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Guy Davenport has written 45 work(s)
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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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9780811212519 | New Directions, December 1, 1993, cover price $24.95
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9780811217712 | Reprint edition (New Directions, November 30, 1993), cover price $16.95
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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.
Product Description: Guy Davenport - regarded by the "New York Times" "one of our most gifted and versatile men of letters" - has produced in this collection of stories a remarkably harmonious synthesis of subjects and forms. Melding history, biography, botany, political theory, geology, and other interests, Davenport creates fictions that are complex but unified, mature, balanced, and resolved...read more
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9780801846809 | Reprint edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, September 1, 1993), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Guy Davenport - regarded by the "New York Times" "one of our most gifted and versatile men of letters" - has produced in this collection of stories a remarkably harmonious synthesis of subjects and forms.
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9780140186888 | Penguin Classics, June 1, 1993, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Presents a collection of short stories, including selections from 'The Four Million,' 'Roads of Destiny,' and 'Strictly Business.
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9780917453229 | Bamberger Books, May 1, 1991, cover price $9.50 | About this edition: long poem, illustrated by the author
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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9780865472488 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 1990, cover price $9.95
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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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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
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9780865472969 | North Point Pr, October 1, 1987, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Short stories deal with history, biography, botany, geology, philosophy language, and political science
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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.
Product Description: This is a fine hardcover copy of the book with grey boards, and gilt lettering on the spine. Light shelf wear. Tight binding. Clean pages. Jacket is in very good condition, with some chipping near spine head and little sunning. Not an ex-library copy...read more
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9780865472273 | North Point Pr, April 1, 1986, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: This is a fine hardcover copy of the book with grey boards, and gilt lettering on the spine.
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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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9780520052239 | Reprint edition (Univ of California Pr, May 1, 1984), cover price $11.00
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9780801828003 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, April 1, 1982, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: The American comments on the modern age, mechanization, and the division between animate and inanimate in this selection of his fiction
Product Description: All the extant fragments of Herakleitos and a collection of Diogenes' words from various sources Herakleitos' words, 2500 years old, usually appear in English translated by philosophers as makeshift clusters of nouns and verbs which can then be inspected at length...read more
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9780912516363 | Grey Fox Pr, June 1, 1981, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: All the extant fragments of Herakleitos and a collection of Diogenes' words from various sources Herakleitos' words, 2500 years old, usually appear in English translated by philosophers as makeshift clusters of nouns and verbs which can then be inspected at length.
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9780313227899 | Greenwood Pub Group, March 1, 1981, cover price $267.95
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9780520038233 | Univ of California Pr, August 1, 1980, cover price $35.00
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9780822303497 | Duke Univ Pr, January 1, 1963, cover price $23.95
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