collection illustrated autobiography three-cornered

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Cuore: The Heart Of A Boy (UNESCO Collection of Representative Works: European)

10 reviews
Edmondo De Amicis

Peter Owen Publishers, 2005

Beautiful book
Though it is a little idealistic, this book tells you how to create heaven in this world of trouble. The boy Enrico is of fairly decent birthline and is blessed with wonderful parents who love him by teaching him what is right and wrong, and how to respect and give compassions to those who are not as blessed. Most of the children in this book are very very poor, and their parents are just as ...

Fashions in Makeup: From Ancient to Modern Times

1 review
Richard Corson

Peter Owen Publishers, 2004

a fine source of information for people in the industry
I found this book the best source of information. It covers all the products,trends, uses of products and solutions and even describes where the influences of each period come from. It does not have a 'how-to recreate...' section or photographs, but this is not what u want anyway. It helped me in every way when I had to research a period for a job or my assessments. I think it is a must have for ...

My Father's House and the Idle Years
Orhan Kemal

Peter Owen Publishers, 2008

Fashions in Hair: The 1st 5,000 Years

7 reviews
Richard Corson

Peter Owen Publishers, 2001

Wonderful book!
I had been looking for a good history of beards and unfortunately the only two titles I could find specifically on this topic were unsatisfactory in historical breadth and research value. Thanks to Amazon.com reviews I was alerted to this title which covers the entire history of hair (face and head) throughout the centuries. There are literally hundreds of illustrations of beards and hairstyles ...

The Wheel Of Fortune: The Autobiography of Edith Piaf

1 review
Edith Piaf, Nina Rootes, ...

Peter Owen Publishers, 2004

Not all that great!!!!!
NOT all that great! I'm glad that I bought it, because I have loved the way, Piaf sang for a very long time...but, since she pressumably wrote this book herself, she tells things her way, & NOT all that much! SO, I would be interested in a Biogrphy written by somebody else, who really did the research, & told me everything there is to know about Piaf! I feel like I have found out, very ...

My Life (Peter Owen Modern Classics)

4 reviews
Marc Chagall

Peter Owen Publishers, 2003

Marc Chagall, the poetry of reality.
This book is an autobiography by Marc Chagall himself. Its a wonderful exploration of Chagall's jewish-russian memories of his beloved village Vitebsk and of his first encounters with the avant-garde in the Paris of the early 20th century. Its a good example of Chagall's sensitivity and of his spirituality. It should be a highly readable book for it is full of poetry, phantasy and hope. At the ...

The Three-Cornered World (Peter Owen Modern Classic)

3 reviews
Soseki Natsume, Natsume Soseki, ...

Peter Owen Publishers, 2003

Glenn Gould's Favorite Book
Glenn Gould lived the "hermit lifestyle" after his retreat from the concert stage in 1964. Just a little later the English translation of Soseki's book appeared, and the "Oracle from Toronto" considered it a great inspiration for his life as an artist. He used it as a subject in one of his radio programs and kept referring to it until the end of his life. The subject of the three-cornered world ...

Kappa (Peter Owen Modern Classic)

7 reviews
Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Peter Owen Publishers, 2004

The distorted mirror of Kappaland
"Kappa" is told from the point of view of Patient 23, an asylum inmate who tells of his incredible journey into the heart of Kappaland, peopled by the Kappa, the magical creatures of Japanese folklore. In the tradition of "Gulliver's Travels," inside Kappaland, Akutagawa, author of "Rashomon" and "In the Grove," has created a twisted reflection of both his contemporary Japanese society and his ...

The Year of the Hare

10 reviews
Arto Paasilinna

Peter Owen Publishers, 2006

Absolutely one of the best books I've ever read
This book is so hilarious and I recomend this book to everybody, who wants to have a good laughs and likes good literature

Opium: The Illustrated Diary of His Cure

3 reviews
Jean Cocteau

Peter Owen Publishers, 1990

Opium is one of the most important books I have read.
Cocteau is a genius. In Opium, Diary of a Cure, he recounts the experience of his recovery from opium addiction in 1929. He gives an account that sometimes touches on his moment to moment experiences of drug withdrawal, sometimes remarks on his current thoughts about other people and things in his world. Since he lived in the world of avante-garde French culture, his comments include Picasso ...

