Books by Charles Bukowski

Portrait of Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski carved a raw, unvarnished voice in twentieth‑century American writing, translating the grit of everyday struggle into stark, darkly comic prose. His novels and poetry capture the weary pulse of city life, giving voice to the drifters, drinkers and dreamers who inhabit its margins. Each line bears his unmistakable rhythm - blunt yet lyrical, honest yet oddly tender beneath the bravado.

Readers are drawn to Bukowski's work for its fearless realism and its refusal to romanticise hardship. Whether chronicling the chaos of low‑rent rooms or the fleeting grace of human connection, he turns the ordinary into something unforgettable. His influence endures in contemporary literature for its candour, its humour and its uncompromising sense of truth.

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  • HarperCollins Publishers Inc Bone Palace Ballet

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    Book SynopsisThis is a collection of 175 previously unpublished works by Bukowski. It contains yarns about his childhood in the Depression and his early literary passions, his apprentice days as a hard-drinking, starving poetic aspirant, and his later years when he looks back at fate with defiance.

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    £13.78

  • HarperCollins Publishers Inc Open All Night

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    Book SynopsisThese 189 posthumously published new poems take us deeper into the raw, wild vein of Bukowski's that extends from the early 1980s up to the time of his death in 1994.

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    £14.48

  • HarperCollins Publishers Inc Beerspit Night And Cursing: The Correspondence Of Charles Bukowski And Sheri Martinelli 1960 - 1967

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    Book SynopsisUnmasks the tough, street-smart persona of Charles Bukowski-America's "Ultimate Outsider" * Amazing letters filled with passionate, literary, and personal observation * Insights into the author of Tales of Ordinary Madness, Notes of a Dirty Old Man, and Run with the Hunted * Insights into Sheri Martinelli: the protege of Anais Nin, an accomplished painter, and the mistress of Ezra Pound Charels Bukowski's persona as the Dirty Old Man of American Literature is just that: a persona, a mask beneath which there was a man better read and more cultured than most people realize. Sheri Martinelli was one of the favored few for whom Bukowski dropped the mask and engaged in serious discussion of literature and art, and for that reason the discovery and publication of his letters to her give us a more complete picture of this complicated man.

    15 in stock

    £13.60

  • HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps

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    Book SynopsisThis collection of previously unpublished poems offers the author's take on squabbling neighbours, off-kilter lovers, would-be hangers-on, and the loneliness of a man afflicted with acute powers of observation. The tone is gritty and amusing, spiralling out towards a cock-eyed wisdom.

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    £14.48

  • Ham on Rye

    HarperCollins Publishers Inc Ham on Rye

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    £14.39

  • On Writing

    HarperCollins Publishers Inc On Writing

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  • Essential Bukowski

    HarperCollins Publishers Inc Essential Bukowski

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    £22.95

  • dtv Verlagsgesellschaft Faktotum Roman

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  • dtv Verlagsgesellschaft Hollywood

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  • Kiepenheuer & Witsch GmbH Der Mann mit der Ledertasche

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  • Kiepenheuer & Witsch Den Göttern kommt das große Kotzen

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  • Hot Water Music Storys

    END OF LINE CLEARANCE BOOK Hot Water Music Storys

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    £9.99

  • Kiepenheuer & Witsch GmbH ber das Schreiben Briefe an meine Weggefhrten und

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  • Kiepenheuer & Witsch GmbH Katzen

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  • Kiepenheuer & Witsch Liebe

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    £14.40

  • FISCHER Taschenbuch Fuck Machine

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    £13.30

  • FISCHER Taschenbuch Noch mehr Aufzeichnungen eines Dirty Old Man

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    £999.99

  • Maro Verlag Das Leben und Sterben im Uncle Sam Hotel

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  • Maro Verlag Kaputt in Hollywood Und andere Stories vom

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    £11.40

  • Maro Verlag Schlechte Verlierer Short Stories

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  • Maro Verlag Alle reden zu viel und andere Gedichte

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  • Maro Verlag Ein Sixpack zum Frhstck ber das Trinken

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  • Splitter Verlag Kaputt in der City

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    £29.75

  • The Return of the Left in Post-communist States:

    Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Return of the Left in Post-communist States:

