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Scorched by Wajdi Mouawad
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTwin children Jeanne and Simon want to solve the mystery of their origins. In retracing the bitter history of their mother, who is about to die, other characters come into the story—witnesses or key players able to assist in the investigation. Carried aloft by poetic language, the inquiry pursued by Jeanne and Simon unfolds in a dreamlike atmosphere... -
![Broken Little Rich Girls by Dominique Thomas]()
Broken Little Rich Girls by Dominique Thomas
Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBroken as in beaten, defeated, subdued, dispirited... Rich as in affluent, well to do, prosperous… So, although they’d been beaten down by life the one thing they didn’t worry about was money. Four friends find themselves at a crossroad in life. For years they’ve hidden behind their smiles while suffering behind closed doors. For Jerzey, her biggest issue is her taste in men... -
![Paris Spleen by Charles Baudelaire]()
Paris Spleen by Charles Baudelaire
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsSet in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of the terrain Baudelaire had covered in his verse masterpiece, The Flowers of Evil: the city and its squalor and inequalities, the pressures of time and mortality, and the liberation provided by the sensual delights of intoxication, art, and women... -
![Selected Poems and Four Plays by W.B. Yeats, Macha Louis Rosenthal]()
Selected Poems and Four Plays by W.B. Yeats, Macha Louis Rosenthal
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSince its first appearance in 1962, M. L. Rosenthal's classic selection of Yeats's poems and plays has attracted hundreds of thousands of readers. This newly revised edition includes 211 poems and 4 plays... -
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![alphabet by Inger Christensen]()
alphabet by Inger Christensen
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAwarded the American-Scandinavian PEN Translation Prize by Michael Hamburger, Susanna Nied's translation of alphabet introduces Inger Christensen's poetry to US readers for the first time. Born in 1935, Inger Christensen is Denmark's best known poet... -
![Sırça Köşk by Sabahattin Ali]()
Sırça Köşk by Sabahattin Ali
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSabahattin Ali’nin 1944-1947 yılları arasında yazdığı hikâyelerden derlediği Sırça Köşk, hayatını altüst eden, kendisini ölüme kadar götüren o keskin devrede yaşadığı ve hayatını şiddetle etkilemiş olayları da yansıtmaktadır. Ayrıca Sinop Cezaevi’nde karşısına çıkan mahkûmun başından geçenler gibi Rıfat Ilgaz’ın emniyetteki bir sorgusu da bu hikâyelere girmiştir... -
![Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera: A Reader's Guide by Thomas Fahy]()
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera: A Reader's Guide by Thomas Fahy
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years from The Remains of the Day to White Teeth... -
![Pleasured By You by Steph Nuss]()
Pleasured By You by Steph Nuss
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOne night of pleasure turns into a summer full of lust. Fletcher Haney owns several businesses all over New York City, gaining him access to tons of beautiful women. He has no intentions of stopping his womanizing ways, until he sees her again. She’s the ultimate heartbreaker he can't forget... -
![Altazor/Temblor del cielo by Vicente Huidobro]()
Altazor/Temblor del cielo by Vicente Huidobro
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAltazor y Temblor de cielo (1931), poemas en verso y prosa, respectivamente, son las abras clave del chileno Huidobro, uno de los importadores de las vanguardias a España. Altazor es una intensa abra metafísica, ademas de un ingenioso juego de palabras, culminación del creacionismo... -
![Viento del pueblo. II tomos by Miguel Hernández]()
Viento del pueblo. II tomos by Miguel Hernández
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"Los poetas somos viento del nacemos para pasar soplando a través de sus poros y conducir sus ojos y sus sentimientos hacia las cumbres más hermosas", confiesa Miguel Hernández en la dedicatoria de "Viento del pueblo" (1936-1937). Y así surgen los poemas de este libro con su nota dinámica, su tono épico y su febril entusiasmo... -
![Trilce by César Vallejo]()
Trilce by César Vallejo
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratings'Trilce' is one of the great monuments of 20th-Century Hispanic poetry, as important in Hispanic letters as 'The Wasteland' and 'The Cantos' in the anglophone world, and all the more amazing for having been composed in remote Peru... -
![Collected Shorter Plays by Samuel Beckett]()
Collected Shorter Plays by Samuel Beckett
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratings'Beckett reduces life, perception, and writing to barest minimums: a few dimly seen, struggling torsos; a hopeless intelligence compulsively seeking to come to terms, in rudimentary yet endlessly varied language, with the human condition they represent. Within these extraordinary limitations, Beckett's verbal ability nonetheless generates great intensity... -
![A'mak-i Hayal by Şehbenderzâde Filibeli Ahmed Hilmi]()
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... -
![McDonagh Plays: 1: The Beauty Queen of Leenane; A Skull in Connemara; The Lonesome West by Martin McDonagh]()
McDonagh Plays: 1: The Beauty Queen of Leenane; A Skull in Connemara; The Lonesome West by Martin McDonagh
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOne of the most exciting young dramatists to emerge in Britain during the 1990s... -
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![Draupadi by Mahasweta Devi]()
Draupadi by Mahasweta Devi
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMahasweta Devi situates her story against the Naxalite movement (1967-71), the Bangladesh Liberation War (1971) of West Bengal and the ancient Hindu epic of Mahabharata, engaging with the complex politics of Bengali identity and Indian nationhood... -
![The Occasions by Eugenio Montale]()
The Occasions by Eugenio Montale
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEugenio Montale's second book of poetry was first published in 1939. This book is his most experimental work, but a work no less tradition-saturated than Eliot's... -
![I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud (Read Me a Poem: Classic Poetry for Modern Children) (Read Me a Poem: Classic Poetry for Modern Children) by William Wordsworth]()
I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud (Read Me a Poem: Classic Poetry for Modern Children) (Read Me a Poem: Classic Poetry for Modern Children) by William Wordsworth
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis spring, children will look at daffodils in a whole new way, thanks to this joyful, vibrant picture book! Lonely l ittle Robot doesn't have much to be happy about, working all day in the factory. One day, while sadly walking by himself, he follows a bird over a hill, and discovers a field of daffodils. After dancing with them, his spirit is filled with joy... -
![The Black Heralds by César Vallejo]()
The Black Heralds by César Vallejo
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOriginally published in Peru in 1919 before the poet fled to Europe to avoid incarceration, this collection of poems is the first from a man who would become a significant voice of Latin American poetry... -
![A Chorus Line: The Complete Book of the Musical by James Kirkwood Jr., Michael Bennett]()
A Chorus Line: The Complete Book of the Musical by James Kirkwood Jr., Michael Bennett
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratings(Applause Books). It is hard to believe that over 25 years have passed since A Chorus Line first electrified a New York audience. The memories of the show's birth in 1975, not to mention those of its 15-year-life and poignant death, remain incandescent and not just because nothing so exciting has happened to the American musical since... -
![Selected Poems 1923-1958 by E.E. Cummings]()
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![The Bridge by Hart Crane, Waldo Frank]()
The Bridge by Hart Crane, Waldo Frank
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBegun in 1923 and published 1930, The Bridge is Crane's major work. "Very roughly," he wrote a friend, "it concerns a mystical synthesis of 'America' . . . The initial impulses of 'our people' will have to be gathered up toward the climax of the bridge, symbol of our constructive future, our unique identity... -
![El árbol by María Luisa Bombal, Alejandra Acosta]()
El árbol by María Luisa Bombal, Alejandra Acosta
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLos protagonistas de esta historia son una joven mujer, su marido mayor y un gomero. Brígida vive con comodidad y lujos en su bella casa, pero pasa en soledad casi todos sus días. Luis, entre sus compromisos y su trabajo, no se percata de las súplicas silenciosas de su mujer... -
![Not I by Samuel Beckett]()
Not I by Samuel Beckett
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsShort dramatic monologue written in 1972 (20 March to 1 April) by Samuel Beckett which was premiered at the "Samuel Beckett Festival" by the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center, New York (22 November 1972)... -
![Ode to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley]()
Ode to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe famous poem "Ode to the West Wind" by P.B... -
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![Чернишка by Emilian Stanev, Емилиян Станев]()
Чернишка by Emilian Stanev, Емилиян Станев
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsИcтopията за малката лиcичка Чepнишка cpeща младитe читатeли cъc cуpoвия живoт в дивата гopа. Пoвecтта e залeгнала в пpoгpамата на бългаpcкитe училища... -
