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Mourning Songs: Poems of Sorrow and Beauty, Paperback - Grace Schulman

51,99 RON

Description"The poems in this collection, " as Schulman notes in her introduction, "sing of grief as they praise life." She notes: "As any bereaved...

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Battles in the Desert (40th Anniversary Edition), Paperback - Jose Emilio Pacheco

54,99 RON 58,99 RON

Reducere. This landmark novella--one of the central texts of Mexican literature, is eerily relevant to our current dark times--offers a child's-eye view of a...

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A Coney Island of the Mind, Paperback - Lawrence Ferlinghetti

55,99 RON 59,99 RON

Reducere. The title of this book is taken from Henry Miller's "Into the Night Life" and expresses the way Lawrence Ferlinghetti felt about these poems when h...

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Siddhartha, Paperback - Hermann Hesse

56,99 RON 60,99 RON

Reducere. Written in a prose of almost biblical simplicity and beauty, it is the story of a soul's long quest in search of he ultimate answer to the enigma o...

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Because She Never Asked, Paperback - Enrique Vila-Matas

56,99 RON

Because She Never Asked is a story reminiscent of that reached by the travelers in Patricia Highsmith's Stranger on a Train. The author first write...

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Love Poems, Paperback - Pablo Neruda

57,99 RON 62,99 RON

Reducere. Sensual, earthy love poems that formed the basis for the popular movie Il Postino, now in a beautiful gift book perfect for weddings, Valentine's D...

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Ideograms in China, Paperback - Henri Michaux

58,99 RON 63,99 RON

Reducere. Previously available only as a limited editon, Henri Michaux's Ideograms in China is now available as a New Directions paperback. Peerlessly transl...

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Urn Burial, Paperback - Thomas Browne

58,99 RON 63,99 RON

Reducere. Hydriotaphia, or Urn Burial, is one of the pinnacles of Renaissance scholarship and without doubt one of the great essays in English literature. Be...

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Star, Paperback - Yukio Mishima

59,99 RON 64,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionBeing a star, constantly performing, being watched and scrutinized as if under a microscope, is often a drag. But so is life. Written sh...

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The Divorce, Paperback - César Aira

59,99 RON 64,99 RON

Reducere. The Divorce tells about a man who takes a vacation from Providence, R.I. in early December to avoid conflicts with his newly divorced wife and smal...

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New Directions in Dynamical Systems, Automatic Control and Singular Perturbations, Paperback - John O'Reilly

59,99 RON

With this short book, Professor O'Reilly brings his considerable engineering experience to bear upon three subjects close to his heart: dynamical s...

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Agua Viva, Paperback - Clarice Lispector

60,99 RON 78,99 RON

Reducere. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Agua Viva (1973) shows Lispector discovering a new means of writing about herself, more deeply transfo...

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MOOCs and Higher Education: Implications for Institutional Research. New Directions for Institutional Research, Number 167, Paperback - ***

62,99 RON

Take a broad, balanced look at the present and potential MOOC landscape in higher education. This special volume highlights current trends and issu...

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The Wisdom of the Desert, Paperback - Thomas Merton

62,99 RON 67,99 RON

Reducere. The hermits of Screte who turned their backs on a corrupt society remarkably like our own had much in common with the Zen masters of China and Japa...

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The Hole, Paperback - Hiroko Oyamada

62,99 RON 70,99 RON

Reducere. One day, while running an errand for her mother-in-law, she comes across a strange creature, follows it to the embankment of a river, and ends up f...

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The Hour of the Star, Paperback - Clarice Lispector

62,99 RON 67,99 RON

Reducere. Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macabea, one of life's unfortunates. Living in th...

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Silence, Joy, Paperback - Thomas Merton

62,99 RON 67,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionPoet, monk, spiritual advisor, and social critic, Thomas Merton is a unique--and uniquely beloved--figure of the twentieth century, and ...

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The Dry Heart, Paperback - Natalia Ginzburg

62,99 RON 67,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThe Dry Heart begins and ends with the matter-of-fact pronouncement, "I shot him between the eyes." Everything in between is a plunge in...

