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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... -
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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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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... -
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![The Pursuer by Julio Cortázar]()
The Pursuer by Julio Cortázar
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA short story by Julio Cortázar... -
![Solitudes Crowded With Loneliness by Bob Kaufman]()
Solitudes Crowded With Loneliness by Bob Kaufman
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPublished in 1965, Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness assembles ten years' work of Bob Kaufman, celebrated in San Francisco as the original Beat and in France as "the American Rimbaud."Kaufman, one of fourteen children born in Louisiana to a German Jewish father and a Black Catholic mothers, ran away to sea when he was thirteen, circling the globe nine times in the next twenty years... -
![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... -
![A Chorus Line: The Complete Book of the Musical by James Kirkwood Jr., Michael Bennett]()
A Chorus Line: The Complete Book of the Musical by James Kirkwood Jr., Michael Bennett
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratings(Applause Books). It is hard to believe that over 25 years have passed since A Chorus Line first electrified a New York audience. The memories of the show's birth in 1975, not to mention those of its 15-year-life and poignant death, remain incandescent and not just because nothing so exciting has happened to the American musical since... -
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![The Spirit Level: Poems by Seamus Heaney]()
The Spirit Level: Poems by Seamus Heaney
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Spirit Level was the first book of poems Heaney published after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. Reviewing this book in The New York Times Book Review, Richard Tillinghast noted that Heaney "has been and is here for good . . . [His poems] will last. Anyone who reads poetry has reason to rejoice at living in the age when Seamus Heaney is writing... -
![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... -
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One Good Man by Emma Scott
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt’s spring, 1970. The Vietnam War has been raging for years with no end in sight. Janey Martin, a California college student and aspiring journalist is tired of writing puff pieces about her university men’s sports teams. She wants to be taken seriously as a journalist and as a woman... -
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Belfast Confetti by Ciaran Carson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBelfast Confetti, Ciaran Carson’s third book of poetry, weaves together in a carefully sequenced volume prose pieces, long poems, lyrics, and haiku. His subjects include the permeable boundaries of Belfast neighborhoods, of memory, of public and private fear, and, indeed, of the forms of language and art... -
![Reigen. Zehn Dialoge / Liebelei. Schauspiel in drei Akten by Arthur Schnitzler]()
Reigen. Zehn Dialoge / Liebelei. Schauspiel in drei Akten by Arthur Schnitzler
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSechzig Jahre lang war Arthur Schnitzler Reigen nicht auf der Bühne zu sehen. Nach zwei skandalbegleiteten Aufführungen in Berlin (1920) und Wien (1921) hatte Schnitzler jede weitere Aufführung des Reigen verboten. Nachdem mit dem 31. 12. 19821 - 50 Jahre nach dem Tod des Autors... -
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![Spring Tides by Jacques Poulin]()
Spring Tides by Jacques Poulin
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“Poulin is a master of imagery and dialogue: They rest like froth on top of something much more murky and morose: an underlying fear of emptiness.”—The SilhouettePeacefully employed on an uninhabited island, a translator of comic strips (codename Teddy Bear) lives in the company of his dictionaries, his marauding cat, Matousalem, and his tennis ball machine (the Prince)... -
![El gesticulador: Pieza para demagogos en tres actos by Rodolfo Usigli]()
El gesticulador: Pieza para demagogos en tres actos by Rodolfo Usigli
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn intermediate-level reader on the turbulence that followed the Mexican Revolution in 1910... -
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![The Family Reunion by T.S. Eliot]()
The Family Reunion by T.S. Eliot
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA modern verse play dealing with the problem of man’s guilt and his need for expiation through his acceptance of responsibility for the sin of humanity. “What poets and playwrights have been fumbling at in their desire to put poetry into drama and drama into poetry has here been realized.... This is the finest verse play since the Elizabethans” (New York Times)... -
![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... -
![Historia De Una Escalera by Antonio Buero Vallejo]()
Historia De Una Escalera by Antonio Buero Vallejo
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsHistoria de una escalera, originalmente llamada La escalera, poseía el mismo título de una obra de Eusebio García Luengo, y por lo tanto, debió adoptarse el primer nombre mencionado. Es una tragedia, de alto contenido social, donde se expone la realidad de ciertos individuos, atados a su condición miserable, de la que les es imposible salir... -
![Death in the Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway]()
Death in the Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway
Rated: 3.65 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsStill considered one of the best books ever written about bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon is an impassioned look at the sport by one of its true aficionados. It reflects Hemingway's conviction that bullfighting was more than mere sport and reveals a rich source of inspiration for his art... -
![The Maids by Jean Genet]()
The Maids by Jean Genet
Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSolange and Claire are two housemaids who construct elaborate sadomasochistic rituals when their mistress (Madame) is away. The focus of their role-playing is the murder of Madame and they take turns portraying both sides of the power divide... -
![Valparaiso by Don DeLillo]()
Valparaiso by Don DeLillo
Rated: 3.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA man sets out on an ordinary business trip to Valparaiso, Indiana. It turns out to be a mock-heroic journey toward identity and transcendence. This is Don DeLillo's second play and it is funny, sharp, and deep-reaching. Its characters tend to have needs and desires shaped by the forces of broadcast technology. This is the way we talk to each other today... -
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![Summer of the Seventeenth Doll by Ray Lawler]()
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll by Ray Lawler
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsRay male, 4 femaleInterior SetThis compelling Australian play was a success in London and was hailed by critics in New York for its vigor, integrity, and realistic portrayal of two itinerant cane Barney, a swaggering little scrapper, and Roo, a big roughneck. They have spent the past sixteen summers off with two ladies in a Southern Australian city... -
![C Programming Language by Ritchie Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie]()
C Programming Language by Ritchie Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsClassic, bestselling introduction that teaches the language and illustrates useful algorithms, data structures and programming techniques... -
![Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments by Joe Posnanski]()
Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments by Joe Posnanski
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA masterful ode to the a countdown of 50 of the most memorable moments in baseball’s history, to make you fall in love with the sport all over again. Posnanski writes of major moments that created legends, and of forgotten moments almost lost to time... -
![Hitchcock by François Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock]()
Hitchcock by François Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAny book-length interview with Alfred Hitchcock is valuable, but considering that this volume's interlocutor is François Truffaut, the conversation is remarkable indeed. Here is a rare opportunity to eavesdrop on two cinematic masters from very different backgrounds as they cover each of Hitch's films in succession... -
![The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro]()
The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThis is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country. The Path to Power reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy & ambition that set LBJ apart...Categorized as:
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![What It Takes: The Way to the White House by Richard Ben Cramer]()
What It Takes: The Way to the White House by Richard Ben Cramer
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAn American Iliad in the guise of contemporary political reportage, What It Takes penetrates the mystery at the heart of all presidential campaigns: How do presumably ordinary people acquire that mixture of ambition, stamina, and pure shamelessness that makes a true candidate? As he recounts the frenzied course of the 1988 presidential race -- and scours the psyches of contenders from George...
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