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The Heart to Artemis: A Writer’s Memoirs
Par Bryher. 2006
Bryher (1894-1985)—adventurer, novelist, publisher—flees Victorian Britain for the raucous streets of Cairo and sultry Parisian cafes. Amidst the intellectual circles…
of the twenties and thirties, she develops relationships with Marianne Moore, Freud, Paul Robeson, her longtime partner H.D., Stein, and others.This compelling memoir, first published in 1962, reveals Bryher’s exotic childhood, her impact on modernism, and her sense of social justice by helping over 100 people escape from the Nazis.“A work so rich in interest, so direct, revealing, and, above all, thought-provoking that this reader found it the most consistently exciting book of its kind to appear in many years.”—The New York TimesMrs Miniver (Virago Modern Classics Ser. #261)
Par Jan Struther. 2001
“I can think of a hundred ways already in which the war has “brought us to our senses.” But it…
oughtn’t to need a war to make a nation paint its kerbstones white, carry rear-lamps on its bicycles, and give all its slum children a holiday in the country.” That’s just one sample of Mrs. Miniver’s homespun philosophy.Meet Mrs. Miniver. She is the universal, heart-warming symbol of the endurable and pleasant sides of existence. Against the shadow of the present she holds up to view the everyday domesticities, the comings and goings of family life, and finds them good.Mrs. Miniver at tea, Mrs. Miniver trying to discover what the windshield wiper is really saying, Mrs. Miniver and her three unpredictable children and her altogether too-predictable husband, Mrs. Miniver and the woman who said she could only accept the Really Nice Children as évacués—the writing and characters in these thumbnail sketches are disarmingly simple and recognizable, and yet, by the author’s gift of intense observation, the ordinary becomes extraordinary and important.Because I Was Flesh: The Autobiography of Edward Dahlberg
Par Edward Dahlberg. 1964
Few books in the history of New Directions have received such praise as came to Edward Dahlberg’s autobiography, Because I…
Was Flesh, which is now on our paperback list.Alfred Kazin wrote: “A work of extraordinary honesty, eloquence and power, it redeems with one mighty creative act the suffering of a lifetime. It is one of the few important American books published in our day.” And Allen Tate spoke of “the hair-raising honesty, the profound self-knowledge, and the formal elegance of the style,...a combination that has not previously appeared in an autobiography by an American.” Sir Herbert Read called the book, “A great achievement. A masterpiece. The magnificent portrait of the author’s mother is as relentless, as detailed, as loving as a late Rembrandt.”Because I Was Flesh is the story of Edward Dahlberg’s life as a child and young man—in Kansas City, in a Cleveland orphanage, in California and New York—and of the remarkable woman, his mother Lizzie, who shaped it. Seldom has there been so ruthless, and yet so tender a dissection of the mother-son relationship. And from it Lizzie Dahlberg, the lady barber of Kansas City, emerges as one of the unforgettable characters of our literature. This is a book of many dimensions, an authentic record from the inferno of modern city life, and a testament of American experience.But the Morning Will Come: A Novel [First Edition]
Par Cid Ricketts Sumner. 2016
Originally published in 1949, this book tells the story of a Southern white girl and her reaction when she discovers…
that her unborn child will inherit Negro blood.Bentley Carr grew up without knowing she was a very pretty girl. Daughter of a seamstress in a Mississippi town, she felt overwhelmed when she became the bride of Philip Churston of Cedar Bluff plantation. She was happy when she knew she was to bear him a child. Happy—until she discovered why the whisper ran about the Churstons: a strain of Negro blood in the family! That was why Philip was cold to the coming heir; why there were never any visitors at Cedar Bluff. Her dilemma faced her starkly: must she, too, learn to live a lie?“Grace in the writing, warm appreciation of the emotional involvements, and of the relationship between background and action….”—W. K. Rugg, Christian Science MonitorSunset House: More Perfume From Provence
Par Lady Winifred Fortescue. 2016
MORE PERFUME FROM PROVENCE...Winifred Fortescue and her husband, Sir John Fortescue, moved to Provence in the early 1930s. There they…
