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The Poetry of Pablo Neruda by Pablo Neruda
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe most comprehensive English-language collection of work ever by "the greatest poet of the twentieth century - in any language" - Gabriel García Márquez"In his work a continent awakens to consciousness... -
![The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems by Pablo Neruda, Mark Eisner]()
The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems by Pablo Neruda, Mark Eisner
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis collection of Neruda’s most essential poems will prove indispensable. Selected by a team of poets and prominent Neruda scholars in both Chile and the United States, this is a definitive selection that draws from the entire breadth and width of Neruda’s various styles and themes... -
![100 Selected Poems by E.E. Cummings]()
100 Selected Poems by E.E. Cummings
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 26 ratings'An Evergreen Book / Published by Grove Weidenfeld' E. E. Cummings is without question one of the major poems of this century, and this volume, first published in 1959, is indispensable for every lover of modern lyrical verse. It contains one hundred of Cummings's wittiest and most profound poems, harvested from thirty-five of the most radically creative years in contemporary American poetry... -
![Collected Poems 1909-1962 by T.S. Eliot]()
Collected Poems 1909-1962 by T.S. Eliot
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsPoet, dramatist, critic and editor, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth-century poetry. This edition of Collected Poems 1909-1962 includes his verse from Prufrock and Other Observations (1917) to Four Quartets (1943), and includes such literary landmarks as The Waste Land and Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats... -
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![The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot]()
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsLet us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table; Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, The muttering retreats Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels... -
![The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot]()
The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsFew readers need any introduction to the work of the most influential poet of the twentieth century. In addition to the title poem, this selecion includes "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", "Gerontion", "Ash Wednesday", and other poems from Mr. Eliot's early and middle work... -
![The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker]()
The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDorothy Parker, master of the short story, dramatist, screenwriter, and sharp-tongued critic, was also an accomplished poet. At the center of the famed Round Table at New York's Algonquin Hotel, Parker distinguished herself among a circle of urbane literati with her excoriating quips and wonderfully realized epigrammatic poems... -
![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... -
![Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry]()
Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe place is the Deep South, the time 1948, just prior to the civil rights movement. Having recently demolished another car, Daisy Werthan, a rich, sharp-tongued Jewish widow of seventy-two, is informed by her son, Boolie, that henceforth she must rely on the services of a chauffeur... -
![The Financier by Theodore Dreiser]()
The Financier by Theodore Dreiser
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrank Cowperwood, a fiercely ambitious businessman, emerges as the very embodiment of greed as he relentlessly seeks satisfaction in wealth, women, and power. As Cowperwood deals and double-deals, betrays and is in turn betrayed, his rise and fall come to represent the American success story stripped down to brutal realities-a struggle for spoils without conscience or pity... -
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Unto a Good Land by Vilhelm Moberg
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsConsidered one of Sweden's greatest 20th-century writers, Vilhelm Moberg created the characters Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson to portray the joys and tragedies of daily life for early Swedish immigrants in America. His consistently faithful depiction of these humble people's lives is a major strength of the Emigrant Novels... -
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Prokleta avlija by Ivo Andrić, Celia Hawkesworth
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsProkleta avlija/The Damned Yard (Description from Ivo Andrić Foundation website)The novel is written in 1954. Ćamil, a wealthy young man of Smyrna living in the last years of the Ottoman Empire, is fascinated by the story of Džem, ill-fated brother of the Sultan Bajazet, who ruled Turkey in the fifteenth century...Categorized as:
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![Palestine's Children: Returning to Haifa & Other Stories by Ghassan Kanafani]()
Palestine's Children: Returning to Haifa & Other Stories by Ghassan Kanafani
