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The Archivistby Martha CooleyISBN 0316158461 (0-316-15846-1)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Archivist'Book summary:Matthias Lane is the proud gatekeeper to countless objects of desire, the greatest among them being T.S. Eliot's letters to Emily Hale. Now in his late 60s and archivist at an unnamed East Coast university, Matthias is--as one of his colleagues tells him--"exceptionally well defended." He's intent on keeping the Hale collection equally remote, and when a young poet first seeks access, Matthias rebuffs her with little difficulty. Still, Roberta Spire does remind him of his wife, Judith, who had also written poetry but had committed suicide 20 years earlier. And he is much taken with the student's self-possession: "Pleading never works with me," he concedes, "but authentic and angry self-interest does."
Betrayal figures heavily in The Archivist. For starters, Roberta feels betrayed by her parents, German Jews who had spent World War II in hiding and emigrated to the U.S. soon afterward, re-creating themselves as Christians. She has only recently discovered her Jewish background. The irony is that Matthias's wife had also been an Eliot adept and had felt violated by a false version of her own past and destroyed when confronted with the realities of the Holocaust. No wonder Roberta sees the Hale letters as a Holy Grail, the key to her questions about religious conversion and identity.
What holds this exceptionally ambitious and layered first novel together is the love all three main characters have for the pleasures of the text and the knowledge they share that time is, as Eliot writes, both preserver and destroyer. Eliot, after all, had wanted Emily Hale to destroy his letters (and in reality they are sealed until 2020, safe at Princeton University). Martha Cooley is deeply concerned, as are her characters, with questions of conscience, privacy, action and inaction, and security--personal and scholarly. If there is one parallel too many in this impressive work, perhaps that is more like life than some of us care to admit. --Kerry Fried [via]
Art of T. S. Eliotby Helen GardnerISBN 057108527X (0-571-08527-X)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Barnum Museumby Steven MillhauserISBN 1564781798 (1-56478-179-8)
Softcover, Dalkey Archive Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Barnum Museum'Book summary:"The Barnum Museum" is a combination waxworks, masked ball, and circus side-show masquerading as a collection of short stories. In the title story, the Barnum Museum is a fantastic, monstrous landmark so compelling that an entire town finds its citizens gradually and inexorably disappearing into it. Other stories include: the tale of a bored dilettante who constructs an imaginary woman - and loses her to an imaginary man, and a legendary magician so skilled at sleight-of-hand that he is pursued by police for the crime of erasing the line between the real and the conjured. Ingeniously written and orchestrated, each exhibit in "The Barnum Museum" will compel you to continue, each story becoming a lure to the next. [via]
Blast Iby Wyndham LewisISBN 0876855230 (0-87685-523-0)
Softcover, Gingko Pr Inc
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The Cambridge Companion to T.S. Eliotby Anthony David MoodyISBN 0521421276 (0-521-42127-6)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cambridge Companion to T.S. Eliot'Book summary:An international team of leading T.S. Eliot scholars contribute studies of different facets of the writer's work to build up a carefully coordinated and fully rounded introduction. Five chapters give a complete account of Eliot's poems and plays, while others assess the major aspects of his life and thought. Later chapters place his work in historical perspective. There is a full review of Eliot studies, and a useful chronological outline. Taken as a whole, this Companion comprises an essential handbook for students and readers of T.S. Eliot. [via]
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Christianity and Cultureby T. S. EliotISBN 0156177358 (0-15-617735-8)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Christianity and Culture'Book summary:Two long essays: The Idea of a Christian Society on the direction of religious thought toward criticism of political and economic systems; and Notes towards the Definition of Culture on culture, its meaning, and the dangers threatening the legacy of the Western world.[via]More editions of Christianity and Culture:
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Collected Poems, 1909-1962by T. S. EliotISBN 0151189781 (0-15-118978-1)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Poems, 1909-1962'Book summary:'Each year Eliot's presence reasserts itself at a deeper level, to an audience that is surprised to find itself more chastened, more astonished, more humble.' Ted HughesPoet, dramatist, critic and editor, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth-century poetry. This edition of Collected Poems 1909-1962 includes his verse from Prufrock and Other Observations (1917) to Four Quartets (1943), and includes such literary landmarks as The Waste Land and Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. [via]
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Complete Poems and Playsby T. S. EliotISBN 015121185X (0-15-121185-X)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Poems and Plays'Book summary:Eliot's poetry ranges from the massively magisterial ( The Waste Land), to the playfully pleasant ( Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats). This volume of Eliot's poetry and plays offers the complete text of these and most all of Eliot's poetry, including the full text of Four Quartets. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Eliot exerted a profound influence on his contemporaries in the arts generally and this collection makes his genius clear. [via]
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The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliotby T. S. EliotISBN 0571088570 (0-571-08857-0)
Hardcover, Faber
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Eliot's New Lifeby Lyndall GordonISBN 0374522057 (0-374-52205-7)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eliot's New Life'Book summary:This book examines T.S. Eliot's search for a new life during the break up of his first marriage, a period marked externally by his entry into the Anglican Church and the exchange of American for British nationality. This work covers the last 38 years of his life, and explores the ties between Eliot's life and work, including his religious life and his relationship with his first love, Emily Hale. Drawing on unpublished papers, the author reveals the central role that Emily Hale played, inspiring some of his great religious poetry. His relationship with Hale, as well as with Mary Trevelyan, who wanted to marry him and who left a memoir of Eliot's years of fame, shed new light on this period of his life. Eliot's inner preoccupations are set in the context of his American past, showing that his native ties, both personal and literary, became more, rather than less important after he relinquished his nationality. These are the years of maturity during which he wrote "Four Quartets", "Murder in the Cathedral", "The Family Reunion" and "The Cocktail Party". Lyndall Gordon is also the author of "Eliot's Early Years" (1977) and "Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life" (1984). [via]
For Lancelot Andrewes: Essays on Style and Orderby T. S. EliotISBN 0571094406 (0-571-09440-6)
Hardcover, Faber
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Four Quartetsby T. S. EliotISBN 0156332256 (0-15-633225-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Four Quartets'Book summary:Published in the fiery days of World War II, Four Quartets stands as a testament to the power of poetry amid the chaos of the time. Let the words speak for themselves: "The dove descending breaks the air/With flame of incandescent terror/Of which the tongues declare/The only discharge from sin and error/The only hope, or the despair/Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre--/To be redeemed from fire by fire./Who then devised this torment?/Love/Love is the unfamiliar Name/Behind the hands that wave/The intolerable shirt of flame/Which human power cannot remove./We only live, only suspire/Consumed by either fire or fire." [via]
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religionby James George FrazerISBN 1853263109 (1-85326-310-9)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion'Book summary:The notion of a man-god, or of a human being endowed with divine or supernatural powers, belongs essentially to that earlier period of religious history in which gods and men are still viewed as beings of much the same order, and before they are divided by the impassable gulf which, to later thought, opens out between them. Strange, therefore, as may seem to us the idea of a god incarnate in human form, it has nothing very startling for early man, who sees in a man-god or a god-man only a higher degree of the same supernatural powers which he arrogates in perfect good faith to himself. -from "Chapter VII: Incarnate Human Gods" In 1890, James George Frazer began publishing The Golden Bough, his monumental study of myth, ritual, and religion, which would, by 1936, run to 13 volumes and establish him as a pioneer in the study of religion as an aspect of culture. This abridged edition, assembled in 1922, condenses this fundamental work to one readable volume that is still a source