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Hills And The Sea, first published in 1906 to critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, is a collection of 38 essays spanning several periods of time and travel. In brief yet rich prose, Belloc captures the essence of each place he visits--whether on the gloomy English Fens, or the sunny Provence and Languedoc regions of France, or the sunny Provence and Languedoc regions of France, or the North Sea in a leaky boat.

I was twenty when I followed away from my town a trapeze family, aerialists, a group of beautiful winged people, mother, father, son and daughter. They were the Ishbels". Chris, whose leg is injured, and his lover Stella, with whom he lives in a ruined, abandoned house, Chris's male nurse, Marvello the circus aerialist, a lighthouse keeper, a flagpole sitter in small-town America - these are the creatures of William Goyen's visionary fable of ...

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An intimate biography of a great American writer

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) is universally recognized as a towering figure in world literature. This major new collection brings together poems from every decade of Goethe's writing life, in both their German originals and John Whaley's magnificent new translations--complete with their astonishing technical virtuosity, depth of feeling, wit, and occasional bawdry.

Marnie Mueller's Green Fires, set in Ecuador in 1969, dramatizes the first clashes between indigenous peoples and multinational oil companies, a conflict now playing itself out in final battles which may well ultimately determine the fate of the rainforest. Annie Saunders, a disillusioned Kennedy-era Peace Corps volunteer, returns to Ecuador, trying to come to terms with her traumatic experiences there. What she finds instead is a menacing and...

A compendium of folkloric, literary, and critical texts that show how the Russian fairy tale acquired political and historical meanings during the Soviet era We were born to make fairy tales come true. As one of Stalinism's more memorable slogans, this one suggests that the fairy tale figured in Soviet culture as far more than a category of children's literature. How much more-and how cannily Russian fairy tales reflect and interpret Soviet cu...

Ghost Quartet is a stunning exploration of love and ambition, sexual identity, and spiritual purpose. Set in the contemporary classical music world of New York and Tanglewood, the novel centers around the Faustian struggles of Ray Stoneson, a thirty-two-year-old composer, talented yet unrecognized. When Ray meets Perry Green, an internationally renowned, considerably older gay conductor and composer who is desperately attracted to him, both of...

Isaiah Spiegel was an inmate of the Lodz Ghetto from its inception in 1940 until its liquidation in 1944. While there, he wrote short stories depicting Jewish life in the ghetto and managed to hide them before he was deported to Auschwitz. After being freed, he returned to Lodz to retrieve and publish his stories.

From The Ballroom To Hell' collects over one hundred little-known excerpts from dance, etiquette, beauty, and fashion manuals from roughly 1800-1890. It will be of great interest to dancers and dance historians, choreographers, and dramatists interested in accurately reproducing nineteenth-century dance scenes and the surrounding social mechanisms.

This is the first biography of one of the century's most important conductors of opera and symphonic music. Fritz Reiner (1888-1963) led major orchestras in Europe and the Americas, including those of Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, and Chicago, after distinguished opera conducting in Philadelphia and San Francisco, he spent five memorable seasons at the Metropolitan Opera. He was not only a consummate musician but also a major participant in the evol...

Three dialogues among famous personages of the past offer an extended essay on the philosophy of the theater. Anchoring each of the dialogues is the great Russian film director and theoretician Sergei Eisenstein, whose artistic theories run throughout the book, illustrating the influences that affected the Soviet art world in the period between the two world wars.

The Foundation Pit portrays a group of workmen and local bureaucrats engaged in digging the foundation pit for what is to become a grand 'general' building where all the town's inhabitants will live happily and 'in silence.

Waterlings are the mysterious beings at the center of Veno Taufer's collection of poems. Employing his trademark concise language with hypercondensed imagery and rhythmic drive, Taufer presents an entire mythic world. In six epic lyric poems, the waterlings pray and chant incantations, engage in song, tell their legends, and explore the seas and forests of a fully imagined and realized fairyland.Lyric poetry has long been the most important br...

Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Award

This is a work by the French author Alain Robbe-Grillet, translated from the original French.

Lacey Baldwin Smith takes us on a riveting journey through history as he examines one of the most baffling characteristics of human experience: the willingness to die to sanctify a deity, to defend a cause, or simply to prove a point. By delving into the psyches, politics, and personalities of martyrs, he illuminates the complex and elusive subject of martyrdom as it has evolved over 2, 500 years.

Vsevolod Ivanov was praised in the 1920s as one of the most original and promising young writers to emerge from the Russian Revolution. Ivanov's personal experiences in Siberia and Central Asia during the Revolution and Civil War, set against a childhood and youth spent wandering through that vast expanse and nourishing his imagination on such Romantic writers as Edgar Allan Poe and Jules Verne, infuse his writing. Combining traditional elemen...

Abram Tertz is the pseudonym of Andrei Sinyavsky, the exiled Soviet dissident writer. The interrelated tales in his Fantastic Stories have been compared with those of great twentieth-century fabulists like Kafka and Borges. One reads Tertz with a kind of vertigo, on guard against the nameless unexpected-the inexplicable and obscure changes in policy, the unfamiliar predawn knock at the door.