Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards)

Published in 1910, this was Zane Grey's first western novel.

The raucous beginning of Brand's Western is traditional: A gunfighter is shot dead in the street.

Think the Old West was nothing but outlaws and cowboys?

The first of her renowned prairie novels--a story that expresses Cather's conviction that "the history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.

This is the record of a trip which the author took with Buffalo Jones, known as the preserver of the American bison, across the Arizona desert and of a hunt in "that wonderful country of deep canons and giant pines.

A classic western from one of the masters of the genre.

Herein is embodied my tribute to the American men who gave themselves to the service in the great war, and my sleepless and eternal gratitude for what they did for me.

At the age of six Randall Byrne could name and bound every state in the Union and give the date of its admission; at nine he was conversant with Homeric Greek and Caesar; at twelve he read Aristophanes with perfect understanding of the allusions of the day and divided his leisure between Ovid and Horace; at fifteen, wearied by the simplicity of Old English and Thirteenth Century Italian, he dipped into the history of Philosophy and passed from that, naturally, into calculus and the higher mathematics; at eighteen he took an A.

CONTENTS:HarriganRiders of the SilencesThe UntamedThe Night HorsemanGunman's ReckoningRonicky DooneThe Seventh ManAlcatrazBlack JackThe Rangeland Avenger

The Song of the Lark is the third novel by American author Willa Cather, written in 1915.

He came to the Belilounds ranch, no one knew from where; a man of middle age, gentle, kindly, but so terrible a gunfighter that they called him "Hell Bent" Wade.

Texas was a huge wide place full of frontiersmen, ranchers, farmers, cowpokes, shiftless no-accounts, shootists, rascals, and politicians -- all of them blended together into a single state.

An ancient feud between two frontier families is inflamed when one of the families takes up cattle rustling.

And maybe I ain't.

Ken Ward encounters mustangs he must ride, a pack of hounds the likes of which he had never seen before, Native Americans who he comes to appreciate with a new awareness, and landscape so wild and primitive it takes the breath away in the Grand Canyon.

The Great West prior to the century's turn abounded in legend.

Riders of the Purple Sage is a classic of the Western genre.

He was known as Deathwind to the Ohio Valley Indians, and now Lewis Wetzel must single-handedly save Fort Henry.

A New York society girl buys a ranch which becomes the center of frontier warfare.

Brand's career as an author of Westerns began with this tale set in an otherworldly Wild West, which first appeared as a serial in All-Story magazine and was soon transformed into a film starring Tom Mix.

"It was time then for action, and Lefty Joe prepared for the descent into the home of the enemy.

Accidentally overhearing a plot to kidnap the niece of a prominent rancher as she arrives from the East, Milt Dale springs into action.

When he is forced to kill a man after a deadly attack, Buck Duane begins a life on the run while trying to clear his name, and his fortunes are changed by a beautiful woman and a Texas Ranger who offers to pardon him for a price.

Ten classic westerns from arguably some of the top western writers of all time.

Doone had won the respect of every law-abiding citizen, from Tombstone to Sonora--and the hatred of every bushwacking bandit!

Horse hunter Lin Sloan never wanted anything more than the wild stallion he called Wildfire.

Jack Kells was a remorseless killer, head of a gang that ravaged the southern border.

With gusts of wind fanning it roughly, the flame rose fast.

Byways, an anthology of stories and poems from across the UK and elsewhere, exploring the urban shortcuts, well-trodden meanders, ancient pathways, hillside and field paths.

what if / I actually - am - a bird / my cupped hands / opening to release me.

The story of a young clergyman who becomes a wanderer in the great western uplands--until at last love and faith awake.

Kurt Marti schreibt uber Verstorbene ohne Floskeln und ohne Phrasen.

This book is a child of war.

The Seventh Man by Max Brand, tells part of the story of the larger-than-life western character, Dan Barry, known as "Whistling Dan," and his alter-ego companions, Black Bart, the wolf-dog, and Satan, the indomitable black stallion.

Gabriela Mistral (1889) fue una poeta, educadora y diplomática chilena.

My Antonia (first published 1918) is considered the greatest novel by American writer Willa Cather.

Este libro es el producto de muchos años de investigación.

Temas de la medianoche es un libro diferente: lo que está puesto de relieve, en esta poesía, es el amor, la cadencia del amor, y todas las sutilezas que se desprenden de él: la ternura, la empatía, el cariño.

En Ahora miro la que fui con mas amor, reflexiono en clave poetica sobre la relacion con la imagen y el cuerpo propio, el racismo, la violencia contra las mujeres y el feminismo, la migracion, la desigualdad, la violencia y la corrupcion politica; tambien me paseo por la emociones y relaciones que nos atraviesan, que nos rompen o nos fortalecen como el amor, el erotismo, la amistad, la muerte; asi como, por mi relacion con la escritura.

La palabra fractus, con la cual he bautizado estos poemas, que sugiere algo "e;fragmentado, interrumpido, discontinuo e irregular"e;, fue tomada del latin por el matematico Benoit Mandelbrot para luego definir lo que seria un fractal y dar pie a toda una nueva geometria, que algunos han catalogado como "e;la geometria de la naturaleza"e;.

"e;Para completarse, las obras requieren de miradas, ojos y sentidos que descubran en cada practica los acontecimientos liminares con que osan sacudirnos.

"e;A moving and humane collection.

Marguerite Duras' eigenwillig-lakonischer Sound bewegte Generationen, die eines bestaunten: den Facettenreichtum der Liebe – so ekstatisch wie in "Hiroshima mon amour", so kalkuliert-manipulativ wie in "Der Liebhaber" oder so verzweifelt, geradezu zersetzend wie in "Die Verzückung der Lol V.

Eine Neudeutung im Zeichen der Form – der vermeintliche Antimodernist Rudolf Borchardt rückt erstmals in das Zentrum der Formtheorie der klassischen Moderne.

Die Sonette an Orpheus sind ein spates Hauptwerk Rilkes von groter poetischer Freiheit und werden hier wie der Werkkomplex Aus dem Nachlass des Grafen C.

Das beruhmte Hauptwerk aus Rilkes fruher Dichtung, erstmalig im Werkkomplex veroffentlicht.

Clarice Lispector (1920-1977) wurde in der Ukraine geboren und lebte nach ihrer Flucht vor allem in Rio de Janeiro.

«Am Ende des Lebens wird bei uns im Dorf mit Kränzen abgerechnet und Elsbeth hat viele bekommen.

Das lyrisch anmutende Werk «Dichten gegen das Vergessen» berichtet über die Stern- und Schattenstunden von zwölf Dichterinnen aus unterschiedlichen Zeiten und Weltregionen, die sich für ihre künstlerische Berufung gegen zahlreiche Widerstände und Hindernisse durchsetzen mussten.

Diese Sammlung vereint Rainer Maria Rilkes frühe Lyrik, die in München, Italien und Berlin entstanden ist – Gedichte voller Eindrücke und Stimmungen aus einer Zeit des künstlerischen Aufbruchs.