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Versus by Hlovate
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsI“Please, Minn. Bukak tingkap bilik you.”“Huh?”“I’m freezing right outside your window. On the roof.”Minn tegak dari baringnya, telefon bimbit masih di tangan.You what?”"No kidding. Please...” balas Ashraff Omar.Mata Minn menala ke tingkap yang ditutupi langsir. Putus fius ke apa mamat ni."Enough of your tricks, AO.”“Minn, I’m dead serious... -
Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWe have a marvelous, almost legendary image of the circumstances in which the composition of this great poem began. Rainer Maria Rilke was staying at Duino Castle, on a rocky headland of the Adriatic Sea near Trieste. One morning he walked out onto the battlements and climbed down to where the cliffs dropped sharply to the sea... -
The Complete Works of Kahlil Gibran: All poems and short stories by Kahlil Gibran
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsKahlil Gibran is one of the most popular poets of all time. His words have the power to move emotions, inspire creativity, and transform lives. He produced some of the world’s most remarkable poems and philosophical essays throughout his almost thirty-year career... -
Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs by Leonard Cohen
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn the decades since he recorded his first album, Leonard Cohen has evolved into an international cult figure--and one of the most literate, daring, and affecting poet-songwriters in the world...Categorized as:
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The Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950 by T.S. Eliot
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis omnibus collection includes all of the author’s early poetry as well as the Four Quartets, Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, and the plays Murder in the Cathedral, The Family Reunion, and The Cocktail Party...Categorized as:
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The Complete Illuminated Books by William Blake, John Commander
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsIn his Illuminated Books, William Blake combined text and imagery on a single page in a way that had not been done since the Middle Ages. For Blake, religion and politics, intellect and emotion, mind and body were both unified and in conflict with each other: his work is expressive of his personal mythology, and his methods of conveying it were integral to its meaning... -
Diuna, tom II by Frank Herbert
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsISBN 8320707722 is shared with the first volume of the book, this is the second... -
The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, New and Revised edition by William Blake
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsCritical commentary illuminating Blake's allusions and references accompanies the texts of his poetic and prose works...Categorized as:
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Beginners by Raymond Carver
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHere is the original manuscript of Raymond Carver’s seminal 1981 collection, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. Carver is one of the most celebrated short-story writers in American literature—his style is both instantly recognizable and hugely influential—and the pieces in What We Talk About . .Categorized as:
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A'mak-i Hayal by Şehbenderzâde Filibeli Ahmed Hilmi
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"A'mâk-ı Hayâl, yeni harflerle ve sadeleştirilmiş olarak birçok kez basıldığı halde, ciddi bir değerlendirmeye neden konu olamamıştır? Bu sorunun yanıtı, yine yayınların kendisindedir. Bu yayınlar, ne yazık ki, eseri ciddi bir değerlendirme konusu kılabilecek bir titizlik ve özenden yoksundur... -
Rimas/ Rhymes by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process... -
The Fool of New York City: A Novel by Michael D. O'Brien
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSet in present day Manhattan, The Fool of New York City is the tale of two souls who are considered to be -fools- and -idiots- in the eyes of most people they encounter.One is a literal giant, the other an amnesiac who believes he is the 17th century Spanish painter Francisco de Goya, hundreds of years old, aging more slowly than the rest of the human race... -
To Pray as a Jew: A Guide to the Prayer Book and the Synagogue Service by Hayim Halevy Donin
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA distinguished guide to Jewish prayer Why do Jews pray? What is the role of prayer in their lives as moral and ethical beings? From the simplest details of how to comport oneself on entering a synagogue to the most profound and moving comments on the prayers themselves, Rabbi Hayim Halevy Donin guides readers of To Pray as a Jew through the entire prescribed course of Jewish liturgy, passage... -
The Hound of Heaven by Francis Thompson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratings'This world renown, classic poem immortalizes the Divine Play between God and man in the eternal pursuit of Love. God's persuasion and man's evasion until the final surrender of the beloved to the Beloved... -
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Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition by Walt Whitman, Malcolm Cowley
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAs Malcolm Cowley says in his introduction, the first edition of Leaves of Grass 'might be called the buried masterpiece of American writing', for it exhibits 'Whitman at his best, Whitman at his freshest in vision and boldest in language, Whitman transformed by a new experience...Categorized as:
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The Works of William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWilliam Wordsworth (1771-1850) is the foremost of the English Romantic poets. He was much influenced by the events of the French Revolution in his youth, and he deliberately broke away from the artificial diction of the Augustan and neo-classical tradition of the eighteenth century... -
A Crown of Feathers by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer"--Cover... -
Joanna's Struggle by J.E.B. Spredemann
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsJoanna Fisher is a typical Amish girl. She attends a one-room schoolhouse with her siblings in Paradise, Pennsylvania. She loves riding her horse, chorin' with her family, and spending time with her best friend, Chloe. But when something unexpected happens at a nearby mud sale, Joanna finds her perfect world turned upside down. Could one event change Joanna's life forever? Approx... -
The Poems of St. John of the Cross by John of the Cross
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSan Juan de la Cruz, the great sixteenth-century Spanish mystic, is regarded by many as Spain's finest poet. Passionate, ecstatic, and spiritual, his poems are a blend of exquisite lyricism and profound mystical thought. In The Poems of St. John of the Cross John Frederick Nims presents his superlative translation of the complete poems, re-creating the religious fervor of St. John's art...Categorized as:
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Poems by Emily Dickinson, Series One by Emily Dickinson
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis edition is written in English. However, there is a running Japanese thesaurus at the bottom of each page for the more difficult English words highlighted in the text. There are many editions of Poems of Emily Dickinson, Series 1... -
Inside, Outside by Herman Wouk
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom the world of faith to the world of show business, the theater of war to the theater of presidential politics, a novel traces one Jewish family's dramatic, often hilarious adventures on the way to the American dream. Reprint. NYT... -
An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process... -
The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction by R. V. Cassil
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTalking about fictionStory form in our time/ Ernest HemingwayRevenge/ Giraldis CambrensisHeart of darkness/ Joseph ConradThe nightingales sing/ Elizabeth ParsonThe owl who was God/ James ThurberTraveling through the dark/ William StaffordGod's country and my people/ Wright MorrisThe egg/ Sherwood AndersonDeath in the woods/ Sherwood AndersonKarl-Yankel/ Isaac BabelSonny's blues/ Janes BaldwinA...Categorized as:
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Brightest Heaven of Invention: A Christian Guide to Six Shakespeare Plays by Peter J. Leithart
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShakespeare was, as Caesar says of Cassius, "a great observer," able to see and depict patterns of events and character...Categorized as:
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Les Chimères by Gérard de Nerval
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPoetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the French by William Stone. A precursor of the symbolists and the surreallists, Gérard de Nerval has fascinated many major literary figures, including Proust and Breton, Eliot and Apollinaire, Michaux and Leiris... -
Five by Endo by Shūsaku Endō
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFive wonderful stories by the Japanese master. Winner of every major Japanese literary prize, his work translated around the globe, Shusaku Endo (1923-1996) is a great and unique figure in the literature of the twentient century. "Irrevocably enmeshed in Japanese culture, he is by virtue of his religion [Endo was Roman Catholic] irrevocably alienated from it" (Geoffrey O'Brian, Village Voice)...Categorized as:
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Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsTwenty-three poems that transformed English poetry Wordsworth and Coleridge composed this powerful selection of poetry during their youthful and intimate friendship. Reproducing the first edition of 1798, this edition of Lyrical Ballads allows modern readers to recapture the book's original impact... -
Paradise Lost and Other Poems by John Milton, Edward Le Comte
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThese three major works by the seventeenth-century English poet show why Milton takes his place beside Shakespeare, Dante, Homer, and Vergil. They ring with the unmistakable clarity of genius, with majesty of language, splendor and wealth of detail, and with the deep conviction of a powerful mind...Categorized as:
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The Bedford Introduction to Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing by Michael Meyer
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Bedford Introduction to Literature responds to the teaching and learning needs of all kinds of literature classrooms -- and composition courses where literature is a focus. Author Michael Meyer understands that a particular challenge for instructors is that students do not necessarily see literature as relevant to their lives... -
