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David Malouf
David Malouf (born 1934)

poet, librettist, playwright

  • University of Queensland, Brisbane Grammar School

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Remembering Babylon
The conversations at Curlow Creek
Ransom
The great world
The conversations at Curlow Creek
Johnno
Dream Stuff
An imaginary life
Harland's half acre
Fly away Peter
Antipodes
Every move you make
The year of the foxes and other poems
Love Stories
First things last
Child's play ; with Eustace and The prowler
12 Edmondstone Street
Child's play
A spirit of play
Neighbours in a thicket
Child's play ; with Eustace and The prowler
Child's play ; The bread of time to come
The conversations at Curlow Creek
Child's Play/the Bread of Times to Come
Selected poems
A first place
David Malouf
The on-nibus
Poems 1959-89
Ce vaste monde
On experience
L'Etoffe des rêves
Jenseits von Babylon
Revolving days
Wild lemons
The happy life
Into the light
Selected poems, 1959-1989
The Complete Stories
Harland's Half Acre
Chaque geste que tu fais
Conversations
Untold tales
Gesture of a hand
Harland's half acre
Die Große Welt
Jane Eyre
Al-irhabi
Un poeta australiano, David Malouf
Blood Relations
Poems, 1975-76
Südlicher Himmel
Verspieltes Land
Ḥayāt mutakhayyalah awfayd fī al-manfá
Die Nachtwache am Curlow Creek
Four poets
The happy life
Bicycle and other poems
Je me souviens de Babylone
Anne Hébert
Anne Hébert (1916-2000)

poet, playwright

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Le torrent
La cage ; suivi de L'île de la Demoiselle [théâtre]
Les enfants du sabbat
Les fous de bassan
Kamouraska
The Silent Rooms
Les chambres de bois
Le temps sauvage
Héloise
Kamouraska
Premendra Mitra
Premendra Mitra (1904-1988)

poet

  • University of Calcutta, Scottish Church College

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Ahmad Khani
Ahmad Khani (1650-1707)

poet, philosopher

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Mem û Zîn
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)

