The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
Author: Tennessee Williams
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9780811212496
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Kora & Ka: Novella with "Mira-Mare" (New Directions Bibelot)
Author: Hilda Doolittle
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 1996-04-17
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 0811202046
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →These two long stories by modernist master H.D. paint the wreckage of post-World War I Europe—both human and civilizational—in bright, vivid detail. Written by H. D. in 1930 and only published in a 100-copy edition for friends in 1934, Kora and Ka marked a new level of intensity in the poet's experiments with prose fiction. The two long stories contained in this volume, Kora and Ka and Mira-Mare, are at once profoundly autobiographical yet, through H. D.'s unusual brand of modernist story-telling, pushed beyond personality. The men and women who haunt these tales are wraiths in spiritual exile, wanderers in a Europe still recovering from the devastations of World War I. Her descriptions of the beaches at Monte Carlo are triumphs of vivid detail - bright watercolors set against brooding psychological portraits. In its exploration of the broken dualities of self and civilization, Kora and Ka looks forward to H. D.'s masterpieces, Tribute to Freud and Trilogy.
A Devil in Paradise (New Directions Bibelot)
Author: Henry Miller
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 1993-04-17
Total Pages: 126
ISBN-13: 0811224023
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“A perfect expression of Miller’s moral perspective as well as one of his outstanding demonstrations of narrative skill. It provides a wonderful cinematic view of two indomitable egotists in deadly conflict.” —The Nation The devil in Henry Miller’s Big Sur paradise is Conrad Moricand: “A friend of his Paris days, who, having been financed and brought over from Europe as an act of mercy by Mr. Miller, turns out as exacting, sponging, evil, cunning and ungrateful a guest as can be found in contemporary literature. Mr. Miller has always been a remarkable creator of character. Conrad Moricand is probably his masterpiece. . . .A Devil in Paradise is the work of a great novelist manqué, a novelist who has no stricter sense of form than the divine creator. . . .Fresh and intoxicating, funny and moving. . .” —The Times Literary Supplement (London)
Diptych Rome-London (New Directions Bibelot)
Author: Ezra Pound
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 1994-05-17
Total Pages: 70
ISBN-13: 0811224287
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Diptych Rome-London presents the two undisputed masterpieces of Pound's pre-Cantos work––the long poems "Homage to Sextus Propertius" and "Hugh Selwyn Mauberley." Created in the aftermath of World War I, the poems ironically consider the place of the artist in "a botched civilization." "Homage to Sextus Propertius" (1917) is a free translation from the Latin, an homage to the Roman poet; praising its "enormous freedom and range of tone," Hugh Kenner remarked that "few more original poems exist in English." "Hugh Selwyn Mauberly" (1920) is described in A. Walton Litz's clear and helpful introduction as a "master document of literary modernism." It was also T.S. Eliot's favorite Pound poem: "I am quite certain of 'Mauberley,' whatever else I am certain of... a great poem, a document of an epoch."
Fresno Stories (New Directions Bibelot)
Author: William Saroyan
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 1994-11-17
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13: 0811226506
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Eleven of William Saroyan's most delightful tales, Fresno Stories springs straight from the source of the author's vision—"the archetypal Armenian families who inhabit Saroyan country, in and around Fresno, California." (Chicago Tribune) Selected from New Directions' collections of Saroyan's early stories (The Man With the Heart In the Highlands) and his later work (Madness In the Family), Fresno Stories spans his whole remarkable career.
Thoughts on the East (New Directions Bibelot)
Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 1995-07-17
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 0811224171
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An ecumenical anthology, Thoughts on the East gathers Merton’s essential definitions of the religions that so much interested him—Taoism, Buddhism (in many forms, but especially Zen), Sufism, and Hinduism. Unified by Merton’s belief that East and West share “a unity of outlook and purpose, a common spiritual climate,” this eclectic selection also offers a fascinating introduction by the late George Woodcock, author of the acclaimed critical study, Thomas Merton: Monk and Poet.
Spain in Our Hearts: Espana en el corazon (New Directions Bibelot)
Author: Pablo Neruda
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 2005-11-25
Total Pages: 86
ISBN-13: 081122547X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Neruda's epic hymn against fascism, Spain in Our Hearts, now available in this pocket Bibelot edition. In 1936, Pablo Neruda was Chile's consul in Madrid, and so horrified by the civil war and the murder of his friend, Federico Garcia Lorca, that he started writing what became his most politically passionate series of poems, Spain in Our Hearts. The collection was printed by soldiers on the front lines of the war, and later incorporated into the third volume of Neruda's revolutionary collection, Residence on Earth. This bilingual New Directions Bibelot edition presents Spain in Our Hearts as a single book as it was first published, a tribute to Neruda's everlasting spirit.
Rome
Author: Brett Foster
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 143811558X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Rome, the eternal city, boasts a long and rich literary history with strong connections to the English Romantic poets Keats and Shelley, as well as Stendhal, Goether and Henry James.
Caprice
Author: Ronald Firbank
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9780811212434
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The stage-struck daughter of an English rural dean runs off with the family plate to London and a theatrical career-only to die tragically by the bite of a mousetrap in her moment of triumph as a sensational Juliet.
The Driver's Seat
Author: Muriel Spark
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 9780811212717
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Lise leaves her home in northern Europe for a holiday, but it is not rest and relaxation that she is looking for...
