The Stray Dog Cabaret: A Book of Russian Poems
7 best books like The Stray Dog Cabaret: A Book of Russian Poems (Paul Schmidt): The Day of the Owl, R.U.R., Vita Nuova, Victoria, Collected Poems, Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial, Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice
A man is shot dead as he runs to catch the bus in the piazza of a small Sicilian town. Captain Bellodi, the detective on the case, is new to his job and determined to prove himself. Bellodi suspects the Mafia, and his suspicions grow when he finds himself up against an apparently unbreachable wall of silence....
| Author | Karel Čapek |
| ISBN | 0486419266 |
R.U.R.--written in 1920--garnered worldwide acclaim for its author and popularized the word "Robot." Mass-produced, efficient and servile labor, Čapek's Robots remember everything, but lack creative thought, and the Utopian life they provide ultimately lacks meaning. When the Robots revolt,...
| Author | Dante Alighieri |
| ISBN | 0192839357 |
Vita Nuova (1292-94) is regarded as one of Dante's most profound creations. The thirty-one poems in the first of his major writings are linked by a lyrical prose narrative celebrating and debating the subject of love. Composed upon Dante's meeting with Beatrice and the "Lord of Love," it is a love story...
| Author | Knut Hamsun |
| ISBN | 0285647598 |
you would think i would have sopped this thing up with a hunk of bread: doomed lovers, the impossibility of communication, the way we hurt the ones we love? that should have karen's stamp of approval all over it.
but it's like hamsun took a great idea for literary exploration and then constructed...
| Author | Robert Hayden |
| ISBN | 0871401592 |
Robert Hayden was a fellow of the American Academy of Poets, a poetry consultant to the Library of Congress, and a professor of English at the University of Michigan. He received numerous awards for his poetry in his lifetime, among them to Hopwood Awards, the Grand Prize for Poetry at the First World...
Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial
| Author | Janet Malcolm |
| ISBN | 0300167466 |
"Astringent and absorbing. . . . Iphigenia in Forest Hills casts, from its first pages, a genuine spell — the kind of spell to which Ms. Malcolm’s admirers (and I am one) have become addicted."—Dwight Garner, New York Times
"She couldn't have done it and she must have done it." This is the...
Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice
| Author | Janet Malcolm |
| ISBN | 0300125518 |
"How had the pair of elderly Jewish lesbians survived the Nazis?" Janet Malcolm asks at the beginning of this extraordinary work of literary biography, criticism, and investigative journalism. The pair, of course, is modernist master Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, the "worker bee" who ministered...
