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İnce Memed 3 by Yaşar Kemal
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOtuz iki yıllık bir zaman diliminde yazılan İnce Memed dörtlüsü düzene başkaldıran Memed'in ve insan ilişkileri, doğası ve renkleriyle Çukurova'nın öyküsüdür. Yaşar Kemal'in söyleyişiyle 'içinde başkaldırma kurduysa doğmuş' bir insanın, 'mecbur adam'ın romanı.Çiçekli Mahmut Ağa, Çiçeklideresi köyündeki topraklarını işleyen köylüleri İnce Memed'i korudukları için topraklarından atar... -
![The Moonlight Sonata by Yiannis Ritsos]()
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![The Collected Poems Of Alvaro De Campos: 1928 1935: V. 2 by Fernando Pessoa, Álvaro de Campos]()
The Collected Poems Of Alvaro De Campos: 1928 1935: V. 2 by Fernando Pessoa, Álvaro de Campos
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAlvaro de Campos, along with Ricardo Reis and Alberto Caeiro is one of Pessoa's most important poetic heteronyms and, like these fellow fictitious poets, made his first appearance in 1914. He was also something of a public figure, his essays and reviews frequently appearing in Portuguese periodicals... -
![Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi by Cesare Pavese]()
Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi by Cesare Pavese
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOversat efter 2. udgave, 28. oplag 2007... -
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![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... -
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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... -
![Τα ποίηματα Α΄: 1897-1918 by Constantinos P. Cavafy, Κ.Π. Καβάφης]()
Τα ποίηματα Α΄: 1897-1918 by Constantinos P. Cavafy, Κ.Π. Καβάφης
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsΣα βγεις στον πηγαιμό για την Ιθάκη,να εύχεσαι νάναι μακρύς ο δρόμος,γεμάτος περιπέτειες, γεμάτος γνώσεις.Τους Λαιστρυγόνας και τους Κύκλωπας,τον θυμωμένο Ποσειδώνα μη φοβάσαι,τέτοια στον δρόμο σου ποτέ σου δεν θα βρεις,αν μέν’ η σκέψις σου υψηλή, αν εκλεκτήσυγκίνησις το πνεύμα και το σώμα σου αγγίζει... -
![Epitaphios by Yiannis Ritsos]()
Epitaphios by Yiannis Ritsos
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOn 10 May 1936 the 27-year old Greek poet Yiannis Ritsos saw a newspaper photograph of a woman weeping over the body of her son, a Salonica tobacco-factory worker killed by police during a strike. Two days later the Communist Party newspaper Rizospastis published a long poem by Ritsos... -
![Selected Poems by Anna Akhmatova]()
Selected Poems by Anna Akhmatova
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBrings together all D.M. Thomas' acclaimed translations of Akhmatova's poems. This volume includes "Requiem", her poem of the Stalinist Terror and "Poem Without a Hero"... -
![Pedro Paramo / El Llano En Llamas by Juan Rulfo]()
Pedro Paramo / El Llano En Llamas by Juan Rulfo
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsIn "Pedro Pâaramo," Juan Preciado visits the remote village of Comala and confronts the ruthless landowner Pedro Pâaramo, the father he has never known, and in "El Llano en Llamos," fourteen stories profile Mexican life... -
![Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? by Raymond Carver]()
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? by Raymond Carver
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWith this, his first collection, Carver breathed new life into the short story. In the pared-down style that has since become his hallmark, Carver showed us how humour and tragedy dwelt in the hearts of ordinary people, and won a readership that grew with every subsequent brilliant collection of stories, poems and essays that appeared in the last eleven years of his life... -
![The Collected Poems, Vol. 2: 1939-1962 by William Carlos Williams]()
The Collected Poems, Vol. 2: 1939-1962 by William Carlos Williams
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratings'And when the second and final colume of Williams' 'Collected Poems' is published, it should become even more apparent that he is this century's major American poet... -
![Romiosini by Yiannis Ritsos, فواز طرابلسي]()
Romiosini by Yiannis Ritsos, فواز طرابلسي
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe word Romiosini or 'Greekness' derives from the Byzantine idea that the Greeks are the true Romioi, the heirs of the Roman Empire. For hundreds of years under the Turkish occupation the flame of romiosini was kept alive in codes of honour, loyalty, bravery, love of the land, religious devotion and patriotism... -
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![Wolvensaga by Käthe Recheis]()
Wolvensaga by Käthe Recheis
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn het dal van de Fluisterende Winden is de wolvenwereld nog intact. De roedel van Palo Kan leeft in harmonie met de andere dieren en respecteert Waka, de wet van de natuur.Dit vredige leven wordt plotseling verstoord door de komst van Sjogar Kan, de reuzenwolf uit het noorden die Waka niet erkent en met zijn roedel Talloos alle levende wezens wil onderwerpen... -
![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... -
![Fernando Pessoa and Co.: Selected Poems by Fernando Pessoa]()
Fernando Pessoa and Co.: Selected Poems by Fernando Pessoa
