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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... -
![Collected Poems by Federico García Lorca]()
Collected Poems by Federico García Lorca
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA revised edition of this major writer's complete poetical work"And I who was walkingwith the earth at my waist,saw two snowy eaglesand a naked girl.The one was the otherand the girl was neither."--from "Qasida of the Dark Doves"Federico García Lorca is the greatest poet of twentieth-century Spain and one of the world's most influential modernist writers... -
![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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![A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat by Arthur Rimbaud]()
A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat by Arthur Rimbaud
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsAlthough Arthur Rimbaud stopped writing at the age of 19, he possessed the most revolutionary talent of the century. His poetry & prose have increasingly influenced major writers... -
![The Selected Poems by Federico García Lorca]()
The Selected Poems by Federico García Lorca
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe Selected Poems of Federico García Lorca has introduced generations of readers to mesmerizing poetry since 1955. Lorca (1898-1937) is admired all over the world for the lyricism, immediacy and clarity of his poetry, as well as for his ability to encompass techniques of the symbolist movement with deeper psychological shadings. But Lorca's poems are, most of all, admired for their beauty... -
![Poésies complètes by Arthur Rimbaud]()
Poésies complètes by Arthur Rimbaud
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratings*ILLUSTRATED EDITION French poet and adventurer, who stopped writing verse at the age of 19, and who became, after his early death an inextricable myth in French gay life. Rimbaud's poetry, partially written in free verse, is characterized by dramatic and imaginative vision... -
![The Collected Books by Jack Spicer]()
The Collected Books by Jack Spicer
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Collected Books includes all the poems written from After Lorca (1957) up to the poet's early death, including Admonitions (1958), A Book of Music (1958), Billy the Kid (1958), and The Holy Grail (1962)... -
![Complete Works Ultimate Collection by Algernon Charles Swinburne, Darryl Marks]()
Complete Works Ultimate Collection by Algernon Charles Swinburne, Darryl Marks
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsExclusive 10 Unique Painted Illustrations created for this collectionHistorical & Literary Context Notes Incl... -
![The Stories of Raymond Carver by Raymond Carver]()
The Stories of Raymond Carver by Raymond Carver
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWill You Please Be Quiet, Please? What We Talk About When We Talk About Love... -
![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... -
![Collected Stories by W. Somerset Maugham]()
Collected Stories by W. Somerset Maugham
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratings31 stories:In a strange land --Rain --The Fall of Edward Bernard --The Pool --Mackintosh --The Happy couple --Unconquered --Before the party --Yellow streak --Vessel of wrath --Force of circumstances --Alien corn --Virtue --Bum --Treasure --The Colonel's lady --The Human Element --Footprints in the jungle --Book-bag --The Back of beyond --Mayhew --Mirage --The Letter --The Outstation --Red...Categorized as:
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![A Season in Hell/Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud]()
A Season in Hell/Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWritten by Rimbaud at the age of 18 in the wake of his tempestuous affair with fellow poet Paul Verlaine, "A Season in Hell" has been a touchstone for anguished poets, artists, and lovers for more than a century... -
![Collected Poems [Of] W. H. Auden by W.H. Auden, Edward Mendelson]()
Collected Poems [Of] W. H. Auden by W.H. Auden, Edward Mendelson
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsBetween 1927 and his death in 1973, W. H. Auden endowed poetry in the English language with a new face. Or rather, with several faces, since his work ranged from the political to the religious, from the urbane to the pastoral, from the mandarin to the invigoratingly plain-spoken.This collection presents all the poems Auden wished to preserve, in the texts that received his final approval... -
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![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... -
![İçimizdeki Şeytan by Sabahattin Ali]()
İçimizdeki Şeytan by Sabahattin Ali
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 26 ratings"In this dark novel, Sabahattin Ali (author of Madonna in a Fur Coat) explores the theme of hopelessness as experienced by an individual who cannot realise his talents... -
![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... -
![Collected Poems by Arthur Rimbaud]()
Collected Poems by Arthur Rimbaud
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRimbaud is the enfant terrible of French literature, the precocious genius whose extraordinary poetry is revolutionary in its visionary, hallucinatory content and its often liberated forms. He wrote all his poems between the ages of about fifteen and twenty-one, after which he turned his back on family, friends, and France to roam the world... -
![Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way by Charles Bukowski]()
Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way by Charles Bukowski
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsfrom neither Shakespeare nor Mickey Spillane young young young, only wanting the Word, going mad in the streets and in the bars, brutal fights, broken glass, crazy women screaming in your cheap room, you a familiar guest at the drunk tank, North Avenue 21, Lincoln Heights sifting through the madness for the Word, the line the way, hoping for a check from somewhere, dreaming of a letter... -
![Maldoror and the Complete Works by Comte de Lautréamont]()
Maldoror and the Complete Works by Comte de Lautréamont
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsAndre Breton described Maldoror as -the expression of a revelation so complete it seems to exceed human potential.- Little is known about its pseudonymous author, aside from his real name (Isidore Ducasse), birth in Uruguay (1846) and early death in Paris (1870)... -
![The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Three: Nebula Winners 1965-1969 by Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Silverberg]()
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Three: Nebula Winners 1965-1969 by Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Silverberg
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Nebula Award Winners for Best Novella, Best Novelet, and Best Short Story for the years 1965 - 1969 inclusive... -
![In Youth Is Pleasure: & I Left My Grandfather's House by Denton Welch, William S. Burroughs]()
In Youth Is Pleasure: & I Left My Grandfather's House by Denton Welch, William S. Burroughs
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKeenly observed autobiographical fiction and journal entries from acclaimed writer Denton Welch, featuring an introduction by William S. Burroughs “In Youth Is Pleasure” recounts the summer vacation of Orvil Pym—a sensitive, withdrawn, and deeply unhappy boy of fifteen. Following a trying year at public school, Orvil spends the summer with his father and two older brothers...Categorized as:
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![Hypnos by René Char]()
Hypnos by René Char
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHailed by the poet Paul Eluard as an "absolute masterpiece" upon its first appearance in 1946, René Char’s Hypnos is both a remarkable work of literature and a document of unique significance in the history of the French Resistance... -
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![Το θείο τραγί by Γιάννης Σκαρίμπας]()
Το θείο τραγί by Γιάννης Σκαρίμπας
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsΓραμμένο το 1931 και δημοσιευμένο στις αρχές του 1933, το "Θείο Τραγί" αποτελεί το σημείο εκκίνησης της νεωτερικής γραφής του Γιάννη Σκαρίμπα, αφού εμπεριέχει, προδρομικά, τα περισσότερα από τα στοιχεία εκείνα που θα εξελιχθούν και θα αποτελέσουν τα ιδιαίτερα χαρακτηριστικά της γραφής του συγγραφέα... -
![Three Poems by John Ashbery]()
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![Гeрaцитe. Зeмя. by Elin Pelin, Елин Пелин]()
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![The Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated) by Thomas Hardy, Prometheus Classics]()
The Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated) by Thomas Hardy, Prometheus Classics
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis collection gathers together the works by Thomas Hardy in a single, convenient, high quality, and extremely low priced Kindle volume! This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! Novels Desperate Remedies [1871] Under the Greenwood Tree [1872] A Pair of Blue Eyes [1873] Far from the Madding Crowd [1874] The Hand of Ethelberta [1876] The... -
![The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue]()
The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhere would I start, and how would it even make sense? How could you understand the year in Shandon Street unless you were there, with us, living it?Rachel Murray is twenty-one years old, platonically infatuated with her housemate James, and less-than-platonically infatuated with her enigmatic, married English professor Dr Byrne... -
![Collected Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald by F. Scott Fitzgerald]()
Collected Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsKnown today primarily as the author of The Great Gatsby , F. Scott Fitzgerald was famous in the 1920s and 1930s as a short-story writer. The nineteen stories in this volume were so popular that hardcover collections— Flappers and Philosophers and Tales of the Jazz Ag e—came out almost immediately after the stories had appeared in magazines... -
![Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame) - Vol 1 by Victor Hugo]()
Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame) - Vol 1 by Victor Hugo
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNotre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame) - Vol 1 (of 3) [French English Bilingual Edition]by Victor HugoVictor Hugo is an eminent 19th century French novelist (and poet). Les Miserables is considered one of the most influential works of literature in the 19th century... -
![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... -
![Collected Poems, 1912-1944 by H.D.]()
Collected Poems, 1912-1944 by H.D.
