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  • Jean-Luc Persecuted

    by C.F. Ramuz ...
    Translated by Olivia Baes ...
    Jean-Luc Persecuted follows the ill-fated life of an unhappily married man. When Jean-Luc’s wife pursues an affair and leaves him with their child, Jean-Luc’s behavior becomes more and more erratic. He falls to drinking, behaving recklessly, and squandering his money. The narrative follows the explosive downfall of a lone man and his unstoppable mental collapse, surrounded by villagers unable to ... Read more

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  • Into the Sun

    by C. F. Ramuz ...
    Translated by Olivia Baes, Emma Ramadan ...
    Into the Sun—a radically strange and frighteningly prescient climate-disaster novel written a century ago by C. F. Ramuz, the great and eccentric Swiss-French novelist—is a book to boil youIt’s been a hot summer for a Swiss lakeside town—both bucolic and citylike, old-fashioned and up-to-date—when a "great message," telegraphed from one continent to another, announces an "accident in the ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • The Best 100 Poems of Les Murray

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  • Collected Poems

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  • Original Fire

    Selected and New Poems

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  • Rock Crystal

    by Adalbert Stifter ...
    Translated by Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Mayer ...
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  • The Red Wheelbarrow & Other Poems

    by William Carlos Williams ...
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