This book is by Osamu dazai Copyright © 1958 by New Directions Publishing CorporationLibrary of Congress Catalog Card Number: 58-9509(ISBN: 0-8112-0481-2) All rights reserved. Except for brief passages quoted in a newspaper, magazine, radio, or televisionreview, no part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic ormechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrievalsystem, without permission in writing from the Publisher. First published clothbound by New Directions in 1958First published as New Directions Paperbook 357 in 1973Published simultaneously in Canada byPenguin Books Canada LimitedManufactured in the United Stales of AmericaNew Directions Books are printed on acid-free paper. New Directions Books are published for James Laughlinby New Directions Publishing Corporation80 Eighth Avenue . New York 10011 TWELFTH PRINTING

This is letters to a young poet by Rainer Maria Rilke (Translation by M. D. Herter Norton.) This book was first published in 1929. This is obviously not my own work, all credits belong to the author. This book consists of ten letters, written by famed poet Rainer Maria Rilke, to a Young Poet who initially sought him out for writing advice, but ended up learning a great deal about life. The letters encourage the Young Poet to develop an understanding of, and connection, to his inner creative soul. Note: This was posted for educational purposes only.

Heart of Darkness is a short novel written by Joseph Conrad, presented as a frame narrative, about Charles Marlow's job as an ivory transporter down the Congo River in Central Africa. In the course of his commercial-agent work in Africa, the seaman Marlow becomes obsessed by Mr. Kurtz, an ivory-procurement agent, a man of established notoriety among the natives and the European colonials.

Polaris, by H.P. Lovecraft. This short story was written in 1918, and was first published in the December 1920 issue (No. 1) of the amateur journal The Philosopher.

The White Ship, by H.P. Lovecraft. This short story was written in 1919, and first published in the November 1919 issue (No. 2) of the United Amateur.

Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth is a Bildungsroman by Hermann Hesse, first published in 1919; a prologue was added in 1960. Demian was first published under the pseudonym "Emil Sinclair", the name of the narrator of the story, but Hesse was later revealed to be the author. Cover by: @theygotgone

"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" traces the intellectual and religio-philosophical awakening of young Stephen Dedalus as he begins to question and rebel against the Catholic and Irish conventions with which he has been raised. He finally leaves for abroad to pursue his ambitions as an artist.

The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution, and many unflattering social parallels with life in London during the same time period. It follows the lives of several protagonists through these events. The most notable are Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton. Darnay is a former French aristocrat who falls victim to the indiscriminate wrath of the revolution despite his virtuous nature, and Carton is a dissipated English barrister who endeavors to redeem his ill-spent life out of his unrequited love for Darnay's wife. Cover art done by @orangedusk

Lady Chatterley's Lover is a novel by D. H. Lawrence, first published privately in 1928 in Italy, and in 1929 in France and Australia. An unexpurgated edition was not published openly in the United Kingdom until 1960, when it was the subject of a watershed obscenity trial against the publisher Penguin Books. Penguin won the case, and quickly sold 3 million copies. The book was also banned for obscenity in the United States, Canada, Australia, India and Japan. The book soon became notorious for its story of the physical (and emotional) relationship between a working class man and an upper class woman, its explicit descriptions of sex, and its use of then-unprintable words.

Alexandre Dumas elaborated on the story in the novel The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later, the final installment of his D'Artagnan saga: here the prisoner is forced to wear an iron mask and is Louis XIV's identical twin. Dumas also presented a review of the popular theories about the prisoner extant in his time in the chapter "L'homme au masque de fer" in the sixth volume of his Crimes Célèbres.