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A Man by Oriana Fallaci
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratings"What's the point anyway — Of suffering, dying? It teaches us to live, boy. A man who does not struggle does not live, he survives." (quote from the book)The book is a pseudo-biography about Alexandros Panagoulis written in the form of a novel. Fallaci had an intense romantic relationship with Panagoulis... -
![Duino Elegies and The Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke, Mark Doty]()
Duino Elegies and The Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke, Mark Doty
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRilke is one of the most widely read poets of the 20th century. In his poetry, Rilke addresses the problems of death, God, and "destructive time," and attempts to overcome and transform these problems into an indestructive inner world...Categorized as:
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![Πούσι by Nikos Kavvadias, Νίκος Καββαδίας]()
Πούσι by Nikos Kavvadias, Νίκος Καββαδίας
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsΤο Πούσι είναι η δεύτερη ποιητική συλλογή του Νίκου Καββαδία και εκδόθηκε για πρώτη φορά το 1947 από τον Α. Καραβία. Έκτοτε εκδόθηκε 4 φορές στις εκδ. Γαλαξίας (1961-1971), 16 φορές στις εκδ. Κέδρος (1975-1989) και, από τον Οκτώβριο 1989 μέχρι τον Δεκέμβριο 2000, 13 φορές στις εκδ. Άγρα... -
![A Part of Speech by Joseph Brodsky, Иосиф Бродский]()
A Part of Speech by Joseph Brodsky, Иосиф Бродский
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA Part of Speech contains poems from the years 1965-1978, translated by various hands... -
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![Sagarana: A Cycle of Stories by João Guimarães Rosa]()
Sagarana: A Cycle of Stories by João Guimarães Rosa
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBy the author of The Devil to Pay in the Backlands... -
![Autumn Sonata: Selected Poems by Georg Trakl, Carolyn Forché]()
Autumn Sonata: Selected Poems by Georg Trakl, Carolyn Forché
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGeorg Trakl's poems are considered some of the most difficult for any translator to tackle; his German is dense and sometimes almost impenetrable. Daniel Simko's collection Autumn Sonata, has been lauded for the "simplicity and directness" of its translations, accomplished with out sacrificing the drama of Trakl's rich imagery... -
![Μικρό βιβλίο για μεγάλα όνειρα by Tasos Livaditis, Τάσος Λειβαδίτης]()
Μικρό βιβλίο για μεγάλα όνειρα by Tasos Livaditis, Τάσος Λειβαδίτης
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsΝενικήκαμενΌραμα μεγάλο πάνω απ’ τους δρόμους, σα φύλλα τουφθινοπώρου σκόρπιζαν οι ζητωκραυγές.Η πόλη είχε χαθεί κάτω απ’ τα φώτα, τις σημαίες, τηβουή. Γιορτάζαμε τη νίκη.Όμως την ίδια ώρα κάποιος σηκώνεται μες στο σιωπηλόσπίτι, δεν ανάβει φως, ντύνεται και κάθεται στοσκοτάδι.Κανείς δεν μπορεί να τον βοηθήσει... -
![The Collected Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker]()
The Collected Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDorothy Parker, more than any of her contemporaries, captured the spirit of the Jazz Age in her poetry and prose, and The Collected Dorothy Parker includes an introduction by Brendan Gill in Penguin Modern Classics.Dorothy Parker was the most talked-about woman of her day, notorious as the hard-drinking bad girl with a talent for stinging repartee and endlessly quotable one-liners... -
![Nervous People and Other Satires by Mikhail Zoshchenko]()
Nervous People and Other Satires by Mikhail Zoshchenko
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTypical targets of Zoshchenko's satire are the Soviet bureaucracy, crowded conditions in communal apartments, marital infidelities and the rapid turnover in marriage partners, and "the petty-bourgeois mode of life, with its adulterous episodes, lying, and similar nonsense... -
![天使的禮物 by Astrid Lindgren]()
天使的禮物 by Astrid Lindgren
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTraditional Chinese edition of a classic from Swedish legend Astrid Lindgren: Madicken och Junibackens Pims (Madicken: present from an angel). The book was adapted to a 1980 family film titled "Mag of June Hill." In Traditional Chinese. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc... -
![Complete Short Stories by Graham Greene]()
Complete Short Stories by Graham Greene
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAffairs, obsessions, ardors, fantasy, myth, legends, dreams, fear, pity, and violence—this magnificent collection of stories illuminates all corners of the human experience. Including four previously uncollected stories, this new complete edition reveals Graham Greene in a range of contrasting moods, sometimes cynical and witty, sometimes searching and philosophical...Categorized as:
