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Le Jardin de Gethsémani : roman by Ivan Bahrianyi
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsУ творі талановитого українського письменника Івана Багряного зображено потужну сталінську машину свавілля і беззаконь, яка нищила людину морально і фізично. В центрі роману образ інженера Андрія Чумака, який в роки терору потрапляє до в`язниці. Могутній дух і воля не дають зламатися йому навіть у нелюдських умовах... -
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Осъдени души by Dimitar Dimov, Димитър Димов
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsМоже ли любовта да издържи на предизвикателствата на войната?Може ли човек да открие щастие, надежда, спасение в един свят, раздиран от жестокост, фанатизъм, глад, страх и болести, в който човешкият живот сякаш е загубил стойност, а непримиримите идеологии увличат милиони във всепомитаща буря?Испания е в гражданска война... -
![আদর্শ হিন্দু হোটেল by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay]()
আদর্শ হিন্দু হোটেল by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsইংরেজ সময়ের পটভূমিতে এ উপন্যাসে লেখক তৎকালীন ব্রাহ্মণ সমাজের একজন 'রাঁধুনী বামুণ', হাজারী দেবশর্মার জীবনকথা সুনিপুণভাবে তুলে... -
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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... -
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![Olhos d'Água by Conceição Evaristo]()
Olhos d'Água by Conceição Evaristo
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsEm Olhos d’água Conceição Evaristo ajusta o foco de seu interesse na população afro-brasileira abordando, sem meias palavras, a pobreza e a violência urbana que a acometem.Sem sentimentalismos, mas sempre incorporando a tessitura poética à ficção, seus contos apresentam uma significativa galeria de mulheres: Ana Davenga, a mendiga Duzu-Querença, Natalina, Luamanda, Cida, a menina Zaíta... -
![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... -
![Jelena, žena koje nema by Ivo Andrić]()
Jelena, žena koje nema by Ivo Andrić
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsJelena, žena koje nema (Jelena, a Woman Who's Not Here; 1962) belongs to the inter-war period. It is the expression of an abstract idea in concrete terms, suggesting the force with which quite abstract notions and vague impressions can impose themselves on the imagination, demanding to be recognized as no less real than 'reality... -
![Cuttlefish Bones by Eugenio Montale]()
Cuttlefish Bones by Eugenio Montale
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsCuttlefish Bones, his epoch-making first book, completes the trio of books (with the previously published 'The Occasions' and 'The Storm and Other Things') that won Eugenio Montale (1896-1981) the Nobel Prize in Literature and established him as the Greatest Italian poet since Leopardi. The renowned classicist, translator, and critic William Arrowsmith translated all three volumes... -
![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... -
![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 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)... -
![Fortunata y Jacinta - Volumen I by Benito Pérez Galdós]()
Fortunata y Jacinta - Volumen I by Benito Pérez Galdós
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPublicada en cuatro volúmenes entre enero y junio de 1887, Fortunata y Jacinta es la obra de mayor aliento de Benito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920)... -
![Fortunata y Jacinta - Volume 2 by Benito Pérez Galdós]()
Fortunata y Jacinta - Volume 2 by Benito Pérez Galdós
Rated: 4.38 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... -
![Selected Poems of Miguel Hernández by Antonio A. Gómez Yebra]()
Selected Poems of Miguel Hernández by Antonio A. Gómez Yebra
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMiguel Hernández is, along with Antonio Machado, Juan Ramón Jiménez, and Federico García Lorca, one of the greatest Spanish poets of the twentieth century... -
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![Mookambikayute Swapnangal by Kota Shivarama Karanth]()
Mookambikayute Swapnangal by Kota Shivarama Karanth
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBook by sivarama... -
![The Complete Stories of Truman Capote by Truman Capote]()
The Complete Stories of Truman Capote by Truman Capote
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA landmark collection that brings together Truman Capote’s life’s work in the form he called his “great love,” The Complete Stories confirms Capote’s status as a master of the short story... -
![Los ojos del perro siberiano by Antonio Santa Ana]()
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![Boo's Shoes - A Rabbit and Fox Story: Learn To Tie Shoelaces by Sybrina Durant]()
Boo's Shoes - A Rabbit and Fox Story: Learn To Tie Shoelaces by Sybrina Durant
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNo Laces! That’s what Boo, the bunny, always says. He doesn’t want to learn to tie them. He has plenty of shoes for every occasion and none of them have laces or strings. So, what’s the point of learning to tie? His friend, Farah Fox, convinces him that it’s a skill he can use. . . and one that might make him happier, too.This book is meant to be a parent-child activity... -
![Crossbones (Cross your Heart and Die, #3) by Diane L. Kowalyshyn]()
Crossbones (Cross your Heart and Die, #3) by Diane L. Kowalyshyn
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKeme didn't think his life could get worse until he's turned into a windigo––a creature with an insatiable appetite for human flesh. An attempt to end his life frees Arthur, the victim ensnared in Keme’s internal soul-cache. Arthur is propelled into dominance and Keme recedes into obscurity. Two souls inhabit one body and the turnabout causes abominable evil to reign supreme... -
