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Pearson Education Limited Canon Fire
Book SynopsisBased on the recommended authors list in the revised Key Stage 3 curriculum, this collection brings together great authors from the literary heritage and the best contemporary writers. It book is divided into four sections each of which introduces readers to a different genre.Trade Review"The stories will fascinate students and create huge opportunities for discussion. They are all examples of good writing and expert story telling." -Kath Howard, English Teacher"Table of ContentsIntroduction Michael Morpurgo No Trumpets Needed Michael Morpurgo Gothic The Heart of Another Marcus Sedgwick & The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe The Writing on the Wall Celia Rees & The Ghost in the Bride’s Chamber Charles Dickens Growing Up Behind the Billboards David Almond & The Destructors Graham Greene Porkies Robert Swindells & Billy the Kid William Golding The Wild Cats Robert Westall & The Brazilian Cat Arthur Conan Doyle To Build a Fire Jack London & A Vendetta Guy de Maupassant Folk Stories The Ugly Wife Anthony Horowitz & The Knight’s Tale Geoffrey Chaucer (retold by Geraldine McCaughrea) The Tinker’s Curse Joan Aiken & The Star Child Oscar Wilde
£18.65
Dover Publications Inc. Selected Short Stories
Book SynopsisIt is universally acknowledged that Tolstoy, author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, was as much a master of the short story as he was of the full-length novel. This original collection features some of his most hard-to-find tales including the posthumously published Alyosha the Pot, the two-part novella The Forged Coupon, and After the Dance, aka After the Ball.
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Faber & Faber Selected Prose of T S Eliot
Book Synopsis''Literary criticism is a distinctive activity of the civilised mind.'' With Eliot''s dictum in mind, Professor Kermode has selected from the whole range of his critical writings, some of them dating back to before 1918. There are essays of generalisation, appreciations of individual writers, and a section of his social and religious criticism. All the famous and most influential essays are drawn upon, with extracts from many others, and there is an important Introduction by Professor Kermode, with valuable notes.
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Faber & Faber True Tales of American Life
Book SynopsisChosen by Paul Auster out of the four thousand stories submitted to his radio programme on National Public Radio, these 180 stories provide a wonderful portrait of America in the twentieth century. The requirement for selection was that each of the stories should be true, and each of the writers should not have been previously published. The collection that has emerged provides a richly varied and authentic voice for the American people, whose lives, loves, griefs, regrets, joys and sense of humour are vividly and honestly recounted throughout, and adeptly organised by Auster into themed sections. The section composed of war stories stretches as far back as the Civil War, still the defining moment in American history; while the sequence of ''Meditations'' conclude the volume with a true and abiding sense of transcendence.The resultant anthology is both an enduring hymn to the strange everyday of contemporary American life and a masterclass in the art of storytelling.Trade Review'It is difficult to think of another book published this year, and probably any book to be published next year, that is so simple and so obvious, so excellent in intention and so elegant in its execution, and which displays such wisdom and such knowledge of human life in all its varieties.' Ian Sansom, Guardian; 'Fantastic... Glows with the truth of shared human experience.' The Face; 'Astonishing... This is writing at its very finest.' Independent
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group The Best Short Stories 2023
