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Il Sogno Americano Di Sofia
Par Ronyfer, Federica Giammello. 2012
Three Sisters
Par Anton Chekhov, Paul Schmidt. 1992
The Inspector
Par Nikolai Gogol, Larissa Volokhonsky, Richard Pevear, Richard Nelson. 2014
A revelatory new translation of Gogol's comedy by renowned playwright Richard Nelson and Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky - the…
foremost contemporary translators of classic Russian literature including the best-selling Oprah's Book Club selection, Anna Karenina - marks the first of a series of translations of important Russian plays over the next ten years.Paradiso: Poema Di Dante (1787) (Dover Thrift Editions)
Par Dante Alighieri, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 2017
The last great literary work of the Middle Ages and the first important book of the Renaissance, Dante's Divine Comedy…
culminates in this third and final section, Paradiso. The 14th-century allegory portrays a medieval perspective on the afterlife, tracing the poet's voyage across three realms — Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise — to investigate the concepts of sin, guilt, and redemption. Expressed in sublime verse, the trilogy concludes with this challenging and rewarding venture into the dwelling place of God, angels, and the souls of the faithful.Guided by Beatrice, the incarnation of beatific love, Dante undergoes an intellectual journey from doubt to faith. Beatrice instructs the poet in scholastic theology as they pass through the nine spheres of Paradise to the Empyrean, a realm of pure light in which the redeemed experience the bliss of God's immediate presence. This edition features the renowned translation by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and serves as a companion volume to the Dover editions of Inferno and Purgatorio.Stadtzeiten und andere Gedichte
Par Vihang Naik, Florian. 2017
Vihang A. Naik beleuchtet in Stadtzeiten und andere Gedichte das Stadtleben mit all seinen Farben, seinem Glanz und seinem Elend.…
Es handelt sich um eine Sammlung seiner intuitiven und philosophischen Poesie. Sie ist in insgesamt sechs Abschnitte unterteilt: „Liebeslied eines Wandergesellen“ stellt eine Art inneren Reisebericht dar. „Menschen im Spiegel“ zeigt die Trugbilder der Stadt: Die Menschen darin sind wandelbar wie der Gang eines Krebses oder die Farben eines Chamäleons. „Der Pfad der Weisheit“ dagegen widmet sich dem Beginn der Meditation und dem Wissen. „An der Küste“ dokumentiert das Gefühl von Sinnlosigkeit, Erinnerung, Schmerz, Exil und Entfremdung am Ufer des Lebens. Im für diese Sammlung titelgebenden Abschnitt „Stadtzeiten“ wird die Stadt als Marktplatz charakterisiert, als Himmel für Außenseiter, als Saatbeet des Wandels, und am Abend, um Mitternacht, bei Mondlicht und durch Nebelschleier hindurch betrachtet. „Selbstporträt“ schließlich beginnt mit einer schematischen Wortskizze, auf die fünf leere Seiten folgen, nach welchen der Leser am Seitenende lediglich wenige karge Worte findet. Hier zeichnet der Dichter in einem Moment der Offenbarung die wahre Natur seines eigenen Ichs nach, wenn er schreibt, er erwache „und sehe [s]ein Selbst über alle Gedanken hinaus entblößt“. Zwischen „Selbst“ und „über alle Gedanken hinaus entblößt“ liegen die besagten fünf leeren Seiten. Sie deuten auf eine unbeschreibliche, vieldeutige Epiphanie hin und mögen sowohl die Entdeckung eines transzendentalen Selbst jenseits des Denkens und der Sprache anzeigen als auch die Abwesenheit eines solchen. "Diese gekonnten Verse zielen auf philosophische, ja existenzielle Dinge, indem sie vieles ungesagt lassen.“ - Kirkus Reviews "Stadtzeiten und andere Gedichte zu lesen, ist eine berauschende und erhellende Erfahrung. Es ist im höchsten Maße lesenswert.“ - Readers' Favoriteシティタイムズ
Par Vihang Naik, Maki Starfield. 2017
TIEMPOS DE CIUDAD Y OTROS POEMAS
Par Alejandro Gonz lez, Vihang Naik. 2015
Vihang A. Naik arroja luz sobre la vida de una ciudad inmersa en sombras, gloria y miseria en Tiempos de…
