This novel is dedicated as follows: "To My Mother in Memory of Our Happy Oklahoma Days.". It is a shortened version of Oklahoma, the girl's original name, which refers to the area where she was born. Lahoma is the name of the girl in his novel who is befriended and cared for by one Brick Willock in what appears to be Texas. Born near Hannibal, MO, John Breckenridge Ellis was a prolific American writer, the author of many novels and an autobiography. Some wear to exttremities with a couple of corners just barely rubed through, top and bottomof spine just barely beginning to fray, spine gilt slightly dulled, cover gilt bright, covers lightly soiled, previoius owner's bookplate on front pastedown, gift inscription on front free endpaper, all illustrations in fine condition, tissue guard intact, else very good to near fine with no internal markings. Blue cloth with title on front cover within a gilt cartouche and the same on the spine. King plus four other black and white full-page drawings by W.B. Frontispiece black and white drawing with tissue guard by W.B.
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He is in a unique position to perform this task by virtue of being, according to Stephen Spender, "the best translator of Faust" and in Sidney Hook's view, "unquestionably the most interesting and informative writer of Hegel in English." He offers us a radically new understanding of two centuries of intellectual history, but his primary focus is on self-knowledge. Kaufmann's version of psychohistory stays clear of gossip and is carefully documented. Kaufmann drastically revises traditional conceptions of Goethe, Kant, and Hegel, showing how their ideas about the mind were shaped by their own distinctive mentalities. This immensely readable and absorbing book - the first of a three-volume series on understanding the human mind - concentrates on three major figures who have changed our image of human beings. Carol sets out to improve the town, but is met with distrust and derision, and finds herself becoming a pariah. Young and optimistic, Carol is dismayed by the town’s drabness and finds the inhabitants conforming and petty. Based on Lewis’s own experiences growing on Sauk Centre, Minnesota and set in the mid-1910s, it follows Carol Kennicott, who leaves her librarian job and St. Lewis’s biting satire countered the American myth of wholesome small-town life with a depiction of narrow-minded provincialism with struck a chord – or hit a nerve – with Americans. The printers could not keep up with the orders, and for a while the publishers had to ration out copies to book-sellers.” Biographer Mark Schorer wrote: it “was the most sensational event in 20th-century American publishing history, from the point of view both of sales and of public response. Published in 1920, Main Street was Sinclair Lewis’s first big hit. This 100th Anniversary Edition, with new new Foreword by biographer Richard Lingeman and a new Afterword to the Audiobook by Dr. My Lekker Figure - Adapted from her novel in progress, The Tokoloshe Written and performed by Shelly Goldstein. Performed by Kate Zentall and Cliff Weissman.įood Glorious Food - A Commission of Jewish Women’s Theatre The Tomato Omelet - Adapted from Cosmpolitian Performed by Emma Berdie Donson and Kate Zentall. Performed by Cliff Weissman, Kate Zentall and Emma Berdie Donson. Performed by Emma Berdie Donson.Īmerican Dream - Adapted from Living the Gift of Time (2015) Performed by Cliff Weissman and Ensemble. Performed by Kate Zentall.Įat, Eat - Adapted from The Best Boy in the United States of America (Jewish Lights Publishing, 2015) Written by Ron Wolfson. What a Surprise! (Bay Area Performances)Īdapted, Curated & Produced by Ronda SpinakĪssociate Producers Susie Yuré & Rose ZiffĬhalla - Adapted from Poems For My People (Euclid Press, 1986).What a Surprise! (LA / Zoom Performances). Bella Tuscany, a companion volume to Under the Tuscan Sun, is her passionate and lyrical account of her continuing love affair with Italy. A sabbatical from teaching in San Francisco allowed her to return to Cortona-and her beloved house, Bramasole-just as the first green appeared on the rocky hillsides. Having spent her summers in Tuscany for the past several years, Frances Mayes relished the opportunity to experience the pleasures of primavera, an Italian spring. Frances Mayes, whose enchanting #1 New York Times bestseller Under the Tuscan Sun made the world fall in love with Tuscany, invites readers back for a delightful new season of friendship, festivity, and food, there and throughout Italy. Their marriage evolves with love and conflict, humor and pathos in Nazareth, where Ana makes a home with Jesus, his brothers, and their mother, Mary. An encounter with eighteen-year-old Jesus changes everything. 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Captain Anthony is employed by Colonel Edward Lloyd, and Anthony lives in a house on Lloyd’s sprawling property with his sons, Andrew and Richard his daughter, Lucretia and Lucretia’s husband, Captain Thomas Auld. Douglass encounters slavery’s brutality at an early age when he witnesses his first master, Captain Anthony, give a brutal whipping to Douglass’s Aunt Hester. His mother is a slave named Harriet Bailey, and his father is an unknown white man who may be his master. In approximately 1817, Frederick Douglass is born into slavery in Tuckahoe, Maryland. His discoveries are in quantum mechanics, a subject that remains opaque even after 80 years of continuous exposition. Somehow this silent, solemn, young beanpole earns the enthusiastic friendship and admiration of vibrant and merrymaking geniuses such as Bohr himself, Robert Oppenheimer, Werner Heisenberg, George Gamow, Peter Kapitza and so on, without, apparently, initiating reciprocal entertainment or conversation. Bristol boy – slightly older contemporary of Bristol's other boy Cary Grant – has an unhappy childhood, but doesn't mention it for 50 years learns to speak French, German and Russian, but becomes famous for his long silences embarks on the wrong career gets interested in mathematics and ends up at Cambridge, where he becomes famous for his even longer silences hears about Einstein and gets into advanced physics and then goes to Copenhagen to meet Niels Bohr, who grumbles to Ernest Rutherford, "This Dirac, he seems to know a lot of physics, but he never says anything." Marked by the same wry humor that has defined his entire body of work, in this collection Haruki Murakami has crafted another contemporary classic. Knopf, 25.95, 240 pages Fans of the best-selling author Haruki Murakami maybe understand it. Here are vanishing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts and mysterious women, baseball and The Beatles, woven together to tell stories that speak to us all. MEN WITHOUT WOMEN By Haruki Murakami Translated by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen Alfred A. Across seven tales, Murakami draws his piercing observation to the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. The much-anticipated new short story collection from the beloved Haruki Murakami-his first major new work of fiction since the #1 New York Times bestselling Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage-Men Without Women showcases the author at the peak of his powers. The major new work of fiction from the internationally acclaimed, #1 NYT bestselling author-a dazzling collection of short stories. **A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2017 ** A Washington Post Notable Book of 2017 Men Without Women is a collection of stories about despairing men and loneliness it depicts men who try to cope with the sorrows of life after their loved one. |