Howard, Richard 1929-
Overview
Works: | 454 works in 1,389 publications in 5 languages and 46,718 library holdings |
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Genres: | Fiction Juvenile works Fairy tales Criticism, interpretation, etc Fantasy fiction Political fiction Poetry Allegories Science fiction History |
Roles: | Translator, Author, Author of introduction, Editor, Other, Annotator, Author of afterword, colophon, etc., Lyricist, Contributor |
Classifications: | PQ2637.A274, 843.912 |
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Most widely held works about
Richard Howard
- Five by Michael Dellaira( )
- A message to Denmark Hill by Charles Wuorinen( )
- Our deep gossip : conversations with gay writers on poetry and desire by Christopher Hennessy( Book )
- Poetry and dance (Exhibition) [clippings]( Book )
- William Harmon papers by William Harmon( )
- Rudy Kikel papers by Rudy Kikel( )
- Letter from Mark Strand, place not identified, to Charles Simic, 1976? : by Mark Strand( )
- Richard Howard by Richard Howard( Recording )
- by Adrienne Rich( )
- Benjamin Taylor papers by Benjamin Taylor( )
- Papers of Peter Hillsman Taylor by Peter Taylor( )
- The Poetry and Dance Festival, Tribute to Lincoln Kirstein( Visual )
- Poetry and dance (Exhibition) [clippings]( Book )
- Poetry reading at Sarah Lawrence College by Richard Howard( Recording )
- Kenneth O. Hanson collection by Kenneth O Hanson( )
- Mourning men : the elegiac in James Merrill and Richard Howard by Kathleen R McKeown( )
- by Donald Finkel( )
- Poetry and dance (Exhibition) [clippings]( Book )
- Papers : of Peter Taylor by Peter Taylor( )
- by Robert S Phillips( )
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Most widely held works by
Richard Howard
The little prince by
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry(
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37 editions published between 1943 and 2017 in English and Spanish and held by 3,139 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
CLASSIC FICTION. This is a beautifully bound gift edition of this touching and wise classic. 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 ... Thus begins this wise and enchanting fable that, in teaching the secret of what is really important in life, has changed the world forever for its readers. Ages 4+
37 editions published between 1943 and 2017 in English and Spanish and held by 3,139 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
CLASSIC FICTION. This is a beautifully bound gift edition of this touching and wise classic. 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 ... Thus begins this wise and enchanting fable that, in teaching the secret of what is really important in life, has changed the world forever for its readers. Ages 4+
Alone with America; essays on the art of poetry in the United States since 1950 by
Richard Howard(
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10 editions published between 1969 and 1980 in English and held by 1,994 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
10 editions published between 1969 and 1980 in English and held by 1,994 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
A happy death by
Albert Camus(
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16 editions published between 1971 and 2013 in English and held by 1,736 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In his first novel, A Happy Death, written when he was in his early twenties and retrieved from his private papers following his death in I960, Albert Camus laid the foundation for The Stranger, focusing in both works on an Algerian clerk who kills a man in cold blood. But he also revealed himself to an extent that he never would in his later fiction. For if A Happy Death is the study of a rule-bound being shattering the fetters of his existence, it is also a remarkably candid portrait of its author as a young man. As the novel follows the protagonist, Patrice Mersault, to his victim's house -- and then, fleeing, in a journey that takes him through stages of exile, hedonism, privation, and death -it gives us a glimpse into the imagination of one of the great writers of the twentieth century. For here is the young Camus himself, in love with the sea and sun, enraptured by women yet disdainful of romantic love, and already formulating the philosophy of action and moral responsibility that would make him central to the thought of our time. Translated from the French by Richard Howard
16 editions published between 1971 and 2013 in English and held by 1,736 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In his first novel, A Happy Death, written when he was in his early twenties and retrieved from his private papers following his death in I960, Albert Camus laid the foundation for The Stranger, focusing in both works on an Algerian clerk who kills a man in cold blood. But he also revealed himself to an extent that he never would in his later fiction. For if A Happy Death is the study of a rule-bound being shattering the fetters of his existence, it is also a remarkably candid portrait of its author as a young man. As the novel follows the protagonist, Patrice Mersault, to his victim's house -- and then, fleeing, in a journey that takes him through stages of exile, hedonism, privation, and death -it gives us a glimpse into the imagination of one of the great writers of the twentieth century. For here is the young Camus himself, in love with the sea and sun, enraptured by women yet disdainful of romantic love, and already formulating the philosophy of action and moral responsibility that would make him central to the thought of our time. Translated from the French by Richard Howard