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFernando Pessoa (1888-1935) - a poet who lived most his life in Lisbon, Portugal, and who died in obscurity there - has in recent years gained international recognition as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century... -
![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... -
![Incidences by Daniil Kharms]()
Incidences by Daniil Kharms
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis wonderfully inventive collection of stories presents the writing of Russian absurdist Daniil Kharms at its vibrant, perplexing best. The book is composed of short miniatures: strange, funny, dream-like fragments ? many of which the author called ?incidents? ? that tend to feature accidents, falling, chance violence and sudden death... -
![Madame by Antoni Libera]()
Madame by Antoni Libera
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe comic "sentimental education" of a schoolboy who falls in love with his French teacher. Madame is an unexpected gem: a novel about Poland during the grim years of Soviet-controlled mediocrity, which nonetheless sparkles with light and warmth... -
![The Selected Poems by Osip Mandelstam]()
The Selected Poems by Osip Mandelstam
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOsip Mandelstam is a central figure not only in modern Russian poetry but in world poetry, the author of some of the most haunting and memorable poems of the twentieth century... -
![Alemdağ'da Var Bir Yılan by Sait Faik Abasıyanık]()
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![Το θείο τραγί by Γιάννης Σκαρίμπας]()
Το θείο τραγί by Γιάννης Σκαρίμπας
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsΓραμμένο το 1931 και δημοσιευμένο στις αρχές του 1933, το "Θείο Τραγί" αποτελεί το σημείο εκκίνησης της νεωτερικής γραφής του Γιάννη Σκαρίμπα, αφού εμπεριέχει, προδρομικά, τα περισσότερα από τα στοιχεία εκείνα που θα εξελιχθούν και θα αποτελέσουν τα ιδιαίτερα χαρακτηριστικά της γραφής του συγγραφέα... -
![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... -
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![Requiem by Anna Akhmatova]()
Requiem by Anna Akhmatova
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe famous poem of resistance under totalitarianism... -
![Station Island by Seamus Heaney]()
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... -
![Collected Poems by Robert Hayden]()
Collected Poems by Robert Hayden
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRobert Hayden (1913-1980) was one of the most important African-American poets of the twentieth century. He left behind an exquisite body of work, collected in this definitive edition, including American Journal , which was nominated for a National Book Award in its first publication... -
![Selected Poems 1923-1958 by E.E. Cummings]()
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![Selected Poems by John Ashbery]()
Selected Poems by John Ashbery
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom the early virtuosity of Some Trees and The Tennis Court Oath through the triumphs of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror to the brilliance of A Wave - each collection of John Ashbery's verse has broken new ground... -
![My Name Is Aram by William Saroyan]()
My Name Is Aram by William Saroyan
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWilliam Saroyan's most celebrated work of short fiction- a boy's view of the American Dream. Aram Garoghlanian was a Californian, born in Fresno on the other side of the Southern Pacific tracks. But he was also part of a large, sprawling family of immigrant Armenians--a whole tribe of eccentric uncles, brawling cousins, and gentle women...Categorized as:
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![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... -
![Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates]()
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThe sixties and seventies witnessed the emergence of Joyce Carol Oates as one of America's foremost writers of the short story. In 1962, 'The Fine White Mist of Winter, ' composed when the author was 19 years old, appeared in The Literary Review and was selected for both the O. Henry Awards and Best American Short Stories of that year...Categorized as:
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![The Collected Poems by Sergei Yesenin]()
The Collected Poems by Sergei Yesenin
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratings"Preserving in English the immortal spirit and rhyme of the great Russian genius."Biographical notes on Esenin and Isadora Duncan precede each vol. and some chapters.Includes several color reproductions of landscape paintings by Isaac Levitan mounted on pages with captions, and other photos, including a portrait photo of Esenin and his wife Isadora Duncan, American dancer (v. 2, p. [7])... -
![Last Evenings on Earth by Roberto Bolaño]()
Last Evenings on Earth by Roberto Bolaño
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis is the first collection of short stories by the universally acclaimed Chilean author to be published in English and it is an outstanding introduction to Bolaño's writing. Bolaño's narrators are grappling with their own private quests while living in the margins, on the edges, in constant flight from nightmarish threats... -
