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Book SynopsisSimone de Beauvoir, still a teen, began a diary while a philosophy student at the Sorbonne. Written in 1926-27—before Beauvoir met Jean-Paul Sartre—the diaries reveal previously unknown details about her life and times and offer critical insights into her early intellectual interests, philosophy, and literary works. Presented for the first time in translation, this fully annotated first volume of the Diary includes essays from Barbara Klaw and Margaret A. Simons that address its philosophical, historical, and literary significance. It remains an invaluable resource for tracing the development of Beauvoir’s independent thinking and her influence on philosophy, feminism, and the world.Trade Review"Both volumes are strong and important contributions to feminist philosophy, not only in their themes but in significantly addressing these themes with reference to gendered human existence. I recommend them to anyone who is interested in understanding the making of a feminist philosopher, especially to early researchers working on Beauvoir, to undergraduates trying to understand philosophy, as well as to scholars seeking to understand Beauvoir and her philosophical themes." --Hypatia"Klaw's extensive notes are invaluable, not only in providing biographical background for Beauvoir's literary and philosophical references, but also for flatting difficulties in translation." --Choice​"A fascinating text! Barbara Klaw's translation is consistently accurate as well as highly readable and the entire volume is essential for understanding how Beauvoir became Beauvoir."--Gerald J. Prince, author of A Grammar of Stories: An Introduction"This is a truly remarkable book, and a significant contribution to Beauvoir scholarship. Barbara Klaw's excellent translation provides unique access to the formative years of one of the twentieth century's great philosophers, authors, and public intellectuals. Beauvoir's portrayals and reflections on her first meetings and conversations with Sartre, on family, love, friendship and everyday life in Paris—as well as her thoughts on the philosophical and literary texts that she studied—are all included in this fascinating book. This is mandatory reading for all striving to obtain an understanding of Beauvoir, her life, and her work."--Tove Pettersen, President of the International Simone de Beauvoir Society​"This diary increases our admiration for Beauvoir's heroic determination to make something of herself. A precious document."--Bookforum​"This is a groundbreaking and extremely important work for feminists, philosophers, and scholars of autobiography, and a welcome academic corrective to the edited, abridged, and simplified commercial representations of this important and complex twentieth-century French feminist, philosopher, and writer."--Kentucky Philological Review​"Barbara Klaw, Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir, Margaret Simons, and Marybeth Timmerman have given the world a remarkable gift. This volume is organized, annotated, and contextualized superbly. How much richer and more profound [Beauvoir's] corpus becomes with the addition of these priceless writings. The publication of her diaries will only further elevate her philosophical and literal legacy."--H-France Review​"This indispensable volume offers a panorama of Beauvoir's intellectual preoccupations. The translators and editors are to be applauded for producing such a valuable contribution to Beauvoir studies."--French Studies "An admirable example of careful translating and editing. The diary presents an opportunity for opening an avenue of Beauvorian scholarship in aesthetics."--APA Newsletter “This is a magnificent piece of work. It is an engaging read and lets English readers to whom French is not accessible have first-hand access to some now much-discussed evidence regarding the independence of Beauvoir’s thought. The translation is beautiful, smooth, and true. A real coup!”--Claudia Card, author of The Cambridge Companion to Simone de Beauvoir “This book is an enormously significant event which scholars have been eagerly awaiting for quite some time. Study of Beauvoir’s diaries not only alerts us to fascinating and unknown influences on her intellectual and personal development, but it could also form the basis for an amazing study of how the raw material of adolescent emotion, all its masochism and its narcissism, became transmuted into the readable and beautiful texts from which we can all learn so much.”--Meryl Altman, DePauw University

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Book SynopsisAuden, George Barker, William Empson, Geoffrey Faber, John Hayward, James Laughlin, Hope Mirrlees, Mervyn Peake, Ezra Pound, Michael Roberts, Stephen Spender, Tambimuttu, Allen Tate, Michael Tippett, Charles Williams and Virginia Woolf.

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Book SynopsisIf you loved Tara Westover's Educated, get yourself a copy of When I Had a Little Sister as soon as humanly possiblebeautifully under-stateda startling, elegiac portrait of farming life in modern Britain.' VogueGripping and heart-wrenching' Mail on SundayOn a cold December day in 2013 Catherine Simpson received the phone call she had feared for years. Her little sister Tricia had been found dead in the farmhouse where she, Catherine and their sister Elizabeth were born and where their family had lived for generations.Tricia was 46 and had been stalked by depression all her life. Yet mental illness was a taboo subject within the family and although love was never lacking, there was a silence at its heart.After Tricia died, Catherine found she had kept a lifetime of diaries. The words in them took her back to a past they had shared, but experienced so differently, and offered a thread to help explore the labyrinth of her sister's suicide.When I had a Little Sister tells a story of sisteTrade Review'A superb memoir….. Tricia's heart-rending biography is interwoven with welcome portraits of Simpson's bonkers ancestors, many of which are laugh-out-loud funny' Leaf Arbuthnott, Sunday Times ‘Simpson’s writing – fillets the little details that reveal the profundity and bravery of her sister’s weakening struggle with mental illness … I found this book gripping and heart-wrenching. It sticks with me’ Mail on Sunday ‘Catherine Simpson’s tormented, riveting and bleakly funny memoir analyses her sister’s life to try to find out why she killed herself; in the process it becomes a moving evocation of the muck-spattered realities of modern farm life … In a way, the real memorial for Tricia is the compassionate and beadily observed account of the Lancashire landscape … That she resolves to write and “leave behind a lifetime of silence” can only be our gain, and dour rural taciturnity’s loss’ Richard Benson, Observer ‘Something else is on these pages: frustration and anger – with Tricia, with herself and with other relatives – that if only the family tradition of silence and the suppression of feelings had been challenged earlier things might have been different. In analysing the inherited values and habits of a lifetime, Simpson breaks the silence and liberates herself’ James Robertson, author of And the Land Lay Still ‘Catherine Simpson’s second book, carries a subtitle – “The Story of a Farming Family who Never Spoke.” Don’t be fooled. This book’s secret weapon is the remarkable voice that fires from the page to the heart with no hesitation at all. Just Wonderful. ’ Janice Galloway, author of The Trick is to Keep Breathing ‘There are moments here of heart-stopping poignancy and unbearable sadness, but it is never maudlin or sentimental. A deeply engaging, courageous and human work’ Graeme Macrae Burnet, His Bloody Project

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Book SynopsisCaptures both Barbara and her writing so miraculously' JILLY COOPERPicked as a Book to Look Forward to in 2021 by the Guardian, The Times and the ObserverA Radio 4 Book of the Week, April 2021Barbara Pym became beloved as one of the wittiest novelists of the late twentieth century, revealing the inner workings of domestic life so brilliantly that her friend Philip Larkin announced her the era's own Jane Austen. But who was Barbara Pym and why was the life of this English writer one of the greatest chroniclers of the human heart so defined by rejection, both in her writing and in love?Pym lived through extraordinary times. She attended Oxford in the thirties when women were the minority. She spent time in Nazi Germany, falling for a man who was close to Hitler. She made a career on the Home Front as a single working girl in London's bedsit land. Through all of this, she wrote. Diaries, notes, letters, stories and more than a dozen novels which as Byrne shows more often than not refleTrade Review‘Byrne’s comprehensive biography … is unlikely to be bettered … This is an elegant, incisive and sympathetic biography that deepens our understanding of Pym … Byrne succeeds admirably’Literary Review ‘Engrossing … The chapters are enticingly short, and I romped through them. Each adds a vital piece of the jigsaw, explaining the provenance of her fictional characters and building up our understanding of [her] state of mind … It’s a delight to meet her again in these pages’The Times ‘Light-hearted and lively … Byrne is an excellent literary detective, tracing acquaintances directly into the novels. The author seems to have been as fun, clever and kind as her best creations’Lucy Atkins, Sunday Times ‘Illuminating … Byrne sees what fun Pym was, how much she liked and was fascinated by people … and has done us a great service in exploring this very unusual personality … This, like its subject’s best books, rewards reading and re-reading’Spectator ‘Both hilarious and heartbreaking … Byrne is beautifully savvy about her subject’s fiction … as a manifesto for her genius, it is gloriously persuasive’Daily Telegraph ‘Byrne’s book is outstanding … Just like a Pym novel, this biography is warm, funny, unexpected and deeply moving’Financial Times ‘Excellent … Byrne’s book is the first to integrate its revelations into a cradle-to-grave biography’Guardian, Book of the Week ‘Outstanding … meticulously researched, affectionate and fascinating in equal measure’Daily Express ‘Wonderfully attentive and touching … Byrne’s book is such a joy. It refreshes the parts other biographies simply cannot reach’Observer ‘Barbara Pym is one of my most favourite novelists. Few other writers have given me more laughter and more pleasure. I am therefore enchanted that this biography by Paul Byrne captures both Barbara and her writing so miraculously’Jilly Cooper

