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Search Books Please visit the How to Order page to place an order. To search for a book, you can fill in as many or as few of the fields below as you wish. If you are not getting any results, try leaving some of the fields blank. Order Now! BookId: D4-2 Title: Waiting for Joe Author: Sandra Birdsell Publisher: Random House Canada Price: 26.00 Description: As Joe leaves Laurie behind, their tight-knit world of meaningful coincidence unravels. In retrospect, the parts of their lives that seemed fated turn out to be contingent. In the face of their misfortunes and those of others Joe encounters, his religious convictions are radically revised, if not abandoned. As fans of Birdsell's earlier novels know, her writing can be immersive, sensual, transparent. At her best - when she's describing Joe's prepubescent religious conversion in all its seedy, sincere glory, for example - she's clearly still got it. And then, not everybody reads fiction to compensate for the chaos of real life. For readers who read in order to try on another person's consciousness, there are rewards to be had here. Birdsell inclines us to judge Laurie's foolishness and Joe's insensitivity, then plunges us headlong into their sensory worlds, their human vulnerability. We may not like them, but in the book's best passages we can't help but understand them and experience their disillusionment and helplessness as though they were our own; that's something worth reading for. Sandra Louise Birdsell, CM (née Bartlette) (born 22 April 1942)[1] is a Canadian novelist and short story writer of Métis and Mennonite heritage from Morris, Manitoba. Birdsell’s fiction often investigates the lives of small-town characters, especially women. She has written novels, plays, radio dramas and scripts for television and film. Appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 2010, Birdsell has been nominated for the Governor General’s Literary Award for English Language Fiction three times, and for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2001. The book is in very good condition as well as the dust jacket(price cut), the cover is plain blue cloth with name of author and title in white on the spine. The inside of the book is very clean , as new, except for the name of past owner on end paper. otherwise no writing, marking or spoiling, 272 pages Order Now! BookId: D4-2435 Title: The Handmaid's Tale Author: Margaret Atwood Publisher: McClelland and Stewart Price: 22.00 Description: Margaret Eleanor Atwood CC OOnt CH FRSC FRSL (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor. Since 1961, she has published eighteen books of poetry, eighteen novels, eleven books of non-fiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight children's books, two graphic novels, and a number of small press editions of both poetry and fiction. Atwood has won numerous awards and honors for her writing, including two Booker Prizes, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Governor General's Award, the Franz Kafka Prize, Princess of Asturias Awards, and the National Book Critics and PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Awards. A number of her works have been adapted for film and television. Atwood's works encompass a variety of themes including gender and identity, religion and myth, the power of language, climate change, and "power politics". Many of her poems are inspired by myths and fairy tales which interested her from a very early age. Atwood is a founder of the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Writers' Trust of Canada. She is also a Senior Fellow of Massey College, Toronto. She is the inventor of the LongPen device and associated technologies that facilitate remote robotic writing of documents. The Handmaid's Tale is a futuristic dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood and published in 1985. It is set in a near-future New England in a patriarchal, white supremacist, totalitarian theonomic state known as the Republic of Gilead, which has overthrown the United States government. Offred is the central character and narrator and one of the "handmaids", women who are forcibly assigned to produce children for the "commanders", who are the ruling class in Gilead. The novel explores themes of subjugated women in a patriarchal society, loss of female agency and individuality, suppression of women's reproductive rights, and the various means by which women resist and try to gain individuality and independence. The title echoes the component parts of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, which is a series of connected stories (such as "The Merchant's Tale" and "The Parson's Tale"). It also alludes to the tradition of fairy tales where the central character tells her story. The Handmaid's Tale won the 1985 Governor General's Award and the first Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1987; it was also nominated for the 1986 Nebula Award, the 1986 Booker Prize, and the 1987 Prometheus Award. In 2022, The Handmaid's Tale was included on the "Big Jubilee Read" list of 70 books by Commonwealth authors, selected to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II. The book has been adapted into a 1990 film, a 2000 opera, a 2017 television series, and other media. The book is in good condition , with dust jacket (small tear and price cut) , white and Red burgundy cloth cover, with name of author and title in white . The inside of the book is perfect but for the Christmas's dedication on the end paper. No writing, spotting or spoiling through the book , 324pages. Order Now! BookId: D4-3 Title: Through Black Spruce Author: Joseph Boyden Publisher: Viking Price: 28.00 Description: When beautiful Suzanne Bird disappears, her sister Annie, a loner and hunter, is compelled to search for her, leaving behind their uncle Will, a man haunted by loss. While Annie travels from Toronto to New York, from modelling studios to A-list parties,Will encounters dire troubles at home.From internationally acclaimed author Joseph Boyden comes an astonishingly powerful novel of contemporary aboriginal life, full of the dangers and harsh beauty of both forest and city. When beautiful Suzanne Bird disappears, her sister Annie, a loner and hunter, is compelled to search for her, leaving behind their uncle Will, a man haunted by loss.While Annie travels from Toronto to New York, from modelling studios to A-list parties,Will encounters dire troubles at home. Both eventually come to painful discoveries about the inescapable ties of family. Through Black Spruce is an utterly unforgettable consideration of how we discover who we really are. Joseph Boyden CM (born October 31, 1966) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer of Irish and Scottish descent. He also claims Indigenous descent, but this is widely disputed. Joseph Boyden is best known for writing about First Nations culture. Three Day Road, a novel about two Cree soldiers serving in the Canadian military during World War I, was inspired by Ojibwa Francis Pegahmagabow, the legendary First World War sniper. Joseph Boyden's second novel, Through Black Spruce, follows the story of Will, son of one of the characters in Three Day Road. The third novel in the Bird family trilogy was published in 2013 as The Orenda . The book is in very good condition , with dust jacket (price cut). the cover is a light beige cloth with a man in black walking