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Walter de la Mare (1873–1956)

Autor(a) de Memoirs of a Midget

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About the Author

Born in a Kent village, Walter de la Mare was born on April 25, 1873. He was an English poet, short story writer and novelist. He is probably best remembered for his works for children and for his poem "The Listeners". His 1921 novel Memoirs of a Midget won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for mostrar mais fiction and his post-war Collected Stories for Children won the 1947 Carnegie Medal for British children's books. De la Mare's first book, Songs of Childhood, was published under the name Walter Ramal. He worked in the statistics department of the London office of Standard Oil for eighteen years to support his family, but nevertheless found time to write. De la Mare suffered from a coronary thrombosis in 1947 and died of another in 1956. His ashes are buried in the crypt of St Paul's Cathedral, where he had once been a choirboy. (Bowker Author Biography) Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) was a poet, novelist, & anthologist. The recipient of numerous awards, he held honorary degrees from Oxford, Cambridge, & several other universities. (Publisher Provided) mostrar menos
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Séries

Obras por Walter de la Mare

Memoirs of a Midget (1921) 315 exemplares
Peacock Pie (1913) 314 exemplares
Come Hither: A Family Treasure (1923) 211 exemplares
The Return (1922) 169 exemplares
The Three Mulla-Mulgars (1910) 118 exemplares
Best Stories of Walter de la Mare (1942) 73 exemplares
Tales Told Again (1927) 72 exemplares
Behold, This Dreamer! (1605) 72 exemplares
Songs of Childhood (1902) 72 exemplares
Collected Stories for Children (1947) 66 exemplares
Stories from the Bible (1929) 60 exemplares
Ghost Stories (1936) 57 exemplares
The Listeners and Other Poems (1916) 55 exemplares
The Turnip (1927) 53 exemplares
Short Stories 1895-1926 (1996) 52 exemplares
Collected Rhymes and Verses (1944) 50 exemplares
Motley and Other Poems (1918) 45 exemplares
Short Stories 1927-1956 (v. 2) (2001) 45 exemplares
Poems of To-day: An Anthology (1915) — Contribuidor — 42 exemplares
Snow (2014) 40 exemplares
Molly Whuppie (1702) 39 exemplares
The Connoisseur and Other Stories (1926) 37 exemplares
Henry Brocken (1904) 37 exemplares
Bells and Grass (1941) 37 exemplares
Love (1943) 34 exemplares
Summer Evening (2016) 31 exemplares
Strangers and Pilgrims (2007) 31 exemplares
The Lord Fish (1933) 29 exemplares
Songs of Childhood and more... (2017) 28 exemplares
Broomsticks & other tales (1925) 28 exemplares
Selected Stories and Verses (1952) 27 exemplares
The riddle and other stories (1923) 26 exemplares
Stories, essays and poems (1938) 25 exemplares
The Magic Jacket (1962) 24 exemplares
Secret Laughter (Puffin Books) (1969) 24 exemplares
Silver (2017) 24 exemplares
Ding Dong Bell (1924) 23 exemplares
Short Stories for Children (2006) 23 exemplares
The Ride-by-Nights (2015) 23 exemplares
Poems (1906) — Autor — 22 exemplares
Down-adown-derry (1922) 22 exemplares
Voice, The (1986) 21 exemplares
Eight Tales (1971) 21 exemplares
A Choice of de la Mare's Verse (1963) 20 exemplares
Missing (Modern Voices) (2007) 20 exemplares
Winged Chariot and Other Poems (1951) 20 exemplares
Animal Stories (1939) 20 exemplares
The Burning Glass and Other Poems (1945) 20 exemplares
