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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDo Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night is a villanelle considered to be among the finest works by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas...Categorized as:
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![Winnie the Pooh Storybook Treasury by A.A. Milne]()
Winnie the Pooh Storybook Treasury by A.A. Milne
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFree Delivery if order value from the seller is greater than 399. Used Book in good condition. No missing/ torn pages. No stains. Note: The above used product classification has been solely undertaken by the seller. Amazon shall neither be liable nor responsible for any used product classification undertaken by the seller. A-to-Z Guarantee not applicable on used products...Categorized as:
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![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... -
![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... -
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![My Voice Because of You, by Pedro Salinas, Jorge Guillén]()
My Voice Because of You, by Pedro Salinas, Jorge Guillén
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEnglish, Spanish... -
![Last Term at Malory Towers by Enid Blyton]()
Last Term at Malory Towers by Enid Blyton
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn Blyton's final book about the girls at Malory Towers, Darrell becomes head girl. Unfortunately not all the girls are as responsible as she is and in her last term Darrell sees many changes in her old school friends...Categorized as:
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![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... -
![The Pursuer by Julio Cortázar]()
The Pursuer by Julio Cortázar
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA short story by Julio Cortázar... -
![The Complete Poems by Emily Brontë, Irene Taylor]()
The Complete Poems by Emily Brontë, Irene Taylor
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe renowned Hatfield edition of Brontë's poetry is a body of work that continues to resonate today. It includes Emily's verse from Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell, as well as 200 works collected from various manuscript sources after her death in 1848... -
![Upper Fourth at Malory Towers by Enid Blyton]()
Upper Fourth at Malory Towers by Enid Blyton
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe girls are in a higher form now. This year there is the tension of exams for the first time, but there is all the fun of the summer term as well - and the high spirits of a lively and imaginative form of girls...Categorized as:
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![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... -
![Rape of the Fair Country: The Mortymer Trilogy Book One by Alexander Cordell]()
Rape of the Fair Country: The Mortymer Trilogy Book One by Alexander Cordell
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe first volume in Alexander Cordell's classic trilogy of mid-nineteenth century Wales... -
![Selected Poems by Boris Pasternak, Борис Пастернак]()
Selected Poems by Boris Pasternak, Борис Пастернак
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAleksandr Blok (1880-1921) lived through his country's savage wars and radical traumas trying to welcome the new order. Trotsky wrote, `Certainly Blok is not one of us, but he came towards us. And that is what broke him.' Pasternak said, `He is as free as the wind... -
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![Selected Poems 1923-1958 by E.E. Cummings]()
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![The Stolen Hours by Karen Swan]()
The Stolen Hours by Karen Swan
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA reluctant bride. A forbidden romance. An island full of secrets . . .It’s the summer of 1929 and Mhairi MacKinnon is in need of a husband. As the eldest girl among nine children, her father has made it clear he can’t support her past the coming winter. On the small, Scottish island of St Kilda, her options are limited...Categorized as:
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![A Little Love Song by Michelle Magorian]()
A Little Love Song by Michelle Magorian
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA classic young love story set in the middle of World War II It is the summer of 1943, and war continues to rage. For Rose and her sister Diana, it’s a time of independence and self-discovery as they find first loves. But when Rose uncovers an extraordinary love story from another war, she is forced to question that love. Rose is about to discover a secret that will change everything...Categorized as:
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![Theatre by W. Somerset Maugham]()
Theatre by W. Somerset Maugham
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn Theatre, W. Somerset Maugham–the author of the classic novels Of Human Bondage and Up at the Villa–introduces us to Julia Lambert, a woman of breathtaking poise and talent whose looks have stood by her forty-six years. She is a star UK stage actress–-so good, in fact, that perhaps she never stops acting... -
![Plumb by George Bacovia]()
Plumb by George Bacovia
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsLa 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... -
![In the Fifth at Malory Towers by Enid Blyton]()
In the Fifth at Malory Towers by Enid Blyton
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsGames, lessons, quarrels and tricks all form part of a lively term, but the biggest event of all is the Fifth Form pantomime, written, acted and produced entirely by the girls. It generates a lot of fun, but also a surprising amount of trouble...Categorized as:
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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... -
![Autumn Term by Antonia Forest]()
Autumn Term by Antonia Forest
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTwins Nicola and Lawrie arrive at their new school determined to do even better than their distinguished elder sisters, but things don't turn out quite as planned...Categorized as:
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![Circle of Honor by Carol Umberger]()
Circle of Honor by Carol Umberger
