Stef's bookshelf: all en-US Tue, 27 Sep 2022 15:24:54 -0700 60 Stef's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[T. S. Eliot Reading: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Others (Caedmon1045)]]> 118390 0 T.S. Eliot 1559940808 Stef 0 to-read 4.46 1915 T. S. Eliot Reading: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Others (Caedmon1045)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Complete Poetical Works of Yesenin]]> 7624276 370 Sergei Yesenin 097058038X Stef 0 to-read 4.30 1961 The Complete Poetical Works of Yesenin
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]]> The Laugh of the Medusa 11080013
"The Laugh of the Medusa" is an extremely literary essay and well-known as an exhortation to a "feminine mode" of writing; the phrases "white ink" and "écriture féminine" are often cited, referring to this desired new way of writing. It is a strident critique of logocentrism and phallogocentrism, having much in common with Jacques Derrida's earlier thought. The essay also calls for an acknowledgment of universal bisexuality or polymorphous perversity, a precursor of queer theory's later emphases, and swiftly rejects many kinds of essentialism which were still common in Anglo-American feminism at the time. The essay also exemplifies Cixous's style of writing in that it is richly intertextual, making a wide range of literary allusions.

(From Wikipedia)]]> 20 Hélène Cixous Stef 0 to-read 4.21 1975 The Laugh of the Medusa
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]]> Philosophy of Nietzsche 20337111 149 Friedrich Nietzsche Stef 0 to-read 4.60 Philosophy of Nietzsche
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]]> My Sister and I 21129940 ]]> 214 Friedrich Nietzsche 160872672X Stef 0 to-read 4.67 1951 My Sister and I
author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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]]> <![CDATA[Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth]]> 13376363 37 Warsan Shire 1905233299 Stef 0 to-read 4.23 2011 Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
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]]> Beyond Good and Evil 22803084 154 Friedrich Nietzsche 1500252859 Stef 0 to-read 3.81 1886 Beyond Good and Evil
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]]> <![CDATA[One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest]]> 332613 9780451163967

Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electric shock therapy. But her regime is disrupted by the arrival of McMurphy � the swaggering, fun-loving trickster with a devilish grin who resolves to oppose her rules on behalf of his fellow inmates. His struggle is seen through the eyes of Chief Bromden, a seemingly mute half-Indian patient who understands McMurphy's heroic attempt to do battle with the powers that keep them imprisoned. Ken Kesey's extraordinary first novel is an exuberant, ribald and devastatingly honest portrayal of the boundaries between sanity and madness.]]> 325 Ken Kesey Stef 0 currently-reading 4.20 1962 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
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]]> Gone with the Wind 18405 1037 Margaret Mitchell 0446365386 Stef 0 to-read 4.30 1936 Gone with the Wind
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]]> <![CDATA[Fifth Business (The Deptford Trilogy, #1)]]> 74406 252 Robertson Davies 0141181362 Stef 0 to-read 4.06 1970 Fifth Business (The Deptford Trilogy, #1)
author: Robertson Davies
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]]> Silas Marner 54539 262 George Eliot Stef 0 to-read 3.67 1861 Silas Marner
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]]> Ethan Frome 5246
Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious and hypochondriac wife, Zeena. But when Zeena's vivacious cousin enters their household as a hired girl, Ethan finds himself obsessed with her and with the possibilities for happiness she comes to represent.

