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The History of Rome - Book V (Dodo Press) by Theodor Mommsen (N/A, 2008-02)
Genre: History

Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen (1817-1903) was a German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician, archaeologist and writer, generally regarded as the greatest classicist of the 19th century. His work regarding Roman history is still of fundamental importance for contemporary research. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1902, and was also a prominent German politician, as a member of the Prussian and German parliaments. His works on Roman law and on the law of obligations had a significant impact on the German civil code (BGB). Mommsen published over 1,500 works, and effectively established a new framework for the systematic study of Roman history. He pioneered epigraphy, the study of inscriptions in material artifacts. Although the unfinished History of Rome has been widely considered as his main work, the work most relevant today is perhaps the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, a collection of Roman inscriptions he contributed to the Berlin Academy. He also published the fundamental collections in Roman law: the Corpus Luris Civilis and the Codex Theodosianus.
The History of Rome - Book I (Dodo Press) by Theodor Mommsen (N/A, 2008-02)
Genre: History

Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen (1817-1903) was a German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician, archaeologist and writer, generally regarded as the greatest classicist of the 19th century. His work regarding Roman history is still of fundamental importance for contemporary research. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1902, and was also a prominent German politician, as a member of the Prussian and German parliaments. His works on Roman law and on the law of obligations had a significant impact on the German civil code (BGB). Mommsen published over 1,500 works, and effectively established a new framework for the systematic study of Roman history. He pioneered epigraphy, the study of inscriptions in material artifacts. Although the unfinished History of Rome has been widely considered as his main work, the work most relevant today is perhaps the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, a collection of Roman inscriptions he contributed to the Berlin Academy. He also published the fundamental collections in Roman law: the Corpus Luris Civilis and the Codex Theodosianus.
The History of Rome (Complete Edition: Vol. 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen (DigiCat, 2023-12-15)
Genre: History

The History of Rome is a five volume history of ancient Rome written by Theodor Mommsen, dealing mainly with the Roman Republic. First volume deals with the Roman origins and covers the period anterior to the abolition of the Monarchy. Second volume depicts events from the abolition of the Monarchy in Rome to the union of Italy. Third volume deals with the Punic Wars and the subjugation of Carthage and the Greek states. Volume four covers the Revolution, dealing with the Gracchi, Marius, Drusus, and Sulla. Final volume covers the Civil War and the establishment of the military monarchy during the reign of Julius Caesar.
The History of Rome by Theodor Mommsen (N/A, 2019-09-10)
Genre: N/A

The classical historian Theodor Mommsen (1817-1903) published his History of Rome between 1854 and 1856. His work was received with widespread acclaim by the scholarly community and the reading public. In 1902, in recognition of this monumental work, Mommsen was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and acclaimed as 'the greatest living master of the art of historical writing'. Mommsen rejected traditional Enlightenment accounts, which glorified ancient Rome; instead, guided by a new and rigorous criticism of sources, he began the demythologisation of Roman history. In a vivacious and engaging style, using modern terms to express classical ideas, Mommsen drew bold parallels between the nineteenth century and classical Rome. Volume 2 covers the period from the unification of Italy to the subjugation of Carthage and the Greek States. This English translation, first published in 1862, is based on the German third edition (1861).
The History of Rome - Book IV (Dodo Press) by Theodor Mommsen (N/A, 2008-02)
Genre: History

Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen (1817-1903) was a German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician, archaeologist and writer, generally regarded as the greatest classicist of the 19th century. His work regarding Roman history is still of fundamental importance for contemporary research. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1902, and was also a prominent German politician, as a member of the Prussian and German parliaments. His works on Roman law and on the law of obligations had a significant impact on the German civil code (BGB). Mommsen published over 1,500 works, and effectively established a new framework for the systematic study of Roman history. He pioneered epigraphy, the study of inscriptions in material artifacts. Although the unfinished History of Rome has been widely considered as his main work, the work most relevant today is perhaps the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, a collection of Roman inscriptions he contributed to the Berlin Academy. He also published the fundamental collections in Roman law: the Corpus Luris Civilis and the Codex Theodosianus.
The History of Rome - Book III (Dodo Press) by Theodor Mommsen (N/A, 2008-02)
Genre: History

Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen (1817-1903) was a German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician, archaeologist and writer, generally regarded as the greatest classicist of the 19th century. His work regarding Roman history is still of fundamental importance for contemporary research. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1902, and was also a prominent German politician, as a member of the Prussian and German parliaments. His works on Roman law and on the law of obligations had a significant impact on the German civil code (BGB). Mommsen published over 1,500 works, and effectively established a new framework for the systematic study of Roman history. He pioneered epigraphy, the study of inscriptions in material artifacts. Although the unfinished History of Rome has been widely considered as his main work, the work most relevant today is perhaps the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, a collection of Roman inscriptions he contributed to the Berlin Academy. He also published the fundamental collections in Roman law: the Corpus Luris Civilis and the Codex Theodosianus.
Conrad Der Leutnant (Vollständige Ausgabe) by Carl Spitteler (N/A, 2018-04-05)
Genre: N/A