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Book SynopsisThe Burden of Power is the fourth volume of Alastair Campbell''s diaries, and perhaps the most eagerly awaited given the ground it covers. It begins on September 11, 2001, a day which immediately wrote itself into the history books, and it ends on the day Campbell leaves Downing Street. In between there are two wars: first Afghanistan, and then, even more controversially, Iraq. It was the most difficult decision of Tony Blair''s premiership, and almost certainly the most unpopular. Campbell describes in detail the discussions with President Bush and other world leaders as the steps to war are taken, and delivers a unique account of Blair as war leader. He records the enormous political difficulties at home, and the sense of crisis that engulfed the government after the suicide of weapons inspector David Kelly. And all the while, Blair continues to struggle with two issues that ran throughout his time in government - fighting for peace in Northern Ireland, and

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Book SynopsisJohn Cheever was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1912, and he went to school at Thayer Academy in South Braintree. He is the author of seven collections of stories and five novels. His first novel, The Wapshot Chronicle, won the 1958 National Book Award. In 1965 he received the Howells Medal for Fiction from the National Academy of Arts and Letters and in 1978 he won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Shortly before his death in 1982 he was awarded the National Medal for Literature.Trade ReviewOne of the most compelling and intimate books you'll ever read * Independent *Beautifully written, lyrically spiritual, sexually candid memoirs * Mail on Sunday *Cheever's journals include the struggle for recognition, the problem-drinking and covert homosexuality of a public figure and, finally, cancer. His intelligence and honesty powerfully communicate the sense of life as an urgent predicament * Sunday Times *These diaries are so painfully personal...that they were not published until after his death. But they also concentrate the true essence of what made his short stories great * Sunday Express *John Cheever understood fallibility and that made for the greatness in his writing * The Times *

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Book SynopsisIn 1939 Christopher Isherwood and W. H. Auden emigrated together to the United States. In spare, luminous prose these diaries describe Isherwood''s search for a new life in California; his work as a screenwriter in Hollywood, his pacifism during World War II and his friendships with such gifted artists and intellectuals as Garbo, Chaplin, Thomas Mann, Charles Laughton, Gielgud, Olivier, Richard Burton and Aldous Huxley.Throughout this period, Isherwood continued to write novels and sustain his literary friendships - with E. M. Forster, Somerset Maugham, Tennessee Williams and others. He turned to his diaries several times a week to record jokes and gossip, observations about his adopted country, philosophy and mystical insights. His devotion to his diary was a way of accounting for himself; he used it as both a discipline and a release.Trade ReviewA major literary event...an essential part of his oeuvre * Guardian *There is not a page that does not contain a good joke, original insight, deadly accurate description or delicious nugget of gossip... A major literary work, the diaries round off the writer both as man and artist. They are intimate and intensely personal * Independent on Sunday *There is plenty to enjoy in this first volume...Isherwood's is an exemplary twentieth-century life: assured and neurotic, fearless and fretful, generous and small-minded, forgiving and remorsefully judgemental * Financial Times *A pleasure to read... No word is wasted, and the casual-looking sentences create the impression that we are overhearing what is being said * Scotsman *Enthralling...Isherwood...struggles with his demons in spare, luminous and merciless prose -- Benjamin Evans * Sunday Telegraph *

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Book SynopsisRobert Falcon Scott was born in 1868. He became a naval cadet at the age of 13 and he was made a full lieutenant in the Royal Navy in 1889. The Royal Geographical Society appointed him to command the National Antarctic Expedition of 1901-1904. The expedition set sail on the Discovery and reached further south than anyone before. Scott returned to Britain as a national hero. In 1910 Captain Scott organised a second expedition to sail to the Antarctic on board the Terra Nova. On the 17th January 1912 the party reached the pole, only to find that they had been beaten by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. Scott and his companions died on their march back to safety on 29 March 1912.Eight months later, a search party found the tent, the bodies and Scott's journals. The journals were first published in 1913.Trade ReviewThe death of Captain Oates ("I am just going outside and may be some time") and Scott's last entry ("For God's sake look after our people") have become the stuff of legend, but what stands out is his skill as a writer. Unlike Amundsen, who simply raced to the South Pole, Scott took a more leisurely, scientific interest in everything he saw, making notes on the "green ghostly light" of dawn, the changeable weather, the blizzards, the penguins, the killer whales, even his own dogs and ponies. He has nothing but praise for his men * Guardian *

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Book Synopsis''A masterpiece of social history'' Daily MailThere is nothing quite as beautiful as an English country house in summer. And there has never been a summer quite like that Indian summer between the two world wars, a period of gentle decline in which the sun set slowly on the British Empire and the shadows lengthened on the lawns of a thousand stately homes. Real life in the country house during the 1920s and 1930s was not always so sunny. By turns opulent and ordinary, noble and vicious, its shadows were darker. In The Long Weekend, Adrian Tinniswood uncovers the truth about a world half-forgotten, draped in myth and hidden behind stiff upper lips and film-star smiles. Drawing on hundreds of memoirs, on unpublished letters and diaries, on the eye-witness testimonies of belted earls and unhappy heiresses and bullying butlers, The Long Weekend gives a voice to the people who inhabited this world and shows how the image of the country house was carefully protected by its occupants above and below stairs, and how the reality was so much more interesting than the dream.Trade Review[A] fantastically readable and endlessly fascinating book… Delicious, occasionally fantastical, revealing in ways that Downton Abbey never was. It is as if Tinniswood is at the biggest, wildest, most luxuriantly decadent party ever thrown, and he knows everyone. -- Rachel Cooke * Observer *Tinniswood and his publishers should be congratulated for issuing this elegant, encyclopedic and entertaining history… We are in the company of a confident and skilled historian who understands the mores of his era and wears his learning lightly… This is a handsomely illustrated pick’n’mix of mansions, manors, castles and palaces…. Tinniswood expands our Sunday evening viewing with the kind of detail you can’t invent… Deserves to be on every costume drama producer’s bookshelf. -- Virginia Nicholson * The Times *He has produced a luscious, summery book, full of amiable anecdotes and photographs of striking interiors, celebrating headstrong optimists who defied the defeatism of the times. The Long Weekend resembles a well-kept hothouse festooned with fruit ripe for the plucking. -- Richard Davenport-Hines * Sunday Times *Wonderfully opulent, richly textured… The opening chapters of The Long Weekend paint an evocative picture… In telling us how the English country house changed, he is, of course, telling us how England changed too. -- Xan Brooks * Sunday Telegraph *[A] masterpiece of social history. -- Roger Lewis * Daily Mail *Many of Tinniswood’s anecdotes are extraordinary… Painstakingly researched detail that makes The Long Weekend so entertaining… A rich, multilayered and well-illustrated account of a style of live that disappeared with the Second World War. Lovers of…Brideshead Revisited will relish it. -- Charlotte Heathcote * Sunday Express *[A] deliciously jaunty and wonderfully knowledgeable book… Tinniswood displays a terrific insider’s grasp of gossip, while cramming his text with the stories of sport, sex, food, royalty, design, ruination and joy that defined these mansions… Meticulous, irresistible story. -- Juliet Nicolson * Spectator *This delicious book achieves completely what it sets out to do. -- Marcus Berkmann * Daily Mail *Tinniswood gives us many entertaining stories about the whimsical extravagances of the new country-housers… The Long Weekend is a celebration of fantasy and yearning cunningly wrapped up in pragmatism and practicality: about ancient castles with top-notch plumbing. -- Lucy Lethbridge * Financial Times *Almost indecently enjoyable… Splendidly contrary book… [Tinniswood has a] sharp pen and a squirrel’s eye for detail… Erudite, funny and oddly poignant. -- Miranda Seymour * Literary Review *

