Reducere. If this, Uwe Timm's enchanting novel, were a cautionary tale, the tag line would go something like this: Should you plan to be in Berlin on Midsumm...
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Reducere. Lands of Memory presents a half-dozen wonderful works by Felisberto Hern ndez, "a writer like no other, " Italo Calvino declared, "like no European...
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Reducere. In these brief, challenging pieces, Father Merton does not offer consolation or easy remedies. He looks candidly and without illusions at the world...
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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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Reducere. Although Joyce later entirely rewrote his novel of a young Irishman's rebellion against church, country and family, this early version is beautiful...
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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. 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. With his New Directions debut in 1938, the twenty-five-year-old Delmore Schwartz was hailed as a genius and among the most promising writers of his...
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Reducere. First published in 1934, Goodbye to Berlin has been popularized on stage and screen by Julie Harris in I Am a Camera and Liza Minelli in Cabaret. I...
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Reducere. The Glass Menagerie marked a crucial turning point in American theater, and forever changed the life of its then unknown author. Williams's elegiac...
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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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Reducere. On a crowded bus at midday, Raymond Queneau observes one man accusing another of jostling him deliberately. When a seat is vacated, the first man a...
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Reducere. John and Paul were also visitors to the town. They were twins, as identical as can be. They wore the same clothes, chino trousers and open-neck swe...
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Reducere. "The Instruction Manual, " the first chapter, is an absurd assortment of tasks and items dissected in an instruction-manual format. "Unusual Occupa...
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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. 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. A novel of awesome beauty and power by the Hungarian master, Laszla Krasznahorkai. Winner of a 2005 PEN Translation Fund Award. War and War, Laszla...
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Reducere. So that readers could more fully understand the extent of Williams' radical simplicity, all of his published poetry, excluding Paterson, was reissu...
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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. 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. Contributor(s): Author: John GardnerIntroduction by: Charles JohnsonIn The Sunlight Dialogues, John Gardner's vision of America in the turbulent 19...
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Reducere. A legendary 1960s experiment in form, The Unfortunates is B. S. Johnson's famous "book in a box, " in which the chapters are presented unbound, to ...
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Reducere. H. D.'s (Hilda Doolittle, 1884-1961) late poems of search and longing represent the mature achievement of a poet who has come increasingly to be re...
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Reducere. The Blue Flowers follows two unlikely characters: Cidrolin, who alternates between drinking and napping on a barge parked along the Seine in the 19...
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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. An unwed mother arranges for her children to meet their father, who is a stranger to them. A woman confronts the "other woman" in her lover's life....
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Reducere. At her most moving and meditative, impressive and musical, Denise Levertov addresses in her poetry collection, Evening Train, the nature of faith a...
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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. 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. 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 bilingual collection of Eugene Guillevic's work, chosen from six of his books published between 1942 and 1966, and translated by the poet Deni...
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Reducere. This volume brings together five essays that represent the latest directions in the study of geography in classical antiquity. Arranged chronologic...
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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. Dreamy, meditative, and filled with the gritty everyday perils of a person living somewhere without papers (at one point Anh is subjected to some v...
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Reducere. This collection of stories and essays takes its title from a long prose reverie in which Henry Miller, after his return to the United States, think...
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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. But it would be unfair to the reader to reveal what happens when a gang of professional crooks gets wind of the scheme and moves to muscle in on th...
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Reducere. The Crack-Up tells the story of Fitzgerald's sudden descent at the age of thirty-nine from glamorous success to empty despair, and his determined r...
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Reducere. Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Hans Fallada Prize, The End of Days, by the acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, consis...
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Reducere. When the three novellas in The King of Trees were published separately in China in the 1980s, Ah Cheng fever spread across the country. Never befor...
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Reducere. In a comic masterpiece following the misadventures of a simple but hugely ambitious waiter in pre-World War II Prague, who rises to wealth only to ...
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Reducere. Summer in Baden-Baden was acclaimed by The New York Review of Books as "a short poetic masterpiece" and by Donald Fanger in The Los Angeles Times a...
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Reducere. A magnificent new collection of stories by “the contemporary Hungarian master of apocalypse” (Susan Sontag) In The World Goes On, a narrator first ...
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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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Reducere. Anew, sun, to fire summer leaves move toward the air from the stems of the branches fire summer fire summer --from AnewHere is the complete music-f...
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Reducere. In this collection (originally published by The Seabury Press in 1977 as The Burning Heart, Kenneth Rexroth and Ikuko Atsumi have assembled represe...
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Reducere. The San Francisco Chronicle said Hofmann's "sleek translation does a wonderful job" and The New York Times concurred: "Anything by Kafka is worth r...
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Reducere. Alain Dani lou was an accomplished pianist, dancer, player of the Indian v n , painter, linguist and translator, photographer, and world traveler. ...
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Reducere. Dr. Starkie, a lecturer in French literature at Oxford, has devoted many years of research to Rimbaud, revising her biography three times as new ma...
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Reducere. In Bartleby & Co., an enormously enjoyable novel, Enrique Vila-Matas tackles the theme of silence in literature: the writers and non-writers who, l...
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Reducere. In making this selection, writes William Cookson in his introduction to this paperback edition of early and out-of-print writings, my aim has been ...
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Reducere. The Nonconformist's Memorial is a gathering of four long sequences that underscores Susan Howe's reputation as one of the leading experimentalists ...
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