for modern anthropology, thanks to its expansive discussions ancient cultish practices and their connections to the rites of modern Christianity. In eloquent prose, Frazer discusses legends of the woods, sympathetic magic, magicians as kings, the worship of trees, the concept of the sacred marriage, the links between priestly and royal power, ritual royal sacrifices, the concept of "eating the god," the myths of Osiris, Adonis, Isis, and other ancient deities, and much more. Lovers of mythology will be enraptured by this book, which draws all of human belief under one unifying umbrella, celebrating myth and ritual as part of the basis of all human culture. Scottish anthropologist SIR JAMES GEORGE FRAZER (1854-1941) also wrote Man, God, and Immortality (1927) and Creation and Evolution in Primitive Cosmogonies (1935). [via]
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Golden Bough a Study in Magic and Religion 1927by James George FrazerISBN 0766158128 (0-7661-5812-8)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Golden Bough a Study in Magic and Religion 1927'Book summary:The primary aim of this book is to explain the remarkable rule which regulated the succession to the priesthood of Diana at Aricia. With the instances of customs illustrated in this volume, it is no longer possible to regard the rule of succession to the priesthood of Diana at Aricia as exceptional; it clearly exemplifies a widespread institution, of which the most numerous and the most similar cases have thus far been found in Africa. [via]
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The Golden Bough : The Collected Works of J. G. Frazerby J. G. FrazerISBN 0700714480 (0-7007-1448-0)
Hardcover, Taylor & Francis Group
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The Golden Bough : The Roots of Religion and Folkloreby James George FrazerISBN 0517336332 (0-517-33633-2)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golden Bough : The Roots of Religion and Folklore'Book summary:The only unabridged, illustrated edition of the classic exploration of the world of myth, folklore, and primitive customs is an inspiration to poets, students, and readers in general. [via]
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Gospel: The Life of Jesus As Told by the World's Greatest Writersby Daniel Pollock, Constance PollockISBN 0849915449 (0-8499-1544-9)
Hardcover, W Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gospel: The Life of Jesus As Told by the World's Greatest Writers'Book summary:T.S. Eliot, Elizabeth Browning, Leo Tolstoy, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Rudyard Kipling touched the world with their literary gifts. In their quieter moments, however, these great writers took up their pens to honor the One who captured their imaginations-Jesus of Nazareth. This book shows how the Gospel impacted these great writers.
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Her Husband: Hughes & Plath a Marriageby Diane MiddlebrookISBN 0670031879 (0-670-03187-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Her Husband: Hughes & Plath a Marriage'Book summary:Dianne Middlebrook launches Her Husband: Hughes and Plath: A Marriage, appropriately, with the birth of the poets lives together. Through her retelling of the historic moment of their first meeting, Middlebrook sets the balanced, literate, and brutally honest tone that she maintains throughout the book. According to Middlebrook, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughess first encounter was violent and almost mythic, punctuated with kisses and biting. In 112 days they were married. Together, as Middlebrook shows, they formed a unique literary bond. They remained aggressive intellectual and erotic partners. But, six years later, Hughes left Plath and their two children for another woman. She committed suicide shortly after, while Hughes would go on to a long and successful career as a poet and as Plaths literary executor.
What Middlebrook brings to this story, outside of the almost voyeuristic details gleaned from letters, diaries, interviews, and past biographies, is a scholarly commitment to infuse the reading of Hughes and Plaths marriage with a reading of their poetry and prose. In less capable hands, using literature to reconstruct biography can lead to an undisciplined avoidance of real historical research. But Middlebrook drafts the writings to bolster her understanding of the couple in sophisticated ways that link their private language to their public statements in published works (especially Hughes Birthday Letters). At the same time, Middlebrook remains deeply aware that Hughes and Plath worked to re-construct themselves through their writings, often with conflicting self-portraits, for posterity. She is comfortable letting their contradictions exist side by side.
Her Husband is wonderfully told; it is difficult to imagine how this narrative of the marriage could be surpassed. One only hopes that Middlebrook will have the stamina to amend her own workif necessarywhen Hughess most private papers are made public in 2023. --Patrick OKelley [via]
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A History of Christian Thought: From Its Judaic and Hellenistic Origins to Existentialismby Paul TillichISBN 0671214268 (0-671-21426-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Idea of a Colony: Cross-Culturalism in Modern Poetryby Edward MarxISBN 080208799X (0-8020-8799-X)
Hardcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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The Illustrated Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religionby James George Frazer, Robert K.G. TempleISBN 0684818507 (0-684-81850-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Illustrated Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion'Book summary:Before Joseph Campbell became the world's most famous practitioner of comparative mythology, there was Sir James George Frazer. The Golden Bough was originally published in two volumes in 1890, but Frazer became so enamored of his topic that over the next few decades he expanded the work sixfold, then in 1922 cut it all down to a single thick edition suitable for mass distribution. The thesis on the origins of magic and religion that it elaborates "will be long and laborious," Frazer warns readers, "but may possess something of the charm of a voyage of discovery, in which we shall visit many strange lands, with strange foreign peoples, and still stranger customs." Chief among those customs--at least as the book is remembered in the popular imagination--is the sacrificial killing of god-kings to ensure bountiful harvests, which Frazer traces through several cultures, including in his elaborations the myths of Adonis, Osiris, and Balder.
While highly influential in its day, The Golden Bough has come under harsh critical scrutiny in subsequent decades, with many of its descriptions of regional folklore and legends deemed less than reliable. Furthermore, much of its tone is rooted in a philosophy of social Darwinism--sheer cultural imperialism, really--that finds its most explicit form in Frazer's rhetorical question: "If in the most backward state of human society now known to us we find magic thus conspicuously present and religion conspicuously absent, may we not reasonably conjecture that the civilised races of the world have also at some period of their history passed through a similar intellectual phase?" (The truly civilized races, he goes on to say later, though not particularly loudly, are the ones whose minds evolve beyond religious belief to embrace the rational structures of scientific thought.) Frazer was much too genteel to state plainly that "primitive" races believe in magic because they are too stupid and backwards to know any better; instead he remarks that "a savage hardly conceives the distinction commonly drawn by more advanced peoples between the natural and the supernatural." And he certainly was not about to make explicit the logical extension of his theories--"that Christian legend, dogma, and ritual" (to quote Robert Graves's summation of Frazer in The White Goddess) "are the refinement of a great body of primitive and barbarous beliefs." Whatever modern readers have come to think of the book, however, its historical significance and the eloquence with which Frazer attempts to develop what one might call a unifying theory of anthropology cannot be denied. --Ron Hogan [via]
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The Illustrated Old Possum: Old Possum's Book of Practical Catsby T. S. Eliot, Nicolas BentleyISBN 0571067751 (0-571-06775-1)
Hardcover, Faber
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Illustrated Old Possum: Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats'Book summary:An engaging collection of humorous poems. These verses, originally composed to amuse Eliots intimate friends, have proven irresistible to cat lovers, lovers of nonsense, and admirers of Eliot throughout the English-speaking world. Enough ferocious fancy and parody to knock the spots off most cat books and most...verses (Time). Drawings by Nicolas Bentley.[via]More editions of The Illustrated Old Possum: Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats:
In Defense of Reasonby Yvor WintersISBN 0804001510 (0-8040-0151-0)
Softcover, Ohio Univ Pr
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Inventions of the March Hare: T s Eliot Poems 1900-1917by T. S. Eliot, Christopher RicksISBN 0571178952 (0-571-17895-2)
Hardcover, Faber & Faber Ltd
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Literary Essays of Ezra Poundby Ezra PoundISBN 0811201570 (0-8112-0157-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Literary Essays of Ezra Pound'Book summary:Pound, Literary Essays. [via]
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Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amisby Wendy CopeISBN 0571137474 (0-571-13747-4)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis'Book summary:"Offers parodies of William Wordsworth, T.S. Eliot, and Emily Dickinson, and humorous sonnets, haiku, and love poems." [via]
