Originalna groteska prozeta autenticnom Basarinom ironijom o Svetoj bolesti i njenim posvecenicima, apostolima i protivnicima... Demjan Lavrentjevic Parkinson, izumitelj strasne bolesti i glavni junak ovog romana, umire od iscrpljenosti 1947. godine u logoru na Kolimi pod laznim imenom Nikolaj Nikolajevic Kuznjecov. Do tog dana on pokusava da iz pe...more
Folger Shakespeare Library The world's leading center for Shakespeare studies Each edition includes: • Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play • Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play • Scene-by-scene plot summaries • A key to famous lines and phrases • An int...more
A celebration of the endless variety of life in the mythical village of Macondo chronicles the story of the Buendia family, set against the background of the evolution and eventual decadence of the small South American town.
Barcelona, 1945A great world city lies shrouded in secrets after the war, and a boy mourning the loss of his mother finds solace in his love for an extraordinary book called The Shadow of the Wind, by an author named Julian Carax. When the boy searches for Caraxs other books, it begins to dawn on him, to his horror, that someone has been system...more
The Sheltering Sky is a landmark of twentieth-century literature. In this intensely fascinating story, Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans' incomprehension of alien cultures leads to the ultimate destruction of those cultures. A story about three American travelers adrift in the cities and deserts of North Africa after World War II, Th...more
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), also known by the sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali poet, Brahmo Samaj philosopher, visual artist, playwright, novelist, and composer whose works reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A cultural icon of Bengal and India, he became Asia's first Nobel laureate when he won the ...more