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Tehlikeli Oyunlar by Oğuz Atay
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsKişinin kendiyle savaşmasını ve yenmesini, kendini dönüştürmesinin hayati bir sorun olarak algılamaya çağıran, çarpıcı ve sarsıca bir roman... -
![Golpo Guccho by Rabindranath Tagore]()
Golpo Guccho by Rabindranath Tagore
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsGolpo Guccho by Rabindranath Tagore is a popular Bengali book of Rabindranath Tagore. The book is collection of 95 Short Stories which are most popular. Tagore wrote most of the stories from Bengali Year 1298 to 1310. The books was published in Indian Publishing House in 1908 to 1909 by Five Parts... -
![Blues pro bláznivou holku by Václav Hrabě]()
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![Poetry of Robert Frost by Robert Frost, Edward C. Lathem]()
Poetry of Robert Frost by Robert Frost, Edward C. Lathem
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThis comprehensive and authoritative edition of Robert Frost's poetry brings together the full contents of all eleven of frost's books of verse - from A Boy's Will to In the Clearing...Categorized as:
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![The Grapes of Wrath and Other Writings 1936–1941: The Long Valley / The Grapes of Wrath / The Log from the Sea of Cortez / The Harvest Gypsies by John Steinbeck]()
The Grapes of Wrath and Other Writings 1936–1941: The Long Valley / The Grapes of Wrath / The Log from the Sea of Cortez / The Harvest Gypsies by John Steinbeck
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe second volume in the Library of America’s authoritative edition of John Steinbeck features his acknowledged masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath. Written in an incredibly compressed five-month period, the novel had an electrifying impact upon publication in 1939, unleashing a political storm with its vision of America’s dispossessed struggling for survival... -
![Collected Poems in English by Joseph Brodsky]()
Collected Poems in English by Joseph Brodsky
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOne of the greatest and grandest advocates of the literary vocation, Joseph Brodsky truly lived his life as a poet, and for it earned eighteen months of internal exile at hard labor, expulsion from his native country, and the Nobel Prize in Literature... -
![The Brothers Karamazov (Classic Literature) by Fyodor Dostoevsky]()
The Brothers Karamazov (Classic Literature) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA profound novel in which Dostoevsky has searched for the truths about man, life and the existence of God. It presents the story of four brothers, each of them with the motive of murder. a gripping action that entangles its reader throughout the story. This was the authors last novel that will remain alive in the annals of history because of its language and unique literary style... -
![Дядо Йоцо гледа by Ivan Vazov, Иван Вазов]()
Дядо Йоцо гледа by Ivan Vazov, Иван Вазов
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsАпостолът в премеждиеЕдна българкаДядо Йоцо гледаИде ли?Павле...Categorized as:
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![Poems 1913-1956 by Bertolt Brecht]()
Poems 1913-1956 by Bertolt Brecht
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFirst Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company... -
![Immortal Poems of the English Language by Oscar Williams]()
Immortal Poems of the English Language by Oscar Williams
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsImmortal Poems Here is the most inclusive anthology of verse ever published at so low a price. It contains not only the best-known works of the British and American masters but also the verse of the most brillant poets of our own day. Oscar Williams, who compiled Immortal Poems, was a distinguished editor and poet in his own right, of whom Robert Lowell wrote in the Sewanee Review: "Mr... -
![Гeрaцитe. Зeмя. by Elin Pelin, Елин Пелин]()
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![The Hound of Heaven by Francis Thompson]()
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... -
![A Cow Called Boy by C. Everard Palmer]()
A Cow Called Boy by C. Everard Palmer
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA story of Josh's fight to save his hand-reared bull-calf, Boy, from the butcher's greedy hands... -
![Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories by Charles Bukowski]()
Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories by Charles Bukowski
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsVirtually everything Black Sparrow publishes is worthwhile, but without Bukowski, whose 40-odd books kept Black Sparrow's bread buttered right up until his death in 1994, none of the rest of it would be possible. Fortunately, "Buk" left plenty of unpublished manuscript behind that, judging from this culling from it, is of a piece with the published stuff... -
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![The Works of William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth]()
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... -
