HOLMES, RICHARD::
COLERIDGE: DARKER REFLECTIONS. - gebunden oder broschiert
1998, ISBN: 9780002555777
New York: Emily Bestler Books / Altria. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Laminate beginning to lift at very bottom on back of dust jacket . Protected in a … Mehr…
New York: Emily Bestler Books / Altria. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Laminate beginning to lift at very bottom on back of dust jacket . Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Red boards with black spine imprinted on spine in silver with title and author. Red endpapers. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 537 pages. The world’s greatest mystery writers on the world’s greatest mystery novels: Michael Connelly on The Little Sister . . . Kathy Reichs on The Silence of the Lambs . . . Mark Billingham on The Maltese Falcon . . . Ian Rankin on I Was Dora Suarez . . . With so many mystery novels to choose among, and so many new titles appearing each year, where should a reader start? What are the classics of the genre? Which are the hidden gems? In the most ambitious anthology of its kind yet attempted, the world’s leading mystery writers have come together to champion the greatest mystery novels ever written. In a series of personal essays that often reveal as much about the authors and their own work as they do about the books that they love, 119 authors from 20 countries have created a guide that will be indispensable for generations of readers and writers. From Agatha Christie to Lee Child, from Edgar Allan Poe to P. D. James, from Sherlock Holmes to Hannibal Lecter and Philip Marlowe to Lord Peter Wimsey, Books to Die For brings together the cream of the mystery world for a feast of reading pleasure, a treasure trove for those new to the genre and for those who believe that there is nothing new left to discover. This is the one essential book for every reader who has ever finished a mystery novel and thought . . . ., Emily Bestler Books / Altria, 2012, 3, Baltimore, MD Helicon Press, 1962. Hardcover First Edition USA (1962), not directly stated, but implied, in accordance with Helicon's customary, but not universal practice. First Edition USA (1962), not directly stated, but implied, in accordance with Helicon's customary, but not universal practice. Near Good+ in Very Good DJ: The Book shows "Notre Dame Noviate" rubber stamped at the front free endpaper; some black stains from a DJ protector along the bottom edge of the exterior boards and the front and rear endpapers; else flawless if no longer 'fresh'; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean.Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, notations, or marginalia. A carefully used copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing mild wear and some cosmetic flaws. Not so very far from 'As New'. The DJ shows some very faint dampstaining at both the upper corners of the front and rear panels (but not at the backstrip); faint sunning has blanched the red titles at the the backstrip (the black lettering remains unaffected: bold and clearly legible); else only a hint of wear to the extremities and the mildest rubbing to the panels and very faint soiling to the white background field of the panels; the price has been clipped; mylar-protected. Remains attractive, if not without flaw. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (8.75 x 5.75 x 0.7 inches). 128 pages. Preface by Richard Cardinal Cushing. Foreward by Henri Daniel-Rops. Translated by Steven McNierney and Louis Evrard. Language: English. Weight: 11 ounces. Orange boards with silver titles at the backstrip. The original French edition was published in 1961. Hardback with DJ. The Taizé Community is an ecumenical Christian monastic fraternity in Taizé, Saône-et-Loire, Burgundy, France. It is composed of more than one hundred brothers, from Catholic and Protestant traditions, who originate from about thirty countries around the world. It was founded in 1940 by Brother Roger Schütz, a Reformed Protestant. Guidelines for the community’s life are contained in The Rule of Taizé written by Brother Roger. Taizé has become one of the world's most important sites of Christian pilgrimage, with a focus on youth. Over 100,000 young people from around the world make pilgrimages to Taizé each year for prayer, Bible study, sharing, and communal work. Through the community's ecumenical outlook, they are encouraged to live in the spirit of kindness, simplicity and reconciliation. The community's church, the Church of Reconciliation, was inaugurated on 6 August 1962. It was designed by a Taizé member and architect, Brother Denis. Young Germans from Action Reconciliation Service for Peace, created for reconciliation after World War II, assumed the work of building it. Brother Roger had pondered what it really meant to live a life according to the Scriptures and began a quest for a different expression of the Christian life. A year after this decision, Schütz founded the community. At the time he reflected: "The defeat of France awoke powerful sympathy. If a house could be found there, of the kind I had dreamed of, it would offer a possible way of assisting some of those most discouraged, those deprived of a livelihood; and it could become a place of silence and work." Because his native Switzerland was neutral and thus less affected by the war, Schütz felt as if France would be ideal for his vision, seeing it as a "land of poverty, a land of wartime suffering, but a land of inner freedom." He eventually settled in Taizé, which was a small, isolated village just north of Cluny, the site of a historically influential Christian monastic foundation., Helicon Press, 1962., 0, UK,thick 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2nd imp.[Complete number line 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy laminated,subject's colour portrait photographic illustrated dw/dj,with gold colour and white lettering; with negligible shelf- wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+ fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered - rear,lower corner with minor dent,publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain maroon endpapers.UK,thick 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2nd imp,1-622pp [paginated] includes 12 chapters includes an afterword,16pp of 19thC contemporary b/w facsimile reproduction illustrations in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp180/1 and pp436/7 respectively,4 b/w maps interspersed throughout the text,a bibliography and references,acknowledgements and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title,subject's b/w portrait painting photographic frntis,title page,a dedication,separate contents,illustrations and maps lists/tables,and 6pp blanks at the rear of the book. Richard Holmes's 'Coleridge: Early Visions' won the Whitbread Book of the Year Prize.'Coleridge: Darker Reflections' is the long awaited second volume. Dismissed by many as an opium addict,plagiarist,political apostate and a mystic charlatan,the older Coleridge comes storming back to claim our hearts in this volume which covers the last thirty years of his career (1804-1834),during which time he travelled restlessly through the Mediterranean,returned to his old haunts in the Lake District and the West Country,and finally settled in Highgate.It was a period of domestic and professional turmoil.His marriage foundered,his opium addiction increased,he quarrelled bitterly with Wordsworth,his own son Hartley Coleridge (a gifted poet himself) became an alcoholic.And,after a desperate time of transition,Coleridge re-emerged on the literary scene as a new kind of philosophical and meditative author,a great and daring poet and lecturer of genius.Holmes traces the development of Coleridge into a legend amongst the younger generation of Romantic writers - the 'hooded eagle amongst blinking owls' - and the influence he had on Hazlitt,de Quincey,Byron,Shelley,Keats,Walter Scott, Carlyle, Sterling,J. S. Mill,F. D. Maurice and others.We re-discover Coleridge's power as a conversationalist and a ceaseless generator of ideas.As Charles Lamb noted,'his face when he repeats his verses hath its ancient glory,an Archangel a little damaged.' Coleridge's later life was not happy,but it is continually fascinating and its darker tone is also a measure of its challenge and the spiritual impact which Holmes recreates so intensely. Coleridge lives again in these pages so that we can feel his hopeless heartache,his disappointments,his addictions to both Asra and opium,his elated highs and catastrophic lows,his electrifying creativity and boundless energy,and his never-failing ability to rescue himself from the darkest abyss. 'Forth steps Mr Coleridge,' in Holmes's hands,'like a giant refreshed from sleep. . . .as if to redeem his character after so long a silence.' Holmes's 'Coleridge: Early Visions and his anthology 'Coleridge: Selected Poems' are also available in hardback from HarperCollins. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices, weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too!So,please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the weight/value of this item for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, LONDON.HARPERCOLLINS,1998., 5<
