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Collection of contemporary poetry from a winter in a Spanish city.

Loving - it is the sea Love can be sweet and bright as the sun sparkling on the waves, but under its surface lurk betrayal and despair in bottomless darkness. From innocent crush to losing a loved one, Matters of the Heart follows the ebb and flow of love and relationships through sweet and sour, and light and dark. ______________ collection of 30 poems

A strange magical journey through a surrealistic terrain and mindscape...Mind blowing and expanding

This volume contains the following works of John Dos Passos: One Man’s Initiation - 1917 Three Soldiers Rosinante to the Road Again A Pushcart at the Curb It also contains a nineteenth century polemic by his father, John Randolph Dos Passos, about why the United States should recognize Cuba. John...

Il romanzo prende le mosse dal progetto di don Marcantonio Ravì di dare in moglie la giovane figlia Stellina a Don Diego Alcozer, che è vecchio, ma assai ricco e veterano di ben quattro matrimoni e altrettante vedovanze. Se la figlia lo sposerà, alla morte del vecchio, che ormai non può tardare,...

Giustino Boggiolo, un modesto impiegato fornito di una cultura altrettanto modesta, sposa la giovane scrittrice Silvia Roncella e, dopo che questa diventa celebre, rivela uno straordinario fiuto negli affari, prendendo tutte le iniziative di contratto con gli editori, i critici, i giornalisti, i traduttori e il pubblico, per reclamizzare e far fruttare la produzione letteraria della moglie.

Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore è il dramma più famoso di Luigi Pirandello. Esso fu rappresentato per la prima volta il 9 maggio 1921 al Teatro Valle di Roma, ma in quell'occasione ebbe un esito tempestoso, perché molti spettatori contestarono la rappresentazione al grido di "Manicomio! Manicomio!"....

Example in this ebook   In presenting, for the first time, to English readers the greatest work of Germany's greatest mediæval poet, a few words of introduction, alike for poem and writer, may not be out of place. The lapse of nearly seven hundred years, and the changes which...

Ezra Pound's Posthumous Cantos collects unpublished pages of his great poem, drawn from manuscripts held in the archive at Yale's Beinecke Library and elsewhere. They are assembled by Pound's Italian translator, the critic and scholar Massimo Bacigalupo, into a companion book to the Cantos, running...

Betrayed is not a true story, but it was inspired by one. All the characters are invented, some are composites of real people, and aspects of the story - including the ending - were fictionalized for dramatic effect.

Introduction by Jean Charbonneau The FLOWERS OF EVIL contains translations of Charles Baudelaire’s seminal volume of poetry LES FLEURS DU MAL, first published in 1857, and subsequently banned for verses then considered obscene and “an insult to public decency.” Six of the poems remained...

The Flowers of Evil (Les Fleurs du Mal) may speak of the carnal, depraved, and decaying in human life and the city, but Charles Baudelaire’s poetry so infuses even the most grotesque with beauty and a kind of innocence that the reader is moved beyond the rubric of the sacred and profane, into sublimity....

Poets like Cliff Yates only come along every so often, like eclipses or rare migrating birds, and, like an eclipse or a rare migrating bird, Cliff Yates should be gazed at, parked near, and written about. People often talk about poets being fresh, and they mean fresh like bread, likely to go stale....

Perceval ou le conte du Graal Chrétien de Troyes, poète français, considéré comme un des premiers auteurs de romans de chevalerie (1135–1183) Ce livre numérique présente «Perceval ou le conte du Graal», de Chrétien de Troyes,...