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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... -
![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... -
![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... -
![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... -
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![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... -
![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... -
![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... -
![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... -
![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... -
![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... -
![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... -
![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... -
![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... -
![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... -
![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... -
![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... -
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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... -
![Selected Poems 1923-1958 by E.E. Cummings]()
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![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... -
![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... -
![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... -
![Lieblingstochter by Sarah Jollien-Fardel]()
Lieblingstochter by Sarah Jollien-Fardel
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSarah Jollien-Fardel erzählt die Geschichte einer Befreiung, die unter die Haut geht: In den Walliser Bergen wächst die kleine Jeanne mit einem gewalttätigen Vater, einer verängstigten Mutter und der eingeschüchterten Schwester auf. Alle im Dorf wissen von der willkürlichen Brutalität des Vaters, alle schauen weg. Jeanne flüchtet in ihre Phantasie, in die Welt der Bücher und später ins Internat... -
![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 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... -
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![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... -
![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... -
![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... -
![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"... -
![Children of a Lesser God by Mark Medoff]()
Children of a Lesser God by Mark Medoff
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsChildren of a Lesser God... -
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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... -
![Eisejuaz by Sara Gallardo]()
Eisejuaz by Sara Gallardo
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratings«¡Qué libro extraño y bello has logrado! No imagino cómo se te ocurrió ni cómo te atreviste a emprenderlo. ¡Qué audacia! (…) Ojalá la gente comprenda lo valioso de tu texto. Ojalá deje atrás la sorpresa de las primeras páginas y se interne en su singularidad alucinante.» Manuel Mujica Lainez, en una carta dirigida a Sara Gallardo «Eisejuaz es una novela escrita en estado de gracia... -
![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... -
![El señor llega by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester]()
El señor llega by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPrimera novela de la trilogía Los gozos y las sombras, «El señor llega» narra el regreso al imaginario pueblo gallego de Pueblanueva del Conde, tras una larga ausencia, de Carlos Deza, uno de los últimos descendientes de la familia más aristocrática de la localidad, desafiada en sus aspiraciones a la hegemonía por Cayetano Salgado, un burgués enriquecido... -
![La Pascua triste by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester]()
La Pascua triste by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings«La Pascua triste» cierra la gran trilogía de Los gozos y las sombras que abre «El señor llega» y prosigue «Donde da la vuelta el aire»...
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