In one of American fiction's finest and most intense narratives, Edith Wharton moves this ill-starred trio toward their tragic destinies. Different in both tone and theme from Wharton's other works, Ethan Frome has become perhaps her most enduring and most widely read book.]]> 99 Edith Wharton Stef 0 to-read 3.42 1911 Ethan Frome
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]]> The Dharma Bums 412732 On the Road put the Beat Generation on the map, The Dharma Bums is sparked by Kerouac's expansiveness, humor, and a contagious zest for life.]]> 244 Jack Kerouac Stef 0 to-read 3.94 1958 The Dharma Bums
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]]> White Angel 15780046 15 Michael Cunningham Stef 5 4.43 White Angel
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]]> The Picture of Dorian Gray 5297 272 Oscar Wilde Stef 0 to-read 4.13 1890 The Picture of Dorian Gray
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]]> <![CDATA[The Importance of Being Earnest]]> 92303
Cecily Cardew and Gwendolen Fairfax are both in love with the same mythical suitor. Jack Worthing has wooed Gwendolen as Ernest while Algernon has also posed as Ernest to win the heart of Jack's ward, Cecily. When all four arrive at Jack's country home on the same weekend the "rivals" to fight for Ernest's undivided attention and the "Ernests" to claim their beloveds pandemonium breaks loose. Only a senile nursemaid and an old, discarded hand-bag can save the day!

This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary and reader's notes to help the modern reader appreciate Wilde's wry wit and elaborate plot twists.]]> 89 Oscar Wilde 158049580X Stef 0 to-read 4.17 1895 The Importance of Being Earnest
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]]> Atlas Shrugged 662 This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world and did. Was he a destroyer or the greatest of liberators?

Why did he have to fight his battle, not against his enemies, but against those who needed him most, and his hardest battle against the woman he loved? What is the world’s motor � and the motive power of every man? You will know the answer to these questions when you discover the reason behind the baffling events that play havoc with the lives of the characters in this story.

Tremendous in its scope, this novel presents an astounding panorama of human life � from the productive genius who becomes a worthless playboy � to the great steel industrialist who does not know that he is working for his own destruction � to the philosopher who becomes a pirate � to the composer who gives up his career on the night of his triumph � to the woman who runs a transcontinental railroad � to the lowest track worker in her Terminal tunnels.

You must be prepared, when you read this novel, to check every premise at the root of your convictions.

This is a mystery story, not about the murder � and rebirth � of man’s spirit. It is a philosophical revolution, told in the form of an action thriller of violent events, a ruthlessly brilliant plot structure and an irresistible suspense. Do you say this is impossible? Well, that is the first of your premises to check.]]> 1168 Ayn Rand 0452011876 Stef 0 to-read 3.67 1957 Atlas Shrugged
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]]> War and Peace 656
War and Peace broadly focuses on Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the most well-known characters in literature: Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a count who is fighting for his inheritance and yearning for spiritual fulfillment; Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, who leaves his family behind to fight in the war against Napoleon; and Natasha Rostov, the beautiful young daughter of a nobleman who intrigues both men.

As Napoleon’s army invades, Tolstoy brilliantly follows characters from diverse backgrounds—peasants and nobility, civilians and soldiers—as they struggle with the problems unique to their era, their history, and their culture. And as the novel progresses, these characters transcend their specificity, becoming some of the most moving—and human—figures in world literature.


Tolstoy gave his personal approval to this translation, published here in a new single volume edition, which includes an introduction by Henry Gifford, and Tolstoy's important essay `Some Words about War and Peace'.]]> 1392 Leo Tolstoy 0192833987 Stef 0 to-read 4.14 1869 War and Peace
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]]> Anna Karenina 15823480 Anna Karenina provides a vast panorama of contemporary life in Russia and of humanity in general. In it Tolstoy uses his intense imaginative insight to create some of the most memorable characters in all of literature. Anna is a sophisticated woman who abandons her empty existence as the wife of Karenin and turns to Count Vronsky to fulfil her passionate nature - with tragic consequences. Levin is a reflection of Tolstoy himself, often expressing the author's own views and convictions.

