Showing titles in World Literature

From the renowned Beat writer Jack Kerouac comes this important work of lyric verse, one of his most formally inventive books. A long poem in Kerouac’s freewheeling and spontaneous improvisational style, Mexico City Blues is a unique epic of sound, rhythm, and religion. Called superb sensory...

From the most famous of the Beat writers and the author of On the Road and The Dharma Bums, Kerouac’s intoxicating love story of two young bohemians Written over the course of three days and three nights, The Subterraneans was generated out of the same kind of ecstatic flash of inspiration...

Reunião de narrativas escritas entre 1949 e 1969, Antes do baile verde é considerado por muitos críticos o livro de contos literariamente mais bem-sucedido de Lygia Fagundes Telles. As situações narradas são as mais diversas. Em "A caçada", um homem fica a tal ponto intrigado com uma...

Cômico e melancólico, sensível e cruel, um romance corrosivo sobre o mundo da arte, o Brasil dos privilégios e uma geração perversamente obcecada por imagem e virtude. Vivian é uma jovem curadora de trinta e poucos anos que vive entre Rio e São Paulo. Seu currículo impecável só existe...

Uma disputa de poder entre o submundo da política e travestis paulistanas. Estamos em 2009. Lula segue no auge do poder, o Brasil compõe o grupo dos BRIC e os poços do pré-sal começam a jorrar otimismo. Em uma mansão no interior de São Paulo, durante os feriados de Páscoa, seis...

Primeiro best-seller de Erico Verissimo, Olhai os lírios do campo representou uma guinada na carreira literária do escritor. Várias edições se esgotaram em poucos meses. Segundo Erico, o sucesso foi tão grande que "teve a força de arrastar consigo os romances" que publicara antes em...

Publicado originalmente em 1995, O mundo de Sofia é o maior best-seller da Companhia das Letras, com mais de 1 milhão de exemplares vendidos só no Brasil. Edição comemorativa com tradução direta do norueguês. Às vésperas de seu aniversário de quinze anos, Sofia Amundsen começa a...

Publicado em 1960, A Trégua é o mais famoso romance de Mario Benedetti e uma das obras mais importantes da literatura latino-americana contemporânea. Escrito em formato de diário e com fina ironia, o livro conta a história de Martín Santomé, um "homem maduro, de muita bondade, meio...

Com a estreia de Geovani Martins, a literatura brasileira encontra a voz de seu novo realismo. Nos treze contos de O sol na cabeça, deparamos com a infância e a adolescência de moradores de favelas – o prazer dos banhos de mar, das brincadeiras de rua, das paqueras e dos baseados –...

The articles collected in George Orwell’s Essays illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century—a man who elevated political writing to an art. This outstanding collection brings together Orwell’s longer, major essays and a fine selection of shorter...

These are strange times for the English aristocracy. When hard-up William Fitz William Delamere Chalmers, Lord Dawlish—otherwise known as Bill—sets off for America to make a fortune, he does not expect to be left one by an American millionaire with whom he strikes up a passing acquaintance...

When Adela and her elderly companion, Mrs. Moore, arrive in the town of Chandrapore, India, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced British community. Determined to explore the “real India,” they seek the guidance of the charming and mercurial Dr. Aziz, a cultivated Indian...

"The Spinoza of Market Street" is yet another masterful short story from literary great Isaac Bashevis Singer. The story is set in Warsaw in the days leading up to World War I. There Dr. Nahum Fischelson lives alone in an attic room overlooking Market Street. From on high he observes the crowd...

Los Santos de Agua Mansa, California (Still Water Saints) chronicles a momentous year in the life of Agua Mansa, a largely Latino town beyond the fringes of Los Angeles. It is home to the Botánica Oshún, where people come seeking charms, herbs, candles, and, above all, the guidance of the...

Widely considered one of Isaac Bashevis Singer's most notable works of short fiction, "Gimpel the Fool" was originally written in Yiddish. It was later translated into English by Saul Bellow and appeared in the 1953 edition of Partisan Review. The story, a parable, tells of a foolish, unlucky...

In the spring of 1943, during a stint in the merchant marine, twenty-one-year-old Jack Kerouac set out to write his first novel. Working diligently day and night to complete it by hand, he titled it The Sea Is My Brother. Nearly seventy years later, its long-awaited publication provides...

Windsor Armstrong is a polished, Harvard educated, African American professor of Russian literature. Her son, Pushkin X, is an exceedingly famous pro-football player, an achievement that impresses his mother not at all. Even more distressing, however, is that her beloved son has just become...

Born in Trinidad of Indian descent, a resident of England for his entire adult life, and a prodigious traveler, V. S. Naipaul has always faced the challenges of "fitting one civilization to another." Here, he takes us into his sometimes inadvertent process of creative and intellectual...

Weaving fiction with fact, fantastic matter with historical figures, Borges’ frequent theme of a world where time, culture, and place converge is both timely and pertinent in our advance toward globalization. Drawing from his multi-ethnic and -lingual upbringing in Argentina, Borges’ focus...

From the Booker Prize–winning author of The English Patient comes a visionary novel about an icon of American violence. William Bonney a.k.a. “Billy the Kid,” killed his first man when he was twelve. By the time he was twenty-one he had, by his own reckoning, slain nineteen more. In the...