Bread in the Wilderness (New Directions Classic)
 This is a book that every serious student should read.: When Thomas Merton, a Trappist Monk, wrote BREAD IN THE WILDERNESS, he had fallen in love with the Psalms of the Old Testament. As a monk, he had chanted the Psalms every day of the week. The monks [... more]
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Durrell-Miller Letters, 1935-1980
Author: Ian S. MacNiven Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 809 EAN: 9780811217309 ISBN: 0811217302 Number Of Pages: 556 Publication Date: 1988-09-01 [... more]
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A Table of Green Fields: Ten Stories
"Gypsy acrobats on market day": The line above, taken from a Davenport story, perhaps suggests the sense of vibrance flowing through a "typical" Davenport story: one not only gets to go to market, but there are Gypsies there as well! [... more]
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Knife Edge: A Novel
Author: Ralf Rothmann Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 833.914 EAN: 9780811212045 ISBN: 0811212041 Number Of Pages: 116 Publication Date: 1992-05 [... more]
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Cortes and Montezuma (A New Directions classic)
A Great Story and a Great Tragedy: My best friend's wife was in the hospital, and I was put in charge of their son for a few hours. I decided to tell him the story from memory of how Hernan de Cortez, with a handful of men, brought down an entire world. [... more]
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Gaudier-Brzeska: A Memoir
Entertaining!: Another great expressive book of a almost unheard of artist. If like me you stumble across this book you must pick it up and read it as I ensure you, you will be pleased. Not only just for the brilliant, modern pictures contained within [... more]
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Sea of Dreams: The Selected Writings of Gu Cheng
Author: Gu Cheng Author: Joseph R. Allen Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 895.1152 EAN: 9780811215879 ISBN: 0811215873 Number Of Pages: 206 Publication Date: 2005-07-11 [... more]
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Memories of the Moderns
Author: Harry Levin Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 809.04 EAN: 9780811208420 ISBN: 0811208427 Number Of Pages: 257 Publication Date: 1982-11 [... more]
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Voyage Around My Room: Selected Works of Xavier Demaistre
Charming 18th century parody: This delightful work by a late 18th-cent French nobleman parodies contemporary travel accounts with a detailed report of the author's journey around his room during forty-odd days of house arrest. It now reads almost as a [... more]
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On the Air With Dylan Thomas: The Broadcasts
Author: Dylan Thomas Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 821.912 EAN: 9780811212090 ISBN: 0811212092 Number Of Pages: 305 Publication Date: 1992-04 [... more]
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For You
Good collection of earlier work.: Hayden Carruth, For You (New Directions, 1970) For You compiles five long poems from previous in Carruth's career (including "North Winter," reviewed here a few weeks previous), spanning 1958 to 1967. To call [... more]
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Land of the Great Image
Portuguese Father Takes Bit Part in Southeast Asian Politics: No matter what we do, no matter how the tides of world affairs go, some regions of our planet are destined to fall through the cracks, to disappear entirely from the "radar screens" [... more]
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