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The Red Wheelbarrow & Other Poems, Paperback - William Carlos Williams

63,99 RON

Gathered here are the gems of William Carlos Williams's astonishing achievements in poetry. Dramatic, energetic, beautiful, and true, this slim sel...

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21 Poems, Paperback - George Oppen

63,99 RON

The Objectivist Press published George Oppen's first book Discrete Series, a collection of thirty-one short poems with a preface by Ezra Pound, in ...

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The Hall of the Singing Caryatids, Paperback - Victor Pelevin

63,99 RON

After auditioning for the part as a singing geisha at a dubious bar, Lena and eleven other lucky girls are sent to work at a posh underground night...

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Poems of Osip Mandelstam, Paperback - Osip Mandelstam

63,99 RON

Peter France writes in his foreword: "I have always been conscious that Mandelstam was an outstanding figure, arguably the outstanding Russian poet...

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Bad Nature, or with Elvis in Mexico, Paperback - Javier Marias

64,99 RON 69,99 RON

Reducere. ``It all happened because of Elvis Presley.`` Elvis, down south of the border to film a movie, has insisted his producers hire a proper Spaniard so...

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Spain in Our Hearts/Espana En El Corazon: Hymn to the Glories of the People at War/Himno a Las Glorias del Pueblo En La Guerra, Paperback - Pablo Neru

64,99 RON 69,99 RON

Reducere. Neruda's epic hymn against fascism, ``Spain in Our Hearts, `` now available in this pocket Bibelot edition. In 1936, Pablo Neruda was Chile's consu...

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A Simple Heart, Paperback - Gustave Flaubert

64,99 RON 69,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Gustave FlaubertIn A Simple Heart, the poignant story that inspired Julian Barnes' Flaubert s Parrot, Felicite, a French ho...

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The Governesses, Paperback - Anne Serre

64,99 RON 69,99 RON

Reducere. Written with the elegance of old French fables, the dark sensuality of Djuna Barnes and the subtle comedy of Robert Walser, this semi-deranged erot...

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Public and Play Without a Title: Two Posthumous Plays, Paperback - Federico Garcia Lorca

64,99 RON

DescriptionLorca, Public & Play w/o Title. "Greatest thing I have written for theater" - Lorca.

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New Directions | Jack DeJohnette

64,99 RON

Reducere. Bayou Fever - 8: 40Where Or Wayne - 12: 25Dream Stalker - 5: 55One Handed Woman - 10: 49Silver Hollow - 8: 24

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Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness, Paperback - Bob Kaufman

65,99 RON 70,99 RON

Reducere. Kaufman promotes a spontaneous, prophetic verse, mixing street talk and jazz with vision. Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness contains odes to Charle...

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The Red Notebook: True Stories, Paperback - Paul Auster

65,99 RON 70,99 RON

Reducere. Paul Auster has earned international praise for the imaginative power of his many novels, including The New York Trilogy, Moon Palace, The Music of...

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Miss Lonelyhearts, Paperback - Nathanael West

66,99 RON 71,99 RON

Reducere. Praised by great writers from Flannery O'Conner to Jonathan Lethem, 'Miss Lonelyhearts' is an American classic. A newspaper reporter assigned to wr...

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Sun Rock Man, Paperback - Cid Corman

66,99 RON 71,99 RON

Reducere. Cid Corman writes, "For the vast majority of Italians and others to whom the name means anything, Matera is synonymous with abject poverty and back...

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Starting from San Francisco: Poetry, Paperback - Lawrence Ferlinghetti

66,99 RON

The long poems of Starting From San Francisco present a new, quieter, more profound aspect of the poet. His original lyricism and caustic humor hav...

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The Happy Birthday of Death, Paperback - Gregory Corso

67,99 RON

It is true that he has been one of the inner circle of the 'Beats' from the first, but many admirers of his poetry feel that it belongs quite as mu...

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The Last Wolf & Herman, Paperback - Laszlo Krasznahorkai

67,99 RON 72,99 RON

Reducere. The Last Wolf (translated by George Szirtes) is Krasznahorkai in a maddening nutshell--it features a classic obsessed narrator, a man hired (by mis...

