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Pub. Date
1955]
Physical Desc
xxiii, 450 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Les Fleurs du mal is a collection of poems by Charles Baudelaire, encompassing almost all of his production in verse, from 1840 until his death at the end of August 1867. Flowers of Evil It is a major work of modern poetry. His pieces break with agreed style, in use until then and rejuvenate the structure of the verse by regular use of crossings, rejects and counter-rejects. This renovates the rigid form of the sonnet. He uses suggestive images by...
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New Directions paperbook volume 736
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
1990-<1994 >
Physical Desc
v. 4 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The theatre of Tennessee Williams presents, in matching format, the plays of one of America's most consistently influential and innovative dramatists. The first five volumes of this ongoing series contain Williams' full-length plays through 1975 and, in addition to the texts themselves, include original cast listings and production notes. Volumes 6 and 7 contain Williams' collected shorter plays. Now available as a paperbook, Volume 8 adds to the...
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New Directions paperbook volume 357
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
1973.
Physical Desc
177 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Tells the poignant and fascinating semi-autobiographical story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic family and the impact of Western ideas.. Oba Yozo's attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high school, where he becomes a 'clown' to mask his alienation, and eventually lead to a failed suicide attempt as an adult. Without sentimentality,...
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New Directions paperbook volume 1523
Publisher
New Directions Paperbook Original
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
219 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to the not-too-distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is now remembered as "the land of sushi." Hiruko, its former citizen and a climate refugee herself, has a job teaching immigrant children in Denmark with her invented language Panska (Pan-Scandinavian): "homemade language. no country to stay in. three countries I experienced. insufficient space in brain. so made new language. homemade language." As she searches...
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New Directions paperbook volume 677
Publisher
New Directions Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
1989
Physical Desc
83 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A selection of thirty poems. Contents: The incorrigible dirigible --Not transhistorical death, or at least not quite--etc.
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Series
New Directions paperbook volume 829
Publisher
New Directions Pub
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
viii, 85 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
8) The emissary
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New Directions paperbook original volume 1405
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
138 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Japan, after suffering from a massive irreparable disaster, cuts itself off from the world. Children are so weak they can barely stand or walk: the only people with any get-go are the elderly. Mumei lives with his grandfather Yoshiro, who worries about him constantly. They carry on a day-to-day routine in what could be viewed as a post-Fukushima time, with all the children born ancient--frail and gray-haired, yet incredibly compassionate and wise....
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