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Murder in the Cathedralby T. S. EliotISBN 0156632772 (0-15-663277-2)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Murder in the Cathedral'Book summary:T. S. Eliots Murder in the Cathedral is both a fascinating retelling of the twelfth-century assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket and a compelling call for resistance in the face of intimidation. Written against the backdrop of rising Fascism in twentieth-century Europe, Eliots classic verse play is as relevant now as it ever was. This re-release of the original 1953 recording stars Robert Donat whose commanding performance as the Archbishop, alongside a full cast, is widely celebrated. [via]
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Murder in the Cathedralby Nevill Coghill, T. S. EliotISBN 0571063276 (0-571-06327-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Murder in the Cathedral'Book summary:T. S. Eliots Murder in the Cathedral is both a fascinating retelling of the twelfth-century assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket and a compelling call for resistance in the face of intimidation. Written against the backdrop of rising Fascism in twentieth-century Europe, Eliots classic verse play is as relevant now as it ever was. This re-release of the original 1953 recording stars Robert Donat whose commanding performance as the Archbishop, alongside a full cast, is widely celebrated. [via]
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Old Possums Book of Practical Catsby T. S. EliotISBN 1417617047 (1-4176-1704-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Old Possums Book of Practical Cats'Book summary:Eliot's famous collection of nonsense verse about cats-the inspiration for the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats. This edition features pen-and-ink drolleries by Edward Gorey throughout.[via]More editions of Old Possums Book of Practical Cats:
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Softcover, Harcourt - Old Possums Book of Practical Cats: ISBN 0151686572 (0-15-168657-2)
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Old Possums Book of Practical Catsby Edward Gorey, T. S. EliotISBN 0151686564 (0-15-168656-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Old Possums Book of Practical Cats'Book summary:The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter, it isn't just one of your holiday games;
The phenomenal worldwide success in the 1980s of the musical Cats refuelled interest in T.S. Eliot's classic Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats on which the stage extravaganza was based. Old Possum's Book, originally published in 1939 and dedicated to Eliot's godchildren, contains a delightful rogues' gallery of felines, including the Rum Tum Tugger cat whose "disobliging ways are a matter of habit", Mr Mistoffelees "The Original Conjuring Cat" and Macavity: The Mystery Cat "the master criminal who can defy the law". Loved by generations of children and adults alike, Old Possum is perhaps most remarkable for having been written almost as an aside, a plaything, by Eliot, as a distraction from the internal religious and philosophical wranglings he charted in Four Quartets.
You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter
When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.A warm and witty collection of free-verse poems, which demand to be read aloud and given full dramatic import, this edition of Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats has been reissued by Faber and Faber Limited in a slim pocket-sized edition, with original tongue-in-cheek illustrations by Nicolas Bentley. --Catherine Taylor [via]
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A Peculiar People: The Church As Culture in a Post-Christian Societyby Rodney ClappISBN 0830819908 (0-8308-1990-8)
Softcover, Intervarsity Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Peculiar People: The Church As Culture in a Post-Christian Society'Book summary:Voted one of 1997 Books of the Year! Christians feel increasingly useless, argues Rodney Clapp, not because we have nothing to offer a post-Christian society, but because we are trying to serve as "sponsoring chaplains" to a civilization that no longer sees Christianity as necessary to its existence. In our individualistic, technologically oriented, consumer-based culture, Christianity has become largely irrelevant. The solution is not to sentimentally capitulate to the way things are. Nor is it to retrench in an effort to regain power and influence as the sponsor of Western civilization. What is needed is for Christians to reclaim our heritage as a peculiar people, as unapologetic followers of the Way. Within the larger pluralistic world, we need to become a sanctified, subversive culture that develops Christian community as a truly alternative way of life. Christians must learn to live the story and not just to restate it. Writing inclusively with considerable verve, Clapp offers a keen analysis of the church and its ministry as we face a new millennium. [via]