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Book SynopsisGerard de Nerval (1805-55) was an inveterate traveller, and made many contributions of travel literature to various periodicals. He was also a prolific poet and wrote many tales including 'Sylvie' (1853), his most read work.Richard Sieburth is Professor of French at New York University. He has translated Walter Benjamin's 'Moscow Diary' and Michel Leiris' 'Nights as Day/Days as Night'.

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Book SynopsisNancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh were two of the twentieth century''s most amusing and gifted writers, who matched wits and traded literary advice in more than five hundred letters over twenty-two years. Dissecting their friends, criticizing each other''s books and concealing their true feelings beneath a barrage of hilarious and knowing repartee, they found it far easier to conduct a friendship on paper than in person. This correspondence provides a colourful glimpse into the literary and social circles of London and Paris, during the Second World War and for twenty years after.

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Book SynopsisThe extraordinary letters of Italo Calvino, one of the great writers of the twentieth century, translated into English for the first time by Martin McLaughlin, with an introduction by Michael Wood.Italo Calvino, novelist, literary critic and editor, was also a masterful letter writer whose correspondents included Umberto Eco, Primo Levi, Gore Vidal and Pier Paolo Pasolini. This collection of his extraordinary letters, the first in English, gives an illuminating insight into his work and life. They include correspondence with fellow authors, generous encouragement to young writers, responses to critics, thoughts on literary criticism and literature in general, as well as giving glimpses of Calvino''s role in the antifascist Resistance, his disenchantment with Communism and his travels to America and Cuba. Together they reveal the searching intellect, clarity and passionate commitment of a great writer at work.''This literally marvelous collection of letters

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Book SynopsisThe broadest and most comprehensive collection of writings available by an early civil and women’s rights pioneerSeventy-one years before Rosa Parks’s courageous act of resistance, police dragged a young black journalist named Ida B. Wells off a train for refusing to give up her seat. The experience shaped Wells’s career, and—when hate crimes touched her life personally—she mounted what was to become her life’s work: an anti-lynching crusade that captured international attention.This volume covers the entire scope of Wells’s remarkable career, collecting her early writings, articles exposing the horrors of lynching, essays from her travels abroad, and her later journalism. The Light of Truth is both an invaluable resource for study and a testament to Wells’s long career as a civil rights activist.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in theTrade Review"Wells was the most comprehensive chronicler of that common practice for which few words exist that provide sufficient condemnation. For that reason, and for Wells’ immense courage, clear pen, and understanding of the nature of journalistic advocacy, this new volume ought to become required reading for anyone interested in American history or current affairs."—Flavorwire"An enlightening read, this collection will inspire anyone who still believes that journalism can be a voice for the voiceless."—Bust Magazine"Ida B Wells stands out because she insisted on seeing."—Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Book SynopsisA new historical anthology from transatlantic slavery to the Reconstruction curated by the Schomburg Center, that makes the case for focusing on the histories of Black people as agents and architects of their own lives and ultimate liberation, with a foreword by Kevin YoungThis is the first Penguin Classics anthology published in partnership with the Schomburg Center, a world-renowned cultural institution documenting black life in America and worldwide. A historic branch of NYPL located in Harlem, the Schomburg holds one of the world's premiere collections of slavery material within the Lapidus Center for Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery. Unsung will place well-known documents by abolitionists alongside lesser-known life stories and overlooked or previously uncelebrated accounts of the everyday lives and activism that were central in the slavery era, but that are mostly excised from today's master accounts. Unsung will also highlight related titles froTrade Review“As comprehensive a collection as now exists and one that should be required reading in history and literature courses.”—Kirkus, starred review“Remarkable anthology...As a whole, this collection showcases the vastness of Black thinking and writing, and nicely complements works by Martha S. Jones and Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers. Complete with a list of suggestions for further reading, this winning anthology is a must for all interested in Black history, but unsure where to start.”—Library Journal, starred review“This anthology highlights the overlooked role that enslaved people played in emancipation.” —The New York Times Book Review“The song sung in these pages is not solely an aria to agency or a tragic chorus about limits; it is both. It perseveres in the mission described in Arturo Schomburg’s 'The Negro Digs Up His Past' as excavating history to 'restore what slavery took away.' It shouts against the silencing alluded to in the Unsung title. Like the Harlem Renaissance and the Schomburg Center, Unsung is a work of both history and art.” —Washington Post

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Book SynopsisThis authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Browning''s poetry and prose chosen from the whole range of his career to give the essence of his work and thinking.Browning''s work ranges from the beguiling magic of ''The Pied Piper of Hamelin'' to the epic book-length poem The Ring and the Book. This comprehensive selection includes over eighty of his shorter poems, amongst them his most famous and best-loved dramatic monologues, as well as the complete text of many of his longer poems (Pauline, Pippa Passes, ''Bishop Blougram''s Apology''). It contains three books from The Ring and the Book and Browning''s only significant piece of critical writing (the ''Essay on Shelley''). This edition also selects generously from the love letters between Browning and Elizabeth Barrett, as well as from Browning''s more general correspondence - letters which cast a u