converted an old stone farmhouse into a graceful and idyllic home--the Domaine.For two years after Sir John's death, Lady Fortescue, still a comparatively young woman, continued to live in the Domaine, years that were not altogether happy. Then, visiting a friend, she came across a small, near-derelict house set amidst thickets of wild lavender, magenta gladioli, and trailing sweet peas. She fell instantly in love with it, and thus began a new and happy chapter of her life.With the help of her dear friend and neighbour, 'Mademoiselle', she set about trying to purchase the property from a complicated and cunning 'Mafia' of local Provençals--and then, once more, she began the heart-warming, frustrating, funny, and altogether delightful process of transforming a small Provençal cottage into a home and creating a breathtaking garden down the side of the mountain.She called it SUNSET HOUSE.Trampled Lilies
Par Lady Winifred Fortescue. 2016
PERFUME FROM PROVENCE, which became an instant bestseller when it was first published in the 1930s, created a world that…
was both nostalgic and unique. Telling of Lady Fortescue's home in Provence, it was followed by SUNSET HOUSE, the story of her reclamation of a smaller, old stone farmhouse where she lived after her husband's death.It was from Sunset House, set in a little lost village perched on a peak of the Alpes Maritimes, that she watched the Mobilisation Générale at the beginning of WWII. Thousands of weary French soldiers, called from their homes at a moment's notice, tramped past Sunset House. The French Army boarded many of the officers on her but, so concerned was she at the plight of the humble poilu, that she immediately set about finding food and shelter for them. With the help of her friend 'Mademoiselle', she began to set up foyers all over Provence where the mobilised men could rest and pass their leisure.Then, as the war advanced, as Calais fell to the Germans, Lady Fortescue realised she was about to be trapped in France as an enemy alien and so began her mad dash across the country to Brittany, only a little ahead of the German Army, to make her escape on one of the last boats to leave France.There’s Rosemary…There’s Rue
Par Lady Winifred Fortescue. 2016
In 1935 a book called PERFUME FROM PROVENCE was published which instantly became a bestseller, rocketing its gentle, charming author…
almost overnight to fame and success. The book, telling of Sir John and Lady Fortescue's life in Provence, also gave tantalising glimpses of what had gone before and, finally, after Sir John's death, Lady Fortescue wrote the full story of her life and most particularly of her meeting and marriage with John Fortescue.Here is the fascinating, nostalgic recreation of another era, of her excitement as an actress before WWI, of her meeting with the man she was to marry, and of their first home together in Windsor Castle during the reign of King George V and Queen Mary. Many famous names of the times drift across her pages which are warm, witty, and altogether delightful.This is the story of the woman behind PERFUME FROM PROVENCE.Perfume From Provence
Par Lady Winifred Fortescue. 2016
Winifred Fortescue was an actress who rubbed shoulders with the likes of Jerome K. Jerome and George Bernard Shaw when…
she married Sir John Fortescue, the King's librarian and archivist and famous historian of the British Army. Tempted by a better climate and the cheaper cost of living, they left England and found a stone house amid olive groves, high in the hills above Nice. Almost at once they were bewitched by the landscape and especially their garden--delightful terraces of vines, wild flowers, roses, and lavender--and by the charming, warm-hearted, and wily Provençals. Winifred's witty account of life with stonemasons, craftsmen, and gardeners as they extend the house is an enchanting read.My Life In The Maine Woods: A Game Warden's Wife In The Allagash Country
Par Annette Jackson. 2016
My Life in the Maine Woods recounts Annette Jackson's North Woods experiences during the 1930s when she, her husband and…
their children lived in a small cabin on the shore of Umsaskis Lake. Jackson, an avid sportswoman and nature lover, writes of hunting, fishing, campfire cooking, and the sounds of the wilderness through the seasons. She visits trappers and woodsmen, and tells what it's like to sleep on a bed of pine boughs under the stars that shine on the legendary Allagash.Herself Surprised (First Trilogy Ser. #1)
