Book Description
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone is vintage Tennessee Williams.
Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 43,11 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811212496
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone is vintage Tennessee Williams.
Author : Hilda Doolittle
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 47,96 MB
Release : 1996-04-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0811202046
These two long stories by modernist master H.D. paint the wreckage of post-World War I Europe—both human and civilizational—in bright, vivid detail. Written by H. D. in 1930 and only published in a 100-copy edition for friends in 1934, Kora and Ka marked a new level of intensity in the poet's experiments with prose fiction. The two long stories contained in this volume, Kora and Ka and Mira-Mare, are at once profoundly autobiographical yet, through H. D.'s unusual brand of modernist story-telling, pushed beyond personality. The men and women who haunt these tales are wraiths in spiritual exile, wanderers in a Europe still recovering from the devastations of World War I. Her descriptions of the beaches at Monte Carlo are triumphs of vivid detail - bright watercolors set against brooding psychological portraits. In its exploration of the broken dualities of self and civilization, Kora and Ka looks forward to H. D.'s masterpieces, Tribute to Freud and Trilogy.
Author : Henry Miller
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 15,4 MB
Release : 1993-04-17
Category : 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)
Author : Ezra Pound
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 40,11 MB
Release : 1994-05-17
Category : 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."
Author : William Saroyan
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 44,28 MB
Release : 1994-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811226506
Eleven of William Saroyan's most delightful tales, Fresno Stories springs straight from the source of the author's vision—"the archetypal Armenian families who inhabit Saroyan country, in and around Fresno, California." (Chicago Tribune) Selected from New Directions' collections of Saroyan's early stories (The Man With the Heart In the Highlands) and his later work (Madness In the Family), Fresno Stories spans his whole remarkable career.
Author : Thomas Merton
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 40,31 MB
Release : 1995-07-17
Category : 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.
Author : Pablo Neruda
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 49,58 MB
Release : 2005-11-25
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 081122547X
Neruda's epic hymn against fascism, Spain in Our Hearts, now available in this pocket Bibelot edition. In 1936, Pablo Neruda was Chile's consul in Madrid, and so horrified by the civil war and the murder of his friend, Federico Garcia Lorca, that he started writing what became his most politically passionate series of poems, Spain in Our Hearts. The collection was printed by soldiers on the front lines of the war, and later incorporated into the third volume of Neruda's revolutionary collection, Residence on Earth. This bilingual New Directions Bibelot edition presents Spain in Our Hearts as a single book as it was first published, a tribute to Neruda's everlasting spirit.
Author : Brett Foster
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,35 MB
Release : 2005
Category : 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.
Author : Ronald Firbank
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 42,82 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811212434
The stage-struck daughter of an English rural dean runs off with the family plate to London and a theatrical career-only to die tragically by the bite of a mousetrap in her moment of triumph as a sensational Juliet.
Author : Muriel Spark
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 37,24 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811212717
Lise leaves her home in northern Europe for a holiday, but it is not rest and relaxation that she is looking for...