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The Art of Memoryby YatesISBN 0226950018 (0-226-95001-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of Memory'Book summary:In this classic study of how people learned to retain vast stores of knowledge before the invention of the printed page, Frances A. Yates traces the art of memory from its treatment by Greek orators, through its Gothic transformations in the Middle Ages, to the occult forms it took in the Renaissance, and finally to its use in the seventeenth century. This book, the first to relate the art of memory to the history of culture as a whole, was revolutionary when it first appeared and continues to mesmerize readers with its lucid and revelatory insights.[via] -
The Book of Lamentationsby Rosario CastellanosISBN 0141180331 (0-14-118033-1)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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The Book of Memory: A Study of Memory in Medieval Cultureby Mary J. CarruthersISBN 0521429730 (0-521-42973-0)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Memory: A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture'Book summary:The Book of Memory is a magisterial and beautifully illustrated account of the workings and function of memory in medieval society. Memory was the psychological faculty valued above all others in the period stretching from late antiquity through the Renaissance. The prominence given to memory has profound implications for the contemporary understanding of all creative activity, and the social role of literature and art. Drawing on a range of fascinating examples from Dante, Chaucer, and Aquinas to the symbolism of illuminated manuscripts, this unusually wide-ranging book offers new insights into the medieval world. [via]
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The Brief History of the Deadby Kevin BrockmeierISBN 1400095956 (1-4000-9595-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Brief History of the Dead'Book summary:Remember me when Im gone
just took on a whole new meaning.
The City is inhabited by the recently departed, who reside there only as long as they remain in the memories of the living. Among the current residents of this afterlife are Luka Sims, who prints the only newspaper in the City, with news from the other side; Coleman Kinzler, a vagrant who speaks the cautionary words of God; and Marion and Phillip Byrd, who find themselves falling in love again after decades of marriage.
On Earth, Laura Byrd is trapped by extreme weather in an Antarctic research station. Shes alone and unable to contact the outside world: her radio is down and the power is failing. Shes running out of supplies as quickly as shes running out of time.
Kevin Brockmeier interweaves these two stories in a spellbinding tale of human connections across boundaries of all kinds. The Brief History of the Dead is the work of a remarkably gifted writer. [via]More editions of The Brief History of the Dead:
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The Captiveby Marcel Proust, C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, D. J. Enright, Terence KilmartinISBN 0375753117 (0-375-75311-7)
Softcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Captive'Book summary:The Modern Librarys fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and The Fugitive (1925). In The Captive, Prousts narrator describes living in his mothers Paris apartment with his lover, Albertine, and subsequently falling out of love with her. In The Fugitive, the narrator loses Albertine forever. Rich with irony, The Captive and The Fugitive inspire meditations on desire, sexual love, music, and the art of introspection.
For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartins acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieffs translation to take into account the new definitive French editions of Á la recherché du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 1989). [via]More editions of The Captive:
The Collective Memoryby Maurice HalbwachsISBN 0060908009 (0-06-090800-9)
Softcover, Harper & Row
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The Confessionsby Augustine, John E. Rotelle, Maria BouldingISBN 1565481542 (1-56548-154-2)
Softcover, New City
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Confessions'Book summary:Maria Bouldings version is of a different level of excellence from practically anything else on the market. She has perfected an elegant and flowing style.
Rowan Williams
Archbishop of Canterbury
The Confessions of Saint Augustine is considered the all time number one Christian classic. It is an extended poetic, passionate, intimate prayer. Augustine was probably forty-three when he began this endeavor. He had been a baptized Catholic for ten years, a priest for six, and a bishop for only two. His pre-baptismal life raised questions in the community. Was his conversion genuine? The first hearers were captivated, as many millions have been over the following sixteen centuries. His experience of God speaks to us across time with little need of transpositions. This new translation masterfully captures his experience.
So old and yet so new! This contemporary translation of Augustine's Confessions was like meeting an old friend and touching perennial truth, despite the passing years. Augustine was surely larger than life--and this translation matches it.
Richard Rohr, o.f.m. [via]
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- The Confessions: ISBN 156548083X (1-56548-083-X)
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Hardcover, Hendrickson Pub - The Confessions: ISBN 0872208168 (0-87220-816-8)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc - Confessions: ISBN 0916441075 (0-916441-07-5)
Hardcover, Barbour Publishing, Incorporated - The Confessions: ISBN 0872201864 (0-87220-186-4)
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Softcover, Bridge-Logos - Confessions: ISBN 0785242252 (0-7852-4225-2)
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Hardcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc - Confessions: ISBN 0880291036 (0-88029-103-6)
Hardcover, Hippocrene Books - The Confessions: ISBN 2070114120 (2-07-011412-0)
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Confessionsby Not AvailableISBN 0785242481 (0-7852-4248-1)
Hardcover, Thomas Nelson Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Confessions'Book summary:The premier line of Classic literature from the greatest Christian authors. The finest in quality and value.