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Pound Erzaby Hugh KennerISBN 0520024273 (0-520-02427-3)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pound Erza'Book summary:"Hugh Kenner's "The Pound Era" could as well be known as the Kenner era, for there is no critic who has more firmly established his claim to valuable literary property than has Kenner to the first three decades of the 20th century in England. Author of pervious studies of Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Wyndham Lewis and Pound (to name a few), Kenner bestrides modern literature if not like a colossus then at least a presence of formidable proportions. A new book by him is certainly an event....A demanding, enticing book that glitters at the same time it antagonizes....""The Pound Era" presents us with an idiosyncratic but sharply etched skeletal view of our immediate literary heritage."--"The New York Times"
"It is notoriously difficult to recognize degrees of pre-eminence among one's near-contemporaries. We talk now of the age of Donne, a label that would have seemed bizarre to Ben Johnson. Will "The Pound Era" seem an appropriate designation, 50 or 100 years hence, for the epoch we think of as 'modern'? Mr. Kenner's brilliantly written book establishes an excellent case for supposing the answer to be 'Yes.'"--"The Economist"
"Mr. Kenner's study...is not so much a book as a library, or better, a new kind of book in which biography, history, and the analysis of literature are so harmoniously articulated that every page has a narrative sense...."The Pound Era" is a book to be read and reread and studied. For the student of modern letters it is a treasure, for the general reader it is one of the most interesting books he will ever pick up in a lifetime of reading."--"National Review" [via]
The Sacred Woodby T. S. EliotISBN 0571190898 (0-571-19089-8)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Selected Poemsby T. S. EliotISBN 0156806479 (0-15-680647-9)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Poems'Book summary:This new addition to the elegant Library of Classic Poets series features selections from one of the best-loved poets of the early twentieth century. Elegantly packaged in a handsome edition with a satin ribbon marker, this volume is the perfect addition to any poetry library. From the prolific T.S. Eliot, a pioneer of modernism, here are his most groundbreaking works, including:
" "The Wasteland"
" "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
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Selected Non-Fictionsby Jorge Luis Borges, Eliot Weinberger, Esther Allen, Suzane Jill Levine, Andrew HurleyISBN 0670849472 (0-670-84947-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Non-Fictions'Book summary:Jorge Luis Borges was our century's greatest miniaturist, perpetually cramming entire universes onto the head of a pin. Yet his splendid economy, along the wafer-thin proportions of such classic volumes as Ficciones and Labyrinths, has given readers the impression that Borges was miserly with his prose. In fact, he was something of a verbal spendthrift. His collected stories alone run to nearly 1,000 pages. And his nonfiction output was even more staggering: the young Borges cranked out hundreds of essays, book notes, cultural polemics, and movie reviews, and even after he lost his sight in 1955, he continued to dictate short pieces by the dozens. Eliot Weinberger has assembled just a fraction of this outpouring in Selected Non-Fictions, and the result is a 559-page Borgesian blowout, in which the Argentinean fabulist takes on being and nothingness, James Joyce and Lana Turner, and (surprisingly) racial hatred and the rise of Nazism. So much for our image of the mandarin bookworm! The very engagé author of this book seems more like a subequatorial Camus, with a dash of Siskel and Ebert on the side.
Selected Non-Fictions demonstrates just how quickly Borges began wrestling with such brainteasers as identity, time, and infinity. Indeed, the very first piece in the collection, "The Nothingness of Personality" (1922), already finds him fiddling with the self: "I, as I write this, am only a certainty that seeks out the words that are most apt to compel your attention. That proposition and a few muscular sensations, and the sight of the limpid branches that the trees place outside my window, constitute my current I." There are many such meditations here, including "A History of Eternity" (in which Borges maps out his own, disarmingly empty version of the eternal, "without a God or even a co-proprietor, and entirely devoid of archetypes"). But it's more fun--and more revelatory--to see the author venturing beyond his metaphysical stomping grounds. Borges on King Kong is a hoot, and a cornball masterpiece such as The Petrified Forest elicits this terrific nugget: "Death works in this film like hypnosis or alcohol: it brings the recesses of the soul into the light of day." His capsule biographies are a delight, his critiques of Nazi propaganda are memorably stringent, and nobody should miss him on the tango. True, the sheer variety and mind-boggling erudition of Selected Non-Fictions can be a little forbidding. But, taken as a whole, the collection surely meets the specifications that Borges laid out in a 1927 essay on literary pleasure: "If only some eternal book existed, primed for our enjoyment and whims, no less inventive in the populous morning as in the secluded night, oriented toward all hours of the world." Oh, but it does. --James Marcus [via]
