Howard, Richard 1929-Overview
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Alone with America; essays on the art of poetry in the United States since 1950
by Richard Howard
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15 editions published between 1969 and 1980 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,105 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Richard Howard in the initial instance set himself the overwhelming task of a critical examination in detail of forty-one American poets as widely different as James Merrill and Gary Snyder, some celebrated and some obscure ... In this new and enlarged edition, one hundred pages longer than the original volume, he has added essays to many of the original chapters, dealing with new work by the poets originally examined ... but leaving the original text unchanged. --Atheneum
The little prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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8 editions published between 1943 and 2005 in English and held by 2,022 WorldCat member libraries worldwide An aviator whose plane is forced down in the Sahara Desert encounters a little prince from a small planet who relates his adventures in seeking the secret of what is important in life
Paris in the twentieth century
by Jules Verne
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6 editions published between 1996 and 1997 in English and held by 1,691 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A futuristic novel, written in the 1860s, describing the Paris of the 1960s, a city of cars, computers, even fax machines. The rulers are corporations, technology is god and people are expected to accept material profit as the reason for living. The novel was rejected by the publisher of the day as unrealistic
The immoralist
by André Gide
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5 editions published between 1970 and 1996 in English and held by 1,133 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A translation of Gide's classic psychological novel depicting the gradual degeneration of an idealistic young scholar
S/Z
by Roland Barthes
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11 editions published between 1974 and 2006 in English and held by 1,024 WorldCat member libraries worldwide L'auteur analyse le court récit, Sarrasine, de Balzac. Sa méthode d'analyse découpe le texte en 'lexies', des fragments dégagés de la structure narrative, de grammaire. L'auteur constate que cette façon d'analyser un récit donne au lecteur une interprétation plurielle, sans contraintes, où les réseaux sont multiples et jouent entre eux. Le texte devient une galaxie de signifiants, non une structure de signifiés
Robert Mapplethorpe
by Richard Marshall
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24 editions published between 1988 and 1991 in English and German and held by 982 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Publikacja towarzysząca wystawie: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 28 lipca - 23 października 1988
Les fleurs du mal : the complete text of The flowers of evil
by Charles Baudelaire
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7 editions published between 1982 and 1987 in English and held by 949 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The charterhouse of Parma
by Stendhal
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6 editions published between 1999 and 2000 in English and held by 930 WorldCat member libraries worldwide "The Charterhouse of Parma chronicles the exploits of Fabrizio del Dongo, an ardent young aristocrat who joins Napoleon's army just before the battle of Waterloo. Yet perhaps the novel's most unforgettable characters are the hero's beautiful aunt, the alluring Duchess of Sanseverina, and her lover, Count Mosca, who plot to further Fabrizio's political career at the treacherous court of Parma in a sweeping story that illuminates an entire epoch of European history." "This edition includes original illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker and Notes and a Translator's Afterword by Richard Howard."--Jacket
Preferences: 51 American poets choose poems from their own work and from the past. Commentary on the choices and an introd. by Richard Howard
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3 editions published in 1974 in English and Undetermined and held by 760 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The best of the best American poetry
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1 edition published in 2013 in English and held by 746 WorldCat member libraries worldwide 100 poems selected by Robert Pinsky that represent each volume in The best American poetry series
Untitled subjects : poems
by Richard Howard
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7 editions published between 1969 and 1983 in English and Undetermined and held by 683 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Inner voices : selected poems, 1963-2003
by Richard Howard
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3 editions published in 2004 in English and held by 676 WorldCat member libraries worldwide "Here, in the first volume to draw together material from Richard Howard's twelve books of poems, readers can fully appreciate the erudite nuances of his lyric poetry and the human and historical bravura of his monologues and imagined conversations among famous figures."--BOOK JACKET
When the world spoke French
by Marc Fumaroli
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4 editions published between 2001 and 2011 in English and held by 635 WorldCat member libraries worldwide During the eighteenth century, from the death of Louis XIV until the Revolution, French culture set the standard for all of Europe. In Sweden, Austria, Italy, Spain, England, Russia, and Germany, among kings and queens, diplomats, military leaders, writers, aristocrats, and artists, French was the universal language of politics and intellectual life. In When the World Spoke French, Marc Fumaroli presents a gallery of portraits of Europeans and Americans who conversed and corresponded in French, along with excerpts from their letters or other writings. --from publisher description
Quantities : poems
by Richard Howard
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5 editions published between 1962 and 1968 in English and held by 618 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
La Maison de rendez-vous
by Alain Robbe-Grillet
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2 editions published between 1966 and 1967 in English and held by 582 WorldCat member libraries worldwide "Djinn is the story of a young man who follows an alluring, androgynous girl into a clandestine world where he is assailed by bizarre strangers, disorienting images, dislocations of time, and finally, doubts about his own identity ... With Hong Kong as the setting [of La Maison de Rendez-Vous], the master of the 'new novel' creates a world of crime, intrigue, and passion dominated by Lady Ava's mysterious Blue Villa."--Back cover
The damages : poems
by Richard Howard
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2 editions published in 1967 in English and held by 503 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The trolley
by Claude Simon
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2 editions published in 2002 in English and held by 494 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Intertwining the memories of youth and old age, this novel uses the trolley as a symbol of life as it becomes the mode of transportation that takes the child to school every morning and is transformed into a mobile hospital bed for the man entering into old age
Brassaï : the eye of Paris
by Anne Tucker
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10 editions published between 1998 and 1999 in English and held by 492 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Om den franske fotograf Brassaî (1899-1994) med fotografier fra Paris; fortrinsvis personskildringer
The little prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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8 editions published between 2000 and 2013 in English and held by 477 WorldCat member libraries worldwide "A pilot stranded in the desert awakes one morning to see, standing before him, the most extraordinary little fellow. 'Please,' asks the stranger, 'draw me a sheep.' And the pilot realizes that when life's events are too difficult to understand, there is no choice but to succumb to their mysteries. He pulls out pencil and paper-- And thus begins this wise and enchanting fable that, in teaching the secret of what is really important in life, has changed forever the world for its readers"--Container
Two-part inventions : poems
by Richard Howard
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4 editions published between 1974 and 1978 in English and held by 475 WorldCat member libraries worldwide more
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Adventure stories Air pilots Algeria American poetry Chappell, Warren, Child molesters Children Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices), Unaccompanied Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with orchestra Civilization--French influences Courts and courtiers Degeneration Europe Fairy tales Fantasy fiction France France--Paris French fiction French language French literature French poetry Gay men Gays Hedonism Homosexuality Honeymoons Intellectual life Italy Italy, Northern Italy--Parma Manners and customs Married men Memory Men--Psychology Older people--Psychology Operas--Excerpts Orchestral music Photography, Artistic Poetry Political fiction Princes Pulitzer Prizes Sahara Semiotics Social history Song cycles Songs (Medium voice) with piano Spouses Tunisia Young men
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Howard, Richard 1929-
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