Book SynopsisThe prestigious annual story anthology includes prize-winning stories by Jamil Jan Kochai, David Ryan, Kirstin Valdez Quade, Lisa Taddeo, Ling Ma, Catherine Lacey, and Cristina Rivera Garza.“[A] standout collection . . . . Dazzling performances from some of today’s most exciting writers. . . . This is one of the best fiction anthologies in years.” —Publishers Weekly starred review Continuing a century-long tradition of cutting-edge literary excellence, this year's edition contains twenty prizewinning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year. Guest editor Lauren Groff has brought her own refreshing perspective to the prize, selecting stories by an engaging mix of celebrated names and emerging voices and including several stories in translation. The winning stories are accompanied by an introduction by Groff, observations from the winning writers on what inspired them, and an extensi
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Harvard University Press The Learned Banqueters Volume V Books 10.420e11
Book SynopsisA series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The work provides quotations from works now lost, and preserves information about wide range of information about Greek culture.Trade ReviewOne of the main advantages of Olson's new edition is that it is reader-friendly. When The Learned Banqueters quotes from a known author, Olson follows the text of, and gives the reference to, the best modern edition, making it easy for the reader to look up the citation in its original context...Olson's translation is largely excellent, and captures the spirit of the different authors quoted. -- Helen Morales * Times Literary Supplement *
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Princeton University Press The Plum in the Golden Vase or Chin Ping Mei
Book SynopsisThis is the fourth and penultimate volume in David Roy's celebrated translation of one of the most famous and important novels in Chinese literature. The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei is an anonymous sixteenth-century work that focuses on the domestic life of Hsi-men Ch'ing, a corrupt, upwardly mobile merchant in a provincial town, whoTrade Review"[A] book of manners for the debauched. Its readers in the late Ming period likely hid it under their bedcovers."--Amy Tan, New York Times Book Review Praise for the previous volumes: "[I]t is time to remind ourselves that The Plum in the Golden Vase is not just about sex, whether the numerous descriptions of sexual acts throughout the novel be viewed as titillating, harshly realistic, or, in Mr. Roy's words, intended 'to express in the most powerful metaphor available to him the author's contempt for the sort of persons who indulge in them.' The novel is a sprawling panorama of life and times in urban China, allegedly set safely in the Sung dynasty, but transparently contemporary to the author's late sixteenth-century world, as scores of internal references demonstrate. The eight hundred or so men, women, and children who appear in the book cover a breath-taking variety of human types, and encompass pretty much every imaginable mood and genre--from sadism to tenderness, from light humor to philosophical musings, from acute social commentary to outrageous satire."--Jonathan Spence, New York Review of Books Praise for previous volumes: "Reading Roy's translation is a remarkable experience."--Robert Chatain, Chicago Tribune Review of Books "Both the fourth volume of The Plum and the previous three volumes are top-notch English translation of traditional Chinese fiction. Roy's superb translation skills preserve the subtleties in the original Chinese novel. English-speaking readers can, for the first time, appreciate one of the masterpieces of Chinese fiction in its entirety, thanks to Roy's diligent and careful work. Most important of all, The Plum represents the culmination of Roy's life-long devotion to research on fin Ping Mei and demonstrates Roy's encyclopedic knowledge of Jin Ping Mei scholarship. Reading The Plum can help scholars understand the research that has been conducted on this novel and help them develop new directions for future research. I wholeheartedly recommend The Plum to anyone interested in Chinese literature, culture, and history, and look forward to the publication of the final volume of Roy's translation."