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Selected Prose of T. S. Eliotby T. S. EliotISBN 0156806541 (0-15-680654-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Prose of T. S. Eliot'Book summary:Thirty-one essays-categorized as essays in generalization, appreciations of individual authors, and social and religious criticism - written over a half century. This volume reveals Eliots original ideas, cogent conclusions, and skill and grace in language. Edited and with an Introduction by Frank Kermode; Index. Published jointly with Farrar, Straus & Giroux.[via]More editions of Selected Prose of T. S. Eliot:
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A Short History of the Worldby Geoffrey BlaineyISBN 1566635071 (1-56663-507-1)
Softcover, Ivan R Dee
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Short History of the World'Book summary:Here is a masterly account of the grand adventure of human history, brilliantly narrated by a distinguished historian. It is the story of the worlds people during the last four million years, beginning before the human race moved out of Africa to explore and settle the other continents. Geoffrey Blainey explores the development of technology and skills, the rise of major religions, and the role of geography, which often governed what could not happen. He concerns himself not only with major transformations but also with what people ate and how hard they worked in order to earn their daily bread; with the intense power of the moon, the stars, and the night sky on human experience and on the ways in which the universe was seen. The spell that Mr. Blaineys narrative casts is unmistakable. He makes the reader see what life may have been like for a prehistoric cave dweller, or what the map of the world looks like when there are land masses that might be traversed from Ireland to Alaska. He has a compelling sense of the novelty of the patterns of history, and a keen sense of the strangeness and congruency of the earths many cultures. A Short History of the World is that rare book that will delight every kind of reader. [via]
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T S Eliot's Murder in the Cathedralby T. S. EliotISBN 1555460372 (1-55546-037-2)
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T. S. Eliot : The Modernist in Historyby Ronald Bush, Albert Gelpi, Ross PosnockISBN 0521390745 (0-521-39074-5)
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T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens and the Discourses of Differenceby Michael BeehlerISBN 0807112690 (0-8071-1269-0)
Hardcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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T.S. Eliot: A Lifeby Peter AckroydISBN 0671605720 (0-671-60572-0)
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The Takingby Dean R. KoontzISBN 0553584502 (0-553-58450-2)
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Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunges Into History Againby Bathroom Readers Hysterical SocietyISBN 1592232612 (1-59223-261-2)
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The Waste Landby T. S. Eliot, Randy MalamudISBN 1593082797 (1-59308-279-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Waste Land and Other Poems'Book summary:After sitting through T.S. Eliot's reading of "The Waste Land," listeners may be inclined to hang up the earphones for a spell. There are no flaws to Eliot's steady-toned interpretation; in fact, his delivery is quite remarkable in its ability to match the poem's constant, somber mood. It's just that 25-plus minutes of Eliot's desolate landscapes--rendered even more real by the author's incessant tones--can wear on the emotions.
In addition to the full-length version of "The Waste Land," this recording includes Eliot's stirring narration of "The Hollow Men," "Sweeney Among the Nightingales," and "Macavity the Mystery Cat." Listen to Eliot read from "The Waste Land." Visit our audio help page for more information. (Running time: 47 minutes, 1 cassette) --Rob McDonald [via]
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The Waste Land: A Poem of Memory and Desireby Nancy K. GishISBN 0805780238 (0-8057-8023-8)
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The Waste Land and Other Writingsby T. S. EliotISBN 0375759344 (0-375-75934-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Waste Land and Other Writings'Book summary:First published in 1922, "The Waste Land" is T.S. Eliot's masterpiece, and is not only one of the key works of modernism but also one of the greatest poetic achievements of the twentieth century. A richly allusive pilgrimage of spiritual and psychological torment and redemption, Eliot's poem exerted a revolutionary influence on his contemporaries, summoning forth a rich new poetic language, breaking decisively with Romantic and Victorian poetic traditions. Kenneth Rexroth was not alone in calling Eliot "the representative poet of the time, for the same reason that Shakespeare and Pope were of theirs. He articulated the mind of an epoch in words that seemed its most natural expression."
