“After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts – like a Chinese nest of boxes – oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front – in our ancestors, back and back until...”

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Books by Walter de la Mare

The return

2003

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Peacock pie, a book of rhymes

2001

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Memoirs of a midget

1997

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The three royal monkeys, or the three mulla-mulgars

1993

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Come hither

1957

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