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  • The Rilke Alphabet

    by Ulrich Baer ...
    Translated by Andrew Hamilton ...
    The renowned Rilke scholar brings the poet's work to life for modern readers through 26 essays, each devoted to a single word found in his writings.Ulrich Baer's The Rilke Alphabet explores the enduring power of one of the world's greatest poets, a visionary who saw that even the smallest overlooked word could unlock life's mysteries. With deep insight and love for Rilke's language, Baer examines ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Picture of Dorian Gray (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

    by Oscar Wilde, Ulrich Baer ...
    Would you trade your soul for eternal youth? Oscar Wilde’s provocative novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, tells the story of a beautiful young man who strikes this Faustian bargain by which a painted portrait fades and ages while he remains untouched by time. His stunning beauty protects him from suspicion in a society that judges by appearances while he spirals into ever more scandalous hedonism ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shakespeare on Love

    by William Shakespeare ...
    Series Book 5 - Warbler Press Contemplations Ser.
    When in love, our heart overflows. Whether love is requited or remains a hope and dream, love compels us to express ourselves. This original collection, culled from William Shakespeare's works, testifies to the essential link between love and language, between the experience of falling in love and the urge to express this unique feeling with our beloved and the world. Shakespeare's inventiveness ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Solitary Summer

    by Elizabeth von Arnim, Ulrich Baer ...
    Published a year after Elizabeth von Arnim's runaway bestseller Elizabeth and Her German Garden, The Solitary Summer wittily recounts one woman's effort to spend a summer away from social obligations to find herself. Set in the Prussian countryside where the Australian-born novelist lived for several years, the novel contains some of the most beguiling garden writing of all time. Shirking the ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Beggar's Chicken

    by Ulrich Baer ...
    Delving deep into China's great transformation, this moving collection of stories probes the hearts of everyday individuals caught up in the country's rapid economic development. Told with tenderness and emotional acuity, these stories introduce us to a heartbroken taxi driver, a love-struck middle-aged mother, a courageous cutting-edge designer, a drifting waiter, a Tai Chi instructor down on her ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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    The Dark Interval

    Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation

    by Rainer Maria Rilke ...
    Narrated by Ulrich Baer, Rosanne Cash ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 51 min

    From the writer of the classic Letters to a Young Poet, reflections on grief and loss, collected and published here in one volume for the first time.“A great poet’s reflections on our greatest mystery.”—Billy Collins“A treasure . . . The solace Rilke offers is uncommon, uplifting and necessary.”—The GuardianGleaned from Rainer Maria Rilke’s voluminous, never-before-translated letters to bereaved ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Mrs. Dalloway (Warbler Classics)

    by Virginia Woolf, Ulrich Baer ...
    Mrs. Dalloway takes place over the course of a single day in a woman's life in 1920's London. There are flowers to buy, outfits to choose, but also a visit from a past lover, and the tragic fate of a young war veteran who cannot adjust to life in post-war London. Virginia Woolf's supple and mesmerizing account of an ordinary day draws the reader into the minds, perceptions, and emotions of an ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What Snowflakes Get Right

    Free Speech, Truth, and Equality on Campus

    by Ulrich Baer ...
    Angry debates about polarizing speakers have roiled college campuses. Conservatives accuse universities of muzzling unpopular opinions, betraying their values of open inquiry; students sympathetic to the left openly advocate against completely unregulated speech, asking for "safe spaces" and protection against visiting speakers and even curricula they feel disrespects them. Some even call these ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • The Enchanted April (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

    by Elizabeth von Arnim, Ulrich Baer ...
    Beguiling, witty, and gently comedic, The Enchanted April tells the tale of four very different women who escape dreary London for an Italian castle in Portofino, shortly after World War I. Elizabeth von Arnim's ageless novel compellingly responds to the eternal question of how to achieve happiness in life. An immediate best seller upon its first publication, the story of unlikely female ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Elizabeth and Her German Garden (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

    by Elizabeth von Arnim, Ulrich Baer ...
    Elizabeth von Arnim's vivid, humorous, and subtly subversive Elizabeth and her German Garden is one of the great garden memoirs of all time. As the wife of a stern German aristocrat and mother of young children, the irreverent narrator of this engrossing memoir escapes the societal norms and constrictions of late nineteenth-century patriarchy by becoming an enthusiastic amateur gardener. As she ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Essential Essays (Warbler Press Annotated Edition)

    by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ulrich Baer ...
    Ralph Waldo Emerson transformed America by writing in an utterly unique, personal, and insistently optimistic voice about matters that concern us to this day: our lives alone and with others, the true sources of identity, and the specifically American promise of freedom and equality for all. A principal voice of the transcendentalist movement, Emerson embodies an independent American intellectual ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • We Are But a Moment

    by Ulrich Baer ...
    We Are But a Moment takes the reader on a brisk tour of the globe that vividly imagines the inescapable crisis of the near future posed by overpopulation, diminishing natural resources, climate change, species extinction, and economic tumult.It is 2025, and a young White House aide, Aleks, finds himself locked up in quarantine when he tested positive after a routine briefing from a hotspot. Aleks ... Read more

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