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOf special significance are the "Uncollected and Unpublished Poems (1912-1944)," the third section of the book, written mainly in the 1930s, during H. D.'s supposed "fallow" period. As these pages reveal, she was in fact writing a great deal of important poetry at the time, although publishing only a small part of it... -
![Separate Rooms by Pier Vittorio Tondelli]()
Separate Rooms by Pier Vittorio Tondelli
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLeo is an Italian writer in his thirties. Thomas, his German lover, is dead. On a plane to Munich, Thomas?s home town, Leo slips into a reverie of their meeting and life in Paris, nights in Thomas?s flat in Montmartre and a desperate, drug-induced flight through the forests of northern France that spells the end for Leo and Thomas? languid, erotic life together. Leo travels to find anonymity... -
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![Last Evenings on Earth by Roberto Bolaño]()
Last Evenings on Earth by Roberto Bolaño
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis is the first collection of short stories by the universally acclaimed Chilean author to be published in English and it is an outstanding introduction to Bolaño's writing. Bolaño's narrators are grappling with their own private quests while living in the margins, on the edges, in constant flight from nightmarish threats...Categorized as:
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![Les Chants de Maldoror by Comte de Lautréamont]()
Les Chants de Maldoror by Comte de Lautréamont
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThe macabre but beautiful work, Les Chants de Maldoror, has achieved a considerable reputation as one of the earliest and most extraordinary examples of Surrealist writing. It is a long narrative prose poem which celebrates the principle of Evil in an elaborate style and with a passion akin to religious fanaticism... -
![Russian Stories/Русские Рассказы: A Dual-Language Book by Gleb Struve]()
Russian Stories/Русские Рассказы: A Dual-Language Book by Gleb Struve
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTwelve superb tales by Chekhov, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Pushkin, Bunin, other masters. Excellent word-for-word English translations on facing pages. Also teaching and practice aids, Russian-English vocabulary, biographical/critical introductions to each selection, study questions, more. Especially helpful are the stress accents in the Russian text, usually found only in primers... -
![Cult of Loretta by Kevin Maloney]()
Cult of Loretta by Kevin Maloney
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“Kevin Maloney alchemizes the allure of dicey friendships, hallucinatory sex and a drug so terrifying I’m heartbroken I’ll never get to try it. Cult of Loretta captures the manic fury of Richard Brautigan writing a sequel to The Outsiders during a ketamine binge... -
![James Joyce: The Complete Collection by James Joyce]()
James Joyce: The Complete Collection by James Joyce
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis ebook contains James Joyce's complete works.This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume... -
![Trash by Sylvia Aguilar-Zéleny]()
Trash by Sylvia Aguilar-Zéleny
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTrash interweaves the voices of three women with lived connections to the municipal garbage dump of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico... -
![Breaking Into Japanese Literature: Seven Modern Classics in Parallel Text - Revised Edition by Giles Murray]()
Breaking Into Japanese Literature: Seven Modern Classics in Parallel Text - Revised Edition by Giles Murray
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA collection of seven great works of Japanese literature in the original language, along with the English translation and a newly-revised custom dictionary - plus downloadable audio.Breaking into Japanese Literature lets readers enjoy seven classic stories in the original Japanese... -
![The Selected Poems of Wang Wei by Wang Wei]()
The Selected Poems of Wang Wei by Wang Wei
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDavid Hinton, whose much-acclaimed translations of Li Po and Tu Fu have become classics, now completes the triumvirate of China's greatest poets with The Selected Poems of Wang Wei . Wang Wei (701-761 C.E.) is often spoken of, with his contemporaries Li Po and Tu Fu, as one of the three greatest poets in China's 3,000-year poetic tradition... -
![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... -
![The Complete Poems by John Wilmot]()
The Complete Poems by John Wilmot
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe 2nd Earl of Rochester, John Wilmot, was an english libertine and close friend of King Charles II. Known as one of the greatest poets of the Restoration, he wrote and published popular satirical and bawdy poetry... -
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![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... -
![Paradiso by José Lezama Lima]()
Paradiso by José Lezama Lima
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the wake of his father's premature death, Jose Cemi comes of age in a turn of the century Cuba described in the Washington Post as "an island paradise where magic and philosophy twist the lives of the old Cuban bourgeoisie into extravagant wonderful shapes... -
![The Trees Grew Because I Bled There: Collected Stories by Eric LaRocca]()
The Trees Grew Because I Bled There: Collected Stories by Eric LaRocca
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA beautifully crafted, devastating short fiction collection from the Bram-Stoker finalist and author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes.Eight stories of literary dark fiction from a master storyteller. Exploring the shadow side of love, these are tales of grief, obsession, control. Intricate examinations of trauma and tragedy in raw, poetic prose... -
![Thanda Gosht / ٹھنڈا گوشت by سعادت حسن منٹو, Saadat Hasan Manto]()
Thanda Gosht / ٹھنڈا گوشت by سعادت حسن منٹو, Saadat Hasan Manto
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe story is about the communal violence of 1947. Ishwar Singh, a Sikh fails to make love to his mistress. She suspects him of infidelity and In a fit of jealousy she stabs her husband with his own dagger. While dying, Ishwar Singh admits his crime of attempted rape with an unconscious Muslim girl, who was actually dead.Hence the title "Cold Flesh"... -
![Coleridge's Poetry and Prose by Samuel Taylor Coleridge]()
Coleridge's Poetry and Prose by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsColeridge combined the genius of a poet with the mind of a philosophical critic. His writings are wide-ranging in form and content, and vast in number. Norton’s long-awaited edition is the most comprehensive and user-friendly student edition available... -
![We So Seldom Look on Love by Barbara Gowdy]()
We So Seldom Look on Love by Barbara Gowdy
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNow in paperback, this masterfully crafted story collection by the author of the internationally best-selling novel Mister Sandman is a haunting book that is certain to both disturb and entertain...Categorized as:
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![Collected Poems [Of] W. H. Auden by W.H. Auden, Edward Mendelson](https://48f-1.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/books/small/624b32d9a97f8a995d8d2c2b.jpg)
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