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The Divine Comedy: Volume 1: Inferno (Penguin Classics) (9780142437223): Dante Alighieri, Mark Musa. Don DeLillo. DeLillo has described his fiction as being concerned with "living in dangerous times",[3] and in a 2005 interview declared, "Writers must oppose systems. It's important to write against power, corporations, the state, and the whole system of consumption and of debilitating entertainments [...] I think writers, by nature, must oppose things, oppose whatever power tries to impose on us. "[4] Early life and Influences[edit] DeLillo was born on November 20, 1936 and grew up in a working-class Italian Catholic family, from Molise, in an Italian-American neighborhood of the Bronx in New York City, not far from Arthur Avenue.[5] Reflecting on his childhood in The Bronx, DeLillo later described how he was "...always out in the street.

As a teenager, DeLillo wasn't interested in writing until taking a summer job as a parking attendant, where hours spent waiting and watching over vehicles led to a reading habit. Work[edit] 1970s[edit] 1980s[edit] 1990s[edit] The Gnostic Bible: Revised and Expanded Edition (9781590306314): Willis Barnstone, Marvin Meyer. Thomas Aquinas: Selected Writings (Penguin Classics) (9780140436327): Thomas Aquinas, Ralph McInerny. The Song of Roland (Penguin Classics) (9780140440751): Anonymous, Dorothy L. Sayers. The Descent of Man (Penguin Classics) (9780140436310): Charles Darwin, James Moore, Adrian Desmond.

City of God (Penguin Classics) (9780140448948): Augustine of Hippo, Henry Bettenson. Autobiographies (Penguin Classics) (9780140433906): Charles Darwin, Michael Neve, Sharon Messenger. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (Penguin Classics) (9780141439440): Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species (Penguin Classics) (9780140439120): Charles Darwin, William Bynum, Damien Hirst. American Scriptures: An Anthology of Sacred Writings (Penguin Classics) (9780143106197): Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp. Philosophy in the Boudoir: Or, The Immoral Mentors (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (9780143039013): Marquis de Sade, Tomer Hanuka, Joachim Neugroschel, Francine Du Plessix-Gray. A Princess of Mars (Penguin Classics) (9780143104889): Edgar Rice Burroughs, John Seelye.

Egil's Saga (Penguin Classics) (9780140447705): Anonymous, Bernard Scudder, Svanhildur Oskarsdottir. The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime: Forgotten Cops and Private Eyes from the Time of Sherlock Holmes (Penguin Classics) (9780143106210): Michael Sims. To the Lighthouse (Oxford World's Classics) (9780199536610): Virginia Woolf. The Sagas of Icelanders: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (9780141000039): Robert Kellogg, Various, Jane Smiley. Ta Hsueh and Chung Yung: (The Highest Order of Cultivation and On the Practice of the Mean) (Penguin Classics) (9780140447842): Anonymous, Andrew Plaks. Life of Black Hawk, or Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak: Dictated by Himself (Penguin Classics) (9780143105398): Black Hawk, J. Gerald Kennedy.

Sanshiro (Penguin Classics) (9780140455625): Natsume Soseki, Jay Rubin, Haruki Murakami. The Death of Jim Loney (Penguin Classics) (9780143105183): James Welch, Jim Harrison. The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Penguin Classics) (9780140455502): Robert P. Winston, John Romer, Wallace Budge. The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Classics) (9780140449198): Anonymous, Andrew George.

Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments (Penguin Classics) (9780140455571): Sappho, Aaron Poochigian, Carol Ann Duffy. The Portable Sixties Reader (Penguin Classics) (9780142001943): Ann Charters. Romantic Fairy Tales (Penguin Classics) (9780140447323): Various, Carol Tully. Early Irish Myths and Sagas (Penguin Classics) (9780140443974): Jeffrey Gantz. Washington Square (Penguin Classics) (9780141441368): Henry James, Philip Horne, Professor Martha Banta. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Penguin Classics) (9780140430646): Mark Twain, Justin Kaplan. The Aleph and Other Stories (Penguin Classics) (9780142437889): Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew Hurley. The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby (Penguin Classics) (9780143105091): Charles Kingsley, Richard D. Beards. As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams: Recollections of a Woman in 11th-Century Japan (Penguin Classics) (9780140442823): Sarashina, Ivan Morris.

Diary of Lady Murasaki (Penguin Classics) (9780140435764): Murasaki Shikibu, Richard Bowring. Japanese No Dramas (Penguin Classics) (9780140445398): Various, Royall Tyler. Kusamakura (Penguin Classics) (9780143105190): Natsume Soseki, Meredith McKinney. Selected Tales (Brothers Grimm) (Penguin Classics) (9780140444018): Jacob Grimm, Brothers Grimm, David Luke, Gilbert McKay. Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, and Other Classic Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault (Penguin Classics) (9780143105367): Angela Carter, Jack Zipes.

Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present TIme (Penguin Classics) (9780140189520): Fanny Fern, Susan Belasco. Venus in Furs (Penguin Classics) (9780140447811): Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Joachim Neugroschel, Larry Wolff. The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights: Volume 1 (Penguin Classics) (9780140449389): Anonymous, Robert Irwin, Malcolm C. Lyons, Ursula Lyons. Winter in the Blood (Penguin Classics) (9780143105220): James Welch, Louise Erdrich. The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches (Penguin Classics) (9780140441857): Matsuo Basho, Nobuyuki Yuasa. American Indian Stories, Legends, and Other Writings (Penguin Classics) (9780142437094): Zitkala-Sa, Cathy N. Davidson, Ada Norris.

The Life of Milarepa (Penguin Classics) (9780143106227): Tsangnyon Heruka, Andrew Quintman, Donald S., Jr. Lopez. Buddhist Scriptures (Penguin Classics) (9780140447583): Donald Lopez. Hafiz: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle. The City and the Pillar: A Novel (9781400030378): Gore Vidal. Pale Fire (9780679723424): Vladimir Nabokov. Franz Kafka. Kafka was born into a middle-class, German-speaking Jewish family in Prague, the capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In his lifetime, most of the population of Prague spoke Czech, and the division between Czech- and German-speaking people was a tangible reality, as both groups were strengthening their national identity. The Jewish community often found itself in between the two sentiments, naturally raising questions about a place to which one belongs.

Kafka himself was fluent in both languages, considering German his mother tongue. Kafka trained as a lawyer and after completing his legal education, obtained employment with an insurance company. Life[edit] Family[edit] Plaque marking the birthplace of Franz Kafka in Prague. The Kafka family had a servant girl living with them in a cramped apartment. Education[edit] Employment[edit] Former home of the Worker's Accident Insurance Institute. Private life[edit] Kafka had an active sex life. Miss FB. Number9Dream (9780812966923): David Mitchell. The Portable Conrad (Penguin Classics) (9780143105114): Joseph Conrad, Michael Gorra.