Never underestimate the power of prayer. As Monica, the mother of St. Augustine, watched as her son and grandson were being baptized on that bright easter morning in A.D.387, she knew her lifelong prayers had been answered. Even though in his Confessions, Augustine wrote about his early life as an example of how sin grows and works within a person, he was looking back over those early years with the vision of a bishop of the church. Monica could not have known that those prayers would have presented to the church a man who would impact Christianity with the strength that Augustine did. [via]More editions of Confessions:
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The Confessions of Saint Augustineby AugustineISBN 1421824515 (1-4218-2451-5)
Softcover, 1st World Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Confessions of Saint Augustine'Book summary:Great art Thou, O Lord, and greatly to be praised; great is Thy power, and Thy wisdom infinite. And Thee would man raise; man, but a particle of Thy creation; man, that bears about him his mortality, the witness of his sin, the witness that Thou resistest [via]
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Softcover, Touchstone Books - The Confessions of Saint Augustine: ISBN 0883683822 (0-88368-382-2)
Softcover, Whitaker House - The Confessions of Saint Augustine: ISBN 0804901902 (0-8049-0190-2)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co - The Confessions of Saint Augustine: ISBN 0679603263 (0-679-60326-3)
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- The Confessions of Saint Augustine: ISBN 1421823519 (1-4218-2351-9)
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The Confessions Of Saint Augustineby E. B. Pusey, AugustineISBN 140680603X (1-4068-0603-X)
Softcover, Echo Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Confessions of Saint Augustine'Book summary:But woe is thee, thou torrent of human custom! Who shall stand against thee? how long shalt thou not be dried up? how long roll the sons of Eve into that huge and hideous ocean, which even they scarcely overpass who climb the cross? Did not I read in thee of Jove the thunderer and the adulterer? both, doubtless, he could not be; but so the feigned thunder might countenance and pander to real adultery. [via]
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The Confessions of Saint Augustineby E. M. Blaiklock, AugustineISBN 0840758634 (0-8407-5863-4)
Softcover, T. Nelson
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The Confessions of Saint Augustineby J. M. Lelen, Augustine, J. M. LeleuISBN 0899421695 (0-89942-169-5)
Softcover, Catholic Book Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Confessions of Saint Augustine'Book summary:When saint augustine wrote his confessions he was facing, and responding to, a growing spread of asceticism in the roman world.about the authorst augustine of hippo, the great doctor of the latin church, was born at thagaste in north africa, in a.d. 354. He was brought up as a christian but he was soon converted to the manichean religion. He also came under the influence of neoplatonism. However, in 387 he renounced all his unorthodox beliefs and was baptised. His surviving works had a great influence on christian theology and the psychology and political theology of the west. R.s. Pine-coffin is a roman catholic and was born in 1917 [via]
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The Confessions of Saint Augustineby Martin E. Marty, Rex Warner, AugustineISBN 0451527801 (0-451-52780-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Confessions of Saint Augustine'Book summary:Harvard Classics, Vol. 7, Part 1
The origin of the autobiographical tradition, the Confessions of one of the great Fathers of the Church traces a dialogue with his God and a journey toward rising above one's self.
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The Confessions of St. Augustineby Carolinne WhiteISBN 0802839282 (0-8028-3928-2)
Hardcover, Eerdmans Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Confessions of St. Augustine'Book summary:Augustine was one of the most remarkable figures of the early Christian church. Born in North Africa in A.D. 354, the son of a pagan farmer, he rose to become Bishop of Hippo and a hugely influential Christian writer, whose Confessions are still loved today for their humanity and spiritual depth.
In this gorgeously illustrated volume Oxford scholar Carolinne White presents fresh translations of choice passages from the Confessions. These extracts have been chosen to express Augustine's wisdom and his mystical yearning for God. Lively narrative and colorful anecdotes are interspersed with passages of great poetry in praise of God. In the process of describing his own failings, Augustine also gives relevant advice on how to live a Christian life.
