Auric - American 1

Best known as the author of Moby-Dick (1851), Herman Melville is one of America's greatest writers. His achievements range from popular novels and experimental fiction to powerful poetry. His works ……続きを見る

Best known as the leader of the Harlem Renaissance, the celebrated poet and writer Langston Hughes believed in the power of art as resistance. What can we learn from his works today? Randal M. Jelks……続きを見る

Entdecken Sie die geheimnisvolle Welt der Poesie von Maurice Maeterlinck! In "Gedichte" entführt der Nobelpreisträger Maurice Maeterlinck seine Leser in eine Welt voller Mystik und Symbolik, die die……続きを見る

The central plot revolves around a woman named Niobe, who finds herself at the center of a series of romantic entanglements and misunderstandings. Throughout the play, Niobe's interactions with vari……続きを見る

The central theme of Joyzelle is the conflict between individual desire and societal expectations, as well as the tension between the ideal and the real. Joyzelle’s longing for a pure and unattainab……続きを見る

Alladine and Palomides (1891) is a one-act play that delves into the complexities of unrequited love and emotional isolation. Alladine, a young woman living in seclusion, is pursued by Palomides, a ……続きを見る

The play is imbued with rich symbolism, with the Blue Bird itself representing an unattainable ideal of happiness, while the journey symbolizes the quest for meaning and self-discovery. Tyltyl and M……続きを見る

Throughout the play, the dialogue is sparse, and much of the action occurs in the characters' minds, emphasizing the symbolic and psychological elements of the story. The betrothal is not just a mar……続きを見る

The play's structure is symbolic, rather than conventional, and it moves away from historical or religious accuracy, focusing instead on the psychological state of Mary Magdalene. The action revolve……続きを見る

Edgar Allan Poe (1809--1849) has long occupied the position of literary outsider. Dismissed as unrepresentative of the main currents of antebellum culture, Poe commented incisively -- in fiction and……続きを見る

Maurice Tyree went to prison thinking that life was disposable. He came out knowing that he had a story to tell. This is his story, told through letters and poems written during and since his time i……続きを見る

Si sueñas algo, planéalo. Si lo planeas, hazlo. Susurros en atardeceres de lluvia es un libro de poesía y experiencias escrito por Mauricio Soler. 続きを見る

We all have seasons along life's journey when we hit speed bumps; we put on a brave face and forge on. There are seasons when bravery needs time to grow, sometimes it isn't enough for the battle at ……続きを見る

The Common Man, Maurice Manning's fourth collection, is a series of ballad-like narratives, set down in loose, unrhymed iambic tetrameter, that honors the strange beauty of the Kentucky mountain cou……続きを見る

Well-known Kentucky writer comparable to poets like Wendell Berry, Silas House, James Still, Robert Penn Warren, and Bobbie Ann Mason W.S. Merwin selected him for the Yale Younger Poets Award for h……続きを見る

Premio Alejo Carpentier, ensayo 2020, Durante décadas la crítica ha tendido a relegar la novela Lucía Jerez (o Amistad funesta), de José Martí, a un lugar periférico en la producción literaria de su……続きを見る

"Maurice Manning displays not just terrific cunning but terrific aim." -New York Times Book Review "Manning's genius-his truly staggering genius-is in his ability to put this ancient question into a……続きを見る

A comprehensive and thematic exploration of representations of madness in postwar British and American Fiction, this book is relevant to those with interests in literary studies and is a vital read ……続きを見る

Huracanes II, si bien es una obra en sí misma y no es necesaria la lectura de Huracanes para comprenderla, comparte unidad temática con esta, así como también el mismo objeto lírico del que nace la ……続きを見る

Railsplitter, the seventh collection from Pulitzer Prize Finalist and Guggenheim Fellow Maurice Manning, envisions the role of poetry in the life of Abraham Lincoln. Manning, who writes each piece i……続きを見る

Las emociones humanas son particularmente intensas cuando las desata el amor; el alma cae presa de una alegría desbordante, incluso el éxtasis, como abrazadas por el fuego. Pero también se intensifi……続きを見る

An engaging look at how debates over the fate of literature in our digital age are powerfully conditioned by the nineteenth century's information revolution What happens to literature during an info……続きを見る

Maurice Gandy creates a looping, feverish narrative in this collection of riveting rhyme about sun, sand, and the search for the perfect wave. The Calpocalypse describes the wanderings of a group of……続きを見る

Esta é, surpreendentemente, a primeira obra teórica sobre o escritor norte-americano Ralph Ellison, morto em 1994, publicada no Brasil.A toupeira invisível realiza uma investigação rigorosa sobre o ……続きを見る

In a city that's known to be just as cold as it's climate, Kevin Smith is put to the ultimate test. Living in an environment where he sticks out like a sore thumb, makes him an easy target for the n……続きを見る

The Confessions of Arsène Lupin Maurice Leblanc - This early work by Maurice Leblanc was originally published in 1913 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. "The Con……続きを見る

Untitled and unpunctuated, the seventy poems in this acclaimed collection seem to cascade from one page to another. Maurice Manning extolls the virtues of nature and its many gifts, and finds deep g……続きを見る

Welcome to “Fog Town Holler,” Pulitzer Prize finalist Maurice Manning’s glorious rendering of a landscape not unlike his native Kentucky. Conjuring this mythical place from his own roots and memorie……続きを見る

IMAGINE LIVING ON ANOTHER WORLD IN UTOPIA. After being rescued from execution on Earth, General Tom Evens is invited to live on the Pleiadian home world of Erra. The Pleiadian people are highly evol……続きを見る

The role of chance changed in the nineteenth century, and American literature changed with it. Long dismissed as a nominal concept, chance was increasingly treated as a natural force to be managed b……続きを見る