--Junjie Luo, Chinese Literature "This volume, a masterwork of translation of language, culture, social values, and literary intent provides students of linguistics, philosophy, psychology, anthropology, sociology, economics, and history, as well as those willing to invest time in a long but highly entertaining tale with an invaluable opportunity to gain insight into sixteenth-century society outside imperial court circles during the Ming era."--Ilicia J. Sprey, Sixteenth Century Journal Praise for previous volumes: "Clearly David Roy is the greatest scholar-translator in the field of premodern vernacular Chinese fiction... The puns and various other kinds of word plays that abound in the Chin P'ing Mei are so difficult to translate that I can't help 'slapping the table in amazement' each time I see evidence of Roy's masterful rendition of them... I recommend this book, in the strongest possible terms, to anyone interested in the novel form in general, in Chinese literature in particular, or in the translation of Chinese literature."--Shuhui Yang, Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, and ReviewsTable of ContentsLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi CAST OF CHARACTERS xiii CHAPTER 61: Han Tao-kuo Prepares an Entertainment for Hsi-men Ch'ing; Li P'ing-erh Painfully Observes the Double Yang Festival 1 CHAPTER 62: Taoist Master P'an Performs an Exorcism on the Lantern Altar; Hsi-men Ch'ing Laments Egregiously on Behalf of Li P'ing-erh 44 CHAPTER 63: Friends and Relatives Offer Funeral Oblations at a Memorial Feast; Hsi-men Ch'ing Is Reminded of Li P'ing-erh While Watching a Drama 83 CHAPTER 64: Yu-hsiao Kneels in Making an Appeal to P'an Chin-lien; Officers of the Guard Sacrifi ce to a Rich Man's Spouse 104 CHAPTER 65: Abbot Wu Meets the Funeral Procession and Eulogizes the Portrait; Censor Sung Imposes on a Local Magnate to Entertain Eunuch Huang 121 CHAPTER 66: Majordomo Chai Sends a Letter with a Consolatory Contribution; Perfect Man Huang Conducts a Rite for the Salvation of the Dead 153 CHAPTER 67: Hsi-men Ch'ing Appreciates the Snow While in His Studio; Li P'ing-erh Describes Her Intimate Feelings in a Dream 174 CHAPTER 68: Cheng Ai-yueh Flaunts Her Beauty and Discloses a Secret; Tai-an Perseveres Assiduously in Seeking Out Auntie Wen 211 CHAPTER 69: Auntie Wen Communicates Hsi-men Ch'ing's Wishes to Lady Lin; Wang Ts'ai Falls for a Trick and Invites His Own Humiliation 244 CHAPTER 70: Hsi-men Ch'ing's Successful Efforts Procure Him a Promotion; Assembled Offi cials Report before Defender-in-chief Chu Mien 277 CHAPTER 71: Li P'ing-erh Appears in a Dream in Battalion Commander Ho's House; The Judicial Commissioners Present Their Memorials at the Audience 306 CHAPTER 72: Wang the Third Kowtows to Hsi-men Ch'ing as His Adopted Father; Ying Po-chueh Intercedes to Alleviate the Grievance of Li Ming 342 CHAPTER 73: P'an Chin-lien Is Irked by the Song "I Remember Her Flute-playing"; Big Sister Yu Sings "Getting through the Five Watches of the Night" 384 CHAPTER 74: Censor Sung Ch'iao-nien Solicits the Eight Immortals Tripod; Wu Yueh-niang Listens to the Precious Scroll on Woman Huang 420 CHAPTER 75: Ch'un-mei Vilely Abuses Second Sister Shen; Yu-hsiao Spills the Beans to P'an Chin-lien 456 CHAPTER 76: Meng Yu-lou Assuages Yueh-niang's Wrath; Hsi-men Ch'ing Repudiates Licentiate Wen 503 CHAPTER 77: Hsi-men Ch'ing Slogs through the Snow to Visit Cheng Ai-yueh; Pen the Fourth's Wife Sits by the Window Waiting for a Tryst 544 CHAPTER 78: Hsi-men Ch'ing Ventures upon a Second Engagement with Lady Lin; Wu Yueh-niang Invites Ho Yung-shou's Wife to View the Lanterns 579 CHAPTER 79: Hsi-men Ch'ing in His Sexual Indulgence Incurs an Illness; Wu Yueh-niang Bears a Child upon the Death of Her Husband 627 CHAPTER 80: Ch'en Ching-chi Resorts to Pilfering Jade and Purloining Perfume; Li Chiao-erh Makes Off with the Silver and Returns to the Brothel 668 NOTES 689 BIBLIOGRAPHY 855 INDEX 895 Roy.
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British Library Publishing Menace of the Monster
Book SynopsisIn this compelling new collection of short stories from SF’s classic age our visions of `other’ are shown in a myriad of forms - beings from other worlds, corrupted lifeforms from our own planet and entities from unimaginable dimensions.