poet, politician, librettist, dramaturge, playwright

  • Harrow School

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Plays
Works (Romeo and Juliet / Julius Caesar / King Richard the Third / Merchant of Venice / The School for Scandal / King Lear)
A trip to Scarborough
The works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Pizarro
The speeches of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The Filipino martyrs
Six plays
MODERN ENGLISH DRAMA
The Rivals / The School for Scandal / The Critic
Speeches
Speeches Of The Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The beauties of Sheridan
Critic
Erotica: The Elegies of Propertius, The Satyricon of Petronius and The Kisses of Johannes ...
The works of the late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The Plays of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The Rivals The Duenna A Trip To Scarborough The School For Scandal The Critic
The School for Scandal and Other Plays
A comparative statement of the two bills, for the better government of the British possessions in India, brought into Parliament by Mr. Fox and Mr. Pitt
Wuthering Heights / The Pilgrim's Progress / The Peloponnesian War / The School for Scandal
The School for Scandal York Notes Advanced
Sheridan's plays
The dramatic works of Sheridan
The plays & poems of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
St. Patrick's day: or, the scheming lieutenant
Pizarro
A Trip to Scarborough / The Critic
Sheridan's plays
The camp
The Governess
The speech of Richard Brinsley Sheridan in the House of Commons, (8th December 1802)
SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL
Classic Comedies
Plays
St. Patrick's day [or, The scheming lieutenant
The Critic, Or, A Tragedy Rehearsed: A Dramatic Piece in Three Acts as it is ...
Dramatic works
Pizarro
The humorous plays of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The Rivals, and The School for Scandal
The letters of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The Forty Thieves A Grand Melo-dramatic Romance
The Rivals And Polly Honeycombe George Colman Edited By David A Brewer
Dramatic Works of Sheridan and Goldsmith with Goldsmiths Poems
The speech of R. B. Sheridan Esq. in the House of Commons, December 8, 1802, on the army estimates. And, The speech of The Right Hon. Henry Addington, Chancellor of the Exchequer, December 10, 1802, upon the financial state of the country
The works of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The school for scandal, 1780
The Rivals / The School for Scandal
The Rivals
The Duenna
The School for Scandal and Other Plays
Dramatic works
The Dramatic Works Of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Sheridan's plays now printed as he wrote them
The speeches of ... Richard Brinsley Sheridan, with a sketch of his life, ed. by a ..
Four Georgian and Pre-Revolutionary Plays
Plays & poems
The Plays of Sheridan
Plays
St. Patrick's Day Or the Scheming Lieutenant & The Duenna, A Comic Opera
Sheridan's Plays, the Rivals and the School for Scandal
The origins of The school for scandal
Trip to Scarborough
Letters
La escuela de la murmuración
St. Patrick's Day; or, the Scheming Lieutenant : a Farce in One Act
Rivals
THE DRAMATIC WORKS OF RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN (THE WORLD`S CALSSICS NO. 79)
Complete Plays (Everyman's Library)
Plays
The Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Sheridan's Plays Now Printed As He Wrote Them and His Mother's Unpublished Comedy, a Journey to Bath
Liberty & peace
Dramatic Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan; Volume 1
A comparative statement of the two bills, for the better government of the British possessions in India
The Dramatic Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan: With a Biographical and ...
Plays
School for Scandal and Other Plays
Dramatic Works
The genuine speech of Mr Sheridan, delivered in the House of Commons, on a charge of high crimes and misdemeanors, against Warren Hastings... late Governor General of Bengal, for extortion, perfidy, and cruelty, to the princesses, and other branches of the royal family of Oude
Sheridan's address to the people
The Governess, a Comic Opera
The Real and Genuine School for Scandal, a Comedy; Acted with Bursts of Applause, at the Theatres in London and Dublin. Written by Brinsley Sheridan, Esquire
Dramatic Works of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Greek comic verse
Speech of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Esq. in the House of Commons of Great Britain, on Thursday, January 31st, 1799, in reply to Mr. Pitt's speech on the union with Ireland
Plays
The Plays of Sheridan. Everyman's Library No. 95
The celebrated speech of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Esq., in Westminster-Hall on the 3d, 6th, 10th, and 13th of June 1788, on his summing up the evidence on the Begum charge against Warren Hastings, Esquire
A comparative statement of the two bills, for the better government of the British possessions in India, brought into Parliament by Mr. Fox and Mr. ... observations. By R. B. Sheridan, Esq.
The Dramatic Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The Works of the Right Honorable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, With a Memoir by James P. Brown, M.D., Containing Extracts From the Life by Thomas Moore
THE RIVALS / SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER
Sheridan's tragic play of Pizarro, or, The Spaniards in Peru
Speeches
PLAYS
The Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan: Dramas, Poems, Translations ...
Works of ... Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Collected by T. Moore
The letters of Richard Brinsley Sheridan;
Works
Works of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The Duenna
Three English Comedies
Pizarro
La escuela de la murmuración
Pizarro: or, the Spaniards in Peru
Report of the Celebrated Speech Delivered by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The Works Of The Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan,
Heavenly hell
The speech of R.B. Sheridan, Esq. (which continued four days) before the High Court of Parliament, on Tuesday 3d, Friday 6th, Tuesday 10th, and Friday 13th of June, 1788, on summing up the evidence of the Begum charge against Warren Hastings, Esq
