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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Ecco Pr, 1987

A Glimmer of Insight into the Master of the Short Story
In 1984, The Ecco Press published a handsome thirteen-volume edition of The Tales of Chekhov that contained the respected, if somewhat dated, English translations of Constance Garnett. The original thirteen volumes were subsequently supplemented by two additional volumes, "The Unknown Chekhov: Stories and Other Writings," translated by Avrahm Yarmolinsky (a volume which is still in print under ...

The Selected Writings of Jean Genet (Ecco Companions)

1 review
Jean Genet, Edmund White

Ecco Pr, 1993

A Great Genet Starter Book
"The Selected Writings of Jean Genet" by Edmund White is arguably the best book to read if you are not familiar with Genet's writing. White is a biographer of Genet, but more importantly he is a great fan. The book includes his brief comments at the beginning of all the excerpts, which include portions of novels, plays, short stories, essays, and an interview. The comments lay out some background ...

Dear Writer, Dear Actress : The Love Letters of Anton Chekhov and Olga Knipper

1 review
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Olga Leonardovna Knipper-Chekhova

Ecco Pr, 1997

amazing and romantic
I read this book 4 years ago, I finished it passed midnight, and the words touched my heart so deeply that to date I have read it over and over, and any time I read it I cant help myself to cry.

The Instructor: A Novel

2 reviews
Ann Ireland

Ecco Pr, 1997

honest
This book is a beautifully crafted window into the heart and mind of a young woman, Simone, who is in love with her art teacher, Otto. Unfortanately, as their unbalanced relationship unfolds, Simone's heart begins the slow process of realizing the truth- that she is not the one special girl that will break the banality between teacher and ...

The Ghostly Lover

1 review
Elizabeth Hardwick

Ecco Pr, 1989

The Ghostly Lover strikes deep and true.
The Ghostly Lover tracks the shifting currents of the emotions, thoughts, and observations of it's characters with terrific precision and care. Elizabeth Hardwick is so sensitive to the curves of our moods, how a frown or a passing reminiscence can send us spinning elsewhere. We are so immersed in the minds and hearts of the characters that it is hard to wake up from the book and not ...

The Quest for Corvo: An Experiment in Biography

7 reviews
A. J. A. Symons

Ecco Pr, 1997

Biography and Eccentricity
One summer afternoon in 1925, A. J. A. Symons and Christopher Millard, each somewhat obscure and eccentric literary figures in their own right, were sitting in a garden discussing books and authors that had never received proper recognition from the arbiters of literary history. Millard asked Symons whether he had ever read "Hadrian the Seventh." Symons acknowledged that he had not and that he ...

Firstborn (American Poetry Series)

1 review
Louise Gluck

Ecco Pr, 1983

First Masterpiece From A Masterpoetess
A mature work from her relatively immature period.Serene and inviting..

The Making of a Great Wine: Gaja and Sori San Lorenzo

1 review
Edward Steinberg

Ecco Pr, 1996

A Biography in a bottle
I read Edward Steinberg's The Making of a Great Wine after hearing him speak at a wine seminar here in Rome with Scala Reale Architectural Itineraries. I found his down-to-earth style appealing and the book lived up to my expectations, in fact exceeding them. It is structured like a complex biography of a product, in the end a bottle of 1989 Sori San Lorenzo, but in telling the story touches ...

Good Cheap Food

8 reviews
Miriam Ungerer

Ecco Pr, 1996

Good Cheap Food
I first picked up this book in the '70's when I was living "off the land" in Colorado. It worked then as well as it does now; with time-tested, not be be had elsewhere, recipes. I still find myself caught up in her funny, entertaining writing style. And the recipe for Brunswick Stew is not to be left untested!

Subdivision: Stories

1 review
Stephen Amidon

Ecco Pr, 1992

A "Dubliners" for Generation X
Amidon's collection of linked stories exposes the madness at the heart of American suburbia -- self-destructive teenagers, ambition run amock, the paralysis and quiet desperation that lie just under the smooth surfaces of life in a single subdivision. This is familiar territory in American literature, but Amidon handles it with grace and a strong sense of the compelling image. And, in the ...

The Fifth Queen

5 reviews
Ford Madox Ford

Ecco Pr, 1986

Intrigue and romance in the court of Henry VIII
Intrigue and romance in the court of Henry VIII Katherine Howard, armed only with education, wit and honesty, becomes the Fifth Queen, Henry VIII's fifth wife in this amazing historical trilogy. The plot-ridden court comes to vivid life as everyone high and low maneuvers for advantage. Everyone except Katherine Howard, whose unwillingness to scheme will make her queen and defenseless at the same ...

Smara, the Forbidden City: Being the Journal of Michel Vieuchange While Travelling Among the Independent ...

4 reviews
Michel Vieuchange, Jean Vieuchange

Ecco Pr, 1987

real traveler +++
An amazingly real account from the journals. Steeped in the romantic tradition of solo travel, the account begins in hope and ends in the still silence of illness where no words can be written, though the flicker of hope undoubtedly held on in this man's breast till the end. It is as honest and immediate account of a personal adventure of great risk and pain as can be found in the twentieth ...

Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry

2 reviews
Robert Hass

Ecco Pr, 1984

Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry
Thank you for a textbook that was clean and in excellent condition!

The Oysters of Locmariaquer

3 reviews
Eleanor Clark

Ecco Pr, 1998

Behind the Oysters is the Landscape
The opening line of this book is: "WHAT YOU NOTICE in the month of May is the tiles, like roof tiles but white, stacked by thousands at one point after another along the shore." The last line on page 203 is: "BENEFICIENT Oyster, good to taste, good for the stomach and the soul, grant us the blessing of your further mystery." In between these 200 pages concerning oysters, Eleanor Clark ...

A Nest of Ninnies

2 reviews
John Ashbery, James Schuyler

Ecco Pr, 1997

Auden was right
This book deserves to be recognized as the "minor classic" W. H. Auden thought it was destined to become. The high camp of much of the proceedings only makes the book more profound in its investigation of the contemporary manners of negotiating affect through objects. In this it looks back to Wilde and Henry James, as it does also in its arch staging of the objectification of a mystified ...

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