In 1939, after ten years as an expatriate, Henry Miller returned to the United States with a keen desire to see what his native land was really like—to get to the roots of the American nature and expe…
"Each book by Jack Kerouac is unique, a telepathic diamond. With prose set in the middle of his mind, he reveals consciousness itself in all its syntactic elaboration, detailing the luminous emptiness…
Julius Evola’s final major work, which examines the prototype of the human being who can give absolute meaning to his or her life in a world of dissolution
• Presents a powerful criticism of the idols,…
Shelve Ride the Tiger: A Survival Manual for the Aristocrats of the Soul
Arthur Rimbaud is remembered as much for his volatile personality and tumultuous life as he is for his writings, most of which he produced before the age of eighteen.
A grand, sweeping saga of sacrifice and struggle, this epic tale recaptures the world of Norwegian homesteaders at the turn of the 20th century. It created an international sensation upon first public…
In this volume, which reaffirms the uncompromising brilliance of his mind, Cioran strips the human condition down to its most basic components, birth and death, suggesting that disaster lies not in th…
Augie comes on stage with one of literature’s most famous opening lines. “I am an American, Chicago born, and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: …
“At a glance, Mike comes off like a 1980s teen movie bully on downers.” - Playboy Magazine“…Mike Ma bragged about crashing a White House press conference.” - The Huffington Post. Now, you can read his…
Published in 1936, Absalom, Absalom! is considered by many to be William Faulkner's masterpiece. Although the novel's complex and fragmented structure poses considerable difficulty to readers, the boo…
This magnificent novel—which secured for its author the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature—is at last available to contemporary American readers. Although it is set in the early twentieth century, it reca…
The protagonist of Tobias Wolff’s shrewdly—and at times devastatingly—observed first novel is a boy at an elite prep school in 1960. He is an outsider who has learned to mimic the negligent manner of …
They have names like Barmy Bernie, Daft Donald, and Steamin' Sammy. They like lager (in huge quantities), the Queen, football clubs (especially Manchester United), and themselves. Their dislike encomp…
Hommes, nations, desseins, tout est nul ! Faillite de tout à cause de tous ! Faillite de tous à cause de tout ! D'une manière complète, totale, intégrale :
The action of this play takes place in late August 1833 at a hedge-school in the townland of Baile Beag - an Irish speaking community in County Donegal. The 'scholars' are a cross-section of the local…
Dez anos após sua retumbante estréia no cenário literário nacional, o mestre do conto, no topo de sua capacidade artística e estilística, continuava nos brindando com seus inconfundíveis e característ…
Numa época em que o teatro russo era dominado pelos melodramas, Tchékhov radicalizou a arte dramática ao escrever peças nas quais destrinchava os hábitos, os amores e os desejos das pessoas comuns. P…
Shelve O Jardim das Cerejeiras seguido de Tio Vânia
Though raised Catholic, in the early 1950s Jack Kerouac became fascinated with Buddhism, an interest that would have a profound impact on his ideas of spirituality and their expression in his writing …
Manirema bij het vallen van de avond – voorboden, voortekens, geluiden. Aangedragen door de wind, die rond de straathoeken speelt, het onvermijdelijke hondengeblaf en gehuil van baby’s met oorpijn of …
