Sofia is a Soviet Everywoman, a doctor's widow who works as a typist in a Leningrad publishing house. When her beloved son is caught up in the maelstrom of the purge, she joins the long lines of women outside the prosecutor's office, hoping against hope for any good news. Confronted with a world that makes no moral sense, Sofia goes mad, a madness which manifests itself in delusions little different from the lies those around her tell every day to protect themselves. Sofia Petrovna offers a rare and vital record of Stalin's Great Purges.

    A dam will be completed in the fall, destroying the village. Although their departure is inevitable, the characters over when, and even whether, they should leave. A haunting story with a heartfelt theme, Farewell to Matyora is a passionate plea for humanity and an eloquent cry for a return to an organic life.

    He one day encounters Sherbakov, a wealthy man whom he had briefly met two years earlier, when Sherbakov was a homeless destitute. In the intervening years, through a twist of fate, Sherbakov has become a wealthy man, and the two soon become friends. However, one day the student is arrested, and charged with his friend's vicious murder and the theft of a precious golden Buddha...By turns Kafkaesque, lyrical, metaphysical, and poignant, The Return of the Buddha marks the maturation of Gazdanov's philosophical investigation into the possibility of life lived freely and is every bit as thrilling and hypnotic as Gazdanov's famous earlier novel, The Spectre of Alexander Wolf.

    . . nobody knows quite what, but the rumors are flying. Leather or suede? Jackets, jeans? Turkish, Swedish, maybe even American? It doesn't matter - if anything is on sale, you better line up to buy it. Sorokin's tour de force of ventriloquism and formal daring tells the whole story in snatches of unattributed dialogue, adding up to nothing less than the real voice of the people, overheard on the street as they joke and curse, fall in and out of love, slurp down ice cream or vodka, fill out crossword puzzles, and even go to sleep and line up again in the morning as the queue drags on.

    It is indexed alphabetically, chronologically and by category, making it easier to access individual books, stories and poems. This collection offers lower price, the convenience of a one-time download, and it reduces the clutter in your digital library. All books included in this collection feature a hyperlinked table of contents and footnotes. The collection is complimented by an author biography. Table of Contents: Fiction :: Non-Fiction :: Plays :: Short Stories :: PoetryFictionThe Celtic TwilightNon-FictionFour YearsPlaysCathleen Ni HoulihanThe Countess CathleenThe Hour GlassThe Land Of Heart's DesireThe Unicorn from the StarsShort StoriesThe Crucifixion Of The OutcastThe Curse of the Fires and of the ShadowsThe Heart of the SpringOf Costello the ProudThe Old Men of the TwilightOut of the RoseRosa AlchemicaStories of Red HanrahanSynge And The Ireland Of His TimeWhere There is Nothing, There is GodPoetryAgainst Unworthy PraiseThe ArrowBaile And AillinnThe Black TowerBroken DreamsThe DollsEaster, 1916Ego Dominus TuusThe Everlasting VoicesThe Fiddler of DooneyThe FishThe Harp of AengusHer PraiseHe Wishes For The Clothes Of HeavenThe Host Of The AirThe Hosting Of The SidheIn the Seven WoodsAn Irish Airman Foresees his DeathKing And No KingThe Lake Isle Of InnisfreeLapis LazuliLeda And The SwanLove and DeathThe Lover Tells Of The Rose In His HeartMad as the Mist and SnowThe MaskThe MoodsNo Second TroyO Do Not Love Too LongThe Old Age Of Queen MaevePoliticsA Prayer for my DaughterThe Rose TreeSailing to ByzantiumThe Second ComingThe Secret RoseThe Seven SagesThe Shadowy WatersThe Song of the Happy ShepherdThe Stolen ChildSwift's EpitaphThose Dancing Days Are GoneThe Three BeggarsThe TowerTo A Young BeautyTo A Young GirlTo The Rose Upon The Rood Of TimeTowards Break Of DayThe Two TreesWhat Was LostThe WheelWhen You Are OldThe Wild Swans At CooleThe Wisdom Of The King

    This facsimile edition brings Charles Lamb's critically acclaimed and revered "Elia" essays back into print.

