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Reading Like a Writer

A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them

by Francine Prose ...

A distinguished novelist and critic inspires readers and writers with this inside look at how the professionals read—and writeLong before there were creative writing workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, says Francine Prose.As she takes us on a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters—Dostoyevsky, ... Read more

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A distinguished novelist and critic inspires readers and writers with this inside look at how the professionals read—and writeLong before there were creative writing workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, says Francine Prose.As she takes us on a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters—Dostoyevsky,
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The Odyssey

by Homer ...

Translated by Emily Wilson ...

Homer’s great epic of a hero’s journey home—inspiration for the major motion picture by Christopher Nolan—in a bold, contemporary, and refreshingly readable translation."Wilson’s language is fresh, unpretentious and lean. . . . It is rare to find a translation that is at once so effortlessly easy to read and so rigorously considered." —Madeline Miller, author of CirceComposed at the rosy-fingered ... Read more

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Homer’s great epic of a hero’s journey home—inspiration for the major motion picture by Christopher Nolan—in a bold, contemporary, and refreshingly readable translation."Wilson’s language is fresh, unpretentious and lean. . . . It is rare to find a translation that is at once so effortlessly easy to read and so rigorously considered." —Madeline Miller, author of CirceComposed at the rosy-fingered
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The Bell Jar

by Sylvia Plath ...

The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under—maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep ... Read more

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The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under—maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep
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Love is a Dog From Hell

by Charles Bukowski ...

A classic in the Bukowski poetry canon, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a raw, lyrical, exploration of the exigencies, heartbreaks, and limits of love.A book that captures the Dirty Old Man of American letters at his fiercest and most vulnerable, on a subject that hits home with all of us. Charles Bukowski was a man of intense emotions, someone an editor once called a “passionate madman.” Alternating ... Read more

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A classic in the Bukowski poetry canon, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a raw, lyrical, exploration of the exigencies, heartbreaks, and limits of love.A book that captures the Dirty Old Man of American letters at his fiercest and most vulnerable, on a subject that hits home with all of us. Charles Bukowski was a man of intense emotions, someone an editor once called a “passionate madman.” Alternating
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The Iliad & The Odyssey

by Homer ...

While Homer's existence as a historical person is still a topic of debate, the writings attributed to the name have made their mark not only on Greek history and literature, but upon western civilization itself. Homer's epic poems, The Iliad and The Odyssey, laid the foundation upon which Ancient Greece developed not only its culture, but its societal values, religious beliefs, and practice of ... Read more

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While Homer's existence as a historical person is still a topic of debate, the writings attributed to the name have made their mark not only on Greek history and literature, but upon western civilization itself. Homer's epic poems, The Iliad and The Odyssey, laid the foundation upon which Ancient Greece developed not only its culture, but its societal values, religious beliefs, and practice of
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The Last Night of the Earth Poems

by Charles Bukowski ...

In The Last Night of the Earth Poems, Charles Bukowski reckons with writing, death and immortality, literature, city life, illness, war, and the past.“The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author“He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriter The poems in the first three sections of this book were published in three volumes: It Catches My ... Read more

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In The Last Night of the Earth Poems, Charles Bukowski reckons with writing, death and immortality, literature, city life, illness, war, and the past.“The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author“He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriter The poems in the first three sections of this book were published in three volumes: It Catches My
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Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems

by Edgar Allan Poe ...

This book contains the complete Edgar Allan Poe’s tales and poems —over 135 works— in the chronological order of their original publication. Some of the most notable are: Tales: • "The Fall of the House of Usher" • "The Masque of the Red Death" • "The Pit and the Pendulum" • "The Premature Burial" • "The Purloined Letter" • "The Tell-Tale Heart" Poems: • "Annabel Lee" • "The Bells" • "The City in ... Read more

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This book contains the complete Edgar Allan Poe’s tales and poems —over 135 works— in the chronological order of their original publication. Some of the most notable are: Tales: • "The Fall of the House of Usher" • "The Masque of the Red Death" • "The Pit and the Pendulum" • "The Premature Burial" • "The Purloined Letter" • "The Tell-Tale Heart" Poems: • "Annabel Lee" • "The Bells" • "The City in
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The Odyssey

by Homer ...