![Promise Broken by K'wan]()
Promise Broken by K'wan
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBeware of the company you keep.K'wan's urban fiction coming-of-age novel, Promise Broken, is set in the gritty streets of Newark, New Jersey. The story follows seventeen-year-old Promise Mohammed as she attempts to uphold friendships and new relationships--even if they lead to her demise... -
![Belfast Confetti by Ciaran Carson]()
Belfast Confetti by Ciaran Carson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBelfast Confetti, Ciaran Carson’s third book of poetry, weaves together in a carefully sequenced volume prose pieces, long poems, lyrics, and haiku. His subjects include the permeable boundaries of Belfast neighborhoods, of memory, of public and private fear, and, indeed, of the forms of language and art... -
![Les Chimères by Gérard de Nerval]()
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... -
![The Solitudes by Luis de Góngora y Argote]()
The Solitudes by Luis de Góngora y Argote
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn epic masterpiece of world literature, in a magnificent new translation by one of the most acclaimed translators of our time. A towering figure of the Renaissance, Luis de Góngora pioneered poetic forms so radically different from the dominant aesthetic of his time that he was derided as "the Prince of Darkness... -
![حديث عيسى بن هشام by محمد المويلحي]()
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![The Bedford Introduction to Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing by Michael Meyer]()
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... -
![Bezette stad by Paul van Ostaijen, Erik Spinoy]()
Bezette stad by Paul van Ostaijen, Erik Spinoy
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn de zomer van 1914 wordt Antwerpen onverwacht gebombardeerd vanuit een zeppelin. Na een korte strijd valt de stad in handen van de Duitsers. Zes jaar later probeert Paul van Ostaijen, zelf Antwerpenaar, het leven en de chaos van de bezette stad vast te leggen... -
![Black Shack Alley by Joseph Zobel, Patrick Chamoiseau]()
Black Shack Alley by Joseph Zobel, Patrick Chamoiseau
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe semi-autobiographical, Caribbean novel that explores shifting race relations in early twentieth-century colonial Martinique. Following in the tradition of Richard Wright’s Black Boy, Joseph Zobel’s semi-autobiographical 1950 novel Black Shack Alley chronicles the coming-of-age of José, a young boy grappling with issues of power and identity in colonial Martinique...Categorized as:
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![¿No oyes ladrar los perros? by Juan Rulfo]()
¿No oyes ladrar los perros? by Juan Rulfo
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsUn padre lleva a su hijo en hombros para que lo atienda un médico. Por el camino se revela la amargura de las relaciones entre padre e hijo... -
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![100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature [volume 2] by Stendhal, Rabindranath Tagore]()
100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature [volume 2] by Stendhal, Rabindranath Tagore
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis 2nd volume of contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors’ last Jerome Three Men in a BoatJoyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManJoyce, UlyssesKingsley, The Water-BabiesKipling, KimLa Fayette, Madame The Princess of ClèvesLaclos, Pierre Choderlos Dangerous LiaisonsLawrence, D. Sons and LoversLawrence, D... -
![Scharlach by Stefan Zweig]()
Scharlach by Stefan Zweig
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"Scharlach" ist eine fruhe Erzahlung von Stefan Zweig aus dem Jahr 1908. Der Medizinstudent Bertold Berger kommt mit seinem Leben an der Universitat, im Medizinstudium und in der Studentenverbindung nicht zurecht. Er droht zu scheitern. Dann erkrankt die Tochter seiner Vermieterin an Scharlach und er entdeckt die Liebe zum Arztberuf... -
![Tea and Sympathy by Robert Woodruff Anderson]()
Tea and Sympathy by Robert Woodruff Anderson
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDrama / 9m, 2f / Int. From the author of I Never Sang for My Father, this groundbreaking drama explores a sensitive young man's coming of age amid the taunts and suspicions of his classmates and teachers at a private boy's academy. Only a sympathetic act of compassion by the wife of the headmaster gives young Tom the courage to grow into a man. A hit onstage and film with Deborah Kerr... -
![Die größere Hoffnung by Ilse Aichinger]()
Die größere Hoffnung by Ilse Aichinger
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIlse Aichingers 1948 erschienener Roman über rassisch verfolgte Kinder während der Hitlerzeit irritiert noch immer: In verfremdenden Bildern erzählt er von der Angst, von der Bedrohung und der widerständigen Hoffnung der »Kinder mit den falschen Großeltern«... -