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Book SynopsisA selection of Seneca’s most significant letters that illuminate his philosophical and personal life.Trade Review"The letters’ intimate voice, their accessibility, and their focus on everyday challenges make the letters relevant for readers of all ages and academic levels. In addition, explanatory notes at the end of the book add depth and offer clarification for readers unfamiliar with Seneca or Stoic philosophy. A good representative sample of Seneca’s letters, Fifty Letters is an approachable text and a good introduction to Roman Stoicism. . . . Recommended." * Choice *"In 2015 Chicago did the great service of publishing G. and L.’s magisterial translation and commentary on all 124 surviving letters to Lucilius (Seneca: Letters on Ethics to Lucilius)... With this volume, G. and L. have now produced a very reasonably priced soft covered selection of slightly under half of the full corpus of Letters to Lucilius." * Classics for All *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Margaret Graver and A. A. Long Fifty Letters 1 Taking charge of your time 2 A beneficial reading program 3 Trusting one’s friends 6 Intimacy within friendship 7 Avoiding the crowd 8 Writing as a form of service 9 Friendship and self-sufficiency 11 Blushing 12 Visiting a childhood home 14 Safety in a dangerous world 15 Exercises for the body and the voice 16 Daily study and practice 18 The Saturnalia festival 20 Consistency 21 How reading can make you famous 23 Real joy is a serious matter 30 An Epicurean on his deathbed 31 Our mind’s godlike potential 33 The use of philosophical maxims 38 Fewer words achieve more 40 Oratory and the philosopher 41 God dwells within us 46 A book by Lucilius 47 The evils of slavery 49 Remembering old times 53 A bad experience at sea 54 A near-fatal asthma attack 56 Noisy lodgings above a bathhouse 57 A dark tunnel 58 A conversation about Plato 63 Consolation for the death of a friend 65 Some analyses of causation 70 Ending one’s own life 75 What it means to make progress 76 Only the honorable is good 79 A trip around Sicily brings thoughts of glory 83 Heavy drinking 84 The writer’s craft 86 The rustic villa of Scipio Africanus 90 The beginnings of civilization 91 A terrible fire at Lyon 97 A trial in the time of Cicero 104 Why travel cannot set you free 108 Vegetarianism and the use of literature 112 A difficult pupil 113 Is a virtue an animate creature? 116 The Stoic view of emotion 121 Self-awareness in animate creatures 123 Resisting external influences 124 The criterion for the human good Notes Textual Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book tells the dramatic story of the Wuhan lockdown in the voices of the city's own people. Using a vast archive of more than 6,000 diaries, the sociologist Guobin Yang vividly depicts how the city coped during the crisis.Trade ReviewGuobin Yang paints a vivid and deeply moving portrait of ordinary people who suddenly find themselves at the epicenter of a frightening new disease. Based on dozens of online 'lockdown diaries' written by Wuhan residents, this book offers a revealing and humanizing perspective on one of the most controversial and consequential events of our time. -- Elizabeth J. Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard UniversityThis brilliant book offers two expertly intertwined accounts. In the first, local diarists narrate the terror, boredom, and creativity of Wuhan residents as they lived through an emerging catastrophe. In the second, Yang shows how the Party, social media, health workers, patients, and citizen activists shaped people’s understandings of what was happening to their community. -- Gail Hershatter, University of California, Santa CruzThe Wuhan Lockdown documents ordinary people’s lives, sentiments, and activities during the pandemic in such an engaging and immersive fashion that when reading the manuscript, I felt like I was watching a documentary. This book allowed me to relive what people in Wuhan have gone through the pandemic. It is truly incredible how timely it is. -- Rongbin Han, author of Contesting Cyberspace in China: Online Expression and Authoritarian ResilienceHe presents a far more detailed and nuanced view than the US media ever did, allowing those of us would limited knowledge about China and the Chinese lockdown to have a greater and clearer understanding of what happened. * Fish Shelf *A thorough account of the events leading to the Covid-19 lockdown in Wuhan, China, in early 2020, drawing from dozens of personal accounts ('lockdown diaries'). * Kirkus Reviews (starred review) *A uniquely valuable contribution to the growing literature on COVID-19 as well as that on contemporary China. * Los Angeles Review of Books *Enriched by Yang's expert understanding of Chinese culture and politics, this is a valuable record of the early stages of the pandemic. * Publishers Weekly *Yang has crafted a fascinating portrait of modern China, capturing subtleties and sensitivities that mainstream European and North American media are typically content to ignore. * Lancet *[An] immaculate page-turner. * Lancet Infectious Disease *A forceful and timely reminder of the profound impact that COVID continues to have on ordinary people's lives. * China Review *Absolutely fabulous! The book can be read by everyone and I highly recommend it. * AI Femminile *Anyone interested in epidemiology or the history of global pandemics will find this a riveting account of the most recent such crisis due to COVID-19 and its socioeconomic, political—but especially human—ramifications in China and beyond. * Choice *This book would be useful not only for social psychology and medical sociology courses, but also for the general reader hoping to gain perspective from the Chinese people on the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. * H-Sci-Med-Tech *In his study of the Covid experience in Wuhan and beyond, Yang encompasses the positive and negative aspects of how the Chinese people coped with the dangers, threats and tragedies of the emergency. * Asian Affairs *A vivid and highly readable account. * China Quarterly *An exemplary study of the possibilities of online research methodologies as well as an empirically and theoretically rich account of the starting months of the pandemic. * Global Media and China *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Festivities, Interrupted2. Road to Apocalypse3. People’s War4. Lockdown Diaries5. Fire and Thunder6. Civic Organizing7. Game of Words8. COVID Nationalism9. Mourning and RememberingConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisHelp Mum to feel organised with the latest Mrs Hinch bestseller, filled with lists for every occasionFilled with brand new lists to get you organised well beyond your cleaning cupboard, as well as all your favourite Hinch lists!__________Hi guys and welcome to my brand-new notebook of actual dreams: Life in Lists!I am so overwhelmed by the amount of love I receive about The Little Book of Lists. I get messages every day about how useful you find it! So now, I want to give you even more . . .In Life in Lists, you''ll find brand new self-care lists to provide the ultimate you-time, including. . .- Gratitude Lists- Make Your Dreams Come True pages- Me Time ListsNot only that, Life in Lists also has all of your favourite Hinch Lists, Tadaas and Fresh''n Up Fridays, along with new Monthly and Seasonal Hinch Lists, making it the ultimate notebook for a more mindful, organised life!There is also a whole section of blank lists to help you organise your days your own way - whether that''s shopping lists, meal planning, birthdays or important dates to remember, these pages are for you to use however you like. Whether you''re in need of some relaxation or simply planning for the week ahead, these lists will allow to you to do a little bit of self-care, reflect back on all the amazing things in life and focus on your goals for the future.I really hope you guys enjoy Life in Lists as much as I''ve loved putting it together for you!Lots of Love Always, Soph xx__________''The sensation'' Sun''We''re mad about Mrs Hinch'' Vogue''My new cleaning goddess'' Daily TelegraphTrade ReviewPraise for * Mrs Hinch: The Little Book of Lists *Every avid Hincher knows, there's only one way to absolutely slay your day - lists lists and more lists... you'll be able to tackle busy weeks head on, then look back at everything you've achieved with your feet up * OK! *When life feels chaotic, discover the power of a simple list - as told by the queen of organisation herself * The Telegraph *An absolute essential for getting your life in order * Closer *

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Book SynopsisThe secret diary of Vogue Editor-in-Chief Alexandra Shulman and the real story behind the BBC ABSOLUTELY FASHION documentary.''One of the great social diaries of our time . . . should become a classic.'' Sunday Times''Eye-popping, brilliantly candid'' Evening StandardWhat a year for Vogue! Alexandra Shulman reveals the emotional and logistical minefield of producing the 100th anniversary issue (that Duchess of Cambridge cover surprise), organizing the star-studded Vogue 100 Gala, working with designers from Victoria Beckham to Karl Lagerfeld and contributors from David Bailey to Alexa Chung. All under the continual scrutiny of a television documentary crew.But narrowly-contained domestic chaos hovers - spontaneous combustion in the kitchen, a temperamental boiler and having to send bin day reminders all the way from Milan fashion week. For anyone who wants to know what the life of a fashion magazine ediTrade ReviewOne of the great social diaries of our time . . . should become a classic. * Sunday Times *Eye-popping, brilliantly candid. * Evening Standard *Shulman is particularly good on insightful character sketches . . . she is also happy to reveal occasional flashes of her own character and insecurities. * Sunday Express *Completely compelling . . . fascinating . . . refreshingly unfiltered . . . reminds you what a good writer she is. * GQ *[Shulman] writes surprisingly frankly . . . a funny, pacy book. -- Hadley Freeman * Guardian *Candid, introspective, generous and witty -- Nicky Haslam * Spectator *A delicious surprise of a book . . . [Shulman is] a first rate diarist * Mail on Sunday *A witty corrective to the BBC's rather flaccid documentary . . . Shulman's skill for casual self-deprecation and the unfiltered wry aside offer a far more nuanced insight into the mammoth task of managing brand Vogue. * Financial Times, ‘Best Books of 2016’ *

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Book SynopsisIn the hugely popular ‘Q & A’ style, this devotional journal enables you reflect on your spiritual journey over a period of 5 years.

