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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... -
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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... -
![C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems by Constantinos P. Cavafy]()
C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems by Constantinos P. Cavafy
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsC. P. Cavafy (1863 - 1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria, and a collected edition of his poems was not published until after his death. Now, however, he is regarded as the most important figure in twentieth-century Greek poetry, and his poems are considered among the most powerful in modern European literature... -
![Early Novels & Stories: Go Tell It on the Mountain / Giovanni’s Room / Another Country / Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin]()
Early Novels & Stories: Go Tell It on the Mountain / Giovanni’s Room / Another Country / Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratings“The civil rights struggle,” said The New York Times Book Review, “found eloquent expression in [Baldwin’s] novels. His historical importance is indisputable.” Here, in a Library of America volume edited by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, is the fiction that established James Baldwin’s reputation as a writer who fused unblinking realism and rare verbal eloquence... -
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![The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett]()
The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratings(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)The three classic novels published here in one volume are rich with the crisp prose, subtle characters, and intricate plots that made Dashiell Hammett one of the most admired writers of the twentieth century. A one-time detective and a master of deft understatement, Hammett virtually invented the hard-boiled crime novel... -
![Collected Poems [Of] W. H. Auden by W.H. Auden, Edward Mendelson]()
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... -
![Collected Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Norma Millay]()
Collected Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Norma Millay
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsCompiled by her sister after the poet's death and originally published in 1956, this is the definitive edition of Millay, right up through her last poem, "Mine the Harvest... -
![Trilogy: The Walls Do Not Fall / Tribute to the Angels / The Flowering of the Rod by H.D., Aliki Barnstone]()
Trilogy: The Walls Do Not Fall / Tribute to the Angels / The Flowering of the Rod by H.D., Aliki Barnstone
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAs civilian war poetry (written under the shattering impact of World War II). Trilogy's three long poems rank with T.S. Eliot's "Four Quartets" and Ezra Pound's "Pisan Cantos." The first book of the Trilogy, "The Walls Do Not Fall," published in the midst of the "fifty thousand incidents" of the London blitz, maintains the hope that though "we have no map; / possibly we will reach haven,/ heaven...Categorized as:
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![The Third Wedding by Costas Taktsis, Κώστας Ταχτσής]()
The Third Wedding by Costas Taktsis, Κώστας Ταχτσής
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe German Occupation, the Civil War and life itself seen through the eyes of two Athenian women... -
![War Poems by Siegfried Sassoon]()
War Poems by Siegfried Sassoon
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe poems gathered here, which trace the course of the First World War, are an extraordinary testimony to the almost unimaginable experiences of a combatant in that bitter conflict. Moving from the patriotic optimism of the first few poems (...fighting for our freedom, we are free) to the anguish and anger of the later work (where hope, with furtive eyes and grappling fists / Flounders in mud.. -
![Crystal Boys by Pai Hsien-yung]()
Crystal Boys by Pai Hsien-yung
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCrystal Boys is the first Chinese novel on gay themes. A-qing, the adolescent hero, comes from an impoverished family. His father casts him out after learning that his son is gay. A-qing drifts into New Park, a gay hangout in Taipei, and begins his life as a hustler... -
![The Carnivorous Lamb by Agustín Gómez Arcos, William Rodarmor]()
The Carnivorous Lamb by Agustín Gómez Arcos, William Rodarmor
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe latest in the Little Sister’s Classics series resurrecting gay and lesbian literary gems: a viciously funny, shocking yet ultimately moving 1975 novel, an allegory of Franco’s Spain, about a young gay man (the self-described “carnivorous lamb”) coming of age with a mother who despises him, a father who ignores him, and a brother who loves him... -
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Mother's Boy by Patrick Gale
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratings'Tender, evocative' TLS'Richly engaging' SpectatorA Radio 4 Serial Fiction Book of the Week'A characteristically tender novel about a young man growing up in the shadow of one war and the whispers of the next' Observer'A wonderful novel about relationships, particularly between a mother and son...Categorized as:
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![A Pelican at Blandings by P.G. Wodehouse, Nigel Lambert]()
A Pelican at Blandings by P.G. Wodehouse, Nigel Lambert
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsClarence, ninth Earl of Emsworth, sank back in his chair, looking like the good old man in a Victorian melodrama whose mortgage the villain had just foreclosed. He felt the absence of that gentle glow which customarily accompanied the departure of one of his sisters. Lord Emsworth needed Galahad... -
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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])... -
![Memory Board by Jane Rule]()
Memory Board by Jane Rule
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor forty years David Crown has kept his twin sister Diana a secret. Until his wife's death, not even his children -- Diana's nieces and nephews -- have known about Diana and her lifetime companion Constance. But now David seeks to bridge over those years and recapture the closeness of childhood, to become part of Diana's life, to have her be a major part of his... -
![Buddies by Ethan Mordden]()
Buddies by Ethan Mordden
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"What unites us, all of us, surely is brotherhood, a sense that our friendships are historic, designed to hold Stonewall together," muses on character in Ethan Mordden's Buddies. This need for friendship, for nonerotic affection, for buddies, shines forth as an American obsession from Moby-Dick through Of Mice and Men to The Sting... -
![A Book of Memories by Péter Nádas, Imre Goldstein]()
A Book of Memories by Péter Nádas, Imre Goldstein
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis extraordinary magnum opus seems at first to be a confessional autobiographical novel in the grand manner, claiming and extending the legacy of Proust and Mann. But it is more: Peter Nadas has given us a superb contemporary psychological novel that comes to terms with the ghosts, corpses, and repressed nightmares of Europe's recent past... -
![Lessons in Discovery by Charlie Cochrane]()
Lessons in Discovery by Charlie Cochrane
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCambridge, 1906. On the very day Jonty Stewart proposes that he and Orlando Coppersmith move in together, Fate trips them up. Rather, it trips Orlando, sending him down a flight of stairs and leaving him with an injury that erases his memory. Instead of taking the next step in their relationship, they’re back to square one... -
![The Casuarina Tree by W. Somerset Maugham]()
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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![La Bâtarde by Violette Leduc, Simone de Beauvoir]()
La Bâtarde by Violette Leduc, Simone de Beauvoir
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn obsessive and revealing self-portrait of a remarkable woman humiliated by the circumstances of her birth and by her physical appearance, La Batarde relates Violette Leduc's long search for her own identity through a series of agonizing and passionate love affairs with both men and women... -
![Paradiso by José Lezama Lima]()
Paradiso by José Lezama Lima
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the wake of his father's premature death, Jose Cemi comes of age in a turn of the century Cuba described in the Washington Post as "an island paradise where magic and philosophy twist the lives of the old Cuban bourgeoisie into extravagant wonderful shapes... -
![The Collected Stories by Colette]()
The Collected Stories by Colette
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Collected Stories of Colette beings together in one volume for the first time in any language the comprehensive collection of short stories by the novelist known worldwide as Colette, and now acknowledged, with Proust, as the most original French narrative writer of the first half of our century... -
![Miracle of the Rose by Jean Genet]()
Miracle of the Rose by Jean Genet
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis is the third of Genet's prose works to be published in the United States, following Our Lady of the Flowers (1963) and The Thief's Journal (1964). It is, however, Genet's second novel, having been written in La Santé and Tourelles prisons in 1943, directly after Our Lady of the Flowers... -
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![The Obscene Madame D by Hilda Hilst]()
The Obscene Madame D by Hilda Hilst
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe English-language debut of one of Brazil’s leading writers of the twentieth centuryThe Obscene Madame D is the first work by acclaimed Brazilian author Hilda Hilst to be published in English. Radically irreverent and formally impious, this novel portrays an unyielding radical intelligence, a sixty-year-old woman who decides to live in the recess under the stairs... -
![Quick Service by P.G. Wodehouse]()
Quick Service by P.G. Wodehouse
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen imperious American widow Beatice Chavender eats a forkful of inferior ham at her sister's country home near London, it affects the lives of everyone around her--her sister, her brother-in-law, her sister's butler, her sister's poor relation Sally, Sally's fiance Lord Holbeton, and, most of all, Mrs. Chavender's own one-time fiance, "Ham King" J.B... -
