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Kate Agnew - Love and Longing - 9781840465235 - KKD0002188
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Love and Longing

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Description for Love and Longing Paperback. Love, poetry and romantic prose extracts are enduring favourites. Many classic poems and stories revolve around this theme in its many facets, including humorous poems. This anthology should appeal to teenagers' "romantic streak", while adults enjoy the classic content. Ages 14+. Editor(s): Agnew, Kate. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: YQE. Category: (JC) Children's (6-12); (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 198 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 162. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear

"This heady collection features love poems and prose excerpts by writers including Sappho, Shakespeare, Milton, the Brontes, and Wordsworth. Works are loosely arranged according to chapter headings drawn from particular poems, for instance "Love Is a Sickness" (after Samuel Daniel's poem), creating an engaging interchange of images and ideas, regardless of poet or era. As the title suggests, not every poem ends with a happily ever after; a Charlotte Mew poem reads, 'I so liked Spring last year/ Because you were here..../ This year's a different thing, --/ I'll not think of you.' 

A collection of classic poetry and prose ... Read more

Kate Agnew is a previous chair of the Children's Booksellers Association. She has also contributed to the "Cambridge Guide to Children's Books" and has edited several children's books.

Jacqueline Wilson, OBE, is an internationally best-selling children's author.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Wizard Books
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Duxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781840465235
SKU
KKD0002188
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Kate Agnew
Jacqueline Wilson has been on countless shortlists and won numerous awards, including The Young Telegraph/Fully Booked Award in 1995 for The Bed and Breakfast Star, the Smarties Prize, the Sheffield Children's Book Award and the Children's Book Award for Double Act. The Illustrated Mum was on the shortlist for the 1999 Whitbread Children's Book Award and has won the 1999 ... Read more

Reviews for Love and Longing
'A resonant sampling of both standards and lesser-known gems.'
Publishers Weekly 'The selection is brilliant, creating cross-currents, complications, and time travelling coincidences to challenge intelligent readers.'
Times Educational Supplement

Goodreads reviews for Love and Longing


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