books about: 1900-1924     books:       Youth; Heart of Darkness; The End of the Tether (Penguin Classics)5 reviews Joseph Conrad Penguin Classics, 1995 "To make you hear, to make you feel- and above all, to make you see" Conrad is the master tale- teller of English Literature. In this volume three stories, from three Ages of Life are included. The first 'Youth'is about a maiden vogage to sea, and the last "The End of the Tether" about an old man in his blindness. The story however which has been most written and thought about, and is considered one of Conrad's masterpieces is " Heart of Darkness". It begins as ...             Florence Harding: The First Lady, the Jazz Age, and the Death of America's Most Scandalous President25 reviews Carl Sferrazza Anthony William Morrow & Co, 1998 An Outstanding Biography Writer Carl Anthony has composed an outstanding biography in his work Florence Harding. Harding Florence Harding been one of the more easily understood or admired First Lady's in this nations history, this book would have been written years ago. However, Mrs. Harding's legacy has been in the past told and retold more as a tabloid story than factual account. When approaching this book, one ...             The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad (Cambridge Companions to Literature)2 reviews Cambridge University Press, 1996 A Great Conrad Companion The series "Cambridge Companions" is somewhat uneven. Some titles are excellent, and others are inaccesible, tedious and really not "Companions" at all. This "Companion", however, to Joseph Conrad is probably one of the best in the series. Beginning with a short biography of Conrad's life, there follow chapters on the short fiction, and several on most of the important of Conrad's works, such as ...             The Real Woodrow Wilson: An Interview With Arthur S. Link, Editor of the Wilson Papers2 reviews James Robert Carroll Past, 2000 Fascinating behind-the-scenes view A fascinating behind-the-scenes view of Woodrow Wilson's life and afterlife, via a freeflowing conversation with Arthur Link, the late great Wilson biographer and editor of the amazing Wilson Papers. Link knew more about Wilson's life than anyone - perhaps more even than Wilson himself - and here he tells engaging and revealing stories about Wilson's rise from scholar and college president to ...             James Baldwin's Later Fiction: Witness to the Journey2 reviews Lynn Orilla Scott Michigan State University Press, 2002 A tour de force literary analysis James Baldwin's Later Fiction: Witness To The Journey by Lynn Orilla Scott (Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of American Thought and Language, Michigan State University) is a tour de force literary analysis of one of the great African American authors of the twentieth century. Close readings and a thoughtful study of Baldwin's "Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone," "If Beale Street ...             George Seferis: Collected Poems, 1924-19554 reviews Georgias Sepheriades Princeton Univ Pr, 1982 Seferis is the poet of the millenium Seferis is the ultimate point of poetry. The real king of poetry. His name will be around throughout ages and the words he wrote will be remembered. The nobel was the least that people could return to him.             The Diaries of Franz Kafka (Schocken Classics Series)9 reviews Franz Kafka Schocken, 1988 The Indispensable Kafka Franz Kafka's 1910-23 diary entries are essential reading for anyone who seeks a better understanding of the author's literary world. This 1988 printing contains all the surviving Kafka diaries in one comprehensive volume. More revelatory than any biography, the diaries remain as compelling as his fictional work.             Conversations with Capote8 reviews Lawrence Grobel Da Capo Press, 2000 Funny read everything and perhaps a little more than you want to know about Truman Capote. A nice easy to read bok.             How New York Became American, 1890--19242 reviews Angela M. Blake The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006 A comprehensive study of an era in which the roots of New York City as we know it today were firmly planted. How New York Became American, 1890-1924 was originally Angela M. Blake's doctoral dissertation, which is very much in evidence when you consider that there are sixty-five pages devoted to reference notes and sources. Blake refers to herself as an interdisciplinary and cultural historian and as she mentions in her Essay on Primary Sources that appears at the back of her book, cultural ...             Sverre Fehn3 reviews Gennaro Postiglione, Christian Norberg-Schulz Monacelli, 1997 Excellent monograph on superlative architect's work Sverre Fehn is one of the most poetic and powerful architects alive, largely unknown to the American community until his winning the Pritzger Prize two years ago. This excellent monograph, by his close friend, reviews his entire career and shows his most important works very well, and Norberg-Schulz places him in the context of his time and place, making the work even more accessible. ...             The Struggle for Power in Arabia: Ibn Saud, Hussein and Great Britain, 1914-19242 reviews Haifa Alangari Ithaca Press, 1998 A Struggle for Power Ms. Alangari has produced a master work of analysis and synthesis that describes the factors involved in Ibn Saud's rise to power in spite of the weakness and original lack of cohesion and motivation among his followers and the strength of his enemies. Her research is all-encompassing: her references and bibliography are more complete than those in any other work covering the decade in ...             