across; name of author and title are in black on the spine . the inside is perfect no writing,marking or spoiling , 359 pages. Order Now! BookId: D4-3658 Title: Cat's eye Author: Margaret Atwood Publisher: McClelland and Stewart Price: 25.00 Description: Margaret Eleanor Atwood CC OOnt CH FRSC FRSL (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor. Since 1961, she has published eighteen books of poetry, eighteen novels, eleven books of non-fiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight children's books, two graphic novels, and a number of small press editions of both poetry and fiction. Atwood has won numerous awards and honors for her writing, including two Booker Prizes, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Governor General's Award, the Franz Kafka Prize, Princess of Asturias Awards, and the National Book Critics and PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Awards. A number of her works have been adapted for film and television. Atwood's works encompass a variety of themes including gender and identity, religion and myth, the power of language, climate change, and "power politics". Many of her poems are inspired by myths and fairy tales which interested her from a very early age. Atwood is a founder of the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Writers' Trust of Canada. She is also a Senior Fellow of Massey College, Toronto. She is the inventor of the LongPen device and associated technologies that facilitate remote robotic writing of documents. Cat's Eye is a 1988 novel by Canadian writer Margaret Atwood about fictional painter Elaine Risley, who vividly reflects on her childhood and teenage years. Her strongest memories are of Cordelia, who was the leader of a trio of girls who were both very cruel and very kind to her in ways that tint Elaine's perceptions of relationships and her world — not to mention her art — into her middle years. The novel unfolds in mid-20th century Canada, from World War II to the late 1980s, and includes a look at many of the cultural elements of that time period, including feminism and various modern art movements. The book was a finalist for the 1988 Governor General's Award and for the 1989 Booker Prize. Cat's Eye explores the construction of identity; it is written mostly as flashbacks, as Elaine reflects on the forgotten events of her childhood that shaped her personality and struggles to integrate lost aspects of her self. In Elaine's self-portrait, a pier glass reflects three little girls who are not in the painting, demonstrating their simultaneous absence from Elaine's past and their presence in who she has become. The book is very good with its dust jacket good as well , small cut which may have been the price on the dust jacket. Inside the book is very good half way through the outside of the pages has a change of shade , maybe due to fading or kind of paper used, . No marking, writing or spoiling of any kind, 421 pages Order Now! BookId: D4-4 Title: Across the Bridge Author: Mavis Gallant Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Price: 22.00 Description: Sylvie Mireille Castelli loves Bernard Brunelle, who lives in Lille, but she is engaged to Arnaud Pons, who lives in Paris. Everything turns on this matter, against the background of Paris.Very little happens in this story. Also, everything happens in this story. Sylvie Mireille Castelli loves Bernard Brunelle, who lives in Lille, but she is engaged to Arnaud Pons, who lives in Paris. Everything turns on this matter, against the background of Paris. The machinery in the story is largely interior, but the shifts in understanding are so marked and so many characters’ perspectives shift diametrically, that it feels both subdued and dramatic. There is gritty quotidian detail about women’s daily lives and sweeping generalizations what they can fairly expect during their lifetimes (but, also, how quickly those expectations can alter). Sylvie is poised to cross the bridge, but when she reaches the middle something completely unexpected happens. The route from that point is not as planned. For while Sylvie’s feet are still moving towards her desired destination, her consciousness is spinning between beginnings and middles and ends. Mavis Leslie de Trafford Gallant, CC, née Young (11 August 1922 – 18 February 2014), was a Canadian writer who spent much of her life and career in France. Best known as a short story writer, she also published novels, plays and essays. Throughout Gallant's early career, Canadian literary critics often wrote of her as being unfairly overlooked in Canada because of her expatriate status; prior to the 1970s, in fact, her books were not picked up by Canadian publishers at all, and were available only as rare and expensive American imports until Macmillan of Canada bought publication rights to From the Fifteenth District. According to journalist Robert Fulford, the neglect flowed in both directions, as Gallant did not actually undertake any serious effort to secure a Canadian publisher until Macmillan editor Douglas Gibson approached her in the late 1970s. The Canadian publication of From the Fifteenth District did not initially quell the criticism, however, as the book failed to garner a shortlisted nomination for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction despite being widely regarded as her greatest work. In response, Gibson compiled Home Truths: Selected Canadian Stories, a collection of previously published stories selected to highlight the Canadian themes and settings present in her work. That volume won the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction in 1981. The book is as new, in perfect condition , dust jacket is very good as well , price uncut . The cover of the book is Emerald and white cloth with author name and title in gold letter on the spine. The inside is perfect, no writinf, marking or spoiling , 198 pages. Order Now! BookId: D4-400024 Title: The Island of the Day Before Author: Umberto Eco Publisher: Minerva Price: 15.00 Description: Order Now! BookId: D4-4657 Title: The Island Walkers Author: John Bemrose Publisher: McClelland and Stewart Price: 25.00 Description: John Bemrose is a Canadian arts journalist, novelist, poet and playwright. His arts reviews have appeared in Maclean's, The Globe and Mail, the National Post and on CBC Radio. Bemrose was born and raised in Paris, Ontario, where his father, Fred Bemrose, a 2009 recipient of the Lieutenant Governor's Award for Lifetime Achievement, remains the town historian. He graduated from the Victoria University in the University of Toronto in 1970, where he published early poems in Acta Victoriana. His debut novel, The Island Walkers, was published in 2003. It was a nominee for that year's Giller Prize. and well as making the longlist for the Man Booker Prize. He has also published a play, Mother Moon, and two volumes of poetry. His second novel, The Last Woman, was published in 2009 by McClelland & Stewart. It is set in Ontario's cottage country and is being touted by its publisher as a vehicle for the vivid characterizations for which he's become known. John Bemrose’s highly acclaimed national bestseller tells the story of a family who slips from fortune’s favour in a southwestern Ontario mill town during the mid-1960s. Like his father before him, Alf Walker is a fixer in the local textile mill. When a labour dispute forces him to choose between loyalty to his friends and his