In this first modern illustrated edition of the Confessions, Augustine's words are accompanied by beautiful medieval and Renaissance illuminations from manuscripts in the collection at the British Librarymaking this a volume to treasure for a lifetime. [via]
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Confessions of St. Augustineby Rex WarnerISBN 0451624742 (0-451-62474-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Confessions of St. Augustine'Book summary:Acknowledged in every age and every nation of the Western World for nearly 1,500 years as one of mankind's great literary treasures, this is the classic autobiography of a man who journeyed from sin to sainthood, from heresy to the heights of theological insight, and from the darkness of worldly ambition to the changeless light of grace. (Literature/Classics) [via]
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The Confessions of St. Augustine: A Modern English Versionby Hal McElwaine Helms, AugustineISBN 0941478556 (0-941478-55-6)
Softcover, Paraclete Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Confessions of St. Augustine: A Modern English Version'Book summary:The Confessions of St. Augustine, a passionate, deeply honest autobiographical account of Augustine's journey toward faith, has been a source of spiritual guidance and intellectual nourishment for millions of people throught the centuries. While Augustine is regarded as one of Christianity's greatest theologians, the enduring and universal appeal of the Confessions is undoubtedly in Augustine's humanity--in his fervent examinations of his own struggles, conflicts, and temptations, and in his intensely personal quest for God. This modern edition of the Confessions will offer a profound source of spiritual enlightenment to today's reader.[via]More editions of The Confessions of St. Augustine: A Modern English Version:
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The Confessions of St. Augustine: Modern English Versionby Augustine, E. B. PuseyISBN 160206010X (1-60206-010-X)
Hardcover, Cosimo Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Confessions of St. Augustine: Modern English Version'Book summary:One of the most influential religious books in the Christian tradition recalls crucial events in the author's life: his mid-4th-century origins in rural Algeria; the rise to a lavish lifestyle at the imperial court in Milan; his struggle with sexual desires; eventual renunciation of secular ambitions and marriage; and recovery of his Catholic faith.[via]More editions of The Confessions of St. Augustine: Modern English Version:
- The Confessions of St. Augustine: Modern English Version: ISBN 0486424669 (0-486-42466-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - The Confessions of St. Augustine: Modern English Version: ISBN 0800787242 (0-8007-8724-2)
Softcover, Fleming H Revell Co - The Confessions of St. Augustine: Modern English Version: ISBN 0801001188 (0-8010-0118-8)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group - The Confessions of St. Augustine: Modern English Version: ISBN 160206010X (1-60206-010-X)
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- The Confessions of St. Augustine: Modern English Version: ISBN 0486424669 (0-486-42466-9)
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The Confessions: Saint Augustineby Maria Boulding, Augustine, Saint, of HippoISBN 1565480848 (1-56548-084-8)
Softcover, New City Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Confessions: Saint Augustine'Book summary:'Maria Boulding's version is of a different level of excellence from practically anything else on the market. She has perfected an elegant and flowing style.'
Rowan Williams
Archbishop of CanterburyThe Confessions of Saint Augustine is considered the all time number one Christian classic. It is an extended poetic, passionate, intimate prayer. Augustine was probably forty-three when he began this endeavor. He had been a baptized Catholic for ten years, a priest for six, and a bishop for only two. His pre-baptismal life raised questions in the community. Was his conversion genuine? The first hearers were captivated, as many millions have been over the following sixteen centuries. His experience of God speaks to us across time with little need of transpositions. This new translation masterfully captures his experience.
'So old and yet so new! This contemporary translation of Augustine's Confessions was like meeting an old friend and touching perennial truth, despite the passing years. Augustine was surely larger than life--and this translation matches it.'
Richard Rohr, o.f.m. [via]
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The Craft of Thought: Meditation, Rhetoric, and the Making of Images, 400-1200by Mary CarruthersISBN 0521795419 (0-521-79541-9)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Craft of Thought: Meditation, Rhetoric, and the Making of Images, 400-1200'Book summary:A companion to Mary Carruthers' earlier study of memory in medieval culture, The Book of Memory, this book, The Craft of Thought, examines medieval monastic meditation as a discipline for making thoughts, and discusses its influence on literature, art, and architecture, deriving examples from a variety of late antique and medieval sources, with excursions into modern architectural memorials. The study emphasizes meditation as an act of literary composition or invention, the techniques of which notably involved both words and making mental "pictures" for thinking and composing. [via]
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Die Ausgewandertenby W. G. SebaldISBN 3821840935 (3-8218-4093-5)
Hardcover, Eichborn
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Du Cote De Chez Swannby Marcel Proust, Christina TumminelloISBN 0977716139 (0-9777161-3-9)
Softcover, Chatterley Pr Intl
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Du Cote De Chez Swann'Book summary:L'expression roman fleuve devrait, sans connotation péjorative, désigner une Suvre qui prend le temps de charrier mille petites particules d'impression pour les infuser dans l'esprit d'un lecteur captivé. En somme, elle devrait avoir été créée pour désigner La Recherche proustienne, qui s'ouvre Du côté de chez Swann et s'achève une fois Le Temps retrouvé.
