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10 best books like The Complete Works of François Rabelais (François Rabelais): The Major Works, Vis and Ramin, The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, Volume One, The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play, The Major Works, Collected Ancient Greek Novels, Selected Poems, The Changing Light at Sandover, Collected Poems, 1920-1954, Edmund Spenser's Poetry

The Major Works
AuthorSamuel Taylor Coleridge
ISBN0192840436
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet, critic, and radical thinker, exerted an enormous influence over contemporaries as varied as Wordsworth, Southey and Lamb. He was also a dedicated reformer, and set out to use his reputation as a public speaker and literary philosopher to change the course of English...
Vis and Ramin
AuthorFakhraddin Gorgani
ISBN1933823178
‎دوستان گرانقدر، این شاعر توانا، بسیار زیبا و دلنشین سروده است... هربار که این هنرمندیِ زنده یاد <فخرالدین> گرامی را میخوانم، باز هم شوق و اشتیاقِ بارِ...
The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, Volume One
AuthorDaniel C. Matt
ISBN0804747474
The first two volumes of The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, translated with commentary by Daniel C. Matt, cover more than half of the Zohar's commentary on the Book of Genesis (through Genesis 32:3). This is the first translation ever made from a critical Aramaic text of the Zohar, which has been established...
The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play
AuthorWallace Stevens
ISBN0679724451
As a phrase and idea, "the palm at the end of the mind" serves well in illustrating the distinctive elegance of Wallace Stevens' poetry. He had a way of boosting odd notions into the aesthetic stratosphere; appealing enigmas were his forte. What palm and why at the end of the mind and how did it get there?

Stevens'...
The Major Works
AuthorSamuel Johnson
ISBN0192840428
Samuel Johnson's literary reputation rests on such a varied output that he defies easy description: poet, critic, lexicographer, travel writer, essayist, editor, and, thanks to his good friend Boswell, the subject of one of the most famous English biographies.

This volume celebrates...
Collected Ancient Greek Novels
AuthorBryan P. Reardon
ISBN0520043065
Prose fiction, although not always associated with classical antiquity, did in fact flourish in the early Roman Empire, not only in realistic Latin novels but also and indeed principally in the Greek ideal romance of love and adventure to which they are related. Popular in the Renaissance, these stories...
Selected Poems
AuthorFrancis Ponge
ISBN0916390586
POETRY OF FRANCIS PONGE

I consider it as one of my miraculous reading encounters to have discovered this great poetry book of Francis Ponge. I first read about it in Italo Calvino's book, "Why read Classics?"

Ponge possesses a unique way of seeing. For him, seeing comes before words....
The Changing Light at Sandover
AuthorJames Merrill
ISBN0307263215
James Merrill’s audacious and dazzling epic poem, The Changing Light at Sandover, remains as startling today as when it first emerged in separate volumes over a period of several years. Individual parts won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and the entire poem, when it was collected...
Collected Poems, 1920-1954
AuthorEugenio Montale
ISBN0374526257
Winner of the Weidenfeld Translation Prize and the Premio Montale, an acclaimed translation of Italy's greatest modern poet

Eugenio Montale is universally recognized as having brought the great Italian lyric tradition that begins with Dante into the twentieth century with unrivaled...
Edmund Spenser's Poetry
AuthorEdmund Spenser
ISBN0393962997
To facilitate discussion of the place of the body and of pastoral elements in Spenser's epic, the Third Edition includes more of The Faerie Queene: from Book II, canto ix (the House of Alma), and from Book VI, the remainder of canto x and all of cantos xi-xii. The Shepheardes Calender is represented by...
Vida de Don Quijote y Sancho
AuthorMiguel de Unamuno
ISBN8437607361
‘For me alone was Don Quixote born, and myself for his sake; he knew how to act and I to write,’ Cervantes has written with his pen. And I say that for Cervantes to recount their lives, and for me to explain and elucidate them, were born Don Quijote and Sancho. Cervantes was born to narrate, and to write...
The Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm
AuthorJacob Grimm
ISBN0374339716
Back in Print!

