First-ever new edition of The Water Wheel, the 1933 semi-autobiographical debut novel by Julian L. Shapiro, who later achieved cult status writing as John Sanford. From the original edition's dust jacket: "The Water Wheel recounts both the real and imagined-real adventures of one John B. Sanford in New York and London over a short period in 1927. The novel is completely dominated by Sanford, a self-assumed individualist--and self-styled 'lawclerk, sinner, ex-convict, adolescent, grandson and legatee of a Litvak matchvendor.' "The author has maintained a rigid objectivity, at no time intruding upon the narrative, or showing his hand by making Sanford a mouth-piece for the expression of ideas outside the scope of the novel. Notwithstanding the author's neutrality, only the most literal will overlook in Sanford a character definitely in our time. "In form, The Water Wheel has no counterpart in American letters. It deliberately avoids the traditional, but its objectives are always clarity and simplicity. The many technical and typographical innovations are designed to suit the subject matter, and are not fake-modern tricks."

The Water Wheel

Literature & Fiction

Sanford, John B.

Shapiro, Julian L.

Literary

Tough Poets Press

The uniqueness of this "personal history" is in John Sanford's writing in so great a variety of voices astonishing in their authenticity - voices of the American character, beginning in A.D. 1000 with Lief Ericson and ending with the atom bomb, which opened the most significant era in our history.

A More Goodly Country: A Personal History of America

Contemporary

Horizon House Pubs

The Winters of That Country: Tales of the Man-Made Seasons

United States

Black Sparrow Pr

The author, a lawyer, and writer recounts his experiences during the period from 1936 to 1945

A Very Good Land to Fall With: Scenes from the Life of an American Jew

Biographies & Memoirs

The author, a lawyer, and writer recounts his experiences during the period from 1936 to 1945.

First edition, one of 150 numbered copies, signed by the author. Table of contents. With excerpts from the author's comments on American history. Biographical sketch of the author, with photograph, follows colophon. 321, 5 pages. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, paper spine label, acetate dust jacket. 8vo..

A Walk in the Fire: Scenes from the Life of an American Jew

Adirondack Stories

Capra Press

The author recounts his fify-year marriage to Marguerite Roberts, a Hollywood screenwriter, including the ten years they were blacklisted for refusing to testify before the House Committee

Maggie: A Love Story

Leaders & Notable People

UNKNO

The View from Mt. Morris: A Harlem Boyhood

Whether you are reading Greek mythology for psychological insights or studying the classics in college, there are a number of goddesses who have been almost entirely over-looked. They are who John Sanford calls the lesser-known goddesses. However, there is nothing lesser about them. They personify the deeper elements that exist across all life, nature, and spiritual reality. Our current culture often neglects their qualities but would be wise to increase its understanding of them. Many books, including the bestseller Goddesses in Everywoman by Jean Bolen, illustrate well-known goddesses who are the main characters in their stories. But behind the scenes and often running their personalities are the lesser-known goddesses from the ancient matriarchal era of Greek culture. To bring forward their spiritual meaning, Sanford has pieced together information from various Greek stories, plays, and poems. In so Boing, this unique book reacquaints us with: PEITHO Goddess of gentle persuasion who wins love by consent rather than force. THE THREE CHARITI S Goddesses of Beauty, good cheer, and abundance who inspire both charm and grace. AIDOS Goddess of modesty, self-respect, and shame whose sensitivities heighten the joy of love. ANANKE Goddess of necessity who brings the realization of what must be done. THEMIS Goddess of right order who shows the rule of lines, limits, and boundaries. AT Goddess of folly, ruin, and sin who disregards all morals and consequences. THE THREE FATES Goddesses of the unchangeable, and fateful events whose irrationalities shape each person's life. THE THREE ERINYES Goddesses of fury who unleash the unceasing, relentless, and envious anger of feminine justice. DIONYSUS God and goddess of ecstasy who vitalizes life through divine energy and creative Inspiration. JOHN A. (JACK) SANFORD is a Jungian Analyst, Marriage and Family Counselor, and Pastoral Counselor practicing in San Diego, California. He is the author of eighteen books on the subjects of psychology, religion, and individuation. He is well known for his works The Kingdom Within: A Study of the Inner Meaning of Jesus' Sayings and Evil: The Shadow Side of Reality. His most recent works include Mystical Christianity: A Psychological Commentary on the Gospel of John, Healing Body and Soul: The Meaning of Illness in the New Testament and in Psychotherapy, and Soul Journey: A Jungian Analyst Looks at Reincarnation. Dr. Sanford served as an Episcopal minister with the Reverend Morton T. Kelsey and studied depth psychology with the Tate Fritz Kunkel, M.D. He completed his training in Jungian analysis at the C. G. Jung Institute in Los Angeles. He and his wife, Lynn, have two grown children, a grandson, and a number of cats and dogs.

Fate, Love, and Ecstasy: Wisdom from the Lesser-Known Goddesses of the Greeks

Religion & Spirituality

Chiron Publications

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The Water Wheel

A More Goodly Country: A Personal History of America

The Winters of That Country: Tales of the Man-Made Seasons

A Very Good Land to Fall With: Scenes from the Life of an American Jew

A Very Good Land to Fall With: Scenes from the Life of an American Jew

A Walk in the Fire: Scenes from the Life of an American Jew

Adirondack Stories

Maggie: A Love Story

The View from Mt. Morris: A Harlem Boyhood

Fate, Love, and Ecstasy: Wisdom from the Lesser-Known Goddesses of the Greeks