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  • İnce Memed 3 by Yaşar Kemal

    İnce Memed 3 by Yaşar Kemal

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Otuz iki yıllık bir zaman diliminde yazılan İnce Memed dörtlüsü düzene başkaldıran Memed'in ve insan ilişkileri, doğası ve renkleriyle Çukurova'nın öyküsüdür. Yaşar Kemal'in söyleyişiyle 'içinde başkaldırma kurduysa doğmuş' bir insanın, 'mecbur adam'ın romanı.Çiçekli Mahmut Ağa, Çiçeklideresi köyündeki topraklarını işleyen köylüleri İnce Memed'i korudukları için topraklarından atar...
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  • The Moonlight Sonata by Yiannis Ritsos

    The Moonlight Sonata by Yiannis Ritsos

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Text: English, Greek...
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    classics  20th-century  audiobook  epic  fiction
  • The Collected Poems Of Alvaro De Campos: 1928 1935: V. 2 by Fernando Pessoa, Álvaro de Campos

    The Collected Poems Of Alvaro De Campos: 1928 1935: V. 2 by Fernando Pessoa, Álvaro de Campos

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Alvaro de Campos, along with Ricardo Reis and Alberto Caeiro is one of Pessoa's most important poetic heteronyms and, like these fellow fictitious poets, made his first appearance in 1914. He was also something of a public figure, his essays and reviews frequently appearing in Portuguese periodicals...
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    classics  20th-century  fiction  philosophy
  • Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi by Cesare Pavese

    Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi by Cesare Pavese

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Oversat efter 2. udgave, 28. oplag 2007...
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    classics  20th-century  fiction
  • Cuttlefish Bones by Eugenio Montale

    Cuttlefish Bones by Eugenio Montale

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Cuttlefish Bones, his epoch-making first book, completes the trio of books (with the previously published 'The Occasions' and 'The Storm and Other Things') that won Eugenio Montale (1896-1981) the Nobel Prize in Literature and established him as the Greatest Italian poet since Leopardi. The renowned classicist, translator, and critic William Arrowsmith translated all three volumes...
  • 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 ratings
    Since 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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    classics  20th-century  drama  fiction  university
  • alphabet by Inger Christensen

    alphabet by Inger Christensen

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Awarded 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...
  • Τα ποίηματα Α΄: 1897-1918 by Constantinos P. Cavafy, Κ.Π. Καβάφης

    Τα ποίηματα Α΄: 1897-1918 by Constantinos P. Cavafy, Κ.Π. Καβάφης

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Σα βγεις στον πηγαιμό για την Ιθάκη,να εύχεσαι νάναι μακρύς ο δρόμος,γεμάτος περιπέτειες, γεμάτος γνώσεις.Τους Λαιστρυγόνας και τους Κύκλωπας,τον θυμωμένο Ποσειδώνα μη φοβάσαι,τέτοια στον δρόμο σου ποτέ σου δεν θα βρεις,αν μέν’ η σκέψις σου υψηλή, αν εκλεκτήσυγκίνησις το πνεύμα και το σώμα σου αγγίζει...
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    classics  20th-century
  • Epitaphios by Yiannis Ritsos

    Epitaphios by Yiannis Ritsos

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    On 10 May 1936 the 27-year old Greek poet Yiannis Ritsos saw a newspaper photograph of a woman weeping over the body of her son, a Salonica tobacco-factory worker killed by police during a strike. Two days later the Communist Party newspaper Rizospastis published a long poem by Ritsos...
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    classics  20th-century  fiction
  • Selected Poems by Anna Akhmatova

    Selected Poems by Anna Akhmatova

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Brings together all D.M. Thomas' acclaimed translations of Akhmatova's poems. This volume includes "Requiem", her poem of the Stalinist Terror and "Poem Without a Hero"...
  • Pedro Paramo / El Llano En Llamas by Juan Rulfo

    Pedro Paramo / El Llano En Llamas by Juan Rulfo

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    In "Pedro Pâaramo," Juan Preciado visits the remote village of Comala and confronts the ruthless landowner Pedro Pâaramo, the father he has never known, and in "El Llano en Llamos," fourteen stories profile Mexican life...
  • The Collected Poems, Vol. 2: 1939-1962 by William Carlos Williams

