Olives
9 best books like Olives (A.E. Stallings): A Season in Hell, Island Beneath the Sea, Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style, Deaf Republic: Poems, Civilization and Its Discontents, Tales from Earthsea, My Alexandria, Cien años de soledad: Sumario, analisis de laobra y estudio sobre el autor y su espoca, The Essential Jung: Selected Writings
| Author | Arthur Rimbaud |
| ISBN | 0821224581 |
I'm an organized person. Psychotically organized. Except when it comes to books. I try to plan my readings, I try to finish one book in order to begin a new one, but it's all in vain. I read what I want to read, whenever I have the need of reading it. So, with four books on my currently-reading shelf, today I...
| Author | Isabel Allende |
| ISBN | 0061988243 |
Born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue, Zarité -- known as Tété -- is the daughter of an African mother she never knew and one of the white sailors who brought her into bondage. Though her childhood is one of brutality and fear, Tété finds solace in the traditional rhythms of African drums and...
Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
| Author | Benjamin Dreyer |
| ISBN | 0812995708 |
A witty, informative guide to writing "good English" from Random House's longtime copy chief and one of Twitter's leading enforcers of proper grammar--a twenty-first-century
Elements of Style.
As authoritative as it is amusing, this book distills everything Benjamin Dreyer has...
| Author | Ilya Kaminsky |
| ISBN | 1555978312 |
Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry
Finalist for the T. S. Eliot Prize
Finalist for the Forward Prize for Best Collection
Ilya Kaminsky’s astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?
Deaf Republic opens in an occupied country in a time of political...
Civilization and Its Discontents
| Author | Sigmund Freud |
| ISBN | 0393301583 |
It stands as a brilliant summary of the views on culture from a psychoanalytic perspective that he had been developing since the turn of the century. It is both witness and tribute to the late theory of mind—the so-called structural theory, with its stress on aggression, indeed the death drive, as...
| Author | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| ISBN | 0441011241 |
Tales from Earth Sea (The Earthsea Cycle, #5), Ursula K. Le Guin
Tales from Earthsea is a collection of fantasy stories and essays by American author Ursula K. Le Guin, published by Harcourt in 2001. It accompanies five novels (1968 to 2001) set in the fictional archipelago Earthsea.
"The Finder"....
| Author | Mark Doty |
| ISBN | 0252022106 |
A versatile, technically astute poet, Doty masterfully tackles themes of death, beauty and discovery in this collection. Particularly moving is "Days of 1981," in which he recalls the memory of his first gay lover--a sculptor he met in a bar. "Nothing was promised, nothing sustained/or lethal offered....
Cien años de soledad: Sumario, analisis de laobra y estudio sobre el autor y su espoca
| Author | Gabriel García Márquez |
| ISBN | 8434602601 |
" Las estirpes condenadas a cien años de soledad no tendrán una segunda oportunidad sobre la tierra".
The Essential Jung: Selected Writings
| Author | C.G. Jung |
| ISBN | 0691029350 |
This volume presents the essentials of Jung's thought in his own words. To familiarize readers with the ideas for which Jung is best known, the British psychiatrist and writer Anthony Storr has selected extracts from Jung's writings that pinpoint his many original contributions and relate the development...
