Reducere. In this Norwegian saga of restlessness, Hamsun presents young Edevart, a headstrong boy ill at ease with books, but fiercely self-determined and ea...
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Reducere. "Those who gravitate to the regions where fiction, poetry, imaginative flights and speculative fancy converge constitute Handke's natural audience....
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Reducere. DescriptionJust before her death in 2007 at the age of eighty-four, Grace Paley completed this wise and poignant book of poems. Full of memories of...
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Reducere. Thom Gunn was an Elizabethan poet in modern guise, though there's nothing archaic, quaint, or sepia-toned about his poetry. His method was dispassi...
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Reducere. ..". imaginatively written and meticulously researched biography." --Elizabeth Sherman, The Boston Sunday GlobeHer rallying cry was famous: "Pray f...
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Reducere. Henri Cole's last three books have shown a continuously mounting talent. In his new book, Touch, written with an almost invisible but ever-present ...
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Reducere. DescriptionIn the years before his death at age sixty-eight in 1998, Hughes translated several classical works with great energy and ingenuity. His...
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Reducere. A winner of the Costa Book Award, "beautiful and moving poetry for the real world" (The Guardian)The Bees is Carol Ann Duffy's first collection of ...
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Reducere. A longtime teacher, activist, feminist, and masterful writer of short fiction and essays, Paley is also an accomplished poet. Combining her two pre...
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Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...
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Reducere. In essays ranging from his earliest cooking lessons in a cold-water walk-up apartment on New York's Lower East Side to opinions both admiring and a...
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Reducere. DescriptionGod's Ear marks the debut of Jenny Schwartz, "an indelibly clever playwright, possessed of linguistic playfulness and a lively sense of ...
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Reducere. The Big Lebowski begins with a case of mistaken identity which escalates when Jeffrey Lebowski-alias The Dude-attempts to seek recompense for the d...
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Reducere. It is 1967 and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving hi...
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Reducere. A masterful debut from a powerfully original poetic voiceA poignant and terse vision of New York City unfolds in Rowan Ricardo Phillips's debut boo...
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Reducere. Speak Low is the tenth book from one of America's most distinctive--and one of poetry's most essential--contemporary voices. Phillips has long been...
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Reducere. The powerful collection by the bestselling translator of BeowulfIn the finland of perch, the fenland of alder, on airThat is water, on carpets of B...
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Reducere. Seeing Things (1991), as Edward Hirsch wrote in The New York Times Book Review, "is a book of thresholds and crossings, of losses balanced by marve...
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Reducere. For two hundred years, the Terror has haunted the imagination of the West. The descent of the French Revolution from rapturous liberation into an o...
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Reducere. The Penitent tells the story of Jospeh Shapiro, his rapid climb to prosperity, his quick plunge into promiscuity, and his subsequent flight to Isra...
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Reducere. The Bounty was the first book of poems Walcott published after winning the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. Opening with the title poem, a memorable...
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Reducere. A POWERFUL STORY OF SEXUAL AWAKENING DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR FROM THE NOTED MEMORIST AND CRITIC In My Queer War, James Lord tells the story of ...
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Reducere. A new play from the Pulitzer- and Tony Award-winning author of Proof, coming to Broadway this April In midcentury America, newspaper columnists are...
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Reducere. The 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 Y...
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Reducere. This posthumously published collection of essays takes up such diverse subjects as the poet Oppian, Tantrism, the feasts of the Christian year, Dur...
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Reducere. An exciting collection of original interviews with the infamously outspoken director of Short Cuts. From Nashville to The Player to Gosford Park, R...
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Reducere. The Bion Experiments, published in a limited German edition in 1938 and now available in English for the first time, represents a cornerstone in Re...
Reducere. Combining compelling narrative and grand historical sweep, Forgotten Allies offers a vivid account of the Oneida Indians, forgotten heroes of the A...
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Reducere. "A book that translates, and transcends, the eternal question of home, belonging, family, identity." --Star Tribune (Minneapolis)My name is Jeong K...
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Reducere. From the renowned contemporary American poet C. K. Williams comes this fluent and accessible version of the great tragedy by Euripides. This book i...
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Reducere. DescriptionWinner of the 1996 T. S. Eliot Prize for the Best Book of Poetry in EnglishJoseph Brodsky once said of Les Murray: "He is, quite simply,...
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Reducere. DescriptionAn exploration of love and loss by the renowned Costa Award-winning poetYou lived at such speed that the ballpoint script running aslant...
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Reducere. "I love to swim in the sea, which keeps""talking to itself""in the monotone of a vagabond""who no longer recalls ""exactly how long he's been on th...
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Reducere. Thomas Merton (1915-1968) is one of the foremost spiritual thinkers of the twentieth century. Though he lived a mostly solitary existence as a Trap...
Reducere. Common as Air offers a stirring defense of our cultural commons, that vast store of art and ideas we have inherited from the past and continue to e...
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Reducere. Siddhartha Deb grew up in a remote town in the northeastern hills of India and made his way to the United States via a fellowship at Columbia. Six ...
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Reducere. The life of Georg Buchner was short, intense, and tragic--and extremely significant for the development of modern drama. His three plays, Danton's ...
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Reducere. In Burn After Reading, two gym instructors (Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand) accidentally stumble across and try to sell a disk containing the memo...
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Reducere. From one of the preeminent intellectual figures of the twentieth century, a highly personal testimonial of what Canetti himself chooses to term "no...
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Reducere. Thirty-three years-old and recently divorced, Ren e N r has begun a new life on her own, supporting herself as a music-hall artist. Maxime, a rich ...
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Reducere. Thomas Merton wrote The Silent Life a decade after he took orders. In his Prologue, Merton describes the book as "a meditation on the monastic life...
Reducere. A Major Study of One of the Twentieth Century's Darkest PeriodsUntil now there has been no up-to-date, one-volume, international history of Nazi Ge...
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Reducere. We are addicted to happiness. More than any other generation, Americans today believe in the power of positive thinking. But who says we're suppose...
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Reducere. This wise and affecting memoir is the inside story of the great efforts leading up to the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education i...
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Reducere. Spanning a wide geographical range, this collection features many of the now prominent first generation of African writers and draws attention to a...
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Reducere. A Shrinking Disease Due to Chronic Sexual StarvationWhat is Cancer? Traditionally, medical science has thought of it as an invasive tumor arising s...
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Reducere. It was with Alexis that, in 1928, Marguerite Yourcenar began her career as a novelist. The book remains one of the stellar literary debuts of the c...
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Reducere. An insightful collection of original interviews with the innovative director of Secrets & LiesA five-time Oscar nominee and BAFTA winner and the on...
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Reducere. Fires consists of nine monologues and narratives based on classical Greek stories. Antigone, Clytemnestra, Phaedo, Sappho are all mythical figures ...
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Reducere. DescriptionPedro Almodovar's films--such as Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Tie Me Up Tie Me Down , All About My Mother, and Talk to Her...
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Reducere. From World War II until the 1980s, the United States reigned supreme as both the economic and the military leader of the world. The major shifts in...
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Reducere. A GENEROUS SELECTION FROM ONE OF OUR GREATEST LIVING POETS Henri Cole has been described as a "fiercely somber, yet exuberant poet" by Harold Bloom...
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Reducere. In this volume of critical essays, Seamus Heaney scrutinizes the poetry of many masterful poets. Throughout the collection, Heaney's gifts as a wis...
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Reducere. A "New York Times "Notable BookDaring and fiercely original, "The Women" is at once a memoir, a psychological study, a sociopolitical manifesto, an...
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Reducere. In this book, Wilhelm Reich summarizes the criticism of the prevailing sexual conditions and conflicts as it resulted from his sex-economic medical...
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Reducere. A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2011 title In the late 1960s, with popular culture hurtling forward on the sounds of rock music, some brave mus...
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Reducere. Time was plunging forward, like dolphins scissoring open water or like me, following Jenny's flippers down to see the coral reef, where the color o...
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Reducere. An environmental History of California during the Gold Rush Between 1849 and 1874 almost $1 billion in gold was mined in California. With little av...
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Reducere. The highway became the Red Sea.We moved through the storm like a sheer valley.You drove; I looked at you with love.--from "Storm"One of the most gi...
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Reducere. In Being a Character, Christopher Bollas argued that Freud's vision of the dream process is a model for all unconscious mental experience. In Crack...
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