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPolitics and the novel, Ghassan Kanafani once said, are an indivisible case. Fadl al-Naqib has reflected that Kanafani wrote the Palestinian story, then he was written by it. His narratives offer entry into the Palestinian experience of the conflict that has anguished the people of the Middle East for more than a century...Categorized as:
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![Sista brevet till Sverige by Vilhelm Moberg]()
Sista brevet till Sverige by Vilhelm Moberg
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBook Four portrays the Nilsson family during the turmoil of living through the era of the Civil War and Dakota Conflict and their prospering in the midst of Minnesota's growing Swedish community of the 1860s-90s... -
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![Homicide Trinity by Rex Stout]()
Homicide Trinity by Rex Stout
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIt’s a wily killer who dares to strike on Nero Wolfe’s hallowed turf—and leave a corpse strangled with Wolfe’s own soup-stained tie. But no sooner does the gourmandizing sleuth clean up this first course of murder than he faces a gun-toting wife who serves up a confession of homicidal intent—only to become the sole suspect when the corpus delicti is found... -
![The Wings of Morning by Murray Pura]()
The Wings of Morning by Murray Pura
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLovers of Amish fiction will quickly sign on as fans of award-winning author Murray Pura as they keep turning the pages of this exciting new historical romance set in 1917 during America's participation in World War I. Jude Whetstone and Lyyndaya Kurtz, whose families are converts to the Amish faith, are slowly falling in love... -
![The People: No Different Flesh by Zenna Henderson]()
The People: No Different Flesh by Zenna Henderson
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsA novel expanded from a short story (different from book 1 Pilgrimage which was a push of short stories connected by new material) of the alien PEOPLE and earthlings with gifts similar to those of the People -- who might be lost PEOPLE!The "People" stories inclulded in this book:No Different Flesh (1965)Deluge (1963)Angels Unawares (1966)Troubling of the Waters (1966)Return (1961)Shadow on the... -
![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... -
![Trio for Blunt Instruments by Rex Stout]()
Trio for Blunt Instruments by Rex Stout
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIf Nero Wolfe and his sidekick, Archie, would ever admit to an Achilles' heel—which they wouldn't—it would be a weakness for damsels in distress. In these three charming chillers the duo answer the call of helpless heroines with nothing to lose-except their lives. First a beautiful young Aphrodite comes to Nero looking for a hero—and the answer to the mystery of her father's death... -
![Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks]()
Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSeptember 2003 marked the 50th anniversary of Maud Martha, the only novel published by esteemed poet Gwendolyn Brooks. Initially entitled "American Family Brown" the work would eventually come to symbolize some of Brooks' most provocative writing. In a novel that captures the essence of Black life, Brooks recognizes the beauty and strength that lies within each of us... -
![Ride The River by Louis L'Amour, Jamie Rose]()
Ride The River by Louis L'Amour, Jamie Rose
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsNo matter that Echo Sackett was young, and a woman, and had never been far from the valley, she was still a Sackett. She was sharp and smart and a better hunter than most of the men she knew. Like her bold ancestors, Echo couldn't ignore a challenge...Categorized as:
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![The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison]()
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsThe Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and boldness of vision. Set in the author's girlhood hometown of Lorain, Ohio, it tells the story of black, eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove. Pecola prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be as beautiful and beloved as all the blond, blue-eyed children in America... -
![The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor]()
The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsO'Connor's 1956 account of big-city politics, inspired by the career of longtime Boston Mayor James M. Curley, portrays its Irish-American political boss as a demagogue and a rogue who nonetheless deeply understands his constituents. The book was later made into a John Ford film staring Spencer Tracy... -
![Storming Heaven by Denise Giardina]()
Storming Heaven by Denise Giardina
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAnnadel, West Virginia, was a small town rich in coal, farms, and close-knit families, all destroyed when the coal company came in. It stole everything it hadn't bothered to buy -- land deeds, private homes, and ultimately, the souls of its men and women...Categorized as:
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![The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood]()
