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The Story of My life
Helen Keller's personal recollections and correspondence reveal her relationship with her beloved teacher, Annie Sullivan, and the problems and obstacles she encountered as she …
Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography
An examination of the meaning of moral responsibility in literature and our everday lives suggests that we live in a violated world that dismisses taboos
The Complete Short Stories of Marcel Proust
The first new translation of Proust's stories in half a century includes six stories that have been translated into English for the first time. Original.
The Banquet Years
The definitive chronicle of the origins of French avant-garde literature and art, Roger Shattuck's classic portrays the cultural bohemia of turn-of-the-century Paris who carried …
Mount Analogue
A beloved cult classic of Surrealism, Pataphysics and Gurdjieffian mysticism, Rene Daumal's Mount Analogue is the allegorical tale of an expedition to a mountain whose existence …
The Origin of the World
An exploration of desire by the French master Pierre Michon “A haunting, imagistic book, somehow both lush and spare.”—Martin Riker, Wall Street Journal This spare, …
Selected Writings
When Guillaume Apollinaire died in 1918 at the age of thirty-eight, as the result of a war wound, he was already known as one of the most original and important poets of his time. …
Proust's Binoculars: A Study of Memory, Time and Recognition in a la Recherche Du Temps Perdu
In this compact volume readers just beginning Proust's master work and those who are already enriched by it will become aware of a significance not unkown but only forgotten"--the …
Origin of the World
This spare, unforgettable novel is Pierre Michon's luminous exploration of the mysteries of desire. A young teacher takes his first job in a sleepy French town. Lost in a …
The Story of My Life: The Restored Classic
The story of Helen Keller, who triumphed over deafness and blindness and became a symbol of the indomitable human spirit, is now considered one of the hundred most important books …
Candor and Perversion
With incisive analysis, he elucidates the nature of intellectual craftsmanship, defends art's undeniable moral component, and, faced with an academic world shattered by theory, …