Story of Australia

History

SHAW, A.G.L.

Australia & Oceania

Faber Faber Inc

A guide to the landscape and manners of the island of Corfu. 'One of Lawrence Durrell's best books - indeed, in its gem-like miniature quality, among the best books ever written.' Freya Stark 'This charming idyll depicts the country life and cosmopolitan society of Corfu in the years immediately before the war . . . The matter of it is as sound as the story is delightful.' Sunday Times  'Corfu, that Ionian island whose idyllic yet blood-stained history goes back the best part of a thousand years, could not have found a fitter chronicler than Mr Durrell. For he is a poet, with all a poet's sensibility, and a humanist to boot, with a keen eye for character and a scholar's reverence for antiquity.' Daily Telegraph

Prospero's Cell: A Guide to the Landscape and Manners of the Island of Corfu (Greece)

DURRELL, LAWRENCE

Europe

Comprehensive coverage for beginner on making 130 kinds of wine--cranberry, burgundy, rice, sherry, sauterne, etc.--plus vermouth, fruit brandies, creme de menthe, & 14 beers, stouts & ales. Everything you need to know about "nursing" the wine to perfection, racking, stabilizing, clarification, fining, blending, bottling & storing.

Trittons Guide to Better Wine and Beer Mak

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Tritton, S. M.

Beverages & Wine

Set in Yugoslavia during the Cold War, this book is based on the author's experience of working there for the Foreign Office in the 1950s. The book is about a British secret service officer sent to investigate the murder of a colleague and the activities of royalists guerrillas.

White Eagles Over Serbia (English and Spanish Edition)

Lawrence Durrell

Literature & Fiction

Explains what revivalism, rationalism, eclecticism, and functionalism meant to those who practiced them, explores the influence of the other arts and sciences on architectual theory, and analyzes notions that are commonly used in discussions about modern architecture. Infused with a deep sympathy for the 19th century, this text suggests that many 19th century ideas can be of real value to practising architects, particularly now that technology has made it possible to put them into effect properly. This second edition should be of interest not only to those who specialize in architecture and have read the standard work of Hitchcock, Giedion, Pevsner, and Joedicke - but also to those with a general interest in modern history and the philosophy of art.

Changing Ideals In Modern Architecture

Arts & Photography

Collins, Peter

History & Criticism

The Home Book of Greek Cookery

Joyce Margaret Stubbs

Scottish nationalism

Hanham, H J

Raffles

Collis, Maurice

Ulster at the crossroads;

Oneill, Terence

Opium and the Romantic Imagination

Does the habit of taking drugs make authors write better, or worse, or differently? Does it alter the quality of their consciousness, shape their imagery, influence their technique? For the Romantic writers of the nineteenth century, many of whom experimented with opium and some of whom were addicted to it, this was an important question, but it has never been fully answered.   In this study Alethea Hayter examines the work of five writers - Crabbe, Coleridge, De Quincey, Wilkie Collins and Francis Thompson - who were opium addicts for many years, and of several other writers - notably Keats, Edgar Allan Poe and Baudelaire, but also Walter Scott, Dickens, Mrs Browning, James Thomson and others - who are known to have taken opium at times. The work of these writers is discussed in the context of nineteenth-century opinion about the uses and dangers of opium, and of Romantic ideas on the creative imagination, on dreams and hypnagogic visions, and on imagery, so that the idiosyncrasies of opium-influenced writing can be isolated from their general literary background. The examination reveals a strange and miserable region of the mind in which some of the greatest poetic imaginations of the nineteenth century were imprisoned.

Hayter, Alethea

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