ciudad y otros poemas. Se trata de una antología con sus poemas más intuitivos y filosóficos, dividida en seis partes: Canción de amor de un viajero es casi un cuaderno de bitácora; Hombres reflejados transciende las quimeras de la ciudad, en la que las gentes son volubles como el caminar de un cangrejo o los colores de un camaleón; El sendero de la sabiduría comprende los inicios de la meditación y el conocimiento; En la orilla recoge las sensaciones de futilidad, recuerdos, dolor, exilio y alienación del poeta en la orilla de la vida. El título de esta colección alude también a la última sección del poemario, en el que la ciudad se despliega como un mercado, como un cielo para los desalmados, como aljófares de cambio, y es observada en la penumbra, a medianoche, bajo la luz de la luna y a través del vaho y la niebla El poema "Autorretrato" comienza con un bosquejo esquemático, incluyendo siete páginas en blanco, donde el lector encuentra unas palabras sobre el final del poema. Aquí, el poeta visualiza, en un momento de epifanía, la verdadera naturaleza del yo cuando despierta y ve su "yo/ revelado más allá del pensamiento". Entre "Yo¨" y "revelado más allá del pensamiento" hay 5 páginas en blanco. La inefable epifanía de lo ambiguo. Puede sugerir el descubrimiento de un yo transcendental allende todo pensamiento y lenguaje, o quizás el descubrimiento de una Ausencia lejos del habla y pensamiento humanos. Reseñas: "La lectura de Tiempos de ciudad y otros poemas es una experiencia embriagadora y reveladora" - Readers' Favorite "Apuntando hacia la filosofía, incluso aspectos existenciales, estos versos amigos de lo ajeno dejan demasiado en lo no dicho." - Kirkus Reviews "Una obra recomendable y única." - Cate BaumKokoro
Par Natsume Soseki, Edwin McClellan. 2003
"Rich in understanding and insight."--The New Yorker What is love, and what is friendship? What is the extent of our…
responsibility to ourselves and to others? Kokoro, signifying "the heart of things," examines these age-old questions in terms of the modern world.A trilogy of stories that explores the very essence of loneliness, Kokoro opens with "Sensei and I," in which the narrator recounts his relationship with an intellectual who dwells in isolation but maintains a sophisticated worldview. "My Parents and I" brings the reader into the narrator's family circle, and "Sensei and His Testament" features the eponymous character's explanation of how he came to live a life of solitude.Natsume Soseki (1867-1916), perhaps the greatest novelist of the Meiji period, remains one of Japan's most widely read authors. He wrote this novel in 1914, at the peak of his career, and it remains an excellent introduction to modern Japanese literature.Othello: Le More De Venise... (Folger Shakespeare Library)
Par William Shakespeare. 2015
In Othello, Shakespeare creates powerful drama from a marriage between the exotic Moor Othello and the Venetian lady Desdemona that…
begins with elopement and mutual devotion and ends with jealous rage and death. Shakespeare builds many differences into his hero and heroine, including race, age, and cultural background. Yet most readers and audiences believe the couple's strong love would overcome these differences were it not for Iago, who sets out to destroy Othello. Iago's false insinuations about Desdemona's infidelity draw Othello into his schemes, and Desdemona is subjected to Othello's horrifying verbal and physical assaults. The authoritative edition of Othello from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, is now available as an ebook. Features include: · The exact text of the printed book for easy cross-reference · Hundreds of hypertext links for instant navigation · Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play · Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play · Scene-by-scene plot summaries · A key to famous lines and phrases · An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language · Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books · An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the plaBeowulf: An Anglo-saxon Epic Poem (Enriched Classics)
Par Anonymous. 2005
The story of one man's triumph over a legendary monster, Beowulf marks the beginning of Anglo-Saxon literature as we know…
it today. This Enriched Classic includes: A concise introduction that gives readers important background information A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations Detailed explanatory notes Critical analysis and modern perspectives on the work Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential. Series edited by Cynthia Brantley JohnsonSir Gawain and the Green Knight
Par Jessie L. Weston. 2003
This prose rendering of a poem from the late fourteenth century (or earlier) recounts an adventure undertaken by King Arthur's…
