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The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader
$26.00 Add to cartClarence Brown’s marvelous collection introduces readers to the most resonant voices of twentieth-century Russia. It includes stories by Chekhov, Gorky, Bunin, Zamyatin, Babel, Nabokov, Solzhenitsyn, … [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Various
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: July 29 2003
- ISBN10: 0142437573
- Language: English
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The Essential Classics: An Anthology of Greco-Roman Literature
$89.00 Add to cartAn expansive and complete anthology of ancient literature is at your fingertips. Spanning one thousand years of literature and history, The Essential Classics is your portal into the days of antiquity
- Author: Lecomte Lapp, Claire
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: December 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0986108472
- Language: English
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The Life of Charlemagne: Vita Karoli Magni
$11.94 Add to cartThe Life of Charlemagne: Vita Karoli Magni by Einhard (Bauer World Press)
The Vita Karoli Magni, or The Life of Charlemagne, is an esteemed historical text composed by Einhard, a learned contemporary a
- Author: Einhard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: August 19 2024
- ISBN10: 9798990180284
- Language: English
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Letters to a Young Poet
$6.95 Read moreIn 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, requesting an assessment of their value. The older artist, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), replied to th… [more below]
- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: May 08 2002
- ISBN10: 0486422453
- Language: English
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Letters to a Young Poet
$22.00 Add to cartRilke’s Letters to a Young Poet are arguably the most famous and beloved letters of the twentieth century. Written when the poet was himself still a young man, with most of his greatest work before hi… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 04 2001
- ISBN10: 0679642323
- Language: English
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Letters to a Young Poet
$6.95 Add to cartIn 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, requesting an assessment of their value. The older artist, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), replied to th… [more below]
- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: May 08 2002
- ISBN10: 0486422453
- Language: English
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Anima: A Wild Pastoral
$20.00 Read moreIn Anima, Kapka Kassabova introduces us to the “pastiri” people–the shepherds struggling to hold on to an ancient way of life in which humans and animals exist in profound interdependence. Following
- Author: Kassabova, Kapka
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1644453002
- Language: English
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The Book of the City of Ladies
$39.00 Add to cartIn dialogues with three celestial ladies, Reason, Rectitude, and Justice, Christine de Pizan (1365-ca. 1429) builds an allegorical fortified city for women using examples of the important contribution… [more below]
- Author: de Pizan, Christine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: June 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0892553731
- Language: English
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Road-Side Dog
$18.00 Add to cartI went on a journey in order to acquaint myself with my province, in a two-horse wagon with a lot of fodder and a tin bucket rattling in the back. The bucket was required for the horses to drink from.
- Author: Milosz, Czeslaw
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 29 1999
- ISBN10: 0374526230
- Language: English
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Nonrequired Reading: Prose Pieces
$30.00 Add to cart“Unquestionably one of the great living European poets. She’s accessible and deeply human and a joy–though it is a dark kind of joy–to read. . . . She is a poet to live with.” —Robert Hass, The Was
- Author: Szymborska, Wislawa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 28 2002
- ISBN10: 0151006601
- Language: English
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The Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne: Introduction by Stuart Hampshire
$42.00 Read moreA stunning collector’s hardcover edition of Michel de Montaigne, the father of the essay. Translated by Donald M. Frame with an Introduction by Stuart Hampshire.
Humanist, skeptic, acute observer of h- Series: Everyman’s Library Classics
- Author: de Montaigne, Michel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1392
- Publish Date: April 29 2003
- ISBN10: 1400040213
- Language: English
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Chekhov’s Doctors: A Collection of Chekhov’s Medical Tales
$22.95 Add to cartIn his brief but distinguished life, Anton Chekhov was a doctor, a documentary essayist, an admired dramatist, and a humanitarian. He remains a nineteenth-century Russian literary giant whose prose co
- Series: Literature & Medicine
- Author: Coulehan, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 12 2003
- ISBN10: 0873387805
- Language: English
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Letters to a Young Poet
$12.00 Add to cartThe ten letters collected here are arguably the most famous and beloved letters of our century. Written when Rainer Maria Rilke was himself still a young man with most of his greatest work before him,… [more below]
- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 12 1986
- ISBN10: 0394741048
- Language: English
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I Want to Keep Smashing Myself Until I Am Whole: An Elias Canetti Reader
$20.00 Add to cart“A brilliant selection . . . Canetti’s range astonishes.” –Claire Messud, Harper’s
A career-spanning collection of writings by the Nobel laureate Elias Canetti, edited and introduced by Pulitzer Prize- Author: Canetti, Elias
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0374298424
- Language: English
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Anne Frank’s Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings, Revised Edition
$7.99 Add to cartThe candid, poignant, unforgettable writing of the young girl whose own life story has become an everlasting source of courage and inspiration.
Hiding from the Nazis in the “Secret Annex” of an old of- Author: Frank, Anne
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 4, 2003
- ISBN10: 0553586386
- Language: English
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Elixir: In the Valley at the End of Time
$18.00 Read moreA search for a cure to what ails us in the Anthropocene by the award-winning author of Border
In Elixir, in a wild river valley and amid the three mountains that define it, Kapka Kassabova seeks out t- Author: Kassabova, Kapka
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1644452332
- Language: English