The Speeches of ... Richard Brinsley Sheridan, With a Sketch of His Life, Ed. by a Constitutional Friend
Plays by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Clio's Protest; or, 'the Picture' Varnished, with Other Poems
The speeches of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A Letter to the Most Insolent man Alive
Selections from Comedies and Speeches; Also Verses to the Memory of Garrick and Anecdotes and Witty Sayings
St. Patrick's Day
Plays. With an Introd. by Henry Morley
Rivals
The Plays & Poems of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, edited with introductions, appendices and bibliographies by R. Crompton Rhodes.
Death of Mr. Fox
Songs, Duets, Trios, &c. in The Duenna; or, the Double Elopement. As Performed at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. Written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Esq. The Eighteenth Edition
Works of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Songs, Duets, Trios, &c. in the Duenna; Or, the Double Elopement. as Performed at the Theatre-Royal, in Covent-Garden. Written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Esq. the Twenty Seventh Edition
The critic
Works of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan : In Two Volumes
Plays by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Memoirs Of The Life Of The Right Honorable Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The Plays of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY 95 : POETRY AND DRAMA
The dramatic works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Dramatic Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan; Volume 1
Plays & poems
Duenn
The dramatic works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Plays. with an Introd. by Henry Morley
The speech of R.B. Sheridan, Esq., member for Stafford, on Wednesday, the 7th of February, 1787, in bringing forward the fourth charge against Warren Hastings, Esq., relative to the Begums of Oude
The Plays of Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Everyman's Library, No. 95)
The speech of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Esq. in the House of Commons, (8th December 1802) on the motion for the army establ[i]shment for the ensuing year
The dramatic works of R. B. Sheridan, Esq. Containing, The school for scandal. The rivals. The duenna. The critic. Together with the life of the author, also a critic upon his plays, and history of the English drama
Rehearsing a tragedy
Sheridan, The rivals, The school for scandal
Richard Brinsley Sheridan letters to Hester Jane Ogle Sheridan
The plays of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
An ode to scandal ; together with, A portrait
Eyewitness accounts in 1900 of the Philippine revolution, the Filipino-American War and the U.S. occupation of the Philippines
A new song in The duenna, sung by Mr Leoni
Six plays
Substance of ...[his] speech at a meeting of the electors of the city of Westminster, at the Crown & Anchor tavern, Sept. 18, 1806
The legislative independence of Ireland vindicated: in a speech of Mr. Sheridan's on the Irish propositions, in the British House of Commons. To which is annexed an authentic copy of the twenty resolutions, on the Irish commercial intercourse; as they passed that House, on the 30th of May, 1785; ..
The works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Memoir of the life of the Right Honourable Charles James Fox ...
The plays of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Pizarro
La duegne et le juif Portugais
The dramatic works of R.B. Sheridan, Esq. containing, The school for scandal, the rivals, The duenna, The critic
The dramatic works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Oeuvres de Shéridan
The plays of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A comparative statement of the two bills, for the better government of the British possessions in India
Mr. Sheridan's speech addressed to a number of gentlemen assembled with a view of considering the best means to establish one good theatre in this city
Brodie's notes
School for Scandal
Die lästerschule
Pizarro
The legislative independence of Ireland vindicated
The school for scandal and the critic
The plays of R. B. Sheridan
Songs duetts, choruses, &c. in a new and appropiate [sic] entertainment, called The glorious first of June
Die La sterschule
St. Patrick's day
The dramatic works of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The plays & poems of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The tears of genius. A monody
The critic, or, A tragedy rehearsed
The speech of R. B. Sheridan
Songs, duets, trios, &c. in The duenna
Plays
Medbejlerne
Sheridan. L'école de la médisance. La critique
The forty thieves
Plays now printed as he wrote them and his mother's unpublished comedy, A journey to Bath
The forty thieves
Dramatic works...
A volume of plays
La escuela del escandolo
An ode to the genius of scandal
Pizarro
The rivals
The forty thieves
The School for scandal
A letter to William Eden, Esq
La escuela de la murmuración
Plays
Dramatic Works, 1775-99 (World's Classics)
Songs, duets, trios, & c. in the Duenna; or, The double elopement
The dramatic works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen
Letters
The plays of Richard Sheridan
Les rivaux
The plays of Sheridan
L'école de la médisance
Sheridan's Leben und Schriften
Dramatic works
Sheridan's plays
Theater playbill for "Pizarro, or, The Death of Rolla" and "Miss in Her Teens, or, The Medley of Lovers" at the Theatre, Washington, D.C., August 24, 1822
Selections from comedies and speeches
A letter to the most insolent man alive
Songs duetts, choruses, &c. in a new and appropriate entertainment, called The glorious first of June
Critic
The complete plays
La escuela del escándalo
An address to Richard Brinsley Sheriden, Esq
The governess, a comic opera
An Impartial statement of the inhuman cruelties discovered! in the Coldbath-Fields Prison
The dramatic works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Verses to the memory of Garrick
THE LETTERS
Plays
L' école de la médisance
An ode to Scandal together with a Portrait
Masuji Ibuse
Masuji Ibuse (1898-1993)

