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Excerpt from Records of Shelley, Byron and the AuthorIf our literature were confined to statistics and dry facts, it would be eternal winter. All our pains and aches and misadventures are dry facts, and all our pleasures spring from our imagination, which, like the sun, adorns everything. The poets create, they fill us with illusions which only Death proves delusions.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare an...

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Newly revised and updated in 2009!This essential guide is all you need to identify the beautiful flowering plants of Alaska, the Yukon and northwestern Canada.

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Excerpt from Letters of Edward John Trelawny: Edited With a Brief Introduction and Notes by H. Buxton FormanLeaving the unpleasant subject of this ancient grievance, I recall the pleasure and keen interest with which I first read the whole of the letters from Trelawny, spreading over fifty-three years Of his long life, the earliest indited shortly after Shelley's death in 1822, when Trelawny was just upon thirty years of age, the last written ...

Excerpt from Adventures of a Younger SonShe did so, and with great exertion I succeeded, though I was dreadfully mauled, in fastening one end round the old tyrant's neck I then climbed the cherry tree, and, holding one end of the sash, I put it round a horizontal branch, when, jumping on the ground, I fairly succeeded in sus pending my foe.At this moment my brother came running towards me. When he saw the plight I was in, he was alarmed, but, ...

Excerpt from Adventures of a Younger Son, Vol. 2 "Rapt in the fond forgetfulness of life, Neuha, the South Sea girl, was all a wife, With no distracting world to call her off From love, with no society to scoff At the new transient flame, no babbling crowd Of coxcombry in admiration loud, Or with adulterous whisper, to alloy Her duty, and her glory, and her joy." Byron. We had now been some months luxuriating in a tranquil life, little di...

Excerpt from Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron IN the summer of 1819 I was at Ouchy, a vil lage on the margin of the lake of Geneva, in the Canton de Vaux. The most intelligent person I could find in the neighbourhood to talk to was a young bookseller at Lausanne, educated at a German university. He was familiar with the works of many most distinguished writers, his' reading was not confined, as it generally is with men of h...

In 1775 a man was sentenced to be transported for seven years to the Mewstone, a barren rock off Plymouth Harbour in Devon. When he had served his sentence he took the tenancy of Looe Island in Cornwall. His family prospered through their involvement in the flourishing trade of smuggling into Cornwall from the Channel Islands and France. This is the story of how a convicted felon was able to take over a fertile and prosperous living and bring ...

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