own advancement, Alf’s actions inadvertently set in motion a series of events that will reverberate far into the future. Meanwhile, Alf’s wife, Margaret, must reconcile her middle-class upbringing with her blue-collar reality, as her marriage is undermined by forces she cannot name. And after their eldest son, Joe, falls headlong for a girl he first glimpses on a bridge, the boy finds his world overturned by the passion and uncertainty of young love. At once intimate and epic in scope, The Island Walkers follows the Walker family to the very bottom of their night, only to confirm, in the end, life’s regenerative power This book is almost fine , looks new with new dust jacket , price is still on it , absolutely perfect nothing to remark but some cornered pages , no writing , no spoiling , 498 pages. Order Now! BookId: D4-5 Title: My Son's Story Author: Nadine Gordimer Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Price: 24.00 Description: The novel tells the story of a father, Sonny, and his son, Will, living in Johannesburg during the final State of Emergency. Sonny, a “coloured” man who used to be a schoolteacher, has become involved in African National Congress (ANC) politics and has been imprisoned as a result of his activism.Nadine Gordimer never gave up on the notion that new modes of justice for racial violence are linked inextricably to literary production. This essay draws on her novel My Son’s Story (1990) to demonstrate how Gordimer remakes the law as an ameliorative force that undermines the “vocabulary of violence,” as she once described it, through which apartheid-era law was created. Nadine Gordimer (20 November 1923 – 13 July 2014) was a South African writer and political activist. She received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991, recognized as a writer "who through her magnificent epic writing has ... been of very great benefit to humanity". Gordimer's writing dealt with moral and racial issues, particularly apartheid in South Africa. Under that regime, works such as Burger's Daughter and July's People were banned. She was active in the anti-apartheid movement, joining the African National Congress during the days when the organization was banned, and gave Nelson Mandela advice on his famous 1964 defence speech at the trial which led to his conviction for life. She was also active in HIV/AIDS causes. This book is as new, with a new dust jacket (price cut). it is in fine condition , the cover is a Beige and black cloth with Nadine Gardiner initials in Black on the front , name of author and title in gold letters on the spine. the inside of the book is perfect , no writing , marking, spoiling of any kind , no corner marks . Very clean and easy to read.277 pages Order Now! BookId: D4-5768 Title: Runaway Author: Alice Munro Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Price: 25.00 Description: The runaway of the title story is a young woman who, though she thinks she wants to, is incapable of leaving her husband. In “Passion,” a country girl working at a resort hotel emerges into the larger world and discovers in a single moment of stunning insight the limits and lies of that mysterious emotion, passion. Three stories are about a woman named Juliet–in the first she escapes from teaching at a girls’ school into a wild and irresistible love match; in the second she returns with her child to the home of her parents, whose life and marriage she finally begins to examine, and in the last Juliet’s child, caught, she mistakenly thinks, in the grip of a religious cult, vanishes into an unexplained and profound silence. In the final story, “Powers,” a young woman who can read the future sets off a chain of events that leads her husband-to-be and a friend in a lifelong pursuit of what such a gift really means, and who really has it.Throughout this compelling collection, Alice Munro’s understanding of the people about whom she writes makes them as vivid as our own neighbours. Here are the infinite betrayals and surprises of love–between men and women, between friends, between parents and children–that compose the fabric of our lives. It is Alice Munro’s special gift to make the struggles and triumphs of her characters as vivid and real as our own. Alice Ann Munro, born 10 July 1931, is a Canadian short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Munro's work has been described as revolutionizing the architecture of short stories, especially in its tendency to move forward and backward in time. Her stories have been said to "embed more than announce, reveal more than parade." Munro's fiction is most often set in her native Huron County in southwestern Ontario. Her stories explore human complexities in an uncomplicated prose style. Munro's writing has established her as "one of our greatest contemporary writers of fiction", or, as Cynthia Ozick put it, "our Chekhov." Munro has received many literary accolades, including the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature for her work as "master of the contemporary short story", and the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work. She is also a three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction, and received the Writers' Trust of Canada's 1996 Marian Engel Award and the 2004 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for Runaway. the book is in very good condition , with dust jacket (price cut) in excellent condition as well. the inside is very clean, easy to read , a few pencil marks but minimal and a couple of cornered pages . the book cover is lain white cloth with name of author and title in dark brown letters. 335 pages. Order Now! BookId: D4-6 Title: Elizabeth and after Author: Matt Cohen Publisher: Knopf Canada Price: 30.00 Description: A touching and resonant story of a man who returns to the small town of West Gull, Ontario, to mend his family's legacy of alcohol and violence, to reconnect with his young daughter, and to reconcile himself with the spirit of his beautiful mother, killed several years earlier in a tragic accident. Winner of Canada's prestigious Governor-General's Award, this is an incredibly intricate novel about a small town and its people. West Gull is in Ontario but could be anywhere in the world where small towns survive. Protagonist Carl McKelvey, who is reminiscent of Richard Russo's characters, particularly Sam Hall in The Risk Pool, returns to West Gull for reasons seemingly unknown to him and others in town. In West Gull, Carl had left an ex-wife and a daughter, a dead mother, an old father, and a reputation as a violent drunk. Hoping to rebuild his life, he reestablishes contact with his seven-year-old daughter, Lizzie, but finds that the memory of his mother, Elizabeth, who touched everyone in town to some degree and who died in a car crash when Carl was at the wheel, is a strong impediment. Now, Carl must put that memory and guilt to rest before moving on. Cohen's novel is packed with humour, desperation, and romance. Matthew Cohen (30 December 1942 – 2 December 1999) was a Canadian writer who published both mainstream literature under his own name and children's literature under the pseudonym Teddy Jam The Spanish Doctor, his biggest international success, continues to sell well in the French and Spanish markets. His greatest critical success as a writer was his final novel Elizabeth and After which won the 1999 Governor General's Award for English-language Fiction only a few weeks before his death. He had been nominated twice previously, but had not won, in 1979 for The Sweet Second Summer of Kitty Malone and in 1997 for Last Seen. A founding member of the Writers' Union of Canada, he served on the executive board for many years and as president in 1986. During his presidency, the Writer's Union was finally able to persuade the government of Canada to form a commission and establish a Public Lending Right program. He also served on the Toronto Arts Council as chair of the Literary Division and was able to obtain increased funding for writers. In recognition of this work, he was awarded a Toronto Arts Award and the Harbourfront Prize. The book is in fine condition with dust jacket fine as well (price cut). The black cloth cover is very good with name of author and title in gold letter on the spine. the inside is perfect as well , no writing, marking or spoiling of any kind , looks new . 370 pages. Order Now! BookId: D4-60101 Title: The Rape of Nanking Author: Iris Chang Publisher: Basic Books Price: 30.00 Description: The Rape of Nanking tells the story from three perspectives: that of the Japanese soldiers who performed it; of the Chinese civilians who endured it; and finally of a group of Europeans and Americans who refused to abandon the city and were able to create a safety zone that saved almost 300,000 Chinese.In December 1937, in the capital of China, one of the most brutal massacres in the long annals of wartime barbarity occurred. The Japanese army swept into the ancient city of Nanking and within weeks not only looted and burned the defenseless city but systematically raped, tortured and murdered more than 300,000 Chinese civilians. Amazingly, the story of this atrocity- one of the worst in world history- continues to be denied by the Japanese government. It was Iris Chang who discovered the diaries of the German leader of this rescue effort, John Rabe, whom she calls the "Oskar Schindler of China." A loyal supporter of Adolf Hitler, but far from the terror planned in his Nazi-controlled homeland, he worked tirelessly to save the innocent from slaughter. Iris Shun-Ru Chang (March 28, 1968 – November 9, 2004) was an American journalist, author of historical books and political activist. She is best known for her best-selling 1997 account of the Nanking Massacre, The Rape of Nanking, and in 2003, The Chinese in America: A Narrative History. Chang is the subject of the 2007 biography Finding Iris Chang, and the 2007 documentary film Iris Chang: The Rape of Nanking starring Olivia Cheng as Iris Chang. The independent 2007 documentary film Nanking was based on her work and dedicated to her memory. Her second book, The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (1997) was published on the 60th anniversary of the Nanking Massacre and was motivated in part by her own grandparents' stories about their escape from the massacre. It documents atrocities committed against Chinese by forces of the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War, and includes interviews with victims. The Rape of Nanking remained on the New York Times Bestseller list for 10 weeks. Based on the book, an American documentary film, Nanking, was released in 2007. the book is very likely new, as well as the dust jacket.(price uncut). A redand black cloth cover on the book with name of the author and title in white letters. the inside of the book is perfect , no writing, marking or spoiling , 290 pages with index . Subtitle was the Forgotten holocaust of World War II.includes 12 pages of photographs . Order Now! BookId: D4-7 Title: Love in the time of Cholera Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez Publisher: Knopf Price: 30.00 Description: The story, which treats the themes of love, aging, and death, takes place between the late 1870s and the early 1930s in a South American community troubled by wars and outbreaks of cholera. It is a tale of two lovers, artistic Florentino Ariza and wealthy Fermina Daza, who reunite after a lifetime apart. Gabriel García Márquez, (born March 6, 1927, Aracataca, Colom.—died April 17, 2014, Mexico City, Mex.), Latin American writer. He worked many years as a journalist in Latin American and European cities and later also as a screenwriter and publicist, before settling in Mexico. His best-known work, the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), recounts the history of the fictional village of Macondo, the setting of much of his work; enormously admired and influential, it became the principal vehicle for the style known as magic realism. Later novels include The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975), Love in the Time of Cholera (1985), The General in His Labyrinth (1989), and Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2004). His collections of short stories and novellas include No One Writes to the Colonel (1968) and Leaf Storm (1955). In 2002 he published Living to Tell the Tale, an autobiographical account of his early years. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. The book is in as new condition , fine book and dust jacket . The black cloth cover wears the name of Garcia Marquez on the front in gold lettesr and on the spine with the title of the book , again in gold letters. The inside of the book is also perfect , no writing, marking or spoiling, 348 pages. Order Now! BookId: D4-8 Title: The civilization of the Renaissance in Italy Author: Bacob Burckhardt Publisher: Phaidon Press Price: 32.00 Description: The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy is a n 1860 work on the Italian Renaissance by Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt.Burkhardt sought to capture and define the spirit of the age in all its main manifestations. For him ‘’Kultur’’ was the whole picture: politics, manners, religion...the character that animated the particular activities of a people in a given epoch, and of which pictures, buildings, social and political habits, literature, are the concrete expressions. The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy is divided into six parts: Part One: The State as a Work of Art Part Two: The Development of the Individual Part Three: The Revival of Antiquity Part Four: The Discovery of the World and of Man Part Five: Society and Festivals Part Six: Morality and Religion Carl Jacob Christoph Burckhardt (25 May 1818 – 8 August 1897) was a Swiss historian of art and culture and an influential figure in the historiography of both fields. He is known as one of the major progenitors of cultural history. Sigfried Giedion described Burckhardt's achievement in the following terms: "The great discoverer of the age of the Renaissance, he first showed how a period should be treated in its entirety, with regard not only for its painting, sculpture and architecture, but for the social institutions of its daily life as well. His best known work is The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860). An older book with 341 pages of text and 100 pages of plates plus notes and index . Very complete, with original dust jacket with price from 1944, the book has a red cover with black and gold lettering for the title on front, same on the spine with name of author in extra. the frame is solid, the book is very clen , a tiny name of past owner on end paper on the front, no other marking, writig or spoliling in the book ,. clean and clear reding. 462 pages in all (fine paper). Order Now! BookId: D4-9 Title: Studies in Italian Renaissance Architecture Author: Wolfgang Lotz Publisher: MIT press Price: 19.95 Description: The understanding of Italian Renaissance architecture - its origins, development and wide range of fields it encompasses - has been a recurrent concern of a considerable number of scholars and architects alike. Indeed, the popularity of such a subject mainly manifests itself through the vast amount of material available in the form of books, articles and research papers. The German art historian, Wolfgang Lotz’s (1912-1981) research essays, compiled as a group in the book Studies in Italian Renaissance Architecture, embody this enthusiastic interest in the field, but also, face the challenges that any widely published subject seems to impose on an author. It is within this context that the essay s that make up Lotz’s book are written, and hence, should not only be analysed simply in their content, but also, in the intellectual approach of the author, the organisation of his aims and evidence and his style of writing, which all together contribute to a study which is technically unique. The individual essays making up the book were actually written in German and Italian approximately two decades prior to their translation into English by the collaborative work of Margaret Breitenbach, Renate Franciscono and Paul Lunde. Through the support of James S. Ackerman, W. Chandler Kirwin and Henry A. Millon, the essays were collectively published in 1977 under the title Studies in Italian Renaissance Architecture. Wolfgang Lotz (April 19, 1912, in Heilbronn – October 24, 1981, in Rome) was a German art historian specialized in Italian Renaissance architecture.He was elected president of the Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio in Vicenza and retired from the Bibliotheca Hertziana in 1980. The book is a paper back cover, in good to fair condition, one big crease on the pictorial cover, 220 pages including index , photographs and architectural plans through the book., no writing, spoiling , marking inside the book. Order Now! BookId: D5-001204 Title: Tales of the Lavender Menace , a Memoir of Liberation . Author: Jay Karla Publisher: New York: Basic Books, 1999 Price: 35.00 Description: A memoir of Liberation , Tales of the lavender menace .by Karla Jay , , a Basic Book , First edition , purple cloth jacket , with as new dust jacket . 278 pages plus 8 pages of photographs .Purple prose in the Best sense . Book is as new . Order Now! BookId: D5-0029 Title: Mysteries of the Past Author: Lionel Casson Publisher: American Heritage publishing Price: 30.00 Description: Order Now! BookId: D5-1 Title: The Gates Of Ivory Author: Margaret Drabble Publisher: McClelland 7 Stewart Price: 30.00 Description: A woman tries to uncover the mysterious fate of a friend in Cambodia in this “very smart” and suspenseful novel ( The New York Times Book Review ). Liz Headleand is one of London's best-known and most prominent psychiatrists. One day she arrives at work to find a mysterious package, postmarked from Cambodia. he Gates of Ivory is a 1991 novel by novelist Margaret Drabble. The novel is the third in a series of novels, following The Radiant Way and A Natural Curiosity. The novel continues the stories of several middle aged intellectuals introduced in the last two novels. The novel also introduces a new character, Stephen Cox who is loosely based on J.G. Farrell The novel includes metafiction reflecting on the choices Drabble made while writing the novel. The novel also includes a bibliography referencing a number of works which provide background and connections for the rest of the novel. The novel's narratives that rotate between both the present and flashbacks narratives from each of the main characters. The novel also introduces characters from The Needle's Eye. Dame Margaret Drabble, Lady Holroyd, DBE, FRSL (born 5 June 1939] is an English biographer, novelist and short story writer The book is as new with dust jacket. the jacket has been priced cut., it has a pictorial cover . The book cover is totally ivory cloth with name of author and title in green lettering on the spine. Very clean inside , no marking , no writing and no spoiling , 463 pages. Order Now! BookId: D5-10 Title: Home truths Selected Canadian stories Author: Mavis Gallant Publisher: Macmillan Price: 28.00 Description: Home Truths, by Mavis Gallant (Toronto, 1981; repr 1982), winner of the Governor General's Award, is a collection of 16 previously published stories about Canada and Canadians. Prefaced by an introduction in which Gallant defends her status as an expatriate writer, the chronologically arranged stories simultaneously depict her precocious talent as a writer of flawless prose and her attempts to come to terms with her past and her country. Each of the book's 3 sections presents recurring Gallant motifs: the first examines the tortured relationships between parents and children; the second features young Canadians abroad in varieties of exile; and the final, the best in the collection, deals with memory. While the latter stories are not purely autobiographical, they are as close as Gallant has come to a precise evocation of her Montréal childhood and the wartime experiences of her youth. Occasionally finding us conservative, reticent and single-minded, Gallant nonetheless looks homeward with humour, compassion and grace. Mavis Leslie de Trafford Gallant, CC, née Young (11 August 1922 – 18 February 2014), was a Canadian writer who spent much of her life and career in France.] Best known as a short story writer, she also published novels, plays and essays. The book is very good in perfect condition with dust jacket clean and uncut. The hard cover has a pink cloth cover with name of author and title in gold letters. The inside of the book is perfect, no past owner name , no writing, marking or spoiling , the spine is unbroken and one will wonder if it was ever read. 330 pages. Order Now! BookId: D5-11 Title: The Tenth Man Author: Graham Greene Publisher: Simon & schuster Price: 15.00 Description: A television movie about one Jean Louis Chavel, a wealthy attorney, who is wrongly imprisoned during the German occupation of France. He is later marked for execution, but offers his worldly possessions to Mangeot, a prisoner who takes his place. In the introduction to the first edition of his novel,Greene states that he had forgotten about this story until receiving a letter about it from a stranger in 1983. Greene had first suggested it as an idea for a film script in 1937, set during the Spanish Civil War, and later developed it while under contract with MGM during the 1940s. Nothing came of it and the rights were offered for sale by MGM in 1983. The buyer (Anthony Blond) allowed Greene to revise and subsequently publish the work. Greene also writes of this novel that "I prefer it in many ways to The Third Man". Henry Graham Greene OM CH (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991) was an English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading novelists of the 20th century. Combining literary acclaim with widespread popularity, Greene acquired a reputation early in his lifetime as a major writer, both of serious Catholic novels, and of thrillers (or "entertainments" as he termed them). He was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in Literature several times. Through 67 years of writing, which included over 25 novels, he explored the conflicting