No matter if you're a beginner or expert, there is always room to learn A licensed guide in the UK, John Symonds fishes with anglers of all talent levels, from rank beginners to experienced old-timers. He has seen the common mistakes that many fly fishers make and, over the years, has developed lessons that help anglers overcome their mistakes and really improve their fly-fishing prowess. In this book, Symonds teaches: Basic skills, from stringing...

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792—1822), one of the major English Romantic poets, never lived to see the full extent of his success and influence. His long poems became immensely popular and acclaimed. Symonds's biography is a fascinating portrait of Shelley's unconventional life and uncompromising idealism, as well as a record of his association with John Keats and Lord Byron.

English playwright and poet Ben Jonson (1572—1637) is considered the second greatest playwright of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. This study of Jonson's life, "First (And Second) Period of Manhood" and "Old Age", and work, "Dramatic Style" and "Masterpieces", offers an insightful look at the author of the celebrated plays Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair.

If you were looking for the definitive Christmas anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs. Inside you'll find: · Novels, novellas and short stories from Charles Dickens,...