![Reigen. Zehn Dialoge / Liebelei. Schauspiel in drei Akten by Arthur Schnitzler]()
Reigen. Zehn Dialoge / Liebelei. Schauspiel in drei Akten by Arthur Schnitzler
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSechzig Jahre lang war Arthur Schnitzler Reigen nicht auf der Bühne zu sehen. Nach zwei skandalbegleiteten Aufführungen in Berlin (1920) und Wien (1921) hatte Schnitzler jede weitere Aufführung des Reigen verboten. Nachdem mit dem 31. 12. 19821 - 50 Jahre nach dem Tod des Autors... -
![East is East (NHB Modern Plays) by Ayub Khan-Din]()
East is East (NHB Modern Plays) by Ayub Khan-Din
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSalford 1970: the Khan children, caught between bellbottoms and arranged marriages, are buffeted this way and that by their Pakistani father's insistence on tradition, their English mother's laissez-faire and their own wish to be citizens of the modern world... -
![Der böse Geist Lumpazivagabundus, oder Das liederliche Kleeblatt. Zauberposse mit Gesang in drei Akten. by Johann Nestroy]()
Der böse Geist Lumpazivagabundus, oder Das liederliche Kleeblatt. Zauberposse mit Gesang in drei Akten. by Johann Nestroy
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDie Machtprobe zwischen Fortuna und der Liebesfee Amorosa beschert drei Handwerksgesellen das große Los. Wie der trunksüchtige Schuster Knieriem, der brave Tischler Leim und der prunkliebende Schneider Zwirn mit ihrem Haupttreffer zurecht- oder nicht zurechtkommen, das ist Gegenstand dieser »Zauberposse«, die zu Nestroys populärsten Stücken gehört... -
![Le Horla : Suivi de L'héritage by Guy de Maupassant]()
Le Horla : Suivi de L'héritage by Guy de Maupassant
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratings... « un matin, comme je me promenais près de mon parterre de rosiers, je vis, je vis distinctement tout près de moi, la tige d'une des plus belles roses se casser comme si une main invisible l'eût cueillie, la fleur resta suspendue dans l'air transparent, toute seule, immobile, effrayante, à trois pas de mes yeux.Saisi d'une épouvante folle, je me jetai sur elle pour la saisir... -
![Eloísa está debajo de un almendro by Enrique Jardiel Poncela]()
Eloísa está debajo de un almendro by Enrique Jardiel Poncela
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLa estética renovadora del humor de Enrique Jardiel Poncela (1901-1952) alcanzó una de sus mayores cimas con 'Eloísa está debajo de un almendro' (1940)... -
![Rend mig i Traditionerne by Leif Panduro]()
Rend mig i Traditionerne by Leif Panduro
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDavid går på gymnasiet, han er forkælet og hele hans liv er planlagt og tilrettelagt ned til mindste detalje - han burde være glad, men ak nej - Inderst inde er han dybt ulykkelig og snart styrter alting sammen for ham."Rend mig i traditionerne" er en succesfuld og anerkendt roman af Leif Panduro. David flygter til København og her går absolut alting galt for ham... -
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![El gesticulador: Pieza para demagogos en tres actos by Rodolfo Usigli]()
El gesticulador: Pieza para demagogos en tres actos by Rodolfo Usigli
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn intermediate-level reader on the turbulence that followed the Mexican Revolution in 1910... -
![Der Schüler Gerber by Friedrich Torberg]()
Der Schüler Gerber by Friedrich Torberg
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA special edition from 2011... -
![Nowhere Man by Aleksandar Hemon]()
Nowhere Man by Aleksandar Hemon
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe mind- and language-bending adventures of Hemon's endearing protagonist Jozef Pronek... -
![Getting Out by Marsha Norman]()
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![Kronika wypadków miłosnych by Tadeusz Konwicki]()
Kronika wypadków miłosnych by Tadeusz Konwicki
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPierwsza wielka miłość, niepokoje dojrzewania i ostatnie takie lato. Opowieść o uczuciu, które wstrząsnęło światem Witka i Aliny to jednocześnie romantyczna podróż na Litwę w przeddzień II wojny światowej, podróż do świata, który istnieje już tylko na kartach tej jednej z najsłynniejszych polskich powieści XX wieku... -
![Santa: A Novel of Mexico City by Federico Gamboa]()
Santa: A Novel of Mexico City by Federico Gamboa
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis enduring classic of Mexican literature traces the path to ruination of a country girl, Santa, who moves to Mexico City after she is impregnated and abandoned by her lover and subsequently shunned by her family. Once in the city, Santa turns to prostitution and soon gains prominence as Mexico City's most sought-after courtesan...
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