Carl Spitteler (1845-1924) war ein Schweizer Dichter und Schriftsteller, Kritiker und Essayist. 1919 erhielt er den Nobelpreis für Literatur. Aus dem Buch: ..".Sie lehnte sich besänftigend an ihn. "Du solltest mit dem Vater ein bißchen mehr Geduld haben, Conrad», schmeichelte sie. Da brauste er auf. "Wenn ich nicht Geduld hätte, viel Geduld, sehr, sehr viel Geduld, meinst, ich wäre nicht längst schon dreingefahren? Und wie! Übrigens handelt es sich keineswegs bloß um Geduld oder nicht Geduld. Ich bin vierundzwanzigjährig, stimmfähig, Militär und sogar Offizier, außerdem Kommandant der Feuerwehr. Meine Kameraden haben ihre Freiheit, ihren Willen, ihre selbständige Tätigkeit, einige sogar Amt und Familie. Ich dagegen werde von meinem Alten wie ein Bube geschurigelt. Wer aber im eigenen Hause nichts gilt, der ist auch in der Gemeinde nichts wert. Das ist's, was mich wurmt, das ist's, was ich nicht verwinde." Sie schwieg ein Weilchen, die Augen niederschlagend, während sie zerstreut mit den Schellen eines Pferdekumts tändelte. Endlich, nach langem Zögern, warf sie halblaut hin: "Wer weiß denn, wie lange er überhaupt noch lebt."
The Bombardment of Åbo by Carl Spitteler (Central European University Press, 2022-08-16)
Genre: Fiction

This farcical tale tells how the British bombing of a Finnish port city changes the life of the Russian governor, his wife, their cook, and the cook's Finnish fiancé. The story takes place during a Nordic offshoot of the Crimean conflict, known as the Åland War, in which a British-French naval force attacked military and civilian facilities on the coast of the Grand Duchy of Finland in 1854–1856. The location of the novella is Åbo, today’s Turku, where soldiers in the Russian garrison enjoy life, Cossacks dance and drink, and the governor’s wife is preoccupied about her cook’s marriage to a local lad, against which the governor and the English admiral devise a plot. After studies in Swiss and German universities, Carl Spitteler worked in Russia between 1871 and 1879 as the private tutor in the family of a Finnish general. In the process he came to know Finnish and Baltic noble families in Saint Petersburg and Finland. He published this story in 1889, and went on to become, in 1919, the first Swiss winner of the Nobel Prize for literature. The Bombardment of Åbo is an ironic Western gaze on life and culture in the Tsarist Empire. Spitteler’s deeply held pacifism breaks through his otherwise sarcastic description of the characters and episodes in the novella.
Carl Spitteler Olympischer Frühling, Zweiter Band by Carl Spitteler (Wentworth Press, 2018-08-09)
Genre: History

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Walks with Walser by Carl Spitteler (New Directions Publishing, 2017-04-25)
Genre: Biography & Autobiography

A unique and personal portrait of the beloved, legendary Swiss writer, finally in English After a nervous breakdown in 1929, Robert Walser spent the remaining twenty-seven years of his life in mental asylums, closed off from the rest of the world in almost complete anonymity. While at the Herisau sanitarium, instead of writing, Walser practiced another favorite activity: walking. Starting in 1936, Carl Seelig, Walser’s friend and literary executor, visited and accompanied him on these walks, meticulously recording their conversations. As they strolled, Walser told stories, shared his daily experiences of the sanatorium, and expressed his opinions about books and art, writing and history. When Seelig asked why he no longer wrote, Walser famously replied: “I’m not here to write, I’m here to be mad.” Filled with lively anecdotes and details, Walks with Walser offers the fullest available account of this wonderful writer’s inner and outer life.
Two Little Misogynists by Carl Spitteler (N/A, 1922)
Genre: Misogyny

A childhood idyll derived from the author's own experience.
Norberto Bobbio: El Filsofo Y La Pol-Tica. Antolog-A by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn (Fondo de Cultura Economica USA, 2002)
Genre: Political Science

En este libro, continuacion de su obra El "problema ruso" al final del siglo XX, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn -inobjetable testigo de una epoca cuyas atrocidades no han cesado- describe la situacion actual y el destino de su patria; analiza su historia, asi como la decadencia de su cultura y su caracter, y explica por que el zemtsvo -asamblea provincial y comarcal elegida por todas las clases sociales- es una herramienta que podra resolver las dificultades nacionales.
La casa de Matriona by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn (Grupo Planeta Spain, 2015-11-24)
Genre: Fiction

En 1956, tras dejar atrás su terrible experiencia en el gulag, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn deseaba perderse en un apacible rincón de la URSS, y se ofreció en las oficinas de empleo como profesor de matemáticas. Mientras buscaba alojamiento en el pueblo al que lo destinaron, vio la isba de Matriona, una anciana viuda que vivía con un gato paticojo y una cabra por toda compañía, y decidió quedarse. En los fríos meses en que se hospedó en su casa, Solzhenitsyn comprendió que Matriona, generosa pero despreciada, «era precisamente el justo sin el cual, como en el dicho, no se tendrá en pie la aldea»: su vida inspiró La casa de Matriona. Otro es el protagonista de Incidente en la estación de Kochetovka, el teniente Zotov, asistente del comandante militar de una estación de tren durante la segunda guerra mundial. Lejos de su mujer, y lamentando que no le hayan destinado al frente, Zotov dirige el tránsito de convoyes y soldados con firmeza, eficacia y ecuanimidad; pero cierto día se presenta en su oficina un hombre afable, en una circunstancia desconcertante, que pondrá a prueba sus creencias.
Un día en la vida de Iván Denísovich by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn (Grupo Planeta Spain, 2015-10-06)
Genre: Biography & Autobiography

