Collected Poems in English and French
8 best books like Collected Poems in English and French (Samuel Beckett): Four Quartets, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, The Waste Land, Coyote Doggirl, The Judgement of Strangers, Considerations on Western Marxism, Good Dog, The Office of the Dead
| Author | T.S. Eliot |
| ISBN | 0571068944 |
The Four Quartets is a series of four poems by T.S. Eliot, published individually from 1936 to 1942, and in book form in 1943; it was considered by Eliot himself to be his finest work. Each of the quartets has five "movements" and each is titled by a place name -- BURNT NORTON (1936), EAST COKER (1940), THE...
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
| Author | Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| ISBN | 0486434141 |
If humans are benevolent by nature, how do societies become corrupt? And how do governments founded upon the defense of individual rights degenerate into tyranny? These are the questions addressed by Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, a strikingly original inquiry...
| Author | T.S. Eliot |
| ISBN | 0393974995 |
The text of Eliot's 1922 masterpiece is accompanied by thorough explanatory annotations as well as by Eliot's own knotty notes, some of which require annotation themselves.
For ease of reading, this Norton Critical Edition presents The Waste Land as it first appeared in the American edition...
| Author | Lisa Hanawalt |
| ISBN | 1770463257 |
Coyote Doggirl is Hanawalt’s homage to and lampoon of Westerns like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, featuring a fiercely independent female protagonist who sews her own crop tops and has no patience for etiquette. A gifted equestrian, Coyote Doggirl is half dog, half coyote, and a whole lot of...
The second novel of the trilogy is the story of David Byfield, a widowed parish priest with a dark past and a darker future. Set in 1970 in a commuter village near London, the novel explores the consequences of Byfield's second marriage.
Roth is not so much a village as a suburban state of mind....
| Author | Perry Anderson |
| ISBN | 0860917207 |
This influential Marxist text by the longtime editor of the radical New Left Review studies the development of 20th Century Marxist theory. Anderson defends the political and economic "Classical" tradition of Lenin and Trotsky against the aesthetic and cultural "Western" Marxist tradition of...
| Author | Graham Chaffee |
| ISBN | 1606996363 |
Good Dog marks the welcome return of alternative cartoonist Graham Chaffee, who, after his successful 2003 collection of short stories, The Most Important Thing and other Stories, took a detour to devote himself to the art of tattooing, before charging back with his new, beautifully conceived graphic...
| Author | Andrew Taylor |
| ISBN | 0006496555 |
Janet Byfield has everything Wendy Appleyard lacks: she's beautiful; she has a handsome husband, a clergyman on the verge of promotion; and most of all she has an adorable little daughter, Rosie. So when Wendy's life falls apart, it's to her oldest friend, Janet, that she turns.
At first it...
