"A Seymour Lawrence book."

Within his lifetime T.S. Eliot came to be considered the greatest poet of his generation and perhaps the most important poet of this century. Two decades after his death, his reputation, unlike that of many of his contemporaries, remains as secure as ever. His influence has been profound: virtually every poet writing in English in the last fifty years owes a debt to him. Eliot achieved great success during his life. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature, he was an influential magazine and book editor, he spoke widely on religion and social issues. But he was also a very private man who remained something of a mystery even to his closest friends. This is only one of a number of paradoxes in Eliot's life. Perhaps chief among them, as this biography demonstrates, was Eliot's insistence on the impersonality of great poetry while at the same time his own work was suffused with his experience and personality. In fact, as Peter Ackroyd points out, "His private choices and obsessions became emblematic of, and in some sense determined our understanding of, the twentieth-century tradition." Eliot insisted on the importance of literary tradition, yet he had no real predecessors or successors. Along with Pound, Joyce, and Woolf, he helped give birth to modernism in literature, but then later in his career he abandoned it. From this biography -- the first authoritative, comprehensive life of Eliot ever published -- we can at last understand the relationship of Eliot's life and work, the better to appreciate his artistic achievement. With this book we now have the first detailed account of Eliot's deeply troubled first marriage, as well as reliable descriptions of the solitude and misery of his middle years and the fulfillment and joy he found late in life in his second marriage. Scrupulously researched, elegantly written and insightful, T.S. Eliot is an accomplished portrait of an extraordinary figure. It will be an essential book for anyone who wants to understand one of the most important writers of the century. - Back cover.

> [...] a passionate and tormented novel > about the summer of 1954 as it > transpired in the lives of two young > Korean War veterans returning to their > Indianapolis homes. . . . it is > possible that the current publishing > season will produce no book more > urgently felt. ―New York Times Book Review, August 9, 1970

A fatherless girl whose mother works nights rejects the idea of a baby-sitter but rather enjoys having an eccentric young writer as her "night daddy."

Hugo and Josephine are two very real children. Josephine (who gave herself this name in preference of her dreary real name, Anna Gra) is the mischievous, wispy-haired daughter of a minister in a small Swedish town. At school, she is often teased and at home in the big, old parsonage, she is sometimes lonely. But when Hugo, a wild, happy vagabond comes into her life, everything changes. Hugo, who attends school only if he is not too busy carving trolls or tending his spider collection, is more than a match for the school bullies, let alone the teacher. Their friendship from the opening of school through the Swedish winter darkness, up to a momentous Christmas celebration is a sometimes hilarious but always a touching story. - From Inside Flap

A doll is sad that she and her friends cannot visit other places until a high wind carries them away in a paper house.

Fluchtpunkt ist ein 1962 erschienener Roman von Peter Weiss, der über weite Strecken einem autobiografischen Bericht gleicht, aber auch fiktionale Elemente enthält. Er knüpft inhaltlich an Weiss' Erzählung Abschied von den Eltern an. Weiss geht in dem Werk seiner frühen Biografie als Emigrant in den Jahren zwischen 1940 und 1947 nach, die vom Kampf um seine Existenz als Künstler geprägt waren. (Quelle: Wikipedia)

A collection of essays that form a chronological survey of the significant and lesser-known figures of the 19th century American literature.

The seed a little boy plants grows into a tree with a house on top for him to live in.