Odysseus has been away from Ithaca, the Greek city-state under his rule, for ten years while fighting in the Trojan War. After the fall of Troy, Odysseus begins the long journey home to his wife and son; however, his journey is plagued by misfortune as the gods feud over his fate, leaving the Ithacans to believe that he has died. The Odyssey is attributed to the poet Homer and, after its companion ... Read more

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Odysseus has been away from Ithaca, the Greek city-state under his rule, for ten years while fighting in the Trojan War. After the fall of Troy, Odysseus begins the long journey home to his wife and son; however, his journey is plagued by misfortune as the gods feud over his fate, leaving the Ithacans to believe that he has died. The Odyssey is attributed to the poet Homer and, after its companion
... Read more
The Iliad

by Homer ...

Translated by Emily Wilson ...

**“Wilson’s Iliad is clear and brisk, its iambic pentameter a zone of enchantment.” —Ange Mlinko, London Review of BooksThe greatest literary landmark of antiquity masterfully rendered by the most celebrated translator of our time.**When Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017—revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was “fresh, unpretentious and lean” (Madeline ... Read more

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**“Wilson’s Iliad is clear and brisk, its iambic pentameter a zone of enchantment.” —Ange Mlinko, London Review of BooksThe greatest literary landmark of antiquity masterfully rendered by the most celebrated translator of our time.**When Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017—revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was “fresh, unpretentious and lean” (Madeline
... Read more
The Odyssey

The Fitzgerald Translation

by Homer ...

Translated by Robert Fitzgerald ...

Robert Fitzgerald's translation of Homer's Odyssey is the best and best-loved modern translation of the greatest of all epic poems.Since 1961, this Odyssey has sold more than two million copies, and it is the standard translation for three generations of students and poets. Farrar, Straus and Giroux is delighted to publish a new edition of this classic work. Fitzgerald's supple verse is ideally ... Read more

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Robert Fitzgerald's translation of Homer's Odyssey is the best and best-loved modern translation of the greatest of all epic poems.Since 1961, this Odyssey has sold more than two million copies, and it is the standard translation for three generations of students and poets. Farrar, Straus and Giroux is delighted to publish a new edition of this classic work. Fitzgerald's supple verse is ideally
... Read more
Complete Poems of Robert Frost

by Robert Frost ...

"Complete Poems of Robert Frost" gathers the timeless and evocative verses of one of America's most celebrated poets. Robert Frost, often hailed as the poet laureate of rural New England, captures the essence of the American landscape and the complexities of human experience through his masterful use of language and vivid imagery. This comprehensive collection includes Frost's best-known works, ... Read more

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"Complete Poems of Robert Frost" gathers the timeless and evocative verses of one of America's most celebrated poets. Robert Frost, often hailed as the poet laureate of rural New England, captures the essence of the American landscape and the complexities of human experience through his masterful use of language and vivid imagery. This comprehensive collection includes Frost's best-known works,
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The Seasons of the Soul

The Poetic Guidance and Spiritual Wisdom of Herman Hesse

by Hermann Hesse ...

Translated by LUDWIG MAX FISCHER, Ph.D ...

Vowing at an early age “to be a poet or nothing at all,” Hermann Hesse rebelled against formal education, focusing on a rigorous program of independent study that included literature, philosophy, art, and history. One result of these efforts was a series of novels that became counterculture bibles that remain widely influential today. Another was a body of evocative spiritual poetry. Published for ... Read more

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Vowing at an early age “to be a poet or nothing at all,” Hermann Hesse rebelled against formal education, focusing on a rigorous program of independent study that included literature, philosophy, art, and history. One result of these efforts was a series of novels that became counterculture bibles that remain widely influential today. Another was a body of evocative spiritual poetry. Published for
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Theogony and Works and Days

by Hesiod ...

