Francine Prose
Francine Prose is the author of fifteen books of fiction, including A Changed Man and Blue Angel, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and the nonfiction New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer. Her latest novel, Goldengrove, ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Selected Poems And Prose Of Paul Celan
 disappointed: Poetry is the most difficult writing to translate. Since it is impossible to retain the content, psychic distance, syntax, and rhytmn, the translation of poetry is about sacrifices. I found Felstiner sacrificed meaning far too often in his [... more]
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Amazon CA |
Francine Prose
Richard Hughes's celebrated short novel is a masterpiece of concentrated narrative. Its dreamlike action begins among the decayed plantation houses and overwhelming natural abundance of late nineteenth-century Jamaica, before moving out onto the ... [... more]
Random House |
Nicholas Negroponte
Being Digital Nicholas Negroponte In lively, mordantly witty prose, Negroponte decodes the mysteries--and debunks the hype--surrounding bandwidth, multimedia, virtual reality, and the Internet, and explains why such touted innovations as the fax ... [... more]
Random House |
The Collected Prose
From Amazon.com: Farrar, Straus and Giroux first published Elizabeth Bishop's Collected Prose in 1984, five years after the poet's death. It's now too late to ask whether this deeply private woman would have allowed such an act, let alone approved of the [... more]
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Introduction to Latin Prose Composition
The best introductory manual available: English-speaking students of Latin prose composition have until now lacked an introduction which is concise and easy to understand, but which loses nothing in accuracy. This book fills both needs admirably. Clarity [... more]
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Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose: Poems, Prose, Reviews, ...
recognized by some be in top 100--(US) poets: Oct. 5: She is presented with prestigious Lannan Literary Award..for $100,000 for a job in writing,well. Thank You Thank You Adrienne!!!: Not merely a wonderful and incredibly courageous poet; oh, no. She is [... more]
CDN$18.31
Amazon CA |
An Anthology of Elizabethan Prose Fiction
Elizabethan prose: A pretty good collection. It includes "The Adventures ofMaster F.J.," by George Gascoigne; "Euphues: The Anatomy ofWit," by John Lyly; "Pandosto: The Triumph of Time," by Robert Greene; "The [... more]
CDN$15.95
Amazon CA |
Selected Poems And Prose Of Paul Celan
disappointed: Poetry is the most difficult writing to translate. Since it is impossible to retain the content, psychic distance, syntax, and rhytmn, the translation of poetry is about sacrifices. I found Felstiner sacrificed meaning far too often in his [... more]
CDN$23.50
Amazon CA |
Revising Business Prose
Plain English for the business writer: For years, Professor Lanham has been after us about wordiness. He calls it the Official Style; it's practiced whenever writers want to sound important, and to achieve this effect inflate what they write like Macy's [... more]
CDN$51.25
Amazon CA |
Penguin Classics Tales Of Belkin And Other Prose Writings
Belkin is brief: For those of us who can't read Pushkin in Russian, his prose might be more rewarding than his poetry, where the essence is so difficult to translate. However, Pushkin's "Tales of Belkin" read like the whipped up improvisations [... more]
CDN$16.00
Amazon CA |
The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa
Notes of a genius: This book is full of genius and madness, which are nearly indistinguishable from one another. Like Kafka, Pessoa stands above his peers for his profound sense of humanity. He is also as singular as Kafka. Pessoa is a mystery, and his [... more]
CDN$20.95
Amazon CA |