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Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness Four Short Novels
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Gill Leprechaun Tales
Book SynopsisThis charming and wonderfully illustrated book brings to life six traditional Irish Leprechaun tales. The stories tell of mischievious leprechauns and inquisitive people, of cobblers, pots of gold and fairy rings. It is popular with young and old alike. Other books by Yvonne CarrollBeginner''s Irish DictionaryGreat Irish Legends for ChildrenIrish Legends for ChildrenIrish Legends for Children - MiniThe Little Leprechaun LibraryThe Very Little Leprechaun Tale
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Gill Time to Talk Stories from the heart of Ireland
Book SynopsisThrough tales that are sometimes humorous, sometimes poignant, sometimes heart-breaking, but always true, Time to Talk
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Gill Tales of the Otherworld
Book SynopsisAnne Doyle has a dark side: an affinity for the ghoulish, unexplainable and supernatural.Reincarnated as the mistress of macabre, Ireland's best-loved newsreader delights in presenting Tales of the Otherworld, a fabulously frightful anthology of Irish ghost stories that have thrilled, unnerved and, for better or worse, stayed with her over the years. Discover the very best of Irish ghost writing, from national treasures such as W.B. Yeats and Bram Stoker to contemporary work from Deirdre Sullivan and Roisín O'Donnell, each accompanied by charming, witty commentary from Anne herself.Reading this collection is like having an ice cube plucked straight from Anne's vodka soda and dropped down the back of your neck.
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The History Press Ltd Jersey Ghost Stories
Book SynopsisStep away from sunny Jersey’s present day and into the sinister shadows of the past … the island’s history is filled with dark deeds and restless spirits.
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Little, Brown Book Group Motives for Murder
Book Synopsis*WINNER OF THE CWA SHORT STORY DAGGER WITH THE TRIALS OF MARGARET BY L. C. TYLER*In honour of multi award-winning author Peter Lovesey, the members of the Detection Club have written twenty-two twisty - and twisted - short stories that will take you on a journey from cosy English towns to the glaciers of Iceland and the glittering towers of Dubai. The collection is edited by current Detection Club president Martin Edwards and features stories from Ann Cleeves, Simon Brett, Andrew Taylor and several other best-loved crime authors. The Detection Club was founded by the crème de la crime of British crime writing in 1930 and its members included Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Anthony Berkeley and the Club''s first president, G. K. Chesterton. The Detection Club was a way for crime writers to get together, socialise and discuss ideas, a tradition that continues to this day. Authors include:Ann Cleeves - Simon Brett - Andrew Taylor - Trade ReviewStrong on merit and evidence of the strong emotions Lovesey inspires in his fellow authors * Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine *
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Anness Publishing Angels An Anthology of Verse and Prose
Book SynopsisA celebration of celestial beings in fine art, poetry and prose. This inspirational gift book includes poetry drawn from the world-renowned works of Edmund Spenser, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and John Milton, and sumptuous paintings.
