Oscar and Lucinda: movie tie-in edition55 reviews Peter Carey Vintage, 1997 astonishingly good! + A fine book + Wonderful characters; great writing + A complex and exhilirating novel + Gambling and Love             The Bacchae and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)4 reviews Euripides Penguin Classics, 1954 Masterpiece + The Bacchae and The Women of Troy + The Best of Euripides + A review on the Iphigenia plays             The Temple of the Golden Pavilion28 reviews Yukio Mishima Vintage, 1994 Literature that rightfully make us proud to be Japanese + Brilliant, Fascinating Psychological Exploration + A golden novel If ever criticized, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima is chided most frequently for some of its seemingly mundane, superfluous and repetitive details and paragraphs. Many give up, or decide not to read it at all, since the text appears heavy and unmanageable from the very first ...             The Arcades Project6 reviews Walter Benjamin Belknap Press, 2002 NY Times Review + Walter Benjamin's masterpiece + The Capitalist-Fascist Dreamscape, Interpreted + Fragmentary Epic             Poems and Prose (Penguin Classics)5 reviews Gerard Manley Hopkins Penguin Classics, 1953 Hopkins: The Textual Pleasures of "Sprung Rhythm" + a vision of life + True Poet + One of the great poetic geniuses of all English Literature- A Richness so rare no Ripeness could be greater + One of the finest poets of his generation!             The Tin Drum91 reviews Gunter Grass Vintage, 1990 brilliant + A fantastic read, but what does it all mean? + an imaginative and innovative novel + Challenging But Worth It             Lost in the Funhouse (The Anchor Literary Library)9 reviews John Barth Anchor, 1988 Stretching short stories + I write therefore I am... + the way we tell stories + Confusing, Hilarious, Profound             The Rover and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics)2 reviews Aphra Behn Oxford University Press, USA, 2000 Well-laid out text, excellent foreward Recently introduced to the works of Aphra Behn, I found this collection to be an excellently laid out edition of some of her plays. The print is friendly to the eye (many collections of Restoration drama are not) and easy to read. I can only speak for "The Rover", as I have not had the time to ...             Heinrich Von Kleist Plays (Kleist Plays Ppr) Heinrich von Kleist Continuum International Publishing Group, 1983             Invisible Reality (1917-1920, 1924) Juan Ramon Jimenez iUniverse, 2000 The great Spanish poet Juan Ramón Jiménez, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1956, was a mystic as will as a poet, and the deep spirituality which infuses so much of his writing makes itself felt with special fervor throughout this remarkable new collection of poems. Composed by Jiménez between the years 1917 to 1920, the works in this grouping vanished mysteriously, only to be ...             The History of Luminous Motion14 reviews Scott Bradfield Picador USA, 1996 What a great surprise.. + the best thing a californian ever picked up on an nyc sidewalk + This book is amazing! + Grabbing, Beautifully Disturbing, and the language... + Keeping this copy in my collection.             Rabelais and His World6 reviews Mikhail Bakhtin Indiana University Press, 1984 The Roots of Our Bittersweet Laughter + Unique and ground-breaking + Good Theory + very good intro to Bakhtin + Bakhtin celebrates the renaissance of the Russian Revolution             Schleiermacher: Hermeneutics and Criticism: And Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)1 review Friedrich Schleiermacher Cambridge University Press, 1998 Schleiermacher: Hermeneutics and Criticism by Andrew Bowie Good treatment of the thinking behind one of the Great liberal thinkers of the past. Bowie analzes Schliermacher's thinking and traces how he arrived at his new breakthrough position. An excellent addition to anyone who is interested in the history of Liberal thought. Roland R. Kratzner             Medea and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)8 reviews Euripides Penguin Classics, 1963 Great Collection + daring, resonant, horrific, and (duh) mythical + Strength of a Woman + surprisingly modern             The Tale of Genji20 reviews Murasaki Shikibu, Edward G. Seidensticker Knopf, 1978 The purple wisteria blooms only for me + The best Genji yet + Ketrice Evans review + The Tale of Genji             The Collected Works of Edward Sapir: Culture (Collected Works of Edward Sapir, No 3) (Collected Works of ... Edward Sapir Walter de Gruyter, 1999 Volume Three of The Collected Works of Edward Sapir contains all of Sapir’s professional publications, as well as all of his recorded lectures, not previously published, on the concept of culture and on the relationship of culture to the individual as a member of society. It contains as well Sapir’s cultural criticism – his writings on literature, art and music and his published essays, comments ...             Schleiermacher: Hermeneutics and Criticism: And Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)1 review Friedrich Schleiermacher Cambridge University Press, 1998 Schleiermacher: Hermeneutics and Criticism by Andrew Bowie Good treatment of the thinking behind one of the Great liberal thinkers of the past. Bowie analzes Schliermacher's thinking and traces how he arrived at his new breakthrough position. An excellent addition to anyone who is interested in the history of Liberal thought. Roland R. Kratzner             The Collected Works of Edward Sapir: Culture (Collected Works of Edward Sapir, No 3) (Collected Works of ... Edward Sapir Walter de Gruyter, 1999 Volume Three of The Collected Works of Edward Sapir contains all of Sapir’s professional publications, as well as all of his recorded lectures, not previously published, on the concept of culture and on the relationship of culture to the individual as a member of society. It contains as well Sapir’s cultural criticism – his writings on literature, art and music and his published essays, comments ...             The Tale of Genji20 reviews Murasaki Shikibu, Edward G. Seidensticker Knopf, 1978 The purple wisteria blooms only for me + The best Genji yet + Ketrice Evans review + The Tale of Genji             The Temple of the Golden Pavilion28 reviews Yukio Mishima Vintage, 1994 Literature that rightfully make us proud to be Japanese + Brilliant, Fascinating Psychological Exploration + A golden novel If ever criticized, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima is chided most frequently for some of its seemingly mundane, superfluous and repetitive details and paragraphs. Many give up, or decide not to read it at all, since the text appears heavy and unmanageable from the very first ...