The chronicle of a family-owned restaurant in Buffalo, this book recalls the pre-war days when 'George and Eddie's' was a Polish tavern, through the swinging forties when it became a swank nightspot, to its eventual demise amid the changing social scene of modern America.
The chronicle of a family-owned restaurant in Buffalo, this book recalls the pre-war days when 'George and Eddie's' was a Polish tavern, through the s...
This is a collection of Klinkenborg's writings on the natural world and the changing seasons which appear frequently in a column entitled The Rural Life on the editorial page of the New York Times.
This is a collection of Klinkenborg's writings on the natural world and the changing seasons which appear frequently in a column entitled The Rural Li...
In a novella which remains highly controversial to this day, Conrad explores the relations between Africa and Europe. On the surface, this is a horrifying tale of colonial exploitation. The narrator, Marlowe journeys on business deep into the heart of Africa. But there he encounters Kurtz, an idealist apparently crazed and depraved by his power over the natives, and the meeting prompts Marlowe to reflect on the darkness at the heart of all men. This short but complex and often ambiguous story, which has been the basis of several films and plays, continues to provoke interpretation and...
In a novella which remains highly controversial to this day, Conrad explores the relations between Africa and Europe. On the surface, this is a hor...
Few writers have attempted to explore the natural history of a particular animal by adopting the animal s own sensibility. But Verlyn Klinkenborg has done just that in Timothy an insightful and utterly engaging story of the world s most famous tortoise, whose real life was observed by the eighteenth-century English curate and naturalist Gilbert White. For thirteen years, Timothy lived in White s garden. Here Klinkenborg gives the tortoise an unforgettable voice and keen powers of observation on both human and natural affairs. Wry and wise, unexpectedly moving and enchanting at every...
Few writers have attempted to explore the natural history of a particular animal by adopting the animal s own sensibility. But Verlyn Klinkenborg has ...
Back in print after 150 years Out of print since 1856, The American Gardener is perhaps the first classic work of American gardening literature. In it, William Cobbett, Victorian England's greatest and most gifted journalist, draws upon his experiences during a two-year exile on a Long Island, New York, farm to lay out the rudiments of gardening for American farmers and, ultimately, to tailor principles developed in wet, drippy, weed-prone British gardens to their fine, sun-drenched counterparts in America. Full of practical knowledge memorably imparted with Cobbett's gift...
Back in print after 150 years Out of print since 1856, The American Gardener is perhaps the first classic work of American gardening...
Set during World War I on an isolated country estate just outside London, Rebecca West s haunting novel The Return of the Soldier follows Chris Baldry, a shell-shocked captain suffering from amnesia, as he makes a bittersweet homecoming to the three women who have helped shape his life. Will the devoted wife he can no longer recollect, the favorite cousin he remembers only as a childhood friend, and the poor innkeeper s daughter he once courted leave Chris to languish in a safe, dreamy past or will they help him recover his memory so that he can return to the front? The answer is...
Set during World War I on an isolated country estate just outside London, Rebecca West s haunting novel The Return of the Soldier follows Chris...
"Ducks in a stream, the bridge at St. Anthony Falls, streets of cities and towns, a fish in a net, the glittering lakes seen under low skies. The Face of Minnesota is a fresh, simple, unpretentious statement of a place and time by people who know what Minnesota is because they live there." --Minor White, Aperture, 1958
"John Szarkowski is the single most important curator that photography has ever had. Looking at his photographs created over the last fifty years makes me want to weep. They are truly American pictures; one feels his desire to show not just what America...
"Ducks in a stream, the bridge at St. Anthony Falls, streets of cities and towns, a fish in a net, the glittering lakes seen under low skies. The F...
An indispensable and distinctive book that will help anyone who wants to write, write better, or have a clearer understanding of what it means for them to be writing, from widely admired writer and teacher Verlyn Klinkenborg. Klinkenborg believes that most of our received wisdom about how writing works is not only wrong but an obstacle to our ability to write. In Several Short Sentences About Writing, he sets out to help us unlearn that wisdom about genius, about creativity, about writer s block, topic sentences, and outline and understand that writing is just as much about...
An indispensable and distinctive book that will help anyone who wants to write, write better, or have a clearer understanding of what it means for ...
Leading landscape photographers Diane Cook and Len Jenshel present Wise Trees--a stunning photography book containing more than 50 historical trees with remarkable stories from around the world. Supported by grants from the Expedition Council of the National Geographic Society, Cook and Jenshel spent two years traveling to fifty-nine sites across five continents to photograph some of the world's most historic and inspirational trees. Trees, they tell us, can live without us, but we cannot live without them. Not only do trees provide us with the oxygen we breathe, food...
Leading landscape photographers Diane Cook and Len Jenshel present Wise Trees--a stunning photography book containing more than 50 historica...
From the wonders of alfalfa, the "miracle plant," to barbed wire and the myriad difficulties of operating tractors and side rakes, renowned author Verlyn Klinkenborg paints a stunning and memorable portrait of life on American family farms.
From the wonders of alfalfa, the "miracle plant," to barbed wire and the myriad difficulties of operating tractors and side rakes, renowned author Ver...
