Piet HeinWhat in the world is a Grook?A grook is a short, aphoristic poem, accompanied by an appropriate drawing, revealing in a minimum of words and with a minimum of...

Maurice BlonchotModern history is haunted by the disasters of the century—world wars, concentration camps, Hiroshima, and the Holocaust—grief, anger, terror, and loss beyond words, but still close, still impending. How...

Insolent and defiant, the Chants de Maldoror, by the self-styled Comte de Lautreamont (1846-70), depicts a sinister and sadistic world of unrestrained savagery and brutality. One of the earliest and...

E Bold A haunting literary work that explores the depths of human emotion and resilience. E Bold crafts a narrative rich with introspection and raw vulnerability, inviting readers into a...

Sonya Sones My name is Sophie.This book is about me.It tellsthe heart-stoppingly riveting storyof my first love.And also of my second.And, okay, my third love, too.It's not that I'm boy...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Goethe’s Faust reworks the late medieval myth of a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a contract with Mephistopheles. The devil will do all he asks...

Joan R Sherman Rich selection of 74 poems ranging from the religious and moral verse of Phillis Wheatley Peters (ca. 1753–1784) to 20th-century work of Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen....

Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) always regarded novel-writing as a necessary means of making money. His vocation was poetry.Apart from his genius, the sheer scale of Hardy's achievement is extraordinary:...

Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000) was Israel's most popular poet, as well as a literary figure of international reputation. In this collection, renowned translators Chana Bloch and...

Ted Hughes What has happened to the lost art of memorizing poetry? Why do we no longer feel that it is necessary to know the most enduring, beautiful poems in...

TS Eliot and Axel Scheffler Cats! Some are sane, some are mad and some are good and some are bad.Meet magical Mr Mistoffelees, sleepy Old Deuteronomy and curious Rum Tum...

Edmund Spenser  The Faerie Queene was the first epic in English and one of the most influential poems in the language for later poets from Milton to Tennyson. Dedicating his work...