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![A Pelican at Blandings by P.G. Wodehouse, Nigel Lambert]()
A Pelican at Blandings by P.G. Wodehouse, Nigel Lambert
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsClarence, ninth Earl of Emsworth, sank back in his chair, looking like the good old man in a Victorian melodrama whose mortgage the villain had just foreclosed. He felt the absence of that gentle glow which customarily accompanied the departure of one of his sisters. Lord Emsworth needed Galahad... -
![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])... -
![Poems of André Breton: A Bilingual Anthology by André Breton]()
Poems of André Breton: A Bilingual Anthology by André Breton
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAndre Breton (1896-1966) was the founder of Surrealism and a major leader of the avante-garde movement in France following World War I. This exceptional volume brings together the most comprehensive selection of poems by Breton available in the English language. Here, in a bilingual French-English format are 73 poems representing all styles and stages of the writer's career...Categorized as:
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![The Best Early Stories Of F. Scott Fitzgerald by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Bryant Mangum]()
The Best Early Stories Of F. Scott Fitzgerald by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Bryant Mangum
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEdited and with an Introduction by Bryant MangumForeword by Roxana RobinsonBenediction • Head and Shoulders • Bernice Bobs Her Hair • The Ice Palace • The Offshore Pirate • May Day • The Jelly Bean • The Diamond as Big as the Ritz • Winter Dreams • AbsolutionIn the euphoric months before and after the publication of This Side of Paradise, F...Categorized as:
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![Personæ: The Shorter Poems by Ezra Pound]()
Personæ: The Shorter Poems by Ezra Pound
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIf James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, and Ezra Pound are often credited with creating literary modernism, it was Pound alone who offered (in Hugh Kenner's words) "the synergetic presence") to turn individual experiment into a global movement... -
![Lorelei by Ionel Teodoreanu]()
Lorelei by Ionel Teodoreanu
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsLorelei, scris în 1935, este un roman al iubirii și al trăirii totale prin intermediul ei și include unele dintre cele mai frumoase scrisori de dragoste din literatura română. Personaje sunt un profesor aristocratic, Catu Bogdan, și o fată tânără, Luli, care trăiește în umbra celui adorat toată amărăciunea singurătății... -
![Psmith, Journalist by P.G. Wodehouse]()
Psmith, Journalist by P.G. Wodehouse
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe story begins with Psmith accompanying his fellow Cambridge student Mike to New York on a cricketing tour. Through high spirits and force of personality, Psmith takes charge of a minor periodical, and becomes imbroiled in a scandal involving slum landlords, boxers and gangsters - the story displays a strong social conscience, rare in Wodehouse's generally light-hearted works... -
![قصائد متوحشة by نزار قباني]()
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![The Complete Poems by D.H. Lawrence]()
The Complete Poems by D.H. Lawrence
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis collection includes all the poems from the incomplete "Collected Poems" of 1929 and from the separate smaller volumes issued during Lawrence's lifetime; uncollected poems; an appendix of juvenilia and another containing variants and early drafts; and all Lawrence's critical introductions to his poems. It also includes full textual and explanatory notes... -
![J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings by Harold Bloom]()
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings by Harold Bloom
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratings-- Presents the most important 20th-century criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature -- The critical essays reflect a variety of schools of criticism -- Contains critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an... -
![Scent of Apples: A Collection of Stories by Bienvenido N. Santos]()
Scent of Apples: A Collection of Stories by Bienvenido N. Santos