Collected travel writings : Great Britain and America by
Henry James(
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6 editions published in 1993 in English and held by 1,657 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This volume brings together James's writings on Great Britain and America. The essays of English Hours convey the freshness of James's "wonderments and judgments and emotions" on first encountering the country that became his adopted home for half a century. He captures the immensely varied life of London in a series of walks through that "murky, modern Babylon," which contains "the most romantic town-vistas in the world." Lively vignettes of a winter visit to an unfashionable watering place and excursions to the cathedral towns of Wells and Salisbury are followed by a haunting evocation of the desolate Suffolk coast at Dunwich. James includes vivid accounts of a New Year's weekend at a perfectly appointed country house, midsummer dog days in London, and the spectacle of the Derby at Epsom. In every essay he enriches his portrait of the English character, governed by social conventions and yet prone to startling eccentricities. Joseph Pennell's delightful illustrations, which appeared in the original 1905 edition, are reprinted with James's text. In The American Scene (1907) James revisits his native country after a twenty-year absence, traveling throughout the eastern United States from Boston to Florida. Views of the Hudson River arouse memories of his own past - the river "seemed to stretch back ... to the earliest outlook of my consciousness," he writes. James's poignant rediscovery of what remained of the New York of his childhood ("the precious stretch of space between Washington Square and Fourteenth Street") contrasts with his impression of the modern, commercial New York, a new city representing "a particular type of dauntless power, ..crowned not only with no history, but with no credible possibility of time for history?" Edmund Wilson, who praised The American Scene's "magnificent solidity and brilliance," remarked that "it was as if ... his emotions had suddenly been given scope, his genius for expression liberated." Sixteen essays on traveling in England, Scotland, and America conclude this volume. The essays, most of which have never before been collected, range from early pieces on London, Saratoga, and Newport, to articles on World War I that are among James's final writings
6 editions published in 1993 in English and held by 1,657 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This volume brings together James's writings on Great Britain and America. The essays of English Hours convey the freshness of James's "wonderments and judgments and emotions" on first encountering the country that became his adopted home for half a century. He captures the immensely varied life of London in a series of walks through that "murky, modern Babylon," which contains "the most romantic town-vistas in the world." Lively vignettes of a winter visit to an unfashionable watering place and excursions to the cathedral towns of Wells and Salisbury are followed by a haunting evocation of the desolate Suffolk coast at Dunwich. James includes vivid accounts of a New Year's weekend at a perfectly appointed country house, midsummer dog days in London, and the spectacle of the Derby at Epsom. In every essay he enriches his portrait of the English character, governed by social conventions and yet prone to startling eccentricities. Joseph Pennell's delightful illustrations, which appeared in the original 1905 edition, are reprinted with James's text. In The American Scene (1907) James revisits his native country after a twenty-year absence, traveling throughout the eastern United States from Boston to Florida. Views of the Hudson River arouse memories of his own past - the river "seemed to stretch back ... to the earliest outlook of my consciousness," he writes. James's poignant rediscovery of what remained of the New York of his childhood ("the precious stretch of space between Washington Square and Fourteenth Street") contrasts with his impression of the modern, commercial New York, a new city representing "a particular type of dauntless power, ..crowned not only with no history, but with no credible possibility of time for history?" Edmund Wilson, who praised The American Scene's "magnificent solidity and brilliance," remarked that "it was as if ... his emotions had suddenly been given scope, his genius for expression liberated." Sixteen essays on traveling in England, Scotland, and America conclude this volume. The essays, most of which have never before been collected, range from early pieces on London, Saratoga, and Newport, to articles on World War I that are among James's final writings
Paris in the twentieth century by
Jules Verne(
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9 editions published between 1996 and 1997 in English and held by 1,581 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
