Author: Octavio Paz
Publisher: Grove Press
Keywords: labyrinth, mexico, solitude, ogre, philanthropic, return, united, states
Number of Pages: 398
Published: 1994-01-12
List price: $14.50
ISBN-10: 080215042X
ISBN-13: 9780802150424
Octavio Paz has long been acknowledged as Mexico’s foremost writer and critic. In this international classic, Paz has written one of the most enduring and powerful works ever created on Mexico and its people, character, and culture. Compared to Ortega y Gasset’s The Revolt of the Masses for its trenchant analysis, this collection contains his most famous work, "The Labyrinth of Solitude," a beautifully written and deeply felt discourse on Mexico’s quest for identity that gives us an unequalled look at the country hidden behind "the mask." Also included are "The Other Mexico,"
Author: May Sarton
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: solitude, journal
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1992-10-17
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0393309282
ISBN-13: 9780393309287
May Sarton writes with keen observation of both inner and outer worlds--a garden, the seasons, daily life in New Hampshire, books, people, ideas--and throughout everything, her spiritual and artistic journey. "An honorable confession of the writer’s faults, fears, sadnesses, and disappointments. . . ."--Cleveland Plain Dealer. Reissue.
Author: John B. Hough
Publisher: Hamilton Books
Keywords: solitude
Number of Pages: 228
Published: 2007-04-30
List price: $38.00
ISBN-10: 0761837205
ISBN-13: 9780761837206
This work discusses the spiritual journey of a man who abandoned his notions of material success to embrace a course of unworldly prosperity through solitude and reflection. The author retired from college teaching and developed a spirituality and personal theology that became, for him, a viable alternative to modern materialistic values. Solitude demonstrates the possibility of being transformed by love, and the strength found in acting through God’s will. While living largely in solitude, Hough has established himself in his community as a loving man of faith who has tempered a life of
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: solitude, dans, tente
Published: 1988-06
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 2735101908
ISBN-13: 9782735101900
Author: Anthony Storr
Publisher: Free Pre
Keywords: return, solitude
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2005-09-27
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0743280741
ISBN-13: 9780743280747
Originally published in 1988, Anthony Storr’s enlightening meditation on the creative individual’s need for solitude has become a classic.Solitude was seminal in challenging the established belief that "interpersonal relationships of an intimate kind are the chief, if not the only, source of human happiness." Indeed, most self-help literature still places relationships at the center of human existence. Lucid and lyrical, Storr’s book cites numerous examples of brilliant scholars and artists -- from Beethoven and Kant to Anne Sexton and Beatrix Potter -- to demonstrate that so
Author: Bohumil Hrabal
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: solitude, loud
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 1992-04-27
List price: $11.00
ISBN-10: 0156904586
ISBN-13: 9780156904582
Hantá rescues books from the jaws of his compacting press and carries them home. Hrabal, whom Milan Kundera calls “our very best writer today,” celebrates the power and the indestructibility of the written word. Translated by Michael Henry Heim.
Author: Paul Auster
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: solitude, invention
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2007-01-30
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0143112228
ISBN-13: 9780143112228
"One day there is life . . . and then, suddenly, it happens there is death". So begins THE INVENTION OF SOLITUDE, Paul Auster’s moving and personal meditation on fatherhood. After the death of his own father, Auster discovers a 60-year-old family murder mystery that could account for the old man’s elusive character. Later the book shifts from Auster’s identity as son to his own role as father.
