My Friends

Literature & Fiction

Bove, Emmanuel

Louth, Janet [Translator]

Literary

Carcanet

Essays and Opinions, 1921-31

Young, Alan.(Editor)

Selected Writings

HAMMOND, Gerald

Raleigh Sir, Sir Walter

British & Irish

An Admirable Woman

Cohen, Arthur A.

First published in 1984 and now appearing in a new edition, A Wave is widely considered one of Ashbery's finest books of poetry. The 44 pieces collected here--particularly the long title-poem--find the poet applying his uniquely lyric, meditative, and often hilarious sensibility to the mysterious and incessant curves and crests of love, art, thought, experience, and selfhood.

A wave: Poems

John Ashbery

Poetry

The day of the owl ; Equal danger

SCIASCIA, Leonardo

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Often likened to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is both a scathing critique of military life and a meditation on the human thirst for glory. It tells of young Giovanni Drogo, who is posted to a distant fort overlooking the vast Tartar steppe. Although not intending to stay, Giovanni suddenly finds that years have passed, as, almost without his noticing, he has come to share the others' wait for a foreign invasion that never happens. Over time the fort is downgraded and Giovanni's ambitions fade until the day the enemy begins massing on the desolate steppe...

The Tartar Steppe

Dino (Trans. By Stuart C. Hood) Buzatti

Half-Truths & One-&-A-Half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

karl-kraus

History & Criticism

Briefly describes Finch's life and career, and gathers a selection of her poems about nature, mythology, marriage, friendship, death, love, and fame.

Selected Poems (Fyfield Series)

Anne Kingsmill Finch, Countess of Winchilsea

Macabea comes to Rio in search of a promising future for herself, but becomes trapped in the city's slums

The Hour of the Star (English and Portuguese Edition)

Clarice-Lispector

Genre Fiction

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