Dans le premier tome de ce superbe travail sur la mémoire et la métaphore, Suvre à part entière mais aussi amorce dramatique d'un joyau de la langue française, le narrateur s'aperçoit fortuitement, à l'occasion d'un goûter composé d'une tasse de thé et d'une madeleine désormais célèbre, que les sens ont la faculté de faire ressurgir le souvenir. Grâce aux senteurs d'un buisson d'aubépines, il prend confusément conscience de la distinction entre le souvenir et la réminiscence, pour ensuite s'exercer à manier les mots comme de petits papiers japonais qui, touchés par la grâce de l'eau, se déploient en corolle pour faire place à tout un univers. Tout comme se déploie un roman fleuve à partir de cette toute petite phrase légendaire : "Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure". --Sana Tang-Léopold Wauters [via]
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El Dadorby Lois Lowry, Maria Luisa BalseiroISBN 8424159535 (84-241-5953-5)
Softcover, Everest De Ediciones Y distribucion
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Dador'Book summary:Así se describe el incierto futuro de un nino que habita un mundo supuestamente ideal: sin conflictos, pobreza, desempleo. divorcio. injusticia ni desigualdades. Una sociedad en la que los valores de familia son de máxima importancia, la rebelión juvenil es algo desconocido y la educación es casi una forma de vida. Contado con una sencillez que engana, esta es la provocativa historia de un nino que experimenta algo increíble y emprende algo imposible. Este libro cuestiona todos los valores que siempre hemos dado por supuestos y vuelve a examinar nuestras creencias mas profundas. Diciembre es le mes en el que se celebre la Ceremonia anual, en el que los Doce reciben sus asignaciones vitalicias determinadas por el Comité de Ancianos. Pero Jonas, un nino que cumple sus doce anos, ha sido elegido para algo muy especial. Cuando su selecciona le lleva ante el mas honorable de los Ancianos - el Dador -, Jonas comienza a darse cuenta de los oscuros secretos que subyacen bajo la frágil perfección de su mundo. [via]
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Emigrantsby W. G. SebaldISBN 1860463495 (1-86046-349-5)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emigrants'Book summary:In this remarkable work of fiction, W.G. Sebald explores the power of memory as he traces the lives of four people uprooted by war and prejudice. Each of the stories reflect the tragic impact of World War II on the survivors, who struggle with a loss of home, a loss of language, and a loss of self. Through memories, each person attempts to make sense of their histories and bridge the chasm the war ripped in their lives. Combined with each story are photographs that purport to show the subjects of the stories. The combination of photographs, biography, and autobiography combine to form a meditative, lyrical story that is at once powerful and introspective. [via]
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Emigrantsby Michael Hulse, W. G. SebaldISBN 0811213668 (0-8112-1366-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emigrants'Book summary:A meditation on memory and loss. Sebald re-creates the lives of four exiles--five if you include his oblique self-portrait--through their own accounts, others' recollections, and pictures and found objects. But he brings these men before our eyes only to make them fade away, "longing for extinction." Two were eventual suicides, another died in an asylum, the fourth still lived under a "poisonous canopy" more than 40 years after his parents' death in Nazi Germany.
Sebald's own longing is for communion. En route to Ithaca (the real upstate New York location but also the symbolic one), he comes to feel "like a travelling companion of my neighbor in the next lane." After the car speeds away--"the children pulling clownish faces out of the rear window--I felt deserted and desolate for a time." Sebald's narrative is purposely moth-holed (butterfly-ridden, actually--there's a recurring Nabokov-with-a-net type), an escape from the prison-house of realism. According to the author, his Uncle Ambros's increasingly improbable tales were the result of "an illness which causes lost memories to be replaced by fantastic inventions." Luckily for us, Sebald seems to have inherited the same syndrome. --Kerry Fried [via]
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Fathers of the Church: Saint Augustine Confessionsby St. AugustineISBN 0813200210 (0-8132-0021-0)
Hardcover, Catholic Univ of Amer Pr
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Fathers of the Church: Saint Augustine Letters Volume 5by Wilfrid ParsonsISBN 0813200326 (0-8132-0032-6)
Hardcover, Catholic Univ of Amer Pr
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The Giverby Lois LowryISBN 0440237688 (0-440-23768-8)
Softcover, Laurel Leaf
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Giver'Book summary:In a world with no poverty, no crime, no sickness and no unemployment, and where every family is happy, 12-year-old Jonas is chosen to be the community's Receiver of Memories. Under the tutelage of the Elders and an old man known as the Giver, he discovers the disturbing truth about his utopian world and struggles against the weight of its hypocrisy. With echoes of Brave New World, in this 1994 Newbery Medal winner, Lowry examines the idea that people might freely choose to give up their humanity in order to create a more stable society. Gradually Jonas learns just how costly this ordered and pain-free society can be, and boldly decides he cannot pay the price. [via]
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The Guermantes Wayby Marcel ProustISBN 0375752331 (0-375-75233-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Guermantes Way'Book summary:The Guermantes Way, in this the third volume of In Search of Lost Time, refers to the path that leads to the Duc and Duchess de Guermantess château near Combray. It also represents the narrators passage into the rarefied social kaleidoscope of the Guermantess Paris salon, an important intellectual playground for Parisian society, where he becomes a party to the wit and manners of the Guermantess drawing room. Here he encounters nobles, officers, socialites, and assorted consorts, including Robert de Saint Loup and his prostitute mistress Rachel, the Baron de Charlus, and the Prince de Borodino.
