A Lover's Complaint

✍ William Shakespeare 📂 Fiction 📅 2000 🏛 Electronic Text Center. University of Virginia Lib 🌐 English ⚖ 12 KB 👁 1 views

fiction , poetry

✍ William Shakespeare 📂 Fiction 📅 2014 🏛 HarperCollins Canada;Harper Perennial;HarperPerenn 🌐 en-US ⚖ 18 KB

In this narrative poem, a young woman is seen crying by a river bed, tossing letters and gifts into the waters. When asked about her sorry state, the woman tells of how she was seduced into falling in love with a young man who ultimately abandoned her. Known as "The Bard of Avon," William Shakespea

The Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint

✍ William Shakespeare 📂 Fiction 📅 2004 🏛 Penguin Books Ltd 🌐 English ⚖ 316 KB 👁 1 views

When this volume of Shakespeare's poems first appeared in 1609, he had already written most of the great plays that made him famous. The 154 sonnets - all but two of which are addressed to a beautiful young man or a treacherous 'dark lady' - contain some of the most exquisite and haunting poetry eve

Portnoy's complaint

✍ Philip Roth 📂 Fiction 📅 1994;2011 🏛 Vintage Books;Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 🌐 English ⚖ 155 KB 👁 2 views

SUMMARY: Portnoy's Complaint n. [after Alexander Portnoy (1933- )] A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature. Spielvogel says: 'Acts of exhibitionism, voyeurism, fetishism, auto-eroticism and o

Portnoy's Complaint

✍ Roth, Philip 📂 Fiction 📅 1994;2011 🏛 Vintage International;Knopf Doubleday Publishing G 🌐 English ⚖ 164 KB 👁 1 views

SUMMARY: Portnoy's Complaint n. [after Alexander Portnoy (1933- )] A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature. Spielvogel says: 'Acts of exhibitionism, voyeurism, fetishism, auto-eroticism and o

Portnoy's Complaint

✍ Roth, Philip 📂 Fiction 📅 2010 🏛 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 🌐 English ⚖ 183 KB 👁 1 views