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![Scorched by Wajdi Mouawad]()
Scorched by Wajdi Mouawad
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTwin children Jeanne and Simon want to solve the mystery of their origins. In retracing the bitter history of their mother, who is about to die, other characters come into the story—witnesses or key players able to assist in the investigation. Carried aloft by poetic language, the inquiry pursued by Jeanne and Simon unfolds in a dreamlike atmosphere... -
![The Outsiders by Christopher Sergel, S.E. Hinton]()
The Outsiders by Christopher Sergel, S.E. Hinton
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAdapted by Christopher Sergel. From the book by S.E. Hinton.Cast: 10m., 8w. (extras as desired.) Some variations possible. S.E. Hinton, who wrote this modern classic when she was 16 years old, comments: "The Outsiders, like most things I write, is written from a boy's point of view. That's why I'm listed as S.E. Hinton rather than Susan... -
![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]()
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... -
![Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera: A Reader's Guide by Thomas Fahy]()
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera: A Reader's Guide by Thomas Fahy
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years from The Remains of the Day to White Teeth... -
![The Spitfire Girls Fly for Victory by Jenny Holmes]()
The Spitfire Girls Fly for Victory by Jenny Holmes
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPlanes to deliver. A war to be won. Bobbie Fraser, Mary Holland and Jean Thornton are Atta Girls - part of the Air Transport Auxiliary team flying planes between bases. Taking to the air in anything they're given, their work is dangerous but their courage always comes through. Now there's a new girl joining the ranks - Canadian Viv Robertson, who is bright, brash and brave... -
![Altazor/Temblor del cielo by Vicente Huidobro]()
Altazor/Temblor del cielo by Vicente Huidobro
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAltazor y Temblor de cielo (1931), poemas en verso y prosa, respectivamente, son las abras clave del chileno Huidobro, uno de los importadores de las vanguardias a España. Altazor es una intensa abra metafísica, ademas de un ingenioso juego de palabras, culminación del creacionismo... -
![Viento del pueblo. II tomos by Miguel Hernández]()
Viento del pueblo. II tomos by Miguel Hernández
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"Los poetas somos viento del nacemos para pasar soplando a través de sus poros y conducir sus ojos y sus sentimientos hacia las cumbres más hermosas", confiesa Miguel Hernández en la dedicatoria de "Viento del pueblo" (1936-1937). Y así surgen los poemas de este libro con su nota dinámica, su tono épico y su febril entusiasmo... -
![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... -
![A'mak-i Hayal by Şehbenderzâde Filibeli Ahmed Hilmi]()
A'mak-i Hayal by Şehbenderzâde Filibeli Ahmed Hilmi
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"A'mâk-ı Hayâl, yeni harflerle ve sadeleştirilmiş olarak birçok kez basıldığı halde, ciddi bir değerlendirmeye neden konu olamamıştır? Bu sorunun yanıtı, yine yayınların kendisindedir. Bu yayınlar, ne yazık ki, eseri ciddi bir değerlendirme konusu kılabilecek bir titizlik ve özenden yoksundur... -
![McDonagh Plays: 1: The Beauty Queen of Leenane; A Skull in Connemara; The Lonesome West by Martin McDonagh]()
McDonagh Plays: 1: The Beauty Queen of Leenane; A Skull in Connemara; The Lonesome West by Martin McDonagh
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOne of the most exciting young dramatists to emerge in Britain during the 1990s... -
![Draupadi by Mahasweta Devi]()
Draupadi by Mahasweta Devi
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMahasweta Devi situates her story against the Naxalite movement (1967-71), the Bangladesh Liberation War (1971) of West Bengal and the ancient Hindu epic of Mahabharata, engaging with the complex politics of Bengali identity and Indian nationhood... -
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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... -
![I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud (Read Me a Poem: Classic Poetry for Modern Children) (Read Me a Poem: Classic Poetry for Modern Children) by William Wordsworth]()
I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud (Read Me a Poem: Classic Poetry for Modern Children) (Read Me a Poem: Classic Poetry for Modern Children) by William Wordsworth
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis spring, children will look at daffodils in a whole new way, thanks to this joyful, vibrant picture book! Lonely l ittle Robot doesn't have much to be happy about, working all day in the factory. One day, while sadly walking by himself, he follows a bird over a hill, and discovers a field of daffodils. After dancing with them, his spirit is filled with joy... -
![The Black Heralds by César Vallejo]()
The Black Heralds by César Vallejo
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOriginally published in Peru in 1919 before the poet fled to Europe to avoid incarceration, this collection of poems is the first from a man who would become a significant voice of Latin American poetry... -
![Selected Poems 1923-1958 by E.E. Cummings]()
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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... -
![El árbol by María Luisa Bombal, Alejandra Acosta]()
El árbol by María Luisa Bombal, Alejandra Acosta
