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The Spider's House by Paul Bowles (University of Northern British Columbia, Canada)
Category: Fiction
Set in Fez, Morocco, during that country's 1954 nationalist uprising, The Spider's House is perhaps Paul Bowles's most beautifully subtle novel, richly descriptive of its setting and uncompromising in its characterizations. Exploring once again the dilemma of the outsider in an alien society, and the ga ...Show more
The Spider's House by Paul Bowles
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Fez, 1954, and American ex-pat Stenham reluctantly accepts a guide for his night-time walk home through the streets of the Medina. A nationalist uprising is transforming the country, much to the annoyance of Stenham, who enjoys the trappings of the old city. His path soon crosses with the young, illiter ...Show more
Travels by Paul Bowles
Category: Travel
This is first ever collected travel writing by a 20th century master, illustrated with photographs from the Bowles archive, and introduced by Edmund White. Paul Bowles began travelling the moment he could - leaving America as a teenager to visit Gertrude Stein in Paris. He settled in Morocco after the w ...Show more
Travels: Collected Writings, 1950-1993 by Paul Bowles (University of Northern British Columbia, Canada)
Category: Travel Literature
Inmore than forty essays and articles that range from Paris to Ceylon, Thailand to Kenya, and, of course, Morocco, the great twen-tieth-century American writer encapsulates his long and full life, and sheds light on his brilliant fiction. Whether he's recalling the cold-water artists' flats of Paris's L ...Show more
Two Years Beside the Strait: Tangier Journal, 1987-89 by Paul Bowles
Category: Travel Literature
UP ABOVE THE WORLD by BOWLES PAUL
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
On the terrace of an elaborate hilltop apartment overlooking a Central American capital, four people sit making polite conversation. The American couple -- an elderly physician and his young wife -- are tourists. Their host, whom they have just met, is a young man of striking good looks and charm. The g ...Show more