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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... -
![My Voice Because of You, by Pedro Salinas, Jorge Guillén]()
My Voice Because of You, by Pedro Salinas, Jorge Guillén
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEnglish, Spanish... -
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Selected Poems by E.E. Cummings
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe one hundred and fifty-six poems here, arranged in twelve sections and introduced by E. E. Cummings's biographer, include his most popular poems, spanning his earliest creations, his vivacious linguistic acrobatics, up to his last valedictory sonnets. Also featured are thirteen drawings, oils, and watercolors by Cummings, most of them never before published... -
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![Three Clicks Left by Katerina Gogou, Κατερίνα Γώγου]()
Three Clicks Left by Katerina Gogou, Κατερίνα Γώγου
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the poems of Three Clicks Left, it is the plight of woman in a world of betrayed politics which forms the drama...a consistent pitch of colloquial street-lingo woo, savvy and quotidian wail... -
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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 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... -
![The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays by Tom Stoppard]()
The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays by Tom Stoppard
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsCulled from nearly twenty years of the playwright’s career, a showcase for Tom Stoppard’s dazzling range and virtuosic talent, The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays is essential reading for fans of modern drama. The plays in this collection reveal Stoppard’s sense of fun, his sense of theater, his sense of the absurd, and his gifts for parody and satire... -
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Betrayal by Harold Pinter
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsBetrayal is Pinter's latest full-length play since the enormous success of No Man's Land. The play begins in 1977, with a meeting between adulterous lovers, Emma and Jerry, two years after their affair has ended...Categorized as:
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Travesties by Tom Stoppard
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTravesties was born out of Stoppard's noting that in 1917 three of the twentieth century's most crucial revolutionaries -- James Joyce, the Dadaist founder Tristan Tzara, and Lenin -- were all living in Zurich... -
![We Can't Pay? We Won't Pay! by Dario Fo, Robert W. Walker]()
We Can't Pay? We Won't Pay! by Dario Fo, Robert W. Walker
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDario Fo is Italy's leading contemporary playwright and performer, renowned throughout the world for his dazzling radical satires. Can't Pay? Won't Pay! is set in Milan, but "the problems are desperately familiar.. -
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Salt by Earl Lovelace
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne hundred years after Emancipation, the diverse people of Trinidad—African, Asian, and European—have not settled into the New World. In Salt, an unforgettable cast of men and women strive with wit and passion to make sense of life in an evolving homeland... -
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The Counterlife by Philip Roth
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Counterlife is about people enacting their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them going so far as to risk their lives to alter seemingly irreversible destinies. Wherever they may find themselves, the characters of The Counterlife are tempted unceasingly by the prospect of an alternative existence that can reverse their fate... -
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Albert Angelo by B.S. Johnson
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA failed love affair, the failure to find work as an architect, and the difficulties of substitute teaching cause Albert Angelo to reexamine his life...Categorized as:
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![A Hall of Mirrors by Robert Stone]()
A Hall of Mirrors by Robert Stone
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRheinhardt, a disk jockey and failed musician, rolls into New Orleans looking for work and another chance in life. What he finds is a woman physically and psychically damaged by the men in her past and a job that entangles him in a right-wing political movement... -
![Seven Jewish Children: a play for Gaza by Caryl Churchill]()
Seven Jewish Children: a play for Gaza by Caryl Churchill
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSubtitled "a play for Gaza" this is British playwright Caryl Churchill's response to the situation in Gaza in January of 2009. Structured as the text of seven statements parents might say to their children either in response to the events or attempting to explain them, they express regret, anger, intelligence, blind hatred, fear, and compassion... -
![Bend Sinister by Vladimir Nabokov]()
Bend Sinister by Vladimir Nabokov
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsThe state has been recently taken over and is being run by the tyrannical and philistine ‘Average Man’ party. Under the slogans of equality and happiness for all, it has done away with individualism and freedom of thought. Only John Krug, a brilliant philosopher, stands up to the regime. His antagonist, the leader of the new party, is his old school enemy, Paduk – known as the ‘Toad’... -
