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The Festival by H.P. LovecraftA haunting short story blending horror and supernatural elements. The narrator returns to his ancestral town for a strange winter solstice festival, only to uncover a dark, ancient ritual involving eldritch horrors. Lovecraft masterfully builds suspense with themes of inherited dread and the uncanny.

Poucos lugares na Terra so to envoltos em lendas quanto o Himalaia. Erika Fatland nos leva a cadeia de montanhas mais alta do planeta, permitindo-nos descobrir seu povo, as milhares de culturas, o esplendor de suas paisagens, mas tambem a historia pouco conhecida por tras de alguns dos conflitos mais sangrentos de hoje e de ontem. Partindo da China e atravessando o Paquisto, a India, o Buto, o Nepal e o Tibete, a escritora norueguesa segue um itinerario, fascinante e cheio de surpresas, onde no so apenas os picos majestosos e os horizontes infinitos que dominam a cena, mas homens e mulheres em carne e osso, cujos testemunhos ela coleta, descrevendo as pequenas vidas que pululam entre essas montanhas to altas quanto gigantes.

Ulysses by James JoyceA modernist masterpiece, Ulysses follows Leopold Bloom through a single day in Dublin. Blending stream-of-consciousness narrative with mythological parallels, Joyce explores themes of identity, memory, and the mundane, revolutionizing literary form and language in the process.

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldSet in the Jazz Age, this novel explores wealth, love, and the American Dream through the mysterious Jay Gatsbys obsession with Daisy Buchanan. Fitzgerald critiques materialism, illusion, and moral decay, painting a poignant portrait of 1920s American society.

The Haunter of the Dark by H.P. LovecraftA writers fascination with a mysterious, abandoned church leads to his doom when he awakens a dark, otherworldly entity. The narrative emphasizes fear of the unknown, the fragility of human curiosity, and the cosmic terror lurking just beyond human perception.

The Nameless City by H.P. LovecraftA chilling horror story about an ancient, forgotten city in the Arabian desert. As the narrator explores its ruins, he uncovers eerie remnants of a non-human civilization. Lovecraft builds tension through cosmic dread, emphasizing themes of ancient knowledge and existential terror

The Shadow Out of Time by H.P. LovecraftExploring themes of time travel and memory loss, this novella follows a man haunted by visions of a past life among ancient cosmic beings. Lovecraft delves into existential horror, depicting ancient races, lost knowledge, and humanitys insignificance in the vastness of time.

The Thing on the Doorstep by H.P. LovecraftA chilling story about possession and dark sorcery. The protagonist recounts his friends descent into madness after marrying a woman with occult ties, leading to eerie body-swapping and the horror of identity loss. Themes of manipulation and arcane power dominate.

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew WallaceA historical novel set in ancient Judea, it follows Judah Ben-Hur, a nobleman turned slave, seeking revenge against a Roman adversary. His life transforms after encountering Jesus Christ, emphasizing themes of redemption, forgiveness, and spiritual awakening against the backdrop of Roman oppression.

The Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriA masterpiece of Italian literature, this epic poem follows Dantes journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise. Rich in allegory, theology, and medieval philosophy, it explores themes of sin, redemption, and divine justice while offering vivid imagery and moral reflection on the afterlife.

The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. LovecraftThis iconic horror tale introduces the cosmic entity Cthulhu, slumbering beneath the sea. Through interconnected narratives of madness, cult worship, and ancient secrets, Lovecraft explores themes of cosmic insignificance and the limits of human comprehension.

The Colour Out of Space by H.P. LovecraftA cosmic horror tale about a mysterious meteorite that crashes on a farm, releasing an unearthly color that corrupts everything around it. The narrative explores themes of incomprehensible alien forces and the fragility of human sanity in the face of the unknown.

The Whisperer in Darkness by H.P. LovecraftA tale of cosmic horror where a scholar investigates strange happenings in rural Vermont. Encounters with extraterrestrial beings blur the line between reality and nightmare, emphasizing themes of isolation, cosmic dread, and humanitys vulnerability to ancient, otherworldly forces.

Kings Gold Medal for Poetry Winner of the Jhalak Poetry Prize 2025 A Guardian Book of the Year 2024 A London Review Bookshop Book of the Year 2024Mimi Khalvati, one of our best-loved poets, was born in Tehran, Iran, and sent away to boarding school on the Isle of Wight at the age of six, only returning to her family in Iran when she was seventeen. The loss of her native country, culture and mother tongue formed the bedrock of her adoptive love of the English language and its lyric tradition. But, she says, whether drawing on my few memories of Iran, my long years in London and travelling in the Mediterranean, or on that central void always facing me, I have celebrated the richness of a life that can be lived without a clear sense of heritage, family history or personal biography.That wealth is reflected in the wide variety of style, tone and architecture in her Carcanet poetry collections over thirty-three years free and metrical verse, ranging from short, fixed forms to extended lyrical sequences, from ghazals to the heroic corona or book-length series of sonnets. I hope, she writes, the poems speak especially to those who have made their homes wherever the tide has brought them, sometimes in language itself, and to those who have no story but place their trust in the flux and flow, the vision of the lyric moment.

