Search Results: Authors starting with W from Globus Books

Woodstock, New York: Overlook press, 1991. New Book. Paperback. 191 pp. Translated by Shaun Whiteside Translated by Dmitri Nabokov Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world. In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude." an imaginary crime that defies definition. Cincinnatus spends his last days in an absurd jail, where he is visited by chimerical jailers. an executioner who masquerades as a fellow prisoner, and by his in-laws. who lug their furniture with them into his cell. When Cincinnatus is led out to be executed. he simply wills his executioners out of existence: they disappear, along with the whole world they inhabit.

London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1962. Used. Excellent condition.. Hardcover. Dust Jacket. 346 pp. First Edition. 'A convincing tale, told with a tremendous gusto, full of genial sound and fury.' - Peter Quennell, Daily Express 'I liked it as I have liked all his novels . . . solid . . . full of meat, thoroughly thought-provoking.' - Julian Mitchell, The Spectator 'Mr. Wain's best and most ambitious novel to date.' - Birmingham Post 'The endless round of duties and responsibilities that had been palmed off on me as a life - it wasn't a life, it was a fraud, and I knew it.' So says teenager Jeremy Coleman, whose father, an austere classics professor, disapproves of the boy's preference for playing jazz music instead of learning Greek grammar. After a final falling-out with his father, Jeremy runs away from home, disappearing into the dives of wartime London, where he plays jazz for a living in seedy nightclubs while evading conscription. He soon encounters the other denizens of this strange twilight… Read More

Pegasus Books, 2022. New Book. Hardcover. 400 pp. "**A New Yorker "Best Book of the Year"** "An excellent work of history."--The Wall Street Journal A rich and luminous biography of nineteenth century music. When one thinks of "great" classical music--music with the most emotional resonance and timelessness--we harken back to the nineteenth century and the Romantic tradition. We recall the sweet melody of a Schubert song, the heroine dying for love in an Italian opera, the swooning orchestration of a Tchaikovsky symphony. The emotional resonance of nineteenth century has moved generations muscians and resonated with countless listeners. It has inspired artists and writers. But no writer until how has adopted such a vividly insightful narrative approach as Stephen Walsh and he shows how there is more to Romantic music that meets the eye--and the ear. With authority, insight, and passion, The Beloved Vision, links the music history of this singular epoch to the ideas that lay behind Romanticism in… Read More

LOS ANGELES: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1995. Переплет: Мягкий Страниц: 127 In Focus: László Moholy-Nagy reproduces almost fifty of the artist's photographs, with commentaries on each by Katherine Ware, an Assistant Curator in the Museum's Department of Photographs. Included as well is an edited transcript of a colloquium on Moholy-Nagy's work, with comments by Thomas Barrow, Jeannine Fiedler, Charles Hagen, Hattula Moholy-Nagy, Weston Naef, Leland Rice, and Katherine Ware. A chronology of significant events in the artist's life is also provided.

London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1960. Used. Excellent conditoin.. Hardcover. Dust Jacket. 265 pp. First Edition. John Wain's Nuncle and Other Stories was first published in hardback in the UK by Macmillan in 1960, although this copy is, in fact, the second impression, issued in the same month (November) as the first printing. Wain, whose profile has, er, waned in recent years, was a poet and critic as well as a novelist, and a friend and contemporary of Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin, with whom he was associated in The Movement. He was also linked, like Amis, to the Angry Young Men, although neither author really fitted that bill. Reading some of the stories in Nuncle, Amis was the writer who most readily sprang to (my) mind, even before I'd learned of their association; Wain shares in common with Amis a similar wit and a preoccupation - at least with the early Amis - with campus life, and a willingness to twist the knife: the opening story, "Master Richard", about a toddler burdened with adult… Read More

Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1996. New Book. Paperback. 252 pp. Contributors: Andrew Barratt David M. Bethea Marietta Chudakova J. A. E. Curtis Edythe C. Haber V. Lakshin Ronald D. LeBlanc Ellendea Proffer.

New York: The Asia Society Inc, 1973. Paperback, 152 pp. Shah 'Abbas & the Arts of Isfahan is the catalogue of an exhibition prepared by the Fogg Art Museum and Asia House Gallery, and shown at Asia House in the fall of 1973 as an activity of The Asia Society, to further greater understanding between the United States and the peoples of Asia.

Penn State University Press, 2020. New Book. Paperback. 306 pp. Memoir (translated from the German) of a Jewish woman in 19th-century Russia, with scholarly introduction and analysis. Pauline Wengeroff's memoir tells what it was like to be a Jewish girl and a Jewish woman in 19th-century Russia, as foundations of faith and tradition eroded around her. No other work like this survives. Wengeroff details her traditional Jewish life in mid-19th century Russia and then the many changes brought on by the Jewish Enlightenment.

Baylor University Press, 2011. New Book. Paperback. 304 pages. Rowan Williams explores the intricacies of speech, fiction, metaphor, and iconography in the works of one of literature's most complex, and most complexly misunderstood, authors. Williams' investigation focuses on the four major novels of Dostoevsky's maturity ( Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Devils, and The Brothers Karamozov). He argues that understanding Dostoevsky's style and goals as a writer of fiction is inseparable from understanding his religious commitments. Any reader who enters the rich and insightful world of Williams' Dostoevsky will emerge a more thoughtful and appreciative reader for it.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021. New Book. Paperback. 384 pp. A comprehensive and revelatory history of modern Belarus - from independence to Lukashenka's contested 2020 re-election. "Andrew Wilson has done all students of European politics a great service by making the history of Belarus comprehensible, and by showing how the future of Belarus might be different than its present." --Timothy Snyder, author of Bloodlands Protests continue in Belarus in the aftermath of 2020's fraught presidential election. In this updated edition of his exploration of Belarus's complicated road to nationhood since it gained independence in 1991, Andrew Wilson has added two new chapters that reveal the extent of Aliaksandr Lukashenka's grip on power, the growth of the opposition movement and the violent crackdown that followed the vote. Wilson also examines the prospects for Europe as a whole of either Lukashenka's downfall or his survival with Russian support.

Michigan State University Press, 2022. New Book. Paperback. 272 pp. WINNER OF THE 2017 LEIPZIG BOOK FAIR PRIZE When Natascha Wodin's mother died, Natascha was only ten years old--too young to find out what her mother had experienced during World War II. All the little girl knew was that they were detritus, human debris left over from the war. Years later, Natascha set out on a quest to find out what happened to her mother during that time. Why had they lived in a camp for "displaced persons"? Where did her mother come from? What had she experienced? The one thing she knew is that her parents had to leave Mariupol in Ukraine for Germany as part of the Nazi forced labor program in 1943. Armed with this limited knowledge, Natascha resolved to piece together the puzzle of her family's past. The result is a highly praised, beautiful piece of prose that has drawn comparisons to W. G. Sebald in its approach. Like Sebald, Natascha's aim is to reclaim the stories of those who can no longer speak for… Read More