Throughout, Tolstoy points no moral, merely inviting us not to judge but to watch. As Rosemary Edmonds comments, 'He leaves the shifting patterns of the kaleidoscope to bring home the meaning of the brooding words following the title, 'Vengeance is mine, and I will repay.]]> 964 Leo Tolstoy 0345803922 Stef 0 to-read 4.11 1878 Anna Karenina
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]]> Growth of the Soil 342049 435 Knut Hamsun 0394717813 Stef 0 to-read 4.27 1917 Growth of the Soil
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]]> Hunger 32585 134 Knut Hamsun 0486431681 Stef 0 to-read 4.09 1890 Hunger
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]]> <![CDATA[Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)]]> 62793 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780099282990

Tokyo, 1912. The closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders - rich provincial familes, a new and powerful political and social elite. Kiyoaki has been raised among the elegant Ayakura family - members of the waning aristocracy - but he is not one of them. Coming of age, he is caught up in the tensions between old and new, and his feelings for the exquisite, spirited Satoko, observed from the sidelines by his devoted friend Honda. When Satoko is engaged to a royal prince, Kiyoaki realises the magnitude of his passion.]]> 389 Yukio Mishima Stef 0 to-read 4.18 1967 Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)]]> 13642
Hungry for power and knowledge, Sparrowhawk tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon the world. This is the tale of his testing, how he mastered the mighty words of power, tamed an ancient dragon, and crossed death's threshold to restore the balance.]]> 183 Ursula K. Le Guin Stef 0 to-read 4.02 1968 A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
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]]> Games People Play 49176 We think we’re relating to other people–but actually we’re all playing games.

Forty years ago, Games People Play revolutionized our understanding of what really goes on during our most basic social interactions. More than five million copies later, Dr. Eric Berne’s classic is as astonishing–and revealing–as it was on the day it was first published. This anniversary edition features a new introduction by Dr. James R. Allen, president of the International Transactional Analysis Association, and Kurt Vonnegut’s brilliant Life magazine review from 1965.
We play games all the time–sexual games, marital games, power games with our bosses, and competitive games with our friends. Detailing status contests like “Martini� (I know a better way), to lethal couples combat like “If It Weren’t For You� and “Uproar,� to flirtation favorites like “The Stocking Game� and “Let’s You and Him Fight,� Dr. Berne exposes the secret ploys and unconscious maneuvers that rule our intimate lives.
Explosive when it first appeared, Games People Play is now widely recognized as the most original and influential popular psychology book of our time. It’s as powerful and eye-opening as ever.]]> 192 Eric Berne 0345032799 Stef 0 to-read 3.77 1964 Games People Play
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]]> <![CDATA[Still: American Silent Motion Picture Photography]]> 15999566
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Exploring the work of over sixty camera artists, Still recovers the stories of the photographers who descended on early Hollywood and the stars and starlets who sat for them between 1908 and 1928. Focusing on the most culturally influential types of photographs—the performer portrait and the scene still—Shields follows photographers such as Albert Witzel and W. F. Seely as they devised the poses that newspapers and magazines would bring to Americans, who mimicked the sultry stares and dangerous glances of silent stars. He uncovers scene shots of unprecedented splendor—visions that would ignite the popular imagination. And he details how still photographs changed the film industry, whose growing preoccupation with artistry in imagery caused directors and stars to hire celebrated stage photographers and transformed cameramen into bankable names.

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Reproducing over one hundred and fifty of these gorgeous black-and-white photographs, Still brings to life an entire long-lost visual culture that a century later still has the power to enchant.]]> 416 David S. Shields 022601326X Stef 0 to-read 3.56 2013 Still: American Silent Motion Picture Photography
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]]> <![CDATA[The Thing About Life is That One Day You'll Be Dead]]> 1999657
Mesmerized—at times unnerved—by his ninety-seven-year-old father’s nearly superhuman vitality and optimism, David Shields undertakes an investigation of the human physical condition. The result is this exhilarating both a personal meditation on mortality and an exploration of flesh-and-blood existence from crib to oblivion—an exploration that paradoxically prompts a renewed and profound appreciation of life.

Shields begins with the facts of birth and childhood, expertly weaving in anecdotal information about himself and his father. As the book proceeds through adolescence, middle age, old age, he juxtaposes biological details with bits of philosophical speculation, cultural history and criticism, and quotations from a wide range of writers and thinkers—from Lucretius to Woody Allen—yielding a magical the universal story of our bodily being, a tender and often hilarious portrait of one family.

