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The Gift of Peace: Personal Reflections
by Joseph BernardinIn the final two months of his life, Joseph Cardinal Bernardin made it his mission to share his personal reflections and insights in this book, The Gift of Peace. Using as a framework the previous three years, which included false accusation of sexual misconduct, diagnosis of cancer, and return of the cancer after fifteen months of being in remission, Cardinal Bernardin tells his story openly and honestly. At the end of his life, the Cardinal was at peace. He accepted his peace as a gift from God, and through this book, he shares that gift with the world. The Gift of Peace is part of the Cardinal’s pastoral legacy; through this book his ministry lives on.
Women Who Broke the Rules: Mary Todd Lincoln
by Kathleen Krull"Well-behaved women seldom make history." --Laurel Thatcher Ulrich <P><P>Women Who Broke the Rules celebrates the bold and brave women who have forged their own paths--breaking rules along the way--to help shape our country's past, present, and future. Acclaimed author Kathleen Krull blends history and humor in this accessible young biography series. Mary Todd Lincoln had a unique and determined, if sometimes erratic, personality that made her one of the most memorable First Ladies. Although she was born and raised in the South, she staunchly supported her husband's quest to save the Union and she strictly supported his policies. She was also an advocate for our veterans, and she would often bring flowers and food to wounded soldiers in the hospital and even write letters for them to their loved ones. No matter what criticism or personal hardships she faced, including witnessing her husband's assassination, she remained steadfastly loyal to her country. Lexile Measure: 880
Women Who Broke the Rules: Coretta Scott King
by Kathleen Krull"Well-behaved women seldom make history." --Laurel Thatcher Ulrich <P><P>Women Who Broke the Rules celebrates the bold and brave women who have forged their own paths--breaking rules along the way--to help shape our country's past, present, and future. Acclaimed author Kathleen Krull blends history and humor in this accessible young biography series. Coretta Scott King was an American civil rights activist and the wife of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. But she established a distinguished career in activism in her own right, taking part in the Montgomery Bus Boycott and working to pass the Civil Rights Act. After King's death, she founded the Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta, Georgia, and remained dedicated to fighting for civil rights. Lexile Measure: 880
The Diary of Lady Murasaki (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Shikibu MurasakiDerived from the journals of an empress's tutor and companion, this unique book offers rare glimpses of court life in eleventh-century Japan. Lady Murasaki recounts episodes of drama and intrigue among courtiers as well as the elaborate rituals related to the birth of a prince. Her observations, expressed with great subtlety, offer penetrating and timeless insights into human nature. Murasaki Shikibu (circa AD 973–1025) served among the gifted poets and writers of the imperial court during the Heian period. She and other women of the era were instrumental in developing Japanese as a written language, and her masterpiece, The Tale of Genji, is regarded as the world's first novel. Lady Murasaki's diary reveals the role of books in her society, including the laborious copying of texts and their high status as treasured gifts. This translation is accompanied by a Foreword from American poet and Japanophile Amy Lowell.