9 editions published between 1996 and 1997 in English and held by 1,581 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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18 editions published between 1970 and 1996 in English and held by 1,277 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A translation of Gide's classic psychological novel depicting the gradual degeneration of an idealistic young scholar
18 editions published between 1970 and 1996 in English and held by 1,277 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A translation of Gide's classic psychological novel depicting the gradual degeneration of an idealistic young scholar
Our deep gossip : conversations with gay writers on poetry and desire by
Christopher Hennessy(
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7 editions published in 2013 in English and held by 1,137 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
7 editions published in 2013 in English and held by 1,137 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
S/Z by
Roland Barthes(
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11 editions published between 1974 and 2006 in English and held by 1,031 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Semantic study of Balzac's novella 'Sarrasine', of which the text (in English) is included on pages 221-254
11 editions published between 1974 and 2006 in English and held by 1,031 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Semantic study of Balzac's novella 'Sarrasine', of which the text (in English) is included on pages 221-254
Les fleurs du mal : the complete text of The flowers of evil by
Charles Baudelaire(
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15 editions published between 1946 and 1987 in English and French and held by 995 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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
15 editions published between 1946 and 1987 in English and French and held by 995 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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
The pleasure of the text by
Roland Barthes(
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10 editions published between 1975 and 1998 in English and held by 969 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
What is it that we do when we enjoy a text? What is the pleasure of reading? The French critic and theorist Roland Barthes's answers to these questions constitute "perhaps for the first time in the history of criticism ... not only a poetics of reading ... but a much more difficult achievement, an erotics of reading ... Like filings which gather to form a figure in a magnetic field, the parts and pieces here do come together, determined to affirm the pleasure we must take in our reading as against the indifference of (mere) knowledge."--Richard Howard -- From https://www.amazon.co.uk (April 14, 2017)
10 editions published between 1975 and 1998 in English and held by 969 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
What is it that we do when we enjoy a text? What is the pleasure of reading? The French critic and theorist Roland Barthes's answers to these questions constitute "perhaps for the first time in the history of criticism ... not only a poetics of reading ... but a much more difficult achievement, an erotics of reading ... Like filings which gather to form a figure in a magnetic field, the parts and pieces here do come together, determined to affirm the pleasure we must take in our reading as against the indifference of (mere) knowledge."--Richard Howard -- From https://www.amazon.co.uk (April 14, 2017)
The charterhouse of Parma by
Stendhal(
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9 editions published between 1999 and 2000 in English and held by 936 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Follows the adventures of young Fabrizio del Dongo as he joins Napoleon's army just before the Battle of Waterloo, and struggles to keep hidden his love for Clelia amid the intrigues and secrets of the small court of Parma
9 editions published between 1999 and 2000 in English and held by 936 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Follows the adventures of young Fabrizio del Dongo as he joins Napoleon's army just before the Battle of Waterloo, and struggles to keep hidden his love for Clelia amid the intrigues and secrets of the small court of Parma
For a new novel : essays on fiction by
Alain Robbe-Grillet(
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7 editions published between 1965 and 1996 in English and held by 917 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This is a work by the French author Alain Robbe-Grillet, translated from the original French
7 editions published between 1965 and 1996 in English and held by 917 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This is a work by the French author Alain Robbe-Grillet, translated from the original French
The erasers by
Alain Robbe-Grillet(
