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"On the third Wednesday of every August the inhabitants of a mansion-turned-poorhouse in central New Jersey hold their annual fair; this novel describes a fair that occurs about twenty years from now , when the United States itself is heading downhill ... While 'The Poorhouse Fair, ' insofar as it regrets the decline of patriotism, handcraft, and religion, carries a conservative message, its technique is unorthodox; without so much regard for fictional conventions, the author attempts to locate, in the ambiguous area between farce and melodrama, reality's own tone."

1935 first edition, by William Heinemann Ltd. Printed in Great Britain. This book includes 7 illustrations and 2 page facsimile writings by Kahlil Gibran page 26 last verse: "Call nothing ugly, my friend, save the fear of a soul in the presence of it's own memories" page 32-33 facsimile writings

Collection of parables.

Written from deep understanding, long acquaintance, and extensive knowledge, Hubert Herring's brilliant A History of Latin America is unquestionably the finest and fullest history of the complex and turbulent world of Latin America and its people. For this third edition, it has been extensively rewritten and brought completely up to date to tell the story of the Latin American experience from the Indian, Iberian and African backgrounds to the tumults of the mid-twentieth century. It cover Chile's epochal 'revolution by ballot' under Edurado Feri and the Christian Democrats; Brazil's recent military upheavals; Argentina's disappointing relapse into dictatorship; and the extraordinary rule of Fidel Castro in Cuba. The bibliography has been thoroughly revised and the statsitical tables include the latest available data. The colourful and verigated history of Central and South America provides the author with a challenge that is superbly met. Political, social and economic history are covered in great detail, but not at the expense of intellectual or cultural history; and the impressive personalities who have appeared with such profusion in this area are vividly portrayed. A History of Latin America is an authoritative and perceptive book, and one essential for any reader who wishes to understand the importance of this explosive continent in the world history. -- Inside cover.

The story of a dying marriage, told in the form of parallel diaries. After nearly 30 years of marriage, a dried-up, middle-aged professor frenziedly strives for new heights of carnal pleasure with his repressed, dissatisfied wife, resorting to stimulants galore for her. During the day, they record their adventures of the previous night.

Long unavailable, now in paperback for the first time, these are the brilliant, subtle, illuminating letters of one of the great poets of the twentieth century. Wallace Stevens's famous criterion for poetry - "It should give pleasure" - informed his epistolary aesthetic as well; these letters stimulate one's appetite for poetry as they valorize the imagination and the senses. They also offer fascinating glimpses of Stevens as family man, insurance executive, connoisseur, and friend.

Three fictional parables.

Contains two sequence novels, "The thaw" and "The spring", which deal with life in a Soviet factory town in post-Stalin days.

"The contents of this book embody ... Wylie's four books of poems, 'Nets to Catch the Wind' (1921), 'Black Armour' (1923), 'Trivial Breath' (1928), and 'Angels and Earthly Creatures' (1929), in the exact sequence and order in which they were originally published. Added ... is a section of poems hitherto uncollected in book form ... A few ... have never before been printed."--Foreword by William Rose Benét.

A Country of Strangers is a magnificent exploration of the psychological landscape where blacks and whites meet. To tell the story in human rather than abstract terms, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer David K. Shipler bypasses both extremists and celebrities and takes us among ordinary Americans as they encounter one another across racial lines. We learn how blacks and whites see each other, how they interpret each other's behavior, and how certain damaging images and assumptions seep into the actions of even the most unbiased. We penetrate into dimensions of stereotyping and discrimination that are usually invisible, and discover the unseen prejudices and privileges of white Americans, and what black Americans make of them. The book makes clear that we have the ability to shape our racial landscape - to reconstruct, even if not perfectly, the texture of our relationships. There is an assessment of the complexity confronting blacks and whites alike as they struggle to recognize and define the racial motivations that may or may not be present in a thought, a word, a deed. The book does not prescribe, but it documents the silences that prevail, the listening that doesn't happen, the conversations that don't take place. It looks at relations between minorities, including blacks and Jews, and blacks and Koreans. It explores the human dimensions of affirmative action, the intricate contacts and misunderstandings across racial lines among coworkers and neighbors. It is unstinting in its criticism of our society's failure to come to grips with bigotry; but it is also, happily, crowded with black people and white people who struggle in their daily lives to do just that.

Against the backdrop of World War II, friendship develops between a lonely crippled painter and a village girl, when together they minister to an injured snow goose.

Freddy the pig outwits a fraudulent magician with the help of his barnyard friends. Enjoy another adventure with the Boomschmidt Circus and Freddy's Great Detective skills.

In the ancient days, when the first quiver of speech came to my lips, I ascended the holy mountain and spoke unto God, saying, "Master, I am thy slave. Thy hidden will is my law and I shall obey thee for ever more."

An account of major archaeologists' explorations and their discoveries, including Pompeii, Troy, Mycenae, Crete, the empires of Egypt, the kingdoms of Assyria, Babylonia, and Sumeria, and the empires of the Aztecs, the Mayas, and the Toltecs.

Politics Among Nations has been considered by many to be the premiere text in international politics.

A small collection of short stories; The Story of a Panic, The Other Side of the Hedge, The Celestial Omnibus, Other Kingdom, The Curate's Friend, The Road from Colonu

Apologie pour l'histoire ou Métier d'historien est un essai de Marc Bloch rédigé entre la fin de 1940 et les premiers mois de 1943. Inachevé, il est publié de manière posthume en 1949, à l’initiative de Lucien Febvre. Marc Bloch s'interroge sur ce qu'est l’histoire, et plus particulièrement sur le rôle et les méthodes de l’historien dans la construction de cette science.

This edition reprints Willa Cather's 1903 collection of poems (called April Twilights) along with the additional poems she added in 1923 (in a collection she called April twilights and other poems). In addition it includes many uncollected and previously unpublished poems, along with a selection of Cather's letters that are relevant to her poetry from The selected letters of Willa Cather, edited by Stout and Jewell and published 2013 by Knopf. Before Willa Cather went on to write the novels that would make her famous, she was known as a poet, the most popular of her poems reprinted many times in national magazines and anthologies. Her first book of poetry, April Twilights, was published in 1903, but Cather significantly revised and expanded it in a 1923 edition entitled April Twilights and Other Poems. This Everymans Library edition reproduces for the first time all the poems from both versions of April Twilights, along with a number of uncollected and previously unpublished poems by Cather, as well as an illuminating selection of her newly released letters. In such lyrical poems as "The Hawthorn Tree," "Winter at Delphi," "Prairie Spring," "Poor Marty," and "Going Home," Cather exhibits both a finely tuned sensitivity to the beauties of the physical world and a richly symbolic use of the landscapes of myth. The themes that were to animate her later masterpieces found their first expression in these haunting, elegiac ballads and sonnets.

Set in the author's beloved Bahia, a swarming tale of raffish folk--prostitutes, cardsharpers, and pimps, drunks and homeless Don Juans and Messalinas in the teeming life of a tropical port.

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Portrays the rise of anti-intellectualism in America during the McCarthy era.

Twenty-nine tales of Ireland, selected by the author from his earlier books.

Sayward, a pioneer in Ohio's forest, helps clear and farm the land and watches the town develop.