In short stories, the author reports on her authentic experiences and everyday life during a stay of several years in Paraguay. The text is rounded off with extensive photographic material. Paraguay is characterised by its magnificent nature, the diversity of tropical trees and plants, a splendour of flowers all year round, the hustle and bustle of the cities, a tropical climate with temperatures of over 40 degrees, poor road conditions, police controls and dogs living in the wild, but also by the friendliest people in South America. Photos show life in Paraguay, Paraguayan architecture and artists, the capital Asuncion, the pilgrimage town of Caacupe, the Marianela monastery, the Yguazu waterfalls with the neighbouring Yguazu bird park and much more.

Winner of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2024 Winner of the Schlegel-Tieck Prize 2024The Jewish poet Nelly Sachs (18911970) writes in direct response to the Holocaust. She is uniquely a prophetic poet, one of the greatest of that species in the twentieth century.Her first book appeared in the immediate wake of the Second World War, in 1946. Since that time, Hans Magnus Enzensberger declared, she has been writing fundamentally a single book. That book is represented in this volume which reveals her whole progression rendered into English. Unlike earlier translators, Andrew Shanks calls his versions translations/imitations, moving away from the doggedly literal to render more faithfully the sense and intention of the originals.Sachs escaped Berlin in May 1940. She found refuge in Sweden. Her major work is an evolving response to the trauma of the Holocaust. In 1966 she received the Nobel Prize for Literature. This book includes all the lyric poetry Sachs published in her lifetime and adds the posthumous collection Teile dich Nacht, an introductory essay, and notes.Her poetry begins as a monumental lament for the victims of the Holocaust. Other themes develop: biblical, Kabbalist and religious allusions, personal bereavement, mental breakdown. And there are reflections on poetic vocation in the darkness of recent history.

Letters Home gives access to the last major archive of Larkins writing to remain unpublished: the letters to members of his family. These correspondences help tell the story of how Larkin came to be the writer and the man he was: to his father Sydney, a conservative anarchist and admirer of Hitler, who died relatively early in Larkins life; to his timid depressive mother Eva, who by contrast, lived long, and whose final years were shadowed by dementia; and to his sister Kitty, the sparse surviving fragment of whose correspondence with her brother gives an enigmatic glimpse of a complex and intimate relationship- But it was the years during which he and his sister looked after their mother in particular that shaped the writer we know so well: a number of poems written over this time are for her, and the mood of pain, shadow and despondency that characterises his later verse draws its strength from his experience of the long, lonely years of her senility. One surprising element in the volume, however, is the joie de vivre shown in the large number of witty and engaging drawings of himself and Eva, as Young Creature and Old Creature, with which he enlivens his letters throughout the three decades of her widowhood.This important edition, meticulously edited by Larkins biographer, James Booth, is a key piece of scholarship that completes the portrait of this most cherished of English poets.

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Stephen Spender, along with his friends W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice and C. Day Lewis, rose to prominence in the 1930s, writing powerfully of the fear and paranoia of a continent heading towards war. By the time of his death in 1995 he had established a distinguished reputation as a poet, critic, editor and translator. This New Collected Poems, edited by Michael Brett, gathers seven decades of verse from Poems (1933) to Dolphins (1994) and the late uncollected work. Reordering the thematic principle of the 1985 Collected Poems, this edition returns to a book-by-book chronology and allows the reader to experience, for the first time, the full development and range of his career.

This entirely new edition brings together all of Philip Larkins poems. In addition to those in Collected Poems (1988), and in the Early Poems and Juvenilia (2005), some unpublished pieces from Larkins typescripts and workbooks are included, as well as verse (by turns scurrilous, satirical, affectionate, and sentimental) tucked away in his letters. The manuscript and printed sources have been scrutinized afresh; more detailed accounts than hitherto available of the sources of the text and of dates of composition are provided; and previous accounts of composition dates have been corrected. Variant wordings from Larkins typescripts and the early printings are recorded.For the first time, the poems are given a comprehensive commentary. This draws critically upon, and substantially extends, the accumulated scholarship on Larkin, and covers closely relevant historical contexts, persons and places, allusions and echoes, and linguistic usage. Due prominence is given to the poets comments on his poems, which often outline the circumstances that gave rise to a poem, or state what he was trying to achieve. Larkin played down his literariness, but his poetry enrichingly alludes to and echoes the writings of many others; Archie Burnetts commentary establishes him as a more complex and more literary poet than many readers have suspected.