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Three Poems: Host and Guest / Aluda Ketelauri / The Snake-Eater by Vazha-Pshavela
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsVazha Pshavela (1861-1915) is considered one of the great poets in the fifteen-centuried Georgian literature. The three poems represented in the book are the most distinguished works of the poet... -
Collected Poems by Federico García Lorca
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA revised edition of this major writer's complete poetical work"And I who was walkingwith the earth at my waist,saw two snowy eaglesand a naked girl.The one was the otherand the girl was neither."--from "Qasida of the Dark Doves"Federico García Lorca is the greatest poet of twentieth-century Spain and one of the world's most influential modernist writers... -
Hellados by Nodar Dumbadze
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHellados von Nodar Dumbadze erzählt über die Geschichte von zwei Teenagern aus Abchasien – Djemal und Ianguli. Als Djemal von Tiflis nach Suchumi zur Verwandtschaft umzieht, wird er mit dem Häuptling des Stadtviertels, dem griechischen Jungen Ianguli, konfrontiert. Ihre Beziehung, die am Anfang voll von Brüskierungen war, entwickelt sich langsam zur starken Freundschaft... -
Collected Works of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOscar Wilde (1854-1900) has perhaps attracted more critical and biographical attention in recent years than any other writer of the late-nineteenth century. Renowned for his skills in shocking a prurient bourgeoisie, he first built his career as a raconteur and stylish public speaker...Categorized as:
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The Selected Poems by Federico García Lorca
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe Selected Poems of Federico García Lorca has introduced generations of readers to mesmerizing poetry since 1955. Lorca (1898-1937) is admired all over the world for the lyricism, immediacy and clarity of his poetry, as well as for his ability to encompass techniques of the symbolist movement with deeper psychological shadings. But Lorca's poems are, most of all, admired for their beauty... -
The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsThe poetic masterpiece of the great nineteenth-century writer Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil is one of the most frequently read and studied works in the French language... -
The Norton Anthology of Poetry by Margaret Ferguson
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Fifth Edition retains the flexibility and breadth of selection that has defined this classic anthology, while improved and expanded editorial apparatus make it an even more useful teaching tool...Categorized as:
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The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats by W.B. Yeats
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsThe Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats includes all of the poems authorized by Yeats for inclusion in his standard canon...Categorized as:
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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... -
Five Novels: Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFive Novels, Complete and Unabridged: Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, and Great Expectations...Categorized as:
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Every Duke Has a Silver Lining by Tamara Gill
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsHe can’t deny her anything…except maybe his heart…Ashley Woodville didn’t mean any harm when she broke into Grady Kolten’s office. It was only a dare from her friends. She wasn’t supposed to get caught. And she certainly wasn’t supposed to talk the notorious gaming hell owner (and disturbingly sexy rogue) into showing her London’s wilder side. Falling for him? Also not part of the dare... -
თეთრი ბაირაღები by Nodar Dumbadze
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsსტუდენტ ზაზა ნაკაშიძეს, ჩხუბში მონაწილეობისთვის დააპატიმრებენ, უდანაშაულობის დამტკიცების იმედი არა აქვს. ციხის საკანში სხვადასხვა ეროვნებისა და მრწამსის დამნაშავეები შეყრილან. დროს განვლილ ცხოვრებაზე და დანაშაულის ჩადენის მიზეზებზე კამათში კლავენ. ქურდის, მკვლელის, სახელმწიფო ქონების გამფლანგველის, ყველაზე საშიში ბოროტმოქმედის სულშიც კი შეიძლება სათუთი გრძნობები იმალებოდეს... -
Poems and Prose by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsCloser to Dylan Thomas than Matthew Arnold in his 'creative violence' and insistence on the sound of poetry, Gerard Manley Hopkins was no staid, conventional Victorian. On entering the Society of Jesus at the age of twenty-four, he burnt all his poetry and 'resolved to write no more, as not belonging to my profession, unless by the wishes of my superiors'...Categorized as:
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Collected Poems [Of] W. H. Auden by W.H. Auden, Edward Mendelson
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsBetween 1927 and his death in 1973, W. H. Auden endowed poetry in the English language with a new face. Or rather, with several faces, since his work ranged from the political to the religious, from the urbane to the pastoral, from the mandarin to the invigoratingly plain-spoken.This collection presents all the poems Auden wished to preserve, in the texts that received his final approval... -
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Rose: A compelling story of love and family ties by Lilly Adam
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNorthamptonshire, 1865. The callous Sebastian Harper returns home from a hunting trip on Bushel Farm with the devastating news that his younger half-brother, Johnnie, has lost his life in a tragic accident... -
To Be Wicked With You by Tamara Gill
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEvie Milton knows she’ll never marry. But that doesn’t mean she can’t celebrate her sister’s betrothal to Finlay Stone, Duke of Carlisle. Until the bride-to-be runs off with the wrong man, that is. Now, if they have any hope of avoiding a devastating scandal, Evie and Finlay will need to bring the runaway bride to heel... -
The Complete Novels by Charles Dickens, Henry Morford
