Townsend, John Rowe

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Modern poetry: a selection

More than 135 poems by modern English and American poets including W. H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath, and Randall Jarrell.

The intruder

The life of a sixteen-year-old English boy begins to change when a stranger claiming to be a relative appears in the village.

The hidden treasure

Original title: Tom Tiddler's ground. Amid the backwater canals of an English industrial town, five children unravel a fifty-year-old mystery about a half-sunken canalboat and its hidden treasure.

Tom Tiddler's ground

1986
Amid the backwater canals of an English industrial town, five children unravel a fifty-year-old mystery about a half-sunken canalboat and its hidden treasure.

Rob's place

1988
With his best friend gone, his mother and stepfather preoccupied with the new baby, and his father's visits becoming less frequent, eleven-year-old Rob, lonely and unhappy, finds a fantastic imaginary refuge on a "South Sea" island in the local park.

The visitors

1977
Visitors from the future complicate the lives of several inhabitants of Cambridge, England.

Noah's castle

1975
A family struggles to survive in a desperate time when the framework of life as they know it is rapidly being destroyed.

Dan alone

1983
Palmed off to relatives by his mother, eleven-year-old Dan runs away, and after a series of adventures with a family of ne'er-do-wells finally brings together the people who will become the family he's always dreamed of having.

The Creatures

1980
In search of a less restrictive way to live, two young people break away from their colony of Persons on the planet Earth, become involved with the inferior Creatures who inhabit Earth, and are thrust into the forefront of a revolution.

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