![The Collected Poems by Sergei Yesenin]()
The Collected Poems by Sergei Yesenin
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratings"Preserving in English the immortal spirit and rhyme of the great Russian genius."Biographical notes on Esenin and Isadora Duncan precede each vol. and some chapters.Includes several color reproductions of landscape paintings by Isaac Levitan mounted on pages with captions, and other photos, including a portrait photo of Esenin and his wife Isadora Duncan, American dancer (v. 2, p. [7])... -
![Collected Poems: Edward Thomas by Edward Thomas]()
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![Lady with Lapdog and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov, David Magarshack]()
Lady with Lapdog and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov, David Magarshack
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis collection contains the following eleven stories:Grief AgafyaMisfortune A Boring Story (From an Old Man's Notebook)The GrasshopperWard No. 6Ariadne The House with an AtticIonychThe DarlingThe Lady with the LapdogAnton Pavlovich Chekhov may be likened to his contemporaries, the "pointilliste" painters... -
![Shelley: Poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley]()
Shelley: Poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPercy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), perhaps the most intellectually adventurous of the great Romantic poets, personified the richly various- and contradictory- energies of his time. A classicist, a headlong visionary, a social radical, and a poet of serene artistry with a lyric touch second to none, Shelley gave voice to English romanticism's deepest aspirations... -
![The Selected Poetry by Robinson Jeffers]()
The Selected Poetry by Robinson Jeffers
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn 1938 Random House published The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers , a volume that would remain in print for more than fifty years. For decades it drew enough poets, students, and general readers to keep Jeffers—in spite of the almost total academic neglect that followed his fame in the 1920s and 1930s—a force in American poetry... -
![The American Trilogy: American Pastoral / I Married a Communist / The Human Stain by Philip Roth]()
The American Trilogy: American Pastoral / I Married a Communist / The Human Stain by Philip Roth
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGathered together for the first time in this seventh volume of The Library of America's definitive edition of Philip Roth's collected works is the acclaimed American Trilogy , a major milestone in contemporary American literature... -
![The Zoo Story and Other Plays by Edward Albee]()
The Zoo Story and Other Plays by Edward Albee
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis volume of plays contains Edward Albee's four most famous one-act works. They are "Death of Bessie Smith", "Zoo Story", "American Dream", and "Sand Box"... -
![Come On In!: New Poems by Charles Bukowski]()
Come On In!: New Poems by Charles Bukowski
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBukowski's unmistakable charisma – an ex-down-and-outer who wrote of booze and loneliness in maverick, confident free verse – made him one of the world’s most popular poets long before he died in 1994. More than a decade later, death has not slowed his production.This collection is selected from an archive of verse that the author left to be published after his death... -
![Solitudes, Galleries, And Other Poems by Antonio Machado, Richard L. Predmore]()
Solitudes, Galleries, And Other Poems by Antonio Machado, Richard L. Predmore
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom Library JournalWith Lorca, Machado is considered Spain's greatest poet of the 20th century. Other works have been translated ( Selected Poems , LJ 10/1/82; Times Alone , LJ 6/1/83), but this volume represents "the cornerstone of Machado's entire literary production... -
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![The Treasury of American Poetry by Nancy Sullivan]()
The Treasury of American Poetry by Nancy Sullivan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe title of this anthology suggests the thrust of its contents: The treasures inside are the definition of a country characterized by diversity, power, stability, and strife. Because of the complexity of American life and of America's heritage, it is easier to explain what American poetry is not than to explain what it is... -
![Yoshe Kalb by Israel J. Singer]()
Yoshe Kalb by Israel J. Singer
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBased on a popular folk legend. Yoshe Kalb is a brilliant and haunting novel set in nineteenth-century Galicia. Nahum, a naive and sensitive young man, is thrust into the decadent world of corrupt and competing hasidic dynasties when he marries the daughter of a powerful Rabbi. I. J. Singer explores the darker side of hasidic life and the forces of sin and saintliness that vie for Nahum's soul... -
![Secret Garden: A BabyLit® Flowers Primer by Jennifer Adams]()
Secret Garden: A BabyLit® Flowers Primer by Jennifer Adams