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis book contains the complete novels of Charles Dickens in the chronological order of their original publication...Categorized as:
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Wagers Gone Awry by Collette Cameron
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBrooke Culpepper resigned herself to spinsterhood when she turned down the only marriage proposal she’d likely ever receive to care for her family. After her father dies, a distant cousin inherits the estate and becomes their guardian but permits Brooke to act in his stead... -
The Brontë Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Agnes Grey by Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Brontë Sisters features three classics of literature collected in a single volume. Jane Eyre , by Charlotte Brontë, is the tale of governess Jane Eyre and her passionate romance with Lord Rochester, her employer, whose dark and secret past comes back to haunt them...Categorized as:
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Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsHandsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naive, but highly ambitious. Failing to make his name in his dull provincial hometown, he is taken up by a patroness, the captivating married woman Madame de Bargeton, and prepares to forge his way in the glamorous beau monde of Paris...Categorized as:
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Oliver Twist / A Tale of Two Cities / Great Expectations / A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsConsidered by many to be the greatest of all English novelists, this collection of four of his best and most successful books shows Charles Dickens at the height of his powers. Oliver Twist, published in 1838 and set in London's Victorian underworld, is a novel of social protest, a morality tale and detective story... -
The Complete Novels of Elizabeth Gaskell: 10 Victorian Classics: Mary Barton, The Moorland Cottage, Cranford, Ruth, North and South, ... Work, My Lady Ludlow & Cousin Phillis by Elizabeth Gaskell
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis collection includes 10 classics by this notable Victorian author, whose novels shown brutal and detailed portraits of lives of the poor, the orphans and the working class people in mid Victorian England. "Mary Barton" is set in the English city of Manchester and deals with the difficulties faced by the Victorian working class...Categorized as:
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A Duke's Dilemma by G.L. Snodgrass
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings***A Steamy Regency Romance***Hidden identities, secret pasts,Lady Margaret Duval is being forced to marry her father’s best friend, a man she truly despises. A man she can never admire. Just once she wants to know what if feels like to love. To experience life as it was meant to be.Pretending to be simply Meg Miller, a common lady’s maid, she sneaks away for a touch of adventure... -
Dare To Be Scandalous by Tamara Gill
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAfter inheriting a small fortune, Willow Perry has everything she’s ever wanted. Except a husband, that is. But not just any husband will do. She’s looking for a grand love—someone who will challenge and excite her. It’s just her folly that the one man who interests her is a notorious rake. He’s as wild and passionate as Willow is sheltered and staid...Categorized as:
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Tennyson: Poems by Alfred Tennyson
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAlfred, Lord Tennyson was a more complex writer than his status as Queen Victoria’s favorite poet might suggest. Though capable of rendering rapture and delight in the most exquisite verse, in another mode Tennyson is brother in spirit to Poe and Baudelaire, the author of dark, passionate reveries... -
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... -
Four Major Plays: A Doll's House / Ghosts / Hedda Gabler / The Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen, James McFarlane
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTaken from the highly acclaimed Oxford Ibsen, this collection of Ibsen's plays includes A Doll's House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler and The Master Builder...Categorized as:
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The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin by Alexander Pushkin
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAlexander Pushkin was Russia's first true literary genius. Best known for his poetry, he also wrote sparkling prose that revealed his national culture with elegance and understated humour. Here, his gift for portraying the Russian people is fully revealed...Categorized as:
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The Christmas Books, Volume 1: A Christmas Carol/The Chimes by Charles Dickens
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn October 1843, Dickens hit upon the idea of writing a story that would not only celebrate Christmas but alert people to the desperate needs of England's poor. "The Christmas Carol" was the result. "The Chimes" is a topical satire set on New Year's Eve... -
Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratings"I love your verses with all my heart, dear Miss Barrett . . . I love you too", Robert Browning wrote in January 1845, thus initiating the most celebrated literary correspondence of the 19th century. For the next 12 months, he and Elizabeth Barrett exchanged letters and confidences. In this elegant format, the delicate interplay between the poems and the lovers' letters become vividly apparent...Categorized as:
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Lord Byron: Selected Poems by Lord Byron, Jane Stabler
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsShe walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes... --From "She Walks in Beauty"Satirical, shocking, romantic and dramatic, Lord Byron remains a stellar figure as a poet and as a man...Categorized as:
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The Complete Short Stories of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThis comprehensive collection showcases Oscar Wilde's brilliant storytelling skills and his amazing stylistic versatility, ranging from fairy tales and ghost stories to detective yarns and comedies of manners... -