Translated by the late M. L. West ...

Series series Oxford World's Classics
Hesiod, who lived in Boetia in the late eighth century BC, is one of the oldest known, and possibly the oldest of Greek poets. His Theogony contains a systematic genealogy of the gods from the beginning of the world and an account of the struggles of the Titans. In contrast, Works and Days is a compendium of moral and practical advice on husbandry, and throws unique and fascinating light on ... Read more

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Hesiod, who lived in Boetia in the late eighth century BC, is one of the oldest known, and possibly the oldest of Greek poets. His Theogony contains a systematic genealogy of the gods from the beginning of the world and an account of the struggles of the Titans. In contrast, Works and Days is a compendium of moral and practical advice on husbandry, and throws unique and fascinating light on
... Read more
God Makes the Rivers to Flow

An Anthology of the World's Sacred Poetry and Prose

by Eknath Easwaran, Eknath Easwaran ...

Series Book 4 - Essential Easwaran Library
Life-affirming and lyrical writings for inspiration and meditation, from saints and sages of the Christian, Hindu, Sufi, Jewish, Native American, Buddhist, and Taoist traditions.Eknath Easwaran taught meditation and spiritual living for nearly 40 years and drew deep, ongoing inspiration from the sacred literature of the world's traditions.Read these 149 passages for daily inspiration, for the ... Read more

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Life-affirming and lyrical writings for inspiration and meditation, from saints and sages of the Christian, Hindu, Sufi, Jewish, Native American, Buddhist, and Taoist traditions.Eknath Easwaran taught meditation and spiritual living for nearly 40 years and drew deep, ongoing inspiration from the sacred literature of the world's traditions.Read these 149 passages for daily inspiration, for the
... Read more
You Don’t Have to Go to Mars for Love

by Yona Harvey ...

The poems of award-winning poet Yona Harvey’s much anticipated You Don’t Have to Go to Mars for Love follow an unnamed protagonist on her multidimensional, Afro-futuristic journey. Her story stretches the boundaries normally constraining a black, female body like hers. Half-superhero, half-secret-identity, she encounters side-slipping, speculative realities testing her in poems that appear like ... Read more

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The poems of award-winning poet Yona Harvey’s much anticipated You Don’t Have to Go to Mars for Love follow an unnamed protagonist on her multidimensional, Afro-futuristic journey. Her story stretches the boundaries normally constraining a black, female body like hers. Half-superhero, half-secret-identity, she encounters side-slipping, speculative realities testing her in poems that appear like
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New American Best Friend

by Olivia Gatwood ...

2017 Goodreads Choice Awards - Best Poetry Book Runner-Up One of the most recognizable young poets in America, Olivia Gatwood dazzles with her tribute to contemporary American womanhood in her debut book, New American Best Friend. Gatwood's poems deftly deconstruct traditional stereotypes. The focus shifts from childhood to adulthood, gender to sexuality, violence to joy. And always and inexorably ... Read more

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2017 Goodreads Choice Awards - Best Poetry Book Runner-Up One of the most recognizable young poets in America, Olivia Gatwood dazzles with her tribute to contemporary American womanhood in her debut book, New American Best Friend. Gatwood's poems deftly deconstruct traditional stereotypes. The focus shifts from childhood to adulthood, gender to sexuality, violence to joy. And always and inexorably
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Night Picnic

Poems

by Charles Simic ...