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McClelland & Stewart Inc. Carving Space
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Ohio University Press Reimagining Realism
Book SynopsisThis fresh, diverse anthology of American short fiction challenges readers to interrogate commonly held ideas about the genres of realism and naturalism.Trade Review“An impressive collection that … highlights the ways short story authors of the period grappled with complex responses to an increasingly complicated nation. The anthology reminds readers of the contributions these authors made to the short story form and, more broadly, to American fiction. This valuable collection contains thoughtful annotations and comprehensive apparatus useful to instructors and students alike…. One of the finest anthologies of American Realist short story fiction available.” -- Sterling Lecater Bland, Jr., professor of English, African American studies, and American studies, Rutgers University-Newark“An innovative and exciting selection of lesser-known but provocative texts by established writers as well as by authors not usually gathered into anthologies. The contents have been selected to challenge and expand the definition of ‘realism’—especially works that include sentimental and romantic elements and therefore more accurately reflect what readers encountered in the pages of periodicals … The result is a refreshing and intriguing anthology of more diverse subjects, offering a more accurate representation of the progressive and conservative views readers originally encountered.” -- Keith Newlin, editor of the Oxford Handbook of American Literary Realism and Studies in American NaturalismAn ambitious effort to recanonize the short fiction of the period. -- Gary Scharnhorst * American Literary Realism *
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New Directions Publishing Corporation The Doctor Stories
Book SynopsisA new edition of one of the best books ever written about being a doctor: writing as aware and memorable as Chekhov’s.Trade Review"Williams’ shockingly vivid portraits of bigotry and bias ultimately serve to expose the normally opaque medical practitioner, examining the examiner where his flaws are most flagrant...The collection moves like a surgeon: It makes you uncomfortable and looks at you naked. Then, it changes you." -- Claudia Ross - Cleveland Review of Books"This is powerful but not comfortable reading, in the prose of a poet and the vision of a healer. I wish all doctors would read it." -- The Wall Street Journal"Stories written with the swift, concise, unsentimental exactitude of a great diagnostician who also happened to be a great poet." -- Philip Gourevitch"A stunning combination of ease and urgency." -- Booklist"The Doctor Stories are clinical vignettes at their best and most engaging: dramatic, lively, full of the heroism it takes to be human." -- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Globe Pequot Press Witness to War
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Wesleyan University Press The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction
Book SynopsisThe best single-volume anthology of science fiction available-includes online teacher's guide
£29.40
University of Pittsburgh Press My Literary and Moral Meanderings
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Colourpoint Creative Ltd Irish Folk and Fairy Tales
Book SynopsisIn this wonderful collection of stories by some of Ireland's finest writers, including Carleton, Yeats and Lady Wilde, a legion of fairy folk leprechauns, giants, witches and mermaids help, hinder, charm and terrify their mortal neighbours.The fairy tales of Ireland are part of one of the richest folklore traditions in the world. These much-loved tales include the story of the farmer who offends the fairies by building on their dancing ground; the king who loses his wife in a chess game and the smith who learns his skill at working brass and iron during his seven-year apprenticeship to the giant Mahon MacMahon. The heroes and saints of the Celtic sagas are here as well, in beautifully written versions of the old bardic stories of Finn, Deirdre, Cuchulain and Brigid. Wielding the power to enthral and enchant, these ancient tales open the door to a strangely familiar world of mystery and magic.
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Atlantic Books Vengeance
Book SynopsisLee Child is the editor of this collection of stories. He is the internationally bestselling author of fourteen Jack Reacher thrillers, including the Number 1 Sunday Times bestsellers Bad Luck and Trouble and Nothing to Lose.This collection also includes stories by Karin Slaughter, Michael Connelly and Dennis Lehane, as well as some of today's new talents.
