Robert Louis Stevenson

Binding, Paul

Oxford University Press

A new account of the brilliant and prolific Danish writer whose works captivated readers across Europe Rarely does an American or European child grow up without an introduction to Hans Christian Andersen’s "The Ugly Duckling," "The Princess and the Pea," or "Thumbelina." Andersen began publishing his fairy tales in 1835, and they brought him almost immediate acclaim among Danish and German readers, followed quickly by the French, Swedes, Swiss, Norwegians, British, and Americans. Ultimately he wrote more than 150 tales. And yet, Paul Binding contends in this incisive book, Andersen cannot be confined to the category of writings for children. His work stands at the very heart of mainstream European literature. The author considers the entire scope of Andersen’s prose, from his juvenilia to his very last story. He shows that Andersen’s numerous novels, travelogues, autobiographies, and even his fairy tales (notably addressed not to children but to adults) earned a vast audience because they distilled the satisfactions, tensions, hopes, and fears of Europeans as their continent emerged from the Napoleonic Wars. The book sheds new light on Andersen as an intellectual, his rise to international stardom, and his connections with other eminent European writers. It also pays tribute to Andersen’s enlightened values—values that ensure the continuing appeal of his works.

Hans Christian Andersen: European Witness

Teen & Young Adult

Yale University Press

Part childhood autobiography, part meditation on the future of Europe at a crossroads in the history of Germany, this work explores the dilemmas and uncertainties that have affected the author since his childhood in the city of Essen during World War II.

St Martin's Ride

History

Europe

Pan/Macmillan

St. Martin's Ride

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

William Heinemann, Ltd.

Separate country: A literary journey through the American South

Paddington Press : distributed by Grosset & Dunlap

The Still Moment: Eudora Welty: Portrait of a Writer

Faber and Faber

Lorca is one of the greatest modern poets. His later and most powerful works however remain elusive even to Lorca scholars. For just as Lorca cannot be understood in isolation from the cultural traditions of Spain and Andalusia, so it is also necessary to appreciate the poet's vantage point as a gay person, if his meaning is to be fully understood. The hinge of this stimulating and emphatic study is Lorca's visit to New York in 1929. Many of the tensions of his New York poems are show to be anticipated in his earlier works. The book goes on to trace in Lorca's subsequent writings the impact of his confrontation with the American metropolis, and the sharpened awareness of a gay identity to which this gave rise.

Lorca: The Gay Imagination

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

Published in Antwerp in 1570, the Theatrum orbis terrarum did something no previous book had doneit presented the world in all its component parts, offering the chance to see our planet as a place of staggering variety and ultimate unity. It was the world’s first atlas. Brainchild of Abraham Ortelius, the Theatrum reflected the enormous vitality of the era, the prevailing zest for exploration and discovery, and the linked activities of international commerce and mapmaking. Paul Binding has immersed himself in the Antwerp that produced Ortelius and his atlas, and he draws on a mass of letters, personal documents, maps, and pictures to bring it vividly to life. A masterly volume that stands as a tribute to the human need to impose order and reason on an all-too-turbulent world.

Imagined Corners: Exploring the World's First Atlas

Headline Book Publishing

An Englishman combines description of his travels through the South and conversations with Southern writers to produce an outsider's view of a distinct part of America

Separate Country: A Literary Journey Through the American South

History & Criticism

Univ Pr of Mississippi

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