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Publisher’s RepresentativesPublisher’s Note

L we managed to survive our fortieth anniversary. I have toadmit that in the wake of the parties, the speeches, and the general hoopla,a considerable amount of attention and resources were diverted from whatthis company is really all about – publishing books. But it was a productiveyear: we managed to bring back to life a record number of reprints, and ourfrontlist efforts, while small in number, were received warmly.

Happily, the Spring catalogue sees a return to our normal routines ofpublishing about ‒ new books a season. More than a few of them areworth special mention. At the top of our list is a new novel by Ernie Hebert,a writer beloved in these parts especially. Of these parts, or at least onecorner of them, Mark Twain said, “Paint, literature, science, statesmanship,history, professorship, law, morals – they are all represented here,” anendorsement that could have been expanded to include architecture hadWill Morgan’s book,Monadnock Summer, been available at the time. SusanFillion’s brilliant effort to recreate the world and tastes of Baltimore’s Conesisters deserves special mention. The pages glow with color, not only of theworks by Matisse, Picasso, and Cézanne, which they collected on their own,but also of the paintings Susan created to illustrate their story. Our roots arein design and printing, so having The Best of Both Worlds, in full color onthis list, with what is sure to be a controversial selection, does justice to ourhot metal heritage. With two books, Henry Beston has been a signal voiceon our list for decades. It is a real pleasure to announce Nan Rossiter’spoignant retelling of the year he spent in his little shack on Cape Cod’sAtlantic Shore, with pictures that are the visual equal of his prose. Whatalways pleases me particularly is to see old authors return to our list. Herewe have three: our reissue, with new poems, of Mark Doty’s first two books;Jane Marinsky’s new book for very young readers with her suggestions onwhat one might consider adding to make for the perfect family; and finallya voice from the distant past. Years ago, we distributed Bill Henderson’sPushcart titles, so it is a very real joy to welcome him to our own list withwhat I call his “My Life in Dogs”memoir, and if you have, or love, a dog, thiswill keep you pegged to your fur-covered chair for hours.

Varied and, I hope, vital, all of these books give me a sense of real plea-sure and pride. I hope you will embrace them with the same enthusiasmwith which I publish them. � D ·R ·G

. . Keep an eye out for the film adaptation of The Woman in Black starringDaniel Radcliffe!

Never Back Downby Ernest Hebert

I , Ernest Hebert’s most autobiographical novel to

date, Jack Landry, haunted by dreams of a tragedy that

occurred centuries before he was born, is introduced as a

promising high school baseball player from the mill town of

Keene,NewHampshire.A young boy when the novel opens in

July , Jack and his best friend, Elphege Beaupre, devise a

motto to live by: Never back down, never instigate. It’s a rule

of stubborn passivity Jack will follow to the end of his days.

Unconsciously burdened by his French-Canadian heritage,

hemmed in by his working-class parents’ submission to

authority, the church, and a life of hard work, young Jack still

has big dreams. Yet his warring values and desires lead to two

mistakes in his youth that will color the rest of his days. The

first causes great harm to his first and only love, a half-Cajun

Gulf Coast girl (and the boss’s daughter). In a world where

one is asked to take responsibilities for actions but perhaps

not suffer the consequences, Jack punishes himself. Following

the tenets of Catholicism, he embarks on a lifelong penance to

atone for his sin. The subsequent renunciation of his dreams

appears to be Jack’s second mistake. But is it?

Hebert is a master storyteller who, in addition to creating

memorable characters and gripping narratives, does not shy

away from the big questions. In Never Back Down, he raises

more than a few:Atwhat price, success? Is redemption possible?

Can one live by a motto? What does it mean to take responsi-

bility? The portrait Hebert gives us of Jack Landry’s life of

menial labor, joie de vivre, and a love that just won’t die not

only raises these questions but answers them as well.

Ernie Hebert’s novels don’t just capture New England;

they’ve become a part of it. . . Jodi Picoult

One of New England’s best writers. . . Yankee Magazine

He writes with a grace, precision, and humor that makes one

feel he will do for the hinterlands what John Updike did for

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Monadnock Summer

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by William Morgan

T , , mountain town of Dublin, New

Hampshire was known as an artistic and literary retreat in

the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Its climate, unpre-

tentious life style, and magnificent scenery attracted artists as

diverse as Joseph Lindon Smith,George de Forest Brush,Abbott

Thayer and his young protégés Frank Benson and Rockwell

Kent.Mark Twain,who summered there twice, called it“the one

place I have always longed for, but never knew existed in fact

until now.”

