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A collection of stories touches on art, philosophy, and literature, often featuring historical figures and places
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9781887178440 | Counterpoint, September 1, 1997, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A collection of stories touches on art, philosophy, and literature, often featuring historical figures and places
Product Description: "Overall, this volume will afford great pleasure to scholars, teachers, and also those who simply love to watch delightful souls disport themselves in language."âAnne Carson Here is a colorful variety pf works by seven Greek poets and philosophers who lived from the eighth to the third centuries BC...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780811212885 | New Directions, June 1, 1995, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: "Overall, this volume will afford great pleasure to scholars, teachers, and also those who simply love to watch delightful souls disport themselves in language.
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9780313227899 | Greenwood Pub Group, March 1, 1981, cover price $267.95
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9781887178136 | Counterpoint, April 1, 1996, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Book by Turner, Elizabeth Hutton, Ellis, Elizabeth Garrity, Davenport, Guy
Product Description: art book
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9781887178297 | Counterpoint, September 1, 1997, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: art book
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9780865471627 | North Point Pr, November 1, 1984, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Stories explore the experiences and personal relationships of a Dutch philosopher, Franz Kafka, the sculptor Gaudier-Brzeska, and a group of travers in Japan
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9780520038233 | Univ of California Pr, August 1, 1980, cover price $35.00
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9780520052239 | Reprint edition (Univ of California Pr, May 1, 1984), cover price $11.00
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9780810960893 | Reissue edition (Museum of Modern Art, July 1, 1994), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Book by Castleman, Riva, Davenport, Guy
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9780811213363 | New Directions, October 1, 1996, cover price $25.00
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9780880012348 | W W Norton & Co Inc, November 1, 1989, cover price $2.98 | About this edition: Suggests interpretations of paintings by the controversial modern artist, and discusses the influence of Rilke and Picasso on his work
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9780811216173 | New Directions, May 30, 2005, cover price $35.00
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9780811213356 | Reprint edition (New Directions, October 1, 1996), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: ten new stories
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9780811217705 | New Directions, November 30, 1996, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: ten new stories
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9781566409797 | Pomegranate, August 1, 2004, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Reflects on Burchfield's expressive and unusually large-scale and densely painted watercolors of mystical and enlivened landscapes
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9780893818531 | Aperture, May 1, 1999, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Describes McBride's background as an artist, and gathers his portraits and nudes of boys making the transition from child to adult
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9789685115469 | Umbral, February 1, 2006, cover price $14.50 | About this edition: Rare book: Price in USD
A collection of short stories based on historical figures whose accomplishments were too early, too late, or against the grain of their time
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9780811213509 | Reprint edition (New Directions, May 1, 1997), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: A collection of short stories based on historical figures whose accomplishments were too early, too late, or against the grain of their time
9780801822209 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, May 1, 1979, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: A suite of ten prose fictions about various historical figures whose endeavors were too early, too late, or against the grain of their time center on the theme that man was created to understand the world
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9781593760021 | Counterpoint, August 1, 2003, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Presents a collection of twenty-seven essays and short stories that span the author's entire career, many of which have never appeared in book form.
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9781593760564 | Reprint edition (Counterpoint, March 30, 2005), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A collection of twenty-seven essays by the author takes on a wide range of literary topics, including short fiction, essays, poetry, and translation, covering a lifetime of writing.
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9780847811441 | Rizzoli Intl Pubns, October 1, 1989, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Presents a large selection of the artist's drawings as well as his preliminary studies for paintings
Product Description: Using juxtapositon and collage, Guy Davenport creates brilliant assemblages that adhere into four stories that illuminate how one's elusive sexual nature can be hidden and paradoxically revealed by outer appearances, and one novella that completes his trilogy begun by Apples and Pears and The Hules Verne Steam Balloon...read more
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9780865474475 | North Point Pr, October 1, 1990, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Using juxtapositon and collage, Guy Davenport creates brilliant assemblages that adhere into four stories that illuminate how one's elusive sexual nature can be hidden and paradoxically revealed by outer appearances, and one novella that completes his trilogy begun by Apples and Pears and The Hules Verne Steam Balloon.
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9780801846953 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, September 1, 1993, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Mixtures of myth and fable, these tales have their origins in Plutarch, Montaigne, The Acts of the Apostles, Theokritos, and the daily newspaper.
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9780865472471 | North Point Pr, February 1, 1987, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A collection of twenty essays by this brilliant social critic.
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9780865472488 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 1990, cover price $9.95
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9781564783806 | Dalkey Archive Pr, January 31, 2005, cover price $12.50
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9780917453229 | Bamberger Books, May 1, 1991, cover price $9.50 | About this edition: long poem, illustrated by the author
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