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Selected Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke
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...
Letters to a Young Poet
Rilke's powerfully touching letters to an aspiring young poet, now in Penguin Classics At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a...
Poems to Night
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...
Duino Elegies
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...
Duino Elegies: The German Text, With An English Translation, Introduction And Commentary By J. B. Leishman And Stephen Spender
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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...
Letters, Summer 1926
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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...
Conversations with Rilke
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...
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
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....
Letters to a Young Poet
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Over the course of six years,...
How to Fall in Love with Questions: A New Way to Thrive in Times of
"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...
Modern German Poetry
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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...
Rilke: The Last Inward Man
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...
The Notebooks Of Malte Laurids Brigge
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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...
Scanty Plot of Ground: A Book of Sonnets
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...
The Auschwitz Poems
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the silence of survival comes a voice that refuses to be extinguished — Lily Brett's The Auschwitz...
Echoes of Translation: Reading Between Texts
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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...
Safe Conduct: An Early Autobiography And Other Works
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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...
Everything to Nothing: The Poetry of the Great War, Revolution and the Transformation of Europe
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Venice: Tales of the City
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Conversations with Goethe
A witty introduction to the mind of Goethe, a classic in a new translation for the first time in 150 years Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was the world's most celebrated...
The Lost Book Of Bonn: A Novel
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Selected Poems and Fragments
Michael Hamburger's distinguished translation of a selection of poems by German poet Friedrich Holderlin Friedrich H lderlin (1770-1843) is now recognized as one of Europe's supreme poets. He first found...
Journey to the Abyss: The Diaries of Count Harry Kessler, 1880-1918
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...
The Oratorical Trainer: A System Of Vocal Culture
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Edition: 11th ed., enlarged. Condition remarks:Book: Acceptable Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Acceptable/poor - Some markings in...