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My Voice Because of You, by Pedro Salinas, Jorge Guillén
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEnglish, Spanish... -
![Aylak Adam by Yusuf Atılgan]()
Aylak Adam by Yusuf Atılgan
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsHer şeye "karşı" duran, "karşı" çıkan, "karşı" olan bir adam... Aylak Adam... Bir adı bile yok. "C." diyor Yusuf Atılgan kısaca.İnsan her şeye bunca "karşı"yken kendine de "karşı" olmadan nasıl sürdürebilir bir "karşı" yaşamı?C., sıradanlığa, tekdüzeliğe, alışılmışın kolaycılığına hiç mi hiç katlanamıyor. Hem farklıyı hem doğru olanı arıyor. Çabasının boşuna olduğunun da farkında üstelik... -
![Residence on Earth by Pablo Neruda, Donald Devenish Walsh]()
Residence on Earth by Pablo Neruda, Donald Devenish Walsh
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn celebration of the 100th anniversary of Pablo Neruda's birth, New Directions is pleased to announce the reissue of a classic work in a timeless translation by Donald D. Walsh and fully bilingual. Residence on Earth is perhaps Neruda's greatest work. Upon its publication in 1973, this bilingual publication instantly became "a revolution... a classic by which masterpieces are judged" (Review)... -
![A Mind at Peace by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar]()
A Mind at Peace by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsLibrarian note: Alternate cover edition of: 9780976395096Set on the eve of World War II, A Mind at Peace captures the anxieties of a Turkish family facing the difficult reality entrenched in the early republic, founded on the ashes of the Ottoman Empire in 1923... -
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![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... -
![Manto: Selected Stories by Saadat Hasan Manto]()
Manto: Selected Stories by Saadat Hasan Manto
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratings...Categorized as:
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![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... -
![Where the Air Is Clear by Carlos Fuentes]()
Where the Air Is Clear by Carlos Fuentes
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"Where the Air Is Clear," Carlos Fuentes's first novel, is an unsparing portrayal of Mexico City's upper class. Departing from a traditional linear narrative, Fuentes overlays Mexican myths onto contemporary settings, showing that even the rich and powerful must succumb to the indomitable spirit of Mexico, which undermines all institutions and shapes all destinies... -
![The Fierce and Beautiful World by Andrei Platonov]()
The Fierce and Beautiful World by Andrei Platonov
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis collection of Platonov's short fiction brings together seven works drawn from the whole of his career. It includes the harrowing novella Dzahn (" Soul" ) , in which a young man returns to his Asian birthplace to find his people deprived not only of food and dwelling, but of memory and speech, and "The Potudan River," Platonov's most celebrated story...Categorized as:
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![Spain, Take This Chalice from Me and Other Poems: Parallel Text Edition (Penguin Classics) by César Vallejo]()
Spain, Take This Chalice from Me and Other Poems: Parallel Text Edition (Penguin Classics) by César Vallejo
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA major new bilingual edition of the Peruvian poet's workCesar Vallejo is one of the best-known Latin American poets of the twentieth century. Challenging, intense, and difficult to translate, Vallejo's work has often been overshadowed by his fervent endorsement of communism...Categorized as:
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![Poems by Pier Paolo Pasolini]()
Poems by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Sex, death, political passion, these are the simple objects to which I give my elegiac heart"Winner of the first Renato Poggioli/William Weaver Award of PEN American CenterPier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975), who is best known in this country as an inspired filmmaker, was also the most outspoken and original Italian writer of his generation, the author of distinguished and controversial novels and... -
![Last Year in Marienbad by Alain Robbe-Grillet]()
Last Year in Marienbad by Alain Robbe-Grillet
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA man tells a woman that they have met before – that they became lovers but then agreed to separate for a year. The year is now up, and he has come back for her. At first, she remembers nothing, but as he relates their past together, real or imaginary, snapshots of memory appear – and she begins to believe him... -
![A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee]()
A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEdwards Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning play A Delicate Balance reveals the emotional savagery of suburbia and the psychological terror of empty lives. First produced in 1966, this dark drawing room comedy may be Albee's masterpiece, as powerful in its 1996 revival as it was thirty years before... -
![Stories of Mr. Keuner by Bertolt Brecht]()
Stories of Mr. Keuner by Bertolt Brecht
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBertolt Brecht's Stories of Mr. Keuner is a collection of fables, aphorisms, and comments on politics, everyday life, and exile. From 1930 til his death in 1956, Brecht penned these ironic portraits of his times as he was "changing countries more often than shoes... -
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![Die Schule der Diktatoren by Erich Kästner]()
Die Schule der Diktatoren by Erich Kästner