Less well known, but equally fascinating, is Dublin’s claim

as home to just about every architectural style and severalmajor

domestic architects of the late nineteenth and early twentieth

century. On its slopes, overlooking deep, spring-fed Dublin

Lake and the looming Mount Monadnock, we find a virtual

encyclopedia of building styles, ranging from the plain and

unadorned to the most ornate and ambitious. A list of the

architects who plied their trade in this small town reads like a

list from Who’s Who: Charles A. Platt, Peabody & Stearns,

Rotch & Tilden, Henry Vaughan, and Lois Lilley Howe.

In this immensely readable and enjoyable survey, veteran

architectural historian William Morgan takes the reader on a

verbally vivid and visually varied tour of the terrain, concen-

trating not only on the traditional and expected examples that

crop up in Dublin as often as elsewhere, but also on the eccen-

tric, unusual, and often unique extravaganzas that pepper its

slopes. For Dublin was a great melting pot, a place which for a

century had both the money and the taste to indulge archi-

tects of all stripes and styles, and to give them commissions to

design among the most beautiful and original examples their

talents could produce.

Profusely illustrated, comprehensive in its treatment, and

written with verve, style, and a scholar’s eye,Monadnock Sum-

mer will be recognized as among the best books on New Eng-

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The Best of Both Worlds ’,

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by Jerry Kelly, Riva Castleman,and Anne Hoy

preface by Peter Strauss

A ’ always contain art, and the art often

serves as the primary reason for the book’s existence.

And the history of bookmaking, since the Gutenberg Bible,

contains examples of books whose typographic and design

excellence is immediately apparent and beyond dispute, but

which contain no art. Occasionally, the two worlds intersect

and overlap, resulting in books as noteworthy for their art-

work as their printing, as praiseworthy for their artistic con-

tent as their design and manufacturing. In this full color

selection of books from Europe and the Americas, the

authors select, and comment upon the “best of both worlds”:

books whose pages reveal the best graphic work of the past

century; artwork from the hands of masters as diverse as

Braque, Calder, Dine, Hockney,Mapplethorpe,Matisse,Mail-

lol, Picasso, Oldenburg and Rivers – coupled with memorable

texts orchestrated by the best designers, printers, and binders.

At once a visual feast and a provocative tour through well-

and lesser-known titles, the primary thesis this book suggests

is that one world does not have to be sacrificed at the expense

of the other. In the hands of expert collaborators, a book can

incorporate the best of both worlds – the artistic and the bib-

liophilic – to provide a vehicle that both exalts the contents

and celebrates the messages.

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sionally involved with the history,

design, and production of books for

decades – Jerry Kelly as a prominent

book designer, Riva Castleman and

Anne Hoy as authors, editors, and

curators, and Peter Strauss as a

printer and collector.

Finely printed livres d’artistes

1910–2010

The BestoF BotH Worlds

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Woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi(b. 1919).

1000 copies.

Designed by Joseph Blumenthal, printed at the Spiral Press on Rives paper from his Emerson type.

31. Glenway Westcott, trans. TWELVE FABLES OF AESOPThe Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1954

It is not surprising that, when Monroe Wheeler decided to initiate a program of livre d’artiste publications at the Muse-um of Modern Art, he selected the printer Joseph Blumenthal and rising young artist Antonio Frasconi as collabora-tors for the first publication in the series. Both were among the most respected in their fields in America at the time. This edtion of Aesop was a great success, and it was later reprinted many times in an inexpensive pamphlet format.

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In 1952 I was invited to produce an edition of Twelve Fables of Aesop,

newly narrated by Glenway Wescott and illustrated by Antonio Frasconi. Its colophon tells the story: “This book, the first of a series of limited editions to be published by The Museum of Mod-ern Art under the direction of Monroe Wheeler, has been designed and printed by Joseph Blumenthal at the Spiral Press, New York on Rives mould-made paper. The Emerson type has been set by hand, and the illustrations have been printed from the artist’s original blocks. The edition is limited to 975 numbered copies and 25 lettered review copies, all sign by Mr. Frasconi, Mr. Wescott and Mr. Blumenthal.” A second book in the series appeared in 1957 – Voyages, Six Poems by Hart Crane, with superb wood engravings by Leon-ard Baskin, designed and handsomely printed by Baskin at his Gehenna Press in Northampton, Massachusetts. With the Aesop and Voyages a very promis-ing enterprise came to an untimely and regrettable end.