Originally published as a two-volume set forty years ago, The Juniper Tree is distinguished first by the selection of stories. Lore Segal and Maurice Sendak jointly culled 27 from the 210 in the complete collection, and their contents page presents a fascinating critical statement....
Tolstoy or Dostoevsky: An Essay in the Old Criticism
AuthorGeorge Steiner
ISBN0300069170
George Steiner's Tolstoy or Dostoevsky has become a classic among scholars of Russian literature. An essay in poetic and philosophic criticism that bears mainly on the Russian masters, Tolstoy or Dostoevsky deals also with larger themes: the epic tradition extending from Homer to Tolstoy; the continuity...
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: The Strife of Love in a Dream
AuthorFrancesco Colonna
ISBN0500285497
One of the most famous books in the world, the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, read by every Renaissance intellectual and referred to in studies of art and culture ever since, was first published in English by Thames & Hudson in 1999.
It is a strange, pagan, pedantic, erotic, allegorical, mythological...
The Complete Works
AuthorMichel de Montaigne
Describing his collection of Essays as ‘a book consubstantial with its author’, Montaigne identified both the power and the charm of a work which introduces us to one of the most attractive figures in European literature. A humanist, a sceptic, an acute observer of himself and others, he reflects...
Sandro of Chegem
AuthorFazil Iskander
ISBN0224021591
«Сандро из Чегема» — центральное произведение в творчестве Фазиля Искандера, живого классика русской литературы, подарившего ей теплый свет Абхазии,...
Alone with the Alone: Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn 'Arabi
AuthorHenry Corbin
ISBN0691058342
"Henry Corbin's works are the best guide to the visionary tradition.... Corbin, like Scholem and Jonas, is remembered as a scholar of genius. He was uniquely equipped not only to recover Iranian Sufism for the West, but also to defend the principal Western traditions of esoteric spirituality." —From...
The Adventures of Gil Blas
AuthorAlain-René Le Sage
Gils Blas recounts the education and swashbuckling adventures of an adaptable young valet as he progresses from one master to the next, making his way from naive youth to cunning servant to landed proprietor and nobleman--with a stint in jail, bereavements, and fits of remorse along the way. Finally,...
The George MacDonald Treasury
AuthorGeorge MacDonald
ISBN0978891430
s/t: : Princess and the Goblin, Princess and Curdie, Light Princess, Phantastes, Giant's Heart, At the Back of the North Wind, Golden Key, and Lilith
This enchanted collection brings together eight of George McDonald's most well known fantasies into one delightful volume. The George McDonald...
Le Côté de Guermantes I
AuthorMarcel Proust
ISBN2080704702
Après les déceptions d'A l'Ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs, Le Côté de Guermantes, versant opposé du Côté de chez Swann, est encore un roman de la désillusion. Introduit dans le monde des Guermantes - auréolé depuis l'enfance des couleurs du mythe -, le narrateur prend progressivement...
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book II: The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis, 1954-1955
AuthorJacques Lacan
ISBN0393307093
What a relief! To know that nothing and no one depend on me to be the lone persuasive English voice exhorting you to read this! I don't have to prove anything, least of all that I have--first--completely understood and--second--can readily illuminate for you every shadowy nuance of Lacan, both within...
The Woman Who Was Poor : A contemporary novel of the French 'Eighties
AuthorLéon Bloy
Um romance excessivo...ou de extremos. Tipo Paraíso e Inferno...
- Muito vocabulário desconhecido. Cerca de 10% das palavras não sei o que significam.
- As personagens ou são vilões ou quase santos.
- Uma grande carga religiosa. Muita fartura de sermões e orações.
- Quase...
The Trolley
AuthorClaude Simon
ISBN1565848578
Claude Simon, a Nobel Prize–winning author and cultural icon in France, has written a Proustian novel, intermingling the memories of youth and old age. His madeleine is the trolley of the book’s title, the transport that took him to and from school every morning of his childhood. Passing back and...
North
AuthorLouis-Ferdinand Céline
ISBN1564781429
Accompanied by his wife, their cat, and an actor friend, our autobiographical narrator Ferdinand leaves Paris for Baden-Baden (a World War II hideaway for wealthy Germans), is then sent to a bombed-out Berlin, and finally leaves for Denmark in search of the gold he had stashed there prior to the war....
The Complete Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Man Skills
AuthorJoshua Piven
ISBN0811874834
Following the success of The Complete Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook (more than 150,000 copies sold!), this ruggedly handsome hardcover collection brings together new and classic advice from Worst-Case experts to help readers master the manly arts from wrestling an alligator to calming...
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