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLos protagonistas de esta historia son una joven mujer, su marido mayor y un gomero. Brígida vive con comodidad y lujos en su bella casa, pero pasa en soledad casi todos sus días. Luis, entre sus compromisos y su trabajo, no se percata de las súplicas silenciosas de su mujer... -
![Not I by Samuel Beckett]()
Not I by Samuel Beckett
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsShort dramatic monologue written in 1972 (20 March to 1 April) by Samuel Beckett which was premiered at the "Samuel Beckett Festival" by the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center, New York (22 November 1972)... -
![Ode to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley]()
Ode to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe famous poem "Ode to the West Wind" by P.B... -
![Чернишка by Emilian Stanev, Емилиян Станев]()
Чернишка by Emilian Stanev, Емилиян Станев
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsИcтopията за малката лиcичка Чepнишка cpeща младитe читатeли cъc cуpoвия живoт в дивата гopа. Пoвecтта e залeгнала в пpoгpамата на бългаpcкитe училища... -
![Les Chimères by Gérard de Nerval]()
Les Chimères by Gérard de Nerval
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPoetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the French by William Stone. A precursor of the symbolists and the surreallists, Gérard de Nerval has fascinated many major literary figures, including Proust and Breton, Eliot and Apollinaire, Michaux and Leiris... -
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![The Solitudes by Luis de Góngora y Argote]()
The Solitudes by Luis de Góngora y Argote
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn epic masterpiece of world literature, in a magnificent new translation by one of the most acclaimed translators of our time. A towering figure of the Renaissance, Luis de Góngora pioneered poetic forms so radically different from the dominant aesthetic of his time that he was derided as "the Prince of Darkness... -
![The Bedford Introduction to Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing by Michael Meyer]()
The Bedford Introduction to Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing by Michael Meyer
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Bedford Introduction to Literature responds to the teaching and learning needs of all kinds of literature classrooms -- and composition courses where literature is a focus. Author Michael Meyer understands that a particular challenge for instructors is that students do not necessarily see literature as relevant to their lives... -
![Bezette stad by Paul van Ostaijen, Erik Spinoy]()
Bezette stad by Paul van Ostaijen, Erik Spinoy
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn de zomer van 1914 wordt Antwerpen onverwacht gebombardeerd vanuit een zeppelin. Na een korte strijd valt de stad in handen van de Duitsers. Zes jaar later probeert Paul van Ostaijen, zelf Antwerpenaar, het leven en de chaos van de bezette stad vast te leggen... -
![¿No oyes ladrar los perros? by Juan Rulfo]()
¿No oyes ladrar los perros? by Juan Rulfo
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsUn padre lleva a su hijo en hombros para que lo atienda un médico. Por el camino se revela la amargura de las relaciones entre padre e hijo... -
![Scharlach by Stefan Zweig]()
Scharlach by Stefan Zweig
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"Scharlach" ist eine fruhe Erzahlung von Stefan Zweig aus dem Jahr 1908. Der Medizinstudent Bertold Berger kommt mit seinem Leben an der Universitat, im Medizinstudium und in der Studentenverbindung nicht zurecht. Er droht zu scheitern. Dann erkrankt die Tochter seiner Vermieterin an Scharlach und er entdeckt die Liebe zum Arztberuf... -
![Die größere Hoffnung by Ilse Aichinger]()
Die größere Hoffnung by Ilse Aichinger
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIlse Aichingers 1948 erschienener Roman über rassisch verfolgte Kinder während der Hitlerzeit irritiert noch immer: In verfremdenden Bildern erzählt er von der Angst, von der Bedrohung und der widerständigen Hoffnung der »Kinder mit den falschen Großeltern«... -
![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... -
![East is East (NHB Modern Plays) by Ayub Khan-Din]()
East is East (NHB Modern Plays) by Ayub Khan-Din
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSalford 1970: the Khan children, caught between bellbottoms and arranged marriages, are buffeted this way and that by their Pakistani father's insistence on tradition, their English mother's laissez-faire and their own wish to be citizens of the modern world... -
![Der böse Geist Lumpazivagabundus, oder Das liederliche Kleeblatt. Zauberposse mit Gesang in drei Akten. by Johann Nestroy]()
Der böse Geist Lumpazivagabundus, oder Das liederliche Kleeblatt. Zauberposse mit Gesang in drei Akten. by Johann Nestroy
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDie Machtprobe zwischen Fortuna und der Liebesfee Amorosa beschert drei Handwerksgesellen das große Los. Wie der trunksüchtige Schuster Knieriem, der brave Tischler Leim und der prunkliebende Schneider Zwirn mit ihrem Haupttreffer zurecht- oder nicht zurechtkommen, das ist Gegenstand dieser »Zauberposse«, die zu Nestroys populärsten Stücken gehört... -
![Le Horla : Suivi de L'héritage by Guy de Maupassant]()
Le Horla : Suivi de L'héritage by Guy de Maupassant
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratings... « un matin, comme je me promenais près de mon parterre de rosiers, je vis, je vis distinctement tout près de moi, la tige d'une des plus belles roses se casser comme si une main invisible l'eût cueillie, la fleur resta suspendue dans l'air transparent, toute seule, immobile, effrayante, à trois pas de mes yeux.Saisi d'une épouvante folle, je me jetai sur elle pour la saisir... -
