Richard Howard
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
"Here, in the first volume to draw together material from Richard Howard's twelve books of poems, readers can fully appreciate the erudite nuances of his lyric poetry and the human and historical bravura of his monologues and imagined conversations among famous figures."--Jacket.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
A collection of monologues, elegies and satires on subjects ranging from Mozart to graffiti. One is a letter to the New York Times, praising "Man Who Beat Up Homosexuals Reported to Have AIDS Virus." The author won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1970.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1974.
Language
English
Description
"In a series of dramatic encounters, "each in two voices and each developing a single idea," as Grove's Dictionary of Music defines the form of his title, Richard Howard has exemplified something like the artistic conscience of a generation - from 1882 to 1912. The mission of an Edith Wharton bearing the ashes of her beloved to a cemetery in Versailles, the return of an Ibsen to Capri to find his last play and an early romance - such situations, reflective...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
"Richard Howard's first new book of poems in five years features two long narrative poems plus an extraordinary group of dramatic meditations on a fascinating variety of subjects: Proust searching for his novel's title; Rodin evading the perverse importunities of his admirers; Loie Fuller trying to wheedle radium from Madame Curie; Fuseli, Wordsworth and Kafka obliquely evoked; Virginia Woolf plotting a novel about Byron--while other poems are lyric...
Author
Language
English
Description
An aviator whose plane is forced down in the Sahara Desert encounters a little prince from a small planet who describes his adventures in the universe seeking the secret of what is really important in life. The anniversary edition includes original reviews of the novel, information about the author's life and work and the making of the story.
Author
Publisher
Vintage International
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
In his first novel, A Happy Death, written when he was in his early twenties and retrieved from his private papers following his death in I960, Albert Camus laid the foundation for The Stranger, focusing in both works on an Algerian clerk who kills a man in cold blood. But he also revealed himself to an extent that he never would in his later fiction. For if A Happy Death is the study of a rule-bound being shattering the fetters of his existence,...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
A futuristic novel, written in the 1860s, describing the Paris of the 1960s, a city of cars, computers, even fax machines. The rulers are corporations, technology is god and people are expected to accept material profit as the reason for living. The novel was rejected by the publisher of the day as unrealistic.
Author
Language
English
Description
The Charterhouse of Parma (1839) is a compelling novel of passion and daring, of prisons and heroic escape, of political chicanery and sublime personal courage. Set at the beginning of the nineteenth century, amidst the golden landscapes of northern Italy, it traces the joyous but ill-starred amorous exploits of a handsome young aristocrat called Fabrice del Dongo, and of his incomparable aunt Gina, her suitor Prime Minister Mosca, and Clelia, a heroine...
11) The immoralist
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"A translation of Gide's classic psychological novel depicting the gradual degeneration of an idealistic young scholar." --
12) Repetition
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
"It is 1949. A special agent of the French secret service, Henri Robin, is aboard a train to Berlin, on a special mission of an undisclosed nature. In what could be Graham Greene's The Third Man or a Hitchcock film, he crosses national borders and shuffles aliases with a false mustache and multiple sets of identity papers. Pulling into the station and preparing to meet his contact, Robin is alarmed by a disturbing glimpse of his own doppelganger....
15) The trolley
Author
Publisher
New Press
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Intertwining the memories of youth and old age, this novel uses the trolley as a symbol of life as it becomes the mode of transportation that takes the child to school every morning and is transformed into a mobile hospital bed for the man entering into old age.
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
[1979]
Language
English
Description
In this appealing and luminous collection of essays, Roland Barthes examines the mundane and exposes hidden texts, causing the reader to look afresh at the famous landmark and symbol of Paris, and also at the Tour de France, the visit to Paris of Billy Graham, the flooding of the Seine--and other shared events and aspects of everyday experience.
17) Annam
Author
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
In the 18th Century, a group of French monks and nuns sail for Vietnam to spread Christianity, only to be abandoned when the French Revolution breaks out. Years of hardship follow, ending in a massacre from which only two of the group survive, a monk and a nun. They go native and break their vow of celibacy.
18) Like death
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Olivier Bertin is at the height of his career as a painter. After making his name with his Cleopatra, he went on to establish himself as "the chosen painter of the Parisiennes, the most adroit and ingenious artist to reveal their grace, their figures, and their souls." And though his hair may be white, he remains a handsome, vigorous, and engaging bachelor, a prized guest at every table and salon. Anne, the comtesse de Guilleroy, is a youthful forty,...