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Book SynopsisEven after fifty years, and in spite of the reams of documents now available,it remains difficult-especially in France-to form an objective view of what things were like in the period between the wars and in 1940.The greater, the swifter, the more unexpected the disaster, the less people are willing to deal with it squarely. Once a certain threshold of suffering,shame, and humiliation is reached, actual facts become unimportant,analyses become bothersome. History falls prey to myth and rumor.People refuse to hear any more, but they still need someone to blame. In France, the strangest of bedfellows have come to speak about it in one voice, and the good people have remained mute.Table of ContentsForeword /Stanley Hoffmann -- Preface to the English Edition /Jean Daladier -- June 1940: The Departure for Morocco -- 1940 -- 1941 -- 1942 -- 1943 -- 1944 -- 1945 -- Appendix A: France's Principal Modern Weaponry -- Appendix B: The Riom Trial -- Appendix C: Biographical Time line -- About the Book -- Name Index.

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Book SynopsisMay Sarton, poet and novelist, chronicles the year that began on 3rd May 1982, her 70th birthday. At her home in Maine, she savours "the experience of being alive in this beautiful place" reflecting on nature, friends and work. May Sarton also wrote "Journal of Solitude" and "As we are Now".

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Book Synopsis''I have never before in my life kept a diary of my thoughts, and here at the start of my ninth decade, having for the moment nothing much else to write, I am having a go at it. Good luck to me'So begins this extraordinary book, a collection of diary pieces that Jan Morris wrote for the Financial Times over the course of 2017.A former soldier and journalist, and one of the great chroniclers of the world for over half a century, she writes here in her characteristically intimate voice - funny, perceptive, wise, touching, wicked, scabrous, and above all, kind about her thoughts on the world, and her own place in it as she turns ninety. From cats to cars, travel to home, music to writing, it's a cornucopia of delights from a unique literary figure.

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Book SynopsisIn an age of emails, tweets and emojis, this beautiful selection of original love letters invites us into a privileged realm and reminds us why the written word is so expressive and revealing.

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Book Synopsis This timeless journal, beautifully illustrated with pages for monthly journaling, is an indispensable companion if you want to live a more focused, positive life. A practical workbook designed to help you find more meaning and fulfilment amidst the chaos of daily life, it contains a twelve-step, month-by-month strategy that creates space for introspection and self-discovery so you can gain a renewed sense of freedom and fulfilment. Set a satnav for your life by following this practical journal and unleash the best version of you.' Norah Casey Lovely book a spiritual Filofax.' Patrick Bergin. Full of positivity and inspiration, this book is a tonic I loved it.' Alan Hughes This book will make anybody's life journey easy and joyful. I absolutely recommend it. It's a book for everyone to help them on their journey.' Helen Goldin The most astonishingly uplift

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Book SynopsisBorn into a loving working-class home, Lynn Ruane's early years were idyllic, but all that changed when two shocking incidents in her teenage years shook her to her core. She gradually withdrew from family life and went further into the world of petty crime and chaotic drug use that permeated the streets of her hometown.By age fifteen pregnant with her first child and no longer attending school Lynn hit rock bottom and made the brave decision to stop running away from herself. Against all odds, she set about rebuilding her life and laying to rest the ghosts of her past.Intimate and brave, People Like Me is an exhilarating story about how where we are from shapes the opportunities and challenges we face. From the edges of society to the centre as a leading political voice for justice and equality in Irish society, Lynn's is a story of how self-belief can help you rise above all obstacles, inspiring others around you to do the same.I highly recommend this' NIALL BRESLINA fantastic book' VINCENT BROWNERead this in one sitting. Powerful and moving' ALAN RUSBRIDGER, former editor of The GuardianMade me cry and think and feel everyone should read it' RÓISÍN INGLE

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Book SynopsisThe Diary of a Lifetime'As addictive as crack' Daily TelegraphTrade Review'Wonderfully sharp . . . full of reckless gossip, eagle-eyed observation and scabrous anecdotes' * Mail on Sunday *'Witty, warm-hearted, deeply poignant' * Daily Mail *'I absolutely loved them; witty and fluid . . . crammed with detail including brilliantly catty asides.' * Sunday Times *'Among the most entertaining reads of the year' * Daily Express *'A great wit . . . stuffed with anecdotes and wry reflections.' * Sunday Express *'These diaries add some extra spice' * Mail on Sunday *'As addictive as crack' * Daily Telegraph *

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Book SynopsisDespite advancing years, James Lees-Milne''s descriptions of the people he meets, the houses he visits and country life on the Duke of Beaufort''s Badminton estate are sharper than ever.He continues to enjoy a wide variety of experiences, and vividly recaptures a weekend at Chatsworth, a monastic retreat, a journey in a helicopter, an encounter with Mick Jagger and an intimate lunch with the Prince of Wales. As the grand old man of country house conservation, he becomes a media celebrity, but declines a CBE and refuses to be photographed by Lord Snowdon. In old age, he draws close to his formidable wife Alvilde, whose death in 1994 both shatters and liberates him, but he remains emotionally interested in members of his own sex. As always, he is a penetrating commentator on the times. A tour of the Cotswolds makes him ruefully aware of the yuppy trends of the Thatcher era, while he predicts that the victory of New Labour will herald a descent into American-sTrade ReviewPraise for the earlier volumes in the seriesA master of the diary form, he combines the profound and the inconsequential with his pithy descriptions of personalities and places . . . For their range of interests and emotions, their piquant observation and judicious shifts of self-analysis, Lees-Milnes diaries deserve their august reputation * Christopher Silvester, Daily Express *These diaries, superbly abridged by Michael Bloch, have a fin de Proust atmosphere of delicate regret, sprinkled with gossipy asides * Miranda Seymour, Guardian *Lees-Milne latecomers will find no better introduction to the diarist than this anthology of his earliest journals . . . Reading these is a mix of shame and delight . . . Hes the best company, beautifully frank, funny and addictive * Evening Standard *James Lees-Milnes beautiful style and pace remind one how it should be done . . . His passion for buildings and for literary heritage runs through the diary and yet is equalled by a passion for understanding character * Observer *These diaries offer a peerless portrait of stately homes and their owners at their lowest ebb . . . James Lees-Milne is the Man who Saved Britain * Max Hastings, Daily Mail *'A very good writer' * Contemporary Review *

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive look at the letters, documents and contemporary accounts of the Mary Rose - both in her prime and after she was lostTrade ReviewThe authors are to be congratulated on a book which merits usage in the national curriculum. -- International Journal of Nautical Archaeology

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Book SynopsisYpres diary 1914-15

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Book SynopsisPreviously a solicitor for twenty-five years, James Morton then worked as editor of Law Journal and Criminal Lawyer. He is now a full-time writer and author of the bestselling Gangland series.Trade ReviewAn extraordinary insight into another world... He's so shamelessly upfront that you'll soon find yourself hanging on his every word. * Mirror *As entertaining as his last two works ... you would be mad to miss it. * Publishing News *

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Book SynopsisDevelop your own witchcraft practice and uncover the magic within yourself with Your Magical Journal, a guided journal companion to Make Your Own Magic that serves as your own magical journal or grimoire—from the mega-successful poet behind The Princess Saves Herself in This One. Deluxe guided journal: This flexibound guided journal features a lush two-color interior with spot illustrations and metallic ink accents, as well as blank lined pages for recording spells, ideas, and reflections on your magical journey. Companion to Make Your Own Magic by author amanda lovelace: Dive deeper into the beginner's journey to magic explored in amanda's first book on witchcraft, featuring your magical altar, your witchcraft ethics, the wheel of the year and cycles of the week and the moon phases, divination and tarot, the elements, and much more. Filled with prompts, spells, card spreads, and rituals:Your Magical Journal contains more than 100 prompts, spells, rituals, card spreads, and poems. A magical self-love journey: Develop a more profound and magical understanding of yourself and the world around you with this guided journal practice.