A book of extraordinary depth and resonance, The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead will move readers to contemplate the brevity and radiance of their own sojourn on earth and challenge them to rearrange their thinking in unexpected and crucial ways.]]> 225 David Shields 0307268047 Stef 0 to-read 3.32 2008 The Thing About Life is That One Day You'll Be Dead
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]]> Uncle Tom’s Cabin 46787 438 Harriet Beecher Stowe Stef 0 to-read 3.88 1852 Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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]]> Practical Ethics 29378 411 Peter Singer 052143971X Stef 0 to-read 4.05 1979 Practical Ethics
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]]> Animal Liberation 29380 The Book That Started A Revolution

Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work has awakened millions of concerned men and women to the shocking abuse of animals everywhere -- inspiring a worldwide movement to eliminate much of the cruel and unnecessary laboratory animal experimentation of years past.

In this newly revised and expanded edition, author Peter Singer exposes the chilling realities of today's "factory forms" and product-testing procedures -- offering sound, humane solutions to what has become a profound environmental and social as well as moral issue. An important and persuasive appeal to conscience, fairness, decency and justice, Animal Liberation is essential reading for the supporter and the skeptic alike.

]]> 324 Peter Singer 0060011572 Stef 0 to-read 4.29 1975 Animal Liberation
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]]> <![CDATA[Marx: A Very Short Introduction]]> 74642 Marx: A Very Short Introdution, Peter Singer identifies the central vision that unifies Marx's thought, enabling us to grasp Marx's views as a whole. He sees him as a philosopher primarily concerned with human freedom, rather than as an economist or a social scientist. In plain English, he explains alienation, historical materialism, the economic theory of Capital, and Marx's ideas of communism, and concludes with an assessment of Marx's legacy.

About the Series: Combining authority with wit, accessibility, and style, Very Short Introductions offer an introduction to some of life's most interesting topics. Written by experts for the newcomer, they demonstrate the finest contemporary thinking about the central problems and issues in hundreds of key topics, from philosophy to Freud, quantum theory to Islam.]]> 108 Peter Singer 0192854054 Stef 0 to-read 3.68 1980 Marx: A Very Short Introduction
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]]> <![CDATA[The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty]]> 4722934
In The Life You Can Save, Peter Singer compellingly lays out the case for why and how we can take action to provide immense benefit to others, at minimal cost to ourselves. Using ethical arguments, illuminating examples, and case studies of charitable giving, he shows that our current response to world poverty is not only insufficient but morally indefensible. And he provides practical recommendations of charities proven to dramatically improve, and even save, the lives of children, women and men living in extreme poverty. The Life You Can Save teaches us to be a part of the solution, helping others as we help ourselves.]]> 224 Peter Singer 1400067103 Stef 0 to-read 4.15 2009 The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty
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]]> <![CDATA[The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter]]> 29377
Five Principles for Making Conscientious Food Choices
1. We have the right to know how our food is produced.
2. Producing food should not impose costs on others.
3. Inflicting unnecessary suffering on animals is wrong.
4. Social Workers are entitled to decent wages and working conditions.
5. Preserving life and health justifies more than other desires.

Peter Singer, the groundbreaking ethicist who "may be the most controversial philosopher alive" ( The New Yorker ), now sets his critical sights on the food we buy and where it comes from, how it's produced, and whether it was raised humanely. Teaming up once again with attorney Jim Mason, his coauthor on the acclaimed Animal Factories, Singer explores the impact our food choices have on humans, animals, and the environment.

