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Fishing Stories by Henry Hughes
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Ser.
Fishing Storiesnets an abundant catch of wonderful writing in a wide variety of genres and styles. The moods range from the rollicking humour of Rudyard Kipling?s "On Dry-Cow Fishing as a Fine Art" and the rural gothic of Annie Proulx?s "The Wer-Trout" to the haunting elegy of Norman Maclean?s "A River ...Show more
Journey to Armenia by Osip Mandelstam; Henry Gifford (Introduction by); Sidney Monas (Translator); Clarence Brown (Translator); Robert Hughes (Translator)
Category: Travel
The last published work of a great poet who wrote a few lines attacking Stalin and was shortly thereafter exiled to Siberia where he died near Vladivostok six years later. An inimitable volume, Journey to Armenia is a travel book in name only. Osip Mandelstam visited Armenia in 1930, and during the ...Show more
The Art of Angling by Hughes Henry
Category: Classics
Fishing has inspired a wealth of poetry Tang Dynasty meditations; Japanese haiku; medieval rhymes; classic verses by Homer and Shakespeare; poems by Donne, Goethe, Tennyson, and Yeats. Modern masterpieces abound as well, by the likes of Federico Garcia Lorca, Elizabeth Bishop, Ted Hughes, Robert Lowell, ...Show more
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