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Alice Notley
Alice Notley (born 1945)

poet, playwright

  • Barnard College, University of Iowa

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From a Work in Progress
Tell me again
Songs and Stories of the Ghouls
Disobedience
In the Pines
The Descent of Alette
Close to Me & Closer... (The Language of Heaven) and DéSamèRe
In the Pines
Mysteries of Small Houses
Grave of Light
Disobedience
Homer's Art
The Scarlet Cabinet
Coming After
Margaret & Dusty
Waltzing Matilda
Culture of One
Alma, or The Dead Women
How Spring Comes
Incidentals in The Day World
Descent of Alette
Alma, or The Dead Women
Songs for the Unborn Second Baby
Songs and Stories of the Ghouls
Incidentals in the Day World
When I Was Alive
Selected Poems of Alice Notley
A Diamond Necklace
From The Beginning
For Frank O'Hara's Birthday
Doctor Williams' heiresses
Songs for the Unborn Second Baby
Alice Ordered Me to Be Made
Grave of Light
A Diamond Necklace
For Frank O'Hara's Birthday
Grave of Light
Certain magical acts
Words and Drawings
Phoebe light
For the Ride
Grave of Light
Talisman
At Night the States
Phoebe light
165 Meeting House Lane
165 Meeting House Lane
Etruscan Reader
Reason and other women
Negativity's kiss
Dodgems
Manhattan luck
Byzantine parables
Grave of Light
Sorrento
Primo Levi
Primo Levi (1919-1987)