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Book SynopsisA new translation of one of the earliest volumes of Max Frisch's innovative notebooks. Throughout his life, the great Swiss playwright and novelist Max Frisch (1911-1991) kept a series of diaries, or sketchbooks, as they came to be known in English. First published in English translation in the 1970s, these sketchbooks played a major role in establishing Frisch as, according to the New York Times, the most innovative, varied and hard-to-categorize of all major contemporary authors. His diaries, said the Times, read like novels and his best novels are written like diaries. Now Seagull Books presents the first unabridged English translation of Sketchbooks, 1946-1949 in a new translation by Simon Pare. This edition reinstates material omitted from the 1977 edition, including a screenplay for an unmade film. In this first volume, which covers the years 1946 to 1949, Frisch chronicles the intellectual and material situation in postwar Europe from the vantage point of a citizen of a nTrade Review“The first, spanning 1946 to ’49, emerged by necessity, when Frisch’s design practice didn’t permit him the leisure to write at length. But with a second volume (1966 to ’71) and a posthumous third (written in the early 1980s), the sketchbook became his trademark form, and one that now, in our vogue for the private and motley, gives the once world-famous, now rather neglected Frisch a new life. Thanks to the independent Indian publisher Seagull, whose bold cosmopolitanism never ceases to impress, all three are now in print once more, the first two recently retranslated by Simon Pare, and the last translated for the first time by Mike Mitchell in 2013. The translations are limpid and engaging. . . . What’s revealed in these sketchbooks is just that patient good sense, an unflappable, unapologetic humanity—though marked by an ambivalent quietism, an old-world politeness, a concreteness and skepticism that can only be described as Swiss.” * Wall Street Journal *Table of Contents1946 Zurich, Cafe de la Terrasse Marion and the marionettes Cafe de la Terrasse Postscript to Marion (Marion and the angel) Cafe de la Terrasse Basel, March Marion and the ghost Munich, April Thou shall not make unto thee any graven image Between Nuremberg and Wurzburg The Andorran Jew Frankfurt, May On being a writer Harlaching, May On being a writer Travelling, May Cafe de la Terrasse On Marion Postscript to the journey On Marion (Marion at the exhibition) After a flight Politeness Cafe de la Terrasse On theatre (the frame) Cafe de la Terrasse On theatre (the forestage) In the newspaper (about the cashier) By the lake Count OEderland (seven scenes) Genoa, October Portofino Mare, October Cafe Delfino On the beach Reading (unfinished work) Portofino Monte Milan, October The Chinese Wall (dress rehearsal) Calendar story Cafe Odeon Pfannenstiel Draft letter 1947 On marionettes Davos Travelling To Maja Prague, March Prague Hradcin Prague Nuremberg, March At home Cafe de la Terrasse Pfannenstiel (Albin Zollinger) Marion and the angel Letzigraben, August Portofino, September On architecture Florence, October Travelling Siena, October Travelling Cafe Odeon (nihilism) Letzigraben Travelling Zurich, 9.11.1947 On the train Frankfurt, November On being a writer On the train Berlin, November Letzigraben Postscript (the Russian officer and the German woman) On lyric poetry Letzigraben Travelling 1948 Vienna, January Prague, January Reading (Carlo Levi) Cafe Odeon Burlesque Cafe Odeon Pfannenstiel Cafe Odeon Frankfurt, April On theatre (the theatrical) Berlin, April On being a writer Berlin, May Letzigraben Cafe Odeon Travelling Paris, July Autobiography Paris, July Letzigraben Brecht Prague, 23.8.1948 On being a writer Wroclaw, 24.8.-27.8.1948 Warsaw, 28.8.-3.9.1948 Letzigraben Postscript to the journey Actors Frankfurt, November Arabesque Hamburg, November Letzigraben Cafe Odeon Letzigraben 1949 New Year's Day (kindness) Zurich, 8.1. 1949 (Premiere of When the War was Over) Letzigraben (with Brecht) Reviews Basel, Carnival Stuttgart, 29.4.1949 Letzigraben Story Letzigraben Cafe Odeon Travelling The Harlequin, outline for a film Kampen, July Reminiscence Westerland Kampen, August Hamburg, September Travelling Jealousy Cafe Odeon More on jealousy Arles, October Sketch (Schinz) At the office Cafe Odeon

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Book Synopsis''There never was anybody who had adventures as well as Miss Bird'' SPECTATOR''Venture deep into the Colorado wilderness, and you will find her long-lasting legacy in the community of people choosing to live a life without limits'' RUBY WAX, GUARDIAN ''This book is an unputdownable record of a truly astounding journey'' DERVLA MURPHY, IRISH TIMESBorn in 1831, Isabella, daughter of a clergyman, set off alone to the Antipodes in 1872 ''in search of health'' and found she had embarked on a life of adventurous travel. A year later she took a solo trip from San Francisco to the Rocky Mountains. ''I dreamt of bears so vividly I woke with a furry death-hug at the my throat, but feeling quite refreshed.'' The intrepid journeys of the indefatigable Miss Bird are relayed here in the delightful letters she wrote to her sister. They tell of ''truly grand'' isolated wilderness and abundant wildlife, of small remoteTrade ReviewVenture deep into the Colorado wilderness, and you will find her long-lasting legacy in the community of people choosing to live a life without limits . . . Isabella inspired a generation of Victorian women to dare to be bold, and her spirit lives on -- Ruby Wax * Guardian *There never was anybody who had adventures as well as Miss Bird * Spectator *This book is an unputdownable record of a truly astounding journey -- Dervla Murphy * Irish Times *The adventure inspired her travel book, A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains, which became my bible as we revered this incredible woman in the Colorado wilderness -- Ruby Wax * Guardian *A forty-something British woman rode for 800 miles through the Rockies, consorting with pioneers, consumptives and desperadoes as she went. The result was A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains, an instant bestseller at the time, and a classic of travel literature to this day * Independent *There never was anybody who had adventures as well as Miss Bird * SPECTATOR *This book is an unputdownable record of a truly astounding journey * Dervla Murphy, Irish Times *

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Book SynopsisPulitzer Prizewinning biologist Edward O. Wilson imparts the wisdom of his storied career to the next generation.Trade Review"The eminent entomologist, naturalist and sociobiologist draws on the experiences of a long career to offer encouraging advice to those considering a life in science… Glows with one man’s love for science." -- Kirkus Reviews"Edward O. Wilson, the evolutionary biologist who has studied social behavior among insects and humans, offers advice to aspiring researchers…A naturalist at heart, he plays down technology, math, even intelligence, proposing that a good scientist should be ‘bright enough to see what can be done but not too bright as to become bored doing it.’…delivers deep insights into how observation and experiment drive theory." -- Jascha Hoffman - New York Times"I want to express my gratitude. Thank you for reminding me and thousands of others why we became ­scientists. Your book Letters to a Young Scientist is first and foremost a book about passion and the delight of discovery...." -- Bill Streever - New York Times Book Review"In this fund of practical and philosophical guidance distilled from seven decades of experience, Wilson provides exactly the right mentoring for scientists of all disciplines—and all ages… This is no pompous, deeply philosophical treatise on how great ideas develop. Wilson shares his simple love for ants and their natural history, revelling in them without hesitation. Everything else follows." -- Nature"Inspiring… Ought to be on the shelves of all high school and public libraries." -- Library Journal