    The Collected Poems, Vol. 2: 1939-1962 by William Carlos Williams

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    'And when the second and final colume of Williams' 'Collected Poems' is published, it should become even more apparent that he is this century's major American poet...
  • Romiosini by Yiannis Ritsos, فواز طرابلسي

    Romiosini by Yiannis Ritsos, فواز طرابلسي

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The word Romiosini or 'Greekness' derives from the Byzantine idea that the Greeks are the true Romioi, the heirs of the Roman Empire. For hundreds of years under the Turkish occupation the flame of romiosini was kept alive in codes of honour, loyalty, bravery, love of the land, religious devotion and patriotism...
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    classics  20th-century  audiobook
  • Wolvensaga by Käthe Recheis

    Wolvensaga by Käthe Recheis

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In het dal van de Fluisterende Winden is de wolvenwereld nog intact. De roedel van Palo Kan leeft in harmonie met de andere dieren en respecteert Waka, de wet van de natuur.Dit vredige leven wordt plotseling verstoord door de komst van Sjogar Kan, de reuzenwolf uit het noorden die Waka niet erkent en met zijn roedel Talloos alle levende wezens wil onderwerpen...
  • 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...
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    classics  20th-century  fiction  university
  • Fernando Pessoa and Co.: Selected Poems by Fernando Pessoa

    Fernando Pessoa and Co.: Selected Poems by Fernando Pessoa

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) - a poet who lived most his life in Lisbon, Portugal, and who died in obscurity there - has in recent years gained international recognition as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century...
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    classics  20th-century  fiction
  • Selected Poems of Miguel Hernández by Antonio A. Gómez Yebra

    Selected Poems of Miguel Hernández by Antonio A. Gómez Yebra

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Miguel Hernández is, along with Antonio Machado, Juan Ramón Jiménez, and Federico García Lorca, one of the greatest Spanish poets of the twentieth century...
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    classics  humor  20th-century  drama  fiction
  • Incidences by Daniil Kharms

    Incidences by Daniil Kharms

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    This wonderfully inventive collection of stories presents the writing of Russian absurdist Daniil Kharms at its vibrant, perplexing best. The book is composed of short miniatures: strange, funny, dream-like fragments ? many of which the author called ?incidents? ? that tend to feature accidents, falling, chance violence and sudden death...
  • The Selected Poems by Osip Mandelstam

    The Selected Poems by Osip Mandelstam

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Osip Mandelstam is a central figure not only in modern Russian poetry but in world poetry, the author of some of the most haunting and memorable poems of the twentieth century...
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    classics  20th-century  anthologies  fiction
  • Alemdağ'da Var Bir Yılan by Sait Faik Abasıyanık

    Alemdağ'da Var Bir Yılan by Sait Faik Abasıyanık

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
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    classics  20th-century  fiction
  • Το θείο τραγί by Γιάννης Σκαρίμπας

    Το θείο τραγί by Γιάννης Σκαρίμπας

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Γραμμένο 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...
  • The Occasions by Eugenio Montale

    The Occasions by Eugenio Montale

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Eugenio 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...
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    classics  fiction  20th-century  university
  • Requiem by Anna Akhmatova

    Requiem by Anna Akhmatova

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The famous poem of resistance under totalitarianism...
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    classics  20th-century  fiction
  • Station Island by Seamus Heaney

    Station Island by Seamus Heaney

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The title poem of this collection, Seamus Heaney's first after Field Work (1979), is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. Heaney's pilgrim is on an inner journey and proceeds through a series of dream encounters which lead him back into the world that formed him, and then forward to face the crises of the present...
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    classics  20th-century  anthologies  fiction  myths
  • Collected Poems by Robert Hayden

    Collected Poems by Robert Hayden

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Robert Hayden (1913-1980) was one of the most important African-American poets of the twentieth century. He left behind an exquisite body of work, collected in this definitive edition, including American Journal , which was nominated for a National Book Award in its first publication...
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    classics  fiction  20th-century  poc-mc
  • Selected Poems 1923-1958 by E.E. Cummings

    Selected Poems 1923-1958 by E.E. Cummings

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    selected poems...
  • Selected Poems by John Ashbery

    Selected Poems by John Ashbery

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From the early virtuosity of Some Trees and The Tennis Court Oath through the triumphs of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror to the brilliance of A Wave - each collection of John Ashbery's verse has broken new ground...
  • Separate Rooms by Pier Vittorio Tondelli

