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  • The Eighth Day: Selected Writings of Christian Bobin

    by Christian Bobin ...
    Christian Bobin is one of the most prolific and best-selling inspirational writers in France. His ‘lyric essays’, neither prose nor poetry, utilise a limited vocabulary manipulated with the precision of a watchmaker. Bobin often obtains his effects through startling juxtapositions of the ordinary, aimed straight at the heart and not without the intention of drawing blood. Prevalent themes in his ... Read more

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  • The Lady in White

    by Christian Bobin ...
    Translated by Alison Anderson ...
    To this day, Emily Dickinson remains a beloved and enigmatic figure in American poetry. This “lady in white,” who shut herself away from the world and found solace alone with her words, has since her death been viewed primarily through the lens of her poetry, which afforded her beauty and hope amid the agony and loneliness of her life.As a reclusive writer himself, contemporary French author ... Read more

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    Thirst, a collection of forty-three new poems from Pulitzer Prize-winner Mary Oliver, introduces two new directions in the poet's work. Grappling with grief at the death of her beloved partner of over forty years, she strives to experience sorrow as a path to spiritual progress, grief as part of loving and not its end. And within these pages she chronicles for the frst time her discovery of faith, ... Read more

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  • The Black Book

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    by Lawrence Durrell, Henry Miller ...
    From the New York Times –bestselling author, "the first piece of work by a new English writer to give me any hope for the future of prose fiction" (T. S. Eliot).As over-the-top as it is inventive, Durrell's breakthrough novel is a series of sordid vignettes drawn from the lives of decadent artists, doomed bohemians, and continental rascals inhabiting a shabby London hotel, narrated in turns by ... Read more

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  • The Complete Short Prose of Samuel Beckett, 1929-1989

    by Samuel Beckett ...
    Series series Beckett, Samuel
    Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett was one of the most profoundly original writers of the 20th century. He gave expression to the anguish and isolation of the individual consciousness with a purity and minimalism that have altered the shape of world literature. A tremendously influential poet and dramatist, Beckett spoke of his prose fiction as the "important writing," the medium in which he ... Read more

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  • The Avignon Quintet

    Monsieur, Livia, Constance, Sebastian, and Quinx

    by Lawrence Durrell ...
    Series series The Avignon Quintet
    From the New York Times –bestselling author of the Alexandria Quartet comes a landmark five-part series hailed as "one of the great novels of our time" ( Sunday Times ).One of the most celebrated English writers ever, Lawrence Durrell was a bestselling author whose vivid metafictions pushed the boundaries of modern literature. The cosmopolitan provocateur transcended borders, ide... ... Read more

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  • The Book of Disquiet

    The Complete Edition

    by Fernando Pessoa ...
    Translated by Margaret Jull Costa ...
    For the first time—and in the best translation ever—the complete Book of Disquiet, a masterpiece beyond comparisonThe Book of Disquiet is the Portuguese modernist master Fernando Pessoa’s greatest literary achievement. An “autobiography” or “diary” containing exquisite melancholy observations, aphorisms, and ruminations, this classic work grapples with all the eternal questions. Now, for the first ... Read more

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  • The Songs Of Maldoror

    by Le Comte de Lautreamont ...
    A new translation finally appears of one of the seminal books in the history of literature. Adored by the Surrealists, Les Chants de Maldoror was hailed by them as a dark progenitor of their movement, and its author, Le Comte de Lautréamont (Isidore Ducasse) elevated to the status of literary idol. It was in these pages that André Breton discovered the phrase which would come to represent the ... Read more

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  • Henry Miller on Writing

    by Henry Miller ...
    “A brilliant selection . . . it is in short a voyage of discovery, an adventure and this the log of that voyage in the life of a probing and powerful writer.” —Robert R. Kirsch, Los Angeles TimesSome of the most rewarding pages in Henry Miller's books concern his self-education as a writer. He tells, as few great writers ever have, how he set his goals, how he discovered the excitement of using ... Read more

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  • Collected Love Poems

    by Brian Patten ...
    Brian Patten is renowned as an accessible and popular poet. Now his love poems, old and new, are collected together in his single volume.Widely acknowledged as one of Europe’s foremost writers, Brian Patten’s love poems earned him recognition far and wide. Truthful and tender, profoundly aware of the possibility of magic and the miraculous, these poems are beautiful, informed and, even at their ... Read more

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  • Posthumous Papers of a Living Author

    by Robert Musil ...
    Translated by Peter Wortsman ...
    This collection of exploratory pieces, short stories, and reflections was originally published in Zurich in 1936. It was the last volume Robert Musil published before his sudden death in 1942. Musil had begun to fathom the impossibility of com- pleting his monumental masterpiece The Man Without Qualities and this volume reveals a radically different aspect of his work. Musil observes a fly’s ... Read more

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  • Selected Poems of Lawrence Durrell

    by Lawrence Durrell ...
    In this new selection from the poetry of Lawrence Durrell (the first for thirty years), Peter Porter has drawn on the full range of the published work, from A Private Country (1943) to Vega (1973), and has provided a long overdue revaluation of Durrell's poetic career. In his detailed and generous introduction, Porter makes the case for A Private Country as one of the most accomplished debut ... Read more

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