Par Joyce Cary. 2016
Herself Surprised, the first volume of Joyce Cary's remarkable First Trilogy, introduces Sara Monday, a woman at once dissolute and…
devout, passionate and sly. With no regrets, Sara reviews her changing fortunes, remembering the drudgery of domestic servitude, the pleasures of playing the great lady in a small provincial town, and the splendors and miseries of life as the model, muse, and mistress of the painter Gulley Jimson.An American Visitor
Par Joyce Cary. 2016
An American visitor and uninvited guest in the village of Nok, Marie Hasluck is an irrepressible anthropologist who believes that…
she has found the Kingdom of Heaven in the forests of Nigeria. There, to her eyes, the Birri tribesmen make love and war unfettered by the constraints and complications of Western civilisation; a state which Marie finds enviable and which she does her best to emulate.However, all is not well even in this pagan paradise: white prospectors are staking claims within Birri territory and the eccentric District Officer, Bewser, can no longer keep them at bay, for all his promises to the villagers. As the Birri warriors become increasingly enraged by the colonialists' betrayal and as her own involvement with Bewser deepens, Marie finds that her position as a charmed but distanced onlooker is inevitably compromised.Quatrefoil: A Modern Novel
Par James Barr. 2016
A MILESTONE IN GAY FICTIONPhillip Froelich is in trouble. The year is 1946, and he's traveling to Seattle where he…
will face a court martial for acting insubordinate to a lazy officer in the closing days of World War II. On the way to Seattle he meets Tim Danelaw, and soon the court martial is among the least of Phillip's concerns....So begins Quatrefoil, a novel originally published in 1950. It marked a milestone in gay writing, with two of the first non-stereotyped gay characters to appear in American fiction. For readers of the Fifties, it was a rare chance to counteract the negative imagery that surrounded them.Today, Quatrefoil ranks as a classic work of gay writing, a novel that is still as gripping and enjoyable as ever. It is of extra interest to the modern reader for the vivid picture it draws of what life was like for gay men in our recent but little-known past.Books That Changed The World
Par Robert B. Downs. 2016
Books Are WeaponsBooks have wielded an immense power for good and evil throughout the history of the human race. Here…
is a thoughtful and probing discussion of sixteen of the most important works of all time which influenced history, economics, culture, civilization, and scientific thought from the Renaissance to the present day.Such widely different, but immensely powerful books as Hitler's Mein Kampf, which foreshadowed the death and destruction of World War II, Harvey's famous volume on blood circulation which revolutionized medical theory and treatment, Einstein's theories on relativity which opened the atomic age are clearly described in this provocative and readable volume. Dr. Downs, former President of the American Library Association and head of the University of Illinois Library, also shows the widespread and decisive influence of other great works, including Newton's presentation of his discovery of the laws of gravity, a cornerstone in scientific theory today, Darwin's Origin of Species which many churchmen thought contradicted the Bible, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin which is considered one of the major causes of the American Civil War, and Freud's Interpretation of Dreams, the great volume from the man who revolutionized modern man's thoughts about himself.Altogether, here is a fascinating presentation of books from many times which shows the tremendous power of the printed word on human development.Pugnax The Gladiator
Par Paul L. Anderson. 2016
Pugnax the Gladiator is part of a series of adventure books that take place in the Roman empire.Set in the…
days of Cicero, before Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon, in the years before the Roman Republic evolved into the Roman Empire, it tells the story of a young Gaul sold into slavery after being captured during a battle between tribe, and is subsequently shipped to Rome and sold to a Ianista who trains gladiators.The young man is given the name Pugnax and trained as a swordsman in the rough and tumble camp full of dangerous and colorful character.Master storyteller Gore Vidal’s 1952 classic. The fast and furious hedonistic world of the jet-set commuting between the glamour centres…
