books by Farrar Straus & Giroux (T)     books:       Caravaggio: A Life4 reviews Helen Langdon Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 1999 Light inside the Shadows I found this book to be very entertaining as well as educational. The author did a great job of recreating the setting of Carravaggio's life; the important characters and atmosphere of all the places the artist lived in his nomadic life. Also, I look at Carravaggio's paintings in a new light and am even more impressed and moved by them than previously. Carravaggio's was a tragic life. The ...             Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale Miranda Seymour Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 1993 Chronicles the life of Ottoline Morrell, the celebrated patron of British literary society in the Bloomsbury era who became the inspiration for numerous literary characters, including Hermione Roddice in D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love.             The Russian Question at the End of the Twentieth Century: Toward the End of the Twentieth Century5 reviews Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn, Yermolai Solzhenitsyn Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 1995 Great book on Russian history Winner of the Nobel Prize for literature Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was born in Russia in 1918. He has experienced World War II, labor camp, internal exile, and expulsion from the Soviet Union. He spent 18 years in seclusion in rural Vermont. In this book he explores Russian history in search for answers for Russia's decline. This book was born and distilled through Solzhenitsyn's many years of ...             Money of the Mind: Borrowing and Lending in America from the Civil War to Michael Milken5 reviews James Grant Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 1992 Grant is the best writer on Wall Street today... James Grant is the best writer of his generation on Wall Street today. Those looking for a romp or Wall Street Noir might be disappointed. But for a truly literate look at the world of debt, this book not only informs but entertains. James Grant. Accept no substitutes.             Russia: A Portrait1 review Lev Poliakov Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 1991 Beautiful Russian Photo Album This book contains seventy-two black and white images of the former Soviet Union taken by Soviet photo jornalist, Lev Poliakov. Most of the photos were take in the 1960's although there are a few from the early 1970's. Most of them are both landscapes and portraits and generally show ordinary people doing ordinary things. My favorite photo of the book shows more than just ordinary activity. ...             Minding Mr. Market: Ten Years on Wall Street With Grant's Interest Rate Observer2 reviews James Grant Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 1993 Insightful, witty analysis of the market and market players Mr. Grant's analysis and insight into market inconsistencies, anomalies, and absurdities is refreshing in this age of me too financial journalism. The articles, taken from Grant's Interest Rate Observer, are as original in thought as they are uncompromising in their logic. I am a finance professional and feel that this book is a must read for any young entrant into the field. This perennial ...             Shy Girl14 reviews Elizabeth Stark Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 1999 so familiar like i said, everything about this story is so familiar to our own lives, even if they are so different. i can relate to everyone in the story and feel like i've been there. you can't help but understand and feel for the characters. especially alta, whom i have a huge crush on... we've all been young, held secrets, never forgot or understood that first true love, we've all been lost as ...             The Christmas Mystery20 reviews Jostein Gaarder Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 1996 The Christmas Mystery Our family started reading The Christmas Mystery about 5 years ago and it is now a very special Advent activity and a way to come together as a family in a busy season. While it is a bit confusing at first- the story moves backward through time and geography-it is so rich and has so many layers that it's absolutely worth reading. The first year we were just trying to grasp the rudiments of the ...             Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being2 reviews Ted Hughes Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 1992 The Vision behind the Vision What makes a genius tick? What made Shakespeare tick? If Shakespeare's vision seems inexhaustible, all-encompassing, transcendental - one might say 'mythic' - then how did he manage it? Where did that vision come from? And where, while we're at it, did the *poetry* come from? Many of the world's finest literary minds over the last 400 years have been drawn to such questions, and more than a ...             The Crystal Frontier: A Novel in Nine Stories13 reviews Carlos Fuentes Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 1997 drew me in and made me think! I read this book a while back in a Spanish Literature class. I absolutely loved it, it made me think about so many imigration issues that I had not even known existed before. This book is written as a novel, and a novel with a purpose at that. If you are against immigration of the Latin Americans into the USA, then this book may be the one to get you to understand that they are real people and ...             The Agony of Flies: Notes and Notations1 review Elias Canetti Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 1994 A man of words, and humor Elias Canetti has written many timeless classics, but this perhaps is a book not for a serious read, but for a casual reading of words at play, words in quotations, or small paragraphs, just laid out unrelated. By the way one half is in Dutch and the other in English... Several of his quotations were written as he agonized over life or death or during moments of contemplation as he wrote ...             Collected Poems31 reviews Philip Larkin Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 1989 This be the verse There are two different types of Larkin poem. The first type, mostly written before 1955, are influenced by Yeats and Auden and are mediocre. The second, written when he found his voice, are amongst the most wonderful works of English literature ever written. So what was his voice? Basically that of twentieth century man - atheistic, obsessed with sex, regretting the loss of faith and the old ...             Berryman's Shakespeare4 reviews John Berryman Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 1999 Fine Addition to Shakespeare Criticism This posthumous collection of essays, letters, and unfinished writings by John Berryman is one of the most vivid and interesting works of Shakespearean literary criticism I've read. Berryman's insightful essay on "Shakespeare at Thirty" is alone worth the cover price. The real heart of the book is the author's lectures on Shakespeare's body of work, from the earliest comedies to "Shakespeare's ...             Inside the Company: CIA Diary4 reviews Philip Agee Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 1975 A Well-Intentioned Blunder Philip Agee's INSIDE THE COMPANY: A CIA DIARY, is a classic example of a work written by an idealistic, well-intentioned man which tragically undercut the very thing he wanted to achieve: the success of mid-nineteen-seventies Congressional hearings into the crimes of the CIA. Agee was an intelligence officer from 1957 to 1969, working in Latin America. His book gives us vital "insider" ...             Keats4 reviews Andrew Motion Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 1998 The Life of a Poet as Seen Through the Eyes of a Poet Andrew Motion's biography recognizes the historical circumstances in which Keats lived, approaching new historicist tenets while maintaining a clear focus on the poet's individual life and works. He traces political tensions and medical practices of the time to expand upon the existing academic vision of Keats's poetic life; here he is more than a poet. That said, Motion, a poet himself, ...             Slaves in the Family98 reviews Edward Ball Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 1998 man enough to do it Some reviewers below complain that this book is tedious. Well, sure. I bet the US Constitution and the Bible are tedious to someone who has no clue about, or doesn't care about, their context. To anyone with some understanding of US history, the project of writing this book marks a step forward in race relations, however big or small that step may turn out to be. If you care even a little ...             The Death of Satan: How Americans Have Lost the Sense of Evil4 reviews Andrew Delbanco Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 1995 Comprehensive, and Thorough Books about the History of Ideas usually raise the ire of Conservative Christians; this book is no exception. However, it provides a very good analysis of the concept of Satan over time. The Conservatives who pretend to be Christian, whilst eschewing some books like this one, have no qualms in titling a very pro-Republican book THE GREAT RIGHTWING CONSPIRACY so that they can attract, or annoy ...             Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer14 reviews Isaac Bashevis Singer Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 1982 Magnificent and Masterful, Spirited and Profound Isaac Bashevis Singer was a master storyteller and any reader will be well-rewarded for spending time with his "Collected Stories." Many of these stories are set in Poland before World War II or post-war New York City, but there is a spiritual energy that drives all of these tales, regardless of location. Old World demons and devils can be found in "The Unseen," "The Destruction of Kreshev," ...             A Throw of the Dice: The Life of Stephane Mallarme2 reviews Gordan Millan Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 1994 An excellent introduction to Mallarme's life Quite an enjoyable read, Millan's book also presents us with a neutral account of his subject's life, which makes this biography all the more interesting and stimulating. Although some may feel a few things are missing, such as details into Herodiade and parts of Mallarme's literary theory, or more examples of Mallarme's interactions with other major writers of his century apart from his closest ...              search for books america, americans, bashevis, berryman, borrowing, caravaggio, century, christmas, collected, company, complete, crystal, frontier, goddess, interest, lending, mallarme, michael, minding, mystery, notations, observer, ottoline, portrait, question, russian, shakespeare, stephane, stories, twentieth books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: Arbitrage Theory in Continuous Time (Oxford Finance Series) leave a comment home  impressum - about us