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Book Description Dating from the eighth century and earlier, the Manyoshu is the oldest Japanese poetry anthology--and it's widely considered to be the best. A committee of distinguished scholars chose 1,000 poems from more than 4,500 possibilities. Their criteria for inclusion demanded poetic excellence, insights into the Japanese national spirit and character, and cultural and historical significance. The acclaimed translations artfully preserve the simplicity and direct quality of the originals, encompassing an enormous range of human emotions and experiences while offering glimpses of a world authentically and uniquely Japanese. Text is in English only.

Doris May Lessing

Set in Rhodesia, this is the story of Dick, a failed white farmer and his wife, Mary, dependent and disappointed. Both are trapped by poverty, and in the heat of the brick and tin house, hemmed in by the bush, Mary finds herself seeking solace in the arms of the houseboy.

Mary Austin

1924. Mary Hunter Austin, regional writer, whose most successful books, The Land of Little Rain and The Land of Journeys' Ending, grew out of her personal knowledge of the land she lived in. The region she writes about in this book is the high plateau country lying between the Colorado and Rio Grande rivers, the traditional homeland of many of the Indian peoples she studied; the Pueblo, the Zuni, the Hopi, the Navajo. She called it Land of Journeys' Ending because she believed that this part of the Southwest would be the center for a new regional culture-one which would combine the Indian, Spanish and Anglo influences and one which would grow out of a people's successful adaptation to the environment.

Shvarts

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Rudyard Kipling

This edition of the poetry of Rudyard Kipling includes all the poems contained in the Definitive Edition of 1940. In his lifetime, Kipling was widely regarded as the unofficial Poet Laureate, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. His poetry is striking for its many rhythms and popular forms of speech, and Kipling was equally at home with dramatic monologues as he was with extended ballads. He is often thought of as glorifying war, militarism and the British Empire, but an attractive reading of his poems does not confirm that view. This edition reprints George Orwell's hard-hitting account of Kipling's poems, first published in 1942, and generally regarded as one of the most important contributions to critical discussion of Kipling.

The Bronte Sisters

Книга 1, Wuthering Heights, Книга 2, Jane Eyre, Книга 3, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Оригинально оформленный подарочный комплект в футляре. Книги в суперобложках, с трехсторонним золотым обрезом и шелковым ляссе. Размер футляра: 12 см x 16 см х 10,5 см.

Bernard Cornwell

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lan Feldman

Book DescriptionRendezvous in Majorca - ISBN 0-9743673-6-2 - a new Hard Cover by author Ian Feldman is a main stream spy thriller. This second novel by the author of spy intrigue and suspense is loaded with historical controversy merged into Feldman?s overriding theme on the real evolution of thermonuclear technology from 1939 and how we are so naive in today?s world about its horrible potential. We don?t really understand the truly massive difference in the destructive power inherent in H-bombs verses the relatively very meager impact of the often over used example of the Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The energy and drive of Rendezvous in Majorca?s female protagonist, a woman viciously drawn into the complex fast moving vortex of the book?s conspiracy by the Soviet KGB and NKVD, is seemingly thwarted at every turn. Rendezvous in Majorca moves quickly into the Cold War Era with schemes and artifice created by American, Soviet and British espionage...

Andy Riley

Rabbits. We'll never quite know why, but sometimes they decide they've just had enough of this world. " The Book of Bunny Suicides" follows over two hundred bunnies as they find ever more outlandish ways to do themselves in. From an encounter with the business end of Darth Vader's light saber to hiding under an elephant's footstool, no stone goes unturned (or undropped, or uncatapulted) as these twisted little cuties sign off in style. Формат издания: 19 см х 14 см.

Hayden Carruth

"It is tempting to think of Carruth as a latter-day Robert Frost - a crusty old New Englander brimming with wit and wisdom. Carruth's wit is less apothegmatic, though, and his wisdom seems harder won and more personal. He never seems, as Frost did, to be an old master. Quite often, his wisdom consists in acknowledging loss without compensatory understanding. The long poem "Dearest M-," set during the day on which his daughter died, voices a solitary, educated father's grief as forcibly as ever it could be expressed but without histrionics because, finally, this kind of grief is a heavy burden for an old man to bear. Several shorter poems take up other kinds of losses, some to comic rather than sad effect, and others, especially the sequences "Faxes to William" and "While Reading Basho," pretty much demonstrate that, what with the pleasures--the pains, too! - of memory, the garden, and art (for Carruth, primarily poetry and jazz), an old guy can sometimes think he is content. This...