Best Russian Love Poems - April 2024

Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

A FINALIST FOR THE PEN/WEST TRANSLATION AWARDThe 100th Anniversary Edition of a global classic, containing beautiful translations along with the original German text.While visiting Russia in his twenties, Rainer Maria Rilke, one of the twentieth century's greatest poets, was moved by a spirituality he encountered there. Inspired, Rilke returned to Germany and put down on paper what he felt were spontaneously received prayers. Rilke's Book of Hours is the invigorating vision of spiritual practice for the secular world, and a work that seems remarkably prescient today, one hundred years after it... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1594481563
• UPC: 884782541827
• ASIN: 1594481563
• ISBN: 1594481563
• Brand: Riverhead Books
• Manufacturer: Riverhead Books

Black Book of Poems

#1 Best Seller for over 2 years, Black Book of Poems is a collection of poems in which the poet touches on the subjects of love, loss, abandonment, religion, depression and pain.Apart from being a national bestseller, Black Book of Poems was also featured on Hilary Swank's holiday wish list as reported by Today on December 8, 2017.

• ASIN: 1521345465
• ASIN: 1521345465
• ISBN: 1521345465
• Manufacturer: Independently published

H. P. Lovecraft: The Complete Collection

Howard Phillips Lovecraft was an American author who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. Virtually unknown and only published in pulp magazines before he died in poverty, he is now regarded as one of the most significant 20th-century authors in his genre. Lovecraft was born in Providence, Rhode Island, where he spent most of his life. Among his most celebrated tales is "The Call of Cthulhu", canonical to the Cthulhu Mythos. Never able to support himself from earnings as author and editor, Lovecraft saw commercial success increasingly elude him in this latt... [Read More]

• ASIN: B0793YXR8R
• ASIN: B0793YXR8R
• Manufacturer: LMAB

Pale Fire

• ASIN: 0679723420
• ASIN: 0679723420
• ISBN: 0679723420
• Brand: Brand: Vintage
• Manufacturer: Vintage

The Brothers Karamazov (Dover Thrift Editions)

Completed only a few months before the author's death, The Brothers Karamazov is Dostoyevsky's largest, most expansive, most life-embracing work. Filled with human passions ― lust, greed, love, jealousy, sorrow, and humor ― the book is also infused with moral issues and the issue of collective guilt.As in many of Dostoyevsky's novels, the plot centers on a murder. Three brothers, different in character but bound by their ancestry, are drawn into the crime's vortex: Dmitri, a young officer utterly unrestrained in love, hatred, jealousy, and generosity; Ivan, an intellectual capable of deliv... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0486437914
• ASIN: 0486437914
• ISBN: 9780486437910
• Brand: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor/ Garnett, Constance Black (TRN)/ Garnett, Constance Black
• Manufacturer: Dover Publications

A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems

This is the largest and richest volume of poetry by Pessoa available in English. It includes generous selections from the three poetic alter egos that the Portuguese writer dubbed "heteronyms" - Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis and Alvaro de Campos - and from the vast and varied work he wrote under his own name.

• ASIN: 0143039555
• ASIN: 0143039555
• ISBN: 0143039555
• Brand: imusti
• Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)

The collected fiction of "one of the most original imaginations in modern Europe" (Cynthia Ozick) Bruno Schulz's untimely death at the hands of a Nazi stands as one of the great losses to modern literature. During his lifetime, his work found little critical regard, but word of his remarkable talents gradually won him an international readership. This volume brings together his complete fiction, including three short stories and his final surviving work, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass. Illustrated with Schulz's original drawings, this edition beautifully showcases the distinctive ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0143105140
• ASIN: 0143105140
• ISBN: 0143105140
• Brand: Penguin Books
• Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber, Vol. 1: The Golden Days

The Story of the Stone (c. 1760), also known by the title of The Dream of the Red Chamber, is the great novel of manners in Chinese literature. Divided into five volumes, The Story of the Stone charts the glory and decline of the illustrious Jia family. This novel re-creates the ritualized hurly-burly of Chinese family life that would otherwise be lost and infuses it with affirming Buddhist belief.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshe... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0140442936
• UPC: 787721875710
• ASIN: 0140442936
• ISBN: 0140442936
• Brand: imusti
• Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

Cancer Ward: A Novel (FSG Classics)

The Russian Nobelist's semiautobiographical novel set in a Soviet cancer ward shortly after Stalin's deathOne of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward is both a deeply compassionate study of people facing terminal illness and a brilliant dissection of the cancerous Soviet police state.Cancer Ward, which has been compared to the masterpiece of another Nobel Prize winner, The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, examines the relationship of a group of people in the cancer ward of a provincial Soviet hospital in 1955, two years after Stalin's death... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0374534713
• ASIN: 0374534713
• ISBN: 0374534713
• Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Collected Stories (Everyman's Library)

As a young writer living in Lahore during the time of the British Raj, Rudyard Kipling (1865­–1936) was possessed by an enormous subject—India—and his genius for rendering its beauty and strangeness was even then so fully formed that we have to look to the likes of Shakespeare and Dickens to find writers equally precocious. What is even more astonishing, and what this selection of stories from across his entire career reveals, is the way that his talent grew and developed over time. The work he did toward the end of his long writing life is even better than that which marked its splendi... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0679435921
• ASIN: 0679435921
• ISBN: 0679435921
• Brand: Everyman s Library
• Manufacturer: Everyman's Library

Eugene Onegin and Other Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)