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 1A: The Middle Ages by M.H. Abrams, Alfred David
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsWith adoptions at over 1,300 colleges and universities in its first semester; the Seventh Edition of The Norton Anthology of English Literature continues to be the indispensable anthology. Like its predecessors, the Seventh Edition offers the best in English literature from the classic to the contemporary in a readable, teachable format...Categorized as:
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Job by Joseph Roth
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMendel Singer, a modern day Job, goes through his trials in the ghettoes of Tsarist Russia, and on the unforgiving streets of New York. He loses his family, falls terribly ill, and is badly abused. He needs a miracle...Categorized as:
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Their Fathers' God by O.E. Rølvaag
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSusie Doheny, an Irish Catholic, and Peder Holm, a Norwegian Lutheran, fall in love and marry in South Dakota in the 1890s. Soon their marriage is tested by drought, depression, and family bickering. Susie believes they are being tested by their fathers' God. Peder blames Susie for the timidity of her beliefs; Susie fears Peder's pride and skepticism...Categorized as:
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The Marquise of O— and Other Stories by Heinrich von Kleist
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom 'The Marquis of O--', in which a woman is made pregnant without her knowledge, to the vivid and inexplicable suffering portrayed in 'The Earthquake in Chile', his stories are those of a man swimming against the tide of the German Enlightenment, unable to believe in the idealistic humanism of his day, and who sees human nature as irrational, ambiguous and baffling...Categorized as:
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Dream Visions and Other Poems by Geoffrey Chaucer
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsContexts connects the poems to their classical and medieval foundations and includes works by Virgil, Ovid, Cicero, Boethius, Dante, and Boccaccio, among others From the wealth of scholarly work available, the editor has chosen for Criticism six essays that address the poems central themes. Contributors include Charles Muscatine, A. C. Spearing, R. T... -
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Coplas De Jorge Manrique by Jorge Manrique
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages...Categorized as:
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Chasing Rumi: A Fable about Finding the Heart's True Desire by Roger Housden
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsInspired by the poetry of Rumi, the great Sufi mystic, a restless young man heads out on an epic voyage of the heart that takes him from the hills of Florence to the mosques of Konya, Turkey, and into the heart of religious mysticism... -
Brand by Henrik Ibsen
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTranslation and introduction by C.H. Herford, Litt.D., M.A... -
The Complete Works, Vol 1: Poems and Poems in Prose by Oscar Wilde
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis volume of Poems and Poems in Prose inaugurates the Oxford English Texts Complete Works of Oscar Wilde. It provides texts of Wilde's one-hundred and nineteen poems and poems in prose, including twenty-one never published in his lifetime, together with the publishing history of each poem, and a detailed commentary on allusions and echoes, imagery, and points of biographical interest... -
Les meufs c'est des mecs bien by Mourad Winter
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratings" Je sais, là, vous vous dites que j'suis un iench et vous avez sans doute raison... -
The Damnation of Theron Ware: Or Illumination by Harold Frederic, Stanton Garner
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA candid inquiry into the intertwining of religious and sexual fervor, and a telling portrait of the United States at the end of the nineteenth century, this novel foreshadows the rise of naturalism in American literature. The Damnation of Theron Ware (published in England as Illumination) is an 1896 novel by American author Harold Frederic... -
Christ in Concrete by Pietro Di Donato
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsGiving voice to the hardworking Italian immigrants who worked, lived, and died in New York City shortly before the Great Depression, this American classic ranks with Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath a s one of the 20th century’s great works of social protest...Categorized as:
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Urfaust: A New Version of Goethe's Early Faust in Brechtian Mode by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsGoethe's... -
The Girl With A Secret Crush by Sudha Nair
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTwenty-nine-year-old Malini is single, a cat lover, and a proofreader with a secret crush.Vikram Mathur is a bestselling author with more than a dozen books and a debilitating problem—the writer's block.What Malini wants more than anything is to meet Vikram, but he doesn't even know she exists.What if wishes were to come true! Read this short and sweet story to find out... -
Libro Del Buen Amor by Juan Ruiz
Rated: 3.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBook by de Hita,...Categorized as:
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