These were among the earliest versions of some of our most familiar fairy tales ("Cinderella," "Sleeping Beauty," "Little Red Riding Hood," "Puss in Boots," and "Tom Thumb") and are still among the few classic re-tellings of these perennial stories.In addition to the five well-known tales listed above, Perrault tells three others that are sure to delight any child or adult: "The Fairies," a short and very simple tale of two sisters, one sweet and one spiteful; "Ricky of the Tuft," a very unusual story of a brilliant but ugly prince and a beautiful but stupid princess; and "Blue Beard," a suspense story perhaps more famous as a classic thriller than as a fairy tale. The witty verse morals that Perrault included in the original edition (often omitted in later reprintings) are retained here in verse translations.This edition also includes 34 extraordinary full-page engravings by Gustave Doré that show clearly why this artist became the foremost illustrator of his time. These illustrations have long been considered the ideal accompaniment to Perrault's fairy tales. In many cases they created the pictorial image that we associate with the stories.Along with the collections of Andersen, Lang, and the Brothers Grimm, this volume is among the great books of European fairy tales. These stories have been enjoyed by generation after generation of children in many countries, and are here, with magnificent Doré illustrations, waiting to be enjoyed again.

    Critics have compared his work to such diverse artists as Kafka, Goya, Swift, Klee, and Beckett. Allen Ginsberg called Michaux “genius,” and Jorge Luis Borges wrote that Michaux’s work “is without equal in the literature of our time.” This anthology contains substantial selections from almost all of Michaux’s major works, most never before published in English, and allows readers to explore the haunting verbal and pictorial landscape of a twentieth-century visionary.

    This dazzling panorama of thought, language and form includes work by authors who are already well known to the English-speaking world (Bulgakov, Pasternak, Akhmatova, Mayakovsky), as well as others, whose work we have the pleasure of encountering here for the very first time in English. Edited by Boris Dralyuk, the acclaimed translator of Isaac Babel'sRed Cavalry(also published by Pushkin Press), 1917includes works by some of the best Russian writers - some already famous in the English-speaking world, some published here for the very first time. It is an anthology for everyone: those who are coming to Russian literature for the first time, those who are already experienced students of it, and those who simply want to know how it felt to live through this extreme period in history. POETRY: Marina Tsvetaeva, 'You stepped from a stately cathedral ', 'Night. - Northeaster. - Roar of soldiers. - Roar of waves.' Zinaida Gippius, 'Now', 'What have we done to it?', '14 December 1917' Osip Mandelstam, 'In public and behind closed doors' Osip Mandelstam, 'Let's praise, O brothers, liberty's dim light' Anna Akhmatova, 'When the nation, suicidal' Boris Pasternak, 'Spring Rain' Mikhail Kuzmin, 'Russian Revolution' Sergey Esenin, 'Wake me tomorrow at break of day' Mikhail Gerasimov, 'I forged my iron flowers' Vladimir Kirillov, 'We' Aleksey Kraysky, 'Decrees' Andrey Bely, 'Russia' Alexander Blok, 'The Twelve' Titsian Tabidze, 'Petersburg' Pavlo Tychyna, 'Golden Humming' Vladimir Mayakovsky, 'Revolution: A Poem-Chronicle', 'To Russia', 'Our March' PROSE Alexander Kuprin, 'Sashka and Yashka' Valentin Kataev, 'The Drum' Aleksandr Serafimovich, 'How He Died' Dovid Bergelson, 'Pictures of the Revolution' Teffi, 'A Few Words About Lenin', 'The Guillotine' Vasily Rozanov, from 'Apocalypse of Our Time' Aleksey Remizov, 'The Lay of the Ruin of Rus'' Yefim Zozulya, 'The Dictator: A Story of Ak and Humanity' Yevgeny Zamyatin, 'The Dragon' Aleksandr Grin, 'Uprising' Mikhail Prishvin, 'Blue Banner' Mikhail Zoshchenko, 'A Wonderful Audacity' Mikhail Bulgakov, 'Future Prospects'"

