Night-blooming flowers blossom across the covers of this serene journal. A dusting of gorgeous gold foil illuminates the intricate details. 192 lightly lined pages provide plenty of space for personal reflection, sketching, or jotting down favorite quotations or poems. Smooth-finish, acid-free archival paper takes a variety of pens beautifully. A satin ribbon marker keeps your place. A classic feature: gilded-gold page edging. Journal is a larger size: 7-1/4'' wide x 9'' high. Substantial hardcover binding. Raised embossing lends dimensional detailing to our cover design. Complementary endsheets. Illustration by Nansei Sakagami.

Written between August and December 1938, this poem is a record of MacNeice's emotional and intellectual experience during those months. The trivia of everyday living is set against events in the world outside - the settlement in Munich and slow defeat in Spain.

Poetic prose describes a full autumn moon and the magical effect it has on the earth, plants, animals, and people around it.

When his grandfather is sick, Tad-Tin goes out to fly his special dragon kite, so that it can take all their troubles away with it.

A gorgeous picture book that tells a whimsical origin story of the phases of the moon, from award-winning, bestselling author-illustrator Grace Lin Pat, pat, pat... Little Star's soft feet tiptoed to the Big Mooncake. Little Star loves the delicious Mooncake that she bakes with her mama. But she's not supposed to eat any yet! What happens when she can't resist a nibble? In this stunning picture book that shines as bright as the stars in the sky, Newbery Honor author Grace Lin creates a heartwarming original story that explains phases of the moon.

Kagero Nikki, translated here as The Gossamer Years, belongs to the same period as the celebrated Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikuibu. This remarkably frank autobiographical diary and personal confession attempts to describe a difficult relationship as it reveals two tempestuous decades of the author's unhappy marriage and her growing indignation at rival wives and mistresses. Too impetuous to be satisfied as a subsidiary wife, this beautiful (and unnamed) noblewoman of the Heian dynasty protests the marriage system of her time in one of Japanese literature's earliest attempts to portray difficult elements of the predominant social hierarchy. A classic work of early Japanese prose, The Gossamer Years is an important example of the development of Heian literature, which, at its best, represents an extraordinary flowering of realistic expression, an attempt, unique for its age, to treat the human condition with frankness and honesty. A timeless and intimate glimpse into the culture of ancient Japan, this translation by Edward Seidensticker paints a revealing picture of married life in the Heian period.

This journal's cover reproduces art from a 17th-century Japanese readig stand, featuring lacquer with gold. Elegant cover treatments enhance journals 160 lined pages 6-1/4 wide x 8-1/2 high (15.9 cm wide x 21.59 cm high) Hardcover Archival/acid-free paper. Iridescent highlights, embossed.