For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartins acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieffs translation to take into account the new definitive French editions of Á la recherché du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 1989). [via]More editions of The Guermantes Way:
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A LA Recherche Du Temps Perduby Marcel Proust, Jean-Yves TadieISBN 2070111261 (2-07-011126-1)
Hardcover, Gallimard
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A LA Recherche Du Temps Perdu'Book summary:This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [via]
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The Memory Bookby Harry Lorayne, Jerry LucasISBN 0345337581 (0-345-33758-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Memory Book'Book summary:Unleash the hidden power of your mind through Harry Lorayne and Jerry Lucas's simple, fail-safe memory system, and you can become more effective, more imaginative, and more powerful, at work, at school, in sports and play. Discover how easy it is to: file phone numbers, data, figures, and appointments right in your head; learn foreign words and phrases with ease; read with speed--and greater understanding; shine in the classroom--and shorten study hours; dominate social situations, and more.
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The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricciby Jonathan D. SpenceISBN 0140080988 (0-14-008098-8)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci'Book summary:Matteo Ricci (1552-1616), an Italian Jesuit, entered China in 1583 to spread Catholicism in the largely Confucian country. In order to make a persuasive argument for the educated Chinese to abandon their traditional faith for the new one he was carrying, Ricci realized that he would have to prove the general superiority of Western culture. He did so by teaching young Confucian scholars tricks to increase their memory skills--an important advantage in a nation with countless laws and rituals that had to be learned by heart. Ricci attracted numerous students with this method; more important, Ricci came to have a sympathetic understanding for China that he communicated to Rome, and thence to the European nations at large. Spence's portrait of Ricci is a gem of historical writing. --Gregory MacNamee [via]
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The Mind of a Mnemonist: A Little Book About a Vast Memoryby Lynn Solotaroff, A.R. LuriaISBN 0674576225 (0-674-57622-5)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mind of a Mnemonist: A Little Book About a Vast Memory'Book summary:"The Mind of a Mnemonist is a rare phenomenon - a scientific study that transcends its data and, in the manner of the best fictional literature, fashions a portrait of an unforgettable human being. [via]
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Mysterious Flame of Queen Loanaby Umberto Eco, Geoffrey BrockISBN 0156030438 (0-15-603043-8)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana'Book summary:Yambo, a sixtyish rare-book dealer who lives in Milan, has suffered a loss of memory-he can remember the plot of every book he has ever read, every line of poetry, but he no longer knows his own name, doesn't recognize his wife or his daughters, and remembers nothing about his parents or his childhood. In an effort to retrieve his past, he withdraws to the family home somewhere in the hills between Milan and Turin.There, in the sprawling attic, he searches through boxes of old newspapers, comics, records, photo albums, and adolescent diaries. And so Yambo relives the story of his generation: Mussolini, Catholic education and guilt, Josephine Baker, Flash Gordon, Fred Astaire. His memories run wild, and the life racing before his eyes takes the form of a graphic novel. Yambo struggles through the frames to capture one simple, innocent image: that of his first love. A fascinating, abundant new novel-wide-ranging, nostalgic, funny, full of heart-from the incomparable Eco. [via]
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On Collective Memoryby Maurice Halbwachs, Lewis A. CoserISBN 0226115968 (0-226-11596-8)
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Remembrance of Things Past : Swann's Way and Within a Budding Groveby Marcel Proust, C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, Terence KilmartinISBN 0394711823 (0-394-71182-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Remembrance of Things Past : Swann's Way and Within a Budding Grove'Book summary:Here are the first two volumes of Prousts monumental achievement, Swanns Way and Within a Budding Grove. The famous overture to Swann's Way sets down the grand themes that govern In Search of Lost Time: as the narrator recalls his childhood in Paris and Combray, exquisite memories, long since passedhis mothers good-night kiss, the water lilies on the Vivonne, his love for Swanns daughter Gilbertespring vividly into being. In Within a Budding Grovewhich won the Prix Goncourt in 1919, bringing the author instant famethe narrator turns from his childhood recollections and begins to explore the memories of his adolescence. As his affections for Gilberte grow dim, the narrator discovers a new object of attention in the bright-eyed Albertine. Their encounters unfold by the shores of Balbec. One of the great works of Western literature, now in the new definitive French Pleiade edition translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin.
