The Asiatics

Author	Boris Pasternak
ISBN	0679774386

This epic tale about the effects of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath on a bourgeois family was not published in the Soviet Union until 1987. One of the results of its publication in the West was Pasternak's complete rejection by Soviet authorities; when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature...

Author	Mary Renault
ISBN	0099463539

4.5 stars

Mary Renault’s _The Bull from the Sea_ takes up where The King Must Die left off and continues the legendary story of Theseus and his kingship of Attica. There are some differences between this volume and its predecessor, most notably in the fact that the scope of this tale is much...

Author	Lope de Vega
ISBN	9507399194

Lope con esta obra aparece como el escritor que descubre al pueblo como personaje colectivo que actúa en escena de una manera conjunta.

La obra se interpreta como el levantamiento del pueblo en su rebeldía contra el tirano, de cualquier condición que éste sea, en defensa de la libertad...

Author	Gerald Brittle
ISBN	0595246184

If you think ghosts are only responsible for hauntings, think again. The Demonologist reveals the grave religious process behind supernatural events and how it can happen to you. Over twenty years in print, here is the original uncut version of this classic text. Illustrated with photographs of phenomena...

Author	Vladimir Nabokov
ISBN	0811216748

"Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned his wife for the sake of a youthful mistress; he loved; was not loved; and his life ended in disaster." Thus begins Vladimir Nabokov's Laughter in the Dark; this, the author tells...

Author	Gene Stratton-Porter
ISBN	0253204577

Please don't let my wife read this book - I would never hear the end of it. The reader should remember that David Langston, Porter's Harvester, was, after all, only a fictional character. He never really existed.

Having said that, I was mesmerized by the sweep, intensity and energy of this book....

Author	Wallace Stevens
ISBN	0571237932

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the...