moral and political issues of the modern world. He was awarded the 1968 Shakespeare Prize and the 1981 Jerusalem Prize. He converted to Catholicism in 1926 after meeting his future wife, Vivien Dayrell-Browning.Later in life he took to calling himself a "Catholic agnostic". He died in 1991, aged 86, of leukemia, and was buried in Corseaux cemetery in Switzerland. Certainly one of my favourite authors for a long time... the book is fine , perfect dust jacket (not price cut ) and perfect book in and out. Hardcover with 2 shades of blue cloth , with names of author and title in gold letter, the inside is perfect, unbroken , no spoiling of any kind, 157 pages . Order Now! BookId: D5-12 Title: My Century Author: Gunter Grass Publisher: Harcourt Price: 37.00 Description: First Edition My Century (German: Mein Jahrhundert, 1999) is a novel written by German author Günter Grass. Having published many significant novels in the postwar period, he was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature. Each chapter in My Century is only a few pages long. Each focuses on a single year from 1900 to 1999. The story of each year is told differently, expressed by changes in time, place, narrator and literary style. "This is Grass's way of challenging the conventional view of history. Instead of an event being presented abstractly and in a familiar form, in connection with “great politics”, it is viewed as through a prism “from below” and “from close up” ... from changing, unexpected viewpoints. The stories about the first half of the century are also linguistically colourful and multifaceted, allowing history to be re-lived and re-considered."dixit Wolfgang Weber. Günter Wilhelm Grass ( 16 October 1927 – 13 April 2015) was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was born in the Free City of Danzig (now Gda?sk, Poland). As a teenager, he served as a drafted soldier from late 1944 in the Waffen-SS and was taken as a prisoner of war by US forces at the end of the war in May 1945. He was released in April 1946. Trained as a stonemason and sculptor, Grass began writing in the 1950s. In his fiction, he frequently returned to the Danzig of his childhood. Grass is best known for his first novel, The Tin Drum (1959), a key text in European magic realism. The book is new , first edition, with dust jacket (price uncut), fine condition. the book itself is an Off-white cloth cover with name of author and title in gold letters on the spine. The inside is perfect , 280 pages , no writing, marking or spoiling. Order Now! BookId: D5-13 Title: Constance or Solitary Practices Author: Lawrence Durrell Publisher: Faber & Faber Price: 18.00 Description: With the Second World War in full fury, Constance must explore the psyche of a mad world in order to save herself and those closest to her in the third volume of the Avignon Quintet. Durrell’s beautiful Avignon Quintet continues with this harrowing, tumultuous installment. Here the protagonist is Constance, a psychoanalyst and mystic struggling for clarity in a world on fire with war, hatred, and inexplicable brutality. Her quest for sanity takes her through the deserts of Egypt (and into the arms of the leader of a suicide cult), through war-ravaged Poland, and finally into ancient Avignon. In the fields of southern France, Constance sees a religious historical drama come to a close—a mysterious narrative that began with the Knights Templar and ends with Hitler’s mad grab for power. Lawrence George Durrell CBE (27 February 1912 – 7 November 1990) was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer. He was the eldest brother of naturalist and writer Gerald Durrell. Born in India to British colonial parents, he was sent to England at the age of eleven for his education. He did not like formal education, but started writing poetry at age 15. His first book was published in 1935, when he was 23. In March 1935 he and his mother and younger siblings moved to the island of Corfu. Durrell spent many years thereafter living around the world. His most famous work is The Alexandria Quartet, published between 1957 and 1960. The best-known novel in the series is the first, Justine. Beginning in 1974, Durrell published The Avignon Quintet, using many of the same techniques. The first of these novels, Monsieur, or the Prince of Darkness, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1974. The middle novel, Constance, or Solitary Practices, was nominated for the 1982 Booker Prize. By the end of the century, Durrell was a bestselling author and one of the most celebrated writers in England. The book is used but in very good condition . However the dust jacket has been damaged by a sticker badly removed., it is also price cut and light creasing. The hard cover book is blue cloth with silver writing for the title and author name on the spine only. the inside of the book is clean , clear, easy to read, no marking, writing or spoiling of any kind , 393 pages . Order Now! BookId: D5-14 Title: A Minor Apocalypse Author: Tadeusz Konwicki Publisher: Faber & Faber Price: 25.00 Description: As in his novel The Polish Complex, Konwicki's A Minor Apocalypse stars a narrator and character named Konwicki, who has been asked to set himself on fire that evening in front of the Communist Party headquarters in Warsaw in an act of protest. He accepts the commission, but without any clear idea of whether he will actually go through with the self-immolation. He spends the rest of the day wandering the streets of Warsaw, being tortured by the secret police and falling in love. Both himself and Everyman, the character-author experiences the effects of ideologies and bureaucracies gone insane with, as always in history, the individual struggling for survival rather than offering himself up on the pyre of the greater good. Brilliantly translated by Richard Lourie, A Minor Apocalypse is one of the most important novels to emerge from Poland in the last twenty five years. Tadeusz Konwicki (22 June 1926 – 7 January 2015)was a Polish writer and film director, as well as a member of the Polish Language Council. He is widely known for two novels, published by the Polish underground press: The Polish Complex (1977) and A Minor Apocalypse (1979). The latter work, a bitter satire about a washed-up writer who is asked to burn himself in front of the Soviet-built Palace of Culture and Science, Warsaw; the novel was adapted as a 1993 French feature film, directed by Costa-Gavras. A Minor Apocalypse is a post-Orwellian parody that refers to specific historical events, such as self-immolation protests against the communist regime by Ryszard Siwiec in Poland and Jan Palach in Czechoslovakia. The book is in a nice clean condition , the dust jacket is clean , no tears or eal creasing,but priced cut. The hard cover has a plain black cloth cover with name of author and title in gold letters on the spine.. the inside is very good , no writing , marking or spoiling, no name of past owner, 231 pages .... the back corner of the dust jacket seems to have received some greasy material , almost gone by now. Order Now! BookId: D5-15 Title: The Paper Men Author: william Golding Publisher: farar Straus Giroux Price: 15.00 Description: Wilfred Barclay, a curmudgeonly, alcoholic writer of a bestseller is pursued by up-and-coming academic, and would-be-biographer of Barclay, Rick Tucker. Barclay, faced with a failing marriage and obsessed by middle-aged lust, tries to escape Tucker's