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Oxford U Press, 11th trade paperback printing. Condition: Very good minus, light edge and corner wear, light spine crease, price sticker on rear cover, light sunning on rear cover.Although several biographers have thrown themselves into the breach since this magisterial book first appeared in 1959, none have come close to matching the late Richard Ellmann's achievement. To be fair, Ellmann does have some distinct advantages. For starters, there's his deep mastery of the Irish milieu--demonstrated not only in this volume but in his books on Yeats and Wilde. He's also an admirable stylist himself--graceful, witty, and happily unintimidated by his brilliant subjects. But in addition, Ellmann seems to have an uncanny grasp on Joyce's personality: his reverence for the Irishman's literary accomplishment is always balanced by a kind of bemused affection for his faults. Whether Joyce is putting the finishing touches on Ulysses, falling down drunk in the streets of Trieste, or talking dirty to his future wife via the postal service, Ellmann's account always shows us a genius and a human being--a daunting enough task for a fiction writer, let alone the poor, fact-fettered biographer. Richard Ellmann has revised and expanded his definitive work on Joyce's life to include newly discovered primary material, including details of a failed love affair, a limerick about Samuel Beckett, a dream notebook, previously unknown letters, and much more., Oxford University Press, 3, Little Toller Books, 2020. 224, photos. 225x150mm. HB. NEW. . Diary of a Young Naturalist chronicles the turning of 15-year-old Dara McAnulty’s world. From spring and through a year in his home patch in Northern Ireland, Dara spent the seasons writing. These vivid, evocative and moving diary entries about his connection to wildlife and the way he sees the world are raw in their telling. Diary of a Young Naturalist portrays Dara’s intense connection to the natural world, and his perspective as a teenager juggling exams and friendships alongside a life of campaigning.“I was diagnosed with Asperger’s/autism aged five … By age seven I knew I was very different, I had got used to the isolation, my inability to break through into the world of talking about football or Minecraft was not tolerated. Then came the bullying. Nature became so much more than an escape; it became a life-support system.”Reviews:‘This book is very pertinent. It’s a diary but essentially timeless. It’s about enduring, it’s about passion, beauty and connection. It’s really, really special.’ Chris Packham‘A beautifully written, profoundly important classic of nature writing that will ignite a passion for the wild in every reader. A stunning achievement. I adored it.’ Lauren St John‘Dara’s is an extraordinary voice and vision: brave, poetic, ethical, lyrical, strong enough to have made him heard and admired from a young age.’ Robert Macfarlane‘McAnulty’s writing glows with his deep sympathy for the natural world.’ Tim Flannery. [9781908213792], Little Toller Books, 2020, 0, *8 SIMONE, Lion Feuchtwanger - Vintage copy hardcover blue cloth boards embossed titling- Front- gold titling spine interior the book is unmarked -this particular edition is produced in full compliance with all war production Board conservation orders, during World War II there were many shortages and rationing even materials to manufacture books worn corners dust jacket missing fair/acceptable to good copy SIMONE. By Lion Feuchtwanger --Approaching German invaders- village of Saint-Martin unleashes the treachery of native Frenchmen who are supposedly- village patriots,incites the heroism of fifteen-year-old Simone-Planchard, .Strange hauntingly-story of a modern Joan of Arc. Simone is a ""poor relation", her uncle is fond of her because of his devotion to her dead father, brilliant- liberal scientist- step grandmother dislikes - treats her as a servant;- uncles employees at the truck depot & gasoline station distrust/scoff, Maurice, who is exempt - trucking services. Simone is caught up in the contagion of fear & realization of war when refugees stream through, headed unoccupied France. Fantasizing reliving experiences of idolized Joan, -begins- ends,merges with Joan's own pattern of life.Fearing her uncle will collaborate; she acts in his place,sets fire to the trucking station.Confused / terrified by conflicting loyalties,feeling she should bear the burden of guilt, she refuses to accompany Maurice to unoccupied France, stays to face her accusers-and to be consigned to the dreaded reformatory. She takes with her the knowledge the villagers are behind her-her deed has fired their resolve to resist the enemy from within. Lion Feuchtwanger (German:-July 7 1884 to 12-21- 1958) was a German-Jewish novelist and playwright. A prominent figure in the literary world of Wiemar Germany- Lion Feuchtwanger- Simone-The Viking Press- Pub - January 1, 1944 - size approx. 