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsهذه مسرحيه، وإذا أردتم دقه الوصف فهى مأساه هزليه؛ انقلاب فاضل يزيح ديكتاتوريه فاسده من الطريق، ثم يقتلون المتمرد، وترسخ الديكتاتوريه الجديده أقدامها... -
![La coscienza di Zeno. Senilità. Una vita by Italo Svevo]()
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![The Chairs by Eugène Ionesco]()
The Chairs by Eugène Ionesco
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn a house on an island a very old couple pass their time with private games and half-remembered stories. With brilliant eccentricity, Ionesco's 'tragic farce' combines a comic portrait of human folly with a magical experiment in theatrical possibilities... -
![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... -
![The Air-Conditioned Nightmare by Henry Miller]()
The Air-Conditioned Nightmare by Henry Miller
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn 1939, after ten years as an expatriate, Henry Miller returned to the United States with a keen desire to see what his native land was really like—to get to the roots of the American nature and experience. He set out on a journey that was to last three years, visiting many sections of the country and making friends of all descriptions. The Air-Conditioned Nightmare is the result of that odyssey... -
![The Lower Depths by Maxim Gorky]()
The Lower Depths by Maxim Gorky
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWritten in 1902 and produced by the Moscow Arts Theatre on December 18, 1902 under the direction of Konstantin Stanislavski. It became his first major success, and a hallmark of Russian social realism. The play depicts a group of impoverished Russians living in a shelter near the Volga.When it first appeared, The Lower Depths was criticized for its pessimism and ambiguous ethical message... -
![سوءتفاهم by Albert Camus]()
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![Speed-The-Plow: A Play by David Mamet]()
Speed-The-Plow: A Play by David Mamet
Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSpeed-The-Plow Broadway run is the most recent triumph of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's astonishingly productive career. This play was first presented in a New York Broadway production by Lincoln Center Theater at the Royale Theater, opening on May3, 1988... -
![Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks]()
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks—writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual—writes about a new kind of education, educations as the practice of freedom. Teaching students to "transgress" against racial, sexual, and class boundaries in order to achieve the gift of freedom is, for hooks, the teacher's most important goal...Categorized as:
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![India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy by Ramachandra Guha, Edakochi Salimkumar]()
India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy by Ramachandra Guha, Edakochi Salimkumar
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA magisterial account of the pains, the struggles, the humiliations, and the glories of the world's largest and least likely democracy, Ramachandra Guha's India After Gandhi is a breathtaking chronicle of the brutal conflicts that have rocked a giant nation and the extraordinary factors that have held it together... -
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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... -
![“Finest Hour” by Winston S. Churchill]()
“Finest Hour” by Winston S. Churchill
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis eBook reproduces British Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s historic speech “Finest Hour,” delivered on June 18, 1940. The speech was dedicated to the heroism of Royal Air Force pilots defending England from the Luftwaffe during the critical Battle of Britain (July 10, 1940 to October 31, 1940)... -
![Bloom County: Loose Tails by Berke Breathed]()
Bloom County: Loose Tails by Berke Breathed
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe words that you are reading here replace a cockamamie publisher's blurb that appeared on the original printing of this tome. It's an acknowledged bit of wisdom that authors all learn at one time or another: Don't let your publisher write the promotional material... -
![James Baldwin: The Last Interview and Other Conversations by James Baldwin, Quincy Troupe]()
James Baldwin: The Last Interview and Other Conversations by James Baldwin, Quincy Troupe
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNever before available, the unexpurgated last interview with James Baldwin“I was not born to be what someone said I was. I was not born to be defined by someone else, but by myself, and myself only... -
![The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher W. Alexander]()
The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher W. Alexander
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn The Timeless Way of Building Christopher Alexander presents a new theory of architecture, building, and planning which has at its core that age-old process by which the people of a society have always pulled the order of their world from their own being.He writes, “There is one timeless way of building. It is thousands of years old, and the same today as it has always been... -
![The Grand Alliance by Winston S. Churchill]()
The Grand Alliance by Winston S. Churchill
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWinston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second World War. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable both for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it is universally acknowledged as a magnificent reconstruction and is an enduring, compelling work that led to his being awarded the Nobel Prize for literature...
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