The Major Works by Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Sloan
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPercy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was a Romantic poet of radical imaginings, living in an age of change. His tempestuous life and friendship with Byron, and his tragically early death, at times threatened to overwhelm his legacy as a poet, but today his standing as one of the foremost English authors is assured... -
Love Poems of Elizabeth and Robert Browning by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFine hardcover w/nf dj w/ fold vertically on rear of dj, 1994 Barnes& Noble Books, number line is 9-6. Foreword by Louis Untermeyer. 268 pages. Cover painting courtesy of Art Resource, J.M.W. Turner Eton, from the River... -
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Complete Verse by Rudyard Kipling
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWitty, profound, wildly funny, acerbic and occasionally savage, Rudyard Kipling's poems continue to delight readers of all ages. Included are both the familiar favorites and Kipling's lesser-known works. This is the only complete collection of Kipling's poems available in paperback...Categorized as:
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Ulysses by Alfred Tennyson
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFacing old age, mythical hero Ulysses describes his discontent and restlessness upon returning to his kingdom, Ithaca, after his far-ranging travels... -
Collected Poems of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWith an Introduction by Donald McFarlan.Robert Burns, the most celebrated of all Scottish poets, is remembered with great devotion - his birthday on 25th January provokes fervour and festivity among Scots and many others the world over. Born in 1759 into miserable rustic poverty, by the age of eighteen Burns had acquired a good knowledge of both classical and English literature...Categorized as:
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In Memoriam by Alfred Tennyson
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn Memoriam is Tennyson’s tribute to his friend Arthur Henry Hallam who died at the age of 22, written over a period of 17 years... -
Selected Poems by Alfred Tennyson
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis book contains new Oxford English series poems. This book gives insight to the poet Alfred Tennyson from a biographical sketch to the many examples of his great poetry...Categorized as:
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Selected Poems by William Wordsworth
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOne of the major poets of Romanticism, Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of the natural world and the spontanous expression of feeling...Categorized as:
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Tennyson's Poetry by Alfred Tennyson
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis volume offers one of the most comprehensive surveys of Tennyson's poetry available for the serious student...Categorized as:
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My Last Duchess and Other Poems by Robert Browning
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Victorian poet Robert Browning (1812 –1889) is perhaps most admired today for his inspired development of the dramatic monologue. In this compelling poetic form, he sought to reveal his subjects' true natures in their own, often self-justifying, accounts of their lives and affairs...Categorized as:
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The Raven and Other Favorite Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOne of the most famous poems in the English language, The Raven first appeared in the January 29. 1845 edition of the New York Evening Mirror. It brought Edgar Allan Poe, then in his mid-thirties and a well-known poet, critic and short story writer, his first taste of celebrity on a grand scale...Categorized as:
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The Poetry of Robert Browning - Scholar's Choice Edition by Stopford Augustus Brooke
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible...Categorized as:
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Selected Poems by Robert Browning
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRobert Browning was one of the greatest of English poets, whose intense and original imagination enabled him to transform any subject he chose - whether everyday or sublime - into startling memorable verse. In his work he brought to life the personalities of a diverse range of characters, and introduced a new immediacy, colloquial energy and psychological complexity to the poetry of his day...Categorized as:
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The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. E: The Victorian Age by M.H. Abrams, Stephen Greenblatt
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFirmly grounded by the hallmark strengths of all Norton Anthologies thorough and helpful introductory matter, judicious annotation, complete texts wherever possible The Norton Anthology of English Literature has been revitalized in this Eighth Edition through the collaboration between six new editors and six seasoned ones...Categorized as:
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The Complete Works of Alfred Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series... -
Thelma by Marie Corelli
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThelma is a sweet and tender love story, which must have thrilled the closet Victorian woman readers of romance novels. Thelma is loved by a gentleman who takes her away from Norway. She is also loved by her father's man who sacrifices his life for her. Her husband's friend is also secretly in love with her. When Thelma dies her daughter ends up marrying one of these men... -
High Mountain Bride by Jillian Hart
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Timber Valley Brides series is a sensual historical trilogy. Book #1, High Mountain Bride has sensual content. Charlotte arrives in Timber Valley as a mail-order bride expecting to marry a man who's sworn to love her. After losing her family, she's hoping to find those loving ties again—but her hopes are dashed...
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