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13 editions published between 1964 and 2018 in English and French and held by 829 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Alain Robbe-Grillet is internationally hailed as the chief spokesman for the noveau roman and one of the great novelists of the twentieth century. The Erasers, his first novel, reads like a detective story but is primarily concerned with weaving and then probing a complete mixture of fact and fantasy. The narrative spans the twenty-four-hour period following a series of eight murders in eight days, presumably the work of a terrorist group. After the ninth murder, the investigation is turned over to a police agent, who may in fact be the assassin. Both an engrossing mystery and a sinister deconstruction of reality, The Erasers intrigues and unnerves with equal force as it pull us along to its ominous conclusion
13 editions published between 1964 and 2018 in English and French and held by 829 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Alain Robbe-Grillet is internationally hailed as the chief spokesman for the noveau roman and one of the great novelists of the twentieth century. The Erasers, his first novel, reads like a detective story but is primarily concerned with weaving and then probing a complete mixture of fact and fantasy. The narrative spans the twenty-four-hour period following a series of eight murders in eight days, presumably the work of a terrorist group. After the ninth murder, the investigation is turned over to a police agent, who may in fact be the assassin. Both an engrossing mystery and a sinister deconstruction of reality, The Erasers intrigues and unnerves with equal force as it pull us along to its ominous conclusion
G. Braque by
Georges Braque(
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3 editions published in 1971 in English and held by 823 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This volume, introduced by the French art critic Fauchereau, conveys the skillful harmonies of Braque's colors and the assured equilibrium of complex components in his painting
3 editions published in 1971 in English and held by 823 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This volume, introduced by the French art critic Fauchereau, conveys the skillful harmonies of Braque's colors and the assured equilibrium of complex components in his painting
Empire of signs by
Roland Barthes(
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9 editions published between 1982 and 2009 in English and held by 806 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
L'auteur considère le Japon comme le pays de l'écriture, celui où il a rencontré le travail du signe le plus proche de ses convictions et de ses fantasmes et le plus éloigné de la sémiocratie occidentale. Il évoque les signes à travers la ville, le magasin, le théâtre, la politesse, les jardins, la violence, les gestes, la nourriture, les poèmes, etc
9 editions published between 1982 and 2009 in English and held by 806 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
L'auteur considère le Japon comme le pays de l'écriture, celui où il a rencontré le travail du signe le plus proche de ses convictions et de ses fantasmes et le plus éloigné de la sémiocratie occidentale. Il évoque les signes à travers la ville, le magasin, le théâtre, la politesse, les jardins, la violence, les gestes, la nourriture, les poèmes, etc
Two novels by
Alain Robbe-Grillet(
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4 editions published between 1965 and 1993 in English and held by 764 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In the Labyrinth: "Wounded in a last battle, suffering from exhaustion, prey to an ever-worsening fever, and aware that the enemy is about to arrive, a soldier wanders the city's strange streets to deliver a mysterious package and fulfill the last request of a dying comrade. The unfolding scenes of the soldier's struggle to make good on his promise, masterfully rendered by Robbe-Grillet, will be indelibly etched into the minds of readers long after they escape from the soldier's predicament."--Publisher description
4 editions published between 1965 and 1993 in English and held by 764 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In the Labyrinth: "Wounded in a last battle, suffering from exhaustion, prey to an ever-worsening fever, and aware that the enemy is about to arrive, a soldier wanders the city's strange streets to deliver a mysterious package and fulfill the last request of a dying comrade. The unfolding scenes of the soldier's struggle to make good on his promise, masterfully rendered by Robbe-Grillet, will be indelibly etched into the minds of readers long after they escape from the soldier's predicament."--Publisher description
Robert Mapplethorpe by
Richard Marshall(
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23 editions published in 1988 in 3 languages and held by 736 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Even a superficial glance at this sampling of Robert Mapplethorpe's work makes it clear that the tempest has outgrown its teapot. Had Sen. Jesse Helms and his ilk not turned these photographs into a cause ceelebre, few people would have paid any attention to them. Mapplethorpe was a successful commercial photographer, and his pictures rarely transcend a fashion-magazine sensibility, despite references to Edward Weston, George Platt Lynes et al. The background in a portrait of a gay S-M couple is so cluttered with bric-a-brac, the result looks like a glossy magazine ad for a ritzy interior designer. The most disturbing element of his infamous "erotic" works is not their sexual content but their coldness. His nude studies of muscular black men look so remote and objectified, they suggest Pygmalion asking Venus to turn Galatea back into a statue. An offbeat coffeetable book for people who want to find out what the brouhaha in Cincinnati is about without bothering to fly to Ohio