The Life and Art of Albrecht Dürer
by Erwin Panofsky Jeffrey Smith<p>This classic text presents the life, times, and works of Albrecht Dürer. Through the skill and immense knowledge of Erwin Panofsky, the reader is dazzled not only by Dürer the artist but also Dürer in a wide array of other roles, including mathematician and scientific thinker. Originally published in 1943 in two volumes, The Life and Art of Albrecht Dürer met with such wide popular and scholarly acclaim that it led to three editions and then, in 1955, to the first one-volume edition. Without sacrifice of text or illustrations, the book was reduced to this single volume by the omission of the Handlist and Concordance. The new introduction by Jeffrey Chipps Smith reflects upon Panofsky the man, the tumultuous circumstances surrounding the creation of his masterful monograph, its innovative contents, and its early critical reception. Erwin Panofsky was one of the most important art historians of the twentieth century. Panofsky taught for many years at Hamburg University but was forced by the Nazis to leave Germany. He joined the faculty at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1935, where he spent the remainder of his career and wrote The Life and Art of Albrecht Dürer. He developed an iconographic approach to art and interpreted works through an analysis of symbolism, history, and social factors. <p>This book, one of his most important, is a comprehensive study of painter and printmaker Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), the greatest exponent of northern European Renaissance art. Although an important painter, Dürer was most renowned for his graphic works. Artists across Europe admired and copied his innovative and powerful prints, ranging from religious and mythological scenes to maps and exotic animals. The book covers Dürer's entire career in exacting detail. With multiple indexes and more than three hundred illustrations, it has served as an indispensable reference, remaining crucial to an understanding of the work of the great artist and printmaker. Subsequent Dürer studies have necessarily made reference to Panofsky's masterpiece. Panofsky's work continues to be admired for the author's immense erudition, subtlety of appreciation, technical knowledge, and profound analyses.
Memorias
by Helena PazHelena Paz Garro, escritora e hija de dos destacadas figuras de la literatura mexicana, Elena Garro y Octavio Paz, comparte aquí el relato detallado de su vida familiar y cultural, marcada por episodios tan definitivos como polémicos. Publicado originalmente en 2003, el libro autobiográfico Memorias, de Helena Paz Garro, dividió opiniones entre los lectores y colocó en la agenda cultural del momento el pasado íntimo de la familia Paz Garro, así como su relación -social o secreta- con personajes como Adolfo Bioy Casares, Silvina Ocampo, Julio Cortázar, Carlos Fuentes, Aristóteles Onassis, María Callas, Pablo Picasso, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí, María Zambrano y Juan de la Cabada, entre otros. Escritas con la pericia de una narradora oficiosa, con entraña y corazón, estas memorias de orden imprevisible nos contagian la dicha y el dolor de una mujer que sobrellevó la continua sensación de soledad.
Kindred Souls: The Devoted Friendship of Eleanor Roosevelt and Dr. David Gurewitsch
by Edna P. GurewitschThe poignant and unforgettable true account of the deep, loving friendship between a handsome physician and the former First Lady"I love you as I love and have never loved anyone else." --Eleanor Roosevelt in a letter to Dr. David Gurewitsch, 1955 She was the most famous and admired woman in America. He was a strikingly handsome doctor, eighteen years her junior. Eleanor Roosevelt first met David Gurewitsch in 1944. He was making a house call to a patient when the door opened to reveal the wife of the president of the United States, who had come to help her sick friend. A year later, Gurewitsch was Mrs. Roosevelt's personal physician, on his way to becoming the great lady's dearest companion--a relationship that would endure until Mrs. Roosevelt's death in 1962. Recounting the details of this remarkable union is an intimately involved chronicler: Gurewitsch's wife, Edna. Kindred Souls is a rare love story--the tale of a friendship between two extraordinary people, based on trust, exchange of confidences, and profound interest in and respect for each other's work. With perceptiveness, compassion, admiration, and deep affection, the author recalls the final decade and a half of the former First Lady's exceptional life, from her first encounter with the man who would become Mrs. Gurewitsch's husband through the blossoming of a unique bond and platonic love. Blended into her tender reminiscences are excerpts from the enduring correspondence between Dr. Gurewitsch and the First Lady, and a collection of personal photographs of the Gurewitsch and Roosevelt families. The result is a revealing portrait of one of the twentieth century's most beloved icons in the last years of her life--a woman whom the author warmly praises as "one of the few people in this world in which greatness and modesty could coexist."
An Intimate History of the Front: Masculinity, Sexuality, And German Soldiers In The First World War
by Jason CrouthamelThis eye-opening study gives a nuanced, provocative account of how German soldiers in the Great War experienced and enacted masculinity. Drawing on an array of relevant narratives and media, it explores the ways that both heterosexual and homosexual soldiers expressed emotion, understood romantic ideals, and approached intimacy and sexuality.
Life Writing and Politics of Memory in Eastern Europe
by Simona MitroiuThis volume addresses the issues of remembering and performing the past in Eastern European ex-communist states in the context of multiplication of the voices of the past. The book analyzes the various ways in which memory and remembrance operate; it does so by using different methods of recollecting the past, from oral history to cultural and historical institutions, and by drawing on various political and cultural theories and concepts. Through well-documented case studies the volume showcases the plurality of approaches available for analyzing the relationship between memory and narrative from an interdisciplinary and international perspective.
I Feel Like Going On: Life, Game, and Glory
by Daniel Paisner Ray LewisRay Lewis, legendary Baltimore Ravens linebacker and one of the greatest defensive players of his generation, holds nothing back on the state of football as well as his troubled childhood, his rise to athletic greatness, the storm that threatened to ruin his NFL career, and the devastating injury that nearly cost him a final moment of glory. <P><P>A lot of folks, they know my game, but they don't know my deal. This book right here, it tells the story of my seventeen-year NFL career. It tells of my two Super Bowls, the mark I was blessed to be able to make on the game, on the city of Baltimore. But it also tells the story of how I grew up--abandoned by my no-account father, raised with my siblings by our God-fearing, hardworking single mother. <P><P>It tells how I sometimes struggled off the field. It tells of the anguish and controversy that found me away from the game. Mostly, it tells how heartbreak can sometimes lift you to greatness and glory--if you find a way to put your focus in faith, and faith in your focus. <P><P>When I left the game, confetti raining down on me and my teammates after winning the Super Bowl, I made a promise to myself to show how the game is really played at the highest level. <P><P>That's what you'll find in these pages--a raw, honest look at the business of football and a look behind the scenes at some of the most torturous aspects of the game. The grind of the NFL--that's what shines through. My deal? That grind is a given. <P><P>Every player who wears an NFL uniform has to slog through the same battles just to get to the league. But it's how you prepare for those battles that defines you--and here I hope to show how an unwavering trust in God and an unbreakable sense of purpose can lift you from tragedy to triumph. From strength to strength, man--that's the deal.
Ladies, Upstairs!: My Life in Politics and After
by Monique Bégin Bob RaeMore than fifty years after most Canadian women received the right to vote, very few women were elected as members of Parliament and none came from Quebec. Canada's 1972 federal election marked a refreshing transition. Twice as many female candidates ran for office than in the previous election, and, of the five women elected to the House of Commons that year, three Liberal Party candidates – Monique Bégin, Albanie Morin, and Jeanne Sauvé – shared the honour of being the first Quebec women MPs. In this riveting memoir of a trailblazing female politician, Monique Bégin tells the story of her journey into politics and beyond. Born in Italy, Bégin spent her childhood in France and Portugal before arriving in Montreal as a refugee of the Second World War. In 1967, she was swept into the world of politics when she became executive secretary of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women. Inspired by Pierre Trudeau, she then ran for the House of Commons and served in various cabinet positions, ultimately spearheading the landmark Canada Health Act before retiring to pursue a career in academia. Offering a revealing glimpse into the pervading sexism of Canadian public life, Ladies, Upstairs! details the experiences of a feisty, candid outsider who, through sheer fortitude, intelligence, and hard work, became minister of health and welfare, a university dean, a sought-after member for commissions of inquiry, and an international expert on public health. The voice of a woman in a male world, a francophone among anglophones, and a skeptical politician, Ladies, Upstairs! provides a fascinating account of one of Canada's most impressive federal ministers and her discoveries through the decades.
Women and Wilderness (Sierra Club Paperback Library)
by Anne LaBastilleThe wilderness, as a living and working environment, is still a frontier for women. But more and more women are moving outside the walls of home and office and into careers in the great outdoors--a long step psychologically and physically from traditional female roles. In this groundbreaking book, wildlife ecologist Anne LaBastille profiles 15 adventurous and accomplished women whose lives and work center on the outdoors. They include: * Krissa Johnson, a young designer-builder of log homes * Margaret Murie, conservationist and lifetime partner of naturalist Olaus Murie * Carol Ruckdeschel, a freelance naturalist who guided then-governor Jimmy Carter down Georgia’s wild Chattahoochee River * Nicole Duplaix, leader of the World Wildlife Fund’s team monitoring the illegal endangered-species trade * Eugenie Clark, the famous “shark lady” of marine biology LaBastille also examines the factors that have alienated women from wilderness in the past, and shows how feminism and the environmental movement have allowed the “wilderness within women” to emerge. Updated with a new Afterword for this edition, Women and Wilderness offers exciting career ideas and inspiration for women everywhere.
The Foreign Policy of Russia: Changing Systems, Enduring Interests, 2014
by Robert H Donaldson Joseph L NogeeNow fully updated, this widely respected text traces the lineage and development of Russian foreign policy with the insight that comes from historical perspective. The fifth edition incorporates new and fully updated coverage of issues including relations with the major powers and with other post-communist states, international security issues including arms control issues and grounds for sanctions and intervention, and domestic and regional issues related to natural resource politics, human rights, Islamism and terrorism.perspective. Chronologically organized chapters highlight the continuities of Russias behavior in the world since tsarist times as well as the major sources of change and variability over the revolutionary period, wartime alliances and cold war, dtente, the Soviet collapse, and the first post-communist decades. The fifth edition incorporates new and fully updated coverage of issues including relations with the major powers and with other post-communist states, international security issues including arms control issues and grounds for sanctions and intervention, and domestic and regional issues related to natural resource politics, human rights, Islamism and terrorism. New coauthor Vidya Nadkarni strengthens the books coverage of issues related to Asia. The basic framework used in the book is a modified realism that stresses the balance of power and the importance of national interest, and identifies several factors (both internal and external) that condition Russian policy. The interpretations are original and based on a mix of primary and secondary sources.
Color, Ebony
by Helen DayBorn in the Deep South of educated but very poor parents, Helen Caldwell Day learned at an early age what it was like to be a Negro living in American society. A career in nursing, which she began at 18 years, afforded the first opportunity to meet white people as equals and develop friendships among them. Conversion to Catholicism broadened this opportunity and awakened her to a realization of the common strengths and weaknesses of all races. An unsuccessful marriage, motherhood and, finally, a long siege in a sanitarium with tuberculosis followed. Mrs. Day is convinced that the problems of race could be solved if Christian principles were understood and applied to daily living. This story of her first twenty-three years, written while she was in the sanitarium, is not so much one of achievement as an attempt to foster these principles.
Aullando en los bosques: En busca del lobo gris
by Reidar MüllerTras el fenómeno de El libro de la madera, llega la nueva estrella noruega del Nature Writing. «Reidar Müller parece estar poseído por la riqueza del bosque y por su oscuro misterio. Ha escrito un libro fascinante.»Arne Dvergsal, Dagbladet En las profundidades del bosque húmedo y espeso, Reidar Müller, un hombre habitualmente reservado, aúlla. ¿Cómo ha acabado ahí, desgañitándose como un hombre lobo? Esta es la historia de un naturalista que quería investigar los árboles, su importancia como hábitat de plantas y animales, y el lugar que ocupan en la imaginación del ser humano, pero que termina obsesionado con los lobos, de modo que aprende de la mano de leñadores experimentados a rastrear en la espesura a esos misteriosos depredadores que normalmente solo habitan nuestro imaginario, y mientras espera el ansiado encuentro, reflexiona sobre el futuro del bosque, un ecosistema de 385 millones de años que ha sobrevivido a asteroides, volcanes en erupción y bombas nucleares y se enfrenta hoy al impacto del hombre. La crítica ha dicho...«Reidar Müller parece estar poseído por la riqueza del bosque y por su oscuro misterio. Ha escrito un libro fascinante y comovedor en el que palabras como "bautismo" y "abstinencia" dan buena cuenta de su profunda fascinación por el bosque y de la dependencia que crea la búsqueda del lobo.»Arne Dvergsal, Dagbladet «Destacan su fascinación por el lobo, los mitos que lo rodean, o cómo se ha convertido en objeto casi incomprensible de odio. [...] Es difícil de encontrar una recomendación mejor.»Prof. Dag Hessen «Reidar Müller amplifica en este libro los misterios del bosque.»Aftenposten «Aullando en los bosques, de Reidar Müller, se ha vendido a cinco idiomas en la Feria del Libro de Frankfurt de este año.»Norwegian Arts «El sueño del autor de conocer a los lobos se convirtió en una experiencia que lo dejó marcado para siempre y le enseñó a establecer una relación consciente con la naturaleza: ese entorno que compartimos los hombres y los animales.»Arne Dvergsal, Dagbladet
Bienvenida a casa
by Lucia Berlin«Siempre estoy buscando... deseando sentirme en casa.» La recopilación definitiva de los textos autobiográfico jamás publicados de Lucia Berlin. Pese a la calidad abrumadora de su escritura, tuvo que llegar Manual para mujeres de la limpieza para que Lucia Berlin se convirtiera en una estrella literaria sin igual. Sus historias están pobladas de personajes, entornos y emociones de la propia vida de la autora, una vida llena de precariedad y cambios de rumbo. Bienvenida a casa es una recopilación de textos autobiográficos en la que Berlin estaba trabajando antes de su muerte y que muestra, con la intimidad de una confidencia, los espacios más personales de la vida de una misteriosa autora que ya ha alcanzado el estatus de leyenda. El volumen lo completan cartas y fotografías que hacen que este sea el objeto perfecto para conocer de primera mano a Lucia Berlin como escritora y, también, como ser humano. La crítica ha dicho...«Unos retazos de vida que nos desvelan a la mujer que hay tras la leyenda. Un libro lleno de fuerza.»Elena Méndez, La Voz de Galicia «La literatura de Lucia Berlin está impregnada de belleza y dolor, de honestidad y melanconiosa familiaridad. Consigue narrar las rutinas de la vida y los fulgores de la oscuridad como pocos. [...] Con este libro tenemos la oportunidad de sumergirnos en su mundo una vez más. [...] Gracias por existir.»Eric Gras, El Periódico Mediterráneo «El lado íntimo de la escritora: una Lucia Berlin luminosa, entregada al amor, frágil y optimista. [...] A pesar de haber permanecido más o menos escondida, leerla produce una extraña sensación de familiaridad.»Aloma Rodríguez, Diari de Tarragona «Carisma y talento. [...] Paisajes que pisaron sus pies y, en todos ellos, esa capacidad tan suya, nada fácil de encontrar en prosa, de sacar destellos de luz de las tinieblas. Incluso de la tristeza más densa o de los escenarios más amargos. [...] Nos vamos a quedar con ganas de más Lucia.»Núria Escur, La Vanguardia «Estos textos permiten descubrir, por un lado, una vida repleta de sinsabores, y por el otro, la persistencia de una mujer que intenta escribir a pesar de todo y que encuentra en su experiencia más cercana la fuente de sus relatos.»Diego Gángara, La Razón «Esta recopilación de textos autobiográficos cae como un auténtico y delicioso maná.»Andrés Rubín de Celis, La Vanguardia - Fashion & Arts Magazine «Los recuerdos más extensos que encontramos en Bienvenida a casa encantan e iluminan [...]. Sus viñetas de la infancia, en particular, poseen viveza de las revistas antiguas [...]. Leer Bienvenida a casa tras Una noche en paraíso y Manual para mujeres de la limpieza es experimentar a Berlin como en una galería de espejos.»Patricia Lockwood, London Review of Books «Encontramos un placer delicioso en seguir las huellas reales de las ficciones de Berlin.»Los Angeles Times «Un relato iluminador de la escritora [...], de las personas y los lugares que la formaron. Berlin escribe con honestidad sobre sus placeres y sus dificultades, y deja al lector con ganas de más.»The Economist«Mucho antes de la actual locura por la autoficción, Lucia Berlin ya estaba centrifugando su día a día para convertirlo en una prosa desnuda y dolorosa de brutal autenticidad. [...] Este nuevo volumen es una suerte de retrato en forma de puzle de esta leyenda literaria que sufrió un largo olvido y deja a la vista su material autobiográfico, que con tanta potencia se filtraba en sus relatos de ficción. Resulta que el misterio de su obra no es de dónde sacaba la inspiración, sino cómo lograba transformar su vida en una expresión
My Heart Is Not Blind: On Blindness And Perception
by Michael NyeMy Heart Is Not Blind: On Blindness and Perception is a collection of stunning portraits of blind and visually impaired people taken by photographer Michael Nye. Each image is accompanied by an intimate story told by the subject concerning his or her experiences and unique perspective. The causes of vision loss range from genetic predispositions (retinitis pigmentosa) or disease (glaucoma) to external circumstances such as accidents (struck by a train) or violence (gunshot wound). The people in this diverse group differ not only in their particular conditions and losses but also in their cultural and socio-economic backgrounds. Taken as a whole, however, the accounts of adapting to changing modes of perception are bound by a common theme of resilience, revealed in shared reactions and unexpected insights. The subjects depicted in My Heart Is Not Blind share their experiences and unique perspectives in a personal narratives that accompany their respective portraits. Most speak of the transition from sight to vision loss, and how that has changed―and not changed―their ability to perceive the surrounding world. Some question the classification of blindness as a disability. One participant proposes that blindness may, in some ways, even aid in perception, musing, “if you can always see the sun, you can never discover the stars.” My Heart Is Not Blind offers a window into the world of the blind and visually impaired, revealing surprising similarities and fascinating differences alongside compelling accounts of survival, adaptation, and heightened understanding. The collection invites us to reconsider what we think we know about blindness in order to gain a deeper understanding of vision and perception.
The Last Days of Socrates
by Christopher Rowe PlatoThe trial and death of Socrates (469-399 BCE) have almost as central a place in Western consciousness as the trial and death of Jesus. In four superb dialogues, Plato provides the classic account. Euthyphro finds Socrates outside the court-house, debating the nature of piety, while the Apology is his robust rebuttal of the charges of impiety and a defence of the philosopher's life. In the Crito, while awaiting execution in prison, Socrates counters the arguments of friends urging him to escape. Finally, in the Phaedo, he is shown calmly confident in the face of death, skilfully arguing the case for the immortality of the soul.
My First Book Of Biographies: Great Men and Women Every Child Should Know (Cartwheel Learning Bookshelf)
by Jean Marzollo Irene TrivasAn accessible collection of introductory biographies combines colorful illustrations with profiles of forty important men and women, including Abraham Lincoln, Gandhi, Marie Curie, Rosa Parks, Neil Armstrong, and Michelangelo.
More Dirty Little Secrets About Black History, Its Heroes And Other Troublemakers
by Claud AndersonOn November 21, 2005, PowerNomics Corporation of America will release More Dirty Little Secrets About Black History, Its Heroes and Other Troublemakers, Dr. Claud Anderson's forth book written with his son Brant Anderson. This book is a compilation of little known facts that highlight the talents, achievements, heroic deeds and sometimes misdeeds, of Blacks in America. It leads the reader to conclude that Black people have had a unique journey in these United States, unlike any other group of people, and have been directly or indirectly, involved in every aspect of American history. This book also includes numerous historical notes about Whites who displayed heroic or ignoble behavior toward Black Americans. More Dirty Little Secrets is a continuation of Dr. Anderson's earlier number one best-seller, Dirty Little Secrets.
Daughter of Good Fortune: A Twentieth-Century Chinese Peasant Memoir
by Chen Huiqin Shehong Chen Delia DavinDaughter of Good Fortune tells the story of Chen Huiqin and her family through the tumultuous 20th century in China. She witnessed the Japanese occupation during World War II, the Communist Revolution in 1949 and its ensuing Land Reform, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and the Reform Era. Chen was born into a subsistence farming family, became a factory worker, and lived through her village s relocation to make way for economic development. Her family s story of urbanization is representative of hundreds of millions of rural Chinese.
Portage Lake: Memories of an Ojibwe Childhood
by Maude KeggMaude Kegg's memories build a bridge to a time when building birch-bark wigwams and harvesting turtles were still part of the everyday life of a native girl in the mid-west. In this bilingual book, this elder of the Minnesota Anishinaabe reminisces about her childhood. An English translation of each story appears on pages facing the original Ojibwe text, and the editor John Nicholds has included a full Ojibwe-English glossary with study aids.
South American Journals: January–July 1960
by Allen GinsbergThe great Beat poet&’s observations, reflections, poetry, and mind-expanding explorations while traveling through South America When Allen Ginsberg went to South America in 1960, ostensibly to attend a literary conference, he had a different kind of trip in mind. This would be another experience in the Beat poet&’s journey deep into the realm of consciousness, the inward travel explored to exhilarating effect in his writing—whether in the poetry that had already earned him international acclaim or in the idiosyncratic journals that raised self-documentation to a new form of art. In his South American Journals, covering a tumultuous six months, Ginsberg describes his travels through Chile and Peru, his visit to Machu Picchu, and his search for a source for ayahuasca, or yagé, a mind-expanding drug recommended by his friend William S. Burroughs, another writer well traveled in altered states of consciousness.Far from quotidian diary entries, Ginsberg&’s observations in these pages, interspersed with poetry, dream notations, and musings about spirituality, amount to a critical chapter in the poet&’s informal autobiography. Writing more during these six months than in any of his other journals, Ginsberg summons great ferment. In his distinctive accounts of all that he encounters, elevating travel writing to lyrical expression; in an abundance of poems published here for the first time, in both first drafts and polished forms; in his reports of fascinating conversations; and, in particular, in detailed passages that delve into inner recesses of his consciousness, Ginsberg recreates a journey like no other, one that reflects the workings of one of the best minds of his generation in the world of his own making and in its mysterious, immutable counterpart in the South American landscape.
A Brilliant Streak: The Making Of Mark Twain
by Kathryn Lasky Barry MoserIn this beautifully illustrated biography, Mark Twain's adventures as a young boy come to life. Before Samuel Clemens became a famous author, he enjoyed one of the longest childhoods in history. From playing hooky in Hannibal, Missouri, to piloting steamboats on the Mississippi River, Mark Twain's adventures as a youth influenced his entire life and figured prominently in his writing. Focusing on the first half of Clemens's life, this book will be enjoyed by longtime Twain devotees--and by those who seek a colorful introduction to the ever-popular author and his works.
Selected Letters
by Mary Montagu Isobel GrundyA revised selection of Lady Montagu's letters. Besides presenting a vivid picture of manners in a picturesque age, they contain a unique series of impressions from foreign courts seldom visited and nowhere else so intimately described. Lady Mary was the wife of a popular ambassador and, wielding the charm of a strong personality, was enabled to see and hear many things of which the ordinary traveler, or resident abroad, knew-and knows-little or nothing. Originally written, for the most part, to her sisters, her daughter, or to very intimate friends, her Letters are unusually detailed and frank. She was a keen observer, not superior to the love of gossip with a quick eye for the telling features of a story or situation, and an easy, effective style.