This biography of American 20th century music and criticism chronicles Virgil Thomson's life as a composer, critic and gay man. Anthony Tommasini portrays Thoman's upbringing, along with his struggle to accept his sexuality as he searched for a place in the world.
Two sets of previously untranslated lectures given by Ortega in the early 1940s form the basis of this volume. They deal with Western man's need for the new species of thought that Ortega designates as "historical reason."
Jose Ortega y Gasset was a writer and a thinker in the finest sense of both words. He was also an extraordinary educator who attracted eager students and enthusiasts of all ages. His inexhaustible subject was man and man's problems.
The noted author and scholar presents a guide to the prophets of the Old Testament for the modern reader.
The present translation of the Reminiscences is based on the second Russian edition, published in Moscow in 1971 and edited by the Dostoevsky scholars S. V. Belov and V. A. Tunimanov. They have carried Grossman's work further by rearranging the manuscript into twelve broad chapters in chronological sequence, corresponding to the most important periods in the life of Fyodor Dostoevsky's family. This necessitated some transposition of material to where it chronologically belonged, as well as the elimination of certain redundant episodes left in the Grossman edition. Belov and Tunimanov also added, as a first chapter, Anna Grigoryevna's description of her childhood and youth and the milieu in which her extraordinary character was formed. In the book's last chapter, "After Dostoevsky's Death," they retained Anna Grigoryevna's "Answer to Strakhov" and added to it her description of her only meeting with Leo Tolstoy, not included in the Grossman edition. To this chapter the translator of the present edition has also restored the brief section "Memoirists," omitted from the second Russian edition.
Nothing superfluous, nothing lacking. William Hazlitt's highest praise for good prose can justly be applied to the poetry of Robert Hayden.
A therapeutic model for maintaining bonds while moving into the future.
A guide where today's best writers reveal their secrets.
Things looked very black for Lieutenant Boruvka in The End of Lieutenant Boruvka. But in this, the fourth and (perhaps) final volume in the series, the sad-eyed detective turns up again, this time in Canada.
Lady Cameron and Hornett had been married fifty years ago, but he has forgotten about it. Embarrassment is evident when they meet whilst holidaying in Greece. In other stories there is an unknown Wordsworth manuscript and a sensational development concerning Coleridge. We also travel to Vienna where the identity of an arsonist is revealed.
Tobias, or Toby, was fostered and then adopted as the Feltons' heir after he had miraculously survived the sinking of a ship by a U-Boat. Then, someone who is clearly Toby's twin turns up as an under-gardener. He had been fostered by a couple, now dead. There is general and disturbed confusion on everyone's part - including the boys themselves.
"Contains unsettling insights into some of the most dangerous geopolitical crises of the time."-The Economist
"Millikan's School presents an interesting and thoroughly reliable account of the astonishing change over a period of a few years of a small technical school in Pasadena, California, into one of the world's leading scientific institutions." -Linus Pauling
An authoritative and richly illustrated narrative history of the buildings that shaped the American century and the architects who gave them form.
"Russell had a privileged glimpse into the life-style of the publicity-shy literary couple. . . . [She] offers many vignettes that will charm White aficionados." -Library Journal
No state's creation was more dramatic, more at the center of national attention, more involved in fundamental moral conflict, than that of Kansas. In a sense, the state's history began with the arrival of the first Puritans of New England and the first slaves of Virginia. The States And The Nation Series, of which this volume is a part, is designed to assist the American people in a serious look at the ideals they have espoused and the experiences they have undergone in the history of the nation.
"Shines with elusive insights about persons we recognize at once as acquaintances and friends, caught briefly in events that are part of their upper-class life, part of their inevitable sexual prisons, part of their middle age. To be able to say consistently interesting things about these embroilments-class, sex, age-is a triumph for a novelist. Cynthia Propper Seton has pulled off just such a triumph." -Doris Grumbach, Los Angeles Times
"Here are the words of some of the women I have been, am being still, will come to be," writes Audre Lorde of this volume, in which she brings together many of the most important poems she has written over the past thirty years.
"Cynthia Propper Seton's newest novel is a gem of a comedy. With delectable wit and glittering style, Seton examines the leisured urban upper-middle class, its guilts and self-deceptions, its integrity, poignant strivings, and resignation. . . .The author is a veritable gourmet chef of the language, whipping up verbal delights on every page." -Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Saturday Review
"Lucid, evocative and richly detailed."-Jay Parini, author of The Apprentice Lover
"An extremely good writer, [Ayers] is well worth reading . . . on the South and Southern history."-Stephen Sears, Boston Globe
"A stirring history of the tribal sovereignty movement." -Publishers Weekly
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