This audiobook is about the life of a beautiful horse as a colt, adult, and retired animal and addresses issues horses had to deal with in regards to being used to pull carriages for money making and about the fair and kind treatment of animals used by people.