The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
Title | The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone PDF eBook |
Author | Tennessee Williams |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | 126 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780811212496 |
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone is vintage Tennessee Williams.
Diptych Rome-London (New Directions Bibelot)
Title | Diptych Rome-London (New Directions Bibelot) PDF eBook |
Author | Ezra Pound |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | 70 |
Release | 1994-05-17 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0811224287 |
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."
A Devil in Paradise (New Directions Bibelot)
Title | A Devil in Paradise (New Directions Bibelot) PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Miller |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | 126 |
Release | 1993-04-17 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0811224023 |
“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)
Thoughts on the East (New Directions Bibelot)
Title | Thoughts on the East (New Directions Bibelot) PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Merton |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | 100 |
Release | 1995-07-17 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0811224171 |
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.
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (New Directions Bibelot)
Title | The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (New Directions Bibelot) PDF eBook |
Author | Tennessee Williams |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | 160 |
Release | 2013-10-25 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 081122046X |
Tennessee Williams's first novel The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone is vintage Tennessee Williams. Published in 1950, his first novel was acclaimed by Gore Vidal as "splendidly written, precise, short, complete, and fine." It is the story of a wealthy, fiftyish American widow recently a famous stage beauty, but now "drifting." The novel opens soon after her husband's death and her retirement from the theatre, as Mrs. Stone tries to adjust to her aimless new life in Rome. She is adjusting, too, to aging. ("The knowledge that her beauty was lost had come upon her recently and it was still occasionally forgotten.") With poignant wit and his own particular brand of relish, Williams charts her drift into an affair with a cruel young gigolo: "As compelling, as fascinating, and as technically skillful as his play" (Publishers Weekly).
Rome
Title | Rome PDF eBook |
Author | Brett Foster |
Publisher | Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | 220 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Authors, Italian |
ISBN | 143811558X |
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.
Studies in Short Fiction
Title | Studies in Short Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 798 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Electronic journals |
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