![Collected Plays 1944-1961 by Arthur Miller]()
Collected Plays 1944-1961 by Arthur Miller
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the inaugural volume of its collected edition of Miller's plays, The Library of America gathers the works from the 1940s and 1950s that electrified theatergoers and established Miller as one of the indispensable voices of the postwar era... -
![Missionary No More: Purple Panties 2 by Zane]()
Missionary No More: Purple Panties 2 by Zane
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSteamy, sensual and poetically hypnotic, Missionary No More: Purple Panties 2 is the follow-up to the bestseller Purple Panties. No one can debate the fact that Zane knows sex. The Queen of Erotic Fiction has hit home run after home run in the literary arena with her literary offerings... -
![Follies by Stephen Sondheim, James Goldman]()
Follies by Stephen Sondheim, James Goldman
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOn the eve of its destruction, the once-glorious Weissman Theatre is filled with the ghosts of its past as showgirls from 40 years ago reunite to glamorize the old days and relive bygone memories of promise and splendor. For two jaded middle-aged couples, coming face-to-face with what might have been proves to be a shattering experience... -
![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... -
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![Best of Manto: A Collection of his Short Stories by Saadat Hasan Manto]()
Best of Manto: A Collection of his Short Stories by Saadat Hasan Manto
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEnglish translation of short stories... -
![Tragedias by William Shakespeare]()
Tragedias by William Shakespeare
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the First Folio, the plays of William Shakespeare were grouped into three categories: comedies, histories, and tragedies. Shakespeare wrote tragedies from the beginning of his career. One of his earliest plays was the Roman tragedy Titus Andronicus, which he followed a few years later with Romeo and Juliet... -
![El libro vacío / Los años falsos by Josefina Vicens]()
El libro vacío / Los años falsos by Josefina Vicens
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEn 1958 hizo su aparición en el panorama literario mexicano una escritora distinta a todas las demás: Josefina Vicens. Y lo hizo con El libro vacío, una obra maestra justamente comparada con La novela luminosa de Mario Levrero que no es solo una narración sobre la metafísica de la escritura, sino también sobre los deseos y las limitaciones de un hombre cualquiera... -
![The Complete Plays by Joe Orton]()
The Complete Plays by Joe Orton
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis volume contains every play written by Joe Orton, who emerged in the 1960s as the most talented comic playwright in recent English history and was considered the direct successor to Wilde, Shaw, and Coward... -
![Pedro and the Captain by Mario Benedetti]()
Pedro and the Captain by Mario Benedetti
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA four act play with only two characters, Pedro, incarcerated, and the Captain, who is his torturer... -
![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... -
![السقا مات by يوسف السباعي]()
السقا مات by يوسف السباعي
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsتعتبر هذه الرواية من أهم وأفضل ما قدم يوسف السباعي للمكتبة العربية، وتدور أحداثها بحارة مصرية في عشرينيات القرن الماضي حول فكرة رئيسية وهي الموت، الموت الذي اختطف زوجة البطل "المعلم شوشا السقا" فعاش بعدها حزينا على فراقها خائفاً مرتعباً من الموت، ولكن المصادقة تجعله ينقذ شخصاً لا يعرفه من الضرب وتتوثق بينهما الصداقة، لكن المعلم شوشا عندما علم أن صديقه يعمل في مجال متعلق بدفن الموتى نفر منه، غير... -
![Novels 1930-1935: As I Lay Dying / Sanctuary / Light in August / Pylon by William Faulkner]()
Novels 1930-1935: As I Lay Dying / Sanctuary / Light in August / Pylon by William Faulkner
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBetween 1930 and 1935, William Faulkner came into full possession of the genius and creativity that made him one of America’s finest writers of the twentieth century. The four novels in this Library of America collection display an astonishing range of characters and treatments in his Depression-era fiction... -
![Το μεγάλο μας τσίρκο by Iakovos Kambanellis, Ιάκωβος Καμπανέλλης]()
Το μεγάλο μας τσίρκο by Iakovos Kambanellis, Ιάκωβος Καμπανέλλης
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsΡΩΜΙΟΣ: Αρκετά!... Και τώρα μια τελευταία διευκρίνιση. Είπα ότι το έργο μας είναι κωμωδία. Αλλά δεν είναι απλώς διότι έτσι γράφτηκε ή διότι το λέμε εμείς. Είναι κωμωδία για έναν άλλο σοβαρότερο και πολύ πιο έγκυρο λόγο: Το δηλώσαμε ως κωμωδία, το υποβάλαμε στη λογοκρισία ως κωμωδία και ενεκρίθη ως κωμωδία δια της υπ’ αριθμόν 199 αποφάσεως... -
![Choir Boy by Tarell Alvin McCraney]()
Choir Boy by Tarell Alvin McCraney
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"An exhilarating, multi-layered new play."—The Guardian"Stirring and stylishly told . . . McCraney's crispest and most confident work."—Daily News"Greatly affecting. . . . It takes a brave writer to set his language against the plaintive beauty of the hymns and spirituals . . -
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![Plays: One by Arthur Miller]()
Plays: One by Arthur Miller
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings(alternative cover for isbn: 0413158101)Formerly part of the World Dramatists series of play collections by classic and modern playwrights, including foreign works in workable and accurate translations, this title and seven others are reissued in a new format under the heading, World Classics... -
