Author: Mircea Eliade
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Keywords: religion, nature, profane, sacred
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1987-10-23
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 015679201X
ISBN-13: 9780156792011

A noted historian of religion traces manifestations of the sacred from primitive to modern times, in terms of space, time, nature and the cosmos, and life itself. Index. Translated by Willard Trask.

Author: Hannah Arendt
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich
Keywords: totalitarianism, origins
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 1973-03-21
List price: $19.00
ISBN-10: 0156701537
ISBN-13: 9780156701532

Generally regarded as the definitive work on totalitarianism, this book is an essential component of any study of twentieth-century political movements. Arendt was one of the first to recognize that Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union were two sides of the same coin rather than opposing philosophies of Right and Left. "With the Origins of Totalitarianism Hannah Arendt emerges as the most original and profound-therefore the most valuable-political theoretician of our times" (New Leader). Index.

Author: Sergei Eisenstein
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Keywords: sense, film
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1969-03-19
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0156309351
ISBN-13: 9780156309356

An exploration of the film as a more expressive and profound medium. Includes an analysis of a sound-film sequence from Alexander Nevsky. “The most instructive discussion of the film art yet put between the covers of a book” (New York Times Book Review). Edited and translated by Jay Leyda; Index; photographs and diagrams.

Author: T. S. Eliot
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Keywords: centenary, poems, collected, eliot
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1991-09-25
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0151189781
ISBN-13: 9780151189786

Published two years before his death, this collection includes all of Eliot’s poetry that he wished to preserve.

Author: Virginia Woolf
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Keywords: essays, moth, death
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 1974-10-23
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0156252341
ISBN-13: 9780156252348

A highly acclaimed collection of twenty-eight essays, sketches, and short stories presenting nearly every facet of the author’s work. "Up to the author’s highest standard in a literary form that was most congenial to her" (Times Literary Supplement (London)). "Exquisitely written" (New Yorker); "The riches of this book are overwhelming" (Christian Science Monitor). Editorial Note by Leonard Woolf.

Author: Italo Calvino
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Keywords: cosmicomics
Number of Pages: 153
Published: 1976-10-04
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0156226006
ISBN-13: 9780156226004

Enchanting stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures. “Naturally, we were all there, - old Qfwfq said, - where else could we have been? Nobody knew then that there could be space. Or time either: what use did we have for time, packed in there like sardines?” Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Author: Anais Nin
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Keywords: essays, man, sensitive
Number of Pages: 169
Published: 1976-04-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0156444453
ISBN-13: 9780156444453

Here, in more than twenty essays, Nin shares her unique perceptions of people, places, and the arts. Includes several lectures and two interviews.