At the Bay
10 best books like At the Bay (Katherine Mansfield): The Duel, Leonard Woolf: A Biography, Virginia Woolf, The Squabble, The Secret Rose: Love Poems by W.B. Yeats, The Model Millionaire, The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. Five: 1932-1935, Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957, The Woman Who Rode Away and Other Stories, Five Faces of Modernity: Modernism, Avant-Garde, Decadence, Kitsch, Postmodernism
| Author | Heinrich von Kleist |
| ISBN | 1935554530 |
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"No amount of wisdom could possibly make sense of the mysterious verdict which God intended through this duel."
A new translation of a key work by one of European literature’s most important early writers.
One of the few novellas written by the...
| Author | Victoria Glendinning |
| ISBN | 0743246535 |
Award-winning biographer Victoria Glendinning draws on her deep knowledge of the twentieth century literary scene, and on her meticulous research into previously untapped sources, to write the first full biography of the extraordinary man who was the "dark star" at the center of the Bloomsbury...
| Author | Nigel Nicolson |
| ISBN | 0670894435 |
Virginia Woolf's life as part of the avant-garde Bloomsbury Group has captured the imagination of millions. Now Nigel Nicolson, the distinguished son of British writers Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West -- one of Woolf's closest friends and sometime lover -- threads his personal reminiscences...
| Author | Nikolai Gogol |
| ISBN | 1843910136 |
Nikolai Gogol’s short story is a sublime work of tragi-comedy. In it, he brilliantly ridicules the Ukrainian passion for litigation and reveals life as something really rather absurd. Ivan Ivanovich and Ivan Nikiforovich are the greatest of friends—until the day they begin a foolish quarrel...
The Secret Rose: Love Poems by W.B. Yeats
Četla jsem výtisk z edice Atlantis, kde byly ještě tři krátké povídky Rosa Alchemica - ty mě příliš nezaujaly. Hvězdičky se vztahují pouze na Tajemnou růži. Tu tvoří několik krátkých povídek inspirovaných irskými legendami, mystikou, romantikou a trochou křesťanské...
First published in The World in June 1887. Hughie Erskine is in love and wants to marry, but the girl's father will not allow it, since Erskine has no money. Erskine's friend, Alan Trevor is a painter, and he visits him at his studio one day to find him with a pitiable beggar—the model for his painting....
| Author | Virginia Woolf |
| ISBN | 0156508869 |
As usual, these letters were witty, insightful, profound and sometimes heartbreakingly sad (she lost so many people – but she wrote about grief so well). I have to say, though, I usually don’t mind the introductions to these volumes (by Nigel Nicolson), or at least they usually provide context...
| Author | W.H. Auden |
| ISBN | 0571087353 |
W. H. Auden was once described as the Picasso of modern poetry - a tribute to his ceaseless experimentation with form and subject matter. Beginning with Anglo-Saxon poetry and ending with an Horatian expansiveness and conversational sweep, this volume is essential reading for anyone seriously interested...
| Author | D.H. Lawrence |
| ISBN | 0140188061 |
The thirteen short stories, written 1924-28, are set in Europe and America and reflect Lawrence>'s experiences in the post-war period. Many were considerably revised; some were completely rewritten. The editors give composition histories and discuss publication difficulties. Appendixes...
Five Faces of Modernity: Modernism, Avant-Garde, Decadence, Kitsch, Postmodernism
| Author | Matei Călinescu |
| ISBN | 0822307677 |
Five Faces of Modernity is a series of semantic and cultural biographies of words that have taken on special significance in the last century and a half or so: modernity, avant-garde, decadence, kitsch, and postmodernism. The concept of modernity—the notion that we, the living, are different and...
| Author | Sherwood Anderson |
| ISBN | 0486414116 |
Published two years after the innovative, influential 1919 masterpiece Winesburg, Ohio, this collection of short stories solidified the author's reputation as a major American writer. Despite their narrative simplicity (similar in style to the work of Hemingway, who was highly influenced by...
| Author | Ford Madox Ford |
| ISBN | 1417908645 |
The Last Post is the concluding chapter in Ford's Parade End's series. The critics were divided on whether Ford should even have written this novel as it gives short shrift to the main character, Christopher Tietjens, from the earlier books. However, others believe it had redeeming qualities, mainly...