    Book SynopsisThis volume offers a thorough empirical analysis of the experiences of the left-wing parties in post-communist states and assesses their prospects for the future.The volume examines the fortunes of the political left in selected post-communist countries: Russia, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia and Romania. Regardless of their individual experiences, they all face similar challenges relating to their authoritarian past. These challenges include building a civil society and combating an under-developed party system and a mercurial electorate, combined with the political and social pressures associated with the transformation to a market economy. Six country studies all address how the left-wing parties have returned to the political stage and discuss their prospects for the future. The volume finds that the left has been a resilient, and generally underestimated, force in post-communist states aided by a unique combination of history, geography, commerce and social/cultural values.This book will be of interest to students and scholars as well as policy practitioners with responsibility for post-communist regions.Table of ContentsContents: Preface: Defining the Left 1. The Return of the Left: Causes and Consequences 2. The Russian Left in Transition 3. Lithuania Beyond the Return of the Left 4. Left Politics in Post-communist Hungary 5. Young, Westernized, Moderate: The Polish Left after Communism 6. The Left in Slovenia 7. From Red Star to Roses: The Left in Post-communist Romania 8. Understanding the Left and Its Future Index

    £90.00

  • Espasa-Calpe SA Musica de canerias

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    £14.51

  • Editorial Anagrama S.A. Se Busca Una Mujer

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    Book SynopsisEn este libro ambientado en Los Ángeles se nota la continua presencia de la gran urbe en toda la escritura de Charles Bukowski, ciudad infernal, a pesar de estar situada en medio del paraíso californiano, sueño de todo pobre ciudadano USA, con sus naranjas, su sol y su vino, vino del que Bukowski da buena cuenta toda su vida, como el whisky, como la cerveza, que habrán de ser, inevitablemente, su fuente de inspiración. Bukowski toma una actitud de ermitaño loco, de lucidez exasperada, de humorista borracho en la barra de un bar solitario. Se ríe de todo, trata de ganar algo de dinero para un trago o una puta sin trabajar mucho, frecuenta otras ratas urbanas enloquecidas, odia a la humanidad, se encierra en su habitación y se entretiene en contarnos las historias que le ocurren o se le ocurren.

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    £12.90

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    £999.99

  • Anagrama Chinaski II

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    £25.37

  • Anagrama Shakespeare Nunca Lo Hizo

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    £13.57

  • Anagrama Campanas No Doblan Por Nadie, Las

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    £22.07

  • Visor libros, S.L. Madrigales de la pensión

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    £12.00

  • Visor libros, S.L. Guerra sin cesar poemas 19811984

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    £18.72

  • Visor libros, S.L. La gente parece flores al fin

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    £21.50

  • Visor libros, S.L. El amor es un perro del infierno poesía 19741977

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    Book SynopsisEL amor es un perro del infierno constituye una densa antología que abarca tres años de trabajo (1974-1977) de un Bukowski ya en plena madurez, el que conoce el aficionado y espera el neófito, bestialmente sincero, alérgico a los paisajes edulcorados, entregado sin concesiones a lo que le importa y siente, las mujeres, su escritura, el juego y la embriaguez, su mundo de perdedores en la ciudad de Los Ángeles. A menudo ácido, y casi siempre cínico, no todo es sucio realismo ni provocación individualista en sus versos; hay también una mirada existencial que desnuda el absurdo cotidiano, la condición humana, el alma del poeta. Este contraste se extiende al estilo, donde la vulgaridad prosaica convive con un refinado oficio poético, y se hace paradoja en el destino literario: marginal y solitario por vocación, acaba cosechando una adhesión multitudinaria con sus cantos íntimos de significación siempre universal.O también: desafortunado en el amor, sale al fin ganador en su opuesta estét

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    £17.09

  • Visor libros, S.L. Los placeres del condenado

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    Book SynopsisLOS placeres del condenado (The Pleasures of the Damned. Poems, 1951-1993. Ecco, 2007) es la más completa antología poética de Bukowski, con nada menos que 274 poemas extraídos de veintiún títulos distintos, además de una veintena de textos inéditos; es también la más autorizada, por cuanto estuvo a cargo de su amigo y fiel editor John Martin, que seleccionó y publicó la práctica totalidad de su obra en verso. Se trata pues de la colección esencial para obtener una visión de conjunto de la vertiente lírica del autor, que, menos conocida en Europa por el éxito de laprovocadora narrativa, constituye no obstante el grueso de su legado y su principal seña de identidad literaria: de forma casi unánime, Bukowski se considera uno de los poetas estadounidenses más singulares e influyentes de la segunda mitad del siglo XX.