![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... -
![A Miracle of Catfish by Larry Brown]()
A Miracle of Catfish by Larry Brown
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLarry Brown has been a force in American literature since taking critics by storm with his debut collection, Facing the Music, in 1988. His subsequent work—five novels, another story collection, and two books of nonfiction—continued to bring extraordinary praise and national attention to the writer New York Newsday called a "master... -
![The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. D: The Romantic Period by M.H. Abrams, Stephen Greenblatt]()
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. D: The Romantic Period by M.H. Abrams, Stephen Greenblatt
Rated: 4.10 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... -
![Reeds and Mud by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez]()
Reeds and Mud by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSet in Valencia, a poverty stricken city on the coast of Spain, this novel portrays the struggle of the common man against his environment. Based on the author's first hand experience in this area, the story centres around three generations of a poor Valencian family (circa 1900) who are as divided in their views on how to get along in this hostile world as any three individuals can be... -
![Pictures of the Gone World by Lawrence Ferlinghetti]()
Pictures of the Gone World by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsPublished to celebrate forty years of City Lights publishing, which began with the letterpress printing of this book in 1955.It was Lawrence Ferlinghetti's first book, and it has been reprinted twenty-one times, having never been out of print. The original edition contained the first twenty-seven poems to which the author has now added eighteen new verses... -
![The Post Office by Rabindranath Tagore]()
The Post Office by Rabindranath Tagore
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis vintage book contains Rabindranath Tagore's 1912 play, 'The Post Office'. The play revolves around Amal, a child confined to his adopted uncle's house by an incurable disease who, inspired by the construction of a local post office, fantasizes about receiving a letter from the king or being a postman. The play was translated into English by W. B... -
![Bir Süre Yere Paralel Gittikten Sonra by Barış Bıçakçı]()
Bir Süre Yere Paralel Gittikten Sonra by Barış Bıçakçı
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"Bir şey sunulmuştu bana, bir hediye, bir meyve. Ama ben o meyveden tadamadım, gök erik gibi kaldı avcumda dünya. Şimdi ben uykusuzum, yalınayağım, kendimle meşgulüm. Kapımın önünde boş peynir tenekeleri, yağmur suyu biriktiriyorum... -
![Selected Poems by Paul Verlaine]()
Selected Poems by Paul Verlaine
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsPoems selected from Verlaine's first six books of verse are presented in the original French as well as in English... -
![A Streetcar Named Desire and Other Plays by Tennessee Williams]()
A Streetcar Named Desire and Other Plays by Tennessee Williams
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTennessee Williams’s sensuous, atmospheric plays transformed the American stage with their passion, exoticism and vibrant characters who rage against their personal demons and the modern world... -
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![The House of Bernarda Alba and Other Plays by Federico García Lorca]()
The House of Bernarda Alba and Other Plays by Federico García Lorca
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn these three plays (Blood Wedding, Yerma, The House of Bernada Alba), García Lorca's acknowledged masterpieces, he searched for a contemporary mode of tragedy and reminded his audience that dramatic poetry-or poetic drama-depends less on formal convention that on an elemental, radical outlook on human life... -
![García Márquez: Crónica de una muerte anunciada by Stephen M. Hart]()
García Márquez: Crónica de una muerte anunciada by Stephen M. Hart
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsEsta Novela se basa en un hecho histórico acontecido en la tierra natal del autor. Sin embargo, en García Márquez la dialéctica entre realidad y mito es tan fecunda que eleva el hecho a categoría de metáfora universal sobre la condición humana... -
![Junge Verlierer by Emrah Serbes]()
Junge Verlierer by Emrah Serbes
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsEmrah Serbes erzählt davon, wie es ist, ein Mann zu werden: vom Fingerspiel in Mädchenhaaren, von tränenloser Starre, als der Bruder beim Militär ums Leben kommt, und davon, warum einer mit „Terroristen“ aus der Nachbarschaft zur Demo geht. Er erzählt von Fußballspiel, Nachhilfeunterricht und der Verwirrung wenn Lehrerinnenbeine plötzlich vom Wind freigeweht werden... -
![The Zoo Story and Other Plays by Edward Albee]()
The Zoo Story and Other Plays by Edward Albee
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis volume of plays contains Edward Albee's four most famous one-act works. They are "Death of Bessie Smith", "Zoo Story", "American Dream", and "Sand Box"... -
![Summer and Smoke by Tennessee Williams]()
Summer and Smoke by Tennessee Williams
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTennessee Williams' sensuous portrait of sexual repression is as sultry as the sweltering heat of its Mississippi setting. Alma Winemiller, the sheltered daughter of a minister, secretly harbors a lifelong love for the boy next door, Dr. John Buchanan. Alma seeks a spiritual love with just one man, but the rakish John is focused solely on sexual conquest...
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