Product Description: hindu scriptures,

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Product Description: The chilling tale of the doctor who creates life out of death is now retold, charged with more terror and suspense than ever before. Written especially for the Universal Studios television presentation, "Frankenstein: The True Story" is a symbolic portrayal of men and women caught in a nightmare of their own making...read more

Describes ten years in the writer's life, from 1929 when he left England for a stay in Berlin, through his years of wanderings around a troubled Europe to his 1939 arrival in the United States

"My Guru and His Disciple is a sweetly modest and honest portrait of Isherwood's spiritual instructor, Swami Prabhavananda, the Hindu priest who guided Isherwood for some thirty years. It is also a book about the often amusing and sometimes painful counterpoint between worldliness and holiness in Isherwood's own life. Sexual sprees, all-night drinking bouts, a fast car ride with Greta Garbo, script-writing conferences at M-G-M, and intellectual sparring sessions with Bertolt Brecht alternated with nights of fasting at the Vedanta Center and a six-month period of celibacy and sobriety. Seldom has a single man been endowed with such strong drives toward both sensuality and spirituality, abandon and discipline. . . . In these pages, Isherwood has reinvented the spirit of devotion for the modern reader." Edmund White, New York Times Book Review "This book is a humbling tribute to someone who revealed to Isherwood inner grounds for spiritual awareness." Alan Hollinghurst, New Statesman A major figure in twentieth-century fiction and the gay rights movement, Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986) is the author of Down There on a Visit, Lions and Shadows, A Meeting by the River, The Memorial, Prater Violet, A Single Man, and The World in the Evening, all available from the University of Minnesota Press.

Letters from the poet to the novelist discuss Spender's work, travel experiences, meetings with other literary figures, emotional problems, and opinions on literature

The authors describe their experiences traveling to China in 1938, and share their impressions of the Sino-Japanese War

Humorous poems describe a variety of colorful animal characters and poke fun at human frailties and quirks

Humorous poems describe a variety of colorful animal characters and poke fun at human frailties and quirks

Christopher Isherwood came to the Vedanta Society fed up with religion, in fact, he was rather angry about the whole experience, but at the Vedanta Society of Southern California under Sw. Prabhavananda, he was caught.The book is a collection of his writings on Vedanta, many of them as introduction or prologues to various books.

Collects the various dramatic works of Auden from 1928 to 1938

Product Description: This scholarly volume contains all the dramatic works of Auden's early years. It includes the three Auden-Isherwood plays - "The Dog Beneath the Skin", "The Ascent of F6" and "On the Frontier", and plays written by Auden alone - "Paid on Both Sides" and "The Dance of Death"...read more

The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali is a major work on the practice of yoga and meditation. Through these ancient aphorisms you will learn how to control your mind and achieve inner peace and freedom. Although these methods were taught over 2,000 years ago, they are as alive and effective today as they have ever been. The 2007 edition has been reset and now has an extensive index for reference. (view table of contents)

Selections from: Goodbye to Berlin; Prater Violet; Exhumations; Down there on a visit; Kathleen and Frank; Lions and shadows, My guru and his disciple, and A single man

Product Description: Selections from: Goodbye to Berlin; Prater Violet; Exhumations; Down there on a visit; Kathleen and Frank; Lions and shadows, My guru and his disciple, and A single man

Product Description: The Bhagavad-Gita is the Gospel of Hinduism, and one of the great religious classics of the world. Its simple, vivid message is a daily inspiration in the lives of millions throughout the world and has been so for countless generations...read more

Product Description: As Cambridge undergraduates in the mid-1920s, Christopher Isherwood and his old schoolfriend Edward Upward engaged in a literary attack on the dons and the ‘poshocracy’ – the fashionable and well-heeled students – by creating the bizarre fictional world of Mortmere, a village inhabited by surreal characters modelled on their Cambridge friends and acquaintances...read more

The late novelist, idolized as an elder statesman of the gay liberation movement, narrates his life following his emigration to America in 1939, from his pacifism during the war to his friendships with the period's actors and literary figures. Reprint.