Es éste uno de los más conocidos y también más escalofriantes testimonios de la crueldad que sufrieron millones de deportados en los campos de trabajo soviéticos. Las terribles condiciones de vida y las vejaciones descritas con detalle por Solzhenitsyn en Archipiélago Gulag cobran aquí entidad literaria y, bajo la forma de novela, inmortalizan un drama que nunca caerá en el olvido. El protagonista, Iván DenísovichShújov, lleva encerrado ocho años –de una condena de diez– en un campo de trabajo situado en algún lugar de la estepa siberiana. Aunque en teoría se halla allí por «traición a la patria», la realidad es mucho más amarga: durante la guerra contra Alemania, Denísovich fue capturado por los nazis, pero logró escapar y reintegrarse en las filas soviéticas. Se le acusó entonces de haber huido del ejército soviético con la intención de traicionar, y de regresar para ejercer de espía para los alemanes. A fin de evitar la condena a muerte, Denísovich reconoció los hechos de los que se le acusaba y fue mandado al Gulag. Éste es el relato de uno de sus días en el campo de trabajo.
Cuentos en miniatura by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn (Aurora Ebook, )
Genre: Fiction

«Cuentos en miniatura», constituye en su conjunto una obsesionante elegía a la condición humana, de profundo realismo e insospechado encanto. En ellos, Solzhenitsyn escribe sobre la falta de libertad, sobre la desesperanza de vivir en un régimen que controla a cada ciudadano y donde la desobediencia puede ser castigada con la muerte. Pero también en ellos hay esperanza. Un amor por la naturaleza y una reivindicación del espíritu humano, capaz de sobreponerse y triunfar sobre grandes adversidades.
Resebrev 1921–1952 by Eyvind Johnson (Modernista, )
Genre: N/A

»För en i länder och tider vittskådande berättarkonst«, står det i motiveringen till det nobelpris i litteratur som Eyvind Johnson delade med Harry Martinsson 1976. Eyvind Johnson var en resande människa; i sin ungdom drömde han bland annat om att emigrera till Madagaskar. Han hamnade i Paris, där han bodde under en stor del av 1920-talet. Från 1921 och långt upp i åren skrev han resebrev till svenska dagstidningar - under de första utlandsåren på 1920-talet var detta hans huvudsakliga inkomstkälla. Breven som handlar om den politiska utvecklingen i Tyskland respektive Frankrike, präglas av anarkistiska och ungsocialistiska idéer. Bland annat varnar de för konsekvenserna av den framväxande nazismen. Flertalet av dessa resebrev har aldrig tryckts i bokform. Björn Gustavsson – som står för urval, förord och kommentarer – är kritiker och har tidigare bland annat utgivit kommenterade ungdomsnoveller av Eyvind Johnson [Olibrius och gestalterna, 1986] och en CD med inspelningar av författaren [Frihet är det bästa ting, 2003]. EYVIND JOHNSON [1900-1976] var en svensk författare och översättare. Han erhöll Nobelpriset i litteratur 1974 tillsammans med Harry Martinson samt var ledamot av Svenska Akademien. »Resandet i dess olika bemärkelser är en väsentlig aspekt i Eyvind Johnsons liv och författarskap - det får man klart för sig genom Björn Gustavssons välredigerade antologi.« | Lars Gustafsson, Nerikes Allehanda »Det är spännande att se hur Johnson successivt erövrar sitt språk och elaborerar sin stil - från ynglingens valhänta rådbråkande av syntaxen, över 30-talets eleganta ironier till efterkrigstidens eftertänksamma meningsbyggnader.« | Nils Schwartz, Expressen »Björn Gustavsson, kritiker och Eyvind Johnson-kännare, utger i dagarna en mycket läsvärd volym med Eyvind Johnsons resebrev 1921-1952.« | Thure Stenström, Svenska Dagbladet
Krilon själv by Eyvind Johnson (Albert Bonniers Förlag, 2018-03-29)
Genre: Fiction

Under pågående krig och tryckande svensk tystnad skrev Eyvind Johnson som protest mot undfallenheten den stora motståndsromanen om Johannes Krilon; en bok om året i tre år: Grupp Krilon 1941, Krilons resa 1942 och Krilon själv 1943. I finurlig allegorisk dräkt och mot ett livfullt tecknat Stockholm som fond återverkar krigshändelserna på en liten grupp av samtalande stockholmare. Tryck- och yttrandefriheten var hotad. Johnson använde bland annat sin roman som kamouflage för rapporter om den nazistiska terrorn i Norge eftersom de svenska tidningar som tog upp ämnet drogs in. Konstens möjlighet att bjuda motstånd både demonstreras och diskuteras i denna tekniskt avancerade roman. Med utgångspunkt i en ungdomlig kärlekssorg företar romanen en upptäcktsfärd i Krilons förflutna, som liksom Eyvind Johnsons rymmer erfarenheter från mellankrigstidens anarkistiska och konstnärliga miljöer i Paris och Berlin. Som krönika från permittenttågens, ransoneringskortens och det nazistiska medlöperiets tid men också som kärleksfull skildring av borgerligt gemyt på stadshotell, i sprtstugor och på fiskeutflykt saknar romantrilogin om fastighetsmäklaren Johannes Krilon motstycke. I en appell om att denna tid och dess brott aldrig måtte glömmas utmynnade Romanen om Krilon 1943. När nu Kerstin Ekman skrivit en roman om Krilonromanen och om det fria ordets och civilkuragets betydelse mot bakgrund av en ny tids krig och förtryck är det också den äldre romanens vädjan till en ny publik som hörs i titeln, Gör mig levande igen.
Krilons resa by Eyvind Johnson (Albert Bonniers Förlag, 2018-03-29)
Genre: Fiction

