An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and even toilets, combining an acute sense of the use of space in buildings. The book also includes descriptions of laquerware under candlelight and women in the darkness of the house of pleasure.

In Praise of Shadows

Literature & Fiction

Junichiro Tanizaki

Essays & Correspondence

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Cruise of the Cachalot: Round the World After Sperm Whales

Biographies & Memoirs

Bullen, Frank T.

Historical

Classic Essays on Photography

Arts & Photography

Trachtenberg, Alan

Photography & Video

Containing 30 essays that embody the history of photography, this collection includes contributions from Niepce, Daguerre, Fox, Talbot, Poe, Emerson, Hine, Stieglitz, and Weston, among others.

An island off the Breton coast sets the background for this early-twentieth-century satire, depicting a population of penguins that are accidently baptized

Penguin Island

FRANCE, ANATOLE

In these reflections on the relations between art and science in his last published work, Aldous Huxley attempts to discern the similarities and differences implicit in scientific and literary language, and he offers his opinions on the influence that each discipline exerts upon the other.

Literature and Science

HUXLEY, ALDOUS

History & Criticism

Physiology of Taste

Brillat-Savarin, Anselme

Reference

Journal entries, line drawings, and letters record a 1918 winter spent by the author and his small son on a remote Alaskan island

Wilderness: A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska

Rockwell Kent

Grant Slattery, a former diplomat, becomes involved in international intrigue, and Everard Dominey, an Englishman down in his luck, inadvertently offers a German spy the perfect opportunity to enter Britain

The Wrath to Come: The Great Inpersonation (SPIES AND INTRIGUES)

OPPENHEIM, E. PHILLIPS

Classics

Catherine Borans saves the life of Gabriel Samar, the Russian envoy, from an assassination attempt, and a wealthy American meets two swindlers in Monte Carlo

Gabriel Samara Peacemaker: Mr. Billingham, the Marquis, and Madelon

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