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  • Audiobook

    Poems

    Unabridged

    1 hour 5 min

    This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Rainer Maria Rilke is perhaps the most import German poet. His powerful and lyrical poetry has captured generations of readers. Both mystical and compelling his influence cannot be overstated. Collected here are more than 40 poems, full of beauty and mastery of language. It’s not hard to see why Rilke remains one of the most popular and best selling ... Read more

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  • Change Your Life

    Translated by Martyn Crucefix ...
    Series series Pushkin Press Classics
    **“Crucefix’s translation will have, and keep, a place on my shelves where all the poetry lives.” – Philip PullmanA new selection and translation, by an acclaimed poet, of Rilke’s most essential work – the perfect gift for the poetry lover in your life**In dazzling new translations of 142 poems by the acclaimed Martyn Crucefix, Rilke beguiles with fresh insight and mystery.Rainer Maria Rilke ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, The

    Collection from the hugely celebrated Austrian poet

    Unabridged

    58 min

    René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke was born into a troubled marriage on the 4th December 1875 in Prague, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His mother, having previously lost a baby girl, would dress the young boy up in girl’s clothing.Later his father dispatched him to a military academy at age 10 but after a miserable 5 years the young Rilke left due to illness and instead entered ... Read more

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  • Letters to a Young Poet

    Translated by Charlie Louth ...
    Series series Penguin Little Black Classics
    'What matters is to live everything. Live the questions for now.'A hugely influential collection for writers and artists of all kinds, Rilke's profound and lyrical letters to a young friend advise on writing, love, sex, suffering and the nature of advice itself.One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Book of Hours

    Translated by Edward Snow ...
    **“The most trustworthy and exhilarating of Rilke’s contemporary translators.” —Michael Dirda, Washington PostA gorgeous new translation of one of the strongest inaugural works in twentieth century poetry.**Long hailed as a masterwork of modern German literature, The Book of Hours (1905) marks the origin of Rainer Maria Rilke’s distinctive voice and vision—where clarity of diction meets unexpected ... Read more

    Was $23.99 USD Now $12.99 USD

  • The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

    Translated by Stephen Mitchell ...
    "This miracle of a book, perhaps the most beautiful group of poetic translations this century has ever produced," (Chicago Tribune) should stand as the definitive English language version. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Stories of God

    Translated by M. D. Herter Norton ...
    Rilke's haunting images focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety.Rainer Maria Rilke felt that the world and all its joys most truly belonged to the young, and in Stories of God he captured for them the magic, charm and wisdom of fairy and folk tales. ... Read more

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  • Letters to a Young Poet

    Letters to a Young Poet is a collection of ten letters written by the Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke to Franz Xaver Kappus, a young military cadet and aspiring writer. In response to Kappus's requests for literary advice, Rilke offers profound reflections on creativity, personal growth, and the purpose of art. Rather than providing technical guidance on writing, Rilke encourages the young poet ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Rilke

    Selected Poems

    Narrated by Stephen Mitchell ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 55 min

    Rainer Maria Rilke has been called the most significant and compelling poet of spiritual experience of the 20th century. His exploration of the struggle between life and art and the supremacy of divine love over personal love has touched the hearts of men and women everywhere. The poems in this reading are from the selected poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, edited and translated by Stephen Mitchell. ... Read more

    $22.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fifty Poems

    Translated by Geoffrey Lehmann ...
    Fresh, beautiful new translations of one of the most important poets of all time, publishing in celebration of the 150th anniversary of Rainer Maria Rilke's birth.Rilke is one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, revered throughout the world. Geoffrey Lehmann has selected fifty of Rilke’s finest poems from the two volumes of New Poems, considered the center of gravity of Rilke’s ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Letters to a Young Poet

    Translated by Stephen Mitchell ...
    The ten letters collected here are arguably the most famous and beloved letters of our century. Written when Rainer Maria Rilke was himself still a young man with most of his greatest work before him, they are addressed to a student who had sent Rilke some of his work, asking for advice about becoming a writer. The two never met, but over a period of several years Rilke wrote him these ten letters ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Letters to a Young Poet

    These ten letters, written by one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, offer deep and sincere advice to the young poet. They touch on all aspects of life and are valuable to anyone wishing to be a poet and to those who are not. Written with power, style, and conviction these letters will guide and inspire anyone who reads them. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus