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A Writer's Diary by Virginia Woolf
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Harvest Book
An invaluable guide to the art and mind of Virginia Woolf, drawn by her husband from the personal record she kept over a period of twenty-seven years. Included are entries that refer to her own writing, others that are clearly writing exercises; accounts of people and scenes relevant to the raw material ...Show more
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
Category: Fiction | Series: Harvest Book Ser.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this classic book is generally regarded as the finest novel ever written on american politics. It describes the career of Willie Stark, a back-country lawyer whose idealism is overcome by his lust for power. New Foreword by Joseph Blotner for this fiftieth anniversary editi ...Show more
Burden of Desire by Robert MacNeil
Category: Romance | Series: Harvest Book Ser.
Burden of Desire centres on the love triangle between bohemian Halifax south-end belle Julia Robertson, Dalhousie professor Stewart MacPherson, and young Anglican minister Peter Wentworth. Julia keeps a diary detailing her sexual fantasies, which she has with her at the moment of the blast that was the ...Show more
Coming Up for Air by George Orwell
Category: Fiction | Series: Harvest Book
Volume 7 of The Complete Works of George OrwellVolume 7 of The Complete Works of George OrwellComing Up for Air looks back from the sprawl of thirties housing estates, new arterial roads and the domination of the motor car, to an idealised golden England, largely rural and unmechanised when, in the nost ...Show more
How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays by Professor of Semiotics Umberto Eco (University of Bologna)
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Harvest Book
How to Travel with a Salmon is a highly engaging collection of what Umberto Eco calls his diario minimo - minimal diaries - after the magazine column in which he began "pursuing the pathways of parody." These essays, written in the late eighties and early nineties, are his playful but unfailingly accura ...Show more
In Search of the Miraculous by P D Ouspensky
Category: New Age | Series: Harvest Book
A new edition of the groundbreaking spiritual treasure, with a foreword by bestselling author Marianne Williamson . Since its original publication in 1949, In Search of the Miraculous has been hailed as the most valuable and reliable documentation of G. I. Gurdjieff's thoughts and universal view. This h ...Show more
Letters to a Young Doctor by Richard Selzer (Preface by)
Category: Biography | Series: Harvest Book Ser.
Highly candid, insightful, and unexpectedly humorous essays on both the brutality and the beauty of the profession in which saving and losing lives is all in a day's work. A timeless collection by the "best of the writing surgeons" (Chicago Tribune). With a Preface written by the Author especially for t ...Show more
Modern Man in Search of a Soul by C. G. Jung
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Harvest Book Ser.
Modern Man in Search of a Soul is widely considered to be one of the most important books of the 20th century, as well as a milestone in the field of psychology. In this book, Jung examines some of the most profound issues of analytical psychology, such as dream analysis, the collective unconscious, arc ...Show more
On Aggression by Konrad Lorenz; Konrad Lorenz
Category: Nature | Series: Harvest Book Ser.
This work has had significant impact on the social and biological sciences and is now a classic point of reference for investigations of behavioral patterns. Lorenz presents his findings on the mechanism of aggression and how animals control destructive drives in the interest of the species. Translated ...Show more
On Violence by Hannah Arendt
Category: Culture | Series: Harvest Book Ser.
Presents an analysis of the nature, causes, and significance of violence in the second half of the twentieth century. This title also re-examines the relationship between war, politics, violence, and power.
The Garden of Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Harvest Book Ser.
The story of a wealthy, insular Jewish family in Fascist Italy just before the outbreak of World War II. The source of an acclaimed feature film directed by Vittorio De Sica. Translated by William Weaver.A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
The Inheritors by Sir William Golding
Category: Fiction | Series: Harvest Book
Eight Neanderthals encounter another race of beings like themselves, yet strangely different. This new race, Homo sapiens, fascinating in their skills and sophistication, terrifying in their cruelty, sense of guilt, and incipient corruption, spell doom for the more gentle folk whose world they will inhe ...Show more