The Writer Who StayedWilliam ZinsserAdapted from "Zinsser on Friday," The American Scholar's National Magazine Award–Winning Essay Series William Zinsser, author of On Writing Well and many . . . [read more] |
The Summer HouseAlice Thomas Ellis"A work of astonishing illumination and delight...so edgy, bright and subversive about women's inner lives and experience."—Francine Prose, New York Times Book Review . . . [read more] |
The Fields of LightReuben Arthur BrowerNew Foreword by William H. PritchardIn this classic study, Harvard professor Reuben Brower guides the reader from noticing the alluring details of a well-made poem, novel, or play to attending to the encompassing ways in which the wr . . . [read more] |
Birds, Peace, Wealth: Aristophanes' Critique of the GodsAristophanesThree plays translated by Wayne Ambler and Thomas L. PangleThese three comedies provoke searching reflections on the religious nature of humanity: What are the psychological sources of piety? What is longed for in and through piety? What would a god need t . . . [read more] |
The Magic Lantern of Marcel ProustHoward MossNew Foreword by Damion SearlsJohn Updike: "[The Magic Lantern of Marcel Proust] reduces the ungainly and intricately designed masterpiece to its shape, and with hardly a wasted word...The paragraphs on habit and . . . [read more] |
Willing Dogs & Reluctant MastersGary BorjessonWith the help of Kestra (l.) and Atkis (r.), Gary Borjesson explores what it means to be friends—really friends—with a dog, and how that relationship can illuminate and inform the other . . . [read more] |
Hide and SeekXan FieldingNew Foreword by Robert MessengerPaul Dry Books is pleased to bring back into print Xan Fielding's classic—though notoriously hard-to-find—memoir of the resistance on Crete during World War II. With a new forew . . . [read more] |
The StrongholdXan FieldingNew Foreword by Robert Messenger"Xan Fielding was a gifted, many-sided, courageous and romantic figure, at the same time civilized and Bohemian, and his thoughtful cast of mind was leavened by humour, spontaneous gaiety, and . . . [read more] |
From Berlin to JerusalemGershom ScholemForeword by Moshe Idel"An extraordinary life—one that itself takes on symbolic, if not mystical, significance." —Robert Coles From Berlin to Jerusalem portrays the dual dramas of . . . [read more] |
On Jews and Judaism in CrisisGershom ScholemIntroduction by Werner Dannhauser"These essays, dealing as they do with modern Jewish history, literature, and religion, sustain a continuity of conviction that cannot help but inspire a new generation of Jewish intellectual . . . [read more] |
City AbandonedVincent D. FeldmanPhiladelphia is rich with forgotten places surprisingly profound in their historical value. Architectural landmarks slowly crumble right in the heart of otherwise vibrant neighborhoods, given only . . . [read more] |
Only the Longest ThreadsTasneem ZehraDramatic and lucid accounts of six monumental breakthroughs in physics—Newton's Universal Laws of motion and gravitation, Electromagnetism, Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Field Theory . . . [read more] |
Unreasonable DoubtNorma ThompsonRetail: $16.95 / Sale: $12.95 "Part detective story, part social commentary, part intellectual autobiography, part philosophical . . . [read more] |
The Logos of HeraclitusEva BrannIn his Vatican fresco The School of Athens, Raphael portrays the great thinkers and teachers of the ages talking and listening to one another. His Heraclitus, however, is a lone thinker st . . . [read more] |
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