The Veil and Other Poems (1922) 19 exemplares
A child's day : a book of rhymes (1912) 18 exemplares
On the Edge (1930) 18 exemplares
Early One Morning (1945) 16 exemplares
The Wind Blows Over (1936) 16 exemplares
The traveller (1947) 16 exemplares
Seaton's Aunt (1987) 15 exemplares
Stuff and Nonsense (1927) 15 exemplares
Mr. Bumps and His Monkey (1942) 14 exemplares
Poems, 1901 to 1918 (1920) 14 exemplares
The Picnic and other stories (1941) 12 exemplares
Lewis Carroll (1932) 12 exemplares
A Beginning and Other Stories (1955) 12 exemplares
Selected poems (1927) 11 exemplares
Inward companion : poems (1950) 11 exemplares
L'Orgie : une idylle (1965) 11 exemplares
O lovely England, and other poems (1953) 11 exemplares
Alone (1927) 10 exemplares
A penny a day (1960) 10 exemplares
Poems for children (1930) 10 exemplares
The Fleeting and Other Poems (1933) 10 exemplares
La tromba (1993) 8 exemplares
L' artigiano ideale : racconti (1986) 7 exemplares
Crossings (1923) 7 exemplares
Reading Walter de la Mare (2020) 7 exemplares
This year, next year (1937) 7 exemplares
Miss Jemima (1940) 6 exemplares
The Story of Moses (1959) 6 exemplares
Some Stories (1962) 6 exemplares
A snowdrop (1929) 6 exemplares
At First Sight (1998) 6 exemplares
Racconti del mistero (2007) 5 exemplares
Self to self (1928) 5 exemplares
Poems, 1919 to 1934 (1936) 5 exemplares
Dream Song (2019) 5 exemplares
To Lucy (The Ariel poems) (1931) 5 exemplares
All Hallows 5 exemplares
The Story of Joseph (1958) 5 exemplares
Seven short stories 5 exemplares
The Winnowing Dream (1954) 4 exemplares
Poetry in prose (1937) 4 exemplares
The story of Samuel and Saul. (1960) 4 exemplares
Story and Rhyme 4 exemplares
Jack and the beanstalk (1959) 4 exemplares
5 others. 3 exemplares
Mr. Kempe (1925) 3 exemplares
The eighteen-eighties (1971) 3 exemplares
Readings (1927) 3 exemplares
Walter de la Mare: Pocket Poets (1962) 3 exemplares
Before dawn 3 exemplares
Two poems 3 exemplares
The Almond Tree (1985) — Autor — 3 exemplares
The Lost Track (1993) 3 exemplares
A ballad of Christmas 2 exemplares
The sunken garden 2 exemplares
Visitors (Creative's Classics) (1986) 2 exemplares
News 2 exemplares
A froward child 2 exemplares
The Listeners (1944) 2 exemplares
Twelve poets 2 exemplares
Out of the Deep 2 exemplares
Haunted 2 exemplares
Dick Whittington (1951) 2 exemplares
Il rinchiuso e altri racconti (1989) 2 exemplares
Private View (1986) 2 exemplares
The hostage 1 exemplar
Pesnia sna 1 exemplar
Los musicos (1901) 1 exemplar
Čudežni jopič 1 exemplar
Two tales 1 exemplar
The morrow 1 exemplar
Pretty Poll 1 exemplar
The Looking Glass 1 exemplar
The connoisseur 1 exemplar
Ognissanti 1 exemplar
Crystal healing 1 exemplar
Ten Poems (2008) 1 exemplar
Señor pez (1999) 1 exemplar
Old Joe 1 exemplar
The Dutch Cheese (1931) 1 exemplar
A Recluse 1 exemplar
Heidi 1 exemplar
The old men 1 exemplar
De La Mare Poetry 1 exemplar
21 others. 1 exemplar
F.P 1 exemplar
Turnip (Godine Storyteller) (2001) 1 exemplar
The Tree 1 exemplar
NEWS. 1 exemplar
Poems 1 exemplar
The warmint: A poem (1976) 1 exemplar
Bad Company 1 exemplar
Disillusioned 1 exemplar
The Nap 1 exemplar
Essays and studies 1 exemplar
23 others. 1 exemplar
12 others. 1 exemplar
8 others. 1 exemplar
16 others. 1 exemplar
The Wharf 1 exemplar
25 others. 1 exemplar
19 others. 1 exemplar
43 others. 1 exemplar
131 others. 1 exemplar
SPE tracts 1 exemplar
Songs of praise 1 exemplar

