Wislawa Szymborska
Editura: Houghton Mifflin
Reflecting Poland's Nobel Laureate's own eclectic tastes and interests, the pretexts for these ruminations range from books on wallpapering, cooking, gardening, and yoga, to more ...
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Rainer Maria Rilke
Editura: Vintage
Written between 1903 and 1908 to a student who had sent Rilke his poems for evaluation, these ten letters--among the most famous and beloved of this century--reveal the deeply felt ...
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Rainer Maria Rilke
Editura: Dover Publications
In 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, requesting an assessment of their value. The older artist, Rainer Maria Rilke ...
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Rainer Maria Rilke
Editura: W. W. Norton & Company
Drawn by some sympathetic note in one of his poems, young people often wrote to Rilke with their problems and hopes. From 1903 to 1908 Rilke wrote a series of remarkable responses ...
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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Editura: Tomo
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Rainer Maria Rilke
Editura: Dover Publications
Born in Prague when it was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire and recognized today as a master of verse, poet Rainer Maria Rilke was considerably less well known in 1902 when he ...
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Michel Montaigne
Editura: Everyman's Library
The great themes of existence are explored in the only single-volume edition of the complete works--essays, letters, and travel journals--of Michel de Montaigne, the father, and ...
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Sappho
Editura: University Of California Press
Poetry | Ancient Literature These hundred poems and fragments constitute virtually all of Sappho that survives and effectively bring to life the woman whom the Greeks consider ...
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Rainer Maria Rilke
Editura: Modern Library
Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet are arguably the most famous and beloved letters of the twentieth century. Written when the poet was himself still a young man, with most of his ...
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Rainer Maria Rilke
Editura: New World Library
This modern translation of Rilke's classic letters of wisdom and advice touches upon a wide range of subjects that are sure to be of interest to writers, artists, and thinkers.
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Stefan Zweig
Editura: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Este libro es la particular visi n de Zweig acerca de la vida del influyente pol tico franc s Joseph Fouch , que desempe un papel importante en la Francia de finales del siglo ...
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Christine De Pizan
Editura: Persea Books
In dialogues with three celestial ladies, Reason, Rectitude, and Justice, Christine de Pizan (1365-ca. 1429) builds an allegorical fortified city for women using examples of the ...
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Leonardo Da Vinci
Editura: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
This is a facsimile (in black and white) of De Divina Proportione ("On the Divine Proportion"), printed June 1st 1509 in Venice, of which only two copies reached our XXIth century. ...
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Rainer Maria Rilke
Editura: Penguin Books
At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, sex, suffering and the nature of advice ...
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Olly Richards
Editura: Teach Yourself
An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners of Dutch. "Olly's top-notch language-learning insights are ...
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Peter Handke
Editura: Seagull Books
Described as an answer to or at least an echo of Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape ? , Till Day You Do Part Or A Question of Light , by esteemed Austrian playwright and novelist ...
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