Johannes Bobrowski tells the story of the narrator's grandfather, who plats and schemes to ruin the Jewish newcomer who has built a mill down-stream from him. With splendid irony, Bobrowski describes the diverse characters of the Jews, Poles, Gypsies, and Germans who inhabit the village, and whose affairs mirror the larger history of Poland.
Johannes Bobrowski tells the story of the narrator's grandfather, who plats and schemes to ruin the Jewish newcomer who has built a mill down-stream f...
Bread in the Wilderness sets forth Merton's belief that -the Psalms acquire, for those who know how to enter into them, a surprising depth, a marvelous and inexhaustible actuality. They are bread, miraculously provided by Christ, to feed those who have followed Him into the wilderness.- Merton's goal in this moving book is to help the reader enter into the Psalms: -The secret is placed in the hands of each Christian. It only needs to be discovered and fulfilled in our own lives.- The new ND Classic edition of Bread in the Wilderness faithfully reproduces the beautiful, large-format original...
Bread in the Wilderness sets forth Merton's belief that -the Psalms acquire, for those who know how to enter into them, a surprising depth, a marvelou...
Da Vinci's Bicycle, Guy Davenport's second collection of stories, was first published in 1979, and contains some of his most important fiction. Written with tremendous wit, intelligence, and verve, the stories are based on historical figures whose endeavors were too early, too late, or went against the grain of their time. They are all people who see the world differently from their contemporaries and therefore seem absurd, like Pablo Picasso in "Au Tombeau de Charles Fourier," Leonardo Da Vinci in "The Richard Nixon Freischutz Rag," James Joyce and Guillaume Apollinaire in the...
Da Vinci's Bicycle, Guy Davenport's second collection of stories, was first published in 1979, and contains some of his most important fictio...
January Marlow, a heroine with a Catholic outlook of the most unsentimental stripe, is one of three survivors out of twenty-nine souls when her plane crashes, blazing, on Robinson's island. Presumed dead for months, the three survivors must wait for the annual return of the pomegranate boat. Robinson, a determined loner, proves a fair if misanthropic host to his uninvited guests; he encourages January to keep a journal: as "an occupation for my mind, and I fancied that I might later dress it up for a novel. That was most peculiar, as things transpired, for I did not then anticipate how the...
January Marlow, a heroine with a Catholic outlook of the most unsentimental stripe, is one of three survivors out of twenty-nine souls when her plane ...
