Product Description: A suspenseful and uniquely literary look into Guy Fawkes and the English Gunpowder Plot of 1605, by one of America's most celebrated writers. In A Fifth of November, Paul West describes the events surrounding the English Gunpowder Plot (1605)...read more

Product Description: Fiction. Reprint. Paul West is one of the English language's finest novelists. Considered by many to be among his greatest and most rewarding books THE PACE IN FLOWERS WHERE POLLEN RESTS recounts an odyssey from Arizona's Hopi mesas to the California motels where sex films get made, from Vietnam's battle zones to the very stars...read more

Product Description: The special ethos of Oxford University continues to take hold on award-winning author Paul West. Now a world-renowned writer and acclaimed literary stylist, West illuminates the reader regarding one of the oldest and most venerable universities in the world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The celebrated author paints a portrait of his mother, describing her early life in England, her work as a pianist, her World War II experiences, and her devotion to her children

Product Description: In December 1937 the city of Nanking, China, falls to brutal Japanese invaders. Thus begins a compelling drama wherein the teenaged daughter of an eminent scholar is forced to work as a prostitute. Short-listed for the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Prize, The Tent of Orange Mist illuminates the plight of intellectuals and artists during profound social and cultural upheaval...read more

When the young English poet John Milton meets Amaryllis, the shepherdess in Virgil, on a crowded London street, she takes him to her dwelling, an odd place that is hung with dripping animal skins and shared with a castrated expert on plague remedies.

The critically acclaimed author of Love's Mansion utilizes the symptoms of the illnesses from which he suffers to embark on an imaginative quest for self-exploration, reflecting on such topics as existentialism, doctors, etymology, coffee, air travel, and more. 12,500 first printing.

In Sheer Fiction, Volume Two, Paul West examines the subtleties of Djuna Barnes' almost devilish wit, the Aeschylean tones of Broadway's Les Miserables, and the ideas binding Dickens and Dostoevesky to Faulkner. On the briefer side, West reviews some 50 novels by such diverse authors as Turgunev, J.R.R. Tolkein, Cortazar, Amado, Marie-Claire Blais, Janet Frame, Anthony Burgess, Anita Desai, Katherine Dunn, George Garrett, Kurt Vonnegut, J.R. Salamanca, Stanley Elkin, and more. Many of the books reviewed are currently available in paperbacks, and more attention is given in this volume to American and other English-language authors than in Volume One. His writing style is supple, invigorating, intelligent, generous by intention, and clearly the result of nothing less than complete engagement with his subject, whether it is the latest European novels or the clinical implications of heart attack or the true nature of atrocity. He is as unstinting in his praise of what he admires as he is devastating in his criticism of pretense and ineptitude.

Product Description: This volume brings together two of Paul West's best books: his critically acclaimed "Words for a Deaf Daughter" (1970), a nonfiction account of West's deaf and brain-damaged daughter Mandy at age eight, and "Gala" (1976), a novel about a writer named Wight Deulius who brings his handicapped teenage daughter Michaela from England to America for a visit...read more

Product Description: "West has been for several decades one of the most consistently brilliant lyrical writers in America."―Frederick Busch, The Chicago Tribune It is the early part of the century. Two childhood sweethearts are growing up in provincial England, with dreams of making a life together despite the boy's low standing and the girl being of the haute bourgeoisie...read more

Product Description: Slums of the American city of New Babylon provide an all-too-real setting for Paul West’s premier fiction, Tenement of Clay, the prescient novel that launched his marvelous and tenebrous career more than a quarter century ago. Amazingly, this major work has not been published in the United States until now...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

When Annie, a simple shop girl, becomes pregnant with the child of Prince Albert Victor Christian Edward, the royal family arranges to seize the child and to make sure that Annie and four of her friends disappear--with the help of Jack the Ripper

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The man who tried and failed to assassinate Adolph Hitler is reborn from historical obscurity into a novel that details his brazen but ill-fated attempt to kill the Fuhrer with a bomb that he delivered personally

Presents a collection of short biographical sketches of artists, politicians, athletes, inventors, stars, and murderers

Product Description: Mint condition paperback, new condition inside and out, free of markings or signs of use.

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