of Europe is the setting for this famous novel by one of the twentieth century’s most remarkable writers. Philip Warren is a personable young American who moves amongst the international demi-gods of wealth and status in search of himself and a future which will satisfy his part cynical, part romantic outlook.The Miracle Of The Bells
Par Russell Janney. 2016
Russell Janney's debut novel tells the story of Bill Dunnigan, the greatest press agent in America, who brings the body…
of Olga Treskovna, the purest female and best actress of America, to Coaltown, the worst mining town in the country, for burial.The first part of the book is a flashback to the love story of the press agent and the actress, which was ideal, rather uncomplicated, and completely unconsummated. However, with Olga's death, there begins an exhibition of power by the press agent--and this becomes the real substance of the book.A novel of joyousness in life that will sweep the reader into a delightful liberating experience...The Identity Of Yeats
Par Richard Ellmann. 2016
This classic study of Yeats' verse examines the poet's development of theme, symbol, style, and pattern. Through his knowledge of…
Yeats' life as well as his published and unpublished work, Ellmann recreates Yeats' ways of thinking, seeing, and writing and clarifies his difficult poems.The Egg And I
Par Betty Macdonald. 2015
When Betty MacDonald married a marine and moved to a small chicken farm on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State,…
she was largely unprepared for the rigors of life in the wild. With no running water, no electricity, a house in need of constant repair, and days that ran from four in the morning to nine at night, the MacDonalds had barely a moment to put their feet up and relax. And then came the children. Yet through every trial and pitfall--through chaos and catastrophe--this indomitable family somehow, mercifully, never lost its sense of humor.A beloved literary treasure for more than half a century, Betty MacDonald's The Egg and I is a heartwarming and uproarious account of adventure and survival on an American frontier.--Print Ed.A House In Bali [Illustrated Edition]
Par Colin Mcphee. 2015
Includes 39 photographs taken by the author during his time in Bali.A young American composer, quite by accident, heard some…
gramophone records of Balinese gamelan music that were to change his life completely. Such was his fascination that he ‘wanted to hear every gamelan in the countryside’. This book is an account of his stay in Bali just before the Pacific War. A House in Bali merits republication because of its sympathetic and often amusing account of the author’s involvement in Balinese society. While the author’s musical interests take up a considerable part of the narrative, music was itself such an integral part of Balinese life that the reader gets an overall impression of life on the island. Much has been written on the art of Bali and by artists but this is the only narrative by a musician and stands in its own right as a worthwhile period piece.Go Naked In The World
Par Tom T. Chamales. 2015
A House DividedOld Pete Stratton, a theater tycoon with some shadily earned millions, is a shrewd, tough patriarch who dominates…
and dictates the lives of his family. In quiet rebellion, his beautiful wife, Mary, becomes a secret drinker; his daughter, Yvonne, learns about life behind her father’s back. Only his son, Nick, a battle-scarred veteran of twenty-three, dares openly to defy his father.This is the backdrop for Tom T. Chamales’ extraordinary new novel. With power and humor, the bestselling author of Never So Few charts the rebellion of a son against the tyranny of his father and the shallow confines of a wealthy world. The conflict reaches a shattering climax when Nick falls in love with the beautiful and tragic Nora, and Old Pete determines to regain control of Nick’s future by revealing that the woman his son loves is the town’s highest priced call girl....“A work marked by this writer’s passion and vividness....The novel carries us along with its compelling intensity.”—Los Angeles Times“A vivid, believable story...peopled with wonderful characters.”—Newark News“This is a big novel, almost any way you look at it—powerfully and luridly written—and a remarkable story of a passionate, hard-living Greek-American family in Chicago.”—Boston Sun Herald