Under pågående krig och tryckande svensk tystnad skrev Eyvind Johnson som protest mot undfallenheten den stora motståndsromanen om Johannes Krilon; en bok om året i tre år: Grupp Krilon 1941, Krilons resa 1942 och Krilon själv 1943. I finurlig allegorisk dräkt och mot ett livfullt tecknat Stockholm som fond återverkar krigshändelserna på en liten grupp av samtalande stockholmare. Tryck- och yttrandefriheten var hotad. Johnson använde bland annat sin roman som kamouflage för rapporter om den nazistiska terrorn i Norge eftersom de svenska tidningar som tog upp ämnet drogs in. Konstens möjlighet att bjuda motstånd både demonstreras och diskuteras i denna tekniskt avancerade roman. Med utgångspunkt i en ungdomlig kärlekssorg företar romanen en upptäcktsfärd i Krilons förflutna, som liksom Eyvind Johnsons rymmer erfarenheter från mellankrigstidens anarkistiska och konstnärliga miljöer i Paris och Berlin. Som krönika från permittenttågens, ransoneringskortens och det nazistiska medlöperiets tid men också som kärleksfull skildring av borgerligt gemyt på stadshotell, i sprtstugor och på fiskeutflykt saknar romantrilogin om fastighetsmäklaren Johannes Krilon motstycke. I en appell om att denna tid och dess brott aldrig måtte glömmas utmynnade Romanen om Krilon 1943. När nu Kerstin Ekman skrivit en roman om Krilonromanen och om det fria ordets och civilkuragets betydelse mot bakgrund av en ny tids krig och förtryck är det också den äldre romanens vädjan till en ny publik som hörs i titeln, Gör mig levande igen.
Complete Poems by Salvatore Quasimodo (Carcanet Press Ltd, 2021-11-25)
Genre: Poetry

Salvatore Quasimodo (1901–1968) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1959. The citation declares, 'his lyrical poetry with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our time'. Jack Bevan's authoritative translation of Quasimodo life work fills a great gap in our knowledge of twentieth-century European poetry. 'The poetry is textured like shot silk, yet the elegance and syntactical lucidity with which Jack Bevan has worked to bring these poems to English readers enables them to stand as poems in their own right,' wrote Peter Scupham of Bevan's translation of Quasimodo's last poems, Debit and Credit. Quasimodo's strong and passionate writing continues to testify to the human – and inhuman – realities which have created our modern world. The Italian critic Giuliano Dego wrote, 'To bear witness to man's history in all the urgency of a particular time and place, and to teach the lesson of courage, this has been Quasimodo's poetic task.'
Selected Writings by Salvatore Quasimodo (New York : Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1960)
Genre: Italian literature

A collection of poems and two prose essays selected by the author, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1959.
The Poet and the Politician by Salvatore Quasimodo (Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 1964)
Genre: Literature

Discussions on poets, poetry, politics and philosophy by a Nobel prize poet.
The Night Fountain by Salvatore Quasimodo (ARC Publications, 2008)
Genre: N/A

Salvatore Quasimodo was born-and lived-through historical tragedies which impressed his mind for ever. What one hears in his lines are the tears of mankind and its wail. This work presents the translations of this poet.
A Longing for the Light by Vicente Aleixandre (Copper Canyon Press, 2007-05-01)
Genre: Poetry

A comprehensive collection spans the entirety of Nobel Laureate Aleixandre's career, from his early surrealist work to his complex and fascinating "dialogues," as well as prose interludes.
Shadow of Paradise by Vicente Aleixandre (Univ of California Press, 1993-03-03)
Genre: Literary Criticism

Begun in 1939, barely four months after the close of the Spanish Civil War, these poems by the Nobel Laureate poet Vicente Aleixandre were written during a period of hardship and despair. In spite of his surroundings Aleixandre created the splendor of the shadow of a lost paradise that consisted of memory, nostalgia, yearning and illusion. This is the first full English version. The original Spanish text is included.
Destrucción O El Amor by Vicente Aleixandre (Susquehanna University Press, 2000)
Genre: Poetry

Destruction or Love is the first complete English translation of one of the major works by Spanish Nobel Laureate Vicente Aleixandre. It conveys to English readers some of the syntactic inventiveness and suggestive imagery of the original, which became a landmark of twentieth-century European literature. Illustrated.
Poems of Consummation by Vicente Aleixandre (N/A, 2013)
Genre: Poetry

First published in 1968, when the author was seventy, Poems of Consummation is Vicente Aleixandre's intimate, philosophic, densely compressed lyric engagement with old age and the mystery of death. The poems are intense, mostly brief, elemental in their imagery (stone, ocean, wind, fire), and they address, in sometimes gnomic terms, the unknowable--mainly the paradoxes of memory: the simultaneous absence and presence of remembered love and the lover no longer living. The voice in these poems anticipates its own posthumousness, and speaks at times as if (and now in fact) from beyond the grave
Vicente Aleixandre para niños by Vicente Aleixandre (Ediciones de la Torre, 2000)
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels

Este poeta, premio Nobel 1977, sabía que los niños comprenden a veces más y mejor que lo que los adultos suponen, y que únicamente hay que ofrecerles un mundo que puedan compartir.
Conversations with Derek Walcott by Derek Walcott (Univ. Press of Mississippi, 1996)
Genre: Biography & Autobiography

When Derek Walcott was awarded the Nobel Prize, he was cited for "a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a historical vision, the outcome of a multicultural commitment." The lively interviews in this collection reveal Walcott's generous and brilliant intelligence as well as his strong, forthright opinions. He discusses the craft of poetry, the status of contemporary poetry and drama, his founding of the Trinidad Theatre Workshop, and his views on a number of influential writers, including Eliot, Auden, Brodsky, Heaney, and Naipaul. Boldly speaking his mind, Walcott takes many controversial positions on a wide range of subjects, such as Caribbean and U.S. politics, literary instruction in American universities, the proper role of sound in modern poetry, and the "ego" apparent in contemporary American poetry, and problems of race. Whatever the subject, Walcott responds fully and candidly.
The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013 by Derek Walcott (Macmillan, 2014-01-21)
Genre: Poetry

A collection spanning the range of the writer's career includes his first published poem, his celebrated verses on violence in Africa, his mature work from "The Star-Apple Kingdom," and his late masterpieces from "White Egrets."
Another Life by Derek Walcott (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014-09-09)
Genre: Poetry

In his longest and most ambitious poem, Derek Walcott reaches beyond an evocative portrayl of his native West Indies to create a moving elegy on himself and on man. The fascinating and complex matrix of the author's life is illuminated with our candor, verve, and strength. Over four thousand lines of verse are grouped into four parts. He evokes scenes of his divided childhood, in which children live in shacks while fine khaki-clothed Englishmen drink tea. He depicts the influence of three intimate friends, including his first love, Anna, on his emergence as a man and artist. He chronicles the mixed remorse and resolution of maturity. He recalls of his youth: "We were blessed with a virginal, unpainted world / with Adam's task of giving things their names..." Yet in retrospect he acknowledges the irony of his artistic reliance on metaphor to transform reality--his search for "another life" When the author's most recent collection of poetry, The Gulf, was published, Selden Rodman wrote in The New York Times Book Review: "Now, with the publication of his fourth book of verse, Walcott's stature in the front rank of all contemporary poets using English should be apparent." Chad Walsh in Book World said: "I am convinced one of the half-dozen most imporant poets now writing in English. He may prove to be the best." Another Life helps to fulfill this prophecy.
Collected Poems, 1948-1984 by Derek Walcott (Macmillan, 1986)
Genre: Poetry

Includes most of the poems in each of Walcott's collections as selected by the poet, and the complete text of Another Life.
The Arkansas Testament by Derek Walcott (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014-09-09)
Genre: Poetry

Derek Walcott's eighth collection of poems, The Arkansas Testament, is divided into two parts--"Here," verse evoking the poet's native Caribbean, and "Elsewhere." It opens with six poems in quatrains whose memorable, compact lines further Walcott's continuous effort to crystallize images of the Caribbean landscape and people. For several years, Derek Walcott has lived mainly in the United States. "The Arkansas Testament," one of the book's long poems, is a powerful confrontation of changing allegiances. The poem's crisis is the taking on of an extra history, one that challenges unquestioning devotion.
The Prodigal by Derek Walcott (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014-09-09)
Genre: Poetry

Do not diminish in my memory villages of absolutely no importance, ... Hoard, cherish your negligible existence, your unrecorded history of unambitious syntax, your clean pools of unpolluted light over close stones. The Prodigal is a journey through physical and mental landscapes, from Greenwich Village to the Alps, Pescara to Milan, Germany to Cartagena. But always in "the music of memory, water," abides St. Lucia, the author's birthplace, and the living sea. In his new work, Derek Walcott has created a sweeping yet intimate epic of an exhausted Europe studded with church spires and mountains, train stations and statuary, where the New World is an idea, a "wavering map," and where History subsumes the natural history of his "unimportantly beautiful" island home. Here, the wanderer fears that he has been tainted by his exile, that his life has become untranslatable, and that his craft itself is rooted in betrayal of the vivid archipelago to which, like Antaeus, he must return for the very sustenance of life.
Selected Poems by Derek Walcott (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014-09-09)
Genre: Poetry

Drawing from every stage of his career, Derek Walcott's Selected Poems brings together famous pieces from his early volumes, including "A Far Cry from Africa" and "A City's Death by Fire," with passages from the celebrated Omeros and selections from his latest major works, which extend his contributions to reenergizing the contemporary long poem. Here we find all of Walcott's essential themes, from grappling with the Caribbean's colonial legacy to his conflicted love of home and of Western literary tradition; from the wisdom-making pain of time and mortality to the strange wonder of love, the natural world, and what it means to be human. We see his lifelong labor at poetic crafts, his broadening of the possibilities of rhyme and meter, stanza forms, language, and metaphor. Edited and with an introduction by the Jamaican poet and critic Edward Baugh, this volume is a perfect representation of Walcott's breadth of work, spanning almost half a century.
Midsummer by Derek Walcott (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014-09-09)
Genre: Poetry