attentions by fleeing to Europe. The protagonist in the novel is Wilfred Barclay, a curmudgeonly writer who has a drinking problem, a dead marriage, and the incurable itches of middle-aged lust. Barclay is irritated by a young professor, Rick Tucker, who is determined to write Barclay's biography and is desperate to gain control of the writer's personal papers. Tucker pursues Barclay across Europe, where both men sacrifice relationships, self-respect, and ultimately themselves in this lethal pursuit. The ending is both inevitable and shocking and exposes the desperation of the literary biographer and the determination of the subject to maintain control over the story of his own life. Sir William Gerald Golding CBE FRSL (19 September 1911 – 19 June 1993) was a British novelist, playwright, and poet. Best known for his debut novel Lord of the Flies (1954), he published another twelve volumes of fiction in his lifetime. In 1980, he was awarded the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage, the first novel in what became his sea trilogy, To the Ends of the Earth. He was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature. As a result of his contributions to literature, Golding was knighted in 1988. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2008, The Times ranked Golding third on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". The book is nice and clean with dust jacket in very good condition, not price cut. , no creasing or marking. the book is a hard cover in beige and burgundy cloth with name of author and title in gold on the burgundy spine. the inside of the book is also very good , no writing, marking, spoiling, maybe a first edition but not marked as such, 191 pages. Order Now! BookId: D5-16 Title: The Sleep of Reason Author: C P Snow Publisher: MacMillan Price: 27.00 Description: The Sleep of Reason is the tenth book in C. P. Snow's Strangers and Brothers series. Lewis Eliot returns to his home town during the trial of two young women for murder. Eliot and his generation strive to understand the society of the 1960s. In a 1968 book review in Kirkus Reviews summarized the book as; "Snow's approach is as massively ceremonious as ever. Each character is introduced by an organ chord of commentary: thoughts are as long as life; characters from other books are prodded into being. But there is a certain dogged majesty in this far exit as Snow lumbers down the halls of power." Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow, (15 October 1905 – 1 July 1980) was an English novelist and physical chemist who also served in several important positions in the British Civil Service and briefly in the UK government. He is best known for his series of novels known collectively as Strangers and Brothers, and for The Two Cultures, a 1959 lecture in which he laments the gulf between scientists and "literary intellectuals". The book is in very good condition , with dust jacket , no tears or creasing .the hardcover is a plain grey cloth cover with a shade of purple, name of author and title on the spine in silver lettering. the inside of the book is very good no writing, marking or spoiling. 406 pages very good Order Now! BookId: D5-17 Title: The stone Diaries Author: Carol Shields Publisher: Random House Price: 22.00 Description: The Stone Diaries is the story of one woman's life; a truly sensuous novel that reflects and illuminates the unsettled decades of our century. Born in 1905, Daisy Goodwill drifts through the chapters of childhood, marriage, widowhood, remarriage, motherhood and old age. Bewildered by her inability to understand her own role, Daisy attempts to find a way to tell her own story within a novel that is itself about the limitations of autobiography. Carol Ann Shields, CC OM FRSC (née Warner; June 2, 1935 – July 16, 2003) was an American-born Canadian novelist and short story writer. She is best known for her 1993 novel The Stone Diaries, which won the U.S. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as the Governor General's Award in Canada. The Stone Diaries (1993) won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 1993 Governor General's Award, the only book to have ever received both awards. It won the U.S. National Book Critics Circle Award in 1994, and was nominated in 1993 for the Booker Prize. The Stone Diaries was named one of the best books of the year by Publishers Weekly. It was also chosen as a "Notable Book" by The New York Times Book Review, which wrote "The Stone Diaries reminds us again why literature matters. The book is in good condition with dust kacket clean but slightly wrinkled on the borders , it is also priced cut. The cover is a burgundy cloth cover with name of author and title in gold letters on the spine . The book inside is clean , clear, easy to read, no marking but for the past owner name, no writing or spoiling inside.361 pages. Order Now! BookId: D5-19 Title: The Opium of the Intellectuals Author: Raymond Aron Publisher: Secker & Warburg Price: 115.00 Description: The Opium of the Intellectuals is a provocative title that intends to catch the irony that while Marx claimed that "Religion is the opium of the people", during a large part of the 20th century, and particularly in France, Marxism was the opium of the intellectuals. Raymond Aron's 1955 masterpiece The Opium of the Intellectuals, is one of the great works of twentieth- century political reflection. Aron shows how noble ideas can slide into the tyranny of "secular religion" and emphasizes how political thought has the profound responsibility of telling the truth about social and political reality-in all its mundane imperfections and tragic complexities. "A clear eyed attack on the moral shortcomings of French Marxist intellectuals in the 40s and early 50s. While this topic may seem exoteric, the book is an extremely important work of political philosophy about the contortions people will often go through in order to make a particular belief system fit with facts that do not support said belief. While this is an attack on Frenchman by a Frenchman, there are numerous cases where similar abuses were committed elsewhere, for example George Bernard Shah's shameful endorsement of Soviet Agricultural Collectivism even after seeing the full affects of the terror famine first hand, etc. Ideology can be overwhelmingly blinding and Aron would not let his peers forget this." Raymond Aron was a French political scientist, sociologist, and journalist who made major contributions to the study of totalitarianism, liberalism, Communism, and international relations. Raymond Claude Ferdinand Aron (14 March 1905 – 17 October 1983) was a French philosopher, sociologist, political scientist, historian and journalist, one of France's most prominent thinkers of the 20th century. Aron is best known for his 1955 book The Opium of the Intellectuals, the title of which inverts Karl Marx's claim that religion was the opium of the people; he argues that Marxism was the opium of the intellectuals in post-war France. In the book, Aron chastised French intellectuals for what he described as their harsh criticism of capitalism and democracy and their simultaneous defense of the actions of the communist governments of the East. Critic Roger Kimball suggests that Opium is "a seminal book of the twentieth century". Aron is also known for his lifelong friendship, sometimes fractious, with philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. The saying "Better be wrong with Sartre than right with Aron." became popular among French intellectuals. This was the first translation of the book in English by Terence Kilmartin and thus maybe a first English edition. the book is in its original dust jacket (slightly faded and small tears, priced cut as well). the hardcover has a red cloth cover with name of author and title on the spine in white letters . The inside of the book is clean, clear and solid , no writing, marking or spoiling . 