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2008

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Untitled and unpunctuated, the seventy poems in this acclaimed collection seem to cascade from one page to another. Maurice Manning extolls the virtues of nature and its many gifts, and finds deep gratitude for the mysterious hand that created it all.that bare branch that branch made blackby the rain the silver raindrophanging from the black branchBoss I like that black branchI like that shiny raindrop Bosstell me if I’m wrong but it makes

$193.00 MXN

2023

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Well-known Kentucky writer comparable to poets like Wendell Berry, Silas House, James Still, Robert Penn Warren, and Bobbie Ann MasonW.S. Merwin selected him for the Yale Younger Poets Award for his first book, Book of VisionsPulitzer Prize-Finalist for The Common Man, judges’ comment: “A rich, often poignant collection of poems rooted in a rural Kentucky experiencing change in its culture and landscape*.*”Guggenheim FellowMan...

$223.00 MXN

2013

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Welcome to “Fog Town Holler,” Pulitzer Prize finalist Maurice Manning’s glorious rendering of a landscape not unlike his native Kentucky. Conjuring this mythical place from his own roots and memories — not unlike E. A. Robinson’s Tilbury Town or Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County — Manning celebrates and echoes the voices and lives of his beloved hill people.In Fog Town Holler men have “funny names,” like Tiny Too and Eula Loom. A fox is known as Redleg Johnny. A neighbor issues a com...

$307.00 MXN

2010

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The Common Man, Maurice Manning's fourth collection, is a series of ballad-like narratives, set down in loose, unrhymed iambic tetrameter, that honors the strange beauty of the Kentucky mountain country he knew as a child, as well as the idiosyncratic adventures and personalities of the oldtimers who were his neighbors, friends, and family. Playing off the book's title, Manning demonstrates that no one is common or simple. Instead, he creates a detailed, complex, and poignant port...

2020

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Railsplitter, the seventh collection from Pulitzer Prize Finalist and Guggenheim Fellow Maurice Manning, envisions the role of poetry in the life of Abraham Lincoln. Manning, who writes each piece in Lincoln’s persona, provides a lasting reflection on how poetry guided and shaped the President’s mind while leading a divided nation. Equal parts prophetic and rich in both rural folklore and literary allusions—from Shakespeare, to Whitman, to Poe, to the comedic—Railsplitter...

$183.00 MXN

2017

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"Maurice Manning displays not just terrific cunning but terrific aim." -New York Times Book Review"Manning's genius-his truly staggering genius-is in his ability to put this ancient question into a true American idiom, to make this fundamental human inquiry both vividly, heartbreakingly poignant and madly, idiosyncratically his own." -Smartish Pace"He's saved himself with the most basic of things-a place, its people, and one of its songs." -Orion

$173.00 MXN

As We Were Saying

Sewanee Writers on Writing

2021

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Every summer for the past thirty years, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference has gathered a community of writers for two weeks of workshops, readings, talks, and meetings focused on the craft and art of writing. This book is a selection of craft talks delivered during the conference over the last several years. Some essays focus on one or two authors, some focus on texts, while others cast their regard more broadly. All are written in response to questions generated by the process of writing, a...

$326.00 MXN

2022

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In the first of three tales of erotic misadventure, we have Gudrun Lindstrom’s “Free Man To White Slave”, her classic of white male indenture as an English architect/designer and businessman finds himself betrayed by his Scandinavian wife into a strange world and the service of a young Arab woman… A world with even stranger values… Values of personal fealty and utter obedience… To her!Next up is Maurice Huysman’s “A Cage for Hercules”, which tells of a young woman living with her a...


2019

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The Small Dark Man is one of Walsh's best books and, typically, a fascinating tale of the Scottish Highlands in which romance, humour, whimsical philosophy, and sport abound!

Alfred Dreyfus

The Man at the Center of the Affair

2024

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An insightful new biography of the central figure in the Dreyfus Affair, focused on the man himself and based on newly accessible documentsOn January 5, 1895, Captain Alfred Dreyfus’s cries of innocence were drowned out by a mob shouting “Death to Judas!” In this book, Maurice Samuels gives readers new insight into Dreyfus himself—the man at the center of the affair. He tells the story of Dreyfus’s early life in Paris, his promising career as a French officer, the ...

$322.00 MXN

Maurice Duruflé

The Man and His Music

2008

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Maurice Duruflé: The Man and His Music is a new biography of the great French organist and composer (1902-86), and the most comprehensive in any language. James E. Frazier traces Duruflé's musical training, his studies withTournemire and Vierne, and his career as an organist, church musician, composer, recitalist, Conservatoire professor, and orchestral musician. Frazier also examines the career and contributions of Duruflé's wife, the formidable organist Marie-Madeleine Duruflé-C...

$310.00 MXN

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6 horas 58 min

2024

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A missing child. A tormented detective. A ticking clock.Ten years ago, DCI Jack Logan stopped the serial child-killer dubbed ‘Mister Whisper,’ earning himself a commendation, a drinking problem, and a broken marriage in the process.Now, he spends his days working in Glasgow’s Major Investigations Team, and his nights reliving the horrors of what he saw.And what he did.When another child disappears a hundred miles north in the Highlands, Jack...