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Tehlikeli Oyunlar by Oğuz Atay
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsKişinin kendiyle savaşmasını ve yenmesini, kendini dönüştürmesinin hayati bir sorun olarak algılamaya çağıran, çarpıcı ve sarsıca bir roman... -
![Collected Poems by Federico García Lorca]()
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... -
![Golpo Guccho by Rabindranath Tagore]()
Golpo Guccho by Rabindranath Tagore
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsGolpo Guccho by Rabindranath Tagore is a popular Bengali book of Rabindranath Tagore. The book is collection of 95 Short Stories which are most popular. Tagore wrote most of the stories from Bengali Year 1298 to 1310. The books was published in Indian Publishing House in 1908 to 1909 by Five Parts... -
![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... -
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![Paris Spleen by Charles Baudelaire]()
Paris Spleen by Charles Baudelaire
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsSet in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of the terrain Baudelaire had covered in his verse masterpiece, The Flowers of Evil: the city and its squalor and inequalities, the pressures of time and mortality, and the liberation provided by the sensual delights of intoxication, art, and women... -
![Blues pro bláznivou holku by Václav Hrabě]()
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![A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat by Arthur Rimbaud]()
A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat by Arthur Rimbaud
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsAlthough Arthur Rimbaud stopped writing at the age of 19, he possessed the most revolutionary talent of the century. His poetry & prose have increasingly influenced major writers... -
![The Selected Poems by Federico García Lorca]()
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... -
![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... -
![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... -
![Poésies complètes by Arthur Rimbaud]()
Poésies complètes by Arthur Rimbaud
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratings*ILLUSTRATED EDITION French poet and adventurer, who stopped writing verse at the age of 19, and who became, after his early death an inextricable myth in French gay life. Rimbaud's poetry, partially written in free verse, is characterized by dramatic and imaginative vision... -
![The Norton Anthology of Poetry by Margaret Ferguson]()
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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![Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy by Leo Tolstoy, John Bayley]()
Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy by Leo Tolstoy, John Bayley
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOf all Russian writers Leo Tolstoy is probably the best known to the Western world, largely because of War and Peace, his epic in prose, and Anna Karenina, one of the most splendid novels in any language. But during his long lifetime Tolstoy also wrote enough shorter works to fill many volumes... -
![Poetry and Prose by Walt Whitman]()
Poetry and Prose by Walt Whitman
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsContains the first and "deathbed" editions of "Leaves of Grass," and virtually all of Whitman's prose, with reminiscences of nineteenth-century New York City, notes on the Civil War, especially his service in Washington hospitals and glimpses of President Lincoln, and attacks on the misuses of national wealth after the war... -
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![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 Collected Books by Jack Spicer]()
The Collected Books by Jack Spicer
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Collected Books includes all the poems written from After Lorca (1957) up to the poet's early death, including Admonitions (1958), A Book of Music (1958), Billy the Kid (1958), and The Holy Grail (1962)... -
![The Book of Frank by C.A. Conrad, Eileen Myles]()
The Book of Frank by C.A. Conrad, Eileen Myles
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWinner of the 2009 Gil Ott Book Award, this expanded edition of The Book of Frank features additional "Frank" poems and an essay by Eileen Myles.Praised by poet Anne Waldman as a "voyeuresque surreal portrait," The Book of Frank is also, in the words of candid portrayal of human cruelty and its resultant fantasies of escape... -
![Collected Poems in English by Joseph Brodsky]()
Collected Poems in English by Joseph Brodsky
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOne of the greatest and grandest advocates of the literary vocation, Joseph Brodsky truly lived his life as a poet, and for it earned eighteen months of internal exile at hard labor, expulsion from his native country, and the Nobel Prize in Literature... -
![A Season in Hell/Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud]()
A Season in Hell/Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWritten by Rimbaud at the age of 18 in the wake of his tempestuous affair with fellow poet Paul Verlaine, "A Season in Hell" has been a touchstone for anguished poets, artists, and lovers for more than a century... -
![Collected Poems [Of] W. H. Auden by W.H. Auden, Edward Mendelson]()
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... -
![The Brothers Karamazov (Classic Literature) by Fyodor Dostoevsky]()
The Brothers Karamazov (Classic Literature) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA profound novel in which Dostoevsky has searched for the truths about man, life and the existence of God. It presents the story of four brothers, each of them with the motive of murder. a gripping action that entangles its reader throughout the story. This was the authors last novel that will remain alive in the annals of history because of its language and unique literary style... -
![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... -
![Poems 1913-1956 by Bertolt Brecht]()
Poems 1913-1956 by Bertolt Brecht
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFirst Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company... -
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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... -
![Immortal Poems of the English Language by Oscar Williams]()
Immortal Poems of the English Language by Oscar Williams
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsImmortal Poems Here is the most inclusive anthology of verse ever published at so low a price. It contains not only the best-known works of the British and American masters but also the verse of the most brillant poets of our own day. Oscar Williams, who compiled Immortal Poems, was a distinguished editor and poet in his own right, of whom Robert Lowell wrote in the Sewanee Review: "Mr... -
