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This fullyupdated edition of James Schuyler's letters to three dozen intimates, publishedon the 100th anniversary of the writer's birth, offers unparalleled insightsinto the lives, friendships, and sensibilities that sprang from the influentialNew York School. JamesSchuyler's effervescent takes on people, nature, art, writing, and love are onjoyous display in his letters to John Ashