John Ruskin, the most influential Victorian art critic, was always fascinated by the melancholy beauty of Venice. During his fourth visit to the city in 1849 he began work on the first volume of what was to become his masterpiece: THE STONES OF VENICE.In some of the most splendid prose of the nineteenth century he describes and explains the three main styles of Venetian architecture - Byzantine, Gothic and Renaissance - providing not only an unsurpassed analysis of the flowering of Southern Gothic, but a wonderful guide to the sea-city.Ruskin illustrated most of the important buildings of Venice in delicate and evocative watercolors. Many of these are reproduced in this volume, together with his plates and many of his meticulous drawings. In this sensitively designed new edition of his great book, superb color and monochrome photographs show what he could not.

Stones of Venice

Arts & Photography

Ruskin, John

History & Criticism

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Born in 1861 in Russia, Lou Andreas-Salome is best known for the famous company she kept. But as this book reveals, her relationships with Nietzsche, Rilke and Freud were complex and she had profound influences on each of them. This biography brings us up close to her writing as well as to her life and meeting with Tolstoy, Wagner and other remarkable men. It explores, in depth, her relationship with Nietzsche who saw in her a natural heir to his philosophy. Only since knowing her I was ripe for my Zarathustra, he wrote.Salome's marriage was to last for 45 years, yet never be consummated. She had her first love affair at age 36, with a twenty-one-year-old Rilke. He wrote, ...through the relentless force of your words, my work become consecrated.At fifty Salome met Freud and studied under him for two years. Freud had a special admiration for Lou Andreas Salome, wrote Ernest Jones. She pent the rest of her life as a psychoanalyst; her friendship with Freud was to last until her death in 1937.

Salome

Biographies & Memoirs

Livingstone, Angela

Professionals & Academics

Cloudless at First

Cloudless at First presents 30 years of Morely's poetry, including her most recent work,in the same sure, lyrical voice.   Hilda Morley's poems, even the elegiac ones, are a celebration, almost ritually so, steeped in the wine of what Donne called 'the ecstasy.' She is a poet of loss, and she is a romantic as much as she is a metaphysician. The years have not diminished her amazingly youthful ardor. The late poems come to us wild and fresh, radiating a joy of invention that is inseparable from her word-play. -Stanley Kunitz

Literature & Fiction

Morley, Hilda

United States

Cloudless at First presents 30 years of Morely's poetry, including her most recent work,in the same sure, lyrical voice. Hilda Morley's poems, even the elegiac ones, are a celebration, almost ritually so, steeped in the wine of what Donne called 'the ecstasy.' She is a poet of loss, and she is a romantic as much as she is a metaphysician. The years have not diminished her amazingly youthful ardor. The late poems come to us wild and fresh, radiating a joy of invention that is inseparable from her word-play.-Stanley Kunitz

Poetry

Apple of my eye

A celebration of her life-long love for New York, Hanff embarked on this project as an assignment, and realized she had not been to many of the main tourist attractions- the Statue of Liberty, Wall Street, the World Trade Center. As make-believe tourists, off she and Patsy travel to describe the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Grant's Tomb, Fraunces Tavern, some of New York's very special small museums, Orchard Street, a tour of Harlem, and much more. Hanff weaves in historical events and tidbits on some of New York's most notorious personalities.

Apple of My Eye

HANFF, Helene

Regional U.S.

This is the story of a vanished small-town America. Time: from the era of the horse-drawn Democrat wagon to the present. Place: one the Pamet River, Truro, Massachusetts, a small sea-coast town near the tip of Cape Cod. Kane Weaves in brilliant descriptions of the changing seasons (prompting one reader to write that he could smell the salt air in last month's column) regaling his readers with spectacular reports of shipwrecks of the coast of Truro and the nefarious deeds of the mooncussers, over fifty years ago. He evokes memories of the two-room Wilder School, scene of many boyhood pranks; barefoot trips to the corner drug store; and his first attendance at the ritual backyard hog butchering, in the fall.

My Pamet

History

Kane, Tom

Americas

It's a book about show business, where fame is the stock in trade. Each year there are hundreds of stagestruck kids arrive in New York determined to crash the theatre, firmly convinced they're destined to be famous Broadway stars or playwrights.

Underfoot in Show Business

Humor & Entertainment

The Living Reed follows four generations of one family, the Kims, beginning with Il-han and his father, both advisors to the royal family in Korea. When Japan invades and the queen is killed, Il-han takes his family into hiding. In the ensuing years, he and his family take part in the secret war against the Japanese occupation. Pearl S. Buck's epic tells the history of Korea through the lives of one family. She paints an amazing portrait of the country, and makes us empathize with their struggle for sovereignty through her beautifully drawn characters.

Living Reed: A Novel of Korea

BUCK, PEARL S.

Romance

The poems in this collection establish Robert Graves' reputation as a war poet. (He is one of sixteen poets of World War I commemorated on the stone in Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey.) Yet Graves omitted all of them from his own collections after 1927 in an effort to put the war behind him. William Graves, his son, has edited this completely new volume, including many of the marginal notes from Robert;s library copies. Appendices include bibliographic detail, the publication record, and variant forms of the poems.

Poems About War

GRAVES, Robert

The story of Tzu Hsi is the story of the last empress in China. In the novel, Nobel Prize Winner, Pearl S. Buck recreates the life of one of the most interesting rulers during a time of intense turbulence. Pearl S. Buck's knowledge of and fascination with the Empresses' life are contagious. She reveals the essence of this self-involved and infamous last empress, at the same time she takes the reader through China's struggle for freedom and democracy.

Dragon Seed (Oriental Novels of Pearl S. Buck)

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Stones of Venice

Salome

Cloudless at First

Cloudless at First

Apple of My Eye

My Pamet

Underfoot in Show Business

Living Reed: A Novel of Korea

Poems About War

Dragon Seed (Oriental Novels of Pearl S. Buck)