Reducere. Cesar is a translator who s fallen on very hard times due to the global economic downturn; he is also an author, and a mad scientist hell-bent on w...
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Reducere. DescriptionThe editor of this anthology, Jonathan C. Creasy, begins with some of the well-known Black Mountain Poets--Olson, Creeley, Duncan, Lever...
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Reducere. Long live Man sings the poet Gregory Corso--despite atom bombs and computers, cold wars that get hot and togetherness that isn't, too many cars and...
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Reducere. Once Again for Thucydides is a collection of seventeen micro-epics written on trips around the world. In each brief journal entry, Handke concentra...
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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. Bjorn Hansen, a respectable town treasurer, has just turned fifty and is horrified by the thought that chance has ruled his life. Eighteen years ag...
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Reducere. Li Po (A.D., 701-762) lived in T'ang Dynasty China, but his influence has spanned the centuries: the pure lyricism of his poems has awed readers in...
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Reducere. This new edition ofLabyrinths, the classic representative selection of Borges' writing edited by Donald A. Yates and James E. Irby (in translations...
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Reducere. "A stunning, new translation by the poet and classicist Anne Carson, first performed in 2015 at the Almeida Theatre in London. Anne Carson writes, ...
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Reducere. In addition to the Voyage and Expedition, this edition also includes the dialogue "The Leper of the City of Aosta, " a preface by Xavier's better-k...
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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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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. 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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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