The Silver Chalice

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COSTAIN, THOMAS B.

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Duffy, Patrick Gavin

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Thirty years and 26 short stories of William Goyen, nineteen of them previously published in Ghost and Flesh and The Faces of Blood Kindred. Several of the best among them--""The White Rooster,"" ""The Letter in the Cedarchest,"" ""Figure Over the Town""--also appeared in last year's Selected Writings of William Goyen. Sometimes his narrator is a traveling man gone up north to New York City (where Goyen was a book editor for many years) or over to Europe, but it takes only the slightest suggestion, say a glimpse of a ""Moss Rose"" on an urban sidewalk, to carry him home to East Texas. He says in his preface that ""for me, story telling is a rhythm. . . this pulse that beats in the material of life."" He has taken the ringing speech of his kith and kin and created out of it a style, a place, a state of mind that is distinctly Goyen country. The impetus for his writing, he admits, is homesickness. Which may account for the mournful, crooning tone he adopts, as well as the recurring thematic search for ""The Faces of Blood Kindred."" Orphans abound--like the son of ""Pore Perrie"" doomed to wander yet always return--as do ghosts and every manner of enchanted being. Goyen's community of barely literate folk continually defy their own down-to-earth gravity (like Flagpole Moody whose forty-day vigil is a mystery to all and sundry). Sisters, husbands and children alternately are starved or stifled in their bonds and all would concur with the pensive grandson of ""Old Wildwood"" who learns ""how melancholy and grand the history of relations was."" These are hypnotic tales, indeed they seem almost somniloquous, as if the memories of childhood had to be enshrined by an increase of out-of-time otherworldliness. This book is Goyen's gift to his people and his inheritance.

The collected stories of William Goyen

Goyen, William

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How to Catch a Man, How to Keep a Man, How to Get Rid of a Man.

GAbor, Zsa Zsa.

Olly's Polliwogs

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Harlow Rockwell

In this tale of a young monk who owned nothing of his own but found himself holding the world's most priceless possession, the author of Lilies of the Field tells a love story symbolic of the love and hope men yearn for everywhere.

A Woman in the House

BARRETT, WILLIAM E.

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The Winter People

Literature & Fiction

PHYLLIS A. WHITNEY

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Shedd, Charlie W.

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Over the centuries men have believed that a startling variety of objects and places, people and experiences, are possessed of a strange and overwhelming power. These rites and symbols, beliefs and tabus, which have seemed supernatural and invested with mystery, here come to be considered sacred. Here, Francis Huxley explores some of these sacred mysteries through which men have tried to explain the inexplicable, and control the uncontrollable. Through the sacred man tries to achieve communion with the divine, and also with his own physical nature. He sets apart, physically or ritually, things that overwhelm him. In particular, Huxley explores the symbolism of the sacred, because it is really in symbolic terms that the sacred can be approached. But because of man's susceptibility to them, symbols can wield their own power: the enactment of a sacred rite can bring about a supernatural experience, an actual experience of the sacred. These shared human experiences - as in rites of reproduction, puberty, the seasons, the stages of life and death - become a primary basis for man's relationship with other men. Huxley shows how through celebrations of the sacred men have discovered their origin and understood the meaning of their lives. This lavishly illustrated book, with over 250 illustrations in black and white and 32 pages in full color, shows some of the objects that men have singled out in their search for the sacred. And, some of the ways men have represented, in art, the world that is apart, sacred, and divine.

The Way of the Sacred: The Rites and Symbols, Beliefs and Tabus, that Men have Held in Awe and Wonder, through the Ages

HUXLEY, Francis

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