    Separate Rooms by Pier Vittorio Tondelli

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Leo 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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    classics  20th-century  fiction  lgbtq
  • 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])...
  • Last Evenings on Earth by Roberto Bolaño

    Last Evenings on Earth by Roberto Bolaño

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    This 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...
  • Plumb by George Bacovia

    Plumb by George Bacovia

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    La aproape un secol de la ediția princeps, Editura Muzeului Literaturii Române publică într-un număr limitat de exemplare din volumul Plumb, debutul editorial al lui George Bacovia. Tableta ce se deschide cu poemul omonim cuprinde cincizeci de texte, într-o prezentare de lux...
  • Αρνούμαι by Antonis Samarakis

    Αρνούμαι by Antonis Samarakis

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "Όχι, δεν μπορώ να συμβιβαστώ!... Δεν μπορώ να εξακολουθώ να 'μαι μέσα σ' αυτόν τον κόσμο σα να μην έχει συμβεί τίποτα, σα να μη συμβαίνει τίποτα!..."Η αλήθεια είναι ότι, όταν αρθρώνεται η ασυμβίβαστη άρνηση του Σαμαράκη, έχουν ήδη συμβεί πάρα πολλά, και τραγικά, σ' αυτόν τον κόσμο· έχει συμβεί ο Δεύτερος Παγκόσμιος Πόλεμος...
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    classics  20th-century  fiction
  • Here Lies: The Collected Stories of Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker

    Here Lies: The Collected Stories of Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Dorothy Parker (August 22, 1893 - June 7, 1967) was an American poet and satirist, best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th century urban foibles. From a conflicted and unhappy childhood, Parker rose to acclaim, both for her literary output in such venues as The New Yorker and as a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table...
  • Το μεγάλο μας τσίρκο by Iakovos Kambanellis, Ιάκωβος Καμπανέλλης

    Το μεγάλο μας τσίρκο by Iakovos Kambanellis, Ιάκωβος Καμπανέλλης

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    ΡΩΜΙΟΣ: Αρκετά!... Και τώρα μια τελευταία διευκρίνιση. Είπα ότι το έργο μας είναι κωμωδία. Αλλά δεν είναι απλώς διότι έτσι γράφτηκε ή διότι το λέμε εμείς. Είναι κωμωδία για έναν άλλο σοβαρότερο και πολύ πιο έγκυρο λόγο: Το δηλώσαμε ως κωμωδία, το υποβάλαμε στη λογοκρισία ως κωμωδία και ενεκρίθη ως κωμωδία δια της υπ’ αριθμόν 199 αποφάσεως...
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    classics  20th-century  drama  fiction  politics
  • The Hat by Tomi Ungerer

    The Hat by Tomi Ungerer

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The black top hat with magic powers blew into the one-legged soldier's life, made him a wealthy man, and then blew out again...
  • Samlede Strunge: Digte 1978-85 by Michael Strunge

    Samlede Strunge: Digte 1978-85 by Michael Strunge

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Michael Strunge (1958-86) nåede at skrive 11 digtsamlinger, fra debutbogen Livets Hastighed (1978) til den sidste samling, Billedpistolen (1985).Samlede Strunge er et samlet genoptryk af disse 11 digtsamlinger. Derudover bringes en række digte, der ikke tidligere har været trykt i bogform...
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    classics  fiction  male-author  20th-century
  • Orphic Songs by Dino Campana

    Orphic Songs by Dino Campana

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This vivid presentation of Campana demonstrates why Italian readers have cherished his poems since the first appearance of Canti Orfici in 1914. Charles Wright’s translation, Jonathan Galassi’s introduction, and, as afterword, Montale’s thoughtful essay on Campana, identify the heart of this poet’s achievement...
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    classics  fiction  20th-century
  • Collected Poems: Edward Thomas by Edward Thomas

    Collected Poems: Edward Thomas by Edward Thomas

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Edward...
  • Selected Poems by Giuseppe Ungaretti

    Selected Poems by Giuseppe Ungaretti

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A major new translation of one of Italy's greatest modern poetsGiuseppe Ungaretti (1888-1970) was a pioneer of the Modernist movement in Italian poetry and is widely regarded as one of the leading Italian poets of the twentieth century. His verse is renowned and loved for its powerful insight and emotion, and its exquisite music...
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    classics  fiction  20th-century  ww2
  • Something Fishy by P.G. Wodehouse