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![Eloísa está debajo de un almendro by Enrique Jardiel Poncela]()
Eloísa está debajo de un almendro by Enrique Jardiel Poncela
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLa estética renovadora del humor de Enrique Jardiel Poncela (1901-1952) alcanzó una de sus mayores cimas con 'Eloísa está debajo de un almendro' (1940)... -
![Dunciad Of 1728: A History And Facsimile by Alexander Pope, David L. Vander Meulen]()
Dunciad Of 1728: A History And Facsimile by Alexander Pope, David L. Vander Meulen
Rated: 3.57 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsThe poem Alexander Pope published as The Dunciad in 1728 was the core of the chef d'oeuvre that occupied him for at least half his life. After finally bringing the work to publishable form, he continually revised it and issued it in four major versions that appeared in nearly three dozen seperated editions... -
![Getting Out by Marsha Norman]()
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![Santa: A Novel of Mexico City by Federico Gamboa]()
Santa: A Novel of Mexico City by Federico Gamboa
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis enduring classic of Mexican literature traces the path to ruination of a country girl, Santa, who moves to Mexico City after she is impregnated and abandoned by her lover and subsequently shunned by her family. Once in the city, Santa turns to prostitution and soon gains prominence as Mexico City's most sought-after courtesan... -
![Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope]()
Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFairest of mortals, thou distinguish'd care Of thousand bright Inhabitants of Air! If e'er one vision touch.'d thy infant thought, Of all the Nurse and all the Priest have taught... -
![Der arme Spielmann by Franz Grillparzer, محمود نظری]()
Der arme Spielmann by Franz Grillparzer, محمود نظری
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEine schlichte, stille Geschichte. Grillparzer thematisiert in seiner Rahmennovelle den tragischen Kontrast zwischen universellem Kunstanspruch und tatsächlichem künstlerischem Vermögen. Der prinzipientreue Spielmann Jakob ist von seiner Berufung zum Geiger überzeugt, obwohl sein offensichtlich dilettantisches Spiel beim Publikum keinerlei Anklang findet... -
![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... -
![Werther Nieland by Gerard Reve]()
Werther Nieland by Gerard Reve
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn Werther Nieland plaatst Reve de belevingswereld van een kind tegenover de onbegrijpelijke wereld van een volwassenen. De elfjarige Elmer krijgt geen grip op de werkelijkheid die hem omringt... -
![Offending the Audience and Self-Accusation by Peter Handke]()
Offending the Audience and Self-Accusation by Peter Handke
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPeter Handke is a young Austrian-born writer who has already won a considerable reputation in Germany with his novels and plays. In the first play the subject is the audience. The actors speak to the audience and establish that there is no play, no story, no action, no hidden meaning, just themselves speaking to the audience... -
![Θάνατος σταθερός πέρα από τον έρωτα by Gabriel García Márquez]()
Θάνατος σταθερός πέρα από τον έρωτα by Gabriel García Márquez
Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSevgiden Öte Sürekli Ölüm, Gabriel García Márquez'in hayata, yaşama, çaresizliğe ve ölüme dair geniş bir hayal gücünün eseri olan 12 öyküden oluşuyor... -
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![Hermann and Dorothea by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]()
Hermann and Dorothea by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJohann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was a German writer. His works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, humanism, and science. His Magnum Opus, lauded as one of the peaks of world literature, is the two-part dramatic poem Faust: A Tragedy... -
![Anfitrion - La Comedia de La Olla by Plautus]()
Anfitrion - La Comedia de La Olla by Plautus
Rated: 3.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAquest volum conté dues de les comèdies més conegudes i representades de Plaute. En l’Amfitrió, Plaute recrea de manera hilarant un dels mites clàssics més coneguts: la concepció d’Hèrcules per part de Júpiter, un episodi ple d’equívocs que acaba convertit en una tragicomèdia... -
![Lucifer by Joost van den Vondel]()
Lucifer by Joost van den Vondel
Rated: 3.32 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn influential and controversial work by Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679), the colossus of Dutch literature, regarded as a major influence on Milton’s Paradise Lost. An angel returns from Eden, his wings singed by the beauty of Adam and Eve’s world, longing for the pleasures of their flesh... -
![Broken Glass by Arthur Miller]()
Broken Glass by Arthur Miller
Rated: 3.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSet in Brooklyn, this gripping mystery begins when attractive, level-headed Sylvia Gellburg suddenly loses her ability to walk. The only clue to her mysterious ailment lies in her obsession with news accounts from Germany... -
![Fraszki, pieśni, treny by Jan Kochanowski]()
Fraszki, pieśni, treny by Jan Kochanowski
Rated: 3.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsKsiążka ta stanowi wybór najważniejszych i najbardziej cenionych liryków. Kochanowski, który wyłania się z jej kart to Kochanowski poważny, cierpiący, dostojny, a czasem nawet dowcipny. To zbolały ojciec, refleksyjny poeta, ale i ludowy gawędziarz... -
![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...
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