– Joseph Blumenthal, Typographic Years. New York, Frederic C. Beil and The Grolier Club, 1982.

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Wood engravings by Eric Gill (1882–1940).

158 copies: 50 on Japan paper and 8 on vellum (English edition); 158 copies, 50 on Japan paper and 8 on vellum (German edition); 268 copies, 60 on Japan paper and 8 on vellum (Latin edition), 158 copies, 50 on Japanese paper and 8 on vellum (French edition).

Designed by Count Harry Kessler, printed on Maillol-Kessler handmade paper from Cranach Jenson and Tagliente types.

10 x 5¼ in.

12. [The Holy Bible], CANTICUM CANTICORUM SALOMONISThe Cranach Presse, Weimar, 1930

The three books from Kessler’s Cranach Presse in this selection could hardly be more di�erent in style; yet each contains art carefully matched to text, format, and printing.

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It must have astounded Kessler to encounter in Gill a modern individual who had the desire to confront in both art and life his own theory that Chris-tianity had undermined the erotic and the sensual and had therefore hindered the growth of a new culture. For here was Eric Gill, in stark contrast, seek-ing to live out the idea of combining this very religion with sensuality and, what is more, an erotic sensuality. The unique godliness of Eric Gill must have reminded Kessler in 1925 of his ideas on the mystics, and perhaps made him think that the concept of sensual-ity, which originally sprang from the mystics, had waited patiently for Gill’s own attempt to set down, with acute sensuality, his godliness in a design of the Song of Songs for the Cranach Press.

– John Dieter Brinks, in The Book as a Work of Art: The Cranach Press of Count Harry Kessler. Ed. John Dieter Brinks, Laubach, Berlin, Triton Verlag and Williamstown, MA, Williams College, 2005.

Paragon Parkby Mark Doty

A new book of poems – or of anything – by Mark Doty is

good news in a dark time. The precision, daring, scope, ele-

gance of his compassion and the language in which he

embodies it are a reassuring pleasure. W. S.Merwin

If it were mine to invent the poet to complete the century of

William Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens, I would cre-

ate Mark Doty just as he is, a maker of big, risky, fearless

poems in which ordinary human experience becomes music.

Philip Levine

B we were both very young, Godine had the

honor of publishing the first two poetry books of Mark

Doty,who has since gone on to considerable and deserved fame

and fortune, winning the National Book Award for Poetry in

, as well as honors from the National Book Critics Circle,

the LA Times Book Prize, a Whiting Award, and (as the first

American in its history) the T. S. Eliot Prize.Here, reset and con-

taining almost two dozen poems that appeared in small mag-

azines but have never before been collected, are the complete

texts of Turtle, Swan and Bethlehem in Broad Daylight to which

Doty has contributed a new introduction. Essentially a new

book, and important both for its history and its new inclusions.

The Collected Poems ofNaomi Replanskyby Naomi Replansky

N the National Book Award in ,

Naomi Replansky’s first book Ring Song dazzled critics

with its candor and freshness of language. Here at long last is

the new and collected work of a lifetime by a writer hailed as

“one of the most brilliant American poets” by George Oppen.

Replansky is a poet whose verse combines the compression of

Emily Dickinson, the passion of Anna Akhmatova, and the

music ofW. H.Auden.These poems,whichMarie Ponsot calls

“sixty years of a free woman’s song,” are Replansky’s hymns to

the struggle for justice and equality and to the enduring

beauty of life in our dangerous world.

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All My Dogs

by Bill Hendersonillustrations by Leslie Moore

I true that a dog is a man’s best friend, but if you

are a serious dog owner, you are probably a serial dog

owner, having embraced not one but a succession of canine

companions, each of themmemorable in their own particular

way, and eachmarking a particular epoch in your own life.We

remember which dogs our children teased (and which gener-

ally suffered the abuse nobly), the ones that chewed the furni-

ture and peed on the rugs, the ones that anticipated our every

move andmood and displayed affection and loyalty in the face

of neglect and indifference, the ones that died too early and

the ones that lingered into old age. All of them with their own

distinctive foibles and personalities, none of them with any

sense of their own mortality.

Indeed, our own lives can be chronicled by the lives of the

dogs we have owned, each death marking an ending, to be fol-

lowed shortly by a new beginning. In this intimate, moving,

and revealingmemoir, Bill Henderson, the beloved founder of

the Pushcart Press, divides up the stages of his life into canine

epochs. There was (and there always is) the first dog. . . , the

worst dog, the ones that died untimely deaths, the one who

saved a marriage. “Packaging” is never openly discussed in the

halls of this publishing house, but here we have tried to make

as perfect a package as possible. The book contains lovely line

drawings by Leslie Moore, is designed and printed in an inti-

mate format, and is even set in Minion, which means “faithful

companion.”This is a book to love even if you don’t love dogs.

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Pushcart Press and editor and pub-

lisher of the annual Pushcart Prize:

Best of the Small Presses, now in its

thirty-fifth year. He is the author of

thememoirsHis Son (Norton, ),

Her Father (Faber and Faber, ),

Tower (Farrar, Straus & Giroux,

), and Simple Gifts (Free Press,

). He received the Poets

& Writers/Barnes & Noble “Writers

for Writers” citation and the

Lifetime Achievement Award from

the National Book Critics Circle.

L M draws portraits of

dogs for many owners (and breeds).

She was a favorite artist of the late

Senator Edward Kennedy and illus-

trated his last Christmas card.

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Fauna & Family

by Gerald Durrell

Fauna and Family, also known as The Garden of the Gods, is

the third in Durrell’s Corfu trilogy that begins with his

beloved classic,My Family and Other Animals and continues

with Birds, Beasts and Relatives. In his foreword to Fauna and

Family, Durrell confessed that in the first two books, “I had

left out a number of incidents and characters that I would

have liked to have described, and I have attempted to repair

this omission in this book . . . I hope that it might give the

same pleasure to its readers as apparently its predecessors have

done, as for me it portrays a very important part of my life . . .

which is a truly happy and sunlit childhood.”

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Ring of Bright Water

by Gavin MaxwellRing of Bright Water weaves together the Scottish otter stories

from Gavin Maxwell’s three non-fiction books, Ring of Bright

Water, The Rocks Remain, and Raven Meet Thy Brother. Max-

well was both an extraordinarily evocative writer and a highly

unusual man. While touring the Iraqi marshes, he was capti-

vated by an otter and became a devoted advocate of and spokes-

man for the species. He was also a talented artist, and his

sinuous line drawings of these engaging creatures illuminate

his story. This book was received and has endured as a classic

not only for its portrait of otters but also of a man whose life

embodied both nobility and tragedy. He writes with rare elo-

quence about his career, his devotion to the Scottish highlands

and to the wildlife he loved, while refusing to ignore the darker

aspects of his character and of nature in its larger sense.

Gavin Maxwell was to otters what Joy Adamson was to

lions, Dian Fossey to gorillas, Jane Goodall to chimpanzees

and Grey Owl to beavers.

Douglas Botting, Gavin Maxwell: A Life

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Miss Etta and Dr. Claribel

written & illustrated by Susan Fillion

W more unlikely than this tale of two

unmarried sisters from a German-Jewish family in

Baltimore amassing one of the major collections of modern

art in America? But Etta and Claribel Cone saw the potential

of young artists like Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso when

few people, or institutions, inAmerica even knew they existed.

Etta had fallen in love with art on her first trip to Italy

under the exuberant encouragement of Leo Stein, an old fam-

ily friend from Baltimore. During their travels, including an

arduous journey around the world in , the sisters began

amassing Japanese prints, antiques, textiles, and jewelry. Buy-

ing without professional advice or counsel, trusting their eyes

and instincts, they soon were concentrating on the avant-

garde, befriending and supporting artists, and building one of

the foremost collections of Matisse’s work in the world.

For decades, their treasures remained hidden in their Balti-

more apartment. Claribel died in , and in Etta

published a catalog of the stunning collection she would ulti-

mately bequeath to The Baltimore Museum of Art in .

Only then was the amazing breadth of their vision revealed.

