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İnce Memed 3 by Yaşar Kemal
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOtuz 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 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 ratingsAlvaro 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... -
![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 ratingsOversat efter 2. udgave, 28. oplag 2007... -
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![Cuttlefish Bones by Eugenio Montale]()
Cuttlefish Bones by Eugenio Montale
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsCuttlefish 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 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
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... -
![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 ratingsΣα 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... -
![Epitaphios by Yiannis Ritsos]()
Epitaphios by Yiannis Ritsos
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOn 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... -
![Selected Poems by Anna Akhmatova]()
Selected Poems by Anna Akhmatova
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBrings 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 ratingsIn "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... -
![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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![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 ratingsThe 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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![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... -
![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 ratingsFernando 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... -
![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 ratingsMiguel Hernández is, along with Antonio Machado, Juan Ramón Jiménez, and Federico García Lorca, one of the greatest Spanish poets of the twentieth century... -
![Incidences by Daniil Kharms]()
Incidences by Daniil Kharms
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis 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 ratingsOsip 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... -
![Alemdağ'da Var Bir Yılan by Sait Faik Abasıyanık]()
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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... -
![Requiem by Anna Akhmatova]()
Requiem by Anna Akhmatova
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe famous poem of resistance under totalitarianism... -
![Station Island by Seamus Heaney]()
Station Island by Seamus Heaney
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe 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... -
![Collected Poems by Robert Hayden]()
Collected Poems by Robert Hayden
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRobert 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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![Selected Poems 1923-1958 by E.E. Cummings]()
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![Selected Poems by John Ashbery]()
Selected Poems by John Ashbery
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom 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 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... -
![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 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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![Plexus by Henry Miller]()
Plexus by Henry Miller
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSecond volume in the Rosy Crucifixion series. More about Henry and June, also chronicling the author's travels to the deep South, and his work as an encyclopedia salesmen (after he'd left personnel)...Categorized as:
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![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... -
![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 ratingsDorothy 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 ratingsΡΩΜΙΟΣ: 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... -
![The Hat by Tomi Ungerer]()
The Hat by Tomi Ungerer
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe black top hat with magic powers blew into the one-legged soldier's life, made him a wealthy man, and then blew out again... -
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![Samlede Strunge: Digte 1978-85 by Michael Strunge]()
Samlede Strunge: Digte 1978-85 by Michael Strunge
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMichael 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... -
![Orphic Songs by Dino Campana]()
Orphic Songs by Dino Campana
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis 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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![Selected Poems by Giuseppe Ungaretti]()
Selected Poems by Giuseppe Ungaretti
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA 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... -
![Something Fishy by P.G. Wodehouse]()
Something Fishy by P.G. Wodehouse
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA 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)... -
![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 ratingsPenguin’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 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... -
![Reeds and Mud by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez]()
Reeds and Mud by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSet 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... -
![Miracle of the Rose by Jean Genet]()
Miracle of the Rose by Jean Genet
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis is the third of Genet's prose works to be published in the United States, following Our Lady of the Flowers (1963) and The Thief's Journal (1964). It is, however, Genet's second novel, having been written in La Santé and Tourelles prisons in 1943, directly after Our Lady of the Flowers...Categorized as:
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![Pictures of the Gone World by Lawrence Ferlinghetti]()
Pictures of the Gone World by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsPublished 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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![Complete Poems by Edith Södergran]()
Complete Poems by Edith Södergran
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen 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... -
![Nexus by Henry Miller]()
Nexus by Henry Miller
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNexus is the third volume of the scandalous trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion, Henry Miller's major life workThe exhilarating final volume of Henry Miller's semi-autobiographical trilogy, Nexus follows his last months in New York. Trapped in a bizarre ménage-à-trois with his fiery wife Mona and her lover Stasia, he finds his life descending into chaos... -
![Collected Poems by Frank Bidart, Robert Lowell]()
Collected Poems by Frank Bidart, Robert Lowell
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrank 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... -
![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 ratingsإذا 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 ratingsDarkness 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 ratingsThis 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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