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Searching for Memory: The Brain, the Mind, and the Pastby Daniel L. SchacterISBN 0465075525 (0-465-07552-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Searching for Memory: The Brain, the Mind, and the Past'Book summary:Daniel Schacter, a Harvard professor of psychology and researcher into the workings of memory and the brain, authoritatively summarizes the most up-to-date scientific knowledge in this controversial field. Many of the advances have come from the study of brain-damaged patients: some remember past events clearly, yet forget the basics of everyday knowledge; others have precisely the reverse affliction. Putting this work together with brain scans and experiments on normal people, a useful understanding has emerged of the connections between the brain and the mind, and of the different types of memory. Schacter also bravely refutes the notion of "recovered memory," arguing persuasively that false memories can be easily created. [via]
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Selected Works of Frances Yatesby Frances A. YatesISBN 0415220432 (0-415-22043-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Works of Frances Yates'Book summary:The leading Renaissance scholar of her time, Frances Yates revolutionised the study of the history of art, science and ideas. She demonstrated that ideas and practices once considered marginal such as hermeticism and alchemy were actually at the forefront of the renaissance mind. Yates was a pioneer in her emphasis on visual culture and many of her works are richly illustrated with the iconography of symbolism of occult philosophy. Her magisterial studies address subjects as diverse as: Shakespeares last plays late medieval tapestry Italian renaissance philosophy the Rosicrucians For forty years of her life Frances Yates was associated with the Warburg Institute. Awarded a DBE for services to renaissance studies in 1977, she was a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Literature. This set provides immediate access to the work of this most important of late twentieth century philosophers. Volumes are also available individually. The Valois Tapestries 0415-22044-0 This extensively illustrated volume presents the extravagant tapestries of the Uffizi as documents, subtly woven into the fabric of cultural and political history. Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition 0415-22045-9 Giordano Bruno, perhaps the best-known philosopher of the Italian Renaissance, is here, for the first time, placed within the context of the Hermetic-Cabalist tradition. Yates explores how Renaissance Hermeticism stimulated new attitudes towards the cosmos and towards working with cosmic forces. Bruno emerges as a Hermetic Philosopher and magician with an unorthodox religious message. Even his support of Copernicus is associated with solar magic. This revolutionary reinterpretation profoundly affects our understanding of Bruno and of his death at the stake. The Art of Memory 0415-22046-7 Trained memory was of first importance in the ancient world before printing and paper for taking notes or writing down lectures were available. An art rose in response to this need which relied on architecture and could depend on faculties of intense visual memorization. In this volume, Yates traces this art of memory from Simonides through Aquinas to the Renaissance and the growth of scientific method. The Rosicrucian Enlightenment 0415-22047-5 The Rosicrucian Enlightenment is an enthralling reconstruction of an important yet largely forgotten phase in European thought. A stage between the Renaissance and the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century, the Rosicrucian Enlightenment was a striving for spiritual illumination as well as an attempt to advance scientific and intellectual knowledge. This book is the definitive work on the origins of Rosicrucian thought and its influence on politics and great thinkers in seventeenth-century Europe. Frances Yates focuses on the short-lived reign of Frederick, Elector Palatine, and his wife, the daughter of James I, as Winter King and Queen of Bohemia showing that this brief period was a Hermetic golden age, inspired by the Rosicrucian movement. The reconstruction of this phase of European history takes Rosicruianism beyond occult studies and makes it a concern for serious historical enquiry. The intellectual giants of this era, including Francis Bacon, Descartes and Newton, are seen here in new contexts that provide fresh insight into their thought. Among the many other personages and themes discussed are John Dee, Robert Boyles Invisible College, and the rise of the Royal Society and of Freemasonry. Astraea: The Imperial Theme in the Sixteenth Century 0415-22048-3 In this volume, Frances Yates attends to the political dimension of Renaissance thought. She examines the images and symbolism of religion and monarchy, especially in relation to the myth of Astraea. As well as being essential reading for historians of the Renaissance period, the book is of fundamental importance for students of the literature of the Elizabethan period. Frances Yates shows how Spensers Fairie Queene E grew out of the Accession Day Tilts and the imagery deployed in them, and demonstrates that Shakespeares preoccupation with Monarchy, with a rule of justice and purity as opposed to the forces of evil, grew out of the contemporary preoccupation with a religious imperial theme. The book as a whole forms a unity - an approach to history through imagery - and includes many illustrations, which are in themselves historical documents. Shakespeares Last Plays: A New Approach 0415-22049-1 Drawing together many years of research on Renaissance symbolism and the Hermetic tradition, Frances Yates tackles Shakespearean problems, with startlingly original