Tommaso Pisanti Books

Explore the transcendent world of unity and ultimate beauty in Edgar Allan Poe’s verse in this complete poetry collection. Although best known for his short stories, Edgar Allan Poe was by nature and choice a poet. From his exquisite lyric “To Helen,” to his immortal masterpieces, “Annabel Lee,” “The Bells,” and “The Raven,” Poe stands beside the celebrated English romantic poets Shelley, Byron, and Keats, and his haunting, sensuous poetic vision profoundly influenced the Victorian giants Swinburne, Tennyson, and Rossetti. Today his dark side speaks eloquently to contemporary readers in poems such as “The Haunted Palace” and “The Conqueror Worm,” with their powerful images of madness and the macabre. But even at the end of his life, Poe reached out to his art for comfort and courage, giving us in “Eldorado” a talisman to hold during our darkest moments—a timeless gift from a great American writer. Includes an Introduction by Jay Parini and an Afterword by April Bernard

This new edition is based on the quarto, the version closest to the original manuscript. The introduction illminates the plays' origins and practicalities of composition, its reception and influence. Detailed notes pay especial attention to language and staging, and the volume includes King Lear's first derivative, a contemporary ballad, and guides to appreciation of the play and its multiple offshoots.

A bestseller when it was first published, The Children is a comic, bittersweet novel about the misadventures of a bachelor and a band of precocious children. The seven Wheater children, stepbrothers and stepsisters grown weary of being shuttled from parent to parent are eager for their parents' latest reconciliation to last. A chance meeting between the children and the solitary 46-year old Martin Boyne leads to a series of unforgettable encounters.

Amateurdetektiv Auguste Dupin löst das „locked room mystery“ durch die außergewöhnlichen Fähigkeiten seines „analytical mind“. Es ist die Kombination von romantischer Horrorstory und kühl kalkulierendem Intellekt, die den unvergänglichen Reiz von Poes Erzählungen ausmacht. Viele Autoren haben diesem Ideal in der Folgezeit nachgeeifert, wenige haben es erreicht. Ungekürzte und unbearbeitete Textausgabe in der Originalsprache, mit Übersetzungen schwieriger Wörter am Fuß jeder Seite, Nachwort und Literaturhinweisen.

Pubblicato tre anni dopo Il Profeta, il libro che ha fatto di Gibran uno dei poeti più letti del mondo occidentale, Sabbia e onda ripropone con forza la sorprendente comunicatività e la suggestiva, solenne, non di rado enigmatica densità del suo discorso. Il segreto della riuscita di Gibran risiede appunto nella capacità (perlomeno insolita nella poesia del Novecento) di conciliare una naturale tendenza all’aforisma, al «versetto» con un’altrettanto spontanea ed efficace vocazione all’affidabilità, alla chiarezza. Le pagine di Gibran hanno un fascino luminoso e senza tempo, giungono senza mediazioni al cuore del lettore per parlargli con davvero «profetica» semplicità dei grandi, eterni temi dell’esistenza spirituale e corporea.

The Virgin and the Gipsy was discovered in France after D. H. Lawrence's death in 1930. Immediately recognized as a masterpiece in which Lawrence had distilled and purified his ideas about sexuality and morality, The Virgin and the Gipsy has become a classic and is one of Lawrence's most electrifying short novels. Set in a small village in the English countryside, this is the story of a secluded, sensitive rector's daughter who yearns for meaning beyond the life to which she seems doomed. When she meets a handsome young gipsy whose life appears different from hers in every way, she is immediately smitten and yet still paralyzed by her own fear and social convention. Not until a natural catastrophe suddenly, miraculously sweeps away the world as she knew it does a new world of passion open for her. Lawrence's spirit is infused by all his tenderness, passion, and knowledge of the human soul.

Massime spirituali è un'opera piuttosto singolare, che a una prima ampia raccolta di aforismi, tipica espressione del pensiero denso e immediato di Gibran, fa seguire alcuni brevi scritti di argomento filosofico, etico e politico, che conferiscono maggiore respiro alle riflessioni dell'autore sulla vita, la morte, la religione. Particolare importanza riveste l'ultima prosa raccolta in questo volume, Il tuo pensiero e il mio, che contiene in nuce tutta la straordinaria visione umana, religiosa e sociale di Gibran. L'unitarietà e la coerenza dell'intero testo vanno rintracciate nel proposito ideale dell'autore di creare un ponte spirituale tra la cultura occidentale e il mondo islamico, superando e risolvendo in un'unica dimensione sovraculturale tutte le differenze concettuali, ideologiche e storiche: è qui la chiave di lettura di tutta la scrittura di Gibran.

Sabbia e Spuma raccoglie aforismi, massime, meditazioni sul difficile tentativo dell'autore di fondere Oriente ed Occidente. Il Vagabondo è una storia acuta ed incisiva, ricca di metafore.

Natura, storia, fiducia in se stessi, amore, cerchi, il poeta, esperienza, doni, politica.