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Pub. Date
c1956
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This modern classic, which, like many clissics, went generally unnoticed during the years after its first publication (in 1925), ahs reached out gradually to a larger and larger audience, until today tis place among the primary works of American literature in this century is widely recognized.
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Pub. Date
1972, c1961
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New Seeds of Contemplation is one of Thomas Merton's most widely read and best-loved books. Christians and non-Christians alike have joined in praising it as a notable successor in the meditative tradition of St. John of the Cross, The Cloud of Unknowing, and the medieval mystics, while others have compared Merton's reflections with those of Thoreau. New Seeds of Contemplation seeks to awaken the dormant inner depths of the spirit so long neglected...
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New Directions paperbook volume 480
Pub. Date
1979
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In this novel by the author of The Berlin Stories, a listless pair of siblings in post-WWI London battle the constraints of society and their mother.
It's the 1920s-the wake of the Great War-and Britain is undergoing a transformation. The middle class is struggling, and the younger generation, feeling constrained by the values that once fueled the empire, is yearning to break free . . .
A new war is brewing in the slums of Kensington, London....
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New Directions paperbook volume 1049
Pub. Date
2006.
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The story of Robin Vote and those she destroys--her husband , their child, and the two women who love her, is set in Paris, Berlin, and Vienna during the decadent period between the two World Wars.
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New Directions paperbook volume NDP1382
Pub. Date
2017.
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"Told in short, cinematic bursts, Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash is gloriously pulpy. Ajo Kawir, a lower-class Javanese teenage boy excited about sex, likes to spy on fellow villagers in flagrante. But one night he ends up witnessing the savage rape of a beautiful crazy woman by two policemen. Deeply traumatized, he becomes impotent. His efforts to get his virility back all fail, and Ajo Kawir turns to fighting as a way to vent his frustrations....