The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet "illuminates the shadow side of life in poems as perfectly formed and directed as the beam of a flashlight" ( Booklist).The poems in Charles Simic's new collection evoke a variety of settings and images, from New York City to small New England towns; from crowds spilling onto the sidewalk on a hot summer night to an abandoned wooden church and a car graveyard ... Read more

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The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet "illuminates the shadow side of life in poems as perfectly formed and directed as the beam of a flashlight" ( Booklist).The poems in Charles Simic's new collection evoke a variety of settings and images, from New York City to small New England towns; from crowds spilling onto the sidewalk on a hot summer night to an abandoned wooden church and a car graveyard
... Read more
Electric Gurlesque

Edited by Arielle Greenberg, Becca Klaver ...

Gurlesque: a term that describes writers who perform femininity in their poems in a campy or overtly mocking manner, risking the grotesque to shake the foundations of acceptable female behavior and language. This new digital anthology features poems and essays exploring grrly, grotesque, burlesque poetics that pushes the aesthetic envelope through radical, femme, Third Wave strategies. Built from ... Read more

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Gurlesque: a term that describes writers who perform femininity in their poems in a campy or overtly mocking manner, risking the grotesque to shake the foundations of acceptable female behavior and language. This new digital anthology features poems and essays exploring grrly, grotesque, burlesque poetics that pushes the aesthetic envelope through radical, femme, Third Wave strategies. Built from
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自由的窄廊：國家與社會如何決定自由的命運【諾貝爾經濟學獎新修訂版】

The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty

by 戴倫．艾塞默魯, 詹姆斯．羅賓森 ...

Translated by 劉道捷 ...

Series series beyond
自由的關鍵，原來是制衡！《國家為什麼會失敗》後，最具啟發性的典範之作。★ 五位諾貝爾經濟學獎得主一致推薦．全球唯一中文版☆ 《金融時報》年度經濟學必讀書單第一名為什麼有些國家保障自由，有些國家卻宰割公民？還有些國家徒具形式，根本無法有效治理？自由，意謂不受他人力量宰制，無須時時生活在恐懼之中。可是，綜觀人類歷史數千年，自由十分罕見。多數時候，強者為所欲為，弱者任憑宰割。理當維持秩序的國家機器若非不存在，就是淪為壓迫的幫兇。為什麼會這樣？艾塞默魯與羅賓森教授回顧古今中外，引領讀者走訪一個又一個文明故事。從雅典城邦、阿拉伯與中東、非洲、夏威夷與大洋洲、前蘇聯、歐洲、中國與美國。兩位作者主張：國家機器強，社會更要強，互相制衡，踏入「窄廊」，自由才有保障。本書結合兩位最優秀的政治與經濟學家，奠基於多年原創研究，建構一套清晰、具體的政治經濟學模型。非常適合回應當前全球關心的重大課題：◆ ... Read more

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自由的關鍵，原來是制衡！《國家為什麼會失敗》後，最具啟發性的典範之作。★ 五位諾貝爾經濟學獎得主一致推薦．全球唯一中文版☆ 《金融時報》年度經濟學必讀書單第一名為什麼有些國家保障自由，有些國家卻宰割公民？還有些國家徒具形式，根本無法有效治理？自由，意謂不受他人力量宰制，無須時時生活在恐懼之中。可是，綜觀人類歷史數千年，自由十分罕見。多數時候，強者為所欲為，弱者任憑宰割。理當維持秩序的國家機器若非不存在，就是淪為壓迫的幫兇。為什麼會這樣？艾塞默魯與羅賓森教授回顧古今中外，引領讀者走訪一個又一個文明故事。從雅典城邦、阿拉伯與中東、非洲、夏威夷與大洋洲、前蘇聯、歐洲、中國與美國。兩位作者主張：國家機器強，社會更要強，互相制衡，踏入「窄廊」，自由才有保障。本書結合兩位最優秀的政治與經濟學家，奠基於多年原創研究，建構一套清晰、具體的政治經濟學模型。非常適合回應當前全球關心的重大課題：◆
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Hello Lovely!

Inspirational Quotes & Poems on Life, Love & Empowerment

by Lang Leav ...