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis collection of sixteen short stories brings the work of a distinguished Filipino writer to the attention of an American audience. Bienvenido N. Santos first came to the United States in 1941, and since then, he has lived intermittently here and in the Philippines, writing in English about his experiences... -
![The Wind Among the Reeds by W.B. Yeats]()
The Wind Among the Reeds by W.B. Yeats
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn a letter to his publisher, Yeats referred to The Wind Among the Reeds as "a book of short lyrics Irish & personal." It may also be described as a collection of love poems both intense and indirect. Now considered a watershed in Yeats's career, the book received mixed reviews when it was first published in April of 1899... -
![Overnight to Many Distant Cities by Donald Barthelme]()
Overnight to Many Distant Cities by Donald Barthelme
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA collection of eleven astonishing short stories focus on a group of people facing unusual situations or turning-points in their lives and the diverse consequences and alternatives of their... -
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![Cartucho: Relatos de la lucha en el Norte de México by Nellie Campobello]()
Cartucho: Relatos de la lucha en el Norte de México by Nellie Campobello
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNellie Campobello, la autora más vanguardista de las letras mexicanas, se configuró también como la artista más audaz del panorama posrevolucionario... -
![A Manual for Manuel by Julio Cortázar]()
A Manual for Manuel by Julio Cortázar
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHis first political novel... -
![Plumb by Maurice Gee]()
Plumb by Maurice Gee
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLong regarded as one of the finest novels ever written by a New Zealander, Maurice Gee's Plumb introduces us to the intolerant, irascible clergyman George Plumb, one of the most memorable characters in New Zealand literature &- half saint, half monster, superhuman in his spiritual strength and destructive in his utter self-absorption... -
![Towers in the Mist by Elizabeth Goudge]()
Towers in the Mist by Elizabeth Goudge
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsChrist Church, Oxford is the location of this tale of the Leigh family, set in the days of Queen Elizabeth I.Faithful Crocker, an impoverished young Londoner, heads for Oxford. He's bright, cheeky and good-looking, has a tremendous love of learning and hopes to be an Oxford scholar. When he is taken in by Canon Leigh and his eccentric family, Faithful obtained a home... -
![Empire by Gore Vidal]()
Empire by Gore Vidal
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn this extraordinarily powerful epic Gore Vidal recreates America's Gilded Age—a period of promise and possibility, of empire-building and fierce political rivalries... -
![Clarissa by Stefan Zweig]()
Clarissa by Stefan Zweig
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsClarissa, hija de un militar austríaco, conoce en Lucerna a Léonard, un joven socialista francés del que se enamora. El estallido de la Gran Guerra separa a los amantes y la joven, que ha quedado embarazada, debe volver a Austria en medio de una Europa que se desgarra, donde toma la decisión de tener y criar a un hijo del enemigo... -
![The Air-Conditioned Nightmare by Henry Miller]()
The Air-Conditioned Nightmare by Henry Miller
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn 1939, after ten years as an expatriate, Henry Miller returned to the United States with a keen desire to see what his native land was really like—to get to the roots of the American nature and experience. He set out on a journey that was to last three years, visiting many sections of the country and making friends of all descriptions. The Air-Conditioned Nightmare is the result of that odyssey...Categorized as:
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![Machines in the Head: The Selected Short Writing of Anna Kavan by Anna Kavan]()
Machines in the Head: The Selected Short Writing of Anna Kavan by Anna Kavan
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis collection of Anna Kavan’s short fiction and journalism marks fifty years since her death in 1968... -
![The Death of Ahasuerus by Pär Lagerkvist]()
The Death of Ahasuerus by Pär Lagerkvist
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA continuation of an allegorical tale by the great Swedish poet, playwright, novelist & essayist (followed by "Pilgrim at Sea", 1962 & being the 3rd installment of Lagerkvist's tetralogy consisting of Barabbas, The Sybil, The Death of Ahasuerus & Pilgrim at Sea) attempting to polarize the Christian ethos & modern... -
![The Shrimp and the Anemone by L.P. Hartley]()
