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The poems in this volume were selected by the poet in 1978 from his first three books—A Run of Jacks, Death of the Kapowsin Tavern, and Good Luck in Cracked Italian—and from his three more recent books, The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir, What Thou Lovest Well Remains American, and 31 Letters...

Extrait : "- Où suis-je ? dit le poète terrifié. - Dans la Cour des Miracles, répondit un quatrième spectre qui les avait accostés. - Sur mon âme, reprit Gringoire, je vois bien les aveugles qui regardent et les boiteux qui courent, mais où est le Sauveur ? Ils répondirent par un éclat de rire sinistre."

Monumentale epopea ambientata nel xv secolo, sorta di meditazione sulla vanità delle ideologie di compensazione e disperata inquisizione sul senso e sui limiti dei legami affettivi, Notre-Dame de Paris è un vero romanzo “gotico”. Protagonista principale è Parigi, col suo intreccio misterioso...

Freuen Sie sich auf die schönsten Balladen der Deutschen - mysteriös, dramatisch, geheimnisvoll und bewegend. Egal, ob "Der Knabe im Moor", "Der Erlkönig" oder "Die Bürgschaft" - Sie werden staunen, wie viele Balladen Sie noch aus Ihrer Schulzeit kennen und wie viele...

Das Ende des Sommers stimmt, ebenso wie das Altern des Menschen, melancholisch. Trotzdem zeigen die in diesem Band versammelten Gedichte, dass die Verabschiedung der blühenden Natur auch ihre guten Seiten und ihre Schönheit hat. Freuen Sie sich also auf die schönsten deutschen Herbstgedichte -...

The fundamental conception of the drama "The Burgraves" is a dramatic struggle between two antithetical forces: fatality attempting to impose punishment on a degraded race and providence striving to pardon and to rehabilitate. The poet has embodied the force of fatality in an old slave named...

La literatura brevísima es un animal elástico y anfibio que cambia de hábitat a la menor provocación: de ahí su capacidad de rozar otros géneros (cuento, poesía, ensayo, aforismo) de manera inverosímil (como la salamandra y sus metamorfosis) y construir una sinfonía en corto que no deja de...

Luego de que un monstruo gigantesco los hiciera naufragar, el misterioso marinero Ismael, el profesor Aronnax y el joven Julio Verne descubren que fueron rescatados ni más ni menos que por el legendario submarino Nautilus, comandado por el no menos legendario capitán Nemo. De inmediato presenciarán...

Aunque parece concentrado en narrar hechos fascinantes donde la magia juega un papel principal, todo indica que el legendario sabio Magistrodontos prepara a su extraviado discípulo para recibir una revelación importante sobre el arte de contar. Así, mientras explica cómo fue que Cosme el Enamorado...

A história passa-se na França do século XIX entre duas grandes batalhas: a Batalha de Waterloo (1815) e os motins de junho de 1832. Daqui resulta, por cinco volumes, a vida de Jean Valjean, um condenado posto em liberdade, até sua morte. Em torno dele giram algumas pessoas que vão dar seus...

This book engages the problem of evil from a variety of philosophical viewpoints, traditions, methodologies, and interests. For millennia, philosophers, theologians, and people outside of the academy have thought about evil and its relation to religious belief. The Problem of Evil: New Philosophical...

From the author of the existential thriller ‘The Execution’ comes ‘Colony’, a novel set in French Guiana as the age of Empire draws to a close and anarchy beckons. The year is 1928. Sabir – petty criminal, drifter, war veteran – is on a prison ship bound for a notorious penal colony in...

A man vilified by society and condemned to death for his crime wakes every morning knowing that this day might be his last. Graphically detailed, this first-person chronicle describes both the prisoner's wretched environment and his thoughts, reminiscences, and despair at his impending doom. This edition...