Penguin Book of the Prose Poem. From Baudelaire to Anne Carson, Paperback - ***

DescriptionAn essential anthology that puts contemporary geniuses Eileen Myles and Margaret Atwood in conversation with literary classics Charles B...

In his most ambitious endeavour since Freud, acclaimed cultural historian Peter Gay traces and explores the rise of Modernism in the arts, the cult...

Publisher: Penguin AdultAuthor(s): John FreemanNumber of pages: 496Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 139 x 212 x 35Cover type: Paperback / softback...

Poet, aesthete and hedonist, Baudelaire was also one of the most groundbreaking art critics of his time. Here he explores beauty, fashion, dandyism...

Reducere. "A deeply felt reappraisal of the work and its global impact.... Prose] makes a persuasive argument for Anne Frank's literary genius." --New York T...

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Reducere. The ancient Greek lyric poet Simonides of Keos was the first poet in the Western tradition to take money for poetic composition. From this starting...

Takes the story from its origins with Defoe, Swift and Fielding to the 'golden age' of the fin de siecle and Edwardian period. Includes rare finds,...

DescriptionThis collection illuminates the uniquely fascinating era between 1820 and 1950 in French poetry--a time in which diverse aesthetic ideas...

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A second volume celebrating the British short story, from P.G. Wodehouse to Zadie Smith. Includes rare finds, stories from unusual sources that hav...

Reducere. The award-winning poet reinvents a genre in a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional re-creation of an ancient Greek...

"The ghost is the most enduring figure in supernatural fiction. He is absolutely indestructible. . . . He changes with the styles in fiction but he...

DescriptionWhich Haruki Murakami novel shares its title with a Beatles song? In Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, what is Charlie's s...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdNumber of pages: 288Collection: Penguin Clothbound ClassicsPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 121 x 208 x 30Cover type: ...

Reducere. Cu prilejul implinirii a o suta saizeci de ani de la aparitia Florilor Raului si a o suta cincizeci de ani de la moartea lui Charles Baudelaire (18...

Reducere. The Flowers of Evil , which T.S. Eliot called the greatest example of modern poetry in any language, shocked the literary world of nineteenth centu...

Presents three phases of a weekend crisis in the life of a motherless twelve-year-old girl.

One of the greatest poems of the classical world Virgil's Georgics is a glorious celebration of the eternal beauty of the natural world, now brough...

Reducere. The insights presented in the volume are many and wide-ranging, recognizably in tune with the subtlest modern discussions of desire (such as triang...

A collection of Carson McCullers' stories, including her novella "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe" and "Wunderkind".

A fresh, contemporary adaptation of Sophokles' tragedy from T.S. Eliot Prize-winning poet Anne Carson. When her dead brother is decreed a traitor, ...

Reducere. Blending an engaging narrative style with broader theoretical considerations, James Taylor Carson offers the most complete history to date of the M...

A rich, wondrous anthology of the Western magical tradition, from the Old Testament to Doctor Faustus and Paradise Lost, now in a Penguin Classics ...

The poems of Charles Baudelaire are filled with explicit and unsettling imagery, depicting with intensity every day subjects ignored by French lite...

With Baudelaire's critical intelligence as his inspiration, the author ranges through his life and work, focusing on two painters - Ingres and Dela...

Recasts the political narrative of the late twentieth century, as Anne Parsons charts how the politics of mass incarceration shaped the deinstituti...

Reducere. The most comprehensive anthology of primary sources available, spanning the entire history of the American civil rights movement. A record of one o...

Reducere. H of H Playbook is an explosion of thought, in drawings and language, about a Greek tragedy called Herakles by the 5th-century BC poet Euripides. I...

In myth Herakles is an embodiment of manly violence who returns home after years of making war on enemies and monsters (his famous "Labours of Hera...

Trade paperback. Mixing poetry, drama and narrative, this is a follow-up to }Autobiography Of Red{.

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: L. M. MontgomeryEditor: Xist PublishingDesigned by: Calee M. LeeA Must-Have for Anne of Green Gables Fans Color in your fav...

A glorious compendium of puzzles from throughout history, now pulled together for the first time in one collection. The Penguin Book of Puzzles con...

Spanish poetry is astonishing in its richness and variety. This anthology covers the two great flowerings of Spanish verse: the first, which lasted...

Reducere. In An Oresteia, the classicist Anne Carson combines three different versions of the tragedy of the house of Atreus -- A iskhylos' Agamemnon, Sophok...

The poetry and prose collected in Plainwater are a testament to the extraordinary imagination of Anne Carson, a writer described by Michael Ondaatj...

Anne Carson' s first full-length publication in Britain, Glass and God introduces an assured and challenging new voice: vivid, laconic, precise. Bl...

Reducere. A prose poem is a poem written in prose rather than verse. But what does that really mean? Is it an indefinable hybrid? An anomaly in the history o...

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Vehicles, vehicles, vehicles--nearly 100 of them--in all shapes and sizesA giant crane hovers over a construction site, a space ship roars into spa...

Reducere. This is the extraordinary story of the road to recovery of Matt who, at the tail end of 2010 at the age of twenty-three, suffered a life-altering b...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Carson McCullersNumber of pages: 128Collection: Little Clothbound ClassicsPublication date: 2022Dimensions: ...

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An anthology of poems that represents man's changeless responses to the changeless changing seasons of his heart.

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Unlike Lent, Advent is celebrated when the year is becoming darker and colder, moving into the death and dormancy of winter. Before we can greet th...