The Pleasures Of The Damned

Author : Charles Bukowski
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781847678874

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The Pleasures of the Damned by Charles Bukowski Pdf

The Pleasures of the Damned is a selection of the best poetry from America's most iconic and imitated poet, Charles Bukowski. Celebrating the full range of the poet's extraordinary sensibility and his uncompromising linguistic brilliance, these poems cover a lifetime of experience, from his renegade early work to never-before-collected poems penned during the final days before his death. Selected by John Martin, Bukowski's long-time editor and the publisher of the legendary Black Sparrow Press, this stands as what Martin calls 'the best of the best of Bukowski'.

Author : Charles Bukowski
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780061873041

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You Get So Alone at Times by Charles Bukowski Pdf

Charles Bukowski examines cats and his childhood in You Get So Alone at Times, a book of poetry that reveals his tender side. The iconic tortured artist/everyman delves into his youth to analyze its repercussions. “The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates “He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriter

Author : A. Debritto
Publisher : Springer
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137343550

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Charles Bukowski, King of the Underground by A. Debritto Pdf

This critical study of the literary magazines, underground newspapers, and small press publications that had an impact on Charles Bukowski's early career, draws on archives, privately held unpublished Bukowski work, and interviews to shed new light on the ways in which Bukowski became an icon in the alternative literary scene in the 1960s.

Author : Charles Bukowski
Publisher : City Lights Books
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780872866386

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Tales of Ordinary Madness by Charles Bukowski Pdf

Exceptional stories that come pounding out of Bukowski's violent and depraved life. Horrible and holy, you cannot read them and ever come away the same again. This collection of stories was once part of the 1972 City Lights classic, Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness. That book was later split into two volumes and republished: The Most Beautiful Woman in Town and, this book, Tales of Ordinary Madness. With Bukowski, the votes are still coming in. There seems to be no middle ground—people seem either to love him or hate him. Tales of his own life and doings are as wild and weird as the very stories he writes. In a sense, Bukowski was a legend in his time, a madman, a recluse, a lover; tender, vicious; never the same. "Bukowski … a professional disturber of the peace … laureate of Los Angeles netherworld [writes with] crazy romantic insistence that losers are less phony than winners, and with an angry compassion for the lost."—Jack Kroll, Newsweek "Bukowski’s works are extraordinarily vivid and often bitterly funny observations of people living on the very edge of oblivion. His poetry, in all its glorious simplicity, was accessible the way poetry seldom is a testament to his genius."—Nick Burton, PIF Magazine

Author : Charles Bukowski
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780062565303

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Essential Bukowski by Charles Bukowski Pdf

Edited by Abel Debritto, the definitive collection of poems from an influential writer whose transgressive legacy and raw, funny, and acutely observant writing has left an enduring mark on modern culture. Few writers have so brilliantly and poignantly conjured the desperation and absurdity of ordinary life as Charles Bukowski. Resonant with his powerful, perceptive voice, his visceral, hilarious, and transcendent poetry speaks to us as forcefully today as when it was written. Encompassing a wide range of subjects—from love to death and sex to writing—Bukowski’s unvarnished and self-deprecating verse illuminates the deepest and most enduring concerns of the human condition while remaining sharply aware of the day to day. With his acute eye for the ridiculous and the troubled, Bukowski speaks to the deepest longings and strangest predilections of the human experience. Gloomy yet hopeful, this is tough, unrelenting poetry touched by grace. This is Essential Bukowski.

Author : Laurell K. Hamilton
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0515134481

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Circus of the Damned by Laurell K. Hamilton Pdf

When a powerful centuries-old vampire hits Anita Blake's town, a battle of the undead ensues.

Author : Tom Hodgkinson,Dan Kieran
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-18
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780740785085

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The Book of Idle Pleasures by Tom Hodgkinson,Dan Kieran Pdf

The Art of Doing Nothing meets The Dangerous Book for Boys in this charming celebration of simple delights. In The Book of Idle Pleasures, the United Kingdom's expert Idlers Tom Hodgkinson and Dan Kieran stand up for the simple pleasures in life . . . by lying down for a nap. With its tongue firmly in its cheek, The Book of Idle Pleasures renounces our world of ever-growing consumer overload in favor of the timelessly true adage that the best things in life really are free. Clever and sometimes all too true in its reflections on 100 simple pastimes--among them slouching, skipping stones, staring out the window, doodling, and, natch, taking a nap--The Book of Idle Pleasures is a charming celebration of simple pleasures for the sake of pleasure itself, making it a soothing antidote for our nonstop culture and an ideal restorative against the costly confusion of our daily existence.

Author : Charles Bukowski
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061979989

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Slouching Toward Nirvana by Charles Bukowski Pdf

in this place there are the dead, the deadly and the dying. there is the cross, the builders of the cross and the burners of the cross. the pattern of my life forms like a cheap shadow on the wall before me. my love what is left of it now must crawl to wherever it can crawl. the strongest know that death is final and the happiest are those gifted with the shortest journey.

Author : Charles Bukowski
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780061749520

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The Pleasures of the Damned by Charles Bukowski Pdf

To his legions of fans, Charles Bukowski was—and remains—the quintessential counterculture icon. A hard-drinking wild man of literature and a stubborn outsider to the poetry world, he wrote unflinchingly about booze, work, and women, in raw, street-tough poems whose truth has struck a chord with generations of readers. Edited by John Martin, the legendary publisher of Black Sparrow Press and a close friend of Bukowski's, The Pleasures of the Damned is a selection of the best works from Bukowski's long poetic career, including the last of his never-before-collected poems. Celebrating the full range of the poet's extraordinary and surprising sensibility, and his uncompromising linguistic brilliance, these poems cover a rich lifetime of experiences and speak to Bukowski's “immense intelligence, the caring heart that saw through the sham of our pretenses and had pity on our human condition” (New York Quarterly). The Pleasures of the Damned is an astonishing poetic treasure trove, essential reading for both longtime fans and those just discovering this unique and legendary American voice.

Author : Laurell K. Hamilton
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101146385

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Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K. Hamilton Pdf

Meet Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, in the first novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that “blends the genres of romance, horror and adventure with stunning panache”(Diana Gabaldon). Laurell K. Hamilton’s bestselling series has captured readers’ wildest imaginations and addicted them to a seductive world where supernatural hungers collide with the desires of the human heart, starring a heroine like no other... Anita Blake is small, dark, and dangerous. Her turf is the city of St. Louis. Her job: re-animating the dead and killing the undead who take things too far. But when the city’s most powerful vampire asks her to solve a series of vicious slayings, Anita must confront her greatest fear—her undeniable attraction to master vampire Jean-Claude, one of the creatures she is sworn to destroy... “What The Da Vinci Code did for the religious thriller, the Anita Blake series has done for the vampire novel.”—USA Today

Author : Charles Bukowski
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781782117261

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On Cats by Charles Bukowski Pdf

'A cat is only ITSELF, representative of the strong forces of life that won't let go' For Charles Bukowski there was something majestic and elemental about cats. He considered them to be sentient beings, whose searing gaze could penetrate deep into our being. Cats see into us; they are on to something. An illuminating portrait of one very special writer and a lifelong relationship with the animals he considered his most profound teachers, On Cats brings together Bukowski's reflections on the ruthless, resilient, indigent and endearing creatures he so admired.

Author : Charles Bukowski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : American poetry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000275367

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In the Shadow of the Rose by Charles Bukowski Pdf

Author : Charles Bukowski
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780061847011

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Love is a Dog From Hell by Charles Bukowski Pdf

A classic in the Bukowski poetry canon, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a raw, lyrical, exploration of the exigencies, heartbreaks, and limits of love. A book that captures the Dirty Old Man of American letters at his fiercest and most vulnerable, on a subject that hits home with all of us. Charles Bukowski was a man of intense emotions, someone an editor once called a “passionate madman.” Alternating between tough and gentle, sensitive and gritty, Bukowski lays bare the myriad facets of love—its selfishness and its narcissism, its randomness, its mystery and its misery, and, ultimately, its true joyfulness, endurance, and redemptive power. "there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock."

Author : Charles Bukowski
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061851919

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Ham On Rye by Charles Bukowski Pdf

“Wordsworth, Whitman, William Carlos Williams, and the Beats in their respective generations moved poetry toward a more natural language. Bukowski moved it a little farther.” –Los Angeles Times Book Review In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely years of his own hardscrabble youth in the raw voice of alter ego Henry Chinaski. From a harrowingly cheerless childhood in Germany through acne-riddled high school years and his adolescent discoveries of alcohol, woman, and the Los Angeles Public Library's collection of D.H. Lawrence, Ham on Rye offers a crude, brutal, and savagely funny portrait of an outcast's coming-of-age during the desperate days of the Great Depression.

Author : Charles Bukowski
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780061860690

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Betting on the Muse by Charles Bukowski Pdf

“The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author “He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriter Betting on the Muse is a combination of hilarious poetry and stories. Charles Bukowski writes about the real life of a working man and all that comes with it.