Product Description: Praise for Notes from a Bottle Found on the Beach at Carmel“A unique tour de force” —The New York Times Book Review“One of the most remarkable books that I have read in a long time.” —Kenneth Rexroth“Mr. Connell’s NOTES are what one intelligent, sensitive artist has been able to salvage from all experience as testimony to the rather pathetic integrity of the human species in the face of extinction...read more

Product Description: “We have here on the planet with us a man of such courage and strength of spirit that he has not lost what Alfred Adler calls ‘the nerve for excellence.’ He has kept it despite the burden of an awareness not only of the enormity of his project and of the limitations of his own human understanding, but also of the abject ignorance and indifference of his audience...read more

The author exposes the falsities of modern middle class life, revealing the weakness and doubts underpinning a family caught up in conformity, materialism, and false sense of security layered over modern life. Reprint.

Walter Bridge runs from the void within his soul by working hard at his job as a lawyer, always with the genuine desire to provide for his family but always ignoring the fact that they need his presence more than they need his money. Reprint.

Product Description: The 1960s: news of riots, war, unheard-of behavior, and rampant crime crowds the papers and the airwaves. Spurned by his wife at home and by superiors at work, Earl Summerfield hunkers down in his cramped San Francisco apartment and keeps a diary that is a scratched record of a world going to pieces...read more

Portrays the life of General Custer and describes the massacre of him and his forces by the Indians at the Little Bighorn (view table of contents)

Gathers fifty-six stories by the distinguished prose stylist written between 1946 and 1995

Product Description: A collection of anecdotes, scraps of history, arcane lore, and unfamiliar quotations on the condition of man and the world he lives in.

The journals of seven very different alchemists evoke the mystery of pre-Renaissance times and a sense of humanity for today

Time-spanning studies of man's insatiable desire for knowledge enter the realms of anthropology, astronomy, linguistics, and archaeology, recounting adventures of inquiry, exploration, and discovery that confirm humankind's wondrous capabilities