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77 Dream Songs - Poems by John Berryman; Daniel Swift (Editor); Henri Cole (Introduction by)
Category: Poetry | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
A wild, masterful Pulitzer Prize-winning cycle of poems that half a century later still shocks and astounds John Berryman was hardly unknown when he published77 Dream Songs, but the volume was, nevertheless, a shock and a revelation. A "spooky" collection in the words of Robert Lowell-"a maddening work ...Show more
A Sorrow Beyond Dreams - A Life Story by Peter Handke; Jeffrey Eugenides (Introduction by); Ralph Manheim (Translator)
Category: Biography | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
"The Sunday edition of the K rntner Volkszeitung carried the following item under 'Local News': 'In the village of A. (G. township), a housewife, aged 51, committed suicide on Friday night by taking an overdose of sleeping pills.'" So opens A Sorrow Beyond Dreams, the eminent Austrian novelist and play ...Show more
Assistant by Malamud Professor Bernard
Category: Fiction | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
The Assistant, Bernard Malamud's second novel, originally published in 1957, is the story of Morris Bober, a grocer in postwar Brooklyn, who "wants better" for himself and his family. First two robbers appear and hold him up; then things take a turn for the better when broken-nosed Frank Alpine becomes ...Show more
Berlin/Wall by David Hare
Category: Poetry | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
In two contrasted readings for the stage, David Hare visits a place where a famous wall has come down, and a place where a wall is going up. BERLINFor his whole adult life, David Hare has been visiting the city that so many young people regard as the most exciting in Europe. But there's something in Ber ...Show more
Christopher and His Kind A Memoir by Christopher Isherwood
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
An indispensable memoir by one of the most prominent writers of his generationOriginally published in 1976, Christopher and His Kind covers the most memorable ten years in the writer’s life—from 1928, when Christopher Isherwood left England to spend a week in Berlin and decided to stay there indefinitel ...Show more
Collected Poems of Lorca by Federico Garcia Lorca
Category: Poetry | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
A revised edition of this major writer's complete poetical work ""And I who was walking""with the earth at my waist, ""saw two snowy eagles""and a naked girl.""The one was the other""and the girl was neither.""--from "Qasida of the Dark Doves" Federico Garcia Lorca is the greatest poet of twentieth-cent ...Show more
Down There on a Visit by Christopher Isherwood (New Directions)
Category: Fiction | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
Bremen, 1928. The Greek Islands, 1932. London, 1938. California, 1940. Four portraits, four settings, four narrators all named Christopher Isherwood. Here are the postcards home from a spiritual tourist looking for a new mode of life as well as a new place to live while Europe, and then the world, moves ...Show more
Epitaph of a Small Winner by William L. Grossman (Translator); Susan Sontag (Foreword by); Shari Frisch (Illustrator); Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Category: Fiction | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
In these memoirs, Braz Cubas, a wealthy nineteenth-century Brazilian, examines (from beyond the grave) his rather undistinguished life in 160 short chapters that are filled with philosophical digressions and exuberant insights. A clear forerunner of Gabriel Garc a M rquez and Jorge Luis Borges, Epitaph ...Show more
Less Than One - Selected Essays by Joseph Brodsky
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
This collection of essays thrusts Brodsky--heretofore known more for his poetry and translations--into the forefront of the Third Wave of Russian emigre writers. His insights into the works of Dostoyevsky, Mandelstam, Platonov, as well as non-Russian poets Auden, Cavafy and Montale are brilliant. While ...Show more
Life Studies and for the Union Dead by Robert Lowell
Category: Gift | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
Robert Lowell, with Elizabeth Bishop, stands apart as the greatest American poet of the latter half of the twentieth century--and Life Studies and For the Union Dead stand as among his most important volumes. In Life Studies, which was first published in 1959, Lowell moved away from the formality of his ...Show more
Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kirsten Bakis; Jeff VanderMeer (Introduction by)
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
The twentieth anniversary of a postmodern classic, blending the gothic novel with bleeding-edge science fiction After a century of cruel experimentation, a haunted race of genetically and biomechanically uplifted canines are created by the followers of a mad nineteenth-century Prussian surgeon. Possess ...Show more
MYSTERIES by HAMSUN KNUT
Category: Fiction | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
In a Norwegian coastal town, society's carefully woven threads begin to unravel when an unsettling stranger named Johan Nagel arrives. With an often brutal insight into human nature, Nagel draws out the townsfolk, exposing their darkest instincts and suppressed desires. At once arrogant and unassuming, ...Show more