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Collected Poems by Federico García Lorca
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA revised edition of this major writer's complete poetical work"And I who was walkingwith the earth at my waist,saw two snowy eaglesand a naked girl.The one was the otherand the girl was neither."--from "Qasida of the Dark Doves"Federico García Lorca is the greatest poet of twentieth-century Spain and one of the world's most influential modernist writers... -
The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsLangston Hughes's first book of poetry, including the following classic, poignant and moving Proem, The Weary Blues, Jazzonia, Negro Dancers, The Cat And The Saxophone (2 A.M...Categorized as:
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Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWe have a marvelous, almost legendary image of the circumstances in which the composition of this great poem began. Rainer Maria Rilke was staying at Duino Castle, on a rocky headland of the Adriatic Sea near Trieste. One morning he walked out onto the battlements and climbed down to where the cliffs dropped sharply to the sea... -
100 Selected Poems by E.E. Cummings
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 26 ratings'An Evergreen Book / Published by Grove Weidenfeld' E. E. Cummings is without question one of the major poems of this century, and this volume, first published in 1959, is indispensable for every lover of modern lyrical verse. It contains one hundred of Cummings's wittiest and most profound poems, harvested from thirty-five of the most radically creative years in contemporary American poetry...Categorized as:
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Collected Poems 1909-1962 by T.S. Eliot
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsPoet, dramatist, critic and editor, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth-century poetry. This edition of Collected Poems 1909-1962 includes his verse from Prufrock and Other Observations (1917) to Four Quartets (1943), and includes such literary landmarks as The Waste Land and Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats...Categorized as:
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Duino Elegies and The Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke, Mark Doty
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRilke is one of the most widely read poets of the 20th century. In his poetry, Rilke addresses the problems of death, God, and "destructive time," and attempts to overcome and transform these problems into an indestructive inner world...Categorized as:
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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDo Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night is a villanelle considered to be among the finest works by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas...Categorized as:
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Short Stories by Anton Chekhov
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe thirty-four stories in this volume span Chekhov's creative career. They present a wide spectrum of comic and serious themes and a variety of techniques. (His short novels, available in another Norton volume, Seven Short Novels by Chekhov, have been omitted... -
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsLet us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table; Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, The muttering retreats Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels... -
The Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950 by T.S. Eliot
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis omnibus collection includes all of the author’s early poetry as well as the Four Quartets, Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, and the plays Murder in the Cathedral, The Family Reunion, and The Cocktail Party... -
Πούσι by Nikos Kavvadias, Νίκος Καββαδίας
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsΤο Πούσι είναι η δεύτερη ποιητική συλλογή του Νίκου Καββαδία και εκδόθηκε για πρώτη φορά το 1947 από τον Α. Καραβία. Έκτοτε εκδόθηκε 4 φορές στις εκδ. Γαλαξίας (1961-1971), 16 φορές στις εκδ. Κέδρος (1975-1989) και, από τον Οκτώβριο 1989 μέχρι τον Δεκέμβριο 2000, 13 φορές στις εκδ. Άγρα... -
The Selected Poems by Federico García Lorca
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe Selected Poems of Federico García Lorca has introduced generations of readers to mesmerizing poetry since 1955. Lorca (1898-1937) is admired all over the world for the lyricism, immediacy and clarity of his poetry, as well as for his ability to encompass techniques of the symbolist movement with deeper psychological shadings. But Lorca's poems are, most of all, admired for their beauty... -
The Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsTranslation to English of the Spanish short story "El Aleph", originally published in 1945...Categorized as:
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The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsFew readers need any introduction to the work of the most influential poet of the twentieth century. In addition to the title poem, this selecion includes "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", "Gerontion", "Ash Wednesday", and other poems from Mr. Eliot's early and middle work...Categorized as:
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The Collected Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham: Volume 1 by W. Somerset Maugham
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThese thirty stories by one of the most famous of short story writers include 'Rain', the celebrated tale of a prudish missionary and a prostitute, and 'The Three Fat Women of Antibes', the brilliantly ironic story of self-denial and gross greed...Categorized as:
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Robert Frost's Poems by Robert Frost, Louis Untermeyer
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA proven bestseller time and time again, Robert Frost's Poems contains all of Robert Frost's best-known poems-and dozens more-in a portable anthology. Here are "Birches," "Mending Wall," "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," "Two Tramps at Mudtime," "Choose Something Like a Star," and "The Gift Outright," which Frost read at the inauguration of John F. Kennedy...Categorized as:
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A Part of Speech by Joseph Brodsky, Иосиф Бродский
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA Part of Speech contains poems from the years 1965-1978, translated by various hands... -
Collected Short Stories: Volume 2 by W. Somerset Maugham
