Marcel Proust spent the last fourteen years of his life writing A la recherche du temps perdu (SWANN'S WAY: Remembrance Of Things Past). It is an intimate epic, an excavation of the self, and a comedy of manners by turns and all at once. Proust is the twentieth century's Dante,...

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Barnes & Noble Discover Great New WritersIn Canadian short-story writer Bonnie Burnard's deeply moving novel, we meet the Chambers family: Bill and Sylvia and their three children, an ordinary family from Ontario. Beginning in 1949, we follow the Chambers for...

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Etalon al romanului dostoievskian, Crima si pedeapsa nu are nevoie de vreo recomandare speciala din partea criticului, el se recomanda singur ca o capodopera a literaturii ruse si universale, receptata ca atare pretutindeni, alaturi de Don Quijote, Hamlet, Faust, Rosu si Negru, Razboi si pace,...

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„Rožės vardas“ (1980) – pirmasis italų mokslininko semiotiko, meno teoretiko Umberto Eco romanas, kurio šlovės ir populiarumo nepranoko nė vienas kitas jo kūrinys.Romano veiksmas vyksta 1327 metais Šiaurės Italijos kalnuose stūksančiame vienuolyne. Prisidengęs detektyvine fabula,...

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The Figured Wheel fully collects the first four books of poetry, as well as twenty-one new poems, by Robert Pinsky, the former U.S. Poet Laureate.Critic Hugh Kenner, writing about Pinsky's first volume, described this poet's work as "nothing...

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Ethel Lilian Voynich, née Boole (1864-1960) was a novelist and musician, and a supporter of several revolutionary causes. In 1893 she married Wilfrid Michael Voynich, revolutionary, antiquarian and bibliophile, the eponym of the Voynich manuscript. She is most famous for her novel The Gadfly, first published in...

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"Quicksand and Passing are novels I will never forget. They open up a whole world of experience and struggle that seemed to me, when I first read them years ago, absolutely absorbing, fascinating, and indispensable."--Alice Walker"Discovering...

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This immortal novel of the sea tells the story of a British sailor haunted by a single youthful act of cowardly betrayal. To the white men in Bombay, Calcutta, and Rangoon,...

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In "Digging", the first poem in Opened Ground, Heaney likens his pen to both spade and gun. With these metaphors in place, he makes clear his difficult poetic task: to delve into the past, both personal and historic, while remaining ever mindful...

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An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here.The Remains of the Day is a profoundly compelling portrait of the perfect English butler and of his fading, insular world postwar...

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"Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheueren Ungeziefer verwandelt". Welch ein Satz! Ich erinnere mich, ihn in den 60er...

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Selected Poetry and Prose of Stéphane Mallarmé presents what can be considered the essential work of the renowned “father of the Symbolists.” Mallarmé’s major elegies, sonnets, and other verse, including excerpts from the dialogue “Hériodiade,” are all assembled here with the French and English texts en...

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Owen Meany, the only child of a New Hampshire granite quarrier, believes he is God's instrument; he is.This is John Irving's most comic novel, yet Owen Meany is Mr. Irving's most heartbreaking character."Roomy, intelligent, exhilarating and darkly comic...Dickensian in scope...Quite stunning, and...

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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was laying on his hard, as it were armor-plated, back and when he lifted his head a little he could see his domelike brown belly divided into stiff...

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A tale of enormous suspense and growing horror, The Fox in the Attic is the widely acclaimed first part of Richard Hughes's monumental historical fiction, "The Human Predicament." Set in...

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This remarkable collection, which won the 1986 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry, includes most of the poems from each of Derek Walcott's seven prior books of verse and all of his long autobiographical...

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A dazzling memoir of an African childhood from Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian novelist, playwright, and poet Wole Soyinka. "Aké: The Years of Childhood" gives us the story of Soyinka's boyhood before and during World War II in a Yoruba village in western Nigeria called Aké....

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Una síntesis polémica de sus búsquedas estéticas y su interés por los movimientos revolucionarios de aquellos años. Puede leerse como un desplazamiento natural de los personajes y los temas de Rayuela hacia las urgencias y los fervores de un mundo convulsionado. Pero conserva de...

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Στις αρχές του 20ού αιώνα στην Αλεξάνδρεια της Αιγύπτου, σε μια πλούσια πολυμελή ελληνική οικογένεια (που ανακαλεί την οικογένεια του Εμμανουήλ Μπενάκη), ζει ο αφηγητής του μυθιστορήματος: ο "Μάγκας", ένα πανέξυπνο, άτακτο και ατίθασο σκυλάκι ράτσας. Ο "Μάγκας" παρακολουθεί όλα όσα διαδραματίζονται στο...

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The first of Thomas Hardy’s great novels, Far From the Madding Crowd established the author as one of Britain’s foremost writers. It also introduced readers to Wessex, an imaginary county in...

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce. A Künstlerroman in a modernist style, it traces the intellectual and religio-philosophical awakening of young Stephen Dedalus, a fictional alter ego of...

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In 1860, as a young girl of 17, Lady Slane nurtures a secret, burning ambition—to become an artist. She becomes, instead, the wife of a great statesman and the mother of six children. Seventy...

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The stories In Persuasion Nation are easily his best work yet. "The Red Bow,"about a town consumed by pet-killing hysteria, won a 2004 National Magazine Award and "Bohemians," the story of two supposed Eastern European widows trying to fit in in suburban USA, is included in...

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Cakes and Ale is a satire of London literary society between the Wars. Social climber Alroy Kear is flattered when he is selected by Edward Driffield's wife to pen the official biography of her lionized novelist husband, and determined to write a bestseller....

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Tο σημαντικότερο πρόβλημα στη μετάφραση της Οδύσσειας έχει να κάνει με τη μεταρρύθμιση του πρωτότυπου ρυθμού. Ο ρυθμός του πρωτοτύπου είναι σταθερός και εναλλασσόμενος, δίχως η δεύτερη ιδιότητα να αναιρεί την πρώτη. Ας πούμε ότι η σταθερότητα του ρυθμού επιβάλλεται από τη συνέχεια της επικής αφήγησης· η οποία...

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No punches are pulled in Henry Miller's most famous work. Still pretty rough going for even our jaded sensibilities, but Tropic of Cancer is an unforgettable novel of self-confession. Maybe the most honest book ever written, this autobiographical fiction about Miller's...

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