poet

  • Waseda University

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Black rain
Lieutenant Lookeast and other stories
The Crazy iris and other stories of the atomic aftermath
Ogikubo fūdoki
Black rain
Jon Manjirō hyōryūki
Sanshōuo
John Manjiro, the castaway
Salamander and other stories
Waves
Ibuse Masuji kikigaki
Two stories by Masuji Ibuse
Nanatsu no kaido
Castaways
La pioggia nera
Pluie noire
Yakimono zakki
Ibuse Masuji shū
La salamandre
Ibuse Masuji zentaidan
Bunshi no fubo
Nanatsu no kaidō
Chimpindō shujin
Ibuse Masuji jisen zenshu
Chōyōchū no koto
Pflaumenblüten in der Nacht
Salamander and Other Stories (Japan's Modern Writers)
Sazanami gunki
Dazai Osamu
Ibuse Masuji taidanshu
Ibuse Masuji (Sakka no jiden)
Ibuse Masuji taidansen
Waseda no mori
Doritoru sensei no tanoshii ie
Yōhai taichō ; Honjitsu kyūshin
Chinpindō shujin
Ibuse Masuji, Fukasawa Shichirō
Hyōmin Usaburō
Tsuribito
Rekishi e no shiten
Kawazuri
Tarachine
Kuroi ame ; Ekimae ryokan
Ibuse Masuji shū
Teihon yofuke to ume no hana
Nihon shōsetsu daihyōsaku zenshū
Shigoto-beya
Kikkyō uranai
Natsukashiki genjitsu
Ibuse Masuji Iida Ryūta ōfuku shokan
Ibuse Masuji shu
Kŏmŭn pi
Tenteki
Ibuse Masuji, Kambayashi Akatsuki shū
Ogikubo fudoki
Lieutenant Lookeast
Ibuse Masuji kikigaki
Sanshōuo
Ibuse Masuji zenshū
Ibuse Masuji, Kanbayashi Akatsuki shū
Ibuse masuji zenshu
Honjitsu kyūshin
Rōkō no uta
Gakuroku tenbyō
Ibuse Masuji
Tajinko-mura
Honjitsu kyūshin, Yōhai taichō
Ibuse Masuji, Nagai Tatsuo shū
No consultations today
Teihon Wabisuke
Kuroi ame ; Ekimae ryokan
Ibuse Masuji
Kakitsubata
Katabō katsugi
Yomu
Hana no machi
Ibuse Masuji zenshū
Chūkan shōsetsu no ōgon jidai
Ibuse Masuji shū
Nihon-teki naru mono o megutte
Bushū Hachigatajō
Ekimae ryokan
Kamiya Sotan no nokoshita nikki
Yakuyoke shishū
Shūkin ryokō ; Sazanami gunki
Yofuke to ume no hana
Hito to hitokage
Derenik Demirchian
Derenik Demirchian (1877-1956)