Dom Casmurro (Lord Taciturn)

29 reviews
MacHado De Assis

Peter Owen Publishers, 1992

Machado is a universal genius!
Every Brazilian knows that Machado de Assis is among the top 5 writers in the world and now the world will discover the genius of this Brazilian who is already for us a universal genius! He is even better than Flaubert and Zola and we recommend all his books! Luiz

Wild And Fearless: The Life of Margaret Fountaine

1 review
Natascha Scott-Stokes

Peter Owen Publishers, 2007

Her travels at that time are surprising.
Margaret Fountaine's reputation as a lepidopterist (butterfly expert) is based on her collection of 22,000 butterflies which are now housed at Norwich (England) Castle Museum. Many of the butterflies were raised by her from eggs or caterpillars and are of exquisite quality. Since the time of her death (1940) changes have taken place in the science of entomology, leading to a focus on theory over ...

The Gate
Natsume Soseki, Francis Mathy, ...

Peter Owen Publishers, 2005

In the Shadow of Islam (Peter Owen Modern Classic)

2 reviews
Isabelle Eberhardt

Peter Owen Publishers, 2003

Eberhardt Shines Even Through a Sabotaged Translation
This volume of Isabelle Eberhardt's original Dans L'ombre Chaude de Islam "In the Warm Shadow of Islam" was penned in 1904. As a big Eberhardt fan I still enjoyed reading this slim 1993 edition although it's lamely billed "In the Shadow of Islam". Translated by Sharon Bangert, the omission of this single word from the title, "Warm", quite neatly reverses its meaning. Thus the translator or ...

The Gothic Tales of the Marquis De Sade
Marquise de Sade

Peter Owen Publishers, 2005

Journey to the Orient (Peter Owen Modern Classic)

2 reviews
Gerard De Nerval

Peter Owen Publishers, 2002

Sheikhs, Caliphs, and Hashish.
I'm sure that it's a fairly select demographic that buys books by this guy, or has ever heard of him for that matter. He's not necessarily one of those authors that's going to win over a lot of people nowadays even if they do "rediscover" him. Oprah's not going to feature Gerard de Nerval in her little book club. He is just simply too bizarre, too occult and obscure, too "rococo" for the average ...

The Ice Palace (Peter Owen Modern Classics)

6 reviews
Tarjei Vesaas

Peter Owen Publishers, 2002

Elegant, completely at ease with words
It is a beautiful piece of poetic prose. The innocent and simple story of two girls and their budding friendship broken by death is at the same time intense and calm. The descriptions of the surroundings, the ice palace at the waterfall, which claims Unn, together with the thoughts of Siss, create the Nordic climate, make the reader breathe the cold air, and show the world as a complicated and ...

First Boredom, Then Fear: The Life Of Philip Larkin
Richard Bradford

Peter Owen Publishers, 2005

Wonderful Fool (Peter Owen Modern Classics)

5 reviews
Shusaku Endo

Peter Owen Publishers, 2000

This was a great story by one of Japan's finest writers
Being a large fan of Shusaku Endo, when I saw this book with an interesting title, I decided to read it. I was very happily surprised. Not only is this excellently written story a very moving tale, but it is often very funny. Endo has used his talent to tell the story of an often foolish man named Gaston Bonaparte, a man with a passion for Japan. He travels to Japan and stays with a small ...

Mervyn Peake: The Man and His Art

1 review

Peter Owen Publishers, 2007

must have for Peake fans
This is by far the best collection of Peake's art . The reproduction quality is top notch, and there is much that I've never seen in any other book, and I think I've seen them all. I've had this book for a week, and have already turned on 3 people who had never heard of Peake, just by leaving it out, and letting them flip through it. One ordered the book, and another was inspired to read the ...

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