Pablo Neruda: A Passion for Life

Author	Charles Baudelaire
ISBN	0879234628

After reading Baudelaire, I suddenly find myself wanting to smoke cigarettes and say very cynical things while donning a trendy haircut. Plus, if I didn't read Baudelaire, how could I possibly carry on conversations with pretentious art students?

In all seriousness, though, I wish my French...

Author	Adam Gopnik
ISBN	0375758232

With singular wit and insight, Gopnik weaves the magical with the mundane in a wholly delightful, often hilarious look at what it was to be an American family man in Paris at the end of the twentieth century.

Paris. The name alone conjures images of chestnut-lined boulevards, sidewalk cafés,...

Author	Dante Alighieri
ISBN	0679433139

The Divine Comedy describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide; his ascent of Mount Purgatory and encounter with his dead love, Beatrice; and finally, his arrival in Heaven. Examining questions of faith, desire and enlightenment, the poem is a brilliantly nuanced and moving allegory...

Author	Ian McGuire
ISBN	1627795944

A ship sets sail with a killer on board . . .
1859. A man joins a whaling ship bound for the Arctic Circle. Having left the British Army with his reputation in tatters, Patrick Sumner has little option but to accept the position of ship's surgeon on this ill-fated voyage. But when, deep into the journey,...

Author	Naguib Mahfouz
ISBN	0385469012

I decided a month or so ago to read some books by Arab authors. I was hoping to find the longing and the loneliness, the need for love and for useful work that we all share as human beings. I hoped that I would find in Arab authors kindred souls to help me bridge the sense of separation that I felt with my Muslim...

Author	Arthur Rimbaud
ISBN	0060955503

Arthur Rimbaud is remembered as much for his volatile personality and tumultuous life as he is for his writings, most of which he produced before the age of eighteen.

This book brings together his poetry, prose, and letters, including "The Drunken Boat," "The Orphans' New Year," "After the...

Author	Pablo Neruda
ISBN	0374529604

The most comprehensive English-language collection of work ever by "the greatest poet of the twentieth century - in any language" - Gabriel García Márquez

"In his work a continent awakens to consciousness." So wrote the Swedish Academy in awarding the Nobel Prize to Pablo Neruda, the author...

Author	Luis Poirot
ISBN	0393306437

Neruda’s poetry ranks among the best of any language, achieving the curious feat of nailing universal themes in the head without sacrificing Chilean quirkiness. The organization of this volume into Absence, Remembrance, and Presence packs an emotional wallop, as we come to know the man first only...