famous nephew, Sir Gawain. Brave and chivalrous, faithful to his word and ever-mindful of his honor, as well as others', Gawain represents the model of knightly grace. When a gigantic stranger clad in green armor bursts in on the Round Table assembly to issue a challenge, the gallant Gawain volunteers to do battle for his king. This parable blends paganistic elements and Christian ethics to celebrate the virtue of forgiveness, and it is frequently assigned to classes in literature and history because of its short length and its excellent representation of chivalric tradition. Unabridged republication of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, originally published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1909.Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations In Two Acts And A Requiem (Penguin Plays)
Par Arthur Miller. 1949
The Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy of a salesman's deferred American dream Ever since it was first performed in 1949, Death of…
a Salesman has been recognized as a milestone of the American theater. In the person of Willy Loman, the aging, failing salesman who makes his living riding on a smile and a shoeshine, Arthur Miller redefined the tragic hero as a man whose dreams are at once insupportably vast and dangerously insubstantial. He has given us a figure whose name has become a symbol for a kind of majestic grandiosity--and a play that compresses epic extremes of humor and anguish, promise and loss, between the four walls of an American living room."By common consent, this is one of the finest dramas in the whole range of the American theater." --Brooks Atkinson, The New York Times"So simple, central, and terrible that the run of playwrights would neither care nor dare to attempt it." --TimeDeath of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem (Penguin Twentieth-century Classics Ser.)
Par Arthur Miller, Christopher W. Bigsby. 1949
The Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy of a salesman's deferred American dream Ever since it was first performed in 1949, Death of…
a Salesman has been recognized as a milestone of the American theater. In the person of Willy Loman, the aging, failing salesman who makes his living riding on a smile and a shoeshine, Arthur Miller redefined the tragic hero as a man whose dreams are at once insupportably vast and dangerously insubstantial. He has given us a figure whose name has become a symbol for a kind of majestic grandiosity--and a play that compresses epic extremes of humor and anguish, promise and loss, between the four walls of an American living room."By common consent, this is one of the finest dramas in the whole range of the American theater." --Brooks Atkinson, The New York Times"So simple, central, and terrible that the run of playwrights would neither care nor dare to attempt it." --Timeof the finest dramas in the whole range of the American theater." --Brooks Atkinson, The New York Times "So simple, central, and terrible that the run of playwrights would neither care nor dare to attempt it." --Time For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.The Crucible (Penguin Plays)
Par Arthur Miller. 1954
A haunting examination of groupthink and mass hysteria in a rural community The place is Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, an…
enclave of rigid piety huddled on the edge of a wilderness. Its inhabitants believe unquestioningly in their own sanctity. But in Arthur Miller's edgy masterpiece, that very belief will have poisonous consequences when a vengeful teenager accuses a rival of witchcraft--and then when those accusations multiply to consume the entire village. First produced in 1953, at a time when America was convulsed by a new epidemic of witch-hunting, The Crucible brilliantly explores the threshold between individual guilt and mass hysteria, personal spite and collective evil. It is a play that is not only relentlessly suspenseful and vastly moving but that compels readers to fathom their hearts and consciences in ways that only the greatest theater ever can.Al-Kady House "The Last God-Father
Par Riyad Al Kadi. 2018
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Riyad-Al-Kadi/e/B00J9J8HBW Great Book, to read it describes the world of the iraqi Mafia and the World of Weapon Trade. you…
will never be happy in this World full of betrayal and hatred even from the close beloved ones to you, you never be safe it decribes the changes happened upon the Iraqi Society after the Coup aganist the King,The Iliad: Edited With Apparatus Criticus, Prolegomena, Notes And Appendices: Vol I. , Books I-xii (Enriched Classics Ser. #171)
Par Homer, Bernard Knox, Robert Fagles. 1990
Dating to the ninth century BC, Homer's timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods…