£12.34
D. S. Brewer Julian of Norwich Revelations of Divine Love and
Book SynopsisFrances Beer chooses Julian's first, more intimate, Revelations on which to base this accessible edition and study of her life and work.Trade ReviewContributes to the complete picture of Julian of Norwich as an author in that it invites renewed close reading of the Revelation and study of the text in its varied manuscript and textual contexts. * REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES *
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City Lights Books Artaud Anthology
Book Synopsis"I am the man," wrote Artaud, "who has best charted his inmost self." Antonin Artaud was a great poet who, like Poe, Holderlin, and Nerval, wanted to live in the infinite and asked that the human spirit burn in absolute freedom.To society, he was a madman. Artaud, however, was not insane but in luciferian pursuit of what society keeps hidden. The man who wrote Van Gogh the Man Suicided by Society raged against the insanity of social institutions with insight that proves more prescient with every passing year. Today, as Artaud''s vatic thunder still crashes above the "larval confusion" he despised, what is most striking in his writings is an extravagant lucidity.This collection gives us quintessential Artaud on the occult, magic, the theater, mind and body, the cosmos, rebellion, and revolution in its deepest sense."[I]n France his position extends beyond the theater, and indeed beyond any literary genre. Although he
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City Lights Books The First Third
Book SynopsisImmortalized as Dean Moriarty by Jack Kerouac in his epic novel, On the Road, Neal Cassady was infamous for his unstoppable energy and his overwhelming charm, his savvy hustle and his devil-may-care attitude. A treasured friend and traveling companion of Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Ken Kesey, to name just some of his cohorts on the beatnik path, Cassady lived life to the fullest, ready for inspiration at any turn.Before he died in Mexico in 1968, just four days shy of his forty-second birthday, Cassady had written the jacket blurb for this book: “Seldom has there been a story of a man so balled up. No doubt many readers will not believe the veracity of the author, but I assure these doubting Thomases that every incident, as such, is true.As Ferlinghetti writes in his editor’s note, Cassady was “an early prototype of the urban cowboy who a hundred years ago might have been an outlaw on the range.” Here are his autobiographical writings, the rambling American saga of a truly free individual.Neal Cassady (1926-1968) was a key figure and writer during the Beat Generation and is known as the inspiration for Jack Kerouac''s immortalizing character Dean Moriarty. In 1946, Cassady traveled to New York City where he met famous Beat poets and writers such as Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg. Cassady''s works were never published during his lifetime.
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City Lights Books Spring and Autumn Annals
Book SynopsisLyrical and unforgettable, part elegy and part memoir, we present a previously unpublished masterpiece from the Beat Generation icon. Simultaneously released with an expanded edition of di Prima''s classic Revolutionary Letters on the one-year anniversary of her passing.In the autumn of 1964, Diane di Prima was a young poet living in New York when her dearest friend, dancer, choreographer, and Warhol Factory member, Freddie Herko, leapt from the window of a Greenwich Village apartment to a sudden, dramatic, and tragic death at the age of 29. In her shock and grief, di Prima began a daily practice of writing to Freddie. For a year, she would go to her study each day, light a stick of incense, and type furiously until it burned itself out.The narrative ranges over the decade from 1954—the year di Prima and Herko first met—to 1965, with occasional forays into di Prima''s memories of growing up in Brooklyn. Lyrical, elegant, and nakedlTrade ReviewOne of The Millions' Most Anticipated Books of 2021.Praise for Spring and Autumn Annals:"With Revolutionary Letters and Spring and Autumn Annals, di Prima’s conversations are continuing apace—a one-two punch of radical imagination and luminous language; memoir and mobilization."—KQED"City Lights has graced us with two di Prima collections—the previously unpublished Spring and Autumn Annals, and an expanded edition of her classic Revolutionary Letters—a feast from one of the great talents of the Beat generation and beyond. Di Prima, who died in 2020, was a poet we chose time and again for her spiritual examinations, feminist presence, and her passion for and range of linguistic constructs. We’re lucky to have these two new volumes, which will inspire deeper contemplation of her work and impact."—Chicago Review of Books"Spring and Autumn Annals takes the reader through di Prima’s own rite of mourning—for her friend, for the changing milieu of their scene, and for a city that, without Freddie, could no longer hold her. … Annals is a different kind of book in its in-the-moment-ness. Unlike memoirs written decades after the fact, where events are shaded with the wisdom gained in the intervening years, Annals understands much less about the significance of its events. It is raw, immediate, and vulnerable. Yet to treat Annals purely as documentation would be to diminish its literary dimensions."