As influential as his verse, T.S. Eliot's criticism also exerted a transformative effect on twentieth-century letter, and this new edition of The Waste Land and Other Writings includes a selection of Eliot's most important essays.
In her new Introduction, Mary Karr dispels some of the myths of the great poem's inaccessibility and sheds fresh light on the ways in which "The Waste Land" illuminates contemporary experience. [via]More editions of The Waste Land and Other Writings:
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The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poemsby T. S. Eliot, Caroldean K. CummingsISBN 1420925784 (1-4209-2578-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Waste Land, Prufrock And Other Poems'Book summary:After sitting through T.S. Eliot's reading of "The Waste Land," listeners may be inclined to hang up the earphones for a spell. There are no flaws to Eliot's steady-toned interpretation; in fact, his delivery is quite remarkable in its ability to match the poem's constant, somber mood. It's just that 25-plus minutes of Eliot's desolate landscapes--rendered even more real by the author's incessant tones--can wear on the emotions.
In addition to the full-length version of "The Waste Land," this recording includes Eliot's stirring narration of "The Hollow Men," "Sweeney Among the Nightingales," and "Macavity the Mystery Cat." Listen to Eliot read from "The Waste Land." Visit our audio help page for more information. (Running time: 47 minutes, 1 cassette) --Rob McDonald [via]
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You're Too Kind: A Brief History of Flatteryby Richard StengelISBN 0684854929 (0-684-85492-9)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'You're Too Kind: A Brief History of Flattery'Book summary:Not so long ago, someone with too much time on his hands conducted a study that indicated that waiters who drew little smiley faces at the bottom of their checks received tips that were, on average, 10 percent higher than those of waiters who just brought their customers an unadorned check. This practice makes use of flattery insofar as it makes us feel that our waiter was happy to serve us, instead of just doing his job. We feel good about ourselves. We feel good about the waiter. We give him money.
Over the years, people have offered many different definitions of and opinions on flattery, and flattery itself has changed "from flattery as a technique for persuading a whole class of people to flattery as a technique for influencing a single person." Is it venal? Is it a victimless crime? Is it a diluted form of praise? Is it merely, as Lord Chesterfield suggested, "a complaisant indulgence for people's weaknesses"? Or is it just lying? In his book You're Too Kind, Richard Stengel ponders the meaning of flattery and charts a droll and whimsical history, starting with the Egyptians ("Laugh after he laughs, and it will be very pleasing to his heart," recommends Vizier Ptahhotep), and concluding with handy hints on how to flatter without getting caught: "Never be candid when a person asks you to be candid." In between, he asks questions such as "What is circumcision, really, but a kind of divinely enforced flattery?" in an irreverent discourse around the covenant with the Israelites, and looks at everyone from troubadours to Dale Carnegie, Puritans to Hollywood D-girls.
The dust jacket sports plaudits by impresario of flattery Jay Leno and spinmeister George Stephanopoulos, who vouch that You're Too Kind is indeed a diverting book for the reader--like yourself--with taste, discretion, and, ahem, humor. --J. Riches [via]
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Old Possums Katzenbuch: Englisch Und Deutschby T. S. EliotISBN 3518010107 (3-518-01010-7)
Hardcover, Suhrkamp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Old Possums Katzenbuch: Englisch Und Deutsch'Book summary:BIBLIOTHEK SUHRKAMP - ELIOT, T.S., Old Possums Katzenbuch. Englisch und Deutsch. 1. A. Fkft., Suhrkamp, 1977. Mit acht Ill. v. Kurt Steinel. 113 S. OPbd.- Bibliothek Suhrkamp, Bd. 10. - Gutes Ex. [via]
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Cuatro Cuartetos/ Four Quartetsby T. S. EliotISBN 8437607043 (84-376-0704-3)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones
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