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Ted Berrigan wrote wonderful poems and experimented brilliantly with various prose forms and strategies. Full of surprises, Get the Money! Collected Prose (1961-1983) will be indispensable to students of Berrigan and the New York School."—David Lehman, series editor, The Best American Poetry"What a gift to have "Get the Money - collected prose (1961-1983)" by Ted Berrigan, just new from City Lights Books. Here we have a large collection of Berrigan's journals, reviews, essays, poems and more! What a pleasure to drop into the whirlwind of creative energy that is Ted's language, Ted's world, at the center of the New York City poetry and art worlds of the 1960s . Grab a pepsi, maybe some desoxyn, and enjoy the ride with Ted and his friends! Meet up with Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Ron Padgett, Joe Brainard, Bernadette Mayer, Alice Notley and many more - and remember, as Ted reminds us, "Don't forget to love me." With this book, we won't forget."—Gary Lawless, Owner, Gulf of Maine Bookstore“This, ultimately, is the composite picture that emerges of Berrigan: a maker of poems who listens honestly to his own best work and then continuously listens for the sound of the next kind of poem for as long as the poems will have him.”—Jordan Davis, The Poetry FoundationTable of ContentsAnnotated Table of Contents for Get the Money! Collected Prose 1961–1983 by Ted BerriganTB = Ted Berrigan’60s JOURNALSThe ’60s Journals stem from TB’s first stint living in NYC beginning in 1961; it’s a record of his early days, touching on his earliest breakthroughs as a poet, his relationship with his first wife, Sandy Berrigan, his friendships with the likes of poet Ron Padgett and artist Joe Brainard, who also moved from Tulsa, OK (where TB was going to school on the G.I. Bill after a stint in the army), and his meeting the first-generation poets of the NY School, like Frank O’Hara. A look at his early bohemian life.SOME NOTES ABOUT “C”This is a 1964 account of TB’s influential mimeo magazine “C” and the various lengths to which he went to get it made. Appearances by John Ashbery, Frank O’Hara, Kenneth Koch, Barbara Guest, James Schuyler, Andy Warhol, Joe Brainard, Alex Katz, Jasper Johns, Bill Berkson, Edwin Denby, Tony Towle, Gerard Malanga, Jim Brodey, Joe Ceravolo, etc.REVIEWS"Art and Literature: An International Review, edited by John Ashbery, Ann Dunn, Rodrigo Moynihan, and Sonia Orwell (#1, March 1964, $2.00)"Cheeky review of the first issue of a well-heeled magazine John Ashbery co-edited in Paris; the two major early perfect-bound journals of the NY School are Art and Literature and Locus Solus."Lines About Hills Above Lakes, Jonathan Williams (Roman Books, $3.00)"Review of a pamphlet by the Jargon Books publisher and New Directions poet that TB suggests you steal rather than buy, given the exorbitant price."Lunch Poems, Frank O’Hara (City Lights Books, $1.25)"Excellent review of City Lights’ homegrown classic."Poems from Oklahoma (Hardware Poets) and The Bloodletting (Renegade Press), Allen Katzman"Review of a now-obscure poet who founded the East Village Other, an alt-weekly."Poems: Aram Saroyan, Richard Kolmar, and Jenni Caldwell (Acadia Press)"A review of a joint publication; Aram Saroyan is the only major figure here (a concrete/minimalist poet and the son of William Saroyan)."In Advance of the Broken Arm, Ron Padgett, w/ cover and drawings by Joe Brainard (C Press)"Review of a mimeo booklet TB himself published under the “C” Press imprint; basically Padgett’s debut volume."Nova Express, William Burroughs (Grove, $5.00)"“Review” that is really a cut-up of Burroughs’ novel, which in itself probably was a cut-up of some variety."Art Chronicle"Round-up of the art shows TB saw and often reviewed for ARTnews."The Anxious Object, Art Today and Its Audience, Harold Rosenberg (Horizon Press, $7.50)"Attack on the critic who coined the phrase “Action Painting,” which is sometimes used instead of “Abstract Expressionism” (the terms refer to the same group of NY abstract painters)."The Doors of Stone, Poems, 1938–1962, F.T. Prince (Rupert-Hart-Davis)"Review of a British poet championed by John Ashbery, among other people."Pavilions, Kenward Elmslie (Tibor de Nagy, $2.00)"Kenward Elmslie (a grandson of Joseph Pulitzer) was an important force in the NY School, lover of Joe Brainard and publisher of Z Press. He is still in print from Coffee House. Elmslie is still alive (93) but is no longer active."Saturday Night: Poems, Bill Berkson (Tibor de Nagy, $2.00)"Review of Bill Berkson’s first book, published by the still-extant NYC art gallery (who also published first books by Ashbery, O’Hara, Guest, Frank Lima, etc.)"New Directions 14, ed. James Laughlin ($1.65)"“Review” of an old issue of New Directions, seemingly written just to talk about James Schuyler’s contribution to it."Peace Eye: Poems, Ed Sanders (Frontier Press, $1.50)"Review of the Beat poet and Fugs founder Ed Sanders; “Peace Eye” was also the name of Sanders’ bookstore in NYC. Ferlinghetti published Sanders’ Poem from Jail as a City Lights pamphlet."Desolation Angels, Jack Kerouac (Coward-McCann)"Review of a later Kerouac novel. Kerouac was a huge influence on TB, who considered himself a “late beat” rather than a NY School poet. TB interviewed Kerouac for the Paris Review."Painter to the New York Poets"Review of a show by figurative painter friend of O’Hara and Ashbery Jane Freilicher; she is the “Jane” frequently referred to in O’Hara poems."Red Power"Review of a figurative NY School painter."Sentences from the Short Reviews"A collage made by Anselm Berrigan of some of the best sentences from TB’s stint as a reviewer for ARTnews."Joe Brainard""Red Grooms"These are the two ARTnews reviews we did include, as they are significant painters associated with the NY School."Alice Neel’s Portraits of Joe Gould"A review of a solo show published in Peter Schjeldahl’s Mother.FRANK O’HARA DEAD AT 40An obituary for O’Hara published in the East Village Other.4 JOURNALS"The Chicago Report"A rollicking letter to Ron Padgett about a roadtrip TB goes on with his friend Harry Fainlight to go see Kenneth Koch read with. Anne Sexton in Chicago in the ’60s."From Journals (1970–1971)""Southampton""Bolinas""Selections from a Journal: 1 Nov 1977 to 17 May 1978"More journal extracts, including TB and Alice Notley’s brief stint in Bolinas with the On the Mesa crowd."On the Road Again, an Old Man"Loose “translation” of Basho poems (TB didn’t know Japanese, so he’s making versions based on previous translations).THE ARRIVAL REPORTAn account of the birth of Edmund Berrigan, which took place in Colchester, UK, while TB was teaching there.LONGER WORKS OF THE MORE ACADEMIC TYPE"Get the Money"A loosely jointed piece written for the East Village Other; poetic goofing around."An Interview with John Cage"“Interview” with John Cage collaged together by TB from various sources, none of whom were John Cage. (TB also hired Dick Gallup to work on it.) Peter Schjeldahl published it in his magazine Mother."Introduction to In by Aram Saroyan"Brief note on an Aram Saroyan volume."Ten Things About the Boston Trip: An Aside to Ron & Tom"Note to Padgett and Tom Clark about a trip to Boston on some poetry business."An Interview with John Ashbery"Also written according to the principles behind the John Cage interview."Brain Damage (Some Notes, and a Case History)"Off-beat bit of creative prose (probably a cut-up of a medical text about the human brain)."Note on Jim Brodey’s Poems & Him"As it says; Brodey is out of print but a known and significant second- or third-generation NY School poet."Introduction for Tom Clark at the Folklore Center"As it says; intro for a reading by Tom Clark."Jim Carroll"Very early piece about the author of The Basketball Diaries."Anne Waldman: Character Analysis"Piece about Anne Waldman (more about her than her poetry). "Maya by Anselm Hollo"Review of longtime Naropa professor and close friend of TB’s Anselm Hollo; Coffee House is prepping a collected Hollo (early stages yet)."A Few Hard Words on Tom Raworth"An introduction for a book by the experimental British poet. "In Time: Poems 1962–68, Joel Oppenheimer (Bobbs-Merrill, $5.95)"Review of poet Joel Oppenheimer (somewhat neglected these days and largely out of print but a familiar name for any serious student of the New American Poetry of the ’60s)."Teaching with the School Teachers"Fascinating piece written as a report to his employers about a workshop he gave for teachers who wanted to teach poetry."Note on Alice Notley, Not Used, for 165 Meeting House Lane, Published by “C” Press in 1971"As it says. "Sensation by Anselm Hollo"Another review of Anselm Hollo (see above)."From The Autobiography of God"Another cut-up? Random piece of creative prose."The NY Jets: A Movie"Written as though a filmscript, just goofing around about the NY Jets."The Life of Turner"Another cut-up? Random piece of creative prose."Words for Joanne Kyger"From a letter to and about Joanne Kyger."Scorpio Birthday"A horoscope."Three Book Reviews""Air by Tom Clark (Harper & Row)""The Poetry Room by Lewis MacAdams (Harper & Row)""Great Balls of Fire by Ron Padgett"Three “reviews” that TB made by collaging lines from the various poems in each book in order to make a new poem."Introduction to Fresh Paint: An Anthology of Younger Poets"As it says; not an anthology that anyone remembers these days but a good example of his generosity to the younger generation."Larry Fagin"Short notice concerning the longtime NY poet and editor."Litany"A collage, largely concerning TB’s friend, the poet Bernadette Mayer (published by New Directions these days)."The Fastest Tongue on the Lower East Side"“Review” largely consisting of a poem collaged from the subject of the review, poet Simon Schuchat."Naropa Workshop Notes"Some poetic notes from a workshop TB taught at Naropa."10 Favorite Books of 1980"Exactly what the title says, just a list."Old Age and Decrepitude"Another general roundup of things TB’s read recently, including Hollo, Padgett, and Schuyler, written for the Poetry Project Newsletter."George Schneeman at Holly Solomon"Review of a gallery show by NY School painter George Schneeman, a close friend of TB’s and the painter of the cover of our book."On Franco Beltrametti"Text for the catalog of one of TB’s artist friends."3 Reviews"Three short paragraphs reviewing The Early Auden, an issue of the Paris Review, and the Am Here Books catalog."Business Personal"A demand for the return of certain notebooks stolen from James Schuyler at the Chelsea Hotel."The Oral History Series Community Documentation Workshop"Interesting piece about a series of pamphlets issued by St. Mark’s Community Documentation Workshop and devoted to the history of the neighborhood."Running Commentary"A general round up of recent poetry publications TB found interesting. "Millenium Dust, Joe Ceravolo"Review of second-generation NY School poet Joseph Ceravolo, whose Collected Poems were published Wesleyan about 10 years ago. Died obscure but considered a significant poet today. "Night Flight by Lita Hornick"Lita Hornick was the publisher of Kulchur, a NY magazine in which several of the pieces from the “Reviews” section were published; TB is reviewing her book about contemporary art."The Beeks"Text from a flyer promoting a punk rock band (poet Steve Carey’s brother Tom Carey was a member)."Public Proclamation & Advertisement of Sale"A funny oddball piece blasting his friend Bernadette Mayer for censoring a poem TB and Alice Notley wrote for the Poetry Project Newsletter. "The White Snake by Ed Friedman"Review of a play by the future longtime director of St. Mark’s Poetry Project."Harry Fainlight: In Memoriam (d. 1982, London)"An obituary for his best friend Harry Fainlight, an oddball minor poet TB would publish his poems in “C” magazine.

