Authors:Charles Baudelaire,  Richard Howard,
Publisher: David R. Godine
Keywords: mal, fleurs, les
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1985-10-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0879234628
ISBN-13: 9780879234621

This translation of Baudelaire’s magnum opus perhaps the most powerful and influential book of verse from the 19th century - won the American Book Award for Translation. And the honor was well-deserved, for this is one of Richard Howard’s greatest efforts. It’s all here: a timeless translation, the complete French text, and Mazur’s striking black and white monotypes in one elegant edition.

Authors:Dennis Webster,  Kim Webster Cunningham,
Publisher: David R Godine
Keywords: wild, absolutely
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2008-10-15
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1567923755
ISBN-13: 9781567923759

The publisher first saw Kim Cunningham’s artwork - and her father’s clever and witty poetry - at an exhibition of New Hampshire artists near the company’s warehouse in Peterborough. With two young children and bookcases brimming over with alphabet, animal, nonsense, and every other kind of children’s book, it takes a lot to impress him. This work did; even an amateur could see at a glance that here was the Real Thing - both the rhymes and the images.The verses by her father, a New York copywriter, are original, catchy, and sophisticated (or as sophisticated as you can g

Author: Sylvie Germain
Publisher: David R Godine
Keywords: mundi, series, verba, novel, nights, book
Number of Pages: 263
Published: 1985-12-01
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0879239751
ISBN-13: 9780879239756

The Book of Nights marks the American debut of one of Europe’s most powerful and celebrated young writers. Winner of six literary prizes, The Book of Nights combines the timeless power of medieval legend, the resonance of Greek tragedy, and the harsh immediacy of a newsreel.Sylvie Germain traces a century in the life of the Peniel family, and especially of the Victor-Flandrin Peniel (nicknamed Night-of-gold-Wolf-face because of the hereditary gold fleck in the eye). It is Victor-Flandrin-larger than life yet fully human-who acts as focal point for the intertwined stories of the Peniels (

Author: Andre Dubu
Publisher: David R Godine
Keywords: choices, adultery
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1999-06-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0879232846
ISBN-13: 9780879232849

This second book of short stories by Andre Dubus established him as a master of the genre in the lineage of Hemingway and Chekhov, even as its gritty truths and spiritual attentiveness served to set his voice apart. The opening stories focus on the fragile nature of youth, exemplified in struggles with a father, a friend, an enemy, and obesity. In part two, Dubus contends with more adult forms of discipline: the military, the police, and fate and then leaves us with the most wrenchingof all emotional challenges in the final novella, "Adultery." Poignant as parables, alive as fiction, and compe

Authors:Sonia Orwell, George Orwell,  Ian Angu,
Publisher: David R Godine
Keywords: letters, george, orwell, journalism, essays, collected, right, country
Number of Pages: 477
Published: 2000-10-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1567921345
ISBN-13: 9781567921342

Considering that much of his life was spent in poverty and ill health, it is something of a miracle that in only forty-six years George Orwell managed to publish ten books and two collections of essays. Here, in four fat volumes, is the best selection of his non-fiction available, a trove of letters, essays, reviews, and journalism that is breathtaking in its scope and eclectic passions. Orwell had something to say about just about everyone and everything. His letters to such luminaries as Julian Symons, Anthony Powell, Arthur Koestler, and Cyril Connolly are poignant and personal. His essays,

Authors:Mary Laird Hamady,  Jana Fothergill,
Publisher: David R Godine
Keywords: cookery, mountain, lebanese
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1995-05-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1567920209
ISBN-13: 9781567920208

In this lovely and personable cookbook, Mary Laird Mamady takes us back to the homeland of her grandmother-in-law, the highlands of Lebanon, where food is still prepared by families using recipes handed down from generation to generation. One of the glories of Middle Eastern cuisine is that once the basics are mastered it becomes easy to put together meals for four to fifty. This is truly food for communal dining, wonderfully festive to prepare for families and friends.Here are ingredients redolent of their sun-baked origins burghul (bulgur), chick peas, feta cheese, rose flower water, and pin

Author: Jose Donoso
Publisher: David R Godine
Keywords: mundi, verba, night, bird, obscene
Number of Pages: 438
Published: 1995-12-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1567920462
ISBN-13: 9781567920468

This haunting jungle of a novel has been hailed as "a masterpiece" by Luis Bunuel and "one of the great novels not only of Spanish America, but of our time" by Carlos Fuentes. The story of the last member of the aristocratic Azcoitia family, a monstrous mutation protected from the knowledge of his deformity by being surrounded with other freaks as companions, The Obscene Bird of Night is a triumph of imaginative, visionary writing. Its luxuriance, fecundity, horror, and energy will not soon fade from the reader’s mind. (Verba Mundi)