From the appearance in 1936 of Kenneth Patchen's first book, the voice of this great poet has been protesting war and social injustice, satirizing the demeaning and barbarous inanities of our culture-entrancing us with an inexhaustible flow of humor and fantasy. With directness and simplicity, he has restored the exaltation of romantic love to its ancient bardic place beside an awareness of God's living presence among all men.
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Julien Green's fame rests principally not only on his novels and for being the first American inductee to the Acadamie Francaise, but on his journals, published in ten volumes, and spanning the years 1926-1976, providing a chronicle of his literary and religious life. To Leave Before Dawn is also an autobiographical volume, and a unique window on the artistic and literary scene in Paris over a span of half a century.
Peter Vansittart's Pastimes of A Red Summer describes the era of the French Revolution, a subtle fusion of period atmosphere and historic insight by one of Britain's greatest historical novelists.
These classic translations of Montaigne are presented with the authoritative French text on facing pages and provide an introduction and extensive notes helping students appreciate the depth and clarity of Montaigne’s thinking. The text includes Books 1, 2, and 3 of the essays, Montaigne’s translation of the natural theology of Raymond Sebond, a travel journal, and selected letters.
One of the most respected translations of this key work of 18th-century philosophy, this text includes a brief introduction to the two works as well as abundant notes that range from simple explanations to speculative interpretations.
This collection of letters written by natives of Athens, Georgia, who were in the upper and middle economic classes, will be of special interest to those who are curious about the domestic impact of the Civil War in the South.
The principal theme of this ambitious book is Time, threading together three generations of an upper-class English family, the Pargiters. The characters come and go, meet, talk, think, dream, grow older, in a continuous ritual of life that eludes meaning.
