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By any measure, Gary Snyder is one of the greatest poets in America in the last century. From his first book of poems to his latest collection of essays, his work and his example, standing between Tu Fu and Thoreau, has been influential all over the world. Riprap, his first book of poems, was published in Japan in 1959 by Origin Press, and it is the 50th anniversary of that groundbreaking book that is celebrated with this new edition.

Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids recounts the exploits of 15 teenage reformatory boys evacuated to a remote mountain village in wartime. The boys are treated as delinquent outcasts - feared and detested by the local peasants. When plague breaks out, their hosts abandon them and flee, blockading them inside the empty village.

Connect the Dots is the story of 20 enterprising individuals without MBAs who started their own ventures. They were driven by the desire to prove themselves. To lead interesting, passionate, meaningful lives. Their stories say one thing loud and clear: you don't need a fancy degree or a rich daddy to dream big and make it happen. It's all in your head, your heart, your hands.

Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. While his betrayal of family, duty and honour gives him the freedom to achieve greatness, his decision leads to an obsession which carries severe implications.

Totalmente revista e atualizada pelo autor–professor titular de Literatura Brasileira na USP–essa obra consagrada aos estudantes universitários, professores e pós-graduados, é tida como a melhor do gênero. Está divida em oito partes: Condição Colonial, Barroco, Arcádia e Ilustração, Romantismo, Realismo, Pré-Modernismo, Modernismo e Tendências Contemporâneas e História da Literatura Brasileira.

Award-winning novelist Minae Mizumura demystifies the notion of the selfless Japanese mother and the adult daughter honor-bound to care for her. Mitsuki Katsura, a Japanese woman in her mid-50s, is a French-language instructor at a private university in Tokyo. Her husband, whom she met in Paris, is a professor at another private university. He is having an affair with a much younger woman. In addition to her husband's infidelity, Mitsuki must deal with her ailing 80-something mother.

Corrispondenze, interviste, reportages, critiche ed elzeviri apparsi sul "Corriere della Sera" a firma di Buzzati durante l'intero arco della sua lunga carriera. Un eccezionale connubio tra giornalismo e letteratura.

Oe's most important novel, A Personal Matter, has been called by The New York Times "close to a perfect novel". In A Personal Matter, Oe has chosen a difficult, complex though universal subject: how does one face and react to the birth of an abnormal child?

As she races along Canada's Douglas Channel in her speedboat - heading toward the place where her younger brother Jimmy, presumed drowned, was last seen - 20-year-old Lisamarie Hill recalls her younger days. A volatile and precocious Native girl growing up in Kitamaat, the Haisla Indian reservation located 500 miles north of Vancouver, Lisa came of age standing with her feet firmly planted in two different worlds.

Gary Pak has emerged as one of the most important Asian Hawaiian writers of our time. In this new collection, Pak expertly crafts a memorable cast of Hawai'i's Korean Americans, Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans, and Native Hawaiians, amplifying our cross-cultural understanding of Hawaiian life today.

Considerado um dos romances mais inventivos da América Latina e o fundador da modernidade literatura argentina, a obra-prima de Macedonio começou a ser escrita em 1904 e foi publicada 15 anos após sua morte. Nela, está presente uma série de prólogos anunciando uma história que parece nunca chegar: a de um homem que, após a morte da esposa, decide deixar a cidade e se refugiar no campo, numa estância chamada “O Romance”.

Khalif Farzur é o filho mais novo da realeza de Dubai, um playboy declarado, não tem nenhum interesse em assumir o legado de sua família, pois toda a responsabilidade de governar o povo está sob às costas de seu irmão mais velho, Khalil. Mas algo acontece quando seu melhor amigo se diz apaixonado por uma brasileira.

Jane Eyre es una niña huérfana que se ha educado en un orfanato, su inteligencia y su afán por aprender consiguen apartarla del mundo de su infancia. Al llegar a los dieciocho años abandona la institución y comienza a trabajar como institutriz, para educar a la hija del señor Rochester. Poco a poco, el amor irá tejiendo su red entre ellos, pero la casa y la vida de Rochester guardan un estremecedor y terrible misterio.

La profecía del Coyote hambriento lo decía: habría de salvar al pueblo chichimeca del tirano Tezozómoc, aquel que juró en su juventud recuperar la grandeza del señorío de Azcapotzalco; aquel que logró unir las voluntades de varios pueblos y alzar los cimientos de una civilización que se convirtió en imperio; aquel que sería el primer gran ejemplo de la política brutal y sanguinaria que dominaría el Valle de México por más de un siglo.

Forty-eight of H.P. Lovecraft’s most important stories are brought together in this collection–available only from Audible–selected and with introductions by the award-winning, best-selling Lovecraft editor Leslie S. Klinger. Howard Philips Lovecraft was the early 20th-century genius who, almost singlehandedly, pioneered horror and scientific fiction, only to die in near-obscurity. Rediscovered by critics and scholars in the 1970s, Lovecraft’s work has influenced—by their own admission—every major horror or science-fiction writer of today.

山形県のとある温泉郷、老舗旅館＜みどりや＞にはある人気者がいる。それは若女将である凜々子…の愛犬・お風呂丸だ。賢くてお茶目な、凛々子の世界一かわいいコーギー犬（4歳、オス）には特技がある。自慢の鼻を活かし、警察犬よろしく投宿者の困りごとを解決してしまうのだ。

自分にないものを思って憂うのではなく、他のひとにはなくて、私だけが持っているらしいもののことを考えよう――。国境と言語を跨いで射し込む光に照らされた、日本と台湾、４つの物語。

Los Angeles, 1986. A group of right-wing Christians has put an initiative on the November ballot to allow health officials to force people with HIV into quarantine camps - and it looks like it’s going to pass. Rios, now living in LA, agrees to be counsel for a group of young activists who call themselves QUEER. QUEER claims to be committed to peaceful civil disobedience. But when one of its members is implicated in the bombing of an evangelical church that kills its pastor, Rios finds himself with a client suddenly facing the death penalty.

Una completa historia de la literatura española desde sus orígenes hasta la actualidad: Las jarchas, el mester de clerecía, el romance, los pícaros y el Conde Lucanor para llegar al Quijote, Quevedo, Góngora, la poesía social, la generación del 98, Gerardo Diego, Lorca y hasta Francisco Umbral, Mayorga y el desarrollo de las nuevas tecnologías. Acérquese a la historia de la literatura española, a la situación social de España, así como sus anhelos y esperanzas, expresados a través de la palabra escrita en las grandes obras de la literatura.

Long listed for the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize, Lemon is the story of a teenaged girl with the numbers against her: Three mothers, one deadbeat dad, one cancer-riddled protégé, two friends, one tree-hugging stepbrother, and a 60 percent average. The adults in her life are all mired in self-centeredness and the other kids are busy getting high, and she just can't be bothered to fit in.