The Gardener, a book of prose. Most of the lyrics of love and life, the translations of which from Bengali are published in this book, were written much earlier than the series of religious poems contained in the book name Gitanjali. The verses in this book are far finer and more genuine than even the best in Gitanjali.

    But since its original prewar translation there has been no completely new version in English. Now, Penguin brings Proust's masterpiece to new audiences throughout the world, beginning with Lydia Davis's internationally acclaimed translation of the first volume, Swann's Way.Swann's Way is one of the preeminent novels of childhood: a sensitive boy's impressions of his family and neighbors, all brought dazzlingly back to life years later by the taste of a madeleine. It also enfolds the short novel "Swann in Love," an incomparable study of sexual jealousy that becomes a crucial part of the vast, unfolding structure of In Search of Lost Time. The first volume of the work that established Proust as one of the finest voices of the modern age — satirical, skeptical, confiding, and endlessly varied in its response to the human condition — Swann's Way also stands on its own as a perfect rendering of a life in art, of the past re-created through memory.

    After his father, a paperhanger and upholsterer, died of cholera, five-year-old Gorky was taken to live with his grandfather, a polecat-faced tyrant who would regularly beat him unconscious, and with his grandmother, a tender mountain of a woman and a wonderful storyteller, who would kneel beside their bed (with Gorky inside it pretending to be asleep) and give God her views on the day's happenings, down to the last fascinating details. She was, in fact, Gorky's closest friend and the epic heroine of a book swarming with characters and with the sensations of a curious and often frightened little boy. My Childhood, the first volume of Gorky's autobiographical trilogy, was in part an act of exorcism. It describes a life begun in the raw, remembered with extraordinary charm and poignancy and without bitterness. Of all Gorky's books this is the one that made him 'the father of Russian literature'.

    As she unfolds the story of Undine Spragg, from New York to Europe, Wharton affords us a detailed glimpse of what might be called the interior décor of this America and its nouveau riche fringes. Through a heroine who is as vain, spoiled, and selfish as she is irresistibly fascinating, and through a most intricate and satisfying plot that follows Undine's marriages and affairs, she conveys a vision of social behavior that is both supremely informed and supremely disenchanted. - Anita Brookner

    One by one he introduces, demonstrates and expounds the discoveries and inventions of his fertile, encyclopaedic mind. An African mud-sculpture representing a naked child; a road-mender's tool which, when activated by the weather, creates a mosaic of human teeth; a vast aquarium in which humans can breathe and in which a depilated cat is seen stimulating the partially decomposed head of Danton to fresh flights of oratory. By each item in Cantarel's exhibition there hangs a tale - a tale such as only that esteemed genius Roussel could tell. As the inventions become more elaborate, the richness and brilliance of the author's stories grow to match them; the flow of his imagination becomes a flood and the reader is swept along in a torrent of wonder and hilarity.

    London offers acute generalizations on Barleycorn together with a close narrative of his own drinking career, which was heroic in scale. It is, however, as an exercise in autobiography that his book principally attracts the modern reader. London's life was tragically short but packed with episode and adventure. In John Barleycorn he records his early hardships in Oakland, his experiences as oyster pirate, deep-sea sealer, hobo, Yukon goldminer, student, drop-out, and - ultimately - best-selling author. Long neglected by London partisans (who wish he had never written it) and used against him by critics who would see him as a self-confessed drunk, John Barleycorn deserves to be celebrated for what it is: a classic of American autobiography.

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    Published in 1913 and available here in its first English translation, it is the narrative of Emilie Demant Hatt's nine-month stay in the tent of a Sami family in northern Sweden in 1907-8 and her participation in a dramatic reindeer migration over snow-packed mountains to Norway with another Sami community in 1908. A single woman in her thirties, Demant Hatt immersed herself in the Sami language and culture. She writes vividly of daily life, women's work, children's play, and the care of reindeer herds in Lapland a century ago. While still an art student in Copenhagen in 1904, Demant Hatt had taken a vacation trip to northern Sweden, where she chanced to meet Sami wolf hunter Johan Turi. His dream of writing a book about his people sparked her interest in the culture, and she began to study the Sami language at the University of Copenhagen. Though not formally trained as an ethnographer, she had an eye for detail. The journals, photographs, sketches, and paintings she made during her travels with the Sami enriched her eventual book, and in With the Lapps in the High Mountains she memorably portrays people, dogs, reindeer, and the beauty of the landscape above the Arctic Circle. This English-language edition also includes photographs by Demant Hatt, an introduction by translator Barbara Sjoholm, and a foreword by Hugh Beach, author of A Year in Lapland: Guest of the Reindeer Herders.

    History, culture, and politics are blended and juxtaposed; weather reports, current news, fashions and psychology jostle together with people from Petersburg society in an exhilarating search for the identity of a city and, ultimately, Russia itself. 'The one novel that sums up the whole of Russia.'—Anthony Burgess

    Champion of "cubism," Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) fashions in verse the sonic equivalent of what Picasso accomplishes in his cubist works: simultaneity. Apollinaire has been so influential that without him there would have been no New York School of poetry and no Beat Movement. This new translation reveals his complex, beautiful, and wholly contemporary poetry. Printed with the original French on facing pages.

    

    "'The Stoker,' 'The Metamorphosis,' and 'The Judgment' belong together, both inwardly and outwardly. There is an obvious connection among the three, and, even more important, a secret one, for which reason I would be reluctant to forego the chance of having them published together in a book, which might be called The Sons."Seventy-five years later, Kafka's request is granted, in a volume including these three classic stories of filial revolt as well as his own poignant "Letter to His Father," another "son story" located between fiction and autobiography. A devastating indictment of the modern family, The Sons represents Kafka's most concentrated literary achievement as well as the story of his own domestic tragedy. Grouped together under this new title and in newly revised translations, these texts—the like of which Kafka had never written before and (as he claimed at the end of his life) would never again equal—take on fresh, compelling meaning.

    

    No man was better fitted to write of this wild and rich, rugged and bleak, yet beautiful region than was its explorer and path-finder, its pioneer writer, the creator of its institutions and moulder of its early government, the late William Ogilvie. The book has stirring interest; it is history in the making and the basis of future historical writing as to this vast lone land of the Arctic. It but touches the fringe of the time when men reached out for what was to be a hundred millions worth of gold; when that wonderful Camp was constituted in which good and evil developed side by side, and the strongest and meanest of mankind were tested in the sternest of the world ’s wars between humanity and nature. The book leads up to this period, shows the country in plain but effective narrative, and provides a valuable record of pioneer conditions and events.Over 100 years ago Yukon was an uninhabited, uncharted, unknown, and even unnamed land, by 1910 it sheltere a vigorous population, in numerous, prosperous towns and under a well-organized stable government. No such region has ever sprung into existence more suddenly or developed so rapidly with as little waste of wealth, energy, and human life. And this was due primarily to the mental strength, sound judgment, and fine moral fiber of William Ogilvie. Of Scotch Irish stock, born and educated in Ottawa, he took up his work of Dominion surveyor in the new lands of the Northwest Territory. His surveys on the Mackenzie and Yukon rivers, extending in a single trip alone nearly three thousand miles, yielded the first accurate information of a country never before traversed by the foot of a white man. He made the first preliminary survey of the international boundary between Alaska and Canada and so accurately that the latest survey found the line at the Yukon only a few score yards from where it ought to be.Ogilvie was made the first commissioner of Yukon Territory in 1896. He had to select his aids and advisers, to create a system of laws, and to administer them. He established schools as well as courts, organized a postal service, adjusted public grievances, created public sentiment, and made a strong and orderly state out of a wilderness and a mob of men seeking gold.It is the story of these days that he tells in this work with a directness and unaffected simplicity that conceals from the casual reader the great part he played himself. As a tale of the days when men fought with the wilderness for wealth the book is full of interest, overflowing with anecdote in which humor and death run side by side. It is invaluable as the record of an accurate observer, a keen judge of men, a retentive memory, and above all a strong leader in stormy times. For the history of the Northwest he has done a great service in recording what would otherwise have been irrevocably lost. Mr. Ogilvie's book must always be an indispensable document in any study of the social or political history of the Klondike. CONTENTS I. COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF GEOGRAPHICAL AND POLITICAL DISTINCTIONS OF AMERICAN TERRITORY OF ALASKA AND THE YUKON TERRITORY OF CANADA II. BOUNDARY MATTERS III. STORY OF ATTEMPTED CRIME AND THE SWIFT JUSTICE WHICH FOLLOWED IT IV. REMARKS ON MR. OGILVIE'S SURVEY V. TRADING AND TRADING POSTS ON THE RIVER VI. GOLD DISCOVERIES AND MINING VII. FIRST GOLD SENT OUT VIII. DISCOVERY OF THE KLONDIKE IX. MR. OGILVIE'S VISIT TO THE COUNTRY IN 1887-8 AND OBSERVATIONS MADE THEN X. WINTER WORK IN 1895-6 XI. WORK DONE ON THE CREEKS BY MR. OGILVIE XII. LOCAL EXCITEMENT AS WEALTH OF KLONDIKE WAS REVEALED XIII. EXPERIENCES IN CAMP AND ON RIVER XIV.

    

    Petersburg to the Palaces of India, from the back alleys of Paris to the deck of the Titanic, this prodigious saga tells the story of the death of Fantômas, and of his arch-nemesis, Detective Juve. Defying the Tsar’s secret police, Russian anarchists, Thuggee from India and Parasian Apaches, Juve, ably assisted by the intrepid journalist Jerôme Fandor, his beloved fiancée, Hélène, the alleged daughter of Fantômas, crisscross the world to finally meet their fate aboard a doomed ship in the North Atlantic. The Death of Fantômas collects the final two volumes of the saga of the Lord of Terror, initially released in 1913 and never translated before. The book also includes an introduction, a timeline and a bibliography by Jean-Marc Lofficier.

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    Arnold Publication date: 1913Subjects: Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852Peninsular War, 1807-1814Great Britain -- History, Military 1807-1814Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.