Excellent new English translations of title story (considered by many critics Kafka's most perfect work), plus "The Judgment," "In the Penal Colony," "A Country Doctor," and "A Report to an Academy." Note.
This volume contains a rich selection of poems by England's six great Romantic poets: William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats. Encompassing a broad range of subjects, styles, and moods, the emphasis of these late 18th and early 19th century poets is imagination and individual ...
128 rare, vintage photographs: 200 buildings -- 79 of foreign governments, 38 of U.S. states -- the original ferris wheel, first midway, Edison's kinetoscope, much more. 128 black-and-white photographs. Captions. Map. Index.
5 outstanding selections with complete literal English translations on facing pages: Schnitzler's "Lieutenant Gustl," Mann's "Tristan," Kafka's "The Judgment," 2 more.
Works by Villon, Ronsard, Voltaire, Mallarme, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Apollinaire, many more. Full French texts with literal English translations on facing pages. Biographical, critical information on each poet. Introduction. 31 black-and-white illus.
Five great stories in original German with new, literal English translations on facing pages: "The Metamorphosis," "The Judgment," "In the Penal Colony," "A Country Doctor" and "A Report to an Academy."
Over 130 poems by 23 poets, including Goethe, Schiller, Holderlin, Tieck, Heine, Nietzsche, many others. New literal English translations on facing pages. Introduction.
This excellent anthology introduces newcomers to 50 great writers. Beginners can get their first taste of Voltaire, Rousseau, Balzac, Baudelaire, and Proust with passages from "The Red and the Black, Les Miserables, Madame Bovary, " and other classics. Original French text plus English translation on facing pages. Introduction, new English ...
Forty expertly rendered illustrations depict life in Athens, 5th-4th centuries B.C. Includes the building of the Parthenon, a wedding procession, Olympian games, Socrates' trial, and more. Introduction and detailed captions.
Galdos (1843-1920) ranks alongside such 19th-century realists as Dickens, Balzac, and Tolstoy. Throughtout his writings, Galdos chronicles the public and private life of Madrid during its formative years as a modern city. This novella recounts an avaricious moneylender's attempts to restore his son's failing health through acts of charity. Dual ...
Admired and emulated by writers from Chekhov and Lawrence to Pirandello and Dos Passos, Maupassant is the master of the short-story form. Twelve critically acclaimed stories represent all of the author's major recurrent subjects and themes, both comic and tragic. Introduction, new English translation, and notes by Stanley Appelbaum.
Exploring the conflict between free will and predestination, Calderon's most famous play tells of Segismundo, a Polish prince, imprisoned at birth by his father, the King, to thwart the predictions of astrologers. The dual-language edition features an excellent new literal translation on pages facing the original Spanish text. Introduction, Notes ...
The classic coming-of age novel by the celebrated German author and Nobel Laureate. It tells the story of Arthur Sinclair, a young German from a wealthy family. Arthur is a constant target of bullying and abuse at school, until he makes the acquaintance of Max Demian, a mysterious new boy. Demian is at once sensitive and overpowering, and he ...
The 27 world-famous tales in this collection have inspired countless adaptations in many languages. Included are such favorites as "Hansel and Gretel," "The Brave Little Tailor," "Cinderella," and "Little Red Riding Hood," as well as the less familiar tales such as "The Danced-Out Shoes," "The Golden Bird," and "The Six Swans."
Beginning students of Italian language and literature will welcome this bilingual anthology. Ranging from the 14th to the 20th centuries, it features the works of Dante, Boccaccio, Pirandello, and 52 others in both the original Italian and expert English translations on the facing pages. Selections include excerpts from poetry, fiction, history, ...
The World's Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago in 1893, combined nostalgia for the United States' European roots with a celebration of the nation's emergence as a world power. A splendid tribute to the exposition's "White City" of shining Beaux-Arts buildings, this volume offers a grand photographic record, printed in duotone in a sweeping ...
This youthful masterpiece by the author of "The Divine Comedy" recounts the love and loss of Beatrice, Dante's lifelong inspiration. An allegory of spiritual crisis and growth, it combines prose and poetry in a powerful work in the literature of love. This new translation features an informative introduction and notes.
1633 edition, revised and enlarged by Thomas Johnson, with almost 2,850 plant descriptions and 2,705 illustrations, is a monumental work from which all modern English herbals are derived. Every serious herbalist needs it.
Nicaraguan poet and essayist Dario (the pen name of Felix Ruben Garcia Sarmiento) is considered the high priest of the modernismo school of literature. This volume contains a rich selection of his best poems and stories from "Azul" (Blue), "Prosas profanas" (Worldly Hymns), " "and others. Accurate English translations appear on the facing pages ...
New, information-packed introduction and extensive captions accompany more than 120 full-page plates of magnificent, elaborately carved, museum-quality masks worn by actors playing gods, warriors, beautiful women, feudal lords, and supernatural beings. A unique introduction to classic Japanese theater for westerners and an excellent reference for ...
From the realism of Lopez Portillo to the romanticism of Gutierrez Najera, this important collection offers a rich sampling of the finest Mexican prose published from 1843 to 1918. Nine short story selections appear in their original Spanish text, with expert English translations on each facing page.
Intended to convert religiously indifferent readers to Christianity, "Pensees" were published posthumously, to wide and ongoing acclaim. This selection of highlights focuses on their secular aspects. Written in support of the Jansenist movement, "Provincial Letters" captivated a large audience with their satirical wit, righteous indignation, and ...
Magnificent pyramids, the silent Sphinx, gigantic temples of stone, a land and people shrouded by the mists of time. Here are 44 authentically detailed drawings by artist John Green that recall the glory of a magnificent civilization. This beautifully executed volume not only offers colorists of all ages entertainment, it also provides commercial ...
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