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    £20.89

  • Visor libros, S.L. Ruiseñor deséame suerte

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    £18.12

  • Visor libros, S.L. Amor

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    Book SynopsisAmor un poemario descarnado y tierno sobre una temática que nos toca a todos bien de cerca que refleja a la perfección el lado más feroz y vulnerable del viejo indecente por excelencia de las letras estadounidenses. Charles Bukowski era un poeta intenso, alguien a quien un editor una vez llamó ?un loco apasionado?. En Amor, Bukowski lidia con las complicaciones y alegrías del amor, la lujuria y el deseo. En un tono que va de lo duro a lo delicado, de lo sensible a lo hiriente, Bukowski pone al descubierto las muchas caras del amor: su egoísmo y narcicismo, su naturaleza azarosa, su misterio y tristeza y, en última instancia, su dicha absoluta, resistencia y poder redentor. Bukowski retrata el amor con humor, picardía y, en ocasiones, ternura. Amor nos permite adentrarnos tanto en el hombre como en el artista: Bukowski escribe con sinceridad y de manera conmovedora sobre su hija, sus amantes, sus amigos y el trabajo, y el amor sirve de prisma para observar el mundo en toda su belleza y crueldad, sin olvidar su naturaleza frágil: ?mi amor es un colibrí que se posa tranquilo en una rama ?escribe? mientras el mismo gato se agazapa?. Charles Bukowski es uno de los escritores más conocidos y celebrados de las letras estadounidenses contemporáneas y, según muchos, unos de los poetas más influyentes e imitados de los últimos tiempos. Nació en 1920 en Andernach, en Alemania, hijo de un soldado norteamericano y de una costurera alemana, y llegó a los Estados Unidos a los tres años. Creció en Los Ángeles, donde vivió durante más de cinco décadas. Falleció en San Pedro, California, el 9 de marzo de 1994. Abel Debritto es autor de Charles Bukowski, King of the Underground y ha editado On Writing, On Cats [Gatos], On Love [Amor] y Essential Bukowski para la editorial norteamericana Ecco/HarperCollins.

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    £17.99

  • The Pleasures of the Damned

    HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Pleasures of the Damned

    Book Synopsis“The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author“He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriterThe Pleasures of the Damned features selected later poetry of Charles Bukowski, America’s most influential poet.To his legions of fans, Charles Bukowski was—and remains—a counterculture icon. A hard-drinking wild man of literature, a stubborn outsider to the poetry world, he struck a chord with generations of readers, writing raw, tough poetry about booze, work, and women, that spoke to his fans as “real” and, like the work of the Beats, even dangerous.The Pleasures of the Damned is a selection of the best works of Bukowski’s later years, edited by John Martin of Black Sparrow Press, including the last of his new, never-before-published poems.

    £16.99

  • The Continual Condition

    HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Continual Condition

    Book SynopsisI saw a tramp last night the way the old dog walked with dotted, tired fur down nobody's alley being nobody's dog ...past the empty vodka bottles past the peanut butter jars, with wires full of electricity and the birds asleep somewhere, down the alley he went - nobody's dog moving through it all, brave as any army.

    £13.11

  • On Drinking

    HarperCollins Publishers Inc On Drinking

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    Book SynopsisThe definitive collection of works on a subject that inspired and haunted Charles Bukowski for his entire life: alcohol Charles Bukowski turns to the bottle in this revelatory collection of poetry and prose that includes some of the writer’s best and most lasting work.

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    £19.00

  • Editorial Anagrama S.A. Hollywood

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    £15.48

  • Editorial Anagrama S.A. Hijo de Satanas

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    £19.58

  • Editorial Anagrama Factotum

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    £19.41

  • Editorial Anagrama S.A. El capitn sali a comer y los marineros tomaron el

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    £18.55

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