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1) Nightwood
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 98
Publisher
A New Directions Book
Pub. Date
[1937]
Language
English
Author
Series
A New Directions paperbook volume no. 75
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
1958, c1941]
Language
English
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume NDP253
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
©1958
Language
English
Description
A classic of modern Japanese fiction. It is the story of an adolescent who must learn to live with the painful fact that he is unlike other young men. Mishima's protagonist discovers that he is becoming a homosexual in a polite, post-war Japan. To survive, he must live behind a mask of propriety.
"Confessions of a Mask tells the story of Kochan, an adolescent boy tormented by his burgeoning attraction to men: he wants to be "normal." Kochan is meek-bodied...
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 242
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[1967]
Language
English
Author
Series
A New Directions paperbook volume 330
Publisher
New Directions Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
c1971
Language
English
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 192
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
c1971
Language
English
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 501
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English
Author
Series
A New Directions paperbook volume NDP732
Publisher
New Directions Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 768
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
13) Dreamers
Author
Series
Publisher
New Directions Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
©1996
Language
English
Description
The antics of Ove Rolandsen, telegraph operator and local Casanova in a fishing village in Norway. He serenades the curate's wife, fights a drunken giant, but taking on the town's fish-glue magnate is a more difficult matter. By the winner of the 1920 Nobel Prize for Literature.
15) The emigrants
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 853
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
1997, c1996
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
The Promises of Glass, Michael Palmer's first new collection since At Passages (New Directions, 1995), contains seven sections: "The White Notebook", "The Promises of Glass", "Q", "Four Kitaj Studies", "Five Easy Poems" "In an X", and "Tower". These gorgeous new poems explore language and the "salt sea of autobiographies". His work also examines what Marjorie Perloff has described as "the absurdist 'displacement by degrees' one experiences in the...
17) Torn awake
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 926
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 932
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
[2002?]
Language
English
Description
The heroine of this novel is a middle-aged Croatian and the novel is composed of fragments. She reflects on exile, life in Berlin, there's a recipe for caraway soup and a romantic encounter in Lisbon.
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1038
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
Description
"Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award: At the suggestion of her friend Tennessee Williams, Southern writer Carson McCullers adapted her novella The Member of the Wedding into a touching and poignant play that was an enormous success when it opened on Broadway in 1950, and has long since become a classic of the American theater. With compassion, veracity and wit, in The Member of the Wedding Carson McCullers depicts the intrinsically enmeshed...
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1090
Publisher
New Directions Pub
Pub. Date
©2007.
Language
English
Description
The basic principles of Gandhi's philosophy of non-violence (ahimsa) and non-violent action (satyagraha) were chosen by Thomas Merton for this compendium in 1965. In his challenging Introduction, Merton emphasizes action rather than pacifism as essential to non-violence, and illustrates how the foundations of Gandhi's universal truths are linked to traditional Hindu Dharma, the Greek philosophers, and the teachings of Jesus Christ. Educated as a Westerner...
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