Favorite Poems Of Emily Dickinson
8 best books like Favorite Poems Of Emily Dickinson (Emily Dickinson): Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, An Orchestra of Minorities, Night Boat to Tangier, Dos crímenes, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Snow, Glass, Apples, The Wreath, Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Author | Pablo Neruda |
ISBN | 0143039962 |
When it appeared in 1924, this work launched into the international spotlight a young and unknown poet whose writings would ignite a generation. W. S. Merwin's incomparable translation faces the original Spanish text. Now in a black-spine Classics edition with an introduction by Cristina Garcia,...
An Orchestra of Minorities
Author | Chigozie Obioma |
ISBN | 0316412392 |
A heart-breaking and mythic story about a Nigerian poultry farmer who sacrifices everything to win the woman he loves, by Man Booker Finalist and author of The Fishermen, Chigozie Obioma.
A contemporary twist on the Odyssey, An Orchestra of Minorities is narrated by the chi, or spirit of a...
Author | Kevin Barry |
ISBN | 0385540310 |
In the dark waiting room of the ferry terminal in the sketchy Spanish port of Algeciras, two aging Irishmen — Maurice Hearne and Charlie Redmond, longtime partners in the lucrative and dangerous enterprise of smuggling drugs — sit at night, none too patiently. It is October 23, 2018, and they are...
Author | Jorge Ibargüengoitia |
Un hombre inocente es buscado por la policía. Decide ocultarse con su amante en un lugar apartado mientras pasa el peligro. Pero no tiene dinero. Para conseguirlo viaja a una ciudad de provincia y llega a la casa de un tío suyo, que es el hombre más rico de la región. En los días que siguen, el perseguido,...
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
In these first five stories about Poe's detective Auguste Dupin, he establishes many of the traditions or motifs we know from classic detective fiction. The eccentric but brilliant detective who solves the mystery merely by analysing the facts from his armchair, the mystery of how a murder was committed...
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Oh my! Snow, Glass, Apples is some twisted, dark and creepy fairytale retelling of Snow White, lovely and dear Snow White. In this short story written by the critically acclaimed author Neil Gaiman, she is pure and innocent no more. Better watch out: the mask she wears might...
Author | Sigrid Undset |
ISBN | 0141180412 |
Originally published in Norwegian in 1920 and set in fourteenth-century Norway, The Wreath chronicles the courtship of a headstrong and passionate young woman and a dangerously charming and impetuous man. Undset re-creates the historical backdrop in vivid detail, immersing readers in the day-to-day...
Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight
Much has been written about Neil Armstrong, America's modern hero, history's most famous space traveler, and the first man to walk on the moon. Yet shy of fame and never one to steal the spotlight Armstrong was always reluctant to discuss his personal side of events. Here for the first time is the definitive...