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Hailed as the greatest modern lyrical poet of Germany, Rainer Maria Rilke's genius lies in his passion for perfection, artistic integrity and 'willingness to remain a perpetual beginner'. The verse...

In 1916, Rainer Maria Rilke presented his friend Rudolf Kassner with a notebook, containing twenty-two poems meticulously inscribed in his own hand and bearing the title Poems to Night. This...

Rainer Maria Rilke developed one of the most singular poetic styles of the twentieth century. Visionary yet always anchored in the real world, his poems give profound expression to fundamental...

The captivating original English translation of Rilke's landmark poetry cycle, by Vita and Edward Sackville-West In 1931, Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Hogarth Press published a beautiful edition of Rainer Maria...

An intimate glimpse into the life and letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, one of the most important poets of the twentieth century. In July 1921, displaced European poet Rainer Maria...

A collection of correspondence between Rainer Maria Rilke, Boris Pasternak and Marina Tsvetayeva. Published for the first time in English, these 49 letters examine their thought and work, the nature...

Walking in the Luxembourg Garden, exchanging letters about enigmatic diva Eleonora Duse or an irascible Tolstoy: Rainer Maria Rilke's French translator Maurice Betz enjoyed a rare intimacy with the great...

Michael Hulse's new translation perfectly conveys the unsettling beauty of the original and is accompanied by an introduction on Rilke's life and the biographical and literary influences on the Notebooks....

Edition: 3rd., ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed , price clippedMarkings: No markingsDuino Elegies presents a monumental cycle of ten poems that grapple with profound existential questions concerning...

Author: Lesley Chamberlain Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 When Rilke died in 1926, his reputation as a great poet seemed secure. But as the tide of the critical avant-garde...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings visible. A landmark of early twentieth-century modernist literature, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge presents the...

"In a world stupefied by quick fixes and easy answers, Elizabeth Weingarten delivers a smart and urgent wake-up call."-Daniel H. Pink "An interesting, insightful, and surprisingly reassuring read."-Adam Grant, #1...

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Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark anthology in the study of German literature, Modern German Poetry presents a...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew poets have conjured the numinous from the everyday with the same quiet mastery as Walter de la Mare, and this curated...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Baron Bagge, a cavalry officer during the First World War, receives orders from his unhinged commander to ride into Russian machine...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsA landmark work of Russian literary autobiography and prose, Safe Conduct presents Boris Pasternak's lyrical account of his...

In the introduction to his selection of some of the greatest sonnets ever written, Paul Muldoon reminds us that part of the reason for the 'durability' of the sonnet is...

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In a series of readings of Sophocles, Holderlin, Baudelaire, Nietzsche and Benjamin, Rainer Nagele investigates the extraordinary territory that lies not merely between texts but also between languages - in...

It's hard to be good when living is expensive. And times are tough on the streets these days. Luckily for Rilke at Bowery Auctions the demand for no-questions-asked cash is...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn an era defined by global conflict and profound national uncertainty, L. H. Allen's Patria stands as a deeply felt meditation on homeland, identity,...

These fascinating, never-before-published early diaries of Count Harry Kessler--patron, museum director, publisher, cultural critic, soldier, secret agent, and diplomat--present a sweeping panorama of the arts and politics of Belle epoque...

Marcel Reich-Ranicki has lived a colourful and picaresque life. Born in 1920 of Polish Jewish parents, he spent his youth in Berlin until the Nazis came to power. In 1938...

The Storyteller gathers for the first time the fiction of the legendary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin, best known for his groundbreaking studies of culture and literature, including Illuminations ,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: Some pencil underlining.In the mid-nineteenth century, Charles Baudelaire turned his razor-sharp critical eye upon the teeming spectacle of Parisian modernity, producing a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn A Fine Anger, Neil Philip delivers a rigorous and illuminating critical study of one of Britain's most enigmatic and celebrated authors, Alan Garner, whose...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn an era when painting, theatre, and literature were bound together by a shared visual language, Martin Meisel's Realizations presents...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of Abstract Expressionism and raw, unbridled artistic genius stands Willem de Kooning — and Willem...

A harrowing array of scary stories that all have one thing in common: each either begins or ends with a scream! R.L. Stine-the godfather of Goosebumps-and some of the most...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew collections in the world rival the extraordinary sweep of the Hermitage in Leningrad, and French Painting from the Hermitage Leningrad: Mid-19th to Early 20th...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThe skies over Britain in the summer of 1940 became the stage for one of history's most desperate...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the crossroads of science, philosophy, and imagination stands the robot — humanity's most ambitious attempt to recreate itself in metal and code. Robots: Machines...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew artists captured the ineffable beauty of leisure and longing quite like Jean-Antoine Watteau, the French Rococo master whose shimmering canvases defined an era...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThe nineteenth century was an era of seismic transformation — a period in which the ancient certainties of...

The moving, musical drama about love, life, pain, and passion that inspired the hit anime returns in a huge omnibus edition! This collectible reissue includes Vol. 4-6 of the manga--over...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA missing millionaire, a deceptive wife, and a trail that winds through the rain-soaked landscapes of Europe —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Some general wear on binding but otherwise good copy.What does it mean for a woman writer to find herself — truly find herself...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markings,Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersIn the skies above a continent at war, Der Adler...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew artists have reshaped the landscape of contemporary painting as boldly and as deliberately as Kerry James Marshall, and History of Painting stands as a definitive...