The most indispensable poems of Brazil's greatest poet.
Brazil, according to no less an observer than Elizabeth Bishop, is a place where poets hold a place of honor. "Among men, the name of ‘poet' is sometimes used as a compliment or term of...
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In critical opinion and popular polls, Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s Graveyard Clay is invariably ranked the most important prose work in modern Irish. This bold new translation of his radically original Cré na Cille is the shared project of two fluent...
Headline in the San Francisco Chronicle: Terrorists Take Over Nuclear Plant!
Nick Connor, an elite ex-Special Forces operative and the head of NeXus, a private security company with ties to the highest levels of government, refused to confirm...
In February 1981, Spain was still emerging from Franco's shadow, holding a democratic vote for the new prime minister. On the day of the vote in Parliament, while the session was being filmed by TV cameras, a band of right-wing soldiers burst in...
A coterie of artists, prostitutes, saints, and seers are all aspiring towards fame and hoping for love and acceptance. Instead they find high rents, faithless partners, and dead-end careers. Offbeat, funny and bitingly satirical, "Slaves of New...
Death...
Oliver Sacks has always been fascinated by islands—their remoteness, their mystery, above all the unique forms of life they harbor. For him, islands conjure up equally the romance of Melville and Stevenson, the adventure of Magellan and Cook, and...
Автор: Мун Элизабет Зухер
Серия: The Deed of Paksenarrion #2
Язык: английский
Год: 1988
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Once a sheepfarmer’s daughter, now a seasoned veteran, Paksenarrion has proven herself a fighter. Years with Duke Phelan’s Company taught her weaponry, discipline, and how to react as part of a military unit.
Now, though, Paks feels spurred to a...
Автор: Мун Элизабет Зухер
Серия: The Deed of Paksenarrion #3
Язык: английский
Год: 1989
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Paksenarrion—Paks for short—was somebody special. Never could she have followed her father’s orders and married the pig farmer down the road. Better a soldier’s life than a pig farmer’s wife, and so, though she knew that she could never go...
Автор: Брукс Терри
Серия: The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara #1
Язык: английский
Год: 2000
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