Four Seasons of Walter de la Mare Books In Order
- Summer Evening (2016)
- Snow (2018)
- Silver (2019)
- The Ride-by-Nights (2019)
Novels
- Henry Brocken (1904)
- The Return (1910)
- The Three Mulla-Mulgars (1910)
- Memoirs of a Midget (1921)
- Behold, This Dreamer! (1939)
- Visitors (1986)
Collections
- Peacock Pie (1924)
- Told Again (1927)
- Stories from the Bible (1929)
- The Lord Fish (1933)
- The Wind Blows Over (1936)
- Best Stories of Walter de la Mare (1942)
- The Magic Jacket (1943)
- Collected Rhymes and Verses (1944)
- The Burning Glass (1945)
- The Dutch Cheese (1946)
- Collected Stories for Children (1947)
- A Beginning (1955)
- Some Stories (1962)
- Short Stories 1895 – 1926 (1996)
- Walter De La Mare, Short Stories 1927-1956 (2000)
- Short Stories III (2002)
- Walter de la Mare Short Stories: Vol 1, 2 & 3 (2010)
Picture Books
- The Story Of Miss Jemima (1935)
- The Turnip (1992)
Novellas
- Out of the Deep (1923)
- The Green Room (1925)
- Mr. Bumps and His Monkey (1942)
Non fiction
- Desert Islands (1930)
- Early One Morning in the Spring (2011)
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Henry Brocken
With a heart of furious fancies, Whereof I am commander With a burning spear, And a horse of air, To the wilderness I wander With a Knight of ghosts and shadows, I summoned am to Tourney Ten leagues beyond The wide worlds end Methinks it is no journey. ANON. Henry Brocken HIS TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES I N THE RICH, STRANGE, SCARCEIMAGINABLE REGIONS OF ROMANCE I904 CONTENTS PAGE I. WHITHE R . 1 Come hither, come hither, come hither HAKEsPIc E. Oft I had heard of Lucy Gray And, when I crossed the wild, I chanced to see at break of day The solitary child. WORDSWOBTH. I used to rush into strange dreams at night dreams…
where amidst unusual scenes…
I still again and again met Rlr. Rochester…
and then the sense of being in his arms, hearing his voice, meeting his eye, touching his hand and cheek, loving him, being loved by him the hope of pawing’s lifetime at his side, would be renewed, with all its first force and fire. CHARLC ITE B RO T J E a w Eyre, Ch. x*xii.. IV. JULIA E , LECTRDAI, A NEB . I E . 30 Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying And this same flower that smiles to day To morrow will be dying. The glorious Lamp of Heaven, the Sun, The higher hes a getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer hes to setting. I V CONTENTS PAGE That age is beat which is the . first, When youth and blood are warmer But being spent, the worse, and worst Times still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time And while ye may, go marry For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry. ANTHEA Kow is the time when all the lights wax dim, And thou, Anthea, must withdraw from him Who was thy servant. Dearest, bury me Under the holy oak or gospel tree…
Or, for mine honour, lay me in that tomb In which thy sacred relics shall haw room For my embalming, sweeht, there will be KO spices wanting when Im laid by thee. HERRICK H esperides. BOT. A calendar, a calendar look in the almanac find out moonshine, find out moonshine. A dfidsurnma Nights Dream, Act m., Sc. i. VI. SLEEPIK B G E AUTY . . 50 VII. 8. VIII. LEAIUE G L U LLIVER . . 71 I must freely confess that since my last return some corruptions of my Yahoo nature have revived in me, by conversing with a few of your species, and particularly those of my own family, by an unavoidable necessity e h I should never have attempted so absurd 8 project as that of reforming the Yahoo race in this kingdom but I have done with all such visionary schemes for ever. 4uUivers Letter to his Cousda The first money I laid out was to buy two young stone horses, which I kept in a good stable, and next to them the groom is my greatat favourite for I feel my spirits revived by the smell he contracts in the stable. Smm A Voyuge to the Hmyhnhnms, Ch. xi.. CONTENTS vii PAm IX. X. MISTRUSTO, B STINAT L E I , AR, E TC…
100 And as he read he wept and trembled and not being able longer to contain, he brake out with a lamentable cry, saying, What shall I do…
The neighbours also came out to see him run and as he ran, some mocked, others threatened, and some cried after him to return. Now, after awhile, they perceived afar off, one coming softly and alone, all along the highway, to meet them. BUNYAN The Pilyrints Progress. XI. LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI . . 128 0 what can ail thee, knight at arms, Alone and palely loitering The sedge has withered from the lake, And no birds sing. l 0 what can ail thee, knight at arms, So haggard and so woe begone The squirrels granary is full, And the harvests done. KEATS. XII. SLEEP AND DEATH…
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The Return
Walter de la Mare was a 20th century novelist, short story writer and poet. He is best known for his children’s stories. His love of imagination made his children’s books very popular, but this also may have contributed to his other writings being taken less seriously. The Listener is his most famous work. In The Return Arthur Lawford falls asleep in a graveyard on the tomb of Nicholas Sabathier. When he awakes he is horrified to find out that he now has the face of Sabathier. This psychological horror novel asks questions such as how do you react when your husband comes home with a different man’s face? How is your life effected by your having a different face?