7.9 x 5.3 x 1 inches - pages- 238 - LAXVespa Los Angeles /Culver City-Expedited Shipping available-by request/ price adjust-..Ruth Reaser..LAX Vespa shipped -United States Post to fulfill your order from Los Angeles I hop on my Vespa visit the PO to have it placed in our mail system.. your books not co-mingled its wrapped --you get the copy you were viewing. Carefully packed...Gift just let me know.. SIMONE 4141Blue MK 37 Old bk\Local athor having a relationship With USC - Villa Aurora, has become a haven for intellectual life, but the journey was a difficult one, producing a quintessentially Los Angeles story of exile, artistic creativity, global connection, education, and, of course, real estate.The original Villa Aurora, which you can see as you drive up Sunset Boulevard from the ocean, was a 14-room Spanish Colonial Revival-style house of 6,700 square feet on a 19,000 square-foot lot. Weber, the investor, traveled to Andalusia and drew inspiration from a small castle in the vicinity of Seville. In order to perfect the European atmosphere of the house, wooden ceilings were shipped from Spain, and a Renaissance fountain was imported from Tuscany. Local touches included redwood walls and Moorish-inspired tiles made by the Malibu Tile Company. The house was also equipped with the latest technical conveniences, such as an electric garage door and a trash compactor. A theater organ was part of the design and accompanied the projection of silent movies.Convenience didn't protect the first residentsWeber and his familyfrom hard times. After the crash of 1929, the Webers were forced to rent the house from the bank. After they moved out in 1939, the house remained vacant for the next four years.Then, in 1943, German exiles Lion and Marta Feuchtwanger purchased the home. The price was $9,000.Lion Feuchtwanger was a novelist and playwright who was prominent in Weimar Germany and already a foe of the Nazis before they came to power. When the Feuchtwangers moved into the Villa, the house was so run-down, thataccording to Marta Feuchtwanger's oral historythey spent their first nights in the garden in sleeping bags. One of their neighbors, a great admirer of Lion's writings, sent a handyman to support them in turning the Villa into a livable home. With his help, the Feuchtwangers were able to get rid of the knee-high dirt, cobwebs, and dead animals, replace the broken windows, and reclaim the overgrown garden.Villa Aurora soon became a meeting place of German-speaking émigrés in Los Angeles. The Feuchtwangers regularly hosted readings, concerts, and receptions. Guests included Thomas and Heinrich Mann, Bertolt Brecht, Bruno Frank, Charlie Chaplin, Franz Werfel and his wife Alma Mahler-Werfel, Hanns Eisler, Ernst Toch, and many more artists and intellectuals.Lion Feuchtwanger's books were published and translated worldwide and attracted a large readership, allowing the Feuchtwangers to live comfortably. With contributions to the European Film Fund, the Feuchtwangers supported colleagues who were financially less successful. Lion also made money selling screenplays to Hollywood producers, even though, in reliably Hollywood fashion, none of those screenplays were turned into films during his lifetime.One legacy that remains with the home is Feuchtwanger's library. Before coming to the United States, Lion had lost two librariesthe Nazis confiscated his house and library in Grunewald in 1933, and he was forced to leave behind a second collection in Sanary-sur-Mer, France, in 1940. Today, many valuable books can be found among the 30,000 volumes in Feuchtwanger's last library: a Nuremberg Chronicle dating from 1493, Goya prints, and collector's items such as letters by Napoleon and a signed first edition by Voltaire. Feuchtwanger also compiled reference collections for each of his books. Today, 22,000 volumes are still at Villa Aurora.After Lion Feuchtwanger's death in 1958, Marta became the caretaker of his estate. In 1959, she bequeathed the house and Lion's library to the University of Southern California (the 8,000 most valuable books are still housed at the USC's Feuchtwanger Memorial Library). She continued to live at Villa Aurora until her death in 1987.The house might have languished on the hill in Los Angelesexcept that German writers and thinkers, recognizing its significance, came to its rescue. In 1989, a private nonprofit organization in Berlin, the Friends of Villa Aurora, bought the house from USC and commissioned the architect Frank Dimster, a USC professor of Romanian-German origin, to renovate it.Dimster had experience with old houses (he had restored Frank Lloyd Wright's Freeman House in Los Angeles), but Villa Aurora was a challenge even for him. The villa lacked a solid foundation and had received only minimal repairs in the previous four decades. The hill on which it was built threatened to slide onto the neighbors' terrace at any moment.First, the entire house had to be lifted in order to build a solid foundation beneath it. Then the hillside had to be stabilized by cement pillars buried deep in the ground. Air conditioning was added as well as an entirely new heating system. All the pipes and electrical circuits were replaced, and all of these changes were accomplished without altering the appearance of the building in any way. After the various renovations were finished, the Villa Aurora was placed on the list of Historical Landmarks in California. In appreciation and recognition of his accomplishment, Dimster was awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz, the highest order of merit, by the Federal Republic of Germany in 1996.Since 1995, Villa Aurora has served as an artists' retreat, offering residency fellowships to writers, filmmakers, visual artists and composers. While still owned by the Berlin-based nonprofit, the entire operation is funded by the German Federal Foreign Office and the Federal Commissioner for Culture and Media. Its fellows and the Friends of the Villa Aurora have made it an important gathering place for people in and outside of Los Angeles for conversations and cultural life.And it remains a haven for those who face persecution at home. Villa Aurora, in cooperation with human rights organizations and the USC, awards a special nine-month Feuchtwanger Fellowship to writers or journalists from countries restricting freedom of expression.SIMONE 4141 Blue MK 37 Old bk, The Viking Press, 2.25, Mill City Press, Inc., 2018. New. Donald Trump, the uncontrollable man who blasted American politics from the inside and petrified the elites--Is he an impostor with an oversized ego? Or a patriotic businessman who goes beyond the normally prescribed limits and wants to take on the model of globalization?Thousands of articles and dozens of books deal with him, but the man remains a puzzle! So, if we wish to understand the phenomenon, we must approach his case as we would approach a puzzle!The method proposed in this book, Trump the Puzzle, adopts a pedagogical trajectory that highlights, in a rigorous and clear way, the simple American realities Then, grasping the complexity of the big sets, we try, as much as possible, to understand the integrated image of the "case"--the "naked truth"It will not be the purpose of this book to diminish Trump, as is the wish of his enemies, to what he is not in reality--some political dwarf; nor to inflate him as is the wish of his admirers, into a real-life Incredible Hulk We wish only to identify and recognize the truth Those who seek to promote their own agendas--positive or negative--about the "Trump case" should look elsewhere!The method in Trump the Puzzle offers a dive into the psychology and construction of the Trump character and his vision of the world It also clarifies what the Trump phenomenon isThe deep revolt that is shaking America affects the West in general and frightens the Third World as well Trump The Puzzle teaches us about the challenges posed to America and the whole planet, and what we as concerned citizens of "this small planet" can do about itMoulay Taieb Baiti, Master lecturer, consultant in International Geo-strategy and political anthropology, Mill City Press, Inc., 2018, 6, NY: Knopf. VG in VG DJ. 1995. 1st ed. The first gathering of garden talk from the widely admired NY Times garden columnist Anne Raver. She eulogizes great trees . that were once home to the gods, celebrates the art of lawn mowing, evokes the art of digging up one's own leeks and potatoes, gives us the lowdown on crickets, describes the delight of bird watching, & explores the universe of bugs. ., Knopf, 1995, 3, Simon and Schuster. ---------Black cloth spine and orange hardcovers, thick book, 9 1/2" tall. 639 pages, with a section of photos----FINE CONDITION- - dust jacket Fine Condition- - - -SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on blank page "To Evelyn Clark, on the occasion of her 90 birthday, with Deep Admiration and Affection and in High Esteem, Ellen Chesler, Dec 4 1993"- - - . Fine. Hard Covers. 2nd Printing. 1992., Simon and Schuster, 1992, 5<
