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"On August 21, 2015, Ayoub al-Khazzani boarded the 15:17 train in Brussels, bound for Paris. Khazzani's mission was clear: he had an AK-47, a pistol, a box cutter, and enough ammunition to obliterate every passenger on the crowded train. Slipping into the bathroom in secret, he armed his weapons and prepared to launch his attack. But when he emerged, he encountered something he hadn't anticipated: three Americans who refused to give in to fear. Anthony...

A prominent British conservative warns Americans to stop President Obama from leading their country down the path to European-style socialism. In March 2009, British conservative Daniel Hannan became a celebrity overnight when he assailed prime minister Gordon Brown on the floor of the European Parliament. The YouTube clip went viral, leading to whirlwind appearances on FOX News and other conservative media outlets. A thoughtful and articulate spokesman...

Arte de poesía castellana es el tratado introductorio del Cancionero (Salamanca, 1496), formado por las primeras composiciones de Juan de la Encina. Es un texto escrito en la España del siglo XV que puede ser considerado un puente entre la poética trovadoresca y el Renacimiento. El Arte de la poesía castellana es un aporte teórico a la creación literaria en el que se establecen leyes y reglas para el buen trovar, así como para identificar a...

Three classic plays exploring the absurdity of death and modern complacency by the 20th century master of French avant-garde theatre. Exit the King presents a ritualized death rite unfolding the final hours of the once-great king Berenger the First. As he dies, so does his kingdom. His armies suffer defeat, the young emigrate, and his kingdom's borders shrink to the outline of his throne. The Killer is a study of pure evil. B'renger, a conscientious...

Continuing the paperback edition of Charles S. Singleton's translation of The Divine Comedy, this work provides the English-speaking reader with everything he needs to read and understand the Purgatorio. This volume consists of the prose translation of Giorgio Petrocchi's Italian text (which faces the translation on each page); its companion volume of commentary is a masterpiece of erudition, offering a wide range of information on such subjects as...

Edvard Kocbek was born in 1904, the son of a church organist, in a part of present-day Slovenia that was then in Austria-Hungary. Following the publication in 1934 of his first book of poetry, he published essays that presaged the wartime alliance of this Christian Socialist with the Tito-led partisan resistance. Despite a lengthy postwar publication ban, Kocbek went on to win the Preseren Prize, Slovenia's highest literary award, in 1964. More books...

Charles S. Singleton's edition of the Divine Comedy, of which this is the first part, provides the English-speaking reader with everything he needs to read and understand Dante's great masterpiece. The Italian text here is in the edition of Giorgio Petrocchi, the leading Italian editor of Dante. Professor Singleton's prose translation, facing the Italian in a line-for-line arrangement on each page, is smooth and literate. The companion volume, the...

No fue hasta fines del XIX, que se hizo una buena edición de los Poemas de Fray Luis de León. Considerado por algunos un poeta místico, dejó poemas de notable sabor íntimo-religioso. Fray Luis es una de las voces más altas de toda la poesía en castellano. El propio Fray Luis dividió sus poemas en tres apartados: las originales, las traducciones de poetas profanos y las traducciones o versiones bíblicas. Quevedo editó por primera vez...

"Winner of the 2012 Thornton Wilder Prize for Translation, American Academy of Arts and Letters" "Runner-Up for the The 2011 Schlegel-Tieck Prize (for German Translation), The Society of Authors" "Runner-Up for the 2011 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, PEN American Center" Michael Hofmann is an award-winning poet and translator. His Selected Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) appeared in 2009. His other books include the anthology Twentieth-Century...

Charles S. Singleton's edition of the Divine Comedy, of which this is the first part, provides the English-speaking reader with everything he needs to read and understand Dante's great masterpiece. The Italian text here is in the edition of Giorgio Petrocchi, the leading Italian editor of Dante. Professor Singleton's prose translation, facing the Italian in a line-for-line arrangement on each page, is smooth and literate. The companion volume, the...