Zimmermann: 365 books

Most of these delightful poems are lyric in character. There are imaginative love poems, such as, The Cosmic Courtship, and I Walked in Paradise Today.” Others imaginatively portray natural phenomena, such as The Harvest Moon. Histrory is portrayed in such poems as Gluck’s Chivalrous Deed. While...

This e-book deals with a collection of Longfellow’s poems entitled “Birds of Passage: Flight the Fourth.” The collection contains eight poems. The first deals with the U..S. Senator Charles Sumner, who was Longfellow’s friend. In the second, Longfellow travels, not with his feet, but by reading...

This edition treats “Lady of the Lake” by Sir Walter Scott plus “King Lear” and “Othello” by Shakespeare. Other Shakespearean plays treated are “Macbeth,” “Hamlet,” “As You Like It,” “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” “Julius Caesar,” “Twelfth Night,” and “Coriolanus.”...

Three additional tales are treated in this edition: Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand, The Fairies by Charles Perrault, and a story about three ridiculous wishes, also by Perrault. Also treated are three tales by Anatole France: The Crainquebille Affair, Tbe Miracle of the Great Saint Nicholas,...

This e-book contains Christian poetry, romantic poetry, poems of conjugal love, poetic legends, Chinese themes, Sanskrit themes, historical poems, Christmas poems, Easter poems, Reformation Day poems, poetic jokes, etc. The poems are characterized by originality and imagination. Most have regular rhyme and meter.

This e-book treats the poems in Longfellow’s collection entitled “Voices of the Night,” including “The Psalm of Life.” Also treated is his “Book of Sonnets,” including his tribute to his friends Charles Sumner, Louis Agassiz, and Cornelius Felton and his justly famous “The Cross of...

This e-book contains twenty-two reviews. Each gives the essentials of the plot of a Sherlock Holmes mystery. Penetrating critical comments are offered. The following popular stories are among those that are treated: “The Hound of the Baskervilles,” “The Adventure of the Speckled Band,” and...

This e-book is an excellent introduction to the works of Saki. This second edition treats considerably more stories than the first edition. Included are The Interlopers, Dusk, The She-Wolf, The Hounds of Fate, The Wolves of Cernogratz, The Square Egg, The Lost Soul, Reginald, The Mouse, A Matter of...

Henry James is represented by Sir Edmund Orne, The Turn of the Screw, and Owen Wingate. Washington Irving is represented by “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” ”Rip Van Winkle,” “The Student of Salamanca,” “The Devil and Tom Walker,” “The Spectre Bridegroom,” “Philip of Pokanoket,”...

After an introductory poem, this e-book presents the following facets of love: the dawn of love, love’s blessed consummation, faithful love, frantic love, hopeless love, unwelcome love, and anomalous love. The poetry is characterized by beautiful language and daring originality. Two of the poems...

This e-book takes you to Latin America, Europe, heaven, and hell. In Guatemala, you will enjoy an ode to Lake Atitlán. In Belize, Placencia will be poetically described. Among the Mayans, you will learn how they viewed the ceiba. In Mexico, you will enjoy an interesting Tepehuan legend. Moving to...

Twenty years elapsed before Odysseus returned from the Trojan War. He lost his entire fleet and suffered many woes. Everyone thought he was dead, and a host of suitors barged into the house of Odysseus and demanded that his wife Penelope marry one of them.When Telemachus, the son of Odysseus, was...

This e-book offers the plots of the seven voyages of Sinbad the Sailor, plus experiences of the disguised Caliph Harun ar-Rashid. Other stories treated are "Jullanar of the Sea," "Nur-ed-Din and Enis-el-Jelis," and stories concerning a fisherman and a humpback.

O. Henry specialized in surprise endings. In “Makes the Whole World Kin,” a burglar enters a house, but after conversing with the owner, decided to buy him a drink instead of robbing him. In “Squaring the Circle,” an unusual chain of events reconciles a man to his enemy. “The Unfinished...