The poems in this sequence of fifty-four were written to encompass one year, from summer to summer. Their principal themes are the stasis, both stultifying and provocative, of midsummer in the tropics; the pull of the sea, family, and friendship on one whose cricumstances lead to separation; the relationship of poetry to painting; and the place of a poet between two cultures. Walcott records, with his distinctive linguistic blend of soaring imagery and plainly stated facts, the experience of a mid-lief period--in reality and in memory or the imagination. As Louis Simpson wrote on the publication of Wacott's The Fortunate Traveller, "Walcott is a spellbinder. Of how many poets can it be said that their poems are compelling--not a mere stringing together of images and ideas but language that delights in itself, rhythms that seem spontaneous, scenes that are vividly there?...The poet who can write like this is a master."
The Appointment by Herta Müller (Macmillan, 2002-09-07)
Genre: Fiction

From the winner of the IMPAC Award comes a fierce novel about a young Romanian woman's discovery of betrayal in the most intimate reaches of her life.
The Hunger Angel by Herta Müller (Macmillan, 2012-04-24)
Genre: Fiction

The Nobel Prize-winning author of The Land of Green Plums presents an evocative portrait of life in a post-World War II Soviet Union labor camp that traces the experiences of 17-year-old Leo Auberg, who throughout five torturous years succumbs to a hallucinatory existence where hunger and everyday objects take on anthropomorphic qualities. Simultaneous.
The Land of Green Plums by Herta Müller (Macmillan, 2010-11-23)
Genre: Fiction

In Romania at the height of Ceausescu's reign, several young people leave the impoverished provinces for the city in search of better prospects, but they must face betrayal, suicide, and the reality that even the strongest must bend to the oppressors or resist and die.
The Fox Was Ever the Hunter by Herta Müller (Macmillan, 2016-05-10)
Genre: Fiction

From the winner of the Nobel Prize hailed as the laureate of life under totalitarianism, a haunting early novel of surveillance and paranoia Romania—the last months of the Ceausescu regime. Adina is a young schoolteacher. Paul is a musician. Clara works in a wire factory. Pavel is Clara’s lover. But one of them works for the secret police and is reporting on the rest of the group. One day Adina returns home to discover that her fox fur rug has had its tail cut off. On another occasion it’s the hindleg. Then a foreleg. The mutilated fur is a sign that she is being tracked by the secret police—the fox was ever the hunter. Images of photographic precision combine into a kaleidoscope of terror as Adina and her friends struggle to keep mind and body intact in a world pervaded by complicity and permeated with fear, where it’s hard to tell victim from perpetrator. And once again, Herta Müller uses language that displays the “concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose”—as the Swedish Academy noted upon awarding her the Nobel Prize—to create a hauntingly cinematic portrayal of the corruption of the soul under totalitarianism.
Traveling on One Leg by Herta Müller (Northwestern University Press, 1998-11-11)
Genre: Fiction

The protagonist of Herta Muller's Traveling on One Leg is Irene, a fragile woman born to a German family in Romania, who has recently emigrated from Romania to Germany. The novel focuses on Irene's relationship with three men: Franz, whom she met in Romania and who was unwilling to respond to her love for him; Stefan, a friend of Franz's; and Thomas, a bisexual bookseller in perpetual crisis. Despite being born to a German family, Irene's place in Germany is as a recent emigre and an unassimilated Romanian German. She feels neither longing for Romania nor any comfort in her newly adopted Germany. Politically and socially isolated, Irene moves within the emotional orbit of these three men, while at the same time moving between West Berlin, Marburg, and Frankfurt, taking a dissonant journey within strange yet familiar territory. Characterized by the same sense of profound isolation found in Muller's The Land of Green Plums (see page 20), Traveling on One Leg is a poignant exploration of exile, homeland, and identity.
The Passport by Herta Müller (Serpent's Tail, 2015-12-03)
Genre: Fiction

From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2009 'Just as the father in the house in which we live is our father, so Comrade Nicolae Ceausescu is the father of our country. And just as the mother in the house in which we live is our mother, so Comrade Elena Ceausescu is the mother of our country. Comrade Nicolae Ceausescu is the father of our children. All the children love comrade Nicolae and comrade Elena, because they are their parents.' The Passport is a beautiful, haunting novel whose subject is a German village in Romania caught between the stifling hopelessness of Ceausescu's dictatorship and the glittering temptations of the West. Stories from the past are woven together with the problems Windisch, the village miller, faces after he applies for permission to migrate to West Germany. Herta Mller describes with poetic attention the dreams and superstitions, conflicts and oppression of a forgotten region, the Banat, in the Danube Plain. In sparse, lyrical language, Herta Mller captures the forlorn plight of a trapped people. This edition is translated by Martin Chalmers, with a new foreword by Paul Bailey. Also by Herta Mller: Nadirs, The Land of Green Plums, The Appointment, and The Hunger Angel.
The Appointment by Herta Müller (Picador, 2010-11-23)
Genre: Fiction