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The Stream and the Sapphire: Selected Poems on Religious Themes, Paperback - Denise Levertov

69,99 RON 74,99 RON

Reducere. The poet presents a selection of thirty-four of her own poems culled from previously published volumes, tracing her movement from agnosticism to Ch...

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The Milk Bowl of Feathers: Essential Surrealist Writings, Paperback - Mary Ann Caws

69,99 RON 74,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionOriginating in 1916 with the avant-garde Dada movement at the famous Caf Voltaire in Zurich, surrealism aimed to unleash the powers of t...

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Adventures in Immediate Irreality, Paperback - Max Blecher

70,99 RON

Adventures in Immediate Irreality, the masterwork of the Romanian writer Max Blecher, vividly paints the crises of "irreality" that plagued him in ...

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A Brief History of Portable Literature, Paperback - Enrique Vila-Matas

70,99 RON 75,99 RON

Reducere. An author (a version of Vila-Matas himself) presents a short "history" of a secret society, the Shandies, who are obsessed with the concept of "por...

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Black + Blues, Paperback - Kamau Brathwaite

70,99 RON 75,99 RON

Reducere. A collection of poems includes Fetish, Totem, Caliban, Springblade, Bread, Xango, and Koker.

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Zero Hour and Other Documentary Poems, Paperback - Ernesto Cardenal

71,99 RON 77,99 RON

Reducere. Zero Hour and Other Documentary Poems brings together in English translation eight of the longer poems by Nicaragua's impassioned Marxist priest, E...

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How I Became a Nun, Paperback - Cesar Aira

71,99 RON 77,99 RON

Reducere. "My story, the story of 'how I became a nun, ' began very early in my life; I had just turned six. The beginning is marked by a vivid memory, which...

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Cinema Stories, Paperback - Alexander Kluge

71,99 RON 77,99 RON

Reducere. Alexander Kluge turns 75 in autumn 2007, and to celebrate he will be the Special Guest of Honor at the 75th Venice Film Festival, showing his films...

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Poems to Read on a Streetcar, Paperback - Oliverio Girondo

71,99 RON

Publisher: New Directions Publishing CorporationAuthor(s): Oliverio GirondoTranslator: Heather ClearyNumber of pages: 48Collection: New Directions ...

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Interviews with William Carlos Williams, Paperback - William Carlos Williams

71,99 RON 77,99 RON

Reducere. "Not after the establishment, but speaking straight ahead." This is how William Carlos Williams referred to his own forthrightness as well as his p...

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Paperback - Tennessee Williams

72,99 RON 78,99 RON

Reducere. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof first heated up Broadway in 1955 with its gothic American story of brothers vying for their dying father's inheritance amid a...

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The Day of the Locust, Paperback - Nathanael West

72,99 RON 78,99 RON

Reducere. Admired by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, and Dashiell Hammett, and hailed as one of the Best 100 English-language novels by Time magazine, T...

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The Emissary, Paperback - Yoko Tawada

72,99 RON 78,99 RON

Reducere. Japan, after suffering from a massive irreparable disaster, cuts itself off from the world. Children are so weak they can barely stand or walk: the...

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The Setting Sun, Paperback - Osamu Dazai

73,99 RON 79,99 RON

Reducere. Set in the early postwar years, it probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial society. Ozamu Daz...

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The Devil's Tour, Paperback - Mary Karr

75,99 RON 81,99 RON

Reducere. The Devil's Tour, Paperback

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Ghosts, Paperback - Cesar Aira

75,99 RON 81,99 RON

Reducere. Ghosts is about a construction worker's family squatting on a building site. They all see large and handsome ghosts around their quarters, but the ...

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Poetry as Insurgent Art, Hardcover - Lawrence Ferlinghetti

75,99 RON 81,99 RON

Reducere. In 1953 Lawrence Ferlinghetti founded the first paperback bookstore in the United States. In over five decades City Lights, the bookstore and publi...