Series series Lang Leav
Explore and discover a life-changing collection of beautiful quotes by one of the most quoted writers in modern history, Lang Leav.Inspired by years of requests to use her work in everything from wedding vows to art pieces, academic papers, and graduation speeches, Lang Leav thought it best to finally put her most sought-after words together into one place.Hello Lovely!: Inspirational Quotes & ... Read more

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Explore and discover a life-changing collection of beautiful quotes by one of the most quoted writers in modern history, Lang Leav.Inspired by years of requests to use her work in everything from wedding vows to art pieces, academic papers, and graduation speeches, Lang Leav thought it best to finally put her most sought-after words together into one place.Hello Lovely!: Inspirational Quotes &
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William Shakespeare: The Complete Works (Illustrated)

by William Shakespeare ...

This collection gathers together the works by William Shakespeare in a single, convenient, high quality, and extremely low priced Kindle volume! The Comedies A Midsummer Night's Dream All's Well That Ends Well As You Like It Love’s Labour ’s Lost Measure for Measure Much Ado About Nothing The Comedy of Errors The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor The Taming of the Shrew The Two ... Read more

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This collection gathers together the works by William Shakespeare in a single, convenient, high quality, and extremely low priced Kindle volume! The Comedies A Midsummer Night's Dream All's Well That Ends Well As You Like It Love’s Labour ’s Lost Measure for Measure Much Ado About Nothing The Comedy of Errors The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor The Taming of the Shrew The Two
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Divina comedia

Edición de Ángel Chiclana

by Dante Alighieri ...

Series series Poesía
Dante Alighieri quiso decir lo que nunca ha sido dicho de mujer alguna: la expresión de un amor que transciende las dimensiones físicas de este mundo y se convierte en pura espiritualidadDante Alighieri (1265-1321), padre de la lengua italiana, invirtió doce años de su vida en escribir la Divina Comedia. Dos hechos biográficos -la muerte de su amada Beatriz y el exilio de su ciudad, Florencia- le ... Read more

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Dante Alighieri quiso decir lo que nunca ha sido dicho de mujer alguna: la expresión de un amor que transciende las dimensiones físicas de este mundo y se convierte en pura espiritualidadDante Alighieri (1265-1321), padre de la lengua italiana, invirtió doce años de su vida en escribir la Divina Comedia. Dos hechos biográficos -la muerte de su amada Beatriz y el exilio de su ciudad, Florencia- le
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The Iliad of Homer

by Homer, Richard Martin ...

Translated by Richmond Lattimore ...

"Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus’ son Achilleus / and its devastation." For sixty years, that's how Homer has begun the Iliad in English, in Richmond Lattimore's faithful translation—the gold standard for generations of students and general readers.This long-awaited new edition of Lattimore's Iliad is designed to bring the book into the twenty-first century—while leaving the poem as firmly ... Read more

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"Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus’ son Achilleus / and its devastation." For sixty years, that's how Homer has begun the Iliad in English, in Richmond Lattimore's faithful translation—the gold standard for generations of students and general readers.This long-awaited new edition of Lattimore's Iliad is designed to bring the book into the twenty-first century—while leaving the poem as firmly
... Read more
The Metamorphoses Of Ovid

Translated by Allen Mandelbaum ...

by Ovid ...

**Through National Book Award-winning translator Allen Mandelbaum's poetic artistry, this gloriously entertaining achievement of literature — classical myths filtered through the worldly and far from reverent sensibility of the Roman poet Ovid — is revealed anew.**Savage and sophisticated, mischievious and majestic, witty and wicked, The Metamorphoses weaves together every major mythological story ... Read more

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**Through National Book Award-winning translator Allen Mandelbaum's poetic artistry, this gloriously entertaining achievement of literature — classical myths filtered through the worldly and far from reverent sensibility of the Roman poet Ovid — is revealed anew.**Savage and sophisticated, mischievious and majestic, witty and wicked, The Metamorphoses weaves together every major mythological story
... Read more

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