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Author |
: Francis Scott Fitzgerald |
Publisher |
: New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 100 |
Release |
: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0811219267 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780811219266 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis On Booze by : Francis Scott Fitzgerald
A collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald's best drinking stories makes this the most intoxicating New Directions Pearl yet!
Author |
: F. Scott Fitzgerald |
Publisher |
: New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 100 |
Release |
: 2011-06-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780811219334 |
ISBN-13 |
: 081121933X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis On Booze (New Directions Pearls) by : F. Scott Fitzgerald
A collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s best drinking stories makes this the most intoxicating New Directions Pearl yet! “First you take a drink,” F. Scott Fitzgerald once noted, “then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.” Fitzgerald wrote alcohol into almost every one of his stories. On Booze gathers debutantes and dandies, rowdy jazz musicians, lost children and ragtime riff-raff into a newly compiled collection taken from The Crack-Up, and other works never before published by New Directions. On Booze portrays “The Jazz Age” as Fitzgerald experienced it: roaring, rambunctious, and lush — with quite a hangover.
Author |
: Javier Marías |
Publisher |
: New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 33 |
Release |
: 2010-02-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780811219648 |
ISBN-13 |
: 081121964X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bad Nature, or With Elvis in Mexico (New Directions Pearls) by : Javier Marías
A gem of a Marías story: Elvis and his entourage abandon their translator in a seedy cantina full of enraged criminals. “It all happened because of Elvis Presley.” Elvis, down south of the border to film a movie, has insisted his producers hire a proper Spaniard so that he can pronounce his few lines in Spanish with a Castillian accent. But Ruibérriz has taken on much more than he bargained for. One fatal night, horseplay in a local bar goes too far: a fatuous drunken American insults the local kingpin, and when the thug insists that Ruibérriz translate, Elvis himself adds an even more stinging comment—and who must translate that?
Author |
: Carl Seelig |
Publisher |
: New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 135 |
Release |
: 2017-04-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780811221405 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0811221407 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis Walks with Walser by : Carl Seelig
A unique and personal portrait of the beloved, legendary Swiss writer, finally in English After a nervous breakdown in 1929, Robert Walser spent the remaining twenty-seven years of his life in mental asylums, closed off from the rest of the world in almost complete anonymity. While at the Herisau sanitarium, instead of writing, Walser practiced another favorite activity: walking. Starting in 1936, Carl Seelig, Walser’s friend and literary executor, visited and accompanied him on these walks, meticulously recording their conversations. As they strolled, Walser told stories, shared his daily experiences of the sanatorium, and expressed his opinions about books and art, writing and history. When Seelig asked why he no longer wrote, Walser famously replied: “I’m not here to write, I’m here to be mad.” Filled with lively anecdotes and details, Walks with Walser offers the fullest available account of this wonderful writer’s inner and outer life.
Author |
: William Carlos Williams |
Publisher |
: Graphic Arts Books |
Total Pages |
: 53 |
Release |
: 2021-08-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781513288048 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1513288040 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis Spring and All by : William Carlos Williams
Spring and All (1923) is a book of poems by William Carlos Williams. Predominately known as a poet, Williams frequently pushed the limits of prose style throughout his works, often comprised of a seamless blend of both forms of writing. In Spring and All, the closest thing to a manifesto he wrote, Williams addresses the nature of his modern poetics which not only pursues a particularly American idiom, but attempts to capture the relationship between language and the world it describes. Part essay, part poem, Spring and All is a landmark of American literature from a poet whose daring search for the outer limits of life both redefined and expanded the meaning of language itself. “There is a constant barrier between the reader and his consciousness of immediate contact with the world. If there is an ocean it is here.” In Spring and All, Williams identifies the incomprehensible nature of consciousness as the single most important subject of poetry. Accused of being “heartless” and “cruel,” of producing “positively repellant” works of art in order to “make fun of humanity,” Williams doesn’t so much defend himself as dig in his heels. His poetry is addressed “[t]o the imagination” itself; it seeks to break down the “the barrier between sense and the vaporous fringe which distracts the attention from its agonized approaches to the moment.” When he states that “so much depends / upon // a red wheel / barrow,” he refers to the need to understand the nature of language, which keeps us in touch with the world. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of William Carlos Williams’ Spring and All is a classic of American literature reimagined for modern readers.
Author |
: F. Scott Fitzgerald |
Publisher |
: New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 356 |
Release |
: 2009-02-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780811219716 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0811219712 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Crack-Up by : F. Scott Fitzgerald
A self-portrait of a great writer 's rise and fall, intensely personal and etched with Fitzgerald's signature blend of romance and realism. The Crack-Up tells the story of Fitzgerald's sudden descent at the age of thirty-nine from glamorous success to empty despair, and his determined recovery. Compiled and edited by Edmund Wilson shortly after F. Scott Fitzgerald's death, this revealing collection of his essays—as well as letters to and from Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, T.S. Eliot, John Dos Passos—tells of a man with charm and talent to burn, whose gaiety and genius made him a living symbol of the Jazz Age, and whose recklessness brought him grief and loss. "Fitzgerald's physical and spiritual exhaustion is described brilliantly," noted The New York Review of Books: "the essays are amazing for the candor."
Author |
: Raymond Queneau |
Publisher |
: New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 244 |
Release |
: 1985 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0811209458 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780811209458 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Blue Flowers by : Raymond Queneau
Humorous dream fantasy in which a Duke keeps changing identity as he travels effortlessly through French history.
Author |
: Joseph Roth |
Publisher |
: New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 65 |
Release |
: 2011-06-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780811219327 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0811219321 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Leviathan (New Directions Pearls) by : Joseph Roth
Joseph Roth’s final novella, The Leviathan, concerns a shtetl’s finest coral merchant and how his dream of seeing the sea for the first time materializes at a terrible cost. In the small town of Progrody, Nissen Piczenik makes his living as the most respected coral merchant of the region. Nissen has never been outside of his town, deep in the Russian interior, and fantasizes that a Leviathan watches over the coral reefs. When the sailor nephew of one of Progrody’s residents comes to visit, Nissen loses little time in befriending him for the purpose of learning about the sea. The sailor offers Nissen a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to come to Odessa and tour his ship. Nissen leaves his business during the peak coral season, and stays in Odessa for three weeks. But upon his return to Progrody, Nissen finds that a new coral merchant has moved into the neighboring town, and his coral is quickly becoming the most sought after. As his customers dwindle, life takes an evil twist for Nissen Piczenik. And the final decider of his fate may be the devil himself.
Author |
: Yukio Mishima |
Publisher |
: New Directions Pearls |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0811218546 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780811218542 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis Patriotism by : Yukio Mishima
One of the most powerful short stories ever written, this work discusses the dynamics of patriotism and honor, love and suicide.
Author |
: Mikhail Bulgakov |
Publisher |
: New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 65 |
Release |
: 2013-09-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780811221689 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0811221687 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis Morphine (New Directions Pearls) by : Mikhail Bulgakov
From the author of The Master and Margarita comes this short and tragic masterpiece about drug addiction Young Dr. Bromgard has come to a small country town to assume a new practice. No sooner has he arrived than he receives word that a colleague, Dr. Polyakov, has fallen gravely ill. Before Bromgard can go to his friend’s aid, Polyakov is brought to his practice in the middle of the night with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, and, barely conscious, gives Bromgard his journal before dying. What Bromgard uncovers in the entries is Polyakov’s uncontrollable and merciless descent into morphine addiction — his first injection to ease his back pain, the thrill of the drug as it overtakes him, the looming signs of addiction, and the feverish final entries before his death.