Wanda McCaddon
101) The Matisse stories
Author
Pub. Date
[1993]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A.S. Byatt's books shimmer with all the hues of her critically acclaimed talent and imagination. In The Matisse Stories, this Booker Prize-winning author offers three elegant tales that explore the subtle interplays between mind and eye, heart and hand. In the first, Medusa's Ankles, a fashionable woman watches her life take on darker, more ominous shades in the mirror of a beauty salon. In the next, Art Work, an eccentric housekeeper's alarming eye...
102) Hong Kong
Author
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
Hong Kong is the world's most exciting city, at once fascinating and exasperating, a tangle of contradictions. It is a dazzling amalgam of conspicuous consumption and primitive poverty, the most architecturally incongruous yet undeniably beautiful urban panorama of all. Through firsthand reportage, world-renowned travel writer Jan Morris takes us through the crowded streets of this enigmatic city, offering the most insightful and comprehensive study...
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A book that captures the burning ambition of the rebellious girl from the island of Crete who "lit" the Olympic torch.
The world had doubted Greece's ability to successfully stage the 2004 Olympic event. Angelopoulos led the effort to bring the Olympics back to Athens, and the phenomenally successful games were an effort that showed the world a new Greece, a Greece worthy of its illustrious heritage. Little did she know that a few years later her...
Author
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
Witold Rybczynski takes us on an extraordinary odyssey as he tells the story of designing and building his own house. His project began as a workshed, but through a series of "happy accidents," the structure gradually evolved into a full-fledged house.
In tracing this evolution, he touches on matters both theoretical and practical, writing on such diverse topics as the ritualistic origins of the elements of classical architecture and the connections...
Author
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
In this illuminating book, Witold Rybczynski walks us through five centuries of homes both great and small, from the smoke-filled manor halls of the Middle Ages to the Ralph Lauren–designed environments of today. On a house tour like no other-one that delightfully explicates the very idea of "home"-you'll see how social and cultural changes influenced styles of decoration and furnishing, learn the connection between wall-hung religious tapestries...
106) The twelve Caesars
Author
Pub. Date
[1975]
Language
English
Description
The personalities of the Twelve Caesars of ancient Rome-Julius Caesar and the first eleven Roman emperors who followed him-have profoundly impressed themselves upon the world. They bore the perilous responsibility of governing an empire comparable in its gigantic magnitude and diversity to the United States and the Soviet Union of the 1980s. It is a matter of perennial concern to investigate how the potentates who wield such vast might, and the men...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1934, "a sickly, pathetic marmoset" called Mitz came into the care of Leonard Woolf. He nursed her back to health and from then on was rarely seen without her on his shoulder. A ubiquitous presence in Bloomsbury society, Mitz moved with Leonard and Virginia Woolf and their circle, developing special relationships with such associates as T. S. Eliot and Vita Sackville-West. She accompanied the Woolfs on their travels and even played...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1979.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
Follows the emotional and intellectual lives of a group of people living in England in the 1950s. Alexander Wedderburn is having his verse drama produced in the garden of a wealthy landowner. His involvement with his creation and with an eccentric local family forms an intricate and brilliant web of human relationships.
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