Eugene Onegin (1833) is a comedy of manners, written in exquisitely crafted verse, about two young members of the Russian gentry, the eponymous hero and the girl Tatyana, who don’t quite connect. It is also the greatest masterpiece of Russian literature—the source of the human archetypes and the attitudes that define and govern the towering fictional creations of nineteenth-century Russia—and one of the most celebrated poems of the world. Before Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) wrote Eugene Onegin, his nation’s literature was a parochial one; after he wrote it, due in no small part to its... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0375406727
• ASIN: 0375406727
• ISBN: 0375406727
• Manufacturer: Everyman's Library

Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose of Rainer Maria Rilke (Modern Library) (English & German Edition) (English and German Edition)

The reputation of Rainer Maria Rilke has grown steadily since his death in 1926; today he is widely considered to be the greatest poet of the twentieth century. This Modern Library edition presents Stephen Mitchell’s acclaimed translations of Rilke, which have won praise for their re-creation of the poet’s rich formal music and depth of thought. “If Rilke had written in English,” Denis Donoghue wrote in The New York Times Book Review, “he would have written in this English.” Ahead of All Parting is an abundant selection of Rilke’s lifework. It contains representative poems from h... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0679601619
• ASIN: 0679601619
• ISBN: 0679601619
• Brand: Modern Library
• Manufacturer: Modern Library

Three Hundred Tang Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)

A new translation of a beloved anthology of poems from the golden age of Chinese culture—a treasury of wit, beauty, and wisdom from many of China’s greatest poets.These roughly three hundred poems from the Tang Dynasty (618–907)—an age in which poetry and the arts flourished—were gathered in the eighteenth century into what became one of the best-known books in the world, and which is still cherished in Chinese homes everywhere. Many of China’s most famous poets—Du Fu, Li Bai, Bai Juyi, and Wang Wei—are represented by timeless poems about love, war, the delights of drinking and... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0307269736
• ASIN: 0307269736
• ISBN: 0307269736
• Manufacturer: Everyman's Library

Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual-Language Edition (Vintage International)

Available for the first time in a single volume, Ranier Maria Rilke’s two most beloved sequences of poems rendered by his most faithful translator. Rilke is unquestionably the twentieth century’s most significant and compelling poet of romantic transformation and spiritual quest. His poems of ecstatic identification with the world exert perennial fascination. In Stephen Mitchell’s versions of Rilke’s two greatest masterpieces readers will discover an English rendering that captures the lyric intensity, fluency, and reach of his poetry. Stephen Mitchell adheres impeccably to Rilke’s t... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0307473732
• ASIN: 0307473732
• ISBN: 0307473732
• Brand: Vintage
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Eugene Onegin (Penguin Classics)

Still the benchmark of Russian literature 175 years after its first publication—now in a marvelous new translationPushkin's incomparable poem has at its center a young Russian dandy much like Pushkin in his attitudes and habits. Eugene Onegin, bored with the triviality of everyday life, takes a trip to the countryside, where he encounters the young and passionate Tatyana. She falls in love with him but is cruelly rejected. Years later, Eugene Onegin sees the error of his ways, but fate is not on his side. A tragic story about love, innocence, and friendship, this beautifully written tale is ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0140448101
• ASIN: 0140448101
• ISBN: 0140448101
• Brand: imusti
• Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

Best Loved Poems of American People

Collection of the most popular American poems grouped by subject including Love and friendship, Inspiration, and Faith and

• UPC: 461703
• Rating: 4.667

The Best Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's favorite poems are collected here, selected by her daughter, including the work of Rudyard Kipling, William Shakespeare, Homer, Yeats, and Emily Dickinson, among others. 250,000 first

• UPC: 43151806
• Rating: 4.25

100 Best-Loved Poems (Paperback)

"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" "Death, be not proud," "The Raven," "The Road Not Taken," plus works by Blake, Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, Keats, many others. Includes

• UPC: 425572
• Rating: 3.8

100 Best-Loved Poems - eBook

Here are some of the most-loved poems in the English language, chosen not merely for their popularity, but for their literary quality as well. Dating from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, these splendid

• UPC: 660104643
• Rating: 3.8

The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

The Best-Loved Poems Of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis by Caroline

• UPC: 3755925
• Rating: 4.25

The Doorstep Orphan : Eugene Field and a Trilogy of His Best-Loved Poems

A literary criticism biography of Eugene Field, who was known in the late 1800s and early 1900s as the Children's Poet and the Poet of Childhood, featuring three of his best-loved poems, "Little Boy Blue,"

• UPC: 238515844

My Best Friend Died: Poems For Those Grieving The Loss Of A Loved One - eBook

This short book of poems will resonate with anyone who has recently lost a loved one.This book can inspire those who are grieving to express their own emotions in creative writing or simply be an

• UPC: 299953588

The 100 Best Love Poems of All Time

A collection of love poems by top writers includes pieces by Sappho, Shakespeare, Keats, Frost, Poe, and Whitman, and features accompanying introductions and biographical

• UPC: 1886607

Footprints : Scripture with Reflections Inspired by the Best-Loved Poem

This stylish and contemporary edition of Footprints: Scriptures and Reflections from the Best-Loved Poem is a great gift for someone who needs encouragement through a hard time---or those who simply enjoy the reminder of God's

• UPC: 33550808

148 of the Best-Loved Poems from the Year 2099 - eBook

The poetry collection of "148 of the Best-Loved Poems from the Year 2099" is based on the author's experiences, emotions, observations, hopes, dreams, disappointments, triumphs, pain, joy and faith -- faith in the innate goodness

• UPC: 332078059

Alexander Pushkin: A Celebration of Russia's Best-loved Writer,A.D.P. Briggs, J

• UPC: 383130286100
• Category: Non-Fiction
• Price: 2 GBP