In The Way We Eat , Singer and Mason examine the eating habits of three American families with very different diets. They track down the sources of each family's food to probe the ethical issues involved in its production and marketing. What kinds of meat are most humane to eat? Is "organic" always better? Wild fish or farmed? Recognizing that not all of us will become vegetarians, Singer and Mason offer ways to make the best food choices. As they point "You can be ethical without being fanatical."]]> 328 Peter Singer 157954889X Stef 0 to-read 4.08 2006 The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter
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]]> Selected Poems 3412234 169 Sergei Yesenin 0905049810 Stef 0 to-read 4.28 Selected Poems
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]]> The Idiot 12505 667 Fyodor Dostoevsky 0679642420 Stef 0 to-read 4.22 1869 The Idiot
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]]> Crime and Punishment 7144 671 Fyodor Dostoevsky Stef 0 to-read 4.26 1866 Crime and Punishment
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]]> The Brothers Karamazov 4934
This award-winning translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky remains true to the verbal inventiveness of Dostoevsky’s prose, preserving the multiple voices, the humor, and the surprising modernity of the original. It is an achievement worthy of Dostoevsky’s last and greatest novel.]]> 796 Fyodor Dostoevsky 0374528373 Stef 0 to-read 4.36 1880 The Brothers Karamazov
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]]> The Waste Land 34080 The Waste Land, first published in 1922, is often regarded as T.S. Eliot's masterpiece, as well as one of the most important poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry.

The work, divided in 5 sections, juxtaposes the legend of the Holy Grail and the Fisher King, with a snapshot of early twentieth-century British society. In contemporary times, it is often read published within The Waste Land and Other Poems and has come to be Eliot's most popular poem.

T.S. Elliot was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor. Born in 1888 in St. Louis (MO, USA), he is considered one of the 20th century's major poets, and a central figure in English-language Modernist poetry."In ten years' time," wrote Edmund Wilson in Axel's Castle (1931), "Elliot has left upon English poetry a mark more unmistakable than that of any other poet writing in English." In 1948, Eliot was awarded the Nobel Price "for his work as a trail-blazing pioneer of modern poetry."]]> 288 T.S. Eliot 0393974995 Stef 0 to-read 4.11 1922 The Waste Land
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]]> <![CDATA[A Vindication of the Rights of Woman]]> 224387 269 Mary Wollstonecraft 0141441259 Stef 0 to-read 3.92 1792 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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]]> Confessions of a Hooligan 1952579 107 Sergei Yesenin 0902145487 Stef 0 to-read 4.49 1921 Confessions of a Hooligan
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]]> Five Poems 21789578 Sergei Yesenin 131077885X Stef 0 to-read 3.86 2014 Five Poems
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]]> Recitatif / To Room Nineteen 8434032 Texts and recordings of the stories in English; introductions and notes in Spanish.

Back cover text:
"Cuando Toni Morrison consiguió el Nobel apenas había escrito seis novelas y solo un cuento: "Recitatif". La única pieza de cámara de la genial autora estadounidense recoge la esencia de toda su obra: la lucha por la libertad, la amistad y la convivencia racial se funden en la historia de dos amigas de colores distintos que pasan juntas la infancia en un orfanato. "To Room Nineteen", publicado un año después que "El cuaderno dorado", obra cumbre de la también Premio Nobel Doris Lessing y piedra angular del feminismo de los 60, es uno de los relatos cortos más autobiográficos y brutales de la autora. Narra la dramática historia de Susan Rawlings, una inteligente y atareada ama de casa que vive con su perfecto marido y sus cuatro niños revoltosos en una maravillosa mansión londinense de tres plantas. El problema es que Susan quiere volver a ser la soltera solitaria que un día fue."--Editor.]]> 110 Toni Morrison 8484436802 Stef 0 to-read 4.12 1983 Recitatif / To Room Nineteen
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]]> The Philosopher's Club 463004 Book by Addonizio, Kim 70 Kim Addonizio 1880238039 Stef 0 to-read 4.05 1993 The Philosopher's Club
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]]> Walden or, Life in the Woods 16902 352 Henry David Thoreau Stef 5 3.77 1854 Walden or, Life in the Woods
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]]> The Shield of Achilles 1349889
The poem is the title work of The Shield of Achilles, a collection of poems in three parts, published in 1955, containing Auden's poems written from around 1951 through 1954. It begins with the sequence "Bucolics", then miscellaneous poems under the heading "In Sunshine and In Shade", then the sequence Horae Canonicae.

It won the U.S. National Book Award for Poetry in 1956.]]> 84 W.H. Auden Stef 0 to-read 3.93 1955 The Shield of Achilles
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