Author: Milan Pelouch
Publisher: University of Michigan Press/Regional
Keywords: morels
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2008-02-27
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0472032747
ISBN-13: 9780472032747

Each spring in the United States, old-timers and new converts to morel hunting appear in the woods in search of the elusive but distinctive morel, a mushroom well known and loved in Michigan and other states for its superb flavor and culinary value. So prized is the morel that favorite morel hunting spots—not unlike those of its cousin, the European truffle—are closely guarded secrets to morel devotees. While many morel fans remain tight lipped about their favorite subject, in How to Find Morels author Milan Pelouch freely shares everything he’s learned during his years of morel hunting. T

Author: F. A. Milan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: programme, synthesis, series, biological, international, biology, circumpolar, populations, human
Number of Pages: 383
Published: 1980-03-31
List price: $105.00
ISBN-10: 0521222133
ISBN-13: 9780521222136

The International Biological Programme investigated the biology of circumpolar human populations in the period 1967-1974. This research was carried out by multidisciplinary teams and covered demography, genetics, craniofacial development, growth, ophthalmology, nutrition physiology and behaviour. The populations studied include Eskimos, Lapps and Ainu as well as certain of those from Russia. The environment inhabited by the populations has low temperatures, seasonal extremes of light and dark and relatively meagre ecological resources, but despite such harsh conditions the groups have survived

Author: Milan Kundera
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: parts, seven, essay, curtain
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2008-01-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0060841958
ISBN-13: 9780060841959

In this thought-provoking, endlessly enlightening, and entertaining essay on the art of the novel, renowned author Milan Kundera suggests that "the curtain" represents a ready-made perception of the world that each of us hasâ??a pre-interpreted world. The job of the novelist, he argues, is to rip through the curtain and reveal what it hides. Here an incomparable literary artist cleverly sketches out his personal view of the history and value of the novel in Western civilization. In doing so, he celebrates a prose form that possesses the unique ability to transcend national and language bound

Author: Milan Kundera
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: version, definitive, joke
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1993-04-14
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 006099505X
ISBN-13: 9780060995058

All too often, this brilliant novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried has been read for its political implications. Now, a quarter century after The Joke was first published and several years after the collapse of the Soviet-imposed Czechoslovak regime, it becomes easier to put such implications into perspective in favor of valuing the book (and all Kundera ’s work) as what it truly is: great, stirring literature that sheds new light on the eternal themes of human existence. The present edition provides English-language readers an important further means toward revaluation of The

Author: Milan Kundera
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classic
Keywords: classics, perennial, novel, art
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2003-04-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0060093749
ISBN-13: 9780060093747

Every novelist’s work contains an implicit vision of the history of the novel, an idea of what the novel is. I have tried to express here the idea of the novel that is inherent in my own novels. -- Milan Kundera Kundera brilliantly examines the work of such important and diverse figures as Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Diderot, Flaubert, Tolstoy, and Musil. He is especially penetrating on Hermann Broch, and his exploration of the world of Kafka’s novels vividly reveals the comic terror of Kafka’s bureaucratized universe. Kundera’s discussion of his own work includes his

Author: Milan Kundera
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: parts, nine, essay, betrayed, testaments
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1996-09-11
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0060927518
ISBN-13: 9780060927516

Milan Kundera, one of the twentieth century’s masters of fiction and author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Immortality, offers a brilliant and thought provoking essay, following in the tradition of his highly regarded The Art of the Novel. Testaments Betrayed is written like a novel: the same characters appear and reappear throughout the nine parts of the book, as do the principal themes that preoccupy the author. Kundera once again celebrates the art of the novel, from its birth in a spirit of humor unique to European culture and sensibility - illustrated by some wonderful exa

Author: Milan Kundera
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: loves, laughable
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1999-05-01
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0060997036
ISBN-13: 9780060997038

Milan Kundera is a master of graceful illusion and illuminating surprise. In one of these stories a young man and his girlfriend pretend that she is a stranger he picked up on the road--only to become strangers to each other in reality as their game proceeds. In another a teacher fakes piety in order to seduce a devout girl, then jilts her and yearns for God. In yet another girls wait in bars, on beaches, and on station platforms for the same lover, a middle-aged Don Juan who has gone home to his wife. Games, fantasies, and schemes abound in all the stories while different characters react in