results. Her approach makes possible a new interpretation of Cymbeline, relating its imagery to the revival of Tudor mythology the influence of the Tudor imperial reform and religious toleration in Henry VIII the role of magic in the last plays whose magical-mystical atmosphere is compared with that of the Rosicrucian movement in Germany with which it is suggested that Shakespeare was in sympathy Ben Jonsons attitude to Shakespeare. The book connects closely with Astraea and The Rosicrucian Enlightenment and it suggests entirely new and exciting routes into the understanding of Shakespeares attitude to the religious problems of his age. The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age 0415-220505 A central theme of this book is the history of Christian Cabala, the Christian interpretation of the Jewish mystical tradition. It was believed that when God gave the Law to Moses, he also gave a revelation of the secret meaning of the Law. This esoteric tradition was interpreted in a Christian sense by Pico della Mirandola, the founder of Christian Cabala, with which he associated Hermeticism. Part I discusses the occult philosophy in Renaissance and Reformation, showing its wide influence and reactions against it as magic. Part II traces the influence of the occult philosophy on major Elizabethan writers such as Spenser, Marlowe, Chapman and Shakespeare. A major theme throughout the book is the importance of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 in spreading Cabalist notions among Christians. The presence of Jewish influence in the Elizabethan age is hinted at, and the return of the Jews to England in the reign of Charles II is seen as the culmination of trends linking Albion with Jerusalem, even in the Elizabethan age. This is discussed in Part III. The book uses Frances Yatess other works on the Hermetic-Cabalist tradition, whilst attempting a new presentation of Christian Cabala. In her study of the imagery with which the poets express occult philosophy, she draws on her work Astraea E on the Elizabethan imperial reform. Lull & Bruno (Collected essays) 0415-22051-3 The essays collected here reprint the first sketches, dating from 1939 to 1960, which were to form Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition. They contain much material not used in that book, however, and they also look forward to what became The Art of Memory. Renaissance and Reform: The Italian Contribution (Collected essays) 0415-22052-1 This book brings together Frances Yatess research on Italian subjects, drawn from all periods of her long and distinguished career. Beginning with an account of how she first became involved with Italian cultural and intellectual history, the essays collected here cover a wide range of topics, some taking up and adding to themes explored in her books, others breaking new ground. Included are articles on aspects of Giordano Bruno, teachers of Italian in sixteenth and seventeenth-century England, Shakespeare and the Platonic tradition, and a fourteenth century treatise on artificial memory, as well as essays on Paolo Sarpi, Machiavelli, Guicciardini, and on the Hebrew teachers of Pico della Mirandola and other philosophers of the Italian Renaissance. Ideas and Ideals in the North European Renaissance 0415-22239-7 This volume comprises Yatess papers and reviews on topics concerning England, France, the Netherlands and Germany during the epoch of the Renaissance and Reformation. The essays are drawn from all periods of Yatess long career and cover a wide range of subjects: English allegorical portraiture in the Elizabethan age Yatess early and late contributions on Shakespeare, Jonson, John Dee and Francis Bacon English Protestant attitudes to religious images and to martyrdom French drama Theocratic and apocalyptic politics European influence of printing and of Erasmus, Cornelius Agrippa, Copernicus and Newton. Also included is a selection from Yatess notes on her early publications and first acquaintance with the Warburg Institute as well as a brief autobiographical account of her early life. A full list of her writings completes the book and rounds out the picture of a remarkable historian. [via]
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Sodom and Gomorrahby Marcel Proust, C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, D. J. Enright, Terence KilmartinISBN 0375753109 (0-375-75310-9)
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For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartins acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieffs translation to take into account the new definitive French editions of Á la recherché du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 1989). [via]More editions of Sodom and Gomorrah:
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Swann's Wayby Marcel ProustISBN 1414243677 (1-4142-4367-7)
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The initial part of the story focuses on the romantic life of a middle aged man named Swann. Proust has used poetic style of words to describe the nature and environment of France. His sentence structure is impressive and filled with searing, insightful, and humorous criticisms of French society.
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Swann's Wayby D.J. Enright, Marcel Proust, C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, Terence KilmartinISBN 0375751548 (0-375-75154-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Swann's Way'Book summary:In Swann's Way, the themes of Proust's masterpiece are introduced, and the narrator's childhood in Paris and Combray is recalled, most memorably in the evocation of the famous maternal good-night kiss. The recollection of the narrato'.s love for Swann's daughter Gilberte leads to an account of Swann's passion for Odette and the rise of the nouveaux riches Verdurins.
