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Orison Swett Marden's 1917 self-help book "How to Get What You Want" aims to help the reader change their life to become more fulfilling and successful through following the basic laws of success and prosperity that are available to everyone. Dr. Orison Swett Marden (1848-1924) was an American author of inspirational literature. He primarily wrote about how to achieve success in life through the adoption of virtues and common-sense principles. Including simple steps and invaluable advice, this timeless volume can help you change your life just as it has helped countless people before you. Chapters include: "Something Touched Him", "How To Get What You Want", "Playing The Glad Game", "Discouragement A Disease-How To Cure It", "The Force That Moves Mountains", "Faith And Drugs", "How To Find Oneself", "How To Attract Prosperity", "Thinking All Over", "Heart-To-Heart Talks With Yourself", and "Our Partnership With God".

This vintage book contains the complete novels of J. Meade Falkner including "Moonfleet", "The Lost Stradivarius", and "The Nebuly Coat". These fantastic novels will appeal to all fiction lovers and constitute must-reads for fans and collectors of Falkner's wonderful work."Moonfleet" - The titillating tale of smuggling, treasure, and shipwreck set in 18th century England. ""The Lost Stradivarius"" - When a young wealthy man discovers a violin in a secret compartment of a college dorm, he becomes strangely reclusive and obsessed with a mysterious piece of music, roaming throughout England and Italy haunted by the ghost of the violin's previous owner. "The Nebuly Coat" - A suspense novel that tells the story of Edward Westray, a young architect overseeing the restoration of Cullerne Minister. He finds himself caught up in Cullerne life, and hears rumours about a mystery surrounding the claim to the title of Lord Blandamer. John Meade Falkner (1858-1932) was an English novelist and poet best known for his 1898 novel, "Moonfleet". As well as being an accomplished writer, Falkner was also a successful businessman, becoming chairman of the weapons manufacturer Armstrong Whitworth in the First World War.

A delightful pocket-sized collection of William Wordsworth's poetry on flowers. This volume brings Wordsworth's vivid nature imagery to life, featuring much-loved poems such as 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud' or 'Daffodils'.

This beautiful pocket-sized volume is a compilation of William Wordsworth's poetry on birds. The collection includes lyrical, melancholic poems alongside whimsical pieces that will make readers' heart's soar.

First published in 1793, "An Evening Walk - A Romantic Poem for Nature Lovers" is a poem by English Romantic poet William Wordsworth. Composed whilst he was at school, the young lady to whom it was addressed was his sister, the poet and diarist Dorothy Wordsworth. A wonderful example of English Romantic poetry, "An Evening Walk" is not to be missed by fans and collectors of Wordsworth's work. William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was an English poet famous for helping to usher in the Romantic Age in English literature with the publication of "Lyrical Ballads" (1798), which he co-wrote with Samuel Taylor Coleridge. His best known work is perhaps "The Prelude", a semi-autobiographical poem from his early years which was changed and expanded many times throughout his life. Wordsworth was poet laureate of Britain between 1843 until his death in 1850. Other notable works by this author include: "The Tables Turned", "The Thorn", and "Lines Composed A Few Miles above Tintern Abbey". Contents include: "An Evening Walk - Notes By William Knight" and "An Evening Walk - Addressed To A Young Lady". Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with introductory notes from "The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth" by William Knight.

Written between the years 1798 and 1801, The Lucy Poems is a charming, pocket-sized collection of William Wordsworth's Lucy poems, first published in one of his best-known works, Lyrical Ballads.