Text: English, French (translation)

Journey to the Orient

De Nerval, Gérard

tanslated by Norman Glass

Literature & Fiction

Peter Owen Publishers

The Prodigy

The Prodigy, originally dating from 1905, is Hermann Hesses's bitter indictment of conventional education. It is the story of Hans Giebenrath, the brilliant young son of provincial bourgeouis in southern Germany who becomes the first boy from his town to pass into a prestigious Protestant theological college. His spirit, however, is systematically broken by his parents and teachers; over anxious about his success, they forget to consider his health and happiness. Subsiding into a fatal apathy, he is taken home for medical reasons. Here he falls in love, becomes an engineer's apprentice, learns to drink alcohol and eventually dies by drowning. Out of his attitude to the treatment that he perceived was common within the German schooling system at the turn of the century, Hesse developed his own deeply personal views on the value of Eastern education in developing the self.

Hermann, Hesse

Classics

A landmark of lesbian fiction, The Guérillères is about a war of the sexes, where women "engage in bloody, victorious battles using knives, machine guns and rocket launchers." Moreover, sympathetic males join them in their combat.

The Guerilleres

Wittig, Monique

The pioneer of modern dance discusses her choreographical and teaching methods, providing a complete but highly readable primer for any student of dance.

Creation in Dance and Life

Morris, Margaret

Reference

The Cannabis Experience: An Interpretative Study of the Effects of Marijuana and Hashish

Medical Books

Berke, Joseph H.

Pharmacology

The Disinherited: The Life of Gerard De Nerval

Biographies & Memoirs

Sowerby, Benn

Arts & Literature

A family saga set in an East Galician town in the early years of the century, the first English translation of this noted Israeli writer.

Pictures From a Brewery (UNESCO Collection of Contemporary Works)

Barash, Asher

Genre Fiction

Part allegory, part fable, The House In The Dark was written in secret during the German occupation of Norway, and gives a stirring picture of how a society struggled to stay united under the strain of being watched by their invaders.

The House in the Dark

Vesaas, Tarjei

Literary

Dress optional: The revolution in menswear

Rodney Bennett-England

In this new critical study, Barbara Hardy suggests that Jane Austen, while making no claims to innovation, transformed the art of fiction and created the modern novel.

A Reading of Jane Austen

Hardy, Barbara

British & Irish

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