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First published in 1956 when he was twenty-two years old, Let Us Compare Mythologies is Leonard Cohen’s first collection of poetry. It is an accomplished and passionate collection which demonstrates Cohen’s remarkably assured voice, even as a young man. An unprecedented debut published to...

The poems in Book of Mercy brim with praise, despair, anger, doubt and trust. Speaking from the heart of the modern world, yet in tones that resonate with an older devotional tradition, these verses give voice to our deepest, most powerful intuitions. Internationally celebrated for his writing...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS AWARD FOR POETRY The Flame is a stunning collection of Leonard Cohen’s last poems and writings, selected and ordered by Cohen in the final months of his life. The book contains an extensive selection from Cohen’s notebooks...

An unprecedented glimpse into the formation of the legendary talent of Leonard Cohen. Before the celebrated late-career world tours, before the Grammy awards, before the chart-topping albums, before 'Hallelujah' and 'So Long, Marianne' and 'Famous Blue Raincoat', the young Leonard Cohen wrote...

Hydra, 1960: Der junge Leonard will ein berühmter Schriftsteller werden. Dann lernt er Marianne und ihren Mann kennen und wird Zeuge, wie ihre Ehe zerbricht. Leonard kümmert sich um die tief verletzte Marianne, sie verlieben sich ineinander. Nachdem sein Roman jedoch von der Kritik zerrissen wird, fällt Leonard in eine Depression. Jetzt ist es an Marianne, ihn zu retten: Sie schenkt ihm eine Gitarre und ermutigt Leonard dazu, Songs zu schreiben. Bald feiert er erste Erfolge. Doch kann Marianne ein Leben an der Seite eines Weltstars führen?

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Book of Longing written and read by Leonard Cohen. Book of Longing is Leonard Cohen's first book of new poetry since Book of Mercy was published two decades ago. It collects Cohen's poetry written between the 1980s and 2006, when this book was first...

“Book of Longing has exceptional range. It is clear yet steamy, cosmic yet private, both playful and profound.”—New York Times Leonard Cohen wrote the poems in Book of Longing—his first book of poetry in more than twenty years after 1984's Book of Mercy—during his five-year stay at a...

Um 1968 tingeln Lukas und Harry als Zwei-Mann-Band durch die deutsche Provinz, covern Beatles, Kinks und Donovan und denken: Besser geht's nicht. Bis Lukas eines Nachts im Radio Leonard Cohens "Suzanne" hört und sich weder Titel noch Interpret merken kann. Die kokette Gitte und die erfahrene Julia werden ihm auf der Suche nach dieser einen lebensverändernden Platte behilflich sein. Zehn Jahre später macht Lukas sich auf nach Nirgendwo, nur mit Cohens Gedichten im Gepäck.

This anthology, with an introduction by Robert Silverberg, offers a sweeping survey of robots as depicted throughout literature. Since the Iliad—in which we are shown golden statues built by Hephaestus “with minds and wisdoms”—humans have been fascinated by the idea of artificial life. From the Argonautica to the medieval Jewish legend of the Golem and Ambrose Bierce’s tale of a chess-playing robot, the idea of what robots are—and who creates them—can be drastically different.

Un ballet de leprosos es el título de una novela inédita que Leonard Cohen escribió con poco más de veinte años, mucho antes de que su talento se plasmara en más de veinte álbumes y seis premios Grammy y alcanzara una fama mundial.

Book of Longing is a critically-acclaimed collection of poetry by the late Leonard Cohen. The audiobook features edited and remastered archival recordings of the author himself, reading the poems in a home environment. The result is a rare, personal experience from one of the western world’s...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Marriage of Opposites and The Dovekeepers comes a soul-searching story about a young woman struggling to redefine herself and the power of love, family, and fate. Growing up on Long Island, Shelby Richmond is an ordinary girl until one night an...

This program is read by Margaret Atwood, Rodney Crowell, John Doe, Jim Fletcher, Ari Fliakos, Maggie Hoffman, Ross Marquand, Will Patton, Seth Rogen, Michael Shannon, and Neela Vaswani. The Flame is the final collection of the seminal musician and poet, which he was determined to complete before...

How does life go on in the face of irreconcilable loss? How can the irredeemable find redemption? Unrivalled storyteller Wm. Paul Young leads us back to the great questions of human existence in this long-awaited sequel to one of the world's most beloved and widely read books of the last twenty...

In the long-awaited sequel to one of the world’s most beloved and widely read books of the last twenty years—The Shack—unrivaled storyteller Wm. Paul Young leads us back to the great questions of human existence: How does life go on in the face of irreconcilable loss? How can the...

Nesta nova coletânea, Stephen King conduz o leitor por doze histórias inesquecíveis, cinco delas nunca antes publicadas — incluindo "Cascavéis", a sequência inédita do aclamado romance Cujo. Com lançamento mundial, os contos de Mais sombrio evidenciam a célebre capacidade do autor de...

Read by the author, Selected Poems 1968-2014 offers 45 years of work drawn from 12 individual collections by a poet who 'began as a prodigy and has gone on to become a virtuoso' (Michael Hofmann). Hailed by Seamus Heaney as 'one of the era's true originals', Muldoon seems determined to escape definition, yet this volume, chosen by the poet himself, serves as an indispensable introduction to his trademark combination of intellectual high jinx and emotional honesty. 

‘The best poet in America’ Jean Genet ‘He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels’ Leonard Cohen The definitive collection from a writer whose transgressive legacy and raw, funny, acutely observant writing has left an enduring mark Here is Bukowski eating walnuts and scratching...