23 editions published in 1988 in 3 languages and held by 736 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Even a superficial glance at this sampling of Robert Mapplethorpe's work makes it clear that the tempest has outgrown its teapot. Had Sen. Jesse Helms and his ilk not turned these photographs into a cause ceelebre, few people would have paid any attention to them. Mapplethorpe was a successful commercial photographer, and his pictures rarely transcend a fashion-magazine sensibility, despite references to Edward Weston, George Platt Lynes et al. The background in a portrait of a gay S-M couple is so cluttered with bric-a-brac, the result looks like a glossy magazine ad for a ritzy interior designer. The most disturbing element of his infamous "erotic" works is not their sexual content but their coldness. His nude studies of muscular black men look so remote and objectified, they suggest Pygmalion asking Venus to turn Galatea back into a statue. An offbeat coffeetable book for people who want to find out what the brouhaha in Cincinnati is about without bothering to fly to Ohio
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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9 editions published in 1974 in English and held by 730 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
9 editions published in 1974 in English and held by 730 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Projet pour une révolution à New York by
Alain Robbe-Grillet(
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6 editions published between 1972 and 2012 in English and French and held by 665 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Part prophecy and part erotic fantasy, this classic tale of otherworldly depravity features New York itself-or a foreigner's nightmare of New York-as its true protagonist. Set in the towers and tunnels of the quintessential American city, Alain Robbe-Grillet's novel turns this urban space into a maze where politics bleeds into perversion, revolution into sadism, activist into criminal, vice into art-and back again. Following the logic of a movie half-glimpsed through a haze of drugs and alcohol, Project for a Revolution in New York is a Sadean reverie that bears an alarming resemblance to the
6 editions published between 1972 and 2012 in English and French and held by 665 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Part prophecy and part erotic fantasy, this classic tale of otherworldly depravity features New York itself-or a foreigner's nightmare of New York-as its true protagonist. Set in the towers and tunnels of the quintessential American city, Alain Robbe-Grillet's novel turns this urban space into a maze where politics bleeds into perversion, revolution into sadism, activist into criminal, vice into art-and back again. Following the logic of a movie half-glimpsed through a haze of drugs and alcohol, Project for a Revolution in New York is a Sadean reverie that bears an alarming resemblance to the
Inner voices : selected poems, 1963-2003 by
Richard Howard(
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6 editions published between 2004 and 2007 in English and held by 663 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."--Jacket
6 editions published between 2004 and 2007 in English and held by 663 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."--Jacket
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- Barthes, Roland Author of introduction Author Contributor
- Robbe-Grillet, Alain 1922-2008 Author
- Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de 1900-1944 Illustrator Author
- Harcourt, Inc
- Miller, Richard Translator
- James, Henry 1843-1916 Author
- Camus, Albert 1913-1960 Author
- Verne, Jules 1828-1905 Author
- Gide, André 1869-1951 Author
- Sarocchi, Jean Editor
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Air pilots American poetry Asteroids Baudelaire, Charles, Braque, Georges, Children's stories, French Civilization Death Deserts Detective and mystery stories Experimental fiction Fairy tales Fantasy Fantasy fiction Fantasy fiction, French Fiction Foxes France France--Paris French fiction French language French literature French poetry Friendship Gay men Great Britain Homosexuality Honeymoons Italy Italy--Parma James, Henry, Japan Literature--Aesthetics Loneliness Love Manners and customs Men--Psychology Murder Murderers Poetry Police Pride and vanity Princes Robbe-Grillet, Alain, Semiotics Spouses Travel Tunisia United States Young men
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Howard Richard
Howard Richard Joseph
Howard, Richard Joseph 1929-
Orwitz, Richard Joseph 1929-
Richard Howard
Richard Howard American poet and literary critic
Richard Howard Amerikaans lexicograaf
Richard Howard amerikanischer Lyriker, Literaturkritiker und Hochschullehrer
Richard Howard Howard, Richard, 1929-
Richard Howard poeta, traduttore e critico letterario statunitense
Ричард Говард американский поэт и литературный критик
Ռիչարդ Հոուարդ
ريتشارد هوارد
ریچارد هاوارد
リチャード・ハワード
理查德·霍华德 美国文学家
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