wrestling with towering emotions and battling amidst devastation and destruction, as it moves inexorably to the wrenching, tragic conclusion of the Trojan War. Renowned classicist Bernard Knox observes in his superb Introduction that although the violence of the Iliad is grim and relentless, it coexists with both images of civilized life and a poignant yearning for peace. Combining the skills of a poet and scholar, Robert Fagles brings the energy of contemporary language to this enduring heroic epic. He maintains the drive and metric music of Homer's poetry, and evokes the impact and nuance of the Iliad's mesmerizing repeated phrases in what Peter Levi calls "an astonishing performance."The Canterbury Tales
Par Geoffrey Chaucer. 2019
While Geoffrey Chaucer composed several magnificent works of poetry, his reputation as “the father of English literature” rests mainly on…
The Canterbury Tales, a group of stories told by assorted pilgrims en route to the shrine of Thomas à Becket in Canterbury Cathedral. From the mirthful and bawdy to the profoundly moral, the tales, taken in their entirety, reflect not only the manners and mores of medieval England, but indeed, the full comic and tragic dimensions of the human condition. Considered the greatest collection of narrative poems in English literature, The Canterbury Tales was composed in the Middle English of Chaucer’s day, possibly to be read aloud at the court of Richard II. However, their grandeur, humor, and relevance are timeless, as readers of this authoritative edition will discover. Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.The Canterbury Tales
Par Geoffrey Chaucer. 2019
While Geoffrey Chaucer composed several magnificent works of poetry, his reputation as “the father of English literature” rests mainly on…
The Canterbury Tales, a group of stories told by assorted pilgrims en route to the shrine of Thomas à Becket in Canterbury Cathedral. From the mirthful and bawdy to the profoundly moral, the tales, taken in their entirety, reflect not only the manners and mores of medieval England, but indeed, the full comic and tragic dimensions of the human condition. Considered the greatest collection of narrative poems in English literature, The Canterbury Tales was composed in the Middle English of Chaucer’s day, possibly to be read aloud at the court of Richard II. However, their grandeur, humor, and relevance are timeless, as readers of this authoritative edition will discover.Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.The Inferno: A New Verse Translation (Forsyte chronicles)
Par Dante Alighieri. 2017
This enthralling new translation of Dante’s Inferno "immediately joins ranks with the very best” (Richard Lansing).One of the world’s transcendent…
literary masterpieces, the Inferno tells the timeless story of Dante’s journey through the nine circles of hell, guided by the poet Virgil, when in midlife he strays from his path in a dark wood. In this vivid verse translation into contemporary English, Peter Thornton makes the classic work fresh again for a new generation of readers. Recognizing that the Inferno was, for Dante and his peers, not simply an allegory but the most realistic work of fiction to date, he points out that hell was a lot like Italy of Dante's time. Thornton's translation captures the individuals represented, landscapes, and psychological immediacy of the dialogues as well as Dante's poetic effects.The product of decades of passionate dedication and research, his translation has been hailed by the leading Dante scholars on both sides of the Atlantic as exceptional in its accuracy, spontaneity, and vividness. Those qualities and its detailed notes explaining Dante's world and references make it both accessible for individual readers and perfect for class adoption.Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare for Children
Par Nesbit, Rackham. 2018
William Shakespeare is arguably the most pivotal and widely read figure in the history of English literature. This comprehensive collection…
highlights some of the bard’s best works, adapted to be more easily read and digestible for children. Featured within are some of the bard’s most famous and compelling works, including: The Comedy of ErrorsHamletMacbethThe Merchant of VeniceOthelloRomeo and JulietThe TempestAnd many more! Paired alongside gorgeous classic illustrations by notable Golden Age illustrator Arthur Rackham, Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare for Children makes a magnificent gift and great addition to any young reader’s budding library.