World Literature
azw3 |eng | 1986-01-01 | Author:Charles Lamb [Lamb, Charles]

This is all extremely clever, and about as true as it is necessary for such half-imaginary sketches to be. The veteran subject of it has had his name bandied to ...
( Category: World Literature October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1270-01-01 | Author:Rumi

( Category: Personal Transformation Self-Help October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-11-15 | Author:Alejandro Zambra [Zambra, Alejandro]

I remember the phrase that Pato Parra wrote, on a wall of his room, before killing himself: ‘My final cry to the world: Shit.’ IV. I remember the final months ...
( Category: World Literature October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1957-12-01 | Author:H.D.

ODYSSEUS Ah, I see, a narrow track concealed, and not too carefully. CALYPSO Isn’t he drowned yet? ODYSSEUS (peers down) There she is under the ground. CALYPSO (in the cave) ...
( Category: World Literature October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2007-04-03 | Author:Niccolò Machiavelli & Peter Constantine

193. Setta (sect): here in the sense of a political or religious body. 194. Machiavelli quotes in Latin the aphorism (probably inspired by the teachings of the Greek physician Galen) ...
( Category: Philosophy October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1855-01-01 | Author:Gérard de Nerval [Nerval, Gérard de]

DIORAMA This week’s major dramatic event, and a novel and powerful one at that, was the reopening of the Diorama1 with its rendering of the Flood – a spectacular mystery ...
( Category: Memoirs October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1950-01-01 | Author:Pär Lagerkvist

When Barabbas came back to his own people he was so changed that they scarcely recognized him. Their companions who had been down in Jerusalem had said that he seemed ...
( Category: World Literature October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Hjalmar Söderberg

JULY 25 HELGA GREGORIUS: I see her continually before me, see her as she was in the dream: naked, handing me a bouquet of dark flowers. Perhaps red, but very ...
( Category: World Literature October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2000-04-05 | Author:Aleksandar Hemon [Hemon, Aleksandar]

BLIND JOZEF PRONEK & DEAD SOULS And, finally, when after sneaking from dresser to closet, he had found piece by piece all he needed and had finished his dressing among ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1967-01-01 | Author:Kōbō Abe

Same day: 12:06 P.M.—Visited Mr. Toyama, the man to whom the person under investigation sold the car he had been using until two days before disappearing. Toyama was not at ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1981-01-01 | Author:Sergio Pitol [Pitol, Sergio]

CEMETERY OF THRUSHES for Luis Deméneghi The story he began writing on the ship and finished in Italy was not well received. Billie discouraged him immediately. It had no roots, ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2021-03-15 | Author:Jon Fosse [Fosse, Jon]

V AND I SEE MYSELF STANDING and looking at the picture with the two lines that cross near the middle and it’s morning and today’s Thursday and I’ve lit the ...
( Category: Dramas & Plays October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Andreï Makine [Makine, Andreï]

A brick-built castle, faced with cornerstones, With lofty windows, stained in crimson tones, Stands in a garden where a river fleet Flows between flowers and swirls about its feet. A ...
( Category: World Literature October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:Jon Fosse & Damion Searls

JON FOSSE is the most produced living European play-wright and is one of contemporary Norwegian literature’s most important writers. In 2000, the Melsom Prize was awarded to his novel Melancholy, ...
( Category: Action & Adventure Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-10-14 | Author:Jorge Luis Borges [Borges, Jorge Luis]

BORGES. That’s the problem with heaven . . . no, but perhaps there’s a meagre population in heaven, no? Since many are called but few are chosen. Here I remember ...
( Category: Literary Criticism October 18,2021 )