![Beginners by Raymond Carver]()
Beginners by Raymond Carver
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHere is the original manuscript of Raymond Carver’s seminal 1981 collection, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. Carver is one of the most celebrated short-story writers in American literature—his style is both instantly recognizable and hugely influential—and the pieces in What We Talk About . .Categorized as:
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![Collected Poems by Arthur Rimbaud]()
Collected Poems by Arthur Rimbaud
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRimbaud is the enfant terrible of French literature, the precocious genius whose extraordinary poetry is revolutionary in its visionary, hallucinatory content and its often liberated forms. He wrote all his poems between the ages of about fifteen and twenty-one, after which he turned his back on family, friends, and France to roam the world... -
![Rimas/ Rhymes by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer]()
Rimas/ Rhymes by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process... -
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![Гeрaцитe. Зeмя. by Elin Pelin, Елин Пелин]()
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![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... -
![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... -
![Los gallinazos sin plumas by Julio Ramón Ribeyro]()
Los gallinazos sin plumas by Julio Ramón Ribeyro
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEn Los gallinazos sin plumas, primera publicación del autor, desfilan seres marginales retratados magistralmente por Ribeyro... -
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![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... -
![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... -
![Great Short Works: Poems, Tales, Criticism by Edgar Allan Poe]()
Great Short Works: Poems, Tales, Criticism by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe classic poems and spine-tingling stories of a Gothic American master collected in one volume.Of all the American masters, Edgar Allan Poe staked out perhaps the most unique and vivid reputation, as a master of the macabre. Even today, in the age of horror movies and high-tech haunted houses, Poe is the first choice of entertainment for many who want a spine-chilling thrill... -
![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... -
![Selected Poems 1923-1958 by E.E. Cummings]()
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![Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories by Charles Bukowski]()
Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories by Charles Bukowski
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsVirtually everything Black Sparrow publishes is worthwhile, but without Bukowski, whose 40-odd books kept Black Sparrow's bread buttered right up until his death in 1994, none of the rest of it would be possible. Fortunately, "Buk" left plenty of unpublished manuscript behind that, judging from this culling from it, is of a piece with the published stuff... -
![Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition by Walt Whitman, Malcolm Cowley]()
Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition by Walt Whitman, Malcolm Cowley
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAs Malcolm Cowley says in his introduction, the first edition of Leaves of Grass 'might be called the buried masterpiece of American writing', for it exhibits 'Whitman at his best, Whitman at his freshest in vision and boldest in language, Whitman transformed by a new experience...Categorized as:
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![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 Works of William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth]()
The Works of William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWilliam Wordsworth (1771-1850) is the foremost of the English Romantic poets. He was much influenced by the events of the French Revolution in his youth, and he deliberately broke away from the artificial diction of the Augustan and neo-classical tradition of the eighteenth century... -
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![The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin by Alexander Pushkin]()
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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![Trash by Sylvia Aguilar-Zéleny]()
Trash by Sylvia Aguilar-Zéleny
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTrash interweaves the voices of three women with lived connections to the municipal garbage dump of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico... -
![The Colored Museum by George C. Wolfe]()
The Colored Museum by George C. Wolfe
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Colored Museum has electrified, discomforted, and delighted audiences of all colors, redefining our ideas of what it means to be black in contemporary America. Its eleven "exhibits" undermine black stereotypes old and new, and return to the facts of what being black means. " Mr. Wolfe is the kind of satirist who takes no prisoners. The shackles of the past have been defied by Mr... -
![Lady with Lapdog and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov, David Magarshack]()
Lady with Lapdog and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov, David Magarshack
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis collection contains the following eleven stories:Grief AgafyaMisfortune A Boring Story (From an Old Man's Notebook)The GrasshopperWard No. 6Ariadne The House with an AtticIonychThe DarlingThe Lady with the LapdogAnton Pavlovich Chekhov may be likened to his contemporaries, the "pointilliste" painters... -
![The Complete Poems by John Wilmot]()
The Complete Poems by John Wilmot
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe 2nd Earl of Rochester, John Wilmot, was an english libertine and close friend of King Charles II. Known as one of the greatest poets of the Restoration, he wrote and published popular satirical and bawdy poetry... -
![Shelley: Poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley]()
Shelley: Poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPercy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), perhaps the most intellectually adventurous of the great Romantic poets, personified the richly various- and contradictory- energies of his time. A classicist, a headlong visionary, a social radical, and a poet of serene artistry with a lyric touch second to none, Shelley gave voice to English romanticism's deepest aspirations...
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