18 books like Diana
Durchs wilde Kurdistan
Bei den "Teufelsanbetern" unterstützt Kara Ben Nemsi mit seinen Begleitern die Dschesidi bei der Verteidigung gegen einen Angriff des Paschas von Mossul. Auf ihrer Weiterreise zur Festung Amadijah treffen wieder auf Sir David Lindsay, der sich ihnen anschließt. Mit Hilfe einer List gelingt es den Freunden Amad es Ghandur zu befreien und sich auf die Heimreise zu begeben. Bei Kämpfen zwischen den…
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Poems
The work of Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain's greatest modern poet, has long been admired for its emotional intensity and metaphorical brilliance. Few poets take us more directly and memorably to what Lorca described as "the dark root of the scream," the terrain of the duende, where inspiration delivers a new poetic reality and "intelligence" discovers its limitations.
For many years, until the…
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Colección de las obras sueltas, assi en prosa, como en verso
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Libro de buen amor
275 p. ; 16 cm
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Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada
Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada es una de las obras más célebres del poeta chileno Pablo Neruda. Publicado en junio de 1924, el poemario lanzó a su autor a la fama con apenas 19 años de edad, y es una de las obras literarias de mayor renombre del siglo XX en el idioma español. Audazmente metafórica y sensual, esta colección yuxtapone la pasión juvenil con la desolación del dolor.…
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Inferno
Dante, after becoming lost on the path of life, is led by Virgil into Hell to begin his journey back to the light of God.
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Ariel
"A restored edition of Sylvia Plath's collection of poems that were published after her death that restores the selection and arrangement of the poems as Plath left them at the point of her death."
Upon the publication of her posthumous volume of poetry, Ariel, in the mid-1960s, Sylvia Plath became a household name. Readers may be surprised to learn that the draft of Ariel left behind by Sylvia…
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Practical criticism
Practical Criticism, as conceived by Richards, pays attention to very small units of language in short lyric poems in a way that leads directly to the New Critics' emphasis on 'the poem in itself', and their associated rejection of the analysis of any kind of historical or political context.
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Psychology
While this volume is written as a series of lectures and in a somewhat free and easy style, every effort has been made to present facts in unmutilated form and to state theoretical positions with accuracy. In approaching subjective psychology for the first time, the reader meets with one great difficulty. He comes in from the world of things-a world which he can manipulate, hold up, examine and…
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Dunciad
Griffith 552;Head- and tail-pieces; initials; Anonymous. By Alexander Pope; M.E. Barry Rare Book Collection. Special Collections, Alumnae Library, Elms College; Description based on print version record.
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Marmion
It is a poetry book. Sir Walter Scott’s love of the country induced him, after his marriage in 1797, to settle in a cottage at the pretty village of Lasswade, near Edinburgh. Four years after leaving this district he took Mr. Morritt of Rokeby to see the little dwelling, telling him that, though not worth looking at, ‘it was our first house when newly married, and many a contrivance it had to…
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Meditaciones del Quijote
247 pages ; 18 cm
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Os Lusíadas
Os Lusíadas, usually translated as The Lusiads, is a Portuguese epic poem written by Luís de Camões and first published in 1572. It is widely regarded as the most important work of Portuguese-language literature and is frequently compared to Virgil's Aeneid. The work celebrates the discovery of a sea route to India by the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama (1469–1524). The ten cantos of the poem…
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Critique of psychoanalysis
Extracted from Volumes 1, 8, and 18. Includes Jung's Foreword to Phenomènes Occultes (1939), "On the Psychology and Pathology of So-called Occult Phenomena," "The Psychological Foundations of Belief in Spirits," "The Soul and Death," "Psychology and Spiritualism," "On Spooks: Heresy or Truth?" and Foreword to Jaffé: Apparitions and Precognition.
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Poet in New York
Bilingual edition presenting Lorca's reaction to the American metropolis.
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The analysis of mind
The book is mind blowing. It gives you insight of how mind works. You will know the more about how we understand, remember, dream, recollect and worry. You can't read fast as it is a mind stretching subject !!!.
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The Canterbury Tales
A collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century. The tales (mostly in verse, although some are in prose) are told as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. In a long list of works, including Troilus and Criseyde,…
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Poema de mio Cid
El Poema de mio Cid, o Cantar de mio Cid, es un cantar de gesta anónimo que relata hazañas heroicas inspiradas libremente en los últimos años de la vida del caballero castellano Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar el Campeador. La versión conservada fue compuesta, según la mayoría de la crítica actual, alrededor del año 1200.
Se trata de la primera obra poética extensa de la literatura española y el único…
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