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Book SynopsisSanders has reconstructed and annotated this correspondence.

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Book SynopsisThis book offers an account of how the modern idea of the literary emerged, through the colonial archives. Situated at the cusp of postcolonialism and world literature, it offers a multilingual, multicultural, and comparative account of how literature became one of the most powerful cultural expressions of modernity.Trade Review'In this magisterial book, Baidik Bhattacharya develops a surprising thesis: that the modern conception of literature as an autonomous, self-directed cultural form was the product of a highly political process – the efforts of colonial British administrators to extend their sway in India and beyond. This is a compelling, revisionary genealogy of the contemporary idea of culture, and a major contribution to debates on the intertwined origins of world literature and modern empire.' David Damrosch, Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University'Baidik Bhattacharya's erudition in the fields of Indian and British literary history and his transdisciplinary approach to 'lettered sovereignty' as a catalyst of colonial modernity give us a fresh perspective on what Pascale Casanova famously dubbed the 'world republic of letters.' Philological legacies; questions of race, language, and translation; the formation and deformation of epistemic habits crucial to narratives of empire; comparatism in the colony (including the complex reception of European philosophies of aesthetic judgment and nationalist imagination within Indian education) – all receive fine-grained analysis, making Colonialism, World Literature, and the Making of the Modern Culture of Letters essential reading for scholars, critics, historians, and theorists committed to rethinking the postcolonial public sphere in the contemporary humanities.' Emily Apter, Julius Silver Professor of French and Comparative Literature at New York University, and author of Against World Literature: On the Politics of UntranslatabilityTable of ContentsPreface and acknowledgement; Introduction: formations of the literary sovereign; Part I. Epistemic Habits: 1. Ethnographic recension; 2. Colonial untranslatables; 3. Comparatism in the colony; Part II. Aesthetic Conventions: 4. Impure aesthetics; 5. Sanskrit on shagreen; 6. National enframing; Coda: Decolonization after world literature; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisPoets Audre Lorde and Pat Parker first met in 1969; they began exchanging letters regularly five years later. This is a rare opportunity to glimpse inside the minds and friendship of two great twentieth century poets.

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Book Synopsis'The Little Men' tells the real story of Operation Herrick, unvarnished, from the point of view not of Generals or politicians, but the poor bloody infantry.Trade Review‘Gripping eyewitness testimony … Once you have picked this book up, you will not put it down. Blood, guts, triumph, tragedy and true grit. Heartfelt camaraderie and brotherhood on the frontline of combat. A shocking, revelatory, visceral hellride into war and all that follows. For so many the war in Afghanistan is far from over. A must read.’ -- Damien Lewis'They may have been small in stature, but they fought like giants' -- Ross Kemp

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Book SynopsisIn 1770 H.M. Bark Endeavourarrived in New Holland, Australia, the ''Continent of Smoke''. On board were Lieutenant James Cook, gentleman naturalist Joseph Banks, natural history artist Sydney Parkinson, and Midshipman James Magra.For the first time, this book combines the journals of these men to present a single, cohesive narrative that brings the story to life as never before. The journals are complimented by over 300 images, including charts, costal profiles, plans of harbours, and many original drawings executed during the voyage of the animals, people and landscape unique to the region.Of the many titles that are available concerning Cook and his voyaging, few focus on Cook's New Holland experience. Most commonly these titles are interpretative accounts, and heavily weighted with the author's opinion. However, here the story of New Holland is told in the words of the explorers themselves, containing first hand accounts of all the elements of drama, risk and first discovery.Focusin

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Book SynopsisSuperb contemporaneous account drawing on diaries and letters.

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