324 pages Shelf used but still in good condition. Order Now! BookId: D5-19b1264 Title: Fodor's 89 Hong Kong Author: David Low Publisher: Fodor's Travels Publications Price: 6.00 Description: Order Now! BookId: D5-2 Title: Voltaire's bastards The Dictatorship of Reason in the West Author: John Raslton Saul Publisher: Free Press Price: 50.00 Description: John Ralston Saul (born June 19, 1947) is a Canadian writer, political philosopher, and public intellectual. Saul is most widely known for his writings on the nature of individualism, citizenship and the public good; the failures of manager-led societies; the confusion between leadership and managerialism; military strategy, in particular irregular warfare; the role of freedom of speech and culture; and critiques of the prevailing economic paradigm. He is a champion of freedom of expression and was the International President of PEN International, an association of writers. Saul is the co-founder and co-chair of the Institute for Canadian Citizenship, a national charity promoting the inclusion of new citizens. He is also the co-founder and co-chair of 6 Degrees, the global forum for inclusion. Saul is also the husband to the former governor general Adrienne Clarkson, making him the Viceregal consort of Canada during most of her service (1999–2005). His work is known for being thought-provoking and ahead of its time, leading him to be called a "prophet" by Time and to be included in Utne Reader's list of the world's leading thinkers and visionaries. His works have been translated into 25 languages in 36 countries. The book deals with themes such as the dictatorship of reason unbalanced by other human qualities, how it can be used for any ends especially in a directionless state that rewards the pursuit of power for power's sake. He argues that this leads to deformations of thought such as ideology promoted as truth; the rational but anti-democratic structures of corporatism, by which he means the worship of small groups; and the use of language and expertise to mask a practical understanding of the harm caused by this, and what else our society might do. He argues that the rise of individualism with no regard for the role of society has not created greater individual autonomy and self-determination, as was once hoped, but isolation and alienation. He calls for a pursuit of a more humanist ideal in which reason is balanced with other human mental capacities such as common sense, ethics, intuition, creativity, and memory, for the sake of the common good, and he discusses the importance of unfettered language and practical democracy. The book is as new. with royal blue dust jacket figuring all membres of a new society..the jacket is priced cut... the book cover is blue and white cloth hard cover with name of author and title is either blue or gold on the white spine. The inside of the book is perfect , no marking, writing or spoiling , no name of past owner ... A thick book may need special rate for shipping. 640 pages with index. Order Now! BookId: D5-20 Title: Factors in Modern History Author: A F Pollard Publisher: Constable Price: 25.00 Description: This series of lectures circa 1904 is an informative discourse on the origins of the modern world and why it came about as it did. I've had this book for years and often refer to it (and I'm good about weeding out my library) You'll learn such things as why Germany's social order evolved differently than Englands; What led up to the reformation; why Columbus discovered America (it had to do with the turks taking over Constantinople and squating on the silk road)...there's much to learn here, including how to think about history itself Albert Frederick Pollard was born in Ryde on the Isle of Wight. He was educated at Felsted School and Jesus College, Oxford where he achieved a first class honours in Modern History in 1891. He became Assistant Editor of and a contributor to the Dictionary of National Biography in 1893. He was Professor of Constitutional History at University College London from 1903 to 1931. He was a member of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, and founder of the Historical Association, 1906. He was Editor of History, 1916-1922, and of the Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, 1923-1939. He published 500 articles in the Dictionary of National Biography, and many other books and papers concerning history. Later in his career, he was a major force in establishing history as an academic subject in Britain. One of his most influential textbooks became The Evolution of Parliament published in 1920. The book is in its original dust jacket a bit faded and some small tears , also priced cut. the hard cover is in a blue cloth cover with title and name of author in white lettering on the spine. The inside of the book is clean , solid , easy to read , 338 pages with index. Name of past owner on first page end paper. a good book. Order Now! BookId: D5-21 Title: Eats, Shoots & Leaves Author: Lynne Truss Publisher: Gotham Books Price: 18.00 Description: Eats, Shoots & Leaves offers a humorous, yet instructive overview of how punctuation rules play a huge part in our writing language and how today’s society has become overly relaxed about using the right punctuation marks, leaving grammar-concerned people like her frustrated. There are many books out there that talk about a multitude of topics. However, there aren’t that many books addressing punctuation marks or the lack of them. Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss talks about the importance of keeping grammar intact in our writing and ensuring that society keeps track of the right punctuation rules. From periods to commas, exclamation marks, and apostrophes, the author touches base with them all and provides an easy-to-follow guide about grammar rules and punctuation marks. She will teach you how to use them and when, but most importantly, she’ll help you understand where they don’t belong. Lynne Truss (born 31 May 1955) is an English author, journalist, novelist, and radio broadcaster and dramatist. She is arguably best known for her championing of correctness and aesthetics in the English language, which is the subject of her popular and widely discussed 2003 book, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation. The book was inspired by a BBC Radio 4 show about punctuation, Cutting a Dash, which she presented. Besides her promotion of linguistic prescription and commentary on English grammar, Truss has written many radio plays, both comedic and dramatic. She has also written grammar guides for children and novels. The book is as new but missing its dust jacket as it probably had one. the hard cover is black and red cloth , with title and author name on the red spine. The inside of the book is as new but for name of past owner on the front end paper. Very clean and solid , 209 pages . nothing bad with it ! |
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