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The Seven Storey Mountain: Fiftieth-Anniversary Edition92 reviews
Thomas Merton

Harcourt, 1998

A Story of Providence
Few writers of spiritual books ever reach the high literary mark that Thomas Merton sets in The Seven Storey Mountain. At its core, The Seven Storey Mountain is pure memoir. Merton accounts for his life up to the time of writing when he was about 30 years old. Within this account, he places insights on spirituality, and the account on the whole offers a grand lesson on God's providence and ... 		  
  







  
  
Fidelity1 review
Thomas Perry

Harcourt, 2008

"He had set off the search for the secret and now he had to be the one to find it."
When hit man Jerry Hobart and his partner shoot Phil Kramer on a darkened street, their job is finished, the pair on the road from LA to Las Vegas to substantiate their alibis, $200,000 in the trunk of the car. Wrapping up a few details, Hobart visits a lifelong girlfriend who lives in the desert, compartmentalizing his criminal life for a relationship that has been a source of emotional comfort, ... 		  
  







  
  
The Four Loves68 reviews
C.S. Lewis

Harcourt, 1991

All loves in Love
Within this work, Mr. Lewis is quick to point out the inherent difficulty with regard to the concept of love facing individuals whose native tongue is English. That is, it is easily recognized that there exists an extreme deficit when one applies the same word to describe the sentiment shared with one's spouse, as well as their favorite food. In such extreme cases of difference in terms of the ... 		  
  







  
  
Lavinia8 reviews
Ursula K. Le Guin

Harcourt, 2008

Arma reginamque cantat
Read it. I read about Le Guin's adaption of the second 6 books of the Aeneid in last Saturday's WSJ's Arts Section. She prepared by reading the entire epic in Latin. This book is even more spare, more austere than most of her work, but it is not self-conscious or self-gratulatory about it. She has caught the "Old Roman" voice and understands the almost untranslatable words "pietas" and ... 		  
  







  
  
The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure666 reviews
William Goldman

Harcourt, 2007

This is...
THE BEST BOOK IN THE WORLD! It's even better than the movie, and that's saying a lot... because I really like the movie. It's one of the few books that have made me laugh out loud numerous time. The characters and settings are great. 		  
  







  
  
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life63 reviews
C.S. Lewis

Harcourt, 1995

A Humble Spokesman for Reality
Surprised by Joy is a prerequisite if one is to experience the maximum benefit of C.S. Lewis' apologetic works. That is, while one might not actually, and perhaps should not, read Surprised by Joy before some of his other titles it will certainly provide the reader with a new appreciation of Lewis' perspective. Throughout his life, as it is evident in his writing, Lewis returns time and again to ... 		  
  







  
  
The Stone Gods4 reviews
Jeanette Winterson

Harcourt, 2008

Three Ways To Threaten Earth
Similiar in plot structure with the DVD "The Fountain," "The Stone Gods" has a three part setting of time and space in this apocalyptic warning tale of human self-destruction. Opening 65 million years ago, an advanced human civilization looks for immigration to Earth to escape the ecological damage and wars that plague their planet Orbus. The middle section takes place on Easter Island in 1774 ... 		  
  







  
  
How I Became a Pirate81 reviews
Melinda Long

Harcourt, Inc., 2003

Fantastic!
This book has a wonderful story and beautiful pictures to go with it. This is a fun book for people of all ages. 		  
  







  
  
Mrs. Dalloway154 reviews
Virginia Woolf

Harcourt, 2002

An expanding web
This is a spellweaver of a book, slipping lucidly from minute to minute over the course of a perfect London summer's day, its gossamer threads forming an expanding web as complex and interconnected as a symphony. I came to it after reading TO THE LIGHTHOUSE, written two years later (1925 and 1927). Both books are set in summer, and both are confined to a single physical setting. But whereas the ... 		  
  







  
  
Failure1 review
Philip Schultz

Harcourt, 2007

Failure: a Smashing Success
Let me say from the get-go that the risky title of this book works better than I could ever have expected. Rather than being a failure, Philip Schultz's fifth book-length collection - his sixth if you count his superb chapbook, "My Guardian Angel Stein" (1986) - illuminates the dim recesses of what it means to be a failure. But this new book does so in a brilliantly successful way. Take Schultz's ... 		  
  







  
  
Hubert's Freaks: The Rare-Book Dealer, the Times Square Talker, and the Lost Photos of Diane Arbus3 reviews
Gregory Gibson

Harcourt, 2008

Hubert's Dime Museum: a moment in [New York] time
Greg Gibson has captured a moment in the slippy-slidey story of Times Square by ressurecting the red-fronted phenomenon of Hubert's Dime Museum, which lived in the time after 42nd St was the center for legitimate theater but before it crashed and forced the City Fathers to scrub the fun out of it. He uses the story of a neurotic antiquarian book dealer who winkled out trunksful of leftover stuff ... 		  
  







  
  
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox35 reviews
Maggie O'Farrell

Harcourt, 2007

dissociation in Esme Lennox
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox Dissociation is the key theme of this book. The first indication of the psychiatric defense mechanism is the trauma of the death of her little brother. Further into the novel, her name Esme is described as "Is Me". This is a blatant reference to the dissociation in which an individual breaks into "Is Me" and "Not Me" parts. She later demonstrates this defense ... 		  
  







  




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