André Gide is a revered figure in the pantheon of French literature and winner of the Nobel Prize in 1947. But the fascinating, quirky, and intimate portrait drawn in this volume can be relished by someone who has never read or perhaps never even heard of him. He continually surprises us by the extent of his humanity. The book brings up his conflicted sexuality and his fight for the acceptance of homosexuality in an era of stigma and condemnation.
His close friendship with Roger Martin du Gard, who was at his bedside when he died, lasted over 38 years. Gide writes of his friend in his journal in 1931: “With (him) I can let myself go and be perfectly natural. There is nobody whose presence now brings me greater comfort.” For his part, Roger Martin du Gard was a substantial writer, best known for a nine-volume family saga, Les Thibault. The notes on Gide are taken from his journal.
We eavesdrop on these two remarkable men, both Nobel Prize winners, as they trudge across the countryside on long walks or sit by the fire with a glass of wine after dinner, always probing everything under the sun: their lives and their work, mythology, death. It is honest and revealing. We listen and we learn, and our perceptions shift and deepen. While not a biography, this small but perfect gem of a book written with masterful artistry illuminates our understanding of a great man of genius and the very nature of life.
John Russell, former New York Times art critic, translated this book and wrote a new introduction for this volume. He notes du Gard’s “‘golden good humor’: his effortless combination of honesty and generosity. This is a portrait of an artist by an artist—and of a great man by a great man.”

Notes on Andre Gide

Du Gard, Roger Martin

Biographies & Memoirs

Helen Marx Books

This wonderful collection of Marcel Proust's Letters, selected and translated by Mina Curtiss, is both a revelatory introduction to the great writer and a treasure trove for those readers more familiar with "A la Recherche du Temps Perdu". Mina Curtiss especially chose them as apt illustrations of Proust's growing sensibility and intellectual power during the gestation of the novel.
Indeed, many of the characters in the book are drawn from the men and women we meet here. The letters are also exciting as an unfolding panorama of the Belle Epoque and for their superb insights into literature, art and music.
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Letters of Marcel Proust

Proust. Marcel

It is possible to destroy someone simply with words, looks, and innuendos: the term for this is emotional abuse or moral harassment, and the evidence is mounting that this a major epidemic in our culture. In this landmark study, already a bestseller in France and forthcoming in over ten countries, the author analyzes, with numerous examples, the specific features of an abusive relationship -- and cautions against complacency. She demonstrates a deadly process at work among couples, families, and in the workplace, a process that sweeps its victims into a downward vortex that can even lead to suicide. Until now the subject of emotional abuse through perverse violence has been largely neglected. This noteworthy and well-documented book is a practical guide for its victims and for people wishing to help them, as well as for health professionals. Written clearly and vividly, Stalking the Soul will engage all those who choose not to remain indifferent to a painful and surprisingly widespread problem in our society today.

Stalking the Soul: Emotional Abuse and the Erosion of Identity

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Marie-France Hirigoyen

Helen Marx

Thomas, Moore

Psychology & Counseling

She writes about her marriage to a Hungarian baron, their life of a Ruthenian estate, and the devastating effects of WW II on their family and friends. Lucid, crisp, and unpretentious, this re-release of More Was Lost is a joy.

More Was Lost

PERENYI, Eleanor

Community & Culture

Coming nearly 30 years after Ned O'Gorman's last major collection of poems, "Five Seasons of Obsession" marks the reemergence of an important and distinctive voice in American poetry. With the selection of his first collection of poems as the winner of the 1958 Academy of American Poets Lamont Prize, a distinguished panel of judges heralded "a new talent of the first magnitude." The "lyric power, intensity of feeling, fine intelligence" those judges singled out for praise, the "mastery of language and...joyous vitality in the use of it" continue to be hallmarks of Ned O'Gorman's poetry, and are found in abundance in this collection of new and selected poems. 
"Ned O'Gorman is a truly original poet, whose "New and Selected" is full of continuing brio and surprise. There is an excellent variety here: O'Gorman can be lyrically comic, as in "Webbed, Yellow-Billed, and Aquamarine," can draw a clear and searing portrait in "To the Memory of Lydia Hoffman," or write with a compelling, runaway mysteriousness in such a poem as "The Eyes of Shetland Ponies." The newer poems in this fine book balance between the strongly sensual and a vision that knows "we are never finished with unknowing."--Richard Wilbur 
"A poet of the nature and the body, some of the most beautiful, intelligent poems about love and its loss"--Flannery O'Connor Introduction by Ned Rorem. 6 x 9 in.

Five Seasons of Obsession: New and Selected Poems

Literature & Fiction

O'Gorman, Ned

Poetry

Silbermann is a beautiful but painful book . . . it is about the difficult ties of adolescent friendship in the midst of the cruelty of a group, the tensions between children and their parents and the themes of sincerity, bad faith and self-deceit.

Silbermann

de Lacretelle, Jaques

Contemporary

“We must rejoice at the publication of these memoirs. . . . Providing portraits and some unforgettable scenes with a keen sense of detail, Mme de Boigne’s memoirs were greatly admired by Marcel Proust.”—Victor Brombert

Memoirs of the Comtesse de Boigne, Vol. 1, 1781-1815

Arts & Photography

Muhlstein, Anka

de Boigne, Comtesse

Graphic Design

"We must rejoice at the publication of these memoirs. . . . Providing portraits and some unforgettable scenes with a keen sense of detail, Mme de Boigne's memoirs were greatly admired by Marcel Proust."—Victor Brombert

Memoirs of the Comtesse de Boigne Vol. II 1816-1830

Lost Splendor: The Amazing Memoirs of the Man who Killed Rasputiin

Youssoupoff, Prince Felix

Emotional abuse exists all around us—in families and work. Stalking the Soul is a call to recognize and understand emotional abuse and, most importantly, overcome it. Sophisticated and accessible, it is vital reading for victims and health professionals.

Stalking the Soul

Business & Money

Hirigoyen, Marie-France

Job Hunting & Careers

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