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  • Audiobook

    Poems

    Unabridged

    1 hour 5 min

    This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Rainer Maria Rilke is perhaps the most import German poet. His powerful and lyrical poetry has captured generations of readers. Both mystical and compelling his influence cannot be overstated. Collected here are more than 40 poems, full of beauty and mastery of language. It’s not hard to see why Rilke remains one of the most popular and best selling ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Change Your Life

    Translated by Martyn Crucefix ...
    Series series Pushkin Press Classics
    **“Crucefix’s translation will have, and keep, a place on my shelves where all the poetry lives.” – Philip PullmanA new selection and translation, by an acclaimed poet, of Rilke’s most essential work – the perfect gift for the poetry lover in your life**In dazzling new translations of 142 poems by the acclaimed Martyn Crucefix, Rilke beguiles with fresh insight and mystery.Rainer Maria Rilke ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Letters to a Young Poet

    Translated by Charlie Louth ...
    Series series Penguin Little Black Classics
    'What matters is to live everything. Live the questions for now.'A hugely influential collection for writers and artists of all kinds, Rilke's profound and lyrical letters to a young friend advise on writing, love, sex, suffering and the nature of advice itself.One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives ... Read more

    $1.33 USD

  • Audiobook

    Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, The

    Collection from the hugely celebrated Austrian poet

    Unabridged

    58 min

    René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke was born into a troubled marriage on the 4th December 1875 in Prague, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His mother, having previously lost a baby girl, would dress the young boy up in girl’s clothing.Later his father dispatched him to a military academy at age 10 but after a miserable 5 years the young Rilke left due to illness and instead entered ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Book of Hours

    Translated by Edward Snow ...
    **“The most trustworthy and exhilarating of Rilke’s contemporary translators.” —Michael Dirda, Washington PostA gorgeous new translation of one of the strongest inaugural works in twentieth century poetry.**Long hailed as a masterwork of modern German literature, The Book of Hours (1905) marks the origin of Rainer Maria Rilke’s distinctive voice and vision—where clarity of diction meets unexpected ... Read more

    Was $23.99 USD Now $12.99 USD

  • Stories of God

    Translated by M. D. Herter Norton ...
    Rilke's haunting images focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety.Rainer Maria Rilke felt that the world and all its joys most truly belonged to the young, and in Stories of God he captured for them the magic, charm and wisdom of fairy and folk tales. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Rilke

    Selected Poems

    Narrated by Stephen Mitchell ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 55 min

    Rainer Maria Rilke has been called the most significant and compelling poet of spiritual experience of the 20th century. His exploration of the struggle between life and art and the supremacy of divine love over personal love has touched the hearts of men and women everywhere. The poems in this reading are from the selected poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, edited and translated by Stephen Mitchell. ... Read more

    $22.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Letters to a Young Poet

    Letters to a Young Poet is a collection of ten letters written by the Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke to Franz Xaver Kappus, a young military cadet and aspiring writer. In response to Kappus's requests for literary advice, Rilke offers profound reflections on creativity, personal growth, and the purpose of art. Rather than providing technical guidance on writing, Rilke encourages the young poet ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

    Translated by Stephen Mitchell ...
    "This miracle of a book, perhaps the most beautiful group of poetic translations this century has ever produced," (Chicago Tribune) should stand as the definitive English language version. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Fifty Poems

    Translated by Geoffrey Lehmann ...
    Fresh, beautiful new translations of one of the most important poets of all time, publishing in celebration of the 150th anniversary of Rainer Maria Rilke's birth.Rilke is one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, revered throughout the world. Geoffrey Lehmann has selected fifty of Rilke’s finest poems from the two volumes of New Poems, considered the center of gravity of Rilke’s ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Poems to Night

    Narrated by Geraint Rhys ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 20 min

    In 1916, Rainer Maria Rilke presented his friend Rudolf Kassner with a notebook, containing twenty-two poems meticulously inscribed in his own hand and bearing the title Poems to Night. This evocative sequence of poems, which echoes some of the great themes of German romanticism, is now thought to represent one of the key stages in the creative breakthrough and spiritual evolution of the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

    While his old furniture rots in storage, Malte Laurids Brigge lives in a cheap room in Paris, with little but a library reader's card to distinguish him from the city's untouchables. Every person he sees seems to carry their death with them, and he thinks of the deaths, and ghosts, of his aristocratic family, of which only he remains. The only novel by one of the greatest writers of poetry in ... Read more

    $14.29 USD