Another Self

LEES-MILNE, James

Biographies & Memoirs

Akadine Press

Peking Picnic (Rediscoveries London)

Ann Bridge

Intriguing, suspenseful, and witty, this is the story of journalist and novelist Caroline Blackwood's search for the late Duchess of Windsor. It is also a provocative exploration of the often bizarre connection between heightened celebrity and approaching death--in Blackwood's words, "the fatal effects of myth." First serial to New York Times Magazine.

Last of the Duchess

BLACKWOOD, CAROLINE

After a year's sabbatical in Kyoto, a college professor presents a collection of essays on traditional Japanese culture.

Following the Brush: An American Encounter With Classical Japanese Culture

John Elder

Community & Culture

Bruach blend

BECKWITH, Lillian

About My Father's Business

Literature & Fiction

LILLIAN BECKWITH

Contemporary

What’s in a (street) name? In London, plenty. This, and Nairn’s London, are the first two volumes in A Common Reader’s new London Library series for serious lovers of London. With an new Introduction by Thomas Meagher.

Without the City Wall: An Adventure in London Street Names

Reference

Bolitho, Hector

Peel, Derek

Atlases & Maps

Gilbert Highet was a legendary teacher at Columbia University, admired both for his scholarship and his charisma as a lecturer. Poets in a Landscape is his delightful exploration of Latin literature and the Italian landscape. As Highet writes in his introduction, “I have endeavored to recall some of the greatest Roman poets by describing the places were they lived, recreating their characters and evoking the essence of their work.” The poets are Catullus, Vergil, Propertius, Horace, Tibullus, Ovid, and Juvenal. Highet brings them life, setting them in their historical context and locating them in the physical world, while also offering crisp modern translations of the poets’ finest work. The result is an entirely sui generis amalgam of travel writing, biography, criticism, and pure poetry—altogether an unexcelled introduction to the world of the classics.

Poets in a landscape

Highet, Gilbert

Travelers & Explorers

The maelstrom of motherhood and housekeeping inspires the wit and zing of a singular stylist.

In Private Life

Holland, Barbara

Examines the problem of rudeness in American society and offers advice on how to encourage a return to following the rules of etiquette

Common courtesy: In which Miss Manners solves the problem that baffled Mr. Jefferson

Martin,Judith

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