Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
A reader's guide to fifty modern European poets A reader's guide to fifty modern European poets John Pilling From the Blurb: The last century and a quarter has been one of the most fertile periods for poetry in Europe and there has been a corresponding increase in interest among English-speaking readers. Al… OL13376969W
Josephus Josephus Flavius Josephus It was published about A.D. 78, when Josephus was about 40 years old. The next work to be published was The Jewish Antiquities, about sixteen years later. It consisted of the early writings of Josep… OL15202836W
New writing in Israel New writing in Israel Ezra Spicehandler Fiction and poetry. OL17668059W
Japanese tales Japanese tales Royall Tyler Contains over 200 tales from medieval Japan. OL17865022W
The Yellow canary whose eye is so black The Yellow canary whose eye is so black Cheli Durán Ryan Bilingual anthology of the poetry of Spanish-speaking Latin America from pre-Columbian cultures to the present. OL18183976W
Stories from the rains of love and death Stories from the rains of love and death Bahram Beyzaie,Abas Na'lbandian,Mohammad Rahmanian a collection of Persian plays in English translation OL19024655W
The ancient Egyptian pyramid texts The ancient Egyptian pyramid texts Peter Der Manuelian,James P. Allen "The pyramid texts are the oldest body of extant literature from ancient Egypt. First carved on the walls of the burial chambers in the pyramids of kings and queens of the Old Kingdom, they provide t… OL19279518W
Greek and Roman philosophy after Aristotle Greek and Roman philosophy after Aristotle Jason L. Saunders Readings in the History of Philosophy is organized chronologically; thus, each volume may be used independently as introductory, comparative, or reference material in a wide range of courses in philo… OL20938309W
Poems from Black Africa: Ethiopia, South Rhodesia, Sierra Leone, Madagascar, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, … Poems from Black Africa: Ethiopia, South Rhodesia, Sierra Leone, Madagascar, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, … Langston Hughes Poems from Black Africa: Ethiopia, South Rhodesia, Sierra Leone, Madagascar, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Kenya, Gabon, Senegal, Nyasaland, Mozambique, South Africa, Congo, Ghana, Liberia. OL28541W
Fables Fables Jean de La Fontaine Jean de La Fontaine collected fables from a wide variety of sources, both Western and Eastern, and adapted them into French free verse. They were issued under the general title of Fables in several v… OL50348W
Modern Japanese literature Modern Japanese literature Donald Keene From inside the book: Few of the translations given here have ever before appeared in print. Most were made especially for this volume... The stories included in this book: "The Beefeater" by Kana… OL905404W
Red Colored Elegy Red Colored Elegy Seiichi Hayashi Translated from the Japanese. Originally published in 1970-1971. OL9866937W