Poetry and Beauty National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for General Nonfiction (2010) and a damning indictment of

and a damning indictment of how an ambitious young writer expropriated another man’s ideas and then engaged in an elaborate cover-up of 'The Pickwick Papers'’ true origin

when construction began on Angkor Wat

we discover a figure of manifold Irishman and Englishman

and is often misrepresented or even overlooked

Poetry and Beauty National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for General Nonfiction (2010) and a damning indictment ofDescription: Another favourite of our curator's list of bundles. A fan of poetry and its sublime beauty, these two works exemplify some of the best poetry to our curator. William Blake's Songs of Experience is a masterpiece that depicts the union between the literary word and the visual image. This book is also a facsimile edition of Blake's celebrated "Illuminated Books", and reproduces a collection of calligraphed poems, each enclosed in a masterful