More Memoirs of an Aesthete

More Memoirs of an Aesthete PDF Author: Harold Acton
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 424

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More Memoirs of an Aesthete

More Memoirs of an Aesthete PDF Author: Harold Acton
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Languages : en
Pages : 424

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More Memoirs of an Aesthete

More Memoirs of an Aesthete PDF Author: Harold Mario Mitchell Acton
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Pages : 388

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Memoirs of an Aesthete

Memoirs of an Aesthete PDF Author: Harold Acton
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571247660
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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N this classic memoir Harold Acton offers a witty and vivid account of the first thirty-five years of his life (1904-39): from a boyhood among the dilettanti in Florence before the First World War, through his friendships with some of the great writers of his generation in Oxford and Paris, to his discovery of a spiritual home in Peking.

Prince of Aesthetes

Prince of Aesthetes PDF Author: Philippe Jullian
Publisher: Viking Adult
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Category : Aestheticism (Literature)
Languages : en
Pages : 314

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A biography of a man and his eternal search for Beauty.

Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes

Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes PDF Author: Andre Bernard
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0446931268
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 808

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From Hank Aaron to King Zog, Mao Tse-Tung to Madonna, Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes features more than 2,000 people from around the world, past and present, in all fields. These short anecdotes provide remarkable insight into the human character. Ranging from the humorous to the tearful, they span classical history, recent politics, modern science and the arts. Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes is a gold mine for anyone who gives speeches, is doing research, or simply likes to browse. As an informal tour of history and human nature at its most entertaining & instructive, this is sure to be a perennial favorite for years to come.

Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics

Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics PDF Author: Frederic Spotts
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 9781468316711
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Available again, the classic, unprecedented look at how the strategies and ideals of the Third Reich were informed by Adolf Hitler's artistic aspirations. "Grimly fascinating . . . A book that will rightly find its place among the central studies of Nazism. . . . Invaluable." --The New York Times

Written Lives

Written Lives PDF Author: Javier Marías
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811216890
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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An affectionate and very funny gallery of twenty great world authors from the pen of "the most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature" (The Boston Globe).

Who's Who in Lesbian and Gay Writing

Who's Who in Lesbian and Gay Writing PDF Author: Gabriele Griffin
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134722087
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 544

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Who's Who in Lesbian and Gay Writing is a lively and accessible biographical guide to lesbian and gay literary culture, from Sappho to modern pulp fiction. Featuring authors of works with lesbian or gay content as well as known lesbian and gay writers, this volume opens the boundaries of this field to include the writers of popular cultural fiction. It places these alongside the canon of poets, dramatists and novelists, to acknowledge the importance of pop culture to gay and lesbian communities. It includes fascinating entries on authors from W.H. Auden to Alice Walker, James Baldwin to Virginia Woolf. Also included are those such as Judith Butler who have theorised lesbian and gay culture and writing, or have contributed to the uncovering and charting of this vibrant literary history. Fully cross referenced, and with suggestions for further reading, this book offers an invaluable guide to a rich and varied literary culture and is indispensable for anyone with an interest in lesbian and gay writing.

Germs

Germs PDF Author: Richard Wollheim
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 168137496X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 337

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A brilliant, sinuous exploration of family and childhood memory by one of the most original British philosophers of the twentieth century. Germs is about first things, the seeds from which a life grows, as well as about the illnesses it incurs, the damage it sustains. Written at the end of his life by Richard Wollheim, one of the major philosophers of the late twentieth century, the book is not the usual story of growing up and getting on but a brilliant recovery and evocation of childhood consciousness and unconsciousness, an eerily precise rendering of that primitive, formative world we all come from in which we do not know either the world or ourselves for sure, and things—houses, clothes, meals, parents—loom large around us, as indispensable as they are out of our control. Richard Wollheim’s remarkably original memoir is a disturbing, enthralling, dispassionate but also deeply personal depiction of a child standing, fascinated and fearful, on the threshold of individual life.