![The Art of Joy by Goliarda Sapienza, Angelo Pellegrino]()
The Art of Joy by Goliarda Sapienza, Angelo Pellegrino
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsGoliarda Sapienza's The Art of Joy was written over a nine year span, from 1967 to 1976. At the time of her death in 1996, Sapienza had published nothing in a decade, having been unable to find a publisher for what was to become her most celebrated work, due to its perceived immorality. One publisher's rejection letter exclaimed: 'It's a pile of iniquity... -
![The Legends of Khasak by O.V. Vijayan]()
The Legends of Khasak by O.V. Vijayan
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis is the much-acclaimed first novel by one of India's greatest living writers, translated into English for the first time. A restlessness born of guilt and despair leads Ravi to embark on a journey that ends in the remote village of Khasak in the picturesque Palghat countryside. A land from the past, potent with dreams and legends, enfolds the traveller in a powerful and unsettling embrace... -
![Chronicle of the Murdered House by Lúcio Cardoso]()
Chronicle of the Murdered House by Lúcio Cardoso
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLúcio Cardoso’s 1959 novel—a true modern classic—tells the story of a traditional family’s slippage into social and moral decline... -
![The Bull from the Sea by Mary Renault]()
The Bull from the Sea by Mary Renault
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsIn this sequel to The King Must Die Theseus defies the Gods’ and claims the throne of Athens a move that culminates in the terrible, fateful destruction of the house of Minos -- the Minotaur...Categorized as:
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![Summer and Smoke by Tennessee Williams]()
Summer and Smoke by Tennessee Williams
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTennessee Williams' sensuous portrait of sexual repression is as sultry as the sweltering heat of its Mississippi setting. Alma Winemiller, the sheltered daughter of a minister, secretly harbors a lifelong love for the boy next door, Dr. John Buchanan. Alma seeks a spiritual love with just one man, but the rakish John is focused solely on sexual conquest... -
![The Boy Who Saw In Colours by Lauren Robinson]()
The Boy Who Saw In Colours by Lauren Robinson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratings**REPUBLISHED VERSION COMING SUMMER, 2021**WINNER OF LITERARY TITAN'S GOLD BOOK AWARD FOR FICTIONNOMINEE OF BIBA AWARD FOR 2020LONG-LISTED FOR SABA BOOK AWARDSSHORT-LISTED FOR INDIE BOOK AWARDS 2020What if colours could speak?Berlin, 1939, and as a nation holds its breath, Josef, a young boy whose family fall victim to the "moustached man," turns once again to the colours for guidance... -
![L'Enchanteur by René Barjavel]()
L'Enchanteur by René Barjavel
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsQui ne connaît pas Merlin ? Il se joue du temps qui passe, reste jeune et beau, vif et moqueur, tendre, pour tout dire Enchanteur... -
![A Fisherman of the Inland Sea by Ursula K. Le Guin]()
A Fisherman of the Inland Sea by Ursula K. Le Guin
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsThis new collection of short fiction by the only science fiction author to win the National Book Award celebrates her understanding that narrative is the shining thread with which we create our common humanity...Categorized as:
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![Warm Worlds and Otherwise by James Tiptree Jr.]()
Warm Worlds and Otherwise by James Tiptree Jr.
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsStories:All the Kinds of YesThe Milk of Paradise [1973 Locus Poll Award, Best Short Fiction (Place: 18)]And I Have Come upon This Place by Lost WaysThe Last Flight of Dr. Ain [nominated, 1969 Nebula Award]AmberjackThrough a Lass DarklyThe Girl Who Was Plugged In [winner, 1974 Hugo Award. Nominated, 1973 Nebula Award... -
![Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics by Bliss Carman]()
Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics by Bliss Carman
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSappho One Hundred Lyrics: Large Print By Bliss Carman Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics is a book of poetry by Canadian poet Bliss Carman. It was first printed in 1904 in Boston by L.C. Page. Carman's cousin, and fellow Canadian poet, Charles G.D. Roberts wrote an introductory essay, "The Poetry of Sappho... -
![The First Sir Percy by Emmuska Orczy]()
The First Sir Percy by Emmuska Orczy
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsQuite enough in truth to make a man who is dizzy with love ten thousand times more dizzy still. And Diogenes was desperately in love, more so indeed than he had ever thought himself capable of being. He quietly unbuckled his sword, which clanged against the floor when he moved, and deposited in cautiously and noiselessly in an angle of the room...Categorized as:
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![All the Stories of Muriel Spark by Muriel Spark]()
All the Stories of Muriel Spark by Muriel Spark
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSpanning her entire career to date, All the Stories of Muriel Spark contains four brand-new tales. Now in hand is every single one of her forty-one marvelous stories. Ranging from South Africa to the West End, her dazzling stories feature hanging judges, fortune-tellers, shy girls, psychiatrists, dress designers, pensive ghosts, never-departing guests, and imaginary chauffers... -
