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The Riverside Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Second Edition of this complete collection of Shakespeare's plays and poems features two essays on recent criticism and productions, fully updated textual notes, a photographic insert of recent productions, and two works recently attributed to Shakespeare...Categorized as:
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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
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
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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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... -
Kavi by Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"কাহিনী সাধারণ এক গ্রামে ডাকাত বংশে জন্মগ্রহণ করে নিচুবংশের নিতাই। তবে তার স্বভাব তার বাবা-কাকাদের মত নয়। সে সৎ থাকতে চায়, তাই ঘরবাড়ি ছেড়ে স্টেশনে গিয়ে থাকে। এখানেই তার সাথে বন্ধুত্ব হয় রাজার, যে স্টেশনে কাজ করে। সে কবিয়াল ধরণের মানুষ। বিভিন্ন স্থানে গিয়ে ইতোমধ্যেই সে কবিগান করেছে। এদিকে রাজারই এক আত্মীয়কে ঠাকুরঝি বলে ডাকত সে। বিবাহিত ঠাকুরঝি রোজ এসে দুধ বিক্রি করে যেত। একপর্যায়ে তার... -
गोदान [Godaan] by Munshi Premchand, मुंशी प्रेमचंद
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsPremchand is the most famous Hindi novelist and Godaan is Premchand’s most celebrated novel. Economic and social conflict in a north Indian village are brilliantly captured in the story of Hori, a poor farmer and his family’s struggle for survival and self-respect. Hori does everything he can to fulfill his life’s desire: to own a cow, the peasant’s measure of wealth and well-being... -
Fear by Anatoli Rybakov
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom Publishers WeeklyIn this sequel to his international bestseller Children of the Arbat , Rybakov picks up the story of Sasha Pankratov and his friends from Moscow's fashionable Arbat district as Josef Stalin launches the reign of terror that saw millions of Soviet citizens arrested, exiled or shot for counterrevolutionary activities... -
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... -
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
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... -
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... -
The Little Tragedies by Alexander Pushkin
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn a major burst of creativity, Russian poet Alexander Pushkin during just three months in 1830 completed Eugene Onegin, composed more than thirty lyric poems, wrote several short stories and folk tales, and penned the four short dramas in verse that comprise the "little tragedies"... -
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... -
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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... -
The Iliad/The Odyssey/The Aeneid by Homer, Virgil
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA glorious boxed set featuring Robert Fagles's award-winning translations of the three great epics of Western literatureONE OF THE PREEMINENT translators of our time, Robert Fagles's interpretations of these epic poems give new life to three seminal works in the Western canon... -
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)... -
Разкази.Гераците by Elin Pelin, Елин Пелин
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsПоредицата "Книги за ученика" представя литературни произведения, включени в учебната програма за IV-XI клас. Текстовете са съобразени с възрастта на читателите. Придружени са с критически анализи и оценки от различни гледни точки, с проблемни въпроси, тематични разработки, животопис - съобразно съвременните методически изисквания... -
Parthiban Kanavu- Dream of Parthiban by Kalki
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis book is the first historical fiction written in Tamil. It's focal point is the reign of Narasimha Pallavan (Narasimhavarman). The narrative revolves around the struggle of the Pallava Emperor to enhance the prestige of the Pallava dynasty flag... -
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
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
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... -
La casa de Asterión by Jorge Luis Borges
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCuento "La casa de Asterión", de Jorge Luis Borges, originalmente publicado en el libro El Aleph, en 1949... -
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... -
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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... -
Complete Prose Fiction by Alexander Pushkin
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsPushkin’s prose tales are the foundation stones on which the great novels of Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky were built, but they are also brilliant and fascinating in their own right. In both prose and verse, Pushkin was one of the world’s great storytellers: direct and dramatic, clear-sighted, vivid, and passionate...Categorized as:
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Assassins by Stephen Sondheim, John Weidman
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEvoking a fraternity of political assassins and would-be assassins across a hundred years of our history, Sondheim and Weidman daringly examine success, failure and the questionable drive for power and celebrity in American society. "Dark, demented humor, as horrifying as it is hilarious... -
Mookambikayute Swapnangal by Kota Shivarama Karanth
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBook by sivarama... -
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... -
Mayombe by Pepetela
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsPepetela's novel is a fascinating study of the tensions produced by racism, tribalism, and sexual morals... -
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 2: The Romantic Period through the Twentieth Century by M.H. Abrams, Stephen Greenblatt
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 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... -
The Pursuer by Julio Cortázar
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA short story by Julio Cortázar... -
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... -
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 1: The Middle Ages through the Restoration & the Eighteenth Century by M.H. Abrams
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 32 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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The Major Plays by Anton Chekhov, Rosamund Bartlett
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAnton ChekhovThe Major PlaysIvanov * The Sea Gull * Uncle Vanya * The Three Sisters * The Cherry Orchard“Let the things that happen onstage be just as complex and yet just as simple as they are in life,” Chekhov once declared. “For instance, people are having a meal, just having a meal, but at the same time, their happiness is being created, or their lives are being smashed up... -
Her Benny by Silas Kitto Hocking
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis book is a little gem. It was first published in 1880 by a Cornish Minister who upped sticks to bang his drum up in the 'grim North', ( including 3 years in Liverpool, which is where this story is primarily set )... -
Complete Works of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings*Many images related to Chekhov, his works and the places he lived in* concise introductions to the texts* All 211 short stories available for the first time on the Kindle! Even rare stories like ‘Rapture’ – Chekhov’s first ever piece of fiction and available nowhere else as a digital book* the short stories have BOTH chronological and alphabetical contents tables – find that classic story... -
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
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
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... -
Station Island by Seamus Heaney
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe title poem of this collection, Seamus Heaney's first after Field Work (1979), is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. Heaney's pilgrim is on an inner journey and proceeds through a series of dream encounters which lead him back into the world that formed him, and then forward to face the crises of the present... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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The Norton Anthology of American Literature by Robert S. Levine, Wayne Franklin
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorter Eighth Edition, features a diverse and balanced variety of works and thorough but judicious editorial apparatus throughout. The new edition, which also newly includes much-requested authors and selections and 130 in-text images, remains an unmatched value for students...Categorized as:
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Pushkin: Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin by Alexander Pushkin
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis book contains the Russian text of Pushkin's Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin. The text is accompanied with English language introduction and notes on the text... -
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... -
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
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)... -
The Diviners by Jim Leonard
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDrama / 6m, 5f / Unit set w. platforms Winner of the American College Theatre Festival, this marvelously theatrical play is the story of a disturbed young man and his friendship with a disenchanted preacher in southern Indiana in the early 1930s. When the boy was young he almost drowned. This trauma and the loss of his mother in the same accident has left him deathly afraid of water...
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