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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 Complete Sonnets and Poems by William Shakespeare]()
The Complete Sonnets and Poems by William Shakespeare
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis is the only fully annotated and modernized edition to bring together Shakespeare's sonnets as well as all his poems (including those attributed to him after his death) in one volume. A full introduction discusses his development as a poet, and how the poems relate to the plays, and detailed notes explain the language and allusions... -
![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
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... -
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![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... -
![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... -
![Final Harvest: Poems by Emily Dickinson]()
Final Harvest: Poems by Emily Dickinson
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThough generally overlooked during her lifetime, Emily Dickinson's poetry has achieved acclaim due to her experiments in prosody, her tragic vision and the range of her emotional and intellectual explorations... -
![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... -
![The Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint by William Shakespeare]()
The Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint by William Shakespeare
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWilliam Shakespeare is a global icon for his plays such as Hamlet, Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet, but his poetic meditations on love are among the most powerful and evocative poems ever written. This Penguin Classics edition of Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint is edited by John Kerrigan... -
![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... -
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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... -
![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 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... -
![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... -
![The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. B: The Sixteenth Century & The Early Seventeenth Century by M.H. Abrams, Stephen Greenblatt]()
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. B: The Sixteenth Century & The Early Seventeenth Century by M.H. Abrams, Stephen Greenblatt
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 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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![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)... -
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![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 Poetry of Petrarch by Francesco Petrarca]()
The Poetry of Petrarch by Francesco Petrarca
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"David Young's version of Petrarch will refresh our images of the West's crucial lyric poet. We are given a Petrarch in our own vernacular, with echoes of Wyatt, Shakespeare, and many who come after." --Harold BloomIneffable sweetness, bold, uncanny sweetnessthat came to my eyes from her lovely face; from that day on I'd willingly have closed them, never to gaze again at lesser beauties... -
![Four Histories by William Shakespeare]()
Four Histories by William Shakespeare
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBook annotation not available for this Four Shakespeare, Penguin Group USAPublication 1995/05/01Number of Binding PAPERBACKLibrary of... -
![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 School for Wives / The Learned Ladies by Molière]()
The School for Wives / The Learned Ladies by Molière
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe School for Wives concerns an insecure man who contrives to show the world how to rig an infallible alliance by marrying the perfect bride; The Learned Ladies centers on the domestic calamities wrought by a domineering woman upon her husband, children, and household. “Wilbur...makes Molière into as great an English verse playwright as he was a French one” (John Simon, New York)... -
![The House of Desires by Juana Inés de la Cruz]()
The House of Desires by Juana Inés de la Cruz
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOriginally written by seventeenth century nun Sor Juana Inéz de la Cruz and adapted here by Catherine Boyle, House of Desires is a romantic farce involving a brother and sister entangled in a web of love with four others.Critically acclaimed, this play was part of the Royal Shakespeare Company's Spanish Golden Age 2004 season... -
![Four Major Plays of Chikamatsu by Chikamatsu]()
Four Major Plays of Chikamatsu by Chikamatsu
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsChikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725) wrote some 130 plays, chiefly for the puppet theater, many of which are still performed today by puppet operators and Kabuki actors. Chikamatsu is thought to have written the first major tragedies about the common man. This edition of four of his most important plays includes three popular domestic dramas and one history play...Categorized as:
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![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... -
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![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... -
![The Duchess of Malfi and Other Plays by John Webster]()
The Duchess of Malfi and Other Plays by John Webster
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsJohn Webster was a radically and creatively experimental dramatist. This volume offers his two great Jacobean tragedies, The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi , together with his brilliant tragicomedy, The Devil's Law-Case , and the comedy written with William Rowley, A Cure for a Cuckold .The texts of the plays have been newly edited and are presented with modernized spelling and punctuation... -
![The Visions of Dom Francisco De Quevedo Villegas ... by Francisco de Quevedo]()
The Visions of Dom Francisco De Quevedo Villegas ... by Francisco de Quevedo
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. 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... -
![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... -
![Poems from the Spanish of Fra Luis Ponce de Leon by Luis de León, Silvio Baldessari]()
Poems from the Spanish of Fra Luis Ponce de Leon by Luis de León, Silvio Baldessari
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience... -
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![Edmund Spenser's Poetry by Edmund Spenser]()
Edmund Spenser's Poetry by Edmund Spenser
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsTo facilitate discussion of the place of the body and of pastoral elements in Spenser's epic, the Third Edition includes more of The Faerie Queene: from Book II, canto ix (the House of Alma), and from Book VI, the remainder of canto x and all of cantos xi-xii. The Shepheardes Calender is represented by six eclogues, including the much-discussed "Februarie... -
!['Tis Pity She's a Whore and Other Plays by John Ford]()
'Tis Pity She's a Whore and Other Plays by John Ford
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFord wrote darkly about sexual and political passion, thwarted ambition, and incest. This selection of four plays also shows his ability to portray the poignancy of love as well as write entertaining comedy and create convincing roles for women... -
![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)... -
![The Life of an Amorous Woman and Other Writings by Saikaku Ihara]()
The Life of an Amorous Woman and Other Writings by Saikaku Ihara
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratings[From back.]One of the great writers of Japan, Ihara Saikaku (1623-93) wrote of the lowest class in the Tokugawa world — the townsmen who were rising in wealth and power but not in official status. The title story in this collection of 12 works, told by an aging beauty whose highly erotic nature is her constant undoing, ranges over all of 17th-century Japanese life... -
![The School for Husbands by Molière, Richard Wilbur]()
The School for Husbands by Molière, Richard Wilbur
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe School for Husbands is a comedy in three acts and in verse.The intrigue of this comedy is the radical contrast between the ideas of two brothers about educating their children: one of them is very strict while the other is indulgent...
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