In this touching story, fully illustrated with the work they

collected – Picasso, Matisse, Vuillard, Cézanne, and Gauguin,

– we can trace the contours of their lives, made more vivid by

the informative and colorful paintings of the author, created

especially for this book to display the world of the Cone sisters,

active participants in the decades that changed art forever.

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museum educator in Baltimore. Over

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drawing where it resides, in the gal-

leries of The Baltimore Museum of

Art. She and her husband, Tom, live

in a house in the trees.

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H MInterior with Dog,

H MStudy for “Interior with Dog,”c.Matisse eliminated many details from the preparatory drawing in the final version of the painting. He said he was always seeking “the essential nature of things.”

strongest work during this period, often when the paint had barely dried.

The s was a challenging decade forMatisse. Although his work had always been a source of tremendous anxiety for him, these years were particularly demanding. His marriage to Amélie had been increasingly troubled, and he su ered from agonizing intestinal problems. He produced very few easel paintings during the first half of the decade. Artistically, he found himself at yet another crossroads as the peaceful paintings of the Nice period evolved into a bolder, more experimental style.

Etta loved Interior with Dog the minute she saw it. It was so big that she had to back away in order to take it all in. Keeping her eyes fixed on the can-vas, she held her long black skirt in one hand, mov-ing slowly to see the picture from di erent angles. It was practically an explosion of color, line, and shape – floating magnolia leaves competing with objects and patterns everywhere. How on earth did the artist manage to keep it all under control? Maybe, Etta thought, it was the still, gray dog sleeping snugly beneath the dancing table . . . or the way Matisse subtly organized the canvas into large rectangles . . . or the horizontal mass of pink floor tiles stretching across the bottom. An hypnotic mix of chaos and calm.

After a while, Etta sat down, amused to find

H MThe Yellow Dress, –Matisse reworked this paint-ing over the course of several years before he was satis-fied with it. At the same timeand among other projects, he completed a large mural for the collector Albert C. Barnes in Philadelphia.

H MThe Dam at Pont Neuf,As a young man, Matisse spent many hours copying old master paintings whose somber colors strongly resemble those in this work.

H MYellow Pottery from Provence,

This is the only oil painting that the Cones bought from Matisse ’s Fauve period. It is notable not only for its bold color and brushwork, but for the areas of unfinished canvas.

V GA Pair of Boots,Matisse learned a lot from van Gogh’s expressive, rather than purely descriptive, use of color and brushwork.

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trations have appeared inmanymajor

publications. Just Perfect was inspired

by the constant pleading of her older

children for a pet. She loves all her

daughters very much.

Just Perfectwritten & illustrated by

Jane Marinsky

Mommy, Daddy and I made three, but we thought we might

like four. And so. . .

A an intensive search for that perfect

fourth family member. Maybe a dog? Naw, way too

much hair. A chameleon? Naw, it disappears. A dolphin? Naw,

uses too much water. The porcupine is too prickly to hug, the

rooster wakes up too early, and the octopusmesses with every-

thing! But there is, in the end, a simple and totally satisfactory

solution. And it is just perfect.

Written and illustrated by the illustrator of The Goat-Faced

Girl, this book is funny, witty, and winsome. The words are

few, but the illustrations are fast paced, full of clever visual

puns and diverting imagery. Adults will be seduced by the art

and children by the quest. And both will be satisfied (even

gratified) by the solution.

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The Fo’c’sle ’ “ ”

written and illustratedby Nan Parson Rossiter

Yonder is the sea, great and wide, which teems with things

innumerable, living things both great and small.

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M , and many have read, Henry

Beston’s beloved account of the year he spent in a

shack high on a dune overlooking the thundering surf of the

Atlantic.Here, on the outer forearm of Cape Cod, looking un-

interrupted due east to Portugal, he made a life in a × '

shack, simply furnished with a kitchen, a bed, a chest of draw-

ers, a writing table, and a few chairs. He lived there, alone,

through the changing seasons, the migration of birds, the

howling of the winter storms, the occasional visits of surfmen

from nearby Nauset Station, and the turning of the stars in the

night sky. During the days, he would wander along the beach,

take notes, and think. At dusk he would come home to write

by lanternlight. The result was his immortal record of that

year on the Nauset dunes, The Outermost House. The house

was known as “The Fo’c’sle.”