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis final classic collection reveals Somerset Maugham's unique talent for exposing and exploring the bitter realities of human relationships in tales of love, infidelity, passion and prejudice. The stories range from "The Lotus Eater" where a man envisions a life of bliss in the Mediterranean, to the astringent tales of "The Outstation" and "The Back of Beyond" in Malaya and South East Asia...Categorized as:
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Collected Poems [Of] W. H. Auden by W.H. Auden, Edward Mendelson
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsBetween 1927 and his death in 1973, W. H. Auden endowed poetry in the English language with a new face. Or rather, with several faces, since his work ranged from the political to the religious, from the urbane to the pastoral, from the mandarin to the invigoratingly plain-spoken.This collection presents all the poems Auden wished to preserve, in the texts that received his final approval...Categorized as:
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The Short Stories by Ernest Hemingway
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe definitive short story collection that established Ernest Hemingway's literary reputation, originally published in 1938.Ernest Hemingway is a cultural icon—an archetype of rugged masculinity, a romantic ideal of the intellectual in perpetual exile—but, to his countless readers, Hemingway remains a literary force much greater than his image...Categorized as:
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Μικρό βιβλίο για μεγάλα όνειρα by Tasos Livaditis, Τάσος Λειβαδίτης
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsΝενικήκαμενΌραμα μεγάλο πάνω απ’ τους δρόμους, σα φύλλα τουφθινοπώρου σκόρπιζαν οι ζητωκραυγές.Η πόλη είχε χαθεί κάτω απ’ τα φώτα, τις σημαίες, τηβουή. Γιορτάζαμε τη νίκη.Όμως την ίδια ώρα κάποιος σηκώνεται μες στο σιωπηλόσπίτι, δεν ανάβει φως, ντύνεται και κάθεται στοσκοτάδι.Κανείς δεν μπορεί να τον βοηθήσει... -
Imaginations by William Carlos Williams
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWritten between 1920 and 1932, all five were first published in small editions, three of them in France. These are pivotal and seminal works, books in which a great writer was charting the course he later would follow, experimenting freely, boldly searching for a new kind of prose style to express "the power of the imagination to hold human beings to life and propel them onward...Categorized as:
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The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989 by Samuel Beckett
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNobel prize winner Samuel Beckett is one of the most profoundly original writers of our century. He gives expression to the anguish and isolation of the individual consciousness with a purity and minimalism that have altered the shape of world literature...Categorized as:
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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... -
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W.B. Yeats: Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney (Poet to Poet) by W.B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsW. B. Yeats (1865-1939) was not only Ireland's greatest poet but one of the most influential voices in world literature in the twentieth century. His extraordinary work, in the words of this volume's editor Seamus Heaney, encourages us to be more resolutely and abundantly alive, whatever the conditions...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... -
Anna Akhmatova by Anna Akhmatova
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA legend in her own time both for her brilliant poetry and for her resistance to oppression, Anna Akhmatova—denounced by the Soviet regime for her “eroticism, mysticism, and political indifference”—is one of the greatest Russian poets of the twentieth century. Before the revolution, Akhmatova was a wildly popular young poet who lived a bohemian life...Categorized as:
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Darkness Moves: An Henri Michaux Anthology, 1927-1984 by Henri Michaux
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHenri Michaux defies common critical definition. Critics have compared his work to such diverse artists as Kafka, Goya, Swift, Klee, and Beckett. Allen Ginsberg called Michaux “genius,” and Jorge Luis Borges wrote that Michaux’s work “is without equal in the literature of our time... -
Virginia Woolf: The Complete Works by Virginia Woolf, Classics for all
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTHE NOVELS The Voyage Out (1915) Night and Day (1919) Jacob's Room (1922) Mrs...Categorized as:
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Selected Poems by Boris Pasternak, Борис Пастернак
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAleksandr Blok (1880-1921) lived through his country's savage wars and radical traumas trying to welcome the new order. Trotsky wrote, `Certainly Blok is not one of us, but he came towards us. And that is what broke him.' Pasternak said, `He is as free as the wind... -
Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsWith these audacious and murderous witty stories, Donald Barthelme threw the preoccupation of our time into the literary equivalent of a Cuisinart and served up a gorgeous salad of American culture, high and low... -
The Spirit Level: Poems by Seamus Heaney
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Spirit Level was the first book of poems Heaney published after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. Reviewing this book in The New York Times Book Review, Richard Tillinghast noted that Heaney "has been and is here for good . . . [His poems] will last. Anyone who reads poetry has reason to rejoice at living in the age when Seamus Heaney is writing... -
Complete Short Stories by Graham Greene
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAffairs, obsessions, ardors, fantasy, myth, legends, dreams, fear, pity, and violence—this magnificent collection of stories illuminates all corners of the human experience. Including four previously uncollected stories, this new complete edition reveals Graham Greene in a range of contrasting moods, sometimes cynical and witty, sometimes searching and philosophical...Categorized as:
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The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield by Katherine Mansfield
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWith an Introduction and Notes by Professor Stephen Arkin, San Francisco State University.Katherine Mansfield is widely regarded as a writer who helped create the modern short story. Born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1888, she came to London in 1903 to attend Queen's College and returned permanently in 1908...Categorized as:
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Amok and Other Stories by Stefan Zweig