The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFirst published in 1935 and 1939, the two related novels, The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin, which make up The Berlin Stories are recognized today as classics of modern fiction... -
![Babylon Revisited and Other Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L.W. West III]()
Babylon Revisited and Other Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L.W. West III
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWritten between 1920 and 1937, when F. Scott Fitzgerald was at the height of his creative powers, these ten lyric tales represent some of the author's finest fiction... -
![A Dry White Season by André P. Brink]()
A Dry White Season by André P. Brink
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAs startling and powerful as when first published more than two decades ago, André Brink's classic novel, A Dry White Season, is an unflinching and unforgettable look at racial intolerance, the human condition, and the heavy price of morality.Ben Du Toit is a white schoolteacher in suburban Johannesburg in a dark time of intolerance and state-sanctioned apartheid... -
![Shoot the Piano Player by David Goodis]()
Shoot the Piano Player by David Goodis
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOnce upon a time Eddie played concert piano to reverent audiences at Carnegie Hall. Now he bangs out honky-tonk for drunks in a dive in Philadelphia. But then two people walk into Eddie's life--the first promising Eddie a future, the other dragging him back into a treacherous past... -
![The Man Who Lived Underground by Richard Wright]()
The Man Who Lived Underground by Richard Wright
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA major literary event: an explosive, previously unpublished novel from the 1940s by the legendary author of Native Son and Black Boy. Fred Daniels, a black man, is picked up randomly by the police after a brutal murder in a Chicago neighborhood and taken to the local precinct where he is tortured until he confesses to a crime he didn't commit...Categorized as:
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![Chicago Poems by Carl Sandburg]()
Chicago Poems by Carl Sandburg
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages... -
![Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood]()
Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsHere, meine Damen und Herren, is Chrisopther Isherwood's brilliant farewell to a city which was not only buildings, streets and people, but was also a state of mind which will never come again.In linked short stories, he says goodbye to Sally Bowles, to Fraulein Schroeder, to pranksters, perverts, political manipulators; to the very, very guilty and to the dwindling band of innocents... -
![Petersburg by Andrei Bely, Olga Matich]()
Petersburg by Andrei Bely, Olga Matich
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTaking place over a short, turbulent period in 1905, 'Petersburg' is a colourful evocation of Russia's capital—a kaleidoscope of images and impressions, an eastern window on the west, a symbol of the ambiguities and paradoxes of the Russian character...Categorized as:
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![A Room of One's Own & The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf]()
A Room of One's Own & The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf imagines that Shakespeare had a sister: a sister equal to Shakespeare in talent, equal in genius, but whose legacy is radically different.This imaginary woman never writes a word and dies by her own hand, her genius unexpressed. But if only she had found the means to create, urges Woolf, she would have reached the same heights as her immortal sibling... -
![Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood by Richard E. Kim]()
Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood by Richard E. Kim
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn this classic tale, Richard Kim paints seven vivid scenes from a boyhood and early adolescence in Korea at the height of the Japanese occupation, 1932 to 1945...Categorized as:
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![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... -
![Blood Wedding by Federico García Lorca]()
Blood Wedding by Federico García Lorca
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsLorca's Blood Wedding is a classic of twentieth-century theatre. The story is based on a newspaper fragment which told of a family vendetta and a bride who ran away with the son of the enemy family. Lorca uses it to investigate the subjects which fascinated him: desire, repression, ritual, and the constraints and commitments of the rural Spanish community in which the play is rooted... -
![1876 by Gore Vidal]()
1876 by Gore Vidal
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe centennial of the United States was celebrated with great fanfare—fireworks, exhibitions, pious calls to patriotism, and perhaps the most underhanded political machination in the country's history: the theft of the presidency from Samuel Tilden in favor of Rutherford B. Hayes... -
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Barren Ground by Ellen Glasgow
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSet in Virginia, this novel evokes the irony of change in the rural South. Dorinda Oakley is a passionate, intelligent, and independent young woman struggling to define herself... -
![The Troll Garden by Willa Cather]()
The Troll Garden by Willa Cather
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the stories that comprise The Troll Garden, her first book, Willa Cather evokes the devastated, romantic dreams that haunt her characters. Artists, inveterate sentimentalists, hungering beauties, and demon-ridden ascetics find themselves torn between the need to confess and keep secret their private aspirations... -
![Koreni by Dobrica Ćosić]()
Koreni by Dobrica Ćosić
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSmeštena u vreme političkih promena i previranja srpskog građanskog društva s kraja XIX i početkom XX veka, priča prati živote Aćima Katića, čoveka tradicionalnog kova i radikala, i njegovih sinova Vukašina i Đorđa. Budući političar i očeva nada, Vukašin se vraća sa studija u Parizu i saopštava da se ženi ćerkom liberala Tošića, Aćimovog političkog neprijatelja, i da prelazi u njegovu stranku...Categorized as:
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![The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht]()
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, (Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui) was written by the great German dramatist Bertolt Brecht over the course of 3 furious weeks in 1941, while a refugee in Helsinki, Finland... -
![The Balcony by Jean Genet]()
The Balcony by Jean Genet
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsBook jacket/back: The setting of Jean Genet's celebrated play is a brothel that caters to refined sensibilities and peculiar tastes... -
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Translations, Brian Friel. Notes by John Brannigan by Brian Friel
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe action of this play takes place in late August 1833 at a hedge-school in the townland of Baile Beag - an Irish speaking community in County Donegal. The 'scholars' are a cross-section of the local community, from a semi-literate young farmer to and elderly polygot autodidact who reads and quotes Homer in the orginal... -
![Washington, D.C. by Gore Vidal]()
Washington, D.C. by Gore Vidal
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWashington, D.C., is the sixth installment in Gore Vidal's acclaimed seven-volume series of historical novels about the American past. It offers an illuminating portrait of our republic from the time of the New Deal to the McCarthy era.Widely regarded as Vidal's ultimate comment on how the American political system degrades those who participate in it, Washington, D.C...Categorized as:
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![Rock 'n' Roll by Tom Stoppard]()
Rock 'n' Roll by Tom Stoppard
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsRock ’n’ Roll is an electrifying collision of the romantic and the revolutionary. It is 1968 and the world is ablaze with rebellion, accompanied by a sound track of the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan. Clutching his prized collection of rock albums, Jan, a Cambridge graduate student, returns to his homeland of Czechoslovakia just as Soviet tanks roll into Prague... -
![The Plough and the Stars by Seán O'Casey, Christopher Murray]()
The Plough and the Stars by Seán O'Casey, Christopher Murray
Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis Educational Edition of Sean O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars contains: The full playtext; An introduction to the playwright, his background and his work; A detailed analysis of the social and political events of the period; A close analysis of language, structure and characters in the play; Features of performance; textual notes expelling difficult words and references... -
![The Wall Jumper: A Berlin Story by Peter Schneider]()
The Wall Jumper: A Berlin Story by Peter Schneider
Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratings"Schneider's characters, like Kundera's, are sentient and sophisticated figures at a time when the constraints of Communist rule persist but its energy has entirely vanished... -
![Cathleen, córka Houlihana by W.B. Yeats, Zofia Porębska]()
Cathleen, córka Houlihana by W.B. Yeats, Zofia Porębska
Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages... -
![Las bicicletas son para el verano by Fernando Fernán Gómez]()
Las bicicletas son para el verano by Fernando Fernán Gómez
Rated: 3.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNacido en el seno del teatro, durante una gira por América de la compañía María Guerrero y Fernando Díaz de Mendoza (1921), Fernando Fernán-Gómez fue educado en Madrid, en el barrio de Chamberí, escenario y microcosmos de la guerra civil española en su obra Las bicicletas son para el verano... -
![The Jungle( Classics Illustrated ) edition by Upton Sinclair]()
The Jungle( Classics Illustrated ) edition by Upton Sinclair
Rated: 3.73 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsA compelling graphic novel adaptation of Upton Sinclair's seminal protest novel that brings to life the harsh conditions and exploited existences of immigrants in Chicago's meatpacking industry in the early twentieth century.Long acclaimed around the world, Upton Sinclair's 1906 muckraking novel The Jungle remains a powerful book even today...
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