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Seventeen imaginative selections by lesser-known writers: "Adolphe," Benjamin Constant; "Salome," Jules Laforgue; "The Anatomist," Petrus Borel, 14 more. Trends toward the fantastic, expressionism, surrealism. Introductory notes.
Author : Angel Flores
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 39,45 MB
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780486263243
Seventeen imaginative selections by lesser-known writers: "Adolphe," Benjamin Constant; "Salome," Jules Laforgue; "The Anatomist," Petrus Borel, 14 more. Trends toward the fantastic, expressionism, surrealism. Introductory notes.
Author : Paul Negri
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 32,39 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0486434702
Featurestwelve classic tales, including "The Necklace"(Maupassant); "The Unknown Masterpiece" (Balzac); "The Attack on the Mill" (Zola); plus works by Gide, Daudet, andseven other authors."
Author : Shikibu Murasaki
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 47,38 MB
Release : 2012-12-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0486169197
Because women in ancient Japan enjoyed high status, they were well-educated and reasonably independent. They also produced much of the country's best literature. Three of these amazing ladies wrote these diaries, among them the highly skilled writer Murasaki Shikibu (ca. 973-1025 a.d.). A lady-in-waiting to the Japanese Empress, she became very adept at observing the daily activities and attitudes of the upper classes. Her diary is a remarkable record of events staged with rare and exquisite taste. The Sarashina Diary, filled with an appreciation of nature, begins with a nine-year-old girl's dreams and ends with the grown woman's account of her husband's funeral (1009-1059 a.d.). Izumi Shikibu's diary is a delicately written work, with poetic thoughts characteristic of the lady's shy reserve. Brimming with poetry and understated social observations, all three provide an extraordinary glimpse of court life in old Japan. Unabridged republication of the edition originally published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 1920. 2 color illustrations. 12 black-and-white illustrations. Appendix.
Author : Frank Norris
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,95 MB
Release : 2012-06-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 048614318X
Inspired by an actual crime, this riveting tale of avarice, degeneration, and death chronicles the demise of an ignorant charlatan and his avaricious wife as they descend into moral corruption.
Author : Kabir
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 27,54 MB
Release : 2013-01-18
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0486148610
The 15th-century poet Kabir created timeless works of enlightenment that combine the philosophies of Sufism, Hinduism, and the Kabbala. Kabir's poems possess a simplicity and cover a wide emotional range. Features 100 songs translated by Rabindranath Tagore.
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 22,97 MB
Release : 1959-01-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780486206028
More than 1,000 ripostes, paradoxes, wisecracks: "Work is the curse of the drinking classes," "I can resist everything except temptation," etc.
Author : Francis James Child
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 39,76 MB
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0486152839
This definitive 19th-century collection compiles all the extant ballads with all known variants and features Child's commentary for each work. Volume II includes Parts III & IV of the original set — ballads 54–113.
Author : William Morris
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 17,6 MB
Release : 2012-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0486143198
One of the most literary of utopian fantasies, this 1890 novel distills the author's attitudes toward politics, art, and society. A resonant critique of state socialism, it offers remarkably modern proposals for an alternative, idyllic society.
Author : Padraic Colum
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 24,3 MB
Release : 2012-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0486119351
Simple, dramatic tales of gods and goddesses who dwell in Asgard: exploits of Odin and Thor, winning of Brynhild, twilight of the gods, more. Over 40 illustrations.
Author : Frank Norris
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 26,13 MB
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0486146324
Based on an actual bloody dispute in 1880 between wheat farmers and the Southern Pacific Railroad, this tale of greed, betrayal, and a lust for power is played out during the waning days of the western frontier.