Nowwe have a record of that year for younger readers, bril-

liantly retold and illustrated by Nan Parson Rossiter. Her art-

work glows with the same inner light and simplicity that

animated Beston’s prose and amplified the natural world.And

although his memorable prose is incorporated throughout

the book, it is Rossiter’s skill, as both an artist and an inter-

preter, thatmakes him, his year, and the little shack he so loved

come convincingly, and poignantly, to life.

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Rugby & Rosie,TheWayHome, and

Sugar on Snow. She lives in rural

Connecticut with her husband, two

handsome sons, and a yellow re-

triever named Mulligan. When not

working, she enjoys hiking with her

family and vacationing on Cape Cod.

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The gannets off Fo’castle hoverbetween forty and fifty feet abovethe sea and are fishing the shal-lows on a bar. On catching sightof the fish, they fall on the preylike arrows from a cloud.

Again from behind the dune and to the west of south I heard thelovely, broken, chorusing, bell-like sound – the sound of a greatflight of geese going north on a quiet night under the moon.

Desertby J. M. G. Le Clézio

translated from the French by C. Dickson

Praised by the Swedish Academy at the Nobel Prize ceremonies as Le

Clézio’s “definitive breakthrough as a novelist,” this moving, multigenera-

tional saga begins with images of a lost culture in the African desert and

ends in the haute couture salons of Paris. It contains the hallmarks of Le

Clézio’s best fiction: adventure, nomadic wandering, the geography of

poverty, the drama and heartbreak of colonization and displacement. It

confirms the writer’s place as an “explorer of humanity beyond and below

the reigning civilizations.” ‒‒‒‒ .

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The Forty Days of Musa Daghby Franz Werfel

translated from the German by Geoffrey Dunlop,

newly revised by James Reidel

Back in print, revised and expanded, The Forty Days of Musa Dagh is Franz

Werfel’s masterpiece, a novel that brought him international acclaim in

and drew the world’s attention to the Armenian genocide. This is the true

story of Armenian villagers choosing bravely to disobey the deportation

order of the Turkish government. Instead they fortified a plateau on the slopes

of Musa Dagh and repelled Turkish soldiers during the summer of ,

while holding out hope for the Allies to save them. A book Thomas Mann read “with pleasure and

profit,” and “in every sense a true and thrilling novel” (New York Times Book Review). “Once read it

will never be forgotten” (New York Times). ---- .

Pale Blue Ink in a Lady’s Handby Franz Werfel

translated from the German by James Reidel

Available in English translation for the first time, Pale Blue Ink in a Lady’s

Hand is, in Werfel’s words, “an intricate little tale of a marriage,” quite differ-

ent from his well-known epic novels. This tragi-comic novella is, in many

ways, a prequel to what is known as Holocaust literature. It involves a long-

suppressed love triangle between Leonidas Tachezy, a high-level Austrian

career bureaucrat, his trophy wife Amelie, and a Jewish woman from his past,

Vera Wormser. The evasions and self-deceptions of Werfel’s characters, the

various Austrian types – Jewish and non-Jewish – and the pervading air of anti-Semitism capture inter-

war Austria in its ominous eleventh hour. ---- .

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Correspondence

by N. John HallA retired New Jersey bank clerk inherits a parcel of letters to his great-great-

grandfather, a London bookseller who corresponded with the leading con-

temporary writers: Dickens and Thackeray, Eliot and Trollope, Butler and

Hardy. And now Larry is bent on getting as much money as he can from this

stash. But through his correspondence with Stephen Nicholls, the patient and

scholarly head of Christie’s manuscript department in London, he finds him-

self first entertained and then seduced by the Victorian mind, a domain he

soon embraces with gusto.Amodern epistolary novel for lovers of Victorian literature,Hall’s book is also

a picaresque and engrossing suspense novel. ---- .

The Last Englishman

by Roland ChambersArthur Ransome, best known for the immortal “Swallows and Amazons”

series he wrote on his return from Russia in , would perhaps seem a

genial Englishman, who, like his protagonists, pursued benign maritime

adventures. Nothing could be further from the truth. Between and

, he was the Russian correspondent for the Daily News and the Man-

chester Guardian, friends with and sympathetic to the leaders of the Bolshe-

vik regime, lover, and later husband of Trotsky’s private secretary, and

always in close contact with the British Secret Intelligence Service. The Last

Englishman explores the tensions of his daring double life, unveiling the unlikely, hidden political

activities of this beloved writer. --- - .

