Author: Jacques Barzun
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: direct, amp, simple
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2001-12-01
List price: $12.99
ISBN-10: 0060937238
ISBN-13: 9780060937232

A fter a lifetime of writing and editing prose, Jacques Barzun has set down his view of the best ways to improve one’s style. His discussions of diction, syntax, tone, meaning, composition, and revision guide the reader through the technique of making the written word clear and agreeable to read. Exercises, model passages both literary and casual, and hundreds of amusing examples of usage gone wrong show how to choose the right path to self-expression in forceful and distinctive words.

Author: Jacques Barzun
Publisher: Bollingen
Keywords: series, bollingen, art, abuse
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1975-06-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0691018049
ISBN-13: 9780691018041

The lecturer traces the historical development of attitudes toward the arts over the past 150 years, suggesting that the present is a period of cultural liquidation, nothing less than the ending of the modern age that began with the Renaissance.

Author: Jacques Barzun
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Keywords: classics, perennial, intellect, house
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2002-12-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0060102306
ISBN-13: 9780060102302

In this international bestseller, originally published in 1959, Jacques Barzun, acclaimed author of From Dawn to Decadence, takes on the whole intellectual -- or pseudo-intellectual -- world, attacking it for its betrayal of Intellect. "Intellect is despised and neglected," Barzun says, "yet intellectuals are well paid and riding high." He details this great betrayal in such areas as public administrations, communications, conversation and home life, education, business, and scholarship.In this edition’s new Preface, Jacques Barzun discussess the intense -- and controversial -- reaction

Authors:Jacques Barzun, Arthur Krystal,
Publisher: Wesleyan
Keywords: disenlightenment, critique, deserve, culture
Number of Pages: 197
Published: 1989-05-15
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0819562378
ISBN-13: 9780819562371

Twelve essays exploring aspects of literacy and art criticism, retrospective sociology and the effects of relativism on moral behavior.

Authors:Denis Diderot, Jacques Barzun, Ralph Henry Bowen, Den
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company
Keywords: works, nephew, rameau
Number of Pages: 317
Published: 2001-03
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0872204863
ISBN-13: 9780872204867

A reprint of the Library of Liberal Arts edition of 1964. This anthology features unabridged translations of Diderot’s best work as a literary artist, including those writings that embody his most original and influential ideas.

Author: Arthur Krystal
Publisher: Free Press
Keywords: subscription, reader, mid, century, clubs, book, trilling, lionel, uncollected, readers, writings, auden, barzun, jacques, company
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2001-08-15
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0743202627
ISBN-13: 9780743202626

In 1951, Jacques Barzun, W. H. Auden, and Lionel Trilling joined together to form the editorial board of the Readers’ Subscription Book Club. Thus began a venture unique in the annals of American culture. Never before or since have three such eminent intellectuals collaborated to bring books to the attention of the general public. Now, a half century later, A Company of Readers tells the story of this extraordinary partnership and presents for the first time a selection of essays from the publications of the Readers’ Subscription Book Club and its successor, the Mid-Century Bo