The Art of John Biggers: View from the Upper Room1 review Alvia J. Wardlaw Harry N Abrams, 1995 a beautiful volume on one of this country's finest painters John Biggers came to artistic maturity in an academic setting far from the art centers of New York. He was repulsed by the New York art scene that had so summarily dismissed black art when he had participated in a MOMA black student art exhibit. Perhaps his avoidance of the centers of art commerce were as responsible for the late acceptance of his genius as was the segregationist mindset in ...             France and the Apres Guerre, 1918-1924 : Illusions and Disillusionment1 review Benjamin F. Martin Louisiana State Univ Pr, 1999 A cleverly-written account of Post World War I France! Life in France after the First World War just didn't make sense to a country that could have been content to win the war. To wit, a political cabinet change at the beginning of 1922 would be enough to fuel one young woman to take off all her clothes in freezing cold weather one afternoon and voice her mad opinions to a crowd assembled at the Place Pigalle. Other Frenchmen killed themselves and ...             Bohemia: Where Art, Angst, Love, and Strong Coffee Meet1 review Herbert Gold Simon & Schuster, 1993 An enthralling ride thru cosmic bohemia Herbert Gold has provided us with a history of Bohemia. He deals with Greenwich Village, San Francisco, Berkeley and any other place where the Bohemia mentality reigns supreme. This is a grand exploration of great artists, poets, thinkers, anarchists and dreamers. He presents the argument that Bohemia is ultimately a state of mind. You may be in Paris or Chapel Hill or Prague but you can ...             Eduardo Paolozzi: Writings and Interviews1 review Eduardo Paolozzi Oxford University Press, USA, 2001 A Trip Through the Life's Work of a Grown-up Kid, Eduardo Paolozzi A lad from Scotland is sent by his Italian butcher Parents for summers to an idyllic nautical-theme children's camp run by Mussolini's Blackshirts. That artist was to become U.K.'s Sir Eduardo Paolozzi. Somehow, he just had to turn out different. One of Britain's finest working sculptors, there is nothing tepid about his multimedia work. A key participant in Britain's pivotal collective art ...             Conrad: Nostromo (Landmarks of World Literature)1 review Ian Watt Cambridge University Press, 1988 "There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetness." Often regarded as Conrad's masterwork, Nostromo is also Conrad's darkest novel, filled with betrayals at all levels and offering little hope for man's redemption. A novel of huge scope and political intrigue, it is also a novel in which no character actually wins. All must accept the ironies which fate has dealt them. Setting the novel in the imaginary South American country of Costaguana, the ...             The Critical Response to Truman Capote (Critical Responses in Arts and Letters)1 review Greenwood Press, 1999 A nice, comprehensive work I did my Junior Paper on Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood," and while doing research in the NY Public library, I came across this book. It was by and far the most helpful of the sources I found. This is a compilation of various essays from literary critics who comment on many of Capote's works. I firmly believe that this book gave me a solid foundation in the analyzing of Mr. Capote's novel ...             Turandot (English National Opera/The Royal Opera Guide 27)2 reviews John Calder/Riverrun Press, 1984 Mini-sized guide laden with maxi-helpful information The Opera Journeys Mini Guide Series is just wonderful; it's like a "Cliff Note" of the opera, and extremely informative and educational. I particularly like the size; these guides are not cumbersome and fit right into my shirt pocket. The ladies will find sufficient room in their pocketbooks. The story narrative with the music examples is excellent. I prefer it to a libretto; indeed, it's ...             The Essays of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 3: 1919-19241 review Harcourt, 1989 More essays by Virginia Woolf This is the third of a (yet uncompleted) series of collections of Virginia Woolf's essays edited by Andrew McNeillie. Of the projected series of a total of six books of Woolf's essays only four have been published so far. When this great undertaking has finished, we will at last have at our disposal the first COMPLETE publication of all the essays and reviews of one of the best-read women in ...             Conrad in the Nineteenth Century1 review Ian Watt University of California Press, 1981 Masterful Analysis of four of Conrad's Early Works I highly recommend this Book to both readers and reseachers interested in Joseph Conrad's Early Works. After a brief Biographical introduction, Watt disccuses the following four works only: "Almayer's Folly", "The Nigger of the Narcissus", "Heart of Darkness" and "Lord Jim". The Novel "An Outcast of the Islands" (1896), as well as the five (three of them important) Stories of the Collection ...              search for books 1914-1924, 1918-1924, 1919-1924, 1924-1955, american, cambridge, classics, collected, companion, companions, conversations, darkness, disillusionment, florence, illusions, interview, interviews, landmarks, literature, nineteenth, nostromo, paolozzi, president, responses, scandalous, schocken, struggle, turandot, virginia, writings books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen music: Godár: Concerto grosso; Partita we recommend An Outstanding Biography home  impressum - about us