chemist, poet, politician, autobiographer, philosopher

  • University of Turin, Liceo Classico Massimo D'Azeglio

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Sommersi e i salvati
Se questo è un uomo
If this is a man
La tregua
Sistema periodico
If This Is a Man and The Truce
Moments of reprieve
Survival in Auschwitz ; and, The reawakening
Si esto es un hombre
I sommersi e i salvati
The Last Interview
Il sistema periodico
Survival in Auschwitz
Survival in Auschwitz
Iron Potassium Nickel
The periodic table
Periodic Table
Domenico Morelli, nella vita e nell'arte
L' altrui mestiere
Se questo è un uomo
The Periodic Table
Lilít e altri racconti
Last Interview
Moments of Reprieve
Prentice Hall Literature--World Masterpieces
The Sixth Day and Other Tales
Se non ora, quando?
The voice of memory
Other people's trades
A Tranquil Star
Chiave a stella
AUSCHWITZ REPORT; TRANS. BY JUDITH WOOLF
Collected poems
The search for roots
The Mirror Maker
L' asimmetria e la vita
The Search For Roots
Conversations with Primo Levi
The Black Hole of Auschwitz
Il sistema periodico
Conversations
Lilith, et autres nouvelles
Si c'est un homme
Primo Levi e Tullio Regge
Primo Levi
Se non ora, quando?
The Survivor
'IF NOT NOW, WHEN? '
The wrench
The truce
The complete works of Primo Levi
La ricerca delle radici
La tregua / Se questo è un uomo
Dialogo
Sixth Day
The Drowned and the Saved
Conversazioni e interviste
Opere
If Not Now, When?
Vizio di forma
Night with Connected Readings
Survival In Auschwitz
Monkey's Wrench
Conversations
A la recherche des racines
Rivisitando i lager
Primo Levi as witness
Auschwitz testimonies, 1945-1986
The Drowned And The Saved
Maintenant ou jamais
Il fabbricante di specchi
Survival in Auschwitz, the Nazi assault on humanity
Primo Levi
Profil d'une oeuvre
L'Ultimo Natale Di Guerra
Sche quei ei in carstgaun
Si esto es un hombre
Ist das ein Mensch?
Les naufragés et les rescapés
Abruzzo forte e gentile
The Magic Paint
Auschwitz report
Lili t
Shema
La Trêve
Ve-im lo akhshav, ematai?
Les Naufrages
Simdi Degilse Ne Zaman?
Der Freund des Menschen
Bunlar da mi Insan
Survival in Auschwitz
Voice of Memory
If This Is a Man
Así fue Auschwitz
Sixth Day 'a' Format
Mirror Maker
Si esto es un hombre
Mirror Maker
Survival in Auschwitz
La treve
La Clé à molette
Le Devoir de mémoire
Der Ringschlüssel
Anderer Leute Berufe
Primo Levi Mixed B D/Bx33
Tutti i racconti
El Sistema Periodico
Vizio di forma
Le Système périodique
Storie naturali
La Trève
Bogulanlar, Kurtulanlar
Trilogia De Auschwitz
Wann, wenn nicht jetzt?
Le Système périodique
Storie naturali
Storie naturali
Auschwitz Testimonies
Survival in Auschwitz
Complete Works of Primo Levi
Si Ahora No, Cuando? (Alianza Tres)
Los hundidos y los salvados
Así fue Auschwitz
Si això és un home
The Periodic Table ('Zhou qi biao', in traditional Chinese, NOT in English)
I racconti
Mil Sóis
Truce
Le Fabricant de miroirs
Transmettre et témoigner
Primo Levi per l'ANED, l'ANED per Primo Levi
So war Auschwitz
Historia naturales
Cuentos completos
Ad ora incerta
Intervista a Primo Levi, ex deportato
Primo Levi Mixed B S/Wx12
Die Atempause
Entrevista a Si Mismo
Maintenant ou jamais
Glöm oss inte
Wrench
La Ricerca delle radici
Ist das ein Mensch? - Die Atempause
Los Hundidos y Los Salvados
Le Système périodique
Wrench
Imprisoned
Periyodik Tablo
The Periodic Table
Das Maß der Schönheit. Erzählungen
I sommersi e i salvati
Si esto es un hombre
Si esto es un hombre
Autoritratto di Primo Levi
Ad ora incerta
Drowned and the Saved
Sobreviviendo En Auschwitz Si Esto Es El Hombre Survival in Auschwitz If This Is a Man
Se questo è un uomo
Vivir para contar
Die Untergegangenen und die Geretteten
Si esto es un hombre
Ist das ein Mensch ?
Das periodische System
L'asymétrie et la vie
Se isto é um homem
Conversations avec Primo Levi
La Nuit des Girondins
Das periodische System
Se Questo E Un Jomo
Lilit e altri vaceonti
Racconti e saggi
Le Métier des autres
Auschwitz Report
Monkey's Wrench counter display
Historias Naturales (Alianza Tres)
La Busqueda de Las Raices
Het periodiek systeem
Poeti
Llave Estrella, La
Dernier noël avant la guerre
La chiave a stella
La Llave Estrella
No Royalty A/C the Truce
Lilit Y Otros Relatos/lilit And Other Stories
L'A ltrui mestieve
Trilogia De Auschwitz/ the Auschwits Trilogy (El Dia Siguiente)
Ultima Navidad de Guerra
Defecto De Forma (Alianza Tres)
Se questo e un uamo
Der Freund des Menschen
L' osteria di Brema
Ricerca Delle Radici
Histoires naturelles, suivi de "Vice de forme"
The wrench
Naja Marie Aidt
Naja Marie Aidt (born 1963)

poet

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Frit flet
Tilgang
Huset overfor
Poesibog
Samlede digte 1991-2008
Rejse for en fremmed
Süßigkeiten
Alting blinker
Bavian
Pierre François Lacenaire
Pierre François Lacenaire (1803-1836)

poet, serial killer, bretteur

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Mémoires
Mémoires et autres écrits
Alfred Meissner
Alfred Meissner (1822-1885)

poet

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Die Matratzengruft
Heinrich Heine
Dichtungen von Alfred Meissner..
Der Spieltisch Peter des Grossen
Der Sohn des Atta Troll
Ich traf auch Heine in Paris
Geschichte meines Lebens .
Historien
Ziska
Heinrich Heine: Erinnerungen
Durch Sardinien: Bilder von Festland und Insel
Heinrich Heine
Gesammelte Schriften
Alfred Meiszner
Robert McAlmon
Robert McAlmon (1895-1956)