—The Nation"Part diary and part recollection of their friendship, Spring and Autumn Annals is an intimate account of grief spliced with gossip and observation. … [di Prima's] prose, visual and textured, is adroit at capturing mood and moving between the philosophical and the quotidian, the avant-garde and the domestic."—The Times Literary Supplement"Di Prima catalogs the settings and moments that make up a life lived between the countercultures of New York City and San Francisco: the black-box theaters of New York’s Greenwich Village, tough conversations at Arthur’s Tavern, 'the steam on the windows at Houston Street,' the drive to Stinson Beach, an endless rotating carousel of apartments and visits from friends. What emerges is a tribute not only to [Freddie] Herko, but to the practice of living collectively in an artistic community, in defiance of the pressure that capitalism exerts on artists to compete with one another. Her account is loving in its attention to detail, fascinating as a historical document, and moving in its portrayal of a life-changing friendship."—Literary Hub"This volume, studded with beautiful moments … began as letters [di Prima] wrote daily to dancer and Andy Warhol acolyte Freddie Herko, who leapt to his death from a window when he was 29, leaving many projects and plans unfulfilled. … With evocative detail and introspective insight, she writes of that loss and the feeling of being turned loose, occasionally unmoored, struggling to create art through years of living in barely habitable apartments. … A useful document for scholars of the Beat generation."—Kirkus Reviews"A work of memoir and elegy by one of the great, under-recognized women Beats, a year after her death. Begun as letters to a friend, the dancer Freddie Herko, who died by suicide, the work is both a meditation on friendship and an account of a Brooklyn childhood that turned into a Village adulthood in the thick of a pivotal cultural moment."—Lydia Kiesling, The Millions"The Annals is not a book of reading but one of writing, living and writing … She chronicles trips to California and to Freddie [Herko]’s appearances out there appearing in Topanga Canyon outside of Malibu and bringing her on a magical car ride to San Francisco before returning to New York. … Numerous other friends, those famous as well as those unknown, come and go, then return, then go again throughout. As do the births and early adolescence of di Prima’s children alongside her romantic partners and housemates. An intimate log of nearly every person who played a vital role in her emotional life."—The Brooklyn Rail"While [Spring and Autumn Annals] provides an archive of images—of the players and their artwork—the greater gift is the translucence of the writing, di Prima’s urgent impulse to record and remember. It captivates us with a haunting clarity: situations, faces, and sensations slide by like breaking waves, rolling into one another. It’s dense and circuitous, demanding that we slow down, savor. … What Spring and Autumn Annals achingly traces, then, is the mind at work during long seasons of grief, its wistfulness and resilience, the ways a death can tail you, alter you. An avid chronicler, di Prima knew 'the faces float by so fast'—even one’s own. In seeking to hold [Freddie] Herko, she was also pausing in self-reflection, tracking the moment when one self surrenders and another blooms."—Lynell George, Alta Journal"Its historical significance is long overdue. Annals is an elegy and a diary, a memoir that serves as the poet’s own almanac. Strictly organized around the four seasons, with chapter breaks only at equinoxes and solstices, di Prima limits her recollections to events that took place in the same season she is writing through. Thus, the bounty of her memories grows slowly into a ripe, complex narrative over the course of the book, and fuses the past decade she spent living with Freddie into an interminable present that is riven by his loss. … In her determination at capturing and even mythicizing her own hardship, she remains as a memoirist far ahead of her time.—Hyperallergic"Most significantly, Spring and Autumn Annals provides a window into the underground literary and art communities of the 1950s and 1960s and di Prima’s place within them. … Di Prima’s writing and interests continued to evolve over the years, and Spring and Autumn Annals is an important document of its time, adding detail to the portrait of a writer who participated in and supported a variety of artistic communities."—Women's Review of Books"If you want to learn what Freddie Herko meant, read di Prima’s Spring and Autumn Annals. … We grant di Prima her earned iconicity, her worthy status as a writer—and let’s also add as a publisher. But this book is also about something else, a more complex question. Between me and di Prima stands the gulfs of talent, inclination, and historical circumstance. But between di Prima and Herko? Perhaps this book is an attempt to answer why she made it—survived—and Freddie didn’t. … Annals promises no rebirth, no reengagement with the world, no redemption of the dead. Rather it reveals the only thing that can happen with grief, if anything ever does. Over time, it lessens."