Made after an original copy in the collection of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, the replica makes a modernist icon available to collectors, teachers, and others with an interest in poetry, art, and book making.Blaise Cendrars' narrative about his life-changing journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway is a poem of memory and movement. Sonia Delaunay's designs create a parallel path as the reader slips down the palette while swimming through a river of words. Curator Timothy Young provides a new English translation accompanied by notes.

    This publication anticipated by eight years Freud’s conception of the death instinct.

    City boy, he immersed himself in nature through his discovery of the garden on the edge of the estuary, in which he took refuge. At the resumption of classes, he joined the boarding school nearby, where he faces the harsh relationship between kids, the first exalted friendships, but also the first betrayal and cowardice first. And then there are those parents too far, this musician whose father is not clear what harm he suffered and Gilles seeks to settle a thousand ways without ever succeeding, this loving mother but dedicated entirely to the whims of its husband - until the final drama. (Google translation of fr.wikipedia)

    They were suggested by the tercentenary of the King James version of the Bible. The plan adopted led to a restatement of the history which prepared for the version, and of that which produced it. It was natural next to point out its principal characteristics as a piece of literature. Two lectures followed, noting its influence on literature and on history. The course closed with a statement and argument regarding the place of the Bible in the life of to-day.The reception accorded the lectures at the time of their public delivery, and the discussion which ensued upon some of the points raised, encourage the hope that they may be more widely useful.