The Labyrinth of Solitude (Paz Octavio)(Paperback)

The Labyrinth of Solitude (Paz Octavio)(Paperback)

Octavio Paz has long been acknowledged as Mexico's foremost writer and critic. In this international classic, Paz has written one of the most enduring and powerful works ever created on Mexico and its people, character, and culture. Compared to Ortega y Gasset's The Revolt of the Masses for its

The Poems of Octavio Paz (Paz Octavio)(Paperback)

The Poems of Octavio Paz is the first retrospective collection of Paz's poetry to span his entire writing career from his first published poem, at age seventeen, to his magnificent last poem. This landmark bilingual edition contains many poems that have never been translated into English before,

Stvořeni z hlíny - Octavio Paz

Stvořeni z hlíny. Od romantismu po avantgardu (1974) je stěžejní esejistickou knihou Octavia Paze o moderní poezii. Přinesla originální pohled na téma modernity 'z druhého břehu'. Mexický básník v ní uvažuje o podvojném vztahu evropské a americké lyriky k moderní éře, k níž

Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972 (Pizarnik Alejandra)(Paperback)

Revered by the likes of Octavio Paz and Roberto Bolano, Alejandra Pizarnik is still a hidden treasure in the U.S. Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 1972 comprises all of her middle to late work, as well as a selection of posthumously published verse. Obsessed with themes of solitude,

Pan's Labyrinth - The Labyrinth of the Faun (del Toro Guillermo)(Paperback / softback)

Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic, Vol. 19, Volume 19: The Labyrinth of Magic (Ohtaka Shinobu)(Paperback)

The Spanish Labyrinth (Brenan Gerald)(Paperback)

Gerald Brenan's The Spanish Labyrinth has become the classic account of the background to the Spanish Civil War. Written during and immediately after the Civil War, this book has all the vividness of the author's experience. It represents a struggle to see the issues in Spanish politics

Piedra de Sol = Sunstone (Paz Octavio)(Paperback)

Presented in Eliot Weinberger's excellent new translation with the Spanish texts en face, this is the 1957 poem 'that definitively established Paz as a major international figure' (Sagetrieb). Written as a single cyclical sentence (at the end of the poem the first six lines are written again),

A History of Solitude (Vincent David)(Paperback)

Solitude has always had an ambivalent status: the capacity to enjoy being alone can make sociability bearable, but those predisposed to solitude are often viewed with suspicion or pity. Drawing on a wide array of literary and historical sources, David Vincent explores how people have conducted

London's Labyrinth: The World Beneath the City's Streets (Rule Fiona)(Paperback)

London's Labyrinth exposes the sinister side of the subterranean city in Victorian times: from the shocking bomb attacks on the Metropolitan and District Lines in 1883 to the sad tale of unrequited love at Charing Cross, where a young man shot the object of his affections before turning the gun on

In the Labyrinth of Drakes - A Memoir by Lady Trent (Brennan Marie)(Paperback / softback)

Jean-Luc Bertini: Amricaines Solitudes (Bertini Jean-Luc)(Pevná vazba)

A photographic study of the varied character of solitude in AmericaOver the course of a decade, French photographer Jean-Luc Bertini traveled the length and breadth of the United States, creating portraits of the unique circumstance of isolation fostered by the country's geographic circumstances

Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation - Octavia E. Butlerová, Damian Duffy

The graphic-novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler's groundbreaking dystopian novel, Parable of the Sower, the follow-up to Kindred, a #1 New York Times bestsellerIn this graphic-novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower by Damian Duffy and John Jennings, the award-winning team

One Hundred Years of Solitude (Marquez Gabriel Garcia)(Paperback / softback)

One of the most influential literary works of our time, One Hundred Years of Solitude remains a dazzling and original achievement by the masterful Gabriel Garcia Marquez, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of

One Hundred Years of Solitude (Garcia Marquez Gabriel)(Paperback)

Gabriel Garc a M rquez's finest and most famous work, the Nobel Prize-winning One Hundred Years of Solitude chronicles, through the course of a century, life in Macondo and the lives of six Buend a generations-from Jos Arcadio and rsula, through their son, Colonel Aureliano Buend a (who commands

The Burmese Labyrinth (Galache Carlos Sardina)(Paperback)

A first-hand account of the complex, bloody history of Myanmar and the origins of the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingyas In 2011, Myanmar embarked in a democratic transition from a brutal military rule that culminated four years later, when the first free election in decades saw a landslide for the

Fortress of Solitude (Lethem Jonathan)(Paperback / softback)

From the prize-winning author of Motherless Brooklyn, a daring, riotous, sweeping novel that spins the tale of two friends and their adventures in late 20th-century America. This is the story of two boys, Dylan Ebdus and Mingus

Midnight Palace (Zafon Carlos Ruiz)(Paperback / softback)

From the author of THE SHADOW OF THE WIND, the haunting story of a secret society and a labyrinthine railway station with a dark

Our Lady of the Flowers (Genet Jean)(Paperback)

Jean Genet's masterpiece, composed entirely in the solitude of his prison cell. With an introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre. Jean Genet's first, and arguably greatest, novel was written while he was in prison. As Sartre recounts in his introduction, Genet penned this work on the brown paper which

The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi (Maharshi Ramana)(Paperback)

After six years of solitude, eminent teacher Ramana Maharshi answers, with extreme sincerity, on the topics of peace, the self, and silence--featuring a foreword by Carl Jung The renowned Indian sage Ramana Maharshi is widely beloved--by Buddhists, Hindus, Christians, Taoists, and more--for the

The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi (Maharshi Ramana)(Paperback)

After six years of solitude, eminent teacher Ramana Maharshi answers, with extreme sincerity, on the topics of peace, the self, and silence--featuring a foreword by Carl Jung The renowned Indian sage Ramana Maharshi is widely beloved--by Buddhists, Hindus, Christians, Taoists, and more--for the

Making of Pan's Labyrinth (Nunziata Nick)(Pevná vazba)

As well as the complete story of the making of Pan's Labyrinth. this book showcases incredible visuals from del Toro's initial musings in his famed journals to exquisite concept art and rare photography from the set, alongside removable items, including script pages and call

Labyrinth of Dreaming Books (Moers Walter)(Paperback / softback)

The Complete Aliens Omnibus: Volume Three (Rogue, Labyrinth): (rogue, Labyrinth) (Schofield Sandy)(Mass Market Paperbound)

Welcome to the former penal colony of Charon, where a labyrinth of underground tunnels offer shelter to an Alien hive. Professor Ernst Kleist rules-a paranoid tyrant who sees and hears all. Captain Joyce Palmer is bound for Charon. Only she and a few hand-picked Marines can stop Kleist in his