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBabyLit® is a fashionable way to introduce your toddler to the world of classic literature. With clever, simple text by Jennifer Adams, paired with stylish design and illustrations by Sugar’s Alison Oliver, these books are a must for every savvy parent’s nursery library... -
![Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge]()
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... -
![The Steppe and Other Stories, 1887-91 by Anton Chekhov]()
The Steppe and Other Stories, 1887-91 by Anton Chekhov
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Steppe and Other Stories 1887-91 is a collection that reveals Anton Chekhov's evolution from a novice writer to a master of short narrative form. This Penguin Classics edition is translated by Ronald Wilks with an introduction by Donald Rayfield... -
![The Brave Cowboy: An Old Tale in a New Time by Edward Abbey]()
The Brave Cowboy: An Old Tale in a New Time by Edward Abbey
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Brave Cowboy Jack Burnes is a loner at odds with modern civilization. A man out of time, he rides a feisty chestnut mare across the New West -- a once beautiful land smothered beneanth airstrips and superhighways. And he lives by a personal code of ethics that sets him on a collision course with the keepers of law and order... -
![Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog by Dylan Thomas]()
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog by Dylan Thomas
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe 'Young Dog' of the title is of course Thomas himself, & this volume of autobiographical stories by the great modern poet, who shows his waggish humor at its best, his exuberance & verbal magic in spectacular display. It also shows him a spinner of tales & a creator of memorable characters...Categorized as:
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![Singing in the Rain by Arthur Freed, Nacio Herb Brown]()
Singing in the Rain by Arthur Freed, Nacio Herb Brown
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsI'm singing in the rain, just singing in the rain, Oh, what a glorious feeling!Spring calls in this classic Broadway number, brought to life in a beautiful picture book--perfect for sharing! Jump in puddles, raise umbrellas, and dance with joy through the pages of this visual story. With colorful, springy scenes and the familiar lyrics, this is a beautiful, gift-worthy, feel-good read-aloud... -
![Los perros hambrientos by Ciro Alegría]()
Los perros hambrientos by Ciro Alegría
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDefensor de los indios peruanos, interpretó de forma indigenista la realidad nacional. En Los perros hambrientos ambientada en la puna andina, la naturaleza adversa o benéfica es la que marca la pauta del comportamiento de la vida humana... -
![Pilgrim at Sea by Pär Lagerkvist]()
Pilgrim at Sea by Pär Lagerkvist
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBenché il successo di Barabba e il Premio Nobel nei 1951 l’avessero fatto conoscere al grande pubblico anche italiano, Pär Lagerkvist è stato in seguito quasi dimenticato; lasciato in disparte dai flussi delle mode... -
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![Far Away and Long Ago by William H. Hudson]()
Far Away and Long Ago by William H. Hudson
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor at some period of a man's life; at all events of some lives; in some rare state of the mind, it is all at once revealed to him as by a miracle that nothing is ever blotted out... -
![El poeta que rugió a la luna y se convirtió en tigre by Atsushi Nakajima]()
El poeta que rugió a la luna y se convirtió en tigre by Atsushi Nakajima
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEn esta primera traducción al español de uno de sus libros, los lectores tendrán la oportunidad de familiarizarse con la obra de Atsushi Nakajima, uno de los grandes autores japoneses del siglo XX. El cuento «La luna sobre la montaña», incluido en esta recopilación, se estudia en los manuales de los institutos de enseñanza secundaria en Japón... -
![Indian Summer by Adalbert Stifter]()
Indian Summer by Adalbert Stifter
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis is one of Stifter's great epic works, a most sensitive account of the formative years in the life of Heinrich, a student of natural sciences, born into a bourgeois environment, but influenced and gently guided by a nobleman, the old Baron von Risach. It is in fact the baron's own reminiscences which give the book its title...Categorized as:
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![Big Woods by William Faulkner]()
Big Woods by William Faulkner
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBig Woods is a collection of Faulkner's best hunting stories. An avid hunter as well as one of America's greatest writers, Faulkner spent many days hunting in the big woods near Oxford, Mississippi.Included here is his most famous hunting story, "The Bear", as well as "The Old People", "A Bear Hunt", and "Race at Morning"... -
![Poems of the Late T'ang by A.C. Graham]()
Poems of the Late T'ang by A.C. Graham