    In this new collection, human desire pulls with the force and rhythm of a sea tide, emerging from and receding into mysteries larger than any individual life. The book begins with the reverential title poem and concludes with four works that reflect the power of place to shape revelation; the way stone and sky and birdsong can point the way home. Whether tracing the sensual devotion of bodily presence or the painful heartbreak of impermanence, the poems keep faith with love's appearances and disappearances, and the promises we make and break on its behalf.

    Petersburg was the haunt of poets, artists, and musicians, a place to meet, drink, read, brawl, celebrate, and stage performances of all kinds. It has since become a symbol of the extraordinary literary ferment of that time. It was then that Alexander Blok composed his apocalyptic sequence “Twelve”; that the futurists Velimir Khlebnikov and Vladimir Mayakovsky exploded language into bold new forms; that the lapidary lyrics of Osip Mandelstam and plangent love poems of Anna Akhmatova saw the light; that the electrifying Marina Tsvetaeva stunned and dazzled everyone. Boris Pasternak was also of this company, putting together his great youthful hymn to nature, My Sister, Life. It was a transforming moment—not just for Russian but for world poetry—but a short-lived one. Within little more than a decade, revolution and terror were to disperse, silence, and destroy almost all the poets of the Stray Dog cabaret.

    Sea-devil has appeared in the Rio de la Plata. Weird cries out at sea, slashed fishermen's nets, glimpses of a most queer creature astride a dolphin leave no room for doubt. The Spaniard Zurita, greed overcoming his superstition, tries to catch Sea-devil and force it to pearl-dive for him but fails. On a lonely stretch of shore, not far from Buenos Aires, Dr. Salvator lives in seclusion behind a high wall, whose steel-plated gates only open to let in his Indian patients. The Indians revere him as a God but Zurita has a hunch that the God on land and the devil in the sea have something in common. Enlisting the help of two wily Araucanian brothers he sets out to probe the mystery. As action shifts from the bottom of the sea to the Spaniard's schooner The Jellyfish and back again, with interludes in sun-drenched Buenos Aires and countryside, the mystery of Ichthyander the sea-devil is unfolded before the reader in a narrative as gripping as it informative.

    Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962–1972 comprises all of her middle to late work, as well as a selection of posthumously published verse. Obsessed with themes of solitude, childhood, madness and death, Pizarnik explored the shifting valences of the self and the border between speech and silence. In her own words, she was drawn to "the suffering of Baudelaire, the suicide of Nerval, the premature silence of Rimbaud, the mysterious and fleeting presence of Lautréamont,” as well as to the “unparalleled intensity” of Artaud’s “physical and moral suffering.”

    In addition to making formal innovations in language and structure, he extended the range of acceptable subject matter to include all aspects of public and private experience, thus becoming in the words of translator David Hinton, “the first complete poetic sensibility in Chinese literature.”This edition of The Selected Poems of Tu Fu is the only comprehensive selection of the poet's work currently available in English. While retaining a scholar's devotion to the text, Hinton has attempted “to recreate Tu Fu's poems as new systems of uncertainty." By reflecting all the ambiguity and density of the originals, he has created compelling English poems that significantly alter our conception of Chinese poetry. Included with the poems are the translator’s introduction and translation principles. as well as a biography of Tu Fu; together these provide a fascinating portrait of a uniquely sensitive spirit during one of the most tumultuous periods in Chinese history.

    During his journey he learns through example and suffering that in indigenous peoples of all cultures there is dignity that must be recognized and built upon as a foundation for Christian conversion. Includes appendix, 7 line drawings.

    These poems have been selected on the basis of the poignancy of their message and their relevance to contemporary life.This is timeless wisdom translated for modern readers. It is a guide for meditation and a light switch that you can turn on to make your daily connection with spirit. Use these words as tools to better your life each day, to draw continued guidance, inspiration and spiritual wealth.