opinion journalist, literary critic, translator, poet, playwright

  • Gevorkian Theological Seminary, Nersisyan School

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Vardanankʻ
The book of flowers
Girkʻ tsaghkantsʻ
Pardanank
Puypuy mukikě
Patmvatskʻner
Erkeri zhoghovatsu
Antsanotʻ ējer
Vardanank (Khtatsowm)
Vardanank
Erker erku grkʻov
Patmuatskʻner
Banasteghtsutʻiwnner
Patmvatskʻner, piesner
Povesti i rasskazy
Derenik Demirchyan
Erkeri zhoghovatsow
Khrabryĭ Nazar
Rasskazy, miniati︠u︡ry
Povesti i rasskazy
Vo imi︠a︡ zhizni
Yehuda Amichai
Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000)

poet, educator, playwright, translator

  • Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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Prentice Hall Literature--World Masterpieces
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--World Literature
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Platinum
Prentice Hall Literature - Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes - The British Tradition
World Literature 1999
Poems
The world is a room and other stories
Shalṿah gedolah
Yehuda Amichai, a life of poetry, 1948-1994
Travels
Poems of Jerusalem
Poems of Jerusalem ; and, Love poems
Open Closed Open
Love poems
Amen
The Early Books of Yehuda Amichai
Time
Even a fist was once an open palm with fingers
Songs of Jerusalem and myself
Great tranquillity
The poetry of Yehuda Amichai
Elohim merahem al yalde ha-gan
Shire Yerushalayim
Be-merḥaḳ shete tiḳṿot
Zeit
Poems of Jerusalem and Love Poems
ʻAkhshaṿ uva-yamim ha-aḥerim
ha- Zanav ha-shamen shel ha-numah
Use of Radar at Sea
Perdu dans la grâce
Yehuda Amichai (Faber Poetry)
I am sitting here now
Akhziv, Kesaryah ve-ahavah ahat
Be-merḥaḳ shete tiḳvot
The Selected Poetry Of Yehuda Amichai
More Love Poems
Pa'amonim ve-rakavot
Selected poems [of] Yehuda Amichai
Not of this time, not of this place
Masaʻ le-Ninṿeh
Open-Eyed Land
Poemes - traduits de l'hebreu
Nicht von jetzt, nicht von hier
Gam ha-egrof hayah paam yad petuhah ve-etsbaot
Lo me-ʻakhshaṿ, lo mi-kan
Masaʻ le-Ninṿeh
Poems
Selected poems
Poeśia diversidad cultural en Israel
Selected Poems
Terra e paz
Clavats a la carn del món
In einem fremden Land
ha-Zeman
Yehuda Amichai Selected Poems
No Royalty A/C Sel Poems-Amichai
POEMES DE JERUSALEM ancienne édition
Ba-ruaḥ ha-nora'ah ha-zot
Time
Mivḥar shirim
Tanri Belki Esirger Aski
Me-aḥore kol zeh mistater osher gadol
Patuah sagur patuah
Patuaḥ sagur patuaḥ
Nof galui ʻenayim
Mira, tuvimos más que la vida
Not of This Time, Not of This Place
Ba-ginah ha-tsiburit
Paʻamonim ṿe-rakavot
Ve-lo 'al menat lizkor
Sheʻat ha-ḥesed
LES MORTS DE MON PERE ET AUTRES NOUVELLES
Shirim, 1948-1962
Poèmes
Patuaḥ sagur patuaḥ
Paʻamonim ṿe-rakavot
'Akhshav ba-ra'ash
Koniec sezonu pomarańczy
ha- Zeman
Sefer ha-Lailah ha-gadol
Rothberg students translate two of Yehuda Amichai's poems into forty-one languages
Open Closed Open
Me-adam atah ṿe-el adam tashuv
ʻOd shire ahavah
Mi yitneni malon
Detrás de todo se oculta una gran felicidad
Mi yitneni malon
Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai
Auch eine Faust war einmal eine offene Hand
' On New Year's Day, next to a house being built'
Yehuda Amihay'dan Secme Siirler
Songs of Jerusalem and Myself
Akhziv, Ḳesaryah ṿe-ahavah aḥat
„Wer ich bin?“