Outros livros que poderiam interessá-lo

• 

  Poems - Evening Mary Virgin...

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is the finest Austrian poet of this century and one of the greatest lyrical writers in the history of Western literature. A major figure in the modernist movement, with some affinities to Yeats, Rilke had a profound influence on other 20th century poets such as Pasternak and Akhmatova. He is a master of vivid and breathtakingly original imagery in which difficult ideas are made directly apprehensible to the reader and new worlds of experience are opened up.
  This selection includes poems:
  Evening
  Mary Virgin
  Presaging 
  Autumn
  Silent Hour
  The Angels and many others

  Ver livro

• 

  Exit the King The Killer Macbett

  Eugène Ionesco

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Three classic plays exploring the absurdity of death and modern complacency by the 20th century master of French avant-garde theatre. 
   
  Exit the King presents a ritualized death rite unfolding the final hours of the once-great king Berenger the First. As he dies, so does his kingdom. His armies suffer defeat, the young emigrate, and his kingdom’s borders shrink to the outline of his throne. 
   
  The Killer is a study of pure evil. B’renger, a conscientious citizen, finds himself in a radiantly beautiful city marred only by the presence of a serial killer. B’renger’s determination to find the murderer in the face of official indifference and his final defeat at the hands of impersonal cruelty speak with the power of Kafka’s The Trial. 
   
  Macbett, inspired by Shakespeare’s MacBeth, is “a grotesque joke . . . [and] a very funny play. . . . Ionecso maliciously undermines sources and traditions, spoofing Shakespeare along with tragedy” (Mel Gussow, The New York Times).

  Ver livro

• 

  Agamemnon

  Aeschylus

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  "Agamemnon" is the first of the three linked tragedies which make up "The Oresteia" trilogy by the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus. Trilogy as a whole, originally performed at the annual Dionysia festival in Athens in 458 BCE, where it won first prize, is considered to be Aeschylus' last authenticated, and also his greatest, work.
  "Agamemnon" describes the homecoming of Agamemnon, king of Argos, from the Trojan War, and his return to his wife, Clytemnestra, who had been planning his murder (in concert with her lover, Aegisthus) as revenge for Agamemnon's earlier sacrifice of their daughter, Iphigenia.

  Ver livro

• 

  The Overgrown Path (NHB Modern...

  Robert Holman

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  'History is not the study of facts. It is the study of ourselves. Of our stories. The stories we tell each other.'
  Nicholas Marks, an aspiring academic from Yorkshire, arrives on the Greek island of Tinos to interview reclusive scientist Daniel Howarth about his work on the atomic bomb. But as he tries to tease apart fact and fantasy, science and mythology, chance and destiny, Nicholas discovers a far more surprising truth about himself.
  Robert Holman's play The Overgrown Path is about history, and the stories we tell each other to make sense of ourselves. It was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in May 1985.

  Ver livro

• 

  The Christmas Journey

  Don J Snyder

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  This is a family Christmas story in the tradition of Frank Capra's classic "It's A Wonderful Life."

  Ver livro

• 

  Selected Poems of John Clare...

  John Clare

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  John Clare (1793 - 1864) was a farm labourer in the village of Helpstone, Northamptonshire, who became arguably England’s greatest nature poet. He rose to fame when his ‘Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery’ was published in 1820. His language preserves many local dialect words in a mixture of classical forms and heart-felt love of country life and nature. The poems in this collection are from his early career, and are largely free of pointers to his later mental illness. (Summary by David Barnes).

  Ver livro