—Full Stop"The time period is absolutely absorbing—far more so than Recollections of My Life as a Woman, her formal autobiography, In fact, it covers some of the same ground, but in an entirely different style. The language is stunning—a delirious stream-of-consciousness that I had never seen in di Prima’s prose before"—Beatdom"For years, the manuscript for this book sat in a box in di Prima’s apartment. Now that it’s finally in print from City Lights, her longtime publisher, it’s cause for rejoicing for fans of di Prima, and for aficionados of the Beat Generation, which she insisted was a state of mind and not tied to any decade or specific years. … In Annals, Diane di Prima’s imagination is on fire and her memory is as precise as ice. It’s a winning combination."—Jonah Raskin, New York Journal of Books"The book is a treasure. Moving between the East Village, San Francisco, Topanga Canyon and Stinson Beach with young children, Di Prima's life is unbelievably rich. She studies Greek, writes, prepares dinners and feasts, and co-edits Floating Bear magazine. Diane di Prima is one of the greatest writers of her generation, and this book offers a window into its lives."—Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick"Extolled by a writer who radically devoted herself to the experiential truth of beauty and intellect, in poverty and grace, in independent dignity, and in the community of Beat consciousness, Diane Di Prima's Spring and Autumn Annals arrives as a long-lost charm of illuminated meditations to love, life, death, eros and selflessness. An essential 1960s text of visionary rapaciousness."—Thurston Moore"Freddie Herko wished for a third love before he died; and what a love is in this book's beholding, saying, and release. Di Prima's dancing narrative, propelled and circling at the speed of thought, picking up every name and detailed perception as a rolling tide, fills me with gratitude for the truth of her eye. Nothing gets past it, not even the 'ballet slippers letting in the snow.'"—Ana Božičević, author of Joy of Missing Out"A masterpiece of literary reflection, as quest to archive her dancer friend's life, to make art at all costs and the price dearly paid. Di Prima's observational capacity is profound, her devotion and loyalty assures her deserved place as a national treasure. She generously instills in us the call of poetic remembrance as an act of resistance, and gives voice to the marginalized participants in experimental cultural movements that carried courage in creative rebellion while envisioning freedom of the human spirit. Di Prima’s poetic memoir of the artist journey is a triumph. A must read and reread for years to come."—Karen Finley, author of Shock Treatment
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Granta Books Granta 81
Book SynopsisThe third in the Best of Young British Novelists series, which revealed the emerging literary landscape of a new millenium.
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Iron Circus Comics Smut Peddler Presents My Monster Boyfriend
Book SynopsisThe Smut Peddler series of erotic anthologies has been wildly successful, bringing quality filth to the massive underserved audience of women looking for fun, well-adjusted, and sex-positive dirty comics. This Smut Peddler release brings three new elements to the winning formula: full color, longer stories, and a focus on not-exactly-human men. My Monster Boyfriend offers ten tales of fantastic fornication, written and illustrated by some of the most talented women in comics.
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Legare Street Press Spunyarn and Spindrift a Sailor Boys Log of a
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Legare Street Press Poems by Jones Very
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LEGARE STREET PR Miss Mapp
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Legare Street Press Comus. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham
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LEGARE STREET PR Animaux Venimeux Et Venins
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Legare Street Press Through the Fray A Tale of the Luddite Riots
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Legare Street Press Anthologie De La Littérature Japonaise Des
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Edinburgh University Press The Collected Works of Kenneth White Volume 1
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Edinburgh University Press The Complete Magazine Stories of F. Scott
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Book SynopsisThey have measured the slow pulse of the seasons as the Earth spins its stately annual dance. Their memories stretch back across the million-year cycles of the ice sheets.Their stories tell of the making of the world. And as the millenia have passed, their legends have served them well.And a thousand years from now, on a different world, they will be the difference between life and death, between extinction and a future as long as the past.This new edition collects three of Stephen Baxter''s early books together for the first time.
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