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA riveting story of betrayal and love on the highlands of medieval Scotland - beautifully packaged with French flaps and deckled edges. It is 14th century Scotland and Gwenyth Comyn has a choice to make. She can accuse her sworn enemy, Adam Mackintosh, of assaulting her-though that crime was committed by another-or she can tell the truth and remain in captivity to her actual attacker...Categorized as:
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![1982, Janine by Alasdair Gray]()
1982, Janine by Alasdair Gray
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratings1982, Janine is a liberal novel of the most satisfying kind. Set over the course of one night inside the head of Jock McLeish, an aging, divorced, alcoholic, insomniac supervisor of security installations, as he tipples in the bedroom of a small Scottish hotel, it makes an unanswerable case that republicanism is a state of absolute spiritual bankruptcy...Categorized as:
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![The Last Dollar Princess by Linda Bennett Pennell]()
The Last Dollar Princess by Linda Bennett Pennell
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIt must be said: Scandal follows her family like an ever-faithful hound. No matter how hard they kick it away, it comes slinking around time after time. Although her relatives are obsessed with social position and the opinions of others, heiress India Elisabeth Petra De Vries Ledbetter is determined to live life on her own terms, family expectations and society's demands be damned... -
![Selected Stories by Robert Walser, Susan Sontag]()
Selected Stories by Robert Walser, Susan Sontag
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHow to place the mysterious Swiss writer Robert Walser, a humble genius who possessed one of the most elusive and surprising sensibilities in modern literature? Walser is many things: a Paul Klee in words, maker of droll, whimsical, tender, and heartbreaking verbal artifacts; an inspiration to such very different writers as Kafka and W.G... -
![Poems and Songs by Robert Burns]()
Poems and Songs by Robert Burns
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible... -
![The House of Bernarda Alba and Other Plays by Federico García Lorca]()
The House of Bernarda Alba and Other Plays by Federico García Lorca
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn these three plays (Blood Wedding, Yerma, The House of Bernada Alba), García Lorca's acknowledged masterpieces, he searched for a contemporary mode of tragedy and reminded his audience that dramatic poetry-or poetic drama-depends less on formal convention that on an elemental, radical outlook on human life... -
![Short Cuts: Selected Stories by Raymond Carver]()
Short Cuts: Selected Stories by Raymond Carver
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe nine stories and one poem collected in this volume formed the basis for the astonishingly original film “Short Cuts” directed by Robert Altman. Collected altogether in this volume, these stories form a searing and indelible portrait of American innocence and loss... -
![Fifth Formers of St Clare's by Enid Blyton]()
Fifth Formers of St Clare's by Enid Blyton
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe St. Clare's girls are now in the fifth form, shortly to go up into the sixth, but they are not too old for tricks and escapades, jokes and excitement. Especially amusing is French girl Antoinette who, like her sister Claudine, doesn't always understand the ways of St. Clare's... -
![Krapp's Last Tape & Embers by Samuel Beckett]()
Krapp's Last Tape & Embers by Samuel Beckett
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn the first of these two plays, an old man records his comments as he listens to a tape recording of his own observations on how life felt when he was 39. In the second, a man walking along the seashore recalls his dead father while other familiar voices speak to him from the past... -
![Swan Song by John Galsworthy]()
Swan Song by John Galsworthy
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratings1928. English novelist, playwright and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932, Galsworthy became known for his portrayal of the British upper middle class and for his social satire. To readers of Galsworthy there is a special significance in this novel for it marks the passing of Soames Forsyte and brings the annals of the Forsyte family to an end... -
![A Shrosphire Lad by A.E. Housman, Agnes Miller Parker]()
A Shrosphire Lad by A.E. Housman, Agnes Miller Parker
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAuthoritative edition of one of the enduring classics of English poetry 63 poems on the nature of friendship, the passing of youth, the vanity of dreams, other human concerns. Long prized by literary scholars for their perfection of form and feeling, and loved by generations of readers for simplicity, sensitivity, direct emotional appeal... -
![Hurrah for the Circus! by Enid Blyton]()
Hurrah for the Circus! by Enid Blyton
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe thrills and adventures of circus life continue for Jimmy and Lotta in this second book of the Galliano's Circus trilogy. Things take a dramatic turn when a troupe of tigers joins the circus. Jimmy is determined to sneak into the tigers' cage and befriend them, heedless of any warnings—and meanwhile, the tiger keeper's jealous son, Fric, nearly tears Jimmy and Lotta's friendship apart...Categorized as:
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![One Moonlit Night by Caradog Prichard]()
One Moonlit Night by Caradog Prichard
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTranslated from the Welsh Philip Mitchell. This book was originally published in 1961 and is considered a modern Welsh literary masterpiece. The story is about a compassionate young boy coming of age in a small North Welsh village...Categorized as:
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![The Sound of My Voice by Ron Butlin]()
The Sound of My Voice by Ron Butlin
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMorris Magellan has a house in the suburbs, nice wife and kids. But Morris is also a chronic alcoholic, heading fast towards self-destruction. Morris is not hoping to meet Ms. Right and acquire the two kids that will straighten everything out. He already has all this and it hasn't kept him off the bottle... -
![The Return of John Macnab by Andrew Greig]()
The Return of John Macnab by Andrew Greig
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe wager: to poach a salmon, grouse and a deer from three Royal Estates. The challengers: three men in a mid-life crisis who should know better. The wild card: a flirtatious female journalist who won't take no for an answer...Categorized as:
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![Pin to See the Peepshow by F. Tennyson Jesse, Jesse F. Tennyson]()
Pin to See the Peepshow by F. Tennyson Jesse, Jesse F. Tennyson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPart of the British Library Women Writers series, rediscovering forgotten works by early to mid-century women writers with beautiful new editions Julia Almond believes she is special and dreams of a more exciting and glamorous life away from the drab suburbia of her upbringing...Categorized as:
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![After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie by Jean Rhys]()
After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie by Jean Rhys
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsJulia Martin is at the end of her rope in Paris. Once beautiful, she was taken care of by men. Now after leaving her last lover, she is running out of luck and chances. A visit to London to see her ailing mother and distrustful sister bring her stark life into full focus. A masterful and terrifying tale from one of the truest voices in twentieth-century fiction... -
![Three Dublin Plays: The Shadow of a Gunman / Juno and the Paycock / The Plough and the Stars by Seán O'Casey]()
Three Dublin Plays: The Shadow of a Gunman / Juno and the Paycock / The Plough and the Stars by Seán O'Casey
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe classic plays of the quintessential Dublin playwrightThree early plays by Sean O'Casey--arguably his three greatest--demonstrate vividly O'Casey's ability to convey the reality of life and the depth of human emotion, specifically in Dublin before and during the Irish civil war of 1922-23, but, truly, throughout the known universe... -
![Highland Hellion by Mary Wine]()
Highland Hellion by Mary Wine
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsKATHERINE CAREWIllegitimate daughter of an English earl... Abducted to Scotland at age 14... No family, no reputation... No rules ROLFE MCTAVISHHeir to an honorable Highland laird... Can't believe how well tomboy Kate can fight.. -
![The Road into the Open by Arthur Schnitzler]()
The Road into the Open by Arthur Schnitzler
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA finely drawn portrayal of the disintegration of Austrian liberal society under the impact of nationalism and anti-semitism, The Road into the Open (Der Weg ins Freie, 1908) is a remarkable novel by a major Austrian writer of the early twentieth century... -
![No Bed for Bacon by Caryl Brahms, S.J. Simon]()
No Bed for Bacon by Caryl Brahms, S.J. Simon
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Warning to Scholars: This book is fundamentally unsound." Master Will Shakespeare and his struggles to finish his new play are at the center of this classic 1941 satire of Elizabethan England, said by many to be the inspiration behind the recent film Shakespeare in Love... -
![The American Dream & The Zoo Story by Edward Albee]()
The American Dream & The Zoo Story by Edward Albee
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsPulitzer Prize-winning author Edward Albee is one of our most important American playwrights. And nowhere is his dramatic genius more apparent than in two of his probing early works, The American Dream and The Zoo Story.The New Yorker hailed The American Dream as "unique ... brilliant ... a comic nightmare, fantasy of the highest order... -
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![Mistress Masham's Repose by T.H. White]()
Mistress Masham's Repose by T.H. White
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 23 ratings"She saw: 1st, a square opening, about 8" wide, in the lowest step...finally she saw that there was a walnut shell, or half one, outside the nearest door...she went to look at the shell, but looked with the greatest astonishment. There was a baby in it...Categorized as:
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![The Chairs by Eugène Ionesco]()
The Chairs by Eugène Ionesco
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn a house on an island a very old couple pass their time with private games and half-remembered stories. With brilliant eccentricity, Ionesco's 'tragic farce' combines a comic portrait of human folly with a magical experiment in theatrical possibilities...Categorized as:
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![Unclay by T.F. Powys]()
Unclay by T.F. Powys
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn UNCLAY, the author's final masterpiece, John Death arrives in the obscure Dorset village of Little Dodder with instructions to ‘unclay’ two of its inhabitants. Unfortunately for him, Death loses the divine chit bearing the names of the doomed pair, and is obliged to stay in Little Dodder until he finds it. And in the course of that summer he acquires a taste for life.. -
![The Soul of Kindness by Elizabeth Taylor]()
The Soul of Kindness by Elizabeth Taylor
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratings"Here I am!" Flora called to Richard as she went downstairs. For a second, Meg felt disloyalty. It occurred to her of a sudden that Flora was always saying that, and that it was in the tone of one giving a lovely present. She was bestowing herself.'The soul of kindness is what Flora believes herself to be... -
![The Sensible Thing by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Francis Fitzgerald]()
The Sensible Thing by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Francis Fitzgerald
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis 1924 short story borrows from the common plot and themes of Fitzgerald's work. In this story, George O'Kelly, an aspiring engineer turned insurance salesman, fights to recapture the love of Jonquil Cary. When George receives a letter from Jonquil that sounds "nervous" George quits his insurance job and heads down to Tennessee to convince Jonquil of his love for her... -
![Kehinde by Buchi Emecheta]()
Kehinde by Buchi Emecheta
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsKehinde is a Nigerian woman, unsure of herself, not quite certain she has the right to be happy. With her husband, Albert, she has made a home in London, and has a promising career when Albert decides they should return to Nigeria. Kehinde is loath to do so, and joins him later, reluctantly, only to discover that he has taken a second, younger wife...
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