The Three Mulla-Mulgars
If you know Walter De La Mare’s work, you probably know him as an important literary novelist and poet in the early twentieth century. But he also tried his hand at children’s fiction, and The Three Mulla mulgars is pretty special. It’s the sort of book you want to take home and read to your kids yourself. But it’s De La Mare. You know it’s got to have a bit of verse, don’t you? ‘Long long is Time, though books be brief: Adventures strange ay, past belief Await the Reader’s drowsy eye; But, wearied out, he’d lay them by. ‘But, if so be he’d some day hear All that befell these brothers dear In Tishnar’s lovely Valleys well, Poor pen, thou must that story tell! ‘But farewell, now, you Mulgars three! Farewell, your faithful company! Farewell, the heart that loved unbidden Nod’s dark eyed, beauteous Water midden!’
Memoirs of a Midget
1922. de la Mare wrote numerous novels, short stories, essays, and poems. He was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Memoirs of a Midget. Miss M., the narrator of these fictional memoirs, is a tiny young woman with a passion for shells, fossils, flints, butterflies, and stuffed animals. Miss M. tells of her early life as a dreamy orphan and, in particular, of her tempestuous twentieth year in which she falls in love with a beautiful and ambitious full sized woman and is courted by a male dwarf. Concluding that she must choose either to simply tolerate her difference or grow callous to it, Miss M. resolves to become independent by offering herself up as a spectacle in a circus. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
Peacock Pie
Walter de la Mare famous as a fantasist and as a poet was a lot of things. Brilliant, well spoken, and just plain cool. But you know? In the end, his own poems speak better of this collection of poetry than we ever could. And so we let him have his say The Truants Ere my heart beats too coldly and faintly To remember sad things, yet be gay, I would sing a brief song of the worlds little children Magic hath stolen away. The primroses scattered by April, The stars of the wide Milky Way, Cannot outnumber the hosts of the children Magic hath stolen away. The buttercup green of the meadows, The snow of the blossoming may, Lovelier are not than the legions of children Magic hath stolen away. The waves tossing surf in the moonbeam, The albatross lone on the spray, Alone know the tears wept in vain for the children Magic hath stolen away. In vain: for at hush of the evening, When the stars twinkle into the grey, Seems to echo the faraway calling of children Magic hath stolen away.
Stories from the Bible
A collection of retold Bible stories from the first nine books of the Old Testament, from the Garden of Eden to David and Goliath.
The Lord Fish
This classic fairy story tells of the magical adventures of John Cobbler, a boy who undertakes a perilous quest to release a beautiful fish girl from her cruel enchantment. This is one of the ‘Walker Treasures’ series a collection of classic works of literature for children.
Short Stories 1895 – 1926
For many, Walter de la Mare is as great a writer of fiction as of poetry. Sadly, the majority of his short stories have been unavailable for some time. Now this welcome volume, the first of three, brings together more than 40 stories written between 1895 and 1926, including The Riddle and Other Stories, Ding Dong Bell, The Connoisseur and Other Stories, Kismet, and 14 other previously uncollected pieces.
Walter De La Mare, Short Stories 1927-1956
This is the second volume of three, which will republish all 100 short stories of Walter de la Mare, one of the leading British poets and novelists of the 20th century.
Short Stories III
For many people, Walter de la Mare is as great a writer of fiction as of poetry. But the majority of his short stories have long been unavailable. Short Stories for Children starts with ‘Broomsticks and Other Tales’ of 1925, with its 12 stories, and continues with ‘The Lord Fish’ of 1933 with 7 stories. Quirky, disparate, unpredictable, acutely observed, sometimes frightening, and often preoccupied with states of mind and personal identity, these stories have much in common with the adult stories. We find ourselves in railway trains, a mansion in the City of London, a remote farm house near the sea, and a drawing room being watched by a fly; and among other things, we encounter a wise monkey, a haunted cat, a fish magician, a man who believes he has a wax nose, and a godmother celebrating her 350th birthday. As in de la Mare’s poems, everyday reality may at any time become undercut by disturbing uncertainty and dark, though not always malign, forces.
The Story Of Miss Jemima
This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
The Turnip
A kind but poor farmer gains a fortune and his rich brother’s envy when he grows an enormous turnip.
Desert Islands
‘With its humor and its fancy and its wistfulness, Desert Islands is such a fountain of youth as no Ponce de Leon ever discovered.’ New York Times’One of those cabinets of curiosities,’ Michael McKeon writes in his new foreword,Desert Islandsis ‘filled with randomly juxtaposed artifacts and devices rare and wonderful and far flung, which long ago graced the homes of the Renaissance patriciate and then, in the hands of natural historians, became the model for the modern museum.’ Join Walter de la Mare as he surveys the world of islands symbols of man’s love of adventure and longing, both fictional and real, romantic and not along with shipwrecks, castaways, and solitude; pirates, explorers, and treasure; Shakespeare, Swift, Columbus, Darwin, Utopia, England; and particularly of course, Daniel Defoe and Robinson Crusoe.’One begins to fall under the spell, by way of Mr. De la Mare’s fine sinuous prose and fanciful comments, of those distant places, those buccaneers’ islands and remote wave washed ocean rocks, by which he himself is so strongly fascinated.’ SpectatorWalter de la Mare 1873 1956 wrote numerous novels, short stories, essays, and poems. HisMemoirs of a Midget, which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, is also available from Paul Dry Books.
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