Ben: 3397 books

"Rainer Maria Rilkes' early verse is often seen as having little relevance to the great achievement of the middle years, the Neue Gedichte. Yet the very different styles of the juvenilia and this new maturity are united by a preoccupation with processes of motion and growth which governs both...

We live in a time of linguistic plainness. This is the age of the tweet and the internet meme; the soundbite, the status, the slogan. Everything reduced to its most basic components. Stripped back. Pared down. Even in the world of literature, where we might hope to find some linguistic luxury, we...

The Slippage is a wry, wistful tale of marriage, lust, and disconnection from Ben Greenman, the critically acclaimed author of What He’s Poised to Do. William Day must confront some uncomfortable truths about his life and his future when his wife Louisa asks him to build her house. The take-it-or-leave-it...

Corrupt construction company General Buildable wants to monopolize the supply of fresh water flowing into Las Vegas. There's just one problem, the people living on top of the largest aquafer in Nevada have a teensy little tendency to lynch outsiders.  When young engineer Marcus arrives, he...

What if Immanuel Kant floated down from his transcendental heights, straight through Alice’s rabbit hole, and into the fabulous world of Lewis Carroll? For Ben-Ami Scharfstein this is a wonderfully instructive scenario and the perfect way to begin this wide-ranging collection of decades of startlingly...

Ben Zabulis' Chartered Territory is a rich and diverse account of sixteen years spent living and working abroad as an engineer, from the chaos of everyday life in Lagos to the unique Hong Kong, via the conformity of salaryman life in Japan and the wonders of the subcontinent. Personal accounts of...

A unique feminist approach to the legacy of Jacques Derrida, Chronicle of Separation is a disparate yet beautifully interwoven series of distinct readings, genres, and themes, offering a powerful reflection of love in—and as—deconstruction. Looking especially at relationships between women, Ben-Naftali...

From the author of 'Superbad' and 'Superworse', a new collection of stories about giving, wanting, and the wonders of love. 'A Circle Is a Balloon and Compass Both' is a collection of stories about love, the most elusive and problematic of all phenomena. With a mix of traditional, literary prose and...

The Chronicles of Air, Water, and the Source presents a compilation of selected poems written from 1996 to 2007 by poet Etaniel Ben C Yehuda. In these verses, he takes a personal and emotional roller coaster to affirm his humanity. One poem may speak of loneliness and a sense of despair, while the...

In this uproarious satire from Jacobean playwright Ben Jonson, the clever Venetian gentleman Volpone hatches an outrageous scheme to dupe a greedy trio of hangers-on who are after his fortune. A ragtag cast of characters, including a dwarf, a eunuch, and a hermaphrodite, get caught up in the plot along the way.

Ben Jonson (1572-1637) was an English playwright best known for writing satirical plays such as The Alchemist and Every Man in His Humour.

Poetaster is a late Elizabethan satirical comedy written by Ben Jonson that was first performed in 1601.

Ben Jonson (1572-1637) was an English playwright best known for writing satirical plays such as The Alchemist and Every Man in His Humour.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) ejemplifica como pocos la idea común y por tanto quizá descabellada del escritor como individuo genial. Hombre de genio y de talento incluso desmesurado, su obra la apreciación será de Borges "no encierra una sola página que no ofrezca una felicidad"....