    Something Fishy by P.G. Wodehouse

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A butler named Keggs who, having overheard the planning of a scheme, later decides to try and make money out of his knowledge. This title features Percy Pilbeam, the unscrupulous head of the Argus Detective Agency, who first appeared in "Bill the Conqueror" (1924) and was in several other Wodehouse books, including a visit to Blandings Castle in "Summer Lightning" (1929)...
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    classics  humor  fiction  20th-century  comedy
  • The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry by Rita Dove

    The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry by Rita Dove

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Penguin’s landmark poetry anthology, perfect for learning poems by heart in the age of ephemeral media Recipient of the Academy of American Poets' Wallace Stevens Award (Dove)Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet Laureate of the United States, introduces readers to the most significant and compelling poems of the past hundred years in The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century...
  • The Bridge by Hart Crane, Waldo Frank

    The Bridge by Hart Crane, Waldo Frank

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Begun 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...
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    classics  20th-century  fiction  university  urban
  • Reeds and Mud by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

    Reeds and Mud by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Set in Valencia, a poverty stricken city on the coast of Spain, this novel portrays the struggle of the common man against his environment. Based on the author's first hand experience in this area, the story centres around three generations of a poor Valencian family (circa 1900) who are as divided in their views on how to get along in this hostile world as any three individuals can be...
  • Pictures of the Gone World by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

    Pictures of the Gone World by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Published to celebrate forty years of City Lights publishing, which began with the letterpress printing of this book in 1955.It was Lawrence Ferlinghetti's first book, and it has been reprinted twenty-one times, having never been out of print. The original edition contained the first twenty-seven poems to which the author has now added eighteen new verses...
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    classics  20th-century  anthologies  fiction  lgbtq
  • Complete Poems by Edith Södergran

    Complete Poems by Edith Södergran

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When she died in poverty at 31, Edith Edith Södergran had been dismissed as a mad, megalomaniac aristocrat by most of her Finnish contemporaries. Today she is regarded as Finland's greatest modern poet...
  • Crave by Sarah Kane

    Crave by Sarah Kane

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Set in an unnamed city from which voices and images spring, Crave charts the disintegration of a human mind under the pressures of love, loss and desire.Produced by Paines Plough and Bright Ltd (Guy Chapman and Paul Spyker), Crave premiered at the Traverse Theatre for the 1998 Edinburgh Festival. It received its English premiere at the Royal Court Theatre, London in September 1998...
  • Collected Poems by Frank Bidart, Robert Lowell

    Collected Poems by Frank Bidart, Robert Lowell

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Frank Bidart and David Gewanter have compiled the definitive edition of Robert Lowell's work, from his first, impossible-to-find collection, Land of Unlikeness; to the early triumph of Lord Weary's Castle, winner of the 1946 Pulitzer Prize; to the brilliant willfulness of his versions of poems by Sappho, Baudelaire, Rilke, Montale, and other masters in Imitations; to the late spontaneity of The...
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    classics  20th-century  anthologies  fiction
  • Memoirs of a Vagrant Soul: Or, The Pitted Face by Mikhail Naimy

    Memoirs of a Vagrant Soul: Or, The Pitted Face by Mikhail Naimy

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    إذا كان لكل أمة أن تزدهي بكتابها وشعرائها، وأن تباهي بعباقرتها وفلاسفتها ومفكريها، فقد حق لنا نحن أبناء الأمة العربية أن نضع ميخائيل نعيمة في رأس مفاخرنا الروحية والأدبية في هذا العصر.إن ميخائيل نعيمة مدرسة إنسانية فريدة ومذهب مضيء من أنبل مذاهب الفكر الإنساني العربي والعالمي...
  • Sämtliche Gedichte by Ingeborg Bachmann

    Sämtliche Gedichte by Ingeborg Bachmann

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Darkness Spoken gathers together Ingeborg Bachmann’s two celebrated books of poetry, as well as early and late poems not collected in book form, over 100 of them appearing in English for the first time, as well as 25 poems never before published in German...
  • 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 ratings
    This 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"...
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    classics  20th-century  drama  fiction  high-school
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