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA doctor in the Dutch East Indies torn between his medical duty to help and his own mixed emotions; a middle-aged maidservant whose devotion to her master leads her to commit a terrible act; a hotel waiter whose love for an unapproachable aristocratic beauty culminates in an almost lyrical death, and a prisoner-of-war longing to be home again in Russia... -
The Essential Plays by Anton Chekhov
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBecause Chekhov’s plays convey the universally recognizable, sometimes comic, sometimes dramatic, frustrations of decent people trying to make sense of their lives, they remain as fresh and vigorous as when they were written a century ago... -
Selected Poems: Robert Frost by Robert Frost
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe book contains 40 poems covering the entire span of Frost's career and drawn from nine collections. There are detailed notes to aid student comprehension and in addition an Approaches section looks at Frost's life, Imagery and Themes, and the poet's voices...Categorized as:
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Poems of André Breton: A Bilingual Anthology by André Breton
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAndre Breton (1896-1966) was the founder of Surrealism and a major leader of the avante-garde movement in France following World War I. This exceptional volume brings together the most comprehensive selection of poems by Breton available in the English language. Here, in a bilingual French-English format are 73 poems representing all styles and stages of the writer's career...Categorized as:
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The Best Early Stories Of F. Scott Fitzgerald by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Bryant Mangum
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEdited and with an Introduction by Bryant MangumForeword by Roxana RobinsonBenediction • Head and Shoulders • Bernice Bobs Her Hair • The Ice Palace • The Offshore Pirate • May Day • The Jelly Bean • The Diamond as Big as the Ritz • Winter Dreams • AbsolutionIn the euphoric months before and after the publication of This Side of Paradise, F...Categorized as:
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Ancient Mariner; Kubla Khan and Christabel by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages...Categorized as:
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The Casuarina Tree by W. Somerset Maugham
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA collection of six stories—including the acclaimed “The Outstation”—by the renowned twentieth-century author of the classic Of Human Bondage. Set in the Federated Malay States during the 1920s, these stories portray the lives of the English living abroad and the clashes that occur with the native Malaysians—and among themselves...Categorized as:
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Nabokov's Dozen: A Collection of Thirteen Stories by Vladimir Nabokov
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNabokov's Dozen (1958) a collection of 13 short stories by Vladimir Nabokov previously published in American magazines. (Nine of them also previously appeared in Nine Stories.)All were later reprinted within The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov...Categorized as:
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Personæ: The Shorter Poems by Ezra Pound
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIf James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, and Ezra Pound are often credited with creating literary modernism, it was Pound alone who offered (in Hugh Kenner's words) "the synergetic presence") to turn individual experiment into a global movement... -
Roman Fever (and Other Stories) by Edith Wharton
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA Virago Modern Classic These stories - all powerful moral analyses - demonstrate the true professionalism of Edith Wharton...Categorized as:
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The Poems of Nakahara Chuya by Chūya Nakahara
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBorn in 1907, Nakahara Chuya was one of the most gifted and colourful of Japan’s early modern poets. A bohemian romantic, his death at the early age of thirty, coupled with the delicacy of his imagery, have led to him being compared to the greatest of French symbolist poets... -
Selected Poems by Alexander Blok
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAleksandr Blok (1880-1921) lived thought his country's savage wars and radical traumas, trying to welcome the new order. But there was no space in it for his kind of imagination. His poem The Twelve has claims to being the first great poem of the Russian Revolution. It remains enigmatic, the language elevated, the tone celebratory, even mystical...Categorized as:
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Babylon Revisited and Other Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L.W. West III
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWritten between 1920 and 1937, when F. Scott Fitzgerald was at the height of his creative powers, these ten lyric tales represent some of the author's finest fiction...Categorized as:
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Tell Me a Riddle by Tillie Olsen
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis collection of four stories, "I Stand Here Ironing," "Hey Sailor, what Ship?," "O Yes," and "Tell me a Riddle," had become an American classic. Since the title novella won the O. Henry Award in 1961, the stories have been anthologized over a hundred times, made into three films, translated into thirteen languages, and - most important - once read, they abide in the hearts of their readers...Categorized as:
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Abbadón el exterminador by Ernesto Sábato
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSabato poeta del apocalipsis, no es un profeta como San Juan, sino su testigo ocular, Obra grandiosa y alucinante, una introducción al reino de los demonios, que esta dentro y fuera de nosotros. English Translation: Sabato poet of the apocalypse, isn t prophet as San Juan, but its eyewitness, huge and hallucinating Work, an introduction to the kingdom of the demons, who this inside and outside us... -
A Doll's House and Other Plays by Henrik Ibsen
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDelivering three distinct and powerful visions of characters who choose to defy convention in the pursuit of happiness, Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House and Other Plays is translated with an introduction by Peter Watts in Penguin Classics. The League of Youth was Ibsen's first venture into realistic social drama and marks a turning-point in his style...
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