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Myths and Texts, Paperback - Gary Snyder

75,99 RON 81,99 RON

Reducere. The three sequences in the book--"Logging, " "Hunting, " "Burning"--show the remarkable cohesiveness in Snyder's writings over the years, for we fi...

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Box Hill: A Story of Low Self-Esteem, Paperback - Adam Mars-Jones

75,99 RON 81,99 RON

Reducere. Mars-Jones uses Colin's naivete to give a fresh view of the world and of love. Before long, however, homophobia, class, family strife, and loss rea...

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The Wall: (Intimacy) and Other Stories, Paperback - Jean-Paul Sartre

76,99 RON 82,99 RON

Reducere. 'The Wall', the lead story in this collection, introduces three political prisoners on the night prior to their execution. Through the gaze of an i...

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The Miracle Cures of Dr. Aira, Paperback - Cesar Aira

76,99 RON 82,99 RON

Reducere. C sar Aira's newest novel in English is not about a conventional doctor. Single, in his forties, and poor, Dr. Aira is a skeptic. His personality -...

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Regarding Wave: Poetry, Paperback - Gary Snyder

76,99 RON 82,99 RON

Reducere. "Wild nature as the ultimate ground of human affairs"--the beautiful, precarious balance among forces and species forms a unifying theme for the ne...

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Fairy Tales: Dramolettes, Paperback - Robert Walser

76,99 RON

Fairy Tales gathers the unconventional verse dramolettes of the Swiss writer Robert Walser. Narrated in Walser's inimitable, playful language, thes...

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Breathing the Water, Paperback - Denise Levertov

76,99 RON 82,99 RON

Reducere. Arranged in seven parts and culminating in the superb "The Showings: Lady Julian of Norwich, " Breathing the Water draws the readers deep into spir...

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The Back Country, Paperback - Gary Snyder

76,99 RON 82,99 RON

Reducere. This collection is made up of four sections: "Far West" poems of the Western mountain country where, as a young man. Gary Snyder worked as a logger...

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The Gentle Barbarian, Paperback - Bohumil Hrabal

76,99 RON 82,99 RON

Reducere. The Gentle Barbarian is Bohumil Hrabal's homage to Vladim r Boudn k, one of the greatest Czech visual artists of the 1950s and 1960s, whose life ca...

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The Beginners, Paperback - Anne Serre

76,99 RON 82,99 RON

Reducere. Anna has been living happily for twenty years with loving, sturdy, outgoing Guillaume when she suddenly (truly at first sight) falls in love with T...

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Voices in the Evening, Paperback - Natalia Ginzburg

76,99 RON 82,99 RON

Reducere. After WWII, a small Italian town struggles to emerge from under the thumb of Fascism. With wit, tenderness, and irony, Elsa, the novel's narrator, ...

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The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen, Paperback - Wilfred Owen

77,99 RON 83,99 RON

Reducere. Wilfred Owen was twenty-two when he enlisted in the Artists' Rifle Corps during World War I. By the time Owen was killed at the age of 25 at the Ba...

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Happiness, as Such, Paperback - Natalia Ginzburg

77,99 RON 83,99 RON

Reducere. One of Natalia Ginzburg's finest achievements, Happiness, as Such is an experimental, wise, raw, comic novel, written in powerful prose that cuts t...

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An Ear in Bartram's Tree: Selected Poems 1957-1967, Paperback - Jonathan Williams

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A Tiler's Afternoon, Paperback - Lars Gustafsson

77,99 RON 83,99 RON

Reducere. In his newest novel, A Tiler's Afternoon, Lars Gustafsson invites us to share a day's work with Torsten Bergman, an aging, semi-retired tile-layer....

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Exercises in Style, Paperback - Raymond Queneau

78,99 RON 84,99 RON

Reducere. The plot of Exercises in Style is simple: a man gets into an argument with another passenger on a bus. However, this anecdote is told 99 more times...

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Professor Andersen's Night, Paperback - Dag Solstad

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The Last Will and Testament of Senhor Da Silva Araujo, Paperback - Germano Almeida

79,00 RON

Everyone in Cape Verde knows Senor da Silva. Successful entrepreneur, owner of the island's first automobile, a most serious, upright, and self-mad...

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