As I Walked OutOne Midsummer Morning

by Laurie LeeFor Laurie Lee, as for much of the world, was the end of innocence, a

fateful year when “it was being learned again that men needed more than

courage, anger, slogans, convictions, or even a just cause when they went to

war.” Thus Lee becomes entangled, innocently but inexorably, in the pas-

sionate, violent and bloody struggle that was the Spanish Civil War. Along

with Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia, his memoir (a sequel to the beloved

Cider with Rosie) is a singular document, written with the excitement and wonder of a twenty-year-

old, but infused with the wisdom of a young adult who sees what lies ahead and how bad it will be.

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The Golden Assadapted from the Latin by M. D. Usher

illustrated by T. MotleyThe Golden Ass has been a favorite of the private presses and illustrators

since the invention of printing. Apuleius’s comic masterpiece, originally

composed in Latin in the second century . . traces the hilarious misad-

ventures of a young man a tad too curious about magic for his own good.

Hoping to change himself into an owl, he turns himself into a donkey

instead, and in this guise is sold, stolen, or otherwise shunted from one master to the next. Not only

a story of comic redemption, it is also a self-conscious, early example of storytelling that left an

indelible mark on subsequent literature – from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales to Boccaccio’s

Decameron, from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream to Pinocchio. M.D.Usher’s creative

adaptation brings the tale alive “for young readers of all ages” and Motley’s lively, thoroughly con-

temporary drawings capture the boisterous, see-sawing plot, while wittily quoting any number of

graphic predecessors. --- - .

The People in Pineapple Placeby Anne Lindbergh

August Brown has been through a lot: his parents have just divorced, and he

and his mother have moved from Vermont to Washington, D.C. In his new

neighborhood of Georgetown, he’s the new kid on the block, doesn’t know

anyone, and doesn’t want to know anyone. Anyone, that is, except for the

friendly rag-bag lady who always comes by on garbage day and who always

waves. One day, he decides to follow her and ends up in the mysterious

Pineapple Place, a quaint cobblestone street of cheerful houses, where seven

invisible – except to August – children from another time live. Before he

knows it, August and his fantastic new friends have embarked on the adventure of a lifetime in the

nation’s capital! --- - .

Well Then There Nowby Juliana Spahr

Accretion, articulation, exploration, transformation – these are just a few of

Juliana Spahr’s interests. In this, her third collection, we find her character-

istic magic, turning these theoretical concerns into a poetic odyssey. Her

universe, more inclusive than exclusive, embraces grape varietals, the shrink-

ing of public beachfront in Hawaii, endangered plant, fish, and wildlife

species, the melting of the polar ice caps. But within this eclectic repertoire,

she also knows how to sing – in the oldest tradition of poetry – of loss. Her

lament for the fragility and sensitivity of nature is the most keen.

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The Woman in Black

by Susan Hill, illustrated by JohnLawrence

If Jane Austen were to write thrillers, the results wouldn’t be

far from this heart stopper. Set on the obligatory moor, on an

isolated causeway, and starring Arthur, a young attorney come to attend the

funeral at Eel Marsh House, this story grabs you by the throat and just as you

are about to exhale in relief, it grips you even harder.

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The Secret Gardenby Frances Hodgson Burnettillustrated by Graham Rust

A classic when first published, and beloved ever since, this is the full text edi-

tion with the enchanting Rust illustrations that bring Mary’s story of her

discovery of the secret hidden behind closed garden doors to life.

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Sugar on Snowby Nan Parson Rossiter

In this lovely picture book, a father, his two sons, and one dog rise

and set off at dawn to the sugar bush to begin the annual New Eng-

land tradition of making maple syrup. Lovingly illustrated and

infused with the lucid light of early spring.

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Farnsworth’s Classical English Rhetoricby Ward Farnsworth

The most immediate pleasure of this book is that it heightens one's apprecia-

tion of the craft of great writers and speakers . . . But more than anything else,

Mr. Farnsworth wants to restore the reputation of rhetorical artistry per se, and

the result is a handsome work of reference. Wall Street Journal

So, dear reader, I say it even if I say it myself – get this book! No, really, get this

book! Read clever Farnsworth, and read him again, and you may become more

clever yourself. Chronicle of Higher Education

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