poet, publisher

  • University of Southern California, University of Minnesota

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Being geniuses together, 1920-1930
Being geniuses together, 1920-1930
Post-adolescence
Village
Miss Knight and others
A hasty bunch
McAlmon and the Lost Generation
The Nightinghouls of Paris
Explorations
There was a rustle of black silk stockings
Not alone lost
... Being geniuses together
Village: - as it happened through a fifteen year period
The portrait of a generation
Being geniuses together, 1920-1930
Hasty Bunch
Nightinghouls of Paris
Explorations
Indefinite huntress and other stories
Being geniuses together, 1920-1930
North America
Distinguished air
McAlmon and the Lost Generation
Karel van Mander the Elder
Karel van Mander the Elder (1548-1606)

art historian, painter, poet, biographer, visual artist

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Schilderboek
Het leven der doorluchtige Nederlandsche en eenige Hoogduitsche schilders ..
Dutch and Flemish painters
Schilder-boek
Het schilder-boek
Lives of Elsheimer
Le livre des peintres
The lives of the illustrious Netherlandish and German painters, from the first edition of the Schilder-boeck (1603-1604)
Het leven der doorluchtighe Nederlandsche en eenige Hoogduitsche schilders
Kniga o khudozhnikakh
Het schilder-boeck
Das Leben der niederländischen und deutschen Maler (von 1400 bis ca. 1615)
Het leven der oude antijcke doorluchtighe schilders
Das Lehrgedicht des Karel van Mander
Le livre de peinture
Kniga o khudozhnikakh
Le livre des peintres
Het Schilder-Boeck waerin voor eerst le leerlustighe Iueght den grondt der edel vry schilderconst in verscheyden deelen wort voorghedraghen
Le livre des peintres
Den grondt der edel vry schilder-const
Hans Holbein
Karel van Mander
De kerck der deucht
Le livre des peintres de Carel van Mander
Wtleggingh Op den Metamorphosis Pub. Ouidij Nasonis
Olijf-bergh 1609
Het schilder-boek van Carel van Mander
Das Lehrgedicht des Karel van Mander
Het schilder-boek waerin voor eerst de leerlustighe jueght den grondt der edel vrye schilderkonst in verscheyden deelen wort voor-gedragen
Bethlehem, dat is het Broodhuys
Das Leben der niederländischen und deutschen Maler
Uitlegging over de Metamorphosis, of Verschepping van P. Ovidius Nazo
José Cadalso
José Cadalso (1741-1782)

military officer, poet

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Escritos autobiográficos y epistolario
Autobiografía / Noches lúgubres
Escritos autobiográficos y epistolario
Noches lúgubres
Cartas marruecas
Cartas marruecas / Noches lúgubres
Solaya o Los cicasianos
Los eruditos a la violeta
Suplemento al papel intitulado Los eruditos a la violeta
Historia de los amores del coronel don José Cadalso
Noches lúgubres / Los eruditos a la violeta
Óptica del cortejo
Ocios de mi juventud
El buen militar a la violeta
Defensa de la nación española contra la carta persiana LXXVIII de Montesquieu
Cartas marruecas / Defensa de la nación española contra la Carta persiana LXXVIII de Montesquieu
Cartas marruecas / Los eruditos a la violeta
Obras escogidas
Epistolario español
Calendario manual y guía de forasteros en Chipre (1768)
Noches lúgubres
Cadalso
Obra poética
Obras del Don Joseph Cadalso, coronel y comandante de esquadron del regimento de Borbon, y caballero del habito de Santiago
Cártas Marruécas y poesías seléctas. ...
Noches lugubres
Poesía y noches lúgubres
Cómo hablar con los hijos
Ocios de mi juventud, o Poesias liricas
Los eruditos a la violeta, ò Curso completo de todas las ciencias