![My Century by Günter Grass]()
My Century by Günter Grass
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn a work of great originality, Germany's most eminent writer examines the victories and terrors of the twentieth century, a period of astounding change for mankind. Great events and seemingly trivial occurrences, technical developments and scientific achievements, war and disasters, and new beginnings, all unfold to display our century in its glory and grimness... -
![Valparaiso by Don DeLillo]()
Valparaiso by Don DeLillo
Rated: 3.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA man sets out on an ordinary business trip to Valparaiso, Indiana. It turns out to be a mock-heroic journey toward identity and transcendence. This is Don DeLillo's second play and it is funny, sharp, and deep-reaching. Its characters tend to have needs and desires shaped by the forces of broadcast technology. This is the way we talk to each other today... -
![The Zafarani Files: An Egyptian Novel (Modern Arabic Literature by Gamal al-Ghitani, جمال الغيطاني]()
The Zafarani Files: An Egyptian Novel (Modern Arabic Literature by Gamal al-Ghitani, جمال الغيطاني
Rated: 3.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn unknown observer is watching the residents of a small, closely-knit neighborhood in Cairo's old city, making notes of their comings and goings, their quarrels, their triumphs, descriptions of dress and biographical details...Categorized as:
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![C Programming Language by Ritchie Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie]()
C Programming Language by Ritchie Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsClassic, bestselling introduction that teaches the language and illustrates useful algorithms, data structures and programming techniques... -
![Hitchcock by François Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock]()
Hitchcock by François Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAny book-length interview with Alfred Hitchcock is valuable, but considering that this volume's interlocutor is François Truffaut, the conversation is remarkable indeed. Here is a rare opportunity to eavesdrop on two cinematic masters from very different backgrounds as they cover each of Hitch's films in succession... -
![The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin]()
The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"To great writers," Walter Benjamin once wrote, "finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives...Categorized as:
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![...καλά, εσύ σκοτώθηκες νωρίς by Χρόνης Μίσσιος, Chronis Missios]()
...καλά, εσύ σκοτώθηκες νωρίς by Χρόνης Μίσσιος, Chronis Missios
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsΤι να σου πω, όλα αυτά τα χρόνια που εσύ έλειψες, τα χρόνια λέω που μας άντρωσαν μέσα στην κρεατομηχανή, μ' έχουν μπερδέψει... -
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![The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro]()
The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThis is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country. The Path to Power reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy & ambition that set LBJ apart... -
![الأعمال الكاملة - لافتات by أحمد مطر]()
الأعمال الكاملة - لافتات by أحمد مطر
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsأحمد مطر شاعر عراقي الجنسية ولد سنة 1954 ابناً رابعاً بين عشرة أخوة من البنين والبنات، في قرية التنومة، إحدى نواحي شط العرب في البصرة. وعاش فيها مرحلة الطفولة قبل أن تنتقل أسرته وهو في مرحلة الصبا، لتقيم عبر النهر في محلة الأصمعي... -
![Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives by Anne Michaud]()
Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives by Anne Michaud
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhy do good women stay with bad men?What if political wives are just as calculating as their infamous husbands?If Hilary Clinton had left her marriage, she might only be known as the spurned wife of a retired politician. Instead, she became the first woman to run for U.S. president on a major party ticket... -
![Modernity And The Holocaust by Zygmunt Bauman]()
Modernity And The Holocaust by Zygmunt Bauman
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEl Holocausto no fue un acontecimiento singular, ni una manifestación terrible pero puntual de un ‘barbarismo’ persistente, fue un fenómeno estrechamente relacionado con las características propias de la modernidad...Categorized as:
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![Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976 by Michel Foucault]()
Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976 by Michel Foucault
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAn examination of relations between war and politicsFrom 1971 until his death in 1984, Michel Foucault taught at the Collège de France, perhaps the most prestigious intellectual institution in Europe. Each year, in a series of 12 public lectures, Foucault sought to explain his research of the previous year...Categorized as:
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![A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari]()
A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratings‘A rare and remarkable book.' Times Literary SupplementGilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII. He is a key figure in poststructuralism, and one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. Félix Guattari (1930-1992) was a psychoanalyst at the la Borde Clinic, as well as being a major social theorist and radical activist...Categorized as:
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