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsClassical Chinese poetry reached its pinnacle during the T'ang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.), and the poets of the late T'ang-a period of growing political turmoil and violence-are especially notable for combining strking formal inovation with raw emotional intensity. A. C... -
![Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac]()
Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsDesolation Angels, published in 1965, yet written years earlier around the time On the Road was in the process of publication, is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac, which makes up part of his Duluoz Legend...Categorized as:
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![Birds of September by املي نصرالله, Emily Nasrallah]()
Birds of September by املي نصرالله, Emily Nasrallah
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNasrallah’s first published novel, in 1962, now in its twelfth edition. This story about her native village and its people as the heroes won immediate acclaim and two outstanding prizes: the “Said Akl” prize and the “Friends of the Book” prize... -
![The Visions of Dom Francisco De Quevedo Villegas ... by Francisco de Quevedo]()
The Visions of Dom Francisco De Quevedo Villegas ... by Francisco de Quevedo
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 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... -
![Chasing Rumi: A Fable about Finding the Heart's True Desire by Roger Housden]()
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... -
![Zilele şi nopţile unui student întârziat by Gib I. Mihăescu]()
Zilele şi nopţile unui student întârziat by Gib I. Mihăescu
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDeşi critica veche nu l-a apreciat. Zilele şi nopţile unui student întârziat rămâne cel mai bun roman al lui Gib I. Mihăescu. Şi aici intervine tema bovarismului masculin. [...] Romanul are la început o originală factură picarescă şi reconstituie cu umor şi cu multă culoare atmosfera mahalalelor bătute de erou... -
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![Gyvenimas po klevu by Romualdas Granauskas]()
Gyvenimas po klevu by Romualdas Granauskas
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsApysakoje “Gyvenimas po klevu” autorius parodo jau žūstantį kaimą, jo tragišką likimą. Rašytojas nori pabudinti lietuvio sąmonę, suvokimą, kad tik pats žmogus yra sau šeimininkas. Tik žmogus gali susikurti sau aplinką ir namus, kuriuose jam būtų malonu gyventi. R... -
![The Gigolo by Françoise Sagan]()
The Gigolo by Françoise Sagan
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratings'The sap had dried up; the sap, the incentive, the fever, the desire to do, to act, to act the fool, make love, create'A middle-aged woman breaks with her handsome young lover; a placid husband is suspected of infidelity; and a dying man reflects on his extramarital affairs, in these tales of love and disillusionment from the author of Bonjour Tristesse... -
![Seduction of the Minotaur by Anaïs Nin]()
Seduction of the Minotaur by Anaïs Nin
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratings“Some voyages have their inception in the blueprint of a dream, some in the urgency of contradicting a dream. Lillian’s recurrent dream of a ship that could not reach the water, that sailed laboriously, pushed by her with great effort, through city streets, had determined her course toward the sea, as if she would give this ship, once and for all, its proper sea bed…... -
![Ruke by Ranko Marinković]()
Ruke by Ranko Marinković
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNovelističkom zbirkom "Ruke", Marinković se afirmirao ne smo kao vrstan novelist, nego njome postaje europsko antologijsko novelističko ime. Inače, njegove realistički strukturirane novele tematiziraju provincijalni život na rodnom otoku, ali predstavljaju i psihološko analitičku kratku prozu u kojoj se bavi sukobima u čovjeku i društvu, otkrivajući u pojedinačnim sudbinama kolektivno stanje duše... -
![The Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories by Henry Lawson]()
The Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories by Henry Lawson
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne of the great observers of Australian life, Henry Lawson has become part of the Australian national psyche, and his short stories and verse have come to affect how Australian's view their country.Yet at his best Lawson transcends even the very bush, the very outback, the very up-country, the very pub or selector's hut he conveys with such brevity and acuity: he makes specific places universal... -
![Lalka - tom 1 by Bolesław Prus]()
Lalka - tom 1 by Bolesław Prus
Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsDla miłośników Warszawy powieść Prusa jest powieścią o stolicy, literackim przewodnikiem, z którym śladami Wokulskiego można odkrywać szczegóły wyglądu i życia ówczesnej stolicy. Dla innych powieścią społeczno-obyczajową podejmującą krytykę sytuacji w Polsce końca XIX wieku, powieścią o wielkich idealistach, a dla wielu czytelników po prostu utworem o wielkiej romantycznej miłości...
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