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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... -
![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... -
![Hellados by Nodar Dumbadze]()
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... -
![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... -
![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... -
![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... -
![Похищение луны by Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Константин Гамсахурдиа]()
Похищение луны by Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Константин Гамсахурдиа
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsКонстантин Симонович Гамсахурдиа писатель, филолог-грузиновед, автор историко-литературных трудов. Обосновывая значимость национальной литературы, большую работу писатель проделал по художественному воссозданию наиболее значительных событий героического прошлого грузинского народа. Он сумел с поразительным мастерством сблизить язык прозы и язык поэзии, лирические и эпические начала... -
![თეთრი ბაირაღები by Nodar Dumbadze]()
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... -
![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... -
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![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... -
![Старуха = The Old Woman by Daniil Kharms, Даниил Хармс]()
Старуха = The Old Woman by Daniil Kharms, Даниил Хармс
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEdition in Russian and English... -
![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... -
![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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![Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy by Thomas Hardy]()
Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy by Thomas Hardy
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis Wordsworth Edition includes an exclusive Introduction, Bibliography and Glossary by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature University of Kent at Canterbury. Thomas Hardy started composing poetry in the heyday of Tennyson and Browning. He was still writing with unimpaired power sixty years later, when Eliot and Yeats were the leading names in the field... -
![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... -
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![Crossing The Water by Sylvia Plath]()
Crossing The Water by Sylvia Plath
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTo this day, Sylvia Plath's writings continue to inspire and provoke. Her only published novel, The Bell Jar, remains a classic of American literature, and The Colossus (1960), Ariel (1965), Crossing the Water (1971), Winter Trees (1971), and The Collected Poems (1981) have placed her among this century's essential American poets... -
![Tennyson's Poetry by Alfred Tennyson]()
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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![Kinyas ve Kayra by Hakan Günday]()
Kinyas ve Kayra by Hakan Günday
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTürkçe yeraltı edebiyatının ilk örneği sayılan roman, modern hayatın her bireyde şiddetle uyandırdığı "basıp gitme" arzusunu gerçekleştiren, uyuşturucu satıp adam öldüren, şantaj yapan ve adlarını kendileri seçen iki arkadaş olan "Kinyas ile Kayra"nın başından geçenleri anlatır... -
![Broken: The Dorms, A Dark College Romance by J.L. Weil]()
Broken: The Dorms, A Dark College Romance by J.L. Weil
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsKennaGrowing up, everyone thought I was in love with my brother’s best friend. They were right. They just had the wrong friend.Fynn Dupree broke my heart, and he didn’t even know it. Well, as much as a fifteen-year-old girl’s heart could break. The night Fynn rejected me, my entire life changed... -
![Selected Poems by Robert Browning]()
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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![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... -
![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... -
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![Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Pauline Francis, Robert Louis Stevenson]()
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Pauline Francis, Robert Louis Stevenson
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis series presents retold, shortened versions of the classic novels, which lose none of the strength and character of the originals... -
![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... -
![ساخێ د ناڤ گۆڕى دا by Sadegh Hedayat]()
ساخێ د ناڤ گۆڕى دا by Sadegh Hedayat
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsکورتە چیڕۆک ساخێ د ناڤ گۆڕى دا-حەجى مراد-ئێخسیرێ فەرەنسى-داودێ پشتکوڤل-مادلین-ئاگرپەرست-ئابجى خانم-مریخۆر-ئاڤا... -
![¿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«... -
![Baby with the Bathwater by Christopher Durang]()
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![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... -
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![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... -
![The Half-Brothers by Elizabeth Gaskell]()
The Half-Brothers by Elizabeth Gaskell
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery... -
![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... -
![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)... -
![Almost Perfect by Denise Hampton, Denise Domning]()
Almost Perfect by Denise Hampton, Denise Domning
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn Almost Perfect EscapeCassandra Marston wagered a kiss in a card game with the incorrigible rake Lucien Hollier and willingly paid her debt when she lost. But now, desperate for funds, the beautiful lady challenges him again .. -
![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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