    Czerneda and other great names in the genre.Contents:The resonance of light / by Geoffrey Landis --Out of China / by Julie E. Czerneda --Site Fourteen / by Laura Anne Gilman --Silent Leonardo / by Kage Baker --A call from the wild / by Dorranna Durgin --Axial axioms / by James Alan Gardner --The terminal solution / by Robin Wayne Bailey --The Ashbazu effect / by John G. McDaid --A word for heathens / by Peter Watts --A ghost story / by Jihane Noskateb --The executioner's apprentice / by Kay Kenyon --Swimming upstream in the wells of the desert / by Mike Resnick and Susan R. Matthews --Unwirer / by Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross --When the morning stars sang together / by Isaac Szpindel --Herd mentality / by Jay Caselberg

    When first published, La Batarde earned Violette Leduc comparisons to Jean Genet for the frank depiction of her sexual escapades and immoral behavior. A confession that contains portraits of several famous French authors, this book is more than just a scintillating memoir. Like that of Henry Miller, Leduc's brilliant writing style and attention to language transform this autobiography into a work of art.Violette Leduc was born the illegitimate daughter of a servant girl and was encouraged to write by Maurice Sachs and Simone de Beauvoir. Her first novel, L'Asphyxie (In the Prison of Her Skin), was published by Camus for Gallimard and earned her praise from Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Cocteau, and Jean Genet. She went on to write eight more books, including Ravages, L'Affamee, and La Folie en tete (Mad in Pursuit), the second part of her literary autobiography.

    Bernstein, a noted interpreter and translator of French literature, has selected the most representative of their writings and presented them along with a biographical and critical introduction."Not to know these three poets," he points out, "is to deprive oneself of a pleasure as rare as it is indispensable to any real understanding of the aims and direction of modern literature.The volume includes Arthur Symons' unabridged translation of Flowers of Evil and the Prose Poems of Baudelaire; Louise Varese's translation of Rimbaud's A Season in Hell and Prose Poems from "Illuminations"; J. Norman Cameron's translation of the verse from the Illuminations; and a representative selection from Verlaine's verse translated by Gertrude Hall and Arthur Symons.

    What makes this work so important is that it returned the body to the forefront of philosophy for the first time since Plato.

    And images of a fantastic idyll complete with falling stars, the sound of the sea, and beautiful countryside. In the hands of Surrealists, though, love poetry also includes gravediggers and murderers, dice and garbage, snakeskin purses and "the drunken kisses of cyclones." Surrealism, the movement founded in the 1920s on the ashes of Dada's nihilism, embraced absurdity, contradiction, and, to a supreme extent, passion and desire. From André Breton's battle cry of "Mad Love" to the quiet lyricism of Robert Desnos, Surrealist writers and artists obsessively expressed the permutations of that fundamental human state, love, and they did so with the vocabulary of natural and unnatural worlds, the explicit language of sex, and a great deal of humor.Surrealist Love Poems brings together sixty poems by Surrealists who charged their work with all forms of eroticism. Expertly and energetically edited by Mary Ann Caws, this collection seeks to demonstrate the truth of Breton's words, that "the embrace of poetry like that of bodies / As long as it lasts / Shuts out all the woes of the world.""Erotic, impassioned and necrophilic, the sixty works gathered in Surrealist Love Poems celebrate the idea of obsessive and transformative love. 'I want to sleep with you side by side. . . . Stretched out on your shadow / Hammered by your tongue / To die in a rabbit's rotting teeth / Happy' writes Joyce Mansour. . . . Caws places poems by major surrealist writers like André Breton and Paul Eluard, along with the poetry of Picasso, Dalí, and Frida Kahlo, side by side with fourteen lushly printed and alluring black-and-white photos by the likes of Man Ray, Lee Miller, and Claude Cahun."—Publishers Weekly