From the winner of the IMPAC Award and the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature, a fierce and devastating novel about a young woman's discovery of betrayal in the most intimate reaches of her life "I've been summoned. Thursday, ten sharp." Thus begins a day in the life of a young factory worker during Ceausescu's totalitarian regime. She has been questioned before; this time, she believes, will be worse. Her crime? Sewing notes into the linings of men's suits bound for Italy. "Marry me," the notes say, with her name and address. Anything to get out of Romania. As each tram stop brings the young woman closer to the appointment, her thoughts stray to her father and his infidelities; to her friend Lilli, shot trying to flee to Hungary; to her grandparents, deported after her own husband informed on them; and to Paul, her lover, her one source of trust despite his drunkenness. In her distraction, she misses her stop and finds herself on an unfamiliar street. And what she discovers there makes her fear of the interrogation pale by comparison. Bone-spare and intense, The Appointment powerfully renders the humiliating terrors of a crushing regime and its corrosive effects on family and friendship, sex and love.
Letters of Heinrich and Thomas Mann, 1900-1949 by Thomas Mann (Univ of California Press, 1998-01-01)
Genre: Literary Criticism

Presents the correspondence of Thomas and Heinrich Mann
Letters of Thomas Mann, 1889-1955 by Thomas Mann (Univ of California Press, 1990-01-01)
Genre: Literary Criticism

"Mann's pivotal role during the Nazi period as perhaps the most eloquent spokesman for the 'other Germany' that lived in exile means that anyone studying the history of our century must begin with him. . . . These letters are literary and cultural documents that have few equals in our age."--James K. Lyon, University of California, San Diego "Mann's pivotal role during the Nazi period as perhaps the most eloquent spokesman for the 'other Germany' that lived in exile means that anyone studying the history of our century must begin with him. . . . These letters are literary and cultural documents that have few equals in our age."--James K. Lyon, University of California, San Diego
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (Everyman's Library, 2005-06-21)
Genre: Fiction

Acclaimed translator John E. Woods has given us the definitive English version of Mann’s masterpiece. A monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, The Magic Mountain is an enduring classic. With this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Thomas Mann rose to the front ranks of the great modern novelists, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929. The Magic Mountain takes place in an exclusive tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss Alps–a community devoted to sickness that serves as a fictional microcosm for Europe in the days before the First World War. To this hermetic and otherworldly realm comes Hans Castorp, an “ordinary young man” who arrives for a short visit and ends up staying for seven years, during which he succumbs both to the lure of eros and to the intoxication of ideas.
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann (Vintage, 1989-03-13)
Genre: Fiction

Eight complex stories illustrative of the author's belief that "a story must tell itself," highlighted by the high art style of the famous title novella.
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (N/A, 2020-02-15)
Genre: Fiction

"Thomas Mann's real masterpiece is his sprawling snowbound epic of 1924, The Magic Mountain ... The entire work is suffused with a sly and gentle humour, making it an absolute delight to read ... The Magic Mountain is simply one of the greatest novels ever written." - The Guardian
Mann: Two Stories by Thomas Mann (Bristol Classical Press, 1998-02-27)
Genre: Foreign Language Study

Thomas Mann, Germany's most successful writer of prose fiction, was born in 1875 and died in 1955. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929. These two stories, from Mann's middle period, concern major problems facing Germany between the wars: the first deals with the chaos of economic, social and moral values in the early twenties, and the second with the enslavement of a society by a fanatical and hypnotic dictator. In both pieces Mann's moral values are delicately pointed by his omnipresent irony.
Thomas Mann: New Selected Stories by Thomas Mann (Liveright Publishing, 2023-02-28)
Genre: Fiction

Lit Hub: Most Anticipated Books of 2023 Sparkling new translations highlight the humor and poignancy of Mann’s best stories—including his masterpiece, in its first English translation in nearly a century. A towering figure in the pantheon of twentieth-century literature, Thomas Mann has often been perceived as a dry and forbidding writer—“the starched collar,” as Bertolt Brecht once called him. But in fact, his fiction is lively, humane, sometimes hilarious. In these fresh renderings of his best short work, award-winning translator Damion Searls casts new light on this underappreciated aspect of Mann’s genius. The headliner of this volume, “Chaotic World and Childhood Sorrow” (in its first new translation since 1936)—a subtle masterpiece that reveals the profound emotional significance of everyday life—is Mann’s tender but sharp-eyed portrait of the “Bigs” and “Littles” of the bourgeois Cornelius family as they adjust to straitened circumstances in hyperinflationary Weimar Germany. Here, too, is a free-standing excerpt from Mann’s first novel, Buddenbrooks—a sensation when it was first published. “Death in Venice” (also included in this volume) is Mann’s most famous story, but less well known is that he intended it to be a diptych with another, comic story—included here as “Confessions of a Con Artist, by Felix Krull.” “Louisey”—a tale of sexual humiliation that gives a first glimpse of Mann’s lifelong ambivalence about the power of art—rounds out this revelatory, transformative collection.
Thomas Mann's Addresses Delivered at the Library of Congress, 1942-1949 by Thomas Mann (Wildside Press LLC, 2008-02-01)
Genre: Fiction

"The Countess of Rudolstadt" is the follow-up volume to "Consuelo" and widely considered to be one of George Sand's finest works. Translated from the French by Fayette Robinson
Lotte in Weimar by Thomas Mann (Univ of California Press, 1990-10-16)
Genre: Fiction

