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This visionary first novel by the Booker Prize-winning author of To the Wedding and G. is at once a gripping intellectual and moral detective story and a book whose aesthetic insights make it a companion piece to John Berger's great works of art criticism.

NY, Simon & Schuster, 1959. The first American edition of the first book by the author of Ways of Seeing, G. and To the Wedding, among many others. Berger began his writing career as an art critic, and this novel was written with the challenge of bringing a convincing portrait of a painter to fiction. Page edges darkening; near fine in a very good, spine-darkened dust jacket with slight edge wear and a few spots. [#024498] $40

This oratorio was Tippett's artistic and emotional response to the events that led to the “Kristallnacht” pogrom of November 1938. Tippett used as his formal and historical models the Bach Passions and Handel's Messiah. Tippett's use of the spiritual serves as equivalent for the Lutheran chorale of Bach's time. By 1941, when Tippett had completed the composition of his oratorio, the practicalities of staging a performance during wartime were difficult to say the least. However, through the direct...

This oratorio was Tippett's artistic and emotional response to the events that led to the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 1938. Tippett used as his formal and historical models the Bach Passions and Handel's Messiah. Tippett's use of the spiritual serves as equivalent for the Lutheran chorale of Bach's time. By 1941, when Tippett had completed the composition of his oratorio, the practicalities of staging a performance during wartime were difficult to say the least. However, through the direct agency...

First American edition. Usual age-toning to the pages, else very good in very good age-toned dustwrapper. Berger's first novel, about a European expatriate artist living as a Marxist in western society. Berger went on to win the Booker Prize for G. From the Library of the artists Ben Shahn and Bernarda Bryson Shahn, with an estate label designed by their son, Jonathan Shahn. Doodles and a few words on the dustwrapper with artist's ink in an unknown hand, but presumably one of the Shahn's. The protagonist...

Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres, Fiction + Literature Themes. Subgenre: Classics, Literary Genres + Types of Novels. Publisher: Modern Library. Pages: 166. Language: English. Format: paperback. Release Date: July 1, 2004. Date Published: July 1, 2004.

In the early 1990s, Atlanta-based portrait painter Virginia Adair traveled the world to interview 43 female psychics randomly chosen from 15 countries, from the U.S. and Europe to places as distant as Indonesia and Taiwan. This report of her journey reveals striking commonalities among these far-flung seers and healers. It describes numerous feats of prophecy and paranormal healing, directly observed by the author, which have never been published before.

Govindas Vishnudas Desani broke his silence forty years after the appearance of his classic novel, All About H. Hatterr, with this volume of twenty-three stories and one long prose poem, he second full-length book of his fiction ever to be published. Many of the stories appeared first in literary anthologies and magazines over the past thirty years, including The Noble Savage (edited by Saul Bellow), Illustrated Weekly of India, Transatlantic Review, and Boston University Journal. The stories are...

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)In its adventurous happenings-its abductions, duels, and sexual intrigues- A Hero of Our Time looks backward to the tales of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, so beloved by Russian society in the 1820s and 30s. In the character of its protagonist, Pechorin-the archetypal Russian antihero-Lermontovs novel looks forward to the subsequent glories of a Russian literature that it helped, in great measure, to make possible.This edition includes a Translators Foreword by Vladimir...

An accomplished biographer and novelist, Edmund Bohan was a finalist in both the 1995 New Zealand Book Awards and Montana Book Awards, and in the 1999 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. An honours graduate from the University of Canterbury, Bohan has written and published historical fiction and non-fiction, radio talks, short stories and numerous articles. In 1995 he was the John David Stout Fellow at Victoria University of Wellington. For twenty-five years he was one of New Zealand’s most successful...

This monograph aims to offer an in-depth critical analysis of Lermontov's novel, in the light of the latest criticism on the work. A review of the critical reception of the novel from publication up to the present day is offered in the introduction, and there is a comprehensive bibliography of secondary sources. This is followed with analysis of the novels' five consistent stories, as well as its introductory apparatus, to produce new critical insights into the text. Particular stress is laid on...

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Some critics believe that had he not been killed in a duel, Lermontov might have come to equal Pushkin in the refinement and linguistic mastery of his work. Indeed, Anton Chekov said that '[he knew] of no language better than that of Lermontov.' In addition to numerous lyric and narrative poems, Lermontov wrote several plays, as well as prose pieces in which he developed the techniques employed in his greatest work, the novel A Hero of Our Time . Lermontov was repeatedly exiled to the Caucasus, where...

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A Hero of Our Time is the masterpiece of Russian Romantic prose that influenced generations of readers and writers. Published in 1840, a year before Lermontov's tragic death in a duel, the novel was a sensation with a generation that identified with the hero, Pechorin, who feels that life robbed him of the possibility of noble passion. As Nabokov writes in his introduction, "Lermontov managed to create a ficitonal person whose romantic dash and cynicism, tigerlike suppleness and eagle eye, hot blood...

In the year 2000, producers for the BBC began documenting the growth and development of 25 newborn children from a wide range of social, ethnic, and geographical backgrounds. This 13-part series shows viewers the results so far, capturing pivotal stages in each child’s learning process, manner of socialization, and physical development. Students of child psychology, early childhood education, and multicultural education will encounter detailed information and numerous case studies in these programs...

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