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At once a delightfully inventive chronicle of Freud's last days and an insightful reflection on Freudian existence

Every woman longs to be in a love story. But what are they longing for? In "Labyrinth of Desire, " award-winning writer Rosemary Sullivan explores the many stories upon which women base their (mis) understanding of romantic love.

In this collection of 24 pieces--from diaries and memoirs to essays on painting and sculpture, from essays on travel to translation and fiction--Selzer leads readers on an exhilarating tour, led by a remarkable wisdom and imagination.

In nine vignettes of autobiographical fiction--linked to portray a rich life, filled with searching, from London to Delhi, from Hollywood to New York--Jhabvala creates "invented memories" that form "chapters of a possible past.

Merwin has gathered eight essays--including a memoir of George Kirstein, publisher of "The Nation, " and one of Sydney Parkinson, explorer, naturalist and artist on Captain James Cook's "Endeavour"--that show the breadth of his imagination and sympathy.

The portrait of George Orwell's second wife drawn by his biographers is a travesty. Determined to set the record straight, her friend Hilary Spurling, herself an acclaimed biographer, reveals the whole story of Sonia Orwell's sad and splendid life. Beautiful, intelligent, and idealistic, but also, as she grew older, belligerent and intimidating, Sonia was the model for Julia, heroine of Orwell's 1984. Her friends and admirers included W.H. Aud...

The revised 1983 edition of Berry's novel about Port William, Kentucky, the farm lands and forests that surround it, and the river that runs nearby, is back in print, resonating with variations played on themes of change, looping transitions from war into peace, winter into spring, and lost into found.

Raised among Scottish fishermen and storytellers, David Thomson was obsessed from childhood by the Celtic seal legend, the body of tales and songs about the "selchie, " or gray Atlantic seal. In the early 1950's he took a journey to seek the legend out, in the Hebrides, on the east coast of Scotland, on the west coast of Ireland -- places where magic co-exists with reality and pre-Christian traditions and beliefs somehow endure.He gives us her...

Raised at her family's commune in the Adirondack wilderness, Perks pens a wrenching and beautiful memoir of an unorthodox childhood and her wildly eccentric father, a self-proclaimed pagan intent on demolishing conventional boundaries and morality.

Modern Philosophy of Language brings together the most significant writings on language in twentieth-century philosophy -- from the work of Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, and the logical positivists to the contemporary contributions of W.V.O. Quine, Noam Chomsky, and Michael Dummett. The articles collected here are bench-marks in the development of various strands in the modern analytic philosophy of language.

Gritty and realistic, "A Girl, In Parts" is never sentimental about either poverty or childhood as it follows a young girl with limitless dreams and confidence in an uncertain world. First novelist Jasmine Paul has crafted an elegant coming-of-age story in 97 perfectly told vignettes.

In a rural Kentucky river town, "Old Jack" Beechum, a retired farmer, sees his life again through the shades of one burnished day in September 1952. Bringing the earthiness of America's past to mind, "The Memory of Old Jack" conveys the truth and integrity of the land and the people who live it. Through the eyes of one man can be seen the values of Americans strived to recapture as we arrived at the next century.

In "Life Is a Miracle", the devotion of science to the quantitative and reductionist world is measured against the mysterious, qualitative suggestions of religion and art. Berry sees life as the collision of these separate forces, but without all three in the mix people are left at sea in the world.

Lancelotta's debut collection of short stories about women who, however flawed or compromised, are fierce and unforgettable. Appearances at SEBA & Southern Festival Books.

A dark, unsetting novel about a woman whose reluctance to adopt traditional female roles of marriage and motherhood results in a painful alienation from her Italian-American family and community.

Joe Jones" is Lamott's raucous novel of lives gathered around Jessie's Cafe, "a restaurant from another era, the sort of broken-down waterfront dive one might expect to find in Steinbeck or Saroyan." Her rich and timeless themes are also here: love and loyalty, loss and recovery, staying on and staying together, the power of humor to heal and to bind.

Life is a minefield for the unsuspecting protagonists of nine wide-ranging tales. Take the Moura family, in the title story, set in Portugal during the Salazar dictatorship. Working-class folk, the Mouras have a small summer cottage on the estate of the Carvalhos, wealthy vineyard owners. After Carvalho prompts him to express his disgust for the tyrant, Moura gets a visit from the secret police. Fortunately, the regime is crumbling, and Gardin...

By the award-winning author of "Somewhere in France"--a historical novel based on a true story of orphaned identical twins born to switched identities, uncanny communications and terrible trials.

A story of extraordinary danger and adventure follows a very young woman who attempts, alone, a trip across Papua, New Guinea, as she follows in the footsteps of British explorer Ivan Champion.

Mining new material, including personal letters from Thomas himself, Paul Ferris recounts the life of this tragic figure. "A hilarious, stocking, sad story . . . a brilliant book."--Kingsley Amis. of photos.