For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartin's acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieff's translation to take into account the new definitive French editions of Á la recherché du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 1989). [via]More editions of Swann's Way:
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Swann's Way Of Remembrance Of Things Pastby Marcel ProustISBN 1414243669 (1-4142-4366-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Swann's Way Of Remembrance Of Things Past'Book summary:Swann's Way begins with one of the most famous incidents in all of literature -- the taste of a madeleine and tea that reawakens the elusive childhood memories of the narrator, Marcel. An image of Charles Swann, a wealthy and fashionable neighbor, precipitates Marcel's recollection of Swann's marriage to Odette de Crecy, a beautiful, manipulative woman far beneath him in social standing, and of the jealousy, aroused by Odette's many affairs with both men and women, that eventually destroys Swarm. Marcel recounts, too, his own initiation into the aesthetic pleasures and sexual intrigues of belle-epoque Paris. The themes introduced in Swann's Way -- the destructive force of obsessive love, the allure and the consequences of transgressive sex, and the selective eye that shapes memories -- form the threads that unite all the volumes of Remembrance of Things Past. [via]
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Within a Budding Groveby Marcel ProustISBN 0375752196 (0-375-75219-6)
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En Busca Del Tiempo Perdido 1 Poe El Camino De Swannby Marcel ProustISBN 8420633631 (84-206-3363-1)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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La Misteriosa Llama De La Reina Loanaby Umberto Eco, Helena Lozano MirallesISBN 0307350029 (0-307-35002-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Misteriosa Llama De La Reina Loana'Book summary:Es triste despertarte una mañana en una cama de hospital y ser incapaz de reconocer a tu mujer y a tus hijos, abrir los ojos y no recordar cuál es tu profesión, ni dónde vives o cuáles son tus gustos a la hora de comer y beber. Esa es la desconcertante realidad de Giambattista Bodoni, Yambo para los amigos, un hombre de sesenta años que, tras sufrir un accidente, ha perdido por completo la memoria personal, la más ligada a las emociones, y en cambio conserva intacta la memoria histórica, así que sabe muy bien quién es Napoleón, pero ve su propia vida como si acabara de inaugurarla.
Para ayudarle en el proceso de recuperación, su esposa Paola insiste en que pase una temporada en el caserón de Solara, un pueblo en las colinas piamontesas. Ahí Yambo vivió su infancia, y en el desván están guardados los libros, los tebeos, los discos, los recortes de periódico y los carteles de las películas que lo acompañaron en los primeros años de su vida. Inicia así una labor casi detectivesca para reencontrarse con el pasado a través de estos objetos, que para él no son recuerdos sino hipótesis de trabajo, cosas nuevas que le hablan de un mundo que fue el suyo y el de todas las personas que vivieron en primera persona los momentos más importantes de la historia del siglo XX. Las fotos de Mussolini se juntan con las imágenes de Flash Gordon y Mandrake, Salgari le da la mano al ratón Mickey, y los negros uniformes de las juventudes fascistas se mezclan con las redacciones escolares de ese niño que fue Yambo, mientras el rostro de una mujer amada y el recuerdo de un crimen atroz asoman en la niebla. [via]More editions of La Misteriosa Llama De La Reina Loana:
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La Misteriosa Llama De La Reina Loana / The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loanaby Humberto EcoISBN 9685958130 (968-5958-13-0)
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Du Cote De Chez Swannby Marcel ProustISBN 2070379248 (2-07-037924-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Du Cote De Chez Swann'Book summary:L'expression roman fleuve devrait, sans connotation péjorative, désigner une Suvre qui prend le temps de charrier mille petites particules d'impression pour les infuser dans l'esprit d'un lecteur captivé. En somme, elle devrait avoir été créée pour désigner La Recherche proustienne, qui s'ouvre Du côté de chez Swann et s'achève une fois Le Temps retrouvé.
Dans le premier tome de ce superbe travail sur la mémoire et la métaphore, Suvre à part entière mais aussi amorce dramatique d'un joyau de la langue française, le narrateur s'aperçoit fortuitement, à l'occasion d'un goûter composé d'une tasse de thé et d'une madeleine désormais célèbre, que les sens ont la faculté de faire ressurgir le souvenir. Grâce aux senteurs d'un buisson d'aubépines, il prend confusément conscience de la distinction entre le souvenir et la réminiscence, pour ensuite s'exercer à manier les mots comme de petits papiers japonais qui, touchés par la grâce de l'eau, se déploient en corolle pour faire place à tout un univers. Tout comme se déploie un roman fleuve à partir de cette toute petite phrase légendaire : "Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure". --Sana Tang-Léopold Wauters [via]
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La Memoire Collectiveby Maurice HalbwachsISBN 2226093206 (2-226-09320-6)
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Die Ausgewandertenby W. G. SebaldISBN 359612056X (3-596-12056-X)
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La Misteriosa Fiamma Della Regina Loana: Romanzo Illustratoby Umberto EcoISBN 8845214257 (88-452-1425-7)
Hardcover, Bompiani
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