Thomas Mann, fascinated with the concept of genius and with the richness of German culture, found in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe the embodiment of the German culture hero. Mann's novelistic biography of Goethe was first published in English in 1940. Lotte in Weimar is a vivid dual portrait—a complex study of Goethe and of Lotte, the still-vivacious woman who in her youth was the model for Charlotte in Goethe's widely-read The Sorrows of Young Werther. Lotte's thoughts, as she anticipates meeting Goethe again after forty years, and her conversations with those in Weimar who knew the great man, allow Mann to assess Goethe's genius from many points of view. Hayden White's fresh appraisal of the novel reveals its consonances with our own concerns.
The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, 1957-1987 by Octavio Paz (New Directions Publishing, 1991)
Genre: Poetry

Contains almost 200 collected poems in both Spanish and English.
A Draft of Shadows, and Other Poems by Octavio Paz (New Directions Publishing, 1979)
Genre: Poetry

A collection of poems by Mexican poet and essayist Octavio Paz, presented in Spanish and in English.
The Poems of Octavio Paz by Octavio Paz (New Directions Publishing, 2018-02-27)
Genre: Poetry

Now in paperback, the definitive, life-spanning, bilingual edition of the poems by the Nobel Prize laureate The Poems of Octavio Paz is the first retrospective collection of Paz’s poetry to span his entire writing career from his first published poem, at age seventeen, to his magnificent last poem. This landmark bilingual edition contains many poems that have never been translated into English before, plus new translations based on Paz’s final revisions. Assiduously edited by Eliot Weinberger—who has been translating Paz for over forty years—The Poems of Octavio Paz also includes translations by the poet-luminaries Elizabeth Bishop, Paul Blackburn, Denise Levertov, Muriel Rukeyser, and Charles Tomlinson. Readers will also find Weinberger’s capsule biography of Paz, as well as notes on many poems in Paz’s own words, taken from various interviews he gave throughout his long and singular life.
Figures and Figurations by Octavio Paz (New Directions Publishing, 2008)
Genre: Literary Criticism

A beautiful gift edition of Figures & Figurations: the collaboration between the Nobel Prize laureate Octavio Paz and his wife of thirty years, the artist Marie José Paz.
On Poets and Others by Octavio Paz (Skyhorse, 2014-08-05)
Genre: Literary Collections

The Nobel Prize–winning poet and man of letters Octavio Paz was also a brilliant reader of other writers, and this book selects his best critical essays from over three decades. In the sixteen pieces collected here, Paz discusses a wide range of poets and writers, both American and international, from Robert Frost and Walt Whitman to William Carlos Williams; from Fyodor Dostoevsky to Luis Buñuel to Alexander Solzhenitsyn; and from Charles Baudelaire to Jean-Paul Sartre, André Breton, and Henri Michaux. Paz writes, “I believe that a writer’s attitude to language should be that of a lover: fidelity and, at the same time, a lack of respect for the beloved object. Veneration and transgression.” When this original thinker meets these writers, each essay is an adventure of the mind.
Aguila O Sol? by Octavio Paz (New Directions Publishing, 1976)
Genre: Poetry

A bilingual edition of the short prose poetry written by Mexico's most distinguished living poet in 1949-50.
A Tree Within by Octavio Paz (New Directions Publishing, 1988)
Genre: Fiction

A Tree Within (Arbol Adentro), the first collection of new poems by the great Mexican author Octavio Paz since his Return (Vuelta) of 1975, was originally published as the final section of The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, 1957-1987. Among these later poems is a series of works dedicated to such artists as Miró, Balthus, Duchamp, Rauschenberg, Tapies, Alechinsky, Monet, and Matta, as well as a number of epigrammatic and Chinese-like lyrics. Two remarkable long poems --"I Speak of the City," a Whitmanesque apocalyptic evocation of the contemporary urban nightmare, and "Letter of Testimony," a meditation on love and death--are emblematic of the mature poet in a prophetic voice.
The Poems of Octavio Paz by Octavio Paz (New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2012)
Genre: Poetry

Presents an extensive selection of poems by Spanish American poet Octavio Paz.
Piedra de Sol by Octavio Paz (New Directions Publishing, 1991)
Genre: Literary Criticism

Nobel laureate Octavio Paz's premier long poem "Sunstone" is now a handsome illustrated paperbook. Presented here in a new translation with the Spanish texts en face, this is the 1957 poem that helped established Paz as a major international figure. Includes beautiful illustrations from an 18th-century treatise on the Mexican calendar.
Conversations with Toni Morrison by Toni Morrison (Univ. Press of Mississippi, 1994)
Genre: Biography & Autobiography

Collected interviews with the Nobel Prize winner in which she describes herself as an African American writer and that show her to be an artist whose creativity is intimately linked with her African American experience
Toni Morrison by Toni Morrison (Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2008)
Genre: Biography & Autobiography

Thirty years of interviews with the author of The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Beloved, and other novels
Love by Toni Morrison (Vintage, 2005-01-04)
Genre: Fiction

From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a spellbinding symphony of passion and hatred, power and perversity, color and class that spans three generations of Black women in a fading beach town. “A marvelous work, which enlarges our conception not only of love but of racial politics.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review In life, Bill Cosey enjoyed the affections of many women, who would do almost anything to gain his favor. In death his hold on them may be even stronger. Wife, daughter, granddaughter, employee, mistress: As Morrison’s protagonists stake their furious claim on Cosey’s memory and estate, using everything from intrigue to outright violence, she creates a work that is shrewd, funny, erotic, and heartwrenching.