The Shrimp and the Anemone by L.P. Hartley
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn evocative account of a childhood summer spent beside the sea in Norfolk by brother and sister, Eustace and Hilda... -
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![Vēja ziedi: Rasmas stāsts by Jānis Jaunsudrabiņš]()
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![The Master of Go by Yasunari Kawabata]()
The Master of Go by Yasunari Kawabata
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsGo is a game of strategy in which two players attempt to surround each other's black or white stones. Simple in its fundamentals, infinitely complex in its execution, Go is an essential expression of the Japanese spirit... -
![A Season in the Congo by Aimé Césaire]()
A Season in the Congo by Aimé Césaire
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis play by renowned poet and political activist Aime Césairerecounts the tragic death of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Congo Republic and an African nationalist hero. A Season in the Congofollows Lumumba’s efforts to free the Congolese from Belgian rule and the political struggles that led to his assassination in 1961... -
![Alphabetical Africa by Walter Abish]()
Alphabetical Africa by Walter Abish
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAlphabetical Africa, Walter Abish's delightful first novel, is an extraordinary linguistic tour de force, high comedy set in an imaginary dark continent that expands and contracts with ineluctable precision, as one by one the author adds the letters of the alphabet to his book, and then subtracts them... -
![The Golden Chariot by سلوى بكر, سلوى بكر]()
The Golden Chariot by سلوى بكر, سلوى بكر
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom her prison cell in Cairo, Aziza decides to create a golden chariot to take her and fellow prisoners to heaven, where their dreams can be fulfilled. Aziza's narrative holds together the stories of the other women and their crimes as they yearn for a better life, but cannot realize these dreams... -
![A Terrible Beauty Is Born by W.B. Yeats]()
A Terrible Beauty Is Born by W.B. Yeats
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratings'But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet...'By turns joyful and despairing, some of the twentieth century's greatest verse on fleeting youth, fervent hopes and futile sacrifice... -
![The Prince by Houshang Golshiri]()
The Prince by Houshang Golshiri
Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe 1920s. Iran. In a crumbling house in a provincial town, the last survivor of a deposed dynasty is slowly dying from tuberculosis. The Prince's once magnificent domain has shrunk to his domestic household, where the glories of his ancestors haunt him. Drifting in and out of consciousness, the Prince is tormented by episodes relived of his forbears' callous and whimsical rule... -
![The Lady With the X-Ray Eyes by Svetoslav Minkov]()
The Lady With the X-Ray Eyes by Svetoslav Minkov
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Lady With the X-Ray Eyes (Bulgarian: Дамата с рентгеновите очи) is an absurdist fiction novel by Bulgarian writer Svetoslav Minkov, first published in Germany in 1934. It contains many sarcastic, parodic, diabolic and absurdist elements concerning the superficial nature of modern society. With this work Minkov laid the foundations of Bulgarian science fiction... -
![The Dangerous Summer by Ernest Hemingway]()
The Dangerous Summer by Ernest Hemingway
Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsExperience Hemingway’s firsthand chronicle of a brutal season of bullfights in Spain.In the 1950s, Hemingway and his wife return to Spain, where Hemingway had visited before as a war correspondent to cover the Spanish Civil War, in order to see friends and follow bullfighting events... -
![Dom v stráni by Martin Kukučín]()
Dom v stráni by Martin Kukučín
Rated: 3.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKukučín zasadzuje príbeh románu do dalmatínskeho prostredia. Zachytáva v ňom ľúbostné vzplanutie mladého statkára Nika Dubčića k dcére težaka (sedliaka) Katici Beracovej... -
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![Statky-zmätky by Jozef Gregor Tajovský, Milan Rúfus]()
Statky-zmätky by Jozef Gregor Tajovský, Milan Rúfus
Rated: 2.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsJ. G. Tajovského poznáme predovšetkým vďaka jeho krátkym prózam Mamka Pôstková a Maco Mlieč. Málokto však vie, že začiatky písania jeho divadelných hier sa spájajú s neuhasiteľnou láskou k rodnému jazyku, v ktorom vyučoval slovenské deti napriek silnej maďarizácii...
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