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![Ira Sleeps Over by Bernard Waber]()
Ira Sleeps Over by Bernard Waber
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom the beloved author-illustrator of Lyle, Lyle Crocodile comes a charming and relatable picture book about a child's first sleepover experience...Categorized as:
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![Plumb by George Bacovia]()
Plumb by George Bacovia
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsLa aproape un secol de la ediția princeps, Editura Muzeului Literaturii Române publică într-un număr limitat de exemplare din volumul Plumb, debutul editorial al lui George Bacovia. Tableta ce se deschide cu poemul omonim cuprinde cincizeci de texte, într-o prezentare de lux... -
![Αρνούμαι by Antonis Samarakis]()
Αρνούμαι by Antonis Samarakis
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Όχι, δεν μπορώ να συμβιβαστώ!... Δεν μπορώ να εξακολουθώ να 'μαι μέσα σ' αυτόν τον κόσμο σα να μην έχει συμβεί τίποτα, σα να μη συμβαίνει τίποτα!..."Η αλήθεια είναι ότι, όταν αρθρώνεται η ασυμβίβαστη άρνηση του Σαμαράκη, έχουν ήδη συμβεί πάρα πολλά, και τραγικά, σ' αυτόν τον κόσμο· έχει συμβεί ο Δεύτερος Παγκόσμιος Πόλεμος... -
![Here Lies: The Collected Stories of Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker]()
Here Lies: The Collected Stories of Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDorothy Parker (August 22, 1893 - June 7, 1967) was an American poet and satirist, best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th century urban foibles. From a conflicted and unhappy childhood, Parker rose to acclaim, both for her literary output in such venues as The New Yorker and as a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table... -
![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... -
![The Hat by Tomi Ungerer]()
The Hat by Tomi Ungerer
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe black top hat with magic powers blew into the one-legged soldier's life, made him a wealthy man, and then blew out again... -
![Samlede Strunge: Digte 1978-85 by Michael Strunge]()
Samlede Strunge: Digte 1978-85 by Michael Strunge
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMichael Strunge (1958-86) nåede at skrive 11 digtsamlinger, fra debutbogen Livets Hastighed (1978) til den sidste samling, Billedpistolen (1985).Samlede Strunge er et samlet genoptryk af disse 11 digtsamlinger. Derudover bringes en række digte, der ikke tidligere har været trykt i bogform... -
![Orphic Songs by Dino Campana]()
Orphic Songs by Dino Campana
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis vivid presentation of Campana demonstrates why Italian readers have cherished his poems since the first appearance of Canti Orfici in 1914. Charles Wright’s translation, Jonathan Galassi’s introduction, and, as afterword, Montale’s thoughtful essay on Campana, identify the heart of this poet’s achievement... -
![Collected Poems: Edward Thomas by Edward Thomas]()
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![Selected Poems by Giuseppe Ungaretti]()
Selected Poems by Giuseppe Ungaretti
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA major new translation of one of Italy's greatest modern poetsGiuseppe Ungaretti (1888-1970) was a pioneer of the Modernist movement in Italian poetry and is widely regarded as one of the leading Italian poets of the twentieth century. His verse is renowned and loved for its powerful insight and emotion, and its exquisite music... -
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![Something Fishy by P.G. Wodehouse]()
Something Fishy by P.G. Wodehouse
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA butler named Keggs who, having overheard the planning of a scheme, later decides to try and make money out of his knowledge. This title features Percy Pilbeam, the unscrupulous head of the Argus Detective Agency, who first appeared in "Bill the Conqueror" (1924) and was in several other Wodehouse books, including a visit to Blandings Castle in "Summer Lightning" (1929)... -
![The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry by Rita Dove]()
The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry by Rita Dove
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPenguin’s landmark poetry anthology, perfect for learning poems by heart in the age of ephemeral media Recipient of the Academy of American Poets' Wallace Stevens Award (Dove)Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet Laureate of the United States, introduces readers to the most significant and compelling poems of the past hundred years in The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century... -
![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... -
![The Blue Sapphire by D.E. Stevenson]()
The Blue Sapphire by D.E. Stevenson
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe blue sapphire is the gem which the Ancients called the hyacinthus and which Solinus described as ‘a gem that feels the influence of the air and sympathises with the heavens and does not shine equally if the sky be cloudy or bright...’ On a beautiful spring day Julia Harburn sat on a seat in Kensington Gardens enjoying the sunshine... -
![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...
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