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The Sorrows of Young Werther (Die Leiden des jungen Werther) is an epistolary and loosely autobiographical novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, first published in 1774; a revised edition of the novel was published in 1787. Werther was an important novel of the Sturm und Drang period in German literature,...

“The life we know can usually be explained only in winter, when it looks like a footprint on the surface and the lake is frozen over. There are times, though, when the ice is thinner in some spots than elsewhere. And suddenly we realize that truth lies on the bottom.” “Plays” contains...

An invaluable source of pleasure to those English readers who wish to read this great medieval classic with true understanding, Sinclair's three-volume prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy provides both the original Italian text and the Sinclair translation, arranged on facing pages, and commentaries,...

The poems in Smugglers move through rapid historical shifts and meditations on personal experience, exploring the depths and limits of comprehension through the people and geography of the Balkans. Ultimately, Aleš Debeljak's urban imagination creates a mosaic—intimate and historical—of a vanished...

29 poems in free verse and loose style, alternating more dense structures, prose-like or swifter emotions with more quiet passages. The main motifs are loneliness, assumed failure as a woman, the price of wrong love, lack of eroticism, etc.

Kuzma’s Whisper can be characterized as the pursuit of the balance of the dreams versus reality, the balance of ones beliefs versus the struggle to live those beliefs on a daily basis and the balance between the fullness and the emptiness of each day. Neo-symbolic visions land up next to...

“Love, Passion and Torment” by Benedetto Corrente. Poems that fly over the waves in Scauri, sad words that appear in the loneliness of winter days, joyful words coming from sunny summer days, thoughts that become melody, that only the heart can turn into music. We are away in our atoll, lost in...

I took my tears and turned them into paintings' In the electric calm of a blue-painted room, a dying woman reassembles the images of an extraordinary life. The woman is Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. The life is one of struggle - with love, with the body, with her country, and most of all, with...

Cher Monsieur, Ne croyez-vous pas que ce serait maintenant le moment d'essayer de rejoindre le Cinéma avec la réalité intime du cerveau. Je vous communique quelques extraits d'un scénario auxquels j'aimerais beaucoup que vous fassiez accueil. Vous verrez que son plan mental, sa conception intérieure...

Arrivé en plein cœur de la montagne Tarahumara j’ai été saisi de réminiscences physiques tellement pressantes qu’elles me parurent rappeler des souvenirs personnels directs ; tout : la vie de la terre et de l’herbe, en bas, les découpures de la montagne, les formes particulières des rochers,...

This edition features Illustratations A linked Table of Contents CONTENTS (abridged) CHARLES BAUDELAIRE by James Huneker THE FLOWERS OF EVIL The Dance of Death The Beacons The Sadness of the Moon Exotic Perfume Beauty ... The Accursed La Beatrice The Soul of Wine The Wine of Lovers The...

2 works of Charles Baudelaire French poet (1821-1867) This ebook presents a collection of 2 works of Charles Baudelaire. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: - The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire - The Three Hills and Other Poems

First published posthumously in 1869, "Paris Spleen" is a collection of 51 short prose poems by Charles Baudelaire. Inspired by Aloysius Bertrand's "Gaspard de la Nuit — Fantaisies à la manière de Rembrandt et de Callot" or "Gaspard of the Night — Fantasies in the Manner of Rembrandt and Callot",...

In the 144 poems of For as Far as the Eye Can See, Robert Melançon re-imagines the sonnet as a "rectangle of twelve lines," and poetry as "a monument as fragile as the grass." Impressionistic, seasonal, allusive, in language sharp and clean, this form-driven collection is both...