![Scent of Apples: A Collection of Stories by Bienvenido N. Santos]()
Scent of Apples: A Collection of Stories by Bienvenido N. Santos
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis collection of sixteen short stories brings the work of a distinguished Filipino writer to the attention of an American audience. Bienvenido N. Santos first came to the United States in 1941, and since then, he has lived intermittently here and in the Philippines, writing in English about his experiences... -
![The Wind Among the Reeds by W.B. Yeats]()
The Wind Among the Reeds by W.B. Yeats
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn a letter to his publisher, Yeats referred to The Wind Among the Reeds as "a book of short lyrics Irish & personal." It may also be described as a collection of love poems both intense and indirect. Now considered a watershed in Yeats's career, the book received mixed reviews when it was first published in April of 1899... -
![Eustace Chisholm and the Works by James Purdy]()
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![Unholy Ghosts by Richard Zimler]()
Unholy Ghosts by Richard Zimler
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA novel of adventure, personal disclosure, violence, and finally--a strange redemption... -
![Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet]()
Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsJean Genet's seminal Our Lady Of The Flowers (1943) is generally considered to be his finest fictional work. The first draft was written while Genet was incarcerated in a French prison; when the manuscript was discovered and destroyed by officials, Genet, still a prisoner, immediately set about writing it again... -
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Confusion by Stefan Zweig
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsRoland, a young student at a new university, meets an inspirational teacher who sweeps him into his world of literature and learning. When the boy moves into the same building as the teacher and his wife, he becomes ever closer to this remarkable man, though he also senses his mentor pulling away from him – sometimes even seeming to hate him... -
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![My Antonia / O Pioneers! by Willa Cather]()
My Antonia / O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFirst published in 1918, My Ántonia is the unforgettable story of an immigrant woman’s life on the hardscrabble Nebraska plains. Together here with O Pioneers!, a classic American tale of pioneer life and the transformation of the frontier, this volume of Willa Cather’s works captures a time, a place, and a spirit that are part of our national heritage... -
![The Maids / Deathwatch by Jean Genet]()
The Maids / Deathwatch by Jean Genet
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe two plays featured in this volume represent Genet's first attempts to analyze the mores of a bourgeois society he had previously been content simply to vilify. In The Maids, two domestic workers, deeply resentful of their inferior social position, try to revenge themselves against society by destroying their employer... -
![Despised and Rejected by Rose Allatini]()
Despised and Rejected by Rose Allatini
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDespised and Rejected by Rose Allatini (1890–1980) is everything we would like a Persephone book to be: by a forgotten writer who deserves to be revived and with strong themes: opposition to war, acceptance of homosexuality, tolerance of others, awareness that ‘it is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple, one must be woman-manly or man- womanly’ (A Room of One’s Own)... -
![Selected Poems of H D. by H.D.]()
Selected Poems of H D. by H.D.
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsRichly varied in mood and content, 31 poems include convivial song-like poems, love poems, travel poems, humorous and satiric poems. Included are "She Walks in Beauty," "The Prisoner of Chillon," "The Vision of Judgment," many more, plus excerpts from Don Juan, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Manfred. Explanatory footnotes... -
![Dusty Answer by Rosamond Lehmann, Jonathan Coe]()
Dusty Answer by Rosamond Lehmann, Jonathan Coe
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsDusty Answer is Judith Earle's story—her solitary childhood spent in the seclusion of her riverside house, her awkward, intense experiences at Cambridge rounded with passion and disillusionment, and her travels abroad with her elegant, socialite mother...Categorized as:
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![Les Guérillères by Monique Wittig]()
Les Guérillères by Monique Wittig
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOne of the most widely read feminist texts of the twentieth century, and Monique Wittig’s most popular novel, Les Guérillères imagines the attack on the language and bodies of men by a tribe of warrior women. Among the women’s most powerful weapons in their assault is laughter, but they also threaten literary and linguistic customs of the patriarchal order with bullets...
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