Author: George WickesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Lawrence Durrell, Henry Miller
Author: George WickesThe Henry Miller Reader
Author: Henry MillerPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811201117
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
A collection of works spanning the entire career of great 20th-century American writer Henry Miller, edited and introduced by Lawrence Durrell.
Durrell-Miller Letters, 1935-1980
Author: Lawrence DurrellPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811217309
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
In 1935 a young Englishman living on Corfu wrote enthusiastically to a middle-aged Brooklynite who had just published a succes de scandale in Paris: ... Tropic [of Cancer] turns the corner into a new life which has regained its bowels." Henry Miller, realizing that in Lawrence Durrell he had hooked his ideal reader, responded: "You're the first Britisher who's written me an intelligent letter about the book." Thus began a correspondence that ended only with Miller's death in 1980 - nearly 1,000,000 words later. The Durrell-Miller Letters, 1935-80 contains an extensive and representative selection of the total correspondence. Almost half of the present volume has never been published before, including some recently recovered "lost" letters; in addition, many passages expurgated from letters published in 1963 have been restored. Editor Ian S. MacNiven of the State University of New York, Maritime College, is quite right to regard the Durrell-Miller correspondence as a dual biography of the creative lives of two of this century'sgreat literary iconoclasts, a biography "At once as serious as Schopenhauer and as winning as wine." "
The Colossus of Maroussi
Author: Henry MillerPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811218570
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Henry Miller’s landmark travel book, now reissued in a new edition, is ready to be stuffed into any vagabond’s backpack. Like the ancient colossus that stood over the harbor of Rhodes, Henry Miller’s The Colossus of Maroussi stands as a seminal classic in travel literature. It has preceded the footsteps of prominent travel writers such as Pico Iyer and Rolf Potts. The book Miller would later cite as his favorite began with a young woman’s seductive description of Greece. Miller headed out with his friend Lawrence Durrell to explore the Grecian countryside: a flock of sheep nearly tramples the two as they lie naked on a beach; the Greek poet Katsmbalis, the “colossus” of Miller’s book, stirs every rooster within earshot of the Acropolis with his own loud crowing; cold hard-boiled eggs are warmed in a village’s single stove, and they stay in hotels that “have seen better days, but which have an aroma of the past.”
The Dark Labyrinth
Author: Lawrence DurrellPublisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453261516
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
DIVDIVWho will survive the Labyrinth of Crete?/divDIV /divDIVA group of English cruise-ship tourists debark to visit the isle of Crete’s famed labyrinth, the City in the Rock. The motley gathering includes a painter, a poet, a soldier, an elderly married couple, a medium, a convalescent girl, and the mysterious Lord Gracean. The group is prepared for a trifling day of sightseeing and maybe even a glimpse of the legendary Minotaur, but instead is suddenly stuck in a nightmare when a rockslide traps them deep within the labyrinth. Who among the passengers will make it out alive? And for those who emerge, will anything ever be the same?/div/div
Art and Outrage
Author: Alfred PerlèsPublisher: New York : Dutton, 1961 [c1959]
ISBN:
Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Reflections on a Marine Venus
Author: Lawrence DurrellPublisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453261672
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
After World War II, an Englishman seeks peace on an ancient Greek island in this “remarkable” travel memoir (The New York Times). Islomania is a disease not yet classified by Western science, but to those afflicted its symptoms are all too recognizable. Men like Lawrence Durrell are struck by a powerful need to live on the ancient islands of the Mediterranean, where the clear blue Aegean is always within reach. After four tortuous wartime years in Egypt, Durrell finds a post on the island of Rhodes, where the British are attempting to return Greece to the sleepy peace it enjoyed in the ’30s. From his first morning, when a dip in the frigid sea jolts him awake for what feels like the first time in years, Durrell breathes in the fullest joys of island life, meeting villagers, eating exotic food, and throwing back endless bottles of ouzo, as though the war had never happened at all. The charms of his stay there still resonate today, for the pleasures of Greece are older than history itself.
Father Letters
Author: Anaïs NinPublisher:
ISBN: 9780998724669
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"A collection of correspondence between the diarist/novelist Anais Nin and her father pianist/composer Joaquin Nin just before, during and after their adult-onset incestuous relationship"--
The Black Book
Author: Lawrence DurrellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
Author: Henry MillerPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811219704
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
In his great triptych "The Millennium," Bosch used oranges and other fruits to symbolize the delights of Paradise. In his great triptych “The Millennium,” Bosch used oranges and other fruits to symbolize the delights of Paradise. Whence Henry Miller’s title for this, one of his most appealing books; first published in 1957, it tells the story of Miller’s life on the Big Sur, a section of the California coast where he lived for fifteen years. Big Sur is the portrait of a place—one of the most colorful in the United States—and of the extraordinary people Miller knew there: writers (and writers who did not write), mystics seeking truth in meditation (and the not-so-saintly looking for sex-cults or celebrity), sophisticated children and adult innocents; geniuses, cranks and the unclassifiable, like Conrad Moricand, the “Devil in Paradise” who is one of Miller’s greatest character studies. Henry Miller writes with a buoyancy and brimming energy that are infectious. He has a fine touch for comedy. But this is also a serious book—the testament of a free spirit who has broken through the restraints and clichés of modern life to find within himself his own kind of paradise.