Associated Works

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Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contribuidor, algumas edições915 exemplares
The Dark Descent (1987) — Contribuidor — 719 exemplares
Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (1944) — Contribuidor — 637 exemplares
The Nation's Favourite Poems (1996) — Contribuidor — 622 exemplares
The Book of Fantasy (1940) — Contribuidor — 601 exemplares
The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories (1986) — Contribuidor — 541 exemplares
The Oxford Book of Short Stories (1981) — Contribuidor — 510 exemplares
The Crock of Gold (1912) — Introdução, algumas edições509 exemplares
Black Water: The Book of Fantastic Literature (1983) — Contribuidor — 499 exemplares
The Illustrated Treasury of Children's Literature, Volumes 1-2 (1955) — Contribuidor — 457 exemplares
World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time (1998) — Contribuidor — 447 exemplares
A Pocket Book of Modern Verse (1954) — Contribuidor, algumas edições443 exemplares
World War One British Poets (1997) — Contribuidor — 398 exemplares
The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales (1993) — Contribuidor — 365 exemplares
75 Short Masterpieces: Stories from the World's Literature (1961) — Contribuidor — 296 exemplares
In the Nursery (1932) — Contribuidor — 285 exemplares
The Fireside Book of Christmas Stories (1945) — Contribuidor — 280 exemplares
The Penguin Book of Contemporary Verse (1950) — Contribuidor, algumas edições264 exemplares
The Literary Cat (1977) — Contribuidor — 241 exemplares
The Omnibus of Crime (1929) — Contribuidor — 208 exemplares
The New Junior Classics Volume 02: Stories of Wonder and Magic (1912) — Contribuidor — 200 exemplares
Shadows of Carcosa: Tales of Cosmic Horror (2014) — Contribuidor — 125 exemplares
Poems of Early Childhood (Childcraft) (1923) — Contribuidor — 118 exemplares
The Standard Book of British and American Verse (1932) — Contribuidor — 114 exemplares
The Book of Cats (1976) — Contribuidor — 106 exemplares
Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology (2021) — Contribuidor — 103 exemplares
Cat Stories (Everyman's Pocket Classics) (2011) — Contribuidor — 97 exemplares
The Norton Book of Friendship (1991) 95 exemplares
Weird Woods: Tales from the Haunted Forests of Britain (2020) — Contribuidor — 92 exemplares
Storytelling and Other Poems (1949) — Contribuidor — 90 exemplares
A Book of Princesses (1963) — Contribuidor — 87 exemplares
Beastly Verse (2014) — Contribuidor — 85 exemplares
The Treasury of English Short Stories (1985) — Contribuidor — 84 exemplares
H.P. Lovecraft's Favorite Weird Tales (2005) — Contribuidor — 83 exemplares
The Everyman Anthology of Poetry for Children (1994) — Contribuidor — 72 exemplares
The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1996) — Contribuidor — 70 exemplares
Great Ghost Stories (1936) — Contribuidor — 67 exemplares
A Fabulous Formless Darkness (1991) — Contribuidor — 64 exemplares
The Mammoth Book of Fairy Tales (1997) — Contribuidor — 62 exemplares
Ghost Stories and Other Horrid Tales (1997) — Contribuidor — 62 exemplares
The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1964) — Contribuidor — 61 exemplares
Dark: Stories of Madness, Murder and the Supernatural (2000) — Contribuidor — 57 exemplares
Great Tales of Fantasy and Imagination (1945) — Contribuidor — 55 exemplares
Stories of Ghosts, Witches, and Demons (1971) — Contribuidor — 54 exemplares
The Century's Best Horror Fiction Volume 1 (2011) — Contribuidor — 51 exemplares
The Fairies' Ring (1999) — Contribuidor — 48 exemplares
The Mammoth Book of Thrillers, Ghosts and Mysteries (1936) — Contribuidor — 47 exemplares
Key Words Reading Scheme: The Open Door to Reading (1967) — Contribuidor — 46 exemplares
The Second Ghost Book (1952) — Contribuidor — 46 exemplares
The House of the Nightmare and Other Eerie Tales (1967) — Autor, algumas edições; Contribuidor — 46 exemplares
An Omnibus of 20th Century Ghost Stories (1989) — Contribuidor — 45 exemplares
Prose and Poetry for Appreciation (1934) — Contribuidor — 44 exemplares
A Golden Land (1958) — Contribuidor — 42 exemplares
A Quarto of Modern Literature (1935) — Contribuidor — 39 exemplares
Great Tales of Terror (2002) — Contribuidor — 39 exemplares
Six Novels of the Supernatural (1944) — Contribuidor — 38 exemplares
The Queen's Book of the Red Cross (1939) — Contribuidor — 36 exemplares
Ellery Queen's Book of Mystery Stories by 25 Famous Writers (1952) — Contribuidor — 36 exemplares
The Ghost Book: Sixteen Stories of the Uncanny (1926) — Contribuidor — 35 exemplares
Witches, Witches, Witches (1958) — Contribuidor — 32 exemplares
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery, and Horror (1928) — Contribuidor — 32 exemplares
Ghost and Goblins: Stories for Halloween (1936) — Contribuidor — 32 exemplares
The Mystery Book (1934) — Contribuidor — 29 exemplares
The Great Book of Thrillers (1935) — Contribuidor — 27 exemplares
The Night Side: Masterpieces of the Strange and Terrible (1947) — Contribuidor — 27 exemplares
Collected poems (introduction by Walter De La Mare) (2012) — Introdução — 27 exemplares
Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre (1947) — Contribuidor — 26 exemplares
Fantasy Tales (1977) — Contribuidor — 23 exemplares
Night chills : stories of suspense and horror (1975) — Contribuidor — 22 exemplares
Open the Door (1965) — Contribuidor — 22 exemplares
100 Story Poems (1951) — Contribuidor — 20 exemplares
The Second Omnibus Of Crime: The World's Great Crime Stories (1932) — Contribuidor — 18 exemplares
Ten Poems about Cats (2011) — Contribuidor — 17 exemplares
Tales Out of Time (1979) — Contribuidor — 16 exemplares
The Fireside Book of Ghost Stories (1947) — Contribuidor — 16 exemplares
Paha vieras (1996) 15 exemplares
Poems of Magic and Spells (1960) — Contribuidor — 14 exemplares
Fairy Poems (2023) — Contribuidor — 13 exemplares
Dreams and Wonders: Stories from the Dawn of Modern Fantasy (2010) — Contribuidor — 13 exemplares
Spooks, Spooks, Spooks (1966) — Contribuidor — 13 exemplares
Twenty-Nine Stories (1960) — Contribuidor — 13 exemplares
A Second Storyteller's Choice (1965) — Contribuidor — 12 exemplares
Uncanny Tales 2 (1974) — Contribuidor — 11 exemplares
The Bedside Lilliput (1950) — Contribuidor — 11 exemplares
Castles and Dragons (1958) — Contribuidor — 11 exemplares
Favourite Scary Stories from Graveside Al (1996) — Contribuidor — 11 exemplares
The Haunted and the Haunters (1975) — Contribuidor — 10 exemplares
All Day Long: An Anthology of Poetry for Children (1954) — Contribuidor — 9 exemplares
Spring World, Awake: Stories, Poems, and Essays (1970) — Contribuidor — 9 exemplares
All Sails Set (1948) — Contribuidor — 8 exemplares
Twelve Short Masterpieces (1986) — Contribuidor — 7 exemplares
The Eighteenth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1982) — Contribuidor — 7 exemplares
Shudders (1929) — Contribuidor — 7 exemplares
Four to Fourteen: a Library of Books for Children (1950) — Introdução — 7 exemplares
A Treasury of Great Short Stories — Contribuidor — 7 exemplares
The Story Survey (1953) — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
Number Two Joy Street (1924) — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
Giants! Giants! Giants! (1980) — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, October 1973 (1973) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
Ghosts and Ghastlies (1976) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
The Weans of Rowallan (1905) — Prefácio, algumas edições5 exemplares
Chosen for Children (1957) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 2, October 1977 (1977) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 4, December 1973 — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
Number Six Joy Street (1928) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
Number Four Joy Street (1926) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Cubwood — Introdução — 3 exemplares
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 1, September 1977 (1977) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 5, January 1978 (1978) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Forrest Reid: A Portrait and a Study (1953) — Introdução — 2 exemplares
150 anni in Giallo (1989) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Number Five Joy Street (1927) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Number One Joy Street (1923) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, December 1978 — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Fantastyczne Opowieści — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Emil and the Detectives and The 35th of May — Introdução, algumas edições1 exemplar
Rosemary — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Mystery and Suspense — Contribuidor; Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
The uncharted coast — Prefácio, algumas edições1 exemplar
Stories for girls — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar

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THE DEEP ONES: "Mr. Kempe" by Walter de la Mare em The Weird Tradition (Julho 2023)
THE DEEP ONES: "All Hallows" by Walter de la Mare em The Weird Tradition (Junho 2023)

Críticas

Tedious, packed with hackneyed poetic figures. Weirdly similar to “Childe Roland,” but making no allusion to that similarity (as far as I can tell). I felt far more for the horse than the Traveller.
 
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gtross | Feb 28, 2024 |
"No breath of wind, / No gleam of sun – / Still the white snow / Whirls softly down / Twig and bough / And blade and thorn / All in an icy / Quiet, forlorn." So begins Walter de la Mare's evocative wintry poem, which captures the enchanted beauty of snowy vistas—the light and shadow, crystal flakes and powdery piles—and which forms the text of this lovely picture book. The accompanying illustrations from Moldovan artist Carolina Rabei depict a small snow-bound town, and one family's preparation for and celebration of Christmas—Santa Claus appears, in four magical pages—expanding the "story" in the poem to include seasonal observances...

The poem Snow was originally included in Walter de la Mare's 1913 poetry collection, Peacock Pie, and is one of four such selections—the other three being Silver, Summer Evening and The Ride-by-Nights—recently made into picture books featuring Rabei's artwork. The four titles together make up Faber & Faber's Four Seasons of Walter de la Mare series. Snow is the second of these books I have read, after The Ride-by-Nights, and was apparently nominated for the Kate Greenaway Medal (now ignominiously renamed the Carnegie Medal for Illustration). I can certainly see why it received that distinction, as the artwork is quite beautiful. I have a weakness for wintry scenes, and Rabei more than delivers! That being said, although I loved both artwork and poetry here, I wasn't sure what to make of the inclusion of the Christmas element in the former, as I think the poem is more about the beauty of winter itself, and the mystery and majesty of snow, rather than about the holiday. I don't think this was the "wrong" choice, as I did love the Christmasy scenes, and for many people winter is tied to the holiday, but I did find myself wondering what else could have been depicted, if the choice has been made to create a "simple" winter book. Leaving this quibble aside, this is nevertheless one that I would recommend to picture book readers and listeners, who enjoy poetic picture books and/or stories about winter wonders.
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AbigailAdams26 | 1 outra crítica | Dec 10, 2023 |
A few standout poems.
½
 
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gtross | Sep 17, 2023 |
 
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judeprufrock | Jul 4, 2023 |

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Francis Thompson Contributor
H. C. Beeching Contributor
Alice Meynell Contributor
John Masefield Contributor
Carolina Rabei Illustrator
Mabel Lapthorn Illustrator
Margery Gill Illustrator
W. H. Auden Introduction, Editor
Rex Whistler Illustrator
Leonard Clark Foreword
Paul Kennedy Illustrator
Winifred Bromhall Illustrator
Edward Ardizzone Illustrator
Barbara Cooney Illustrator
Louise Brierley Illustrator
W. Heath Robinson Illustrator
Dorothy Lathrop Illustrator
Theodore Nadejen Illustrator
Philip Pullman Introduction
Robin Jacques Illustrator
Richard Doyle Frontispiece
Estella Canziani Illustrator
Errol Le Cain Introduction
Kevin Hawkes Illustrator
Berthold Wolpe Illustrator
Seth Illustrator
Dorothy P. Lathrop Illustrator
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Estatísticas

Obras
250
Also by
130
Membros
3,966
Popularidade
#6,368
Avaliação
4.0
Críticas
39
ISBN
325
Línguas
10
Marcado como favorito
13

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