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लेखक: David Constantine

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David Constantine is an award-winning short story writer, poet and translator. His collections of poetry include Madder, Watching for Dolphins, Caspar Hauser, The Pelt of Wasps, Something for the Ghosts (shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Prize), Collected Poems and Nine Fathom Deep. He is a translator of Hölderlin, Brecht, Goethe, Kleist, Michaux and Jaccottet. In 2003 his translation of Hans Magnus Enzensberger’s Lighter than Air won the Corneliu M Popescu Prize for European Poetry Translation. He is also author of one novel, Davies, as well as Fields of Fire: A Life of Sir William Hamilton. He has published four collections of short stories in the UK, including Back at the Spike, Under the Dam, The Shieling and the winner of the 2013 Frank O’Connor Award, Tea at the Midland and Other Stories. He lives in Oxford, where he edits Modern Poetry in Translation with his wife Helen.




35 द्वारा ईबुक David Constantine

David Constantine: Pillars of Hercules
Alexander, Prince of Macedon, is the terror of the world. Persia, Egypt, Athens one after another, mighty nations are falling before the fearsome conqueror. Some say Alexander is actually the son of …
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David Constantine: In Another Country
Named to Kirkus Reviews’ Best Story Collections of 2015Featuring the story adapted into the Academy Award nominated film, 45 YEARS’I started reading these stories quietly, and then became obsessed, …
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David Constantine: The Life-Writer
A New York Times Notable Book 2016 An October Indie Next List “Great Reads” Pick After the death of her beloved husband, Katrin, a literary biographer, picks her way through a trove of his lett …
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David Constantine: Elder
Like the work of the European poets who have nourished him, David Constantine’s poetry is informed by a profoundly humane vision of the world. Many of the poems in his latest collection spring from …
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David Constantine: Collected Poems
David Constantine is one the finest poets writing in English. His poetry stands outside the current literary climate, and like the work of the European poets who have nourished him, it is informed by …
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David Constantine: Nine Fathom Deep
Like the work of the European poets who have nourished him, David Constantine’s poetry is informed by a profoundly humane vision of the world. In his title-poem – which illuminates the themes of the …
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Nicholas Royle: The Best British Short Stories 2014
‘There is no more carefully chosen yet eclectic anthology series in existence in Britain today’ – Susan Haigh, The Short Review Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – …
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J. W. von Goethe: Elective Affinities
In Elective Affinities Goethe conducts an experiment with the lives of people who are living badly. Charlotte and Eduard, aristocracts with little to occupy them, invite Ottilie and the Captain into …
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Sorrows of Young Werther
‘I have so much and my feeling for her devours everything, I have so much and without her everything is nothing.’The Sorrows of Young Werther propelled Goethe to instant fame when it first appeared …
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Sorrows of Young Werther
‘I have so much and my feeling for her devours everything, I have so much and without her everything is nothing.’The Sorrows of Young Werther propelled Goethe to instant fame when it first appeared …
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David Constantine: Poetry
The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and …
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David Constantine: Poetry
The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and …
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Goethe: Faust, Part I
Goethe’s Faust reworks the late-medieval myth of Dr Faust, a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a contract or wager with the devil, Mephistopheles. The devil will do all he asks …
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David Constantine: Parallel Text: German Short Stories
The eight stories in this volume offer a varied and representative collection of twentieth century German authors from a range of political and cultural backgrounds. Styles include the non-fictional …
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Bertolt Brecht: Brecht Plays 8
The latest volume in Methuen”s Collected Brecht includes two plays previously untranslated into English Volume 8 of Brecht”s collected plays contains his last completed plays, from the …
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Bertolt Brecht: Love Poems
Longlisted for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation An historic publication in which the legendary German poet and dramatist emerges, quite like Goethe, as a poet driven by Eros. Bertolt Brecht …
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Bertolt Brecht: The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht
Times Literary Supplement • Books of the Year (‘The most generous available English collection of Brecht’s poetry.’) A landmark literary event, The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht is the most ext …
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David Constantine: Belongings
Like the work of the European poets who have nourished him, David Constantine’s poetry is informed by a profoundly humane vision of the world. The title of his eleventh collection, Belongings, signal …
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David Constantine: Under the Dam
In the middle of a speech a businessman realises his soul has just left his body. In an Athens marketplace, a jealous lover finds himself staggering through a vision of hell. High in the Alps, a …
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Martyn Bedford & Kate Clanchy: Protest
Whatever happened to British protest? For a nation that brought the world Chartism, the Suffragettes, the Tolpuddle Martyrs, and so many other grassroots social movements, Britain rarely celebrates …
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David Constantine & Aminatta Forna: BBC National Short Story Award 2010
The BBC National Short story Award is one of the world’s largest awards for a single short story. All five shortlisted stories, including the winner, are published here side by side. The Award is …
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David Constantine: Shieling
Tree-climbing students, volunteering soldiers, island-bound recluses… The characters in David Constantine’s remarkable new collection are united by an urge to absent themselves, to abscond from the …
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Monica Ali & Lisa Appignanesi: Refugee Tales
With nationalism and the far right on the rise across Europe and North America, there has never been a more important moment to face up to what we, in Britain, are doing to those who seek sanctuary. …
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David Constantine: In Another Country
The stories of David Constantine are unlike any others. His characters possess you instantly, making you see the world as they do- sometimes as exiles, driven into isolation by convictions that even …
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David Constantine: Life-Writer
Following the death of her husband, a literary biographer resolves to turn her professional skills to the task of piecing together aspects of his life, in particular, a journey he made years before …
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Brian Aldiss & Stephen Baxter: Morphologies
Being short, you might think the story’s structure would yield an answer to this question more readily than, say, the novel. But for as long as the short story has been around, arguments have raged …
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David Constantine: Dressing-Up Box
The characters in David Constantine’s fifth collection are all in pursuit of sanctuary; the violence and mendacity of the outside world presses in from all sides – be it the ritualised brutality …
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Larissa Boehning & David Constantine: Decapolis
Decapolis is a book which imagines the city otherwise. Bringing together ten writers from across Europe, it offers snapshots of their native cities, freezing for a moment the characters and …
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Sasha Dugdale & David Constantine: Centres of Cataclysm
Centres of Cataclysm celebrates the fifty-year history of Modern Poetry in Translation, one of the world’s most innovative and exciting poetry magazines. Founded in 1965 by Ted Hughes and Daniel …
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Goethe: Faust, Part II
In this sequel to Faust, Mephistopheles takes Faust on a journey through ancient Greek mythology, conjuring for him the insurpassably beautiful Helen of Troy, as well as the classical gods. Faust …
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David Constantine: Rivers of the Unspoilt World
Described as one of the UK’s finest short story writers, Constantine intricately interweaves fictional characters and events with the real to create new ways of seeing and connecting our past, …
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Constantine David Constantine: In the Footsteps of the Gods
In the Footsteps of the Gods traces the ways in which the constantly changing ideal image of ancient Greece, its art, politics and culture, inspired those who travelled there. Gladiators and …
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David Constantine: A Bird Called Elaeus
In A Bird Called Elaeus, poet and translator David Constantine presents a selection of poems from The Greek Anthology, a collection of around 4500 poems composed over more than 1500 years b …
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Bertolt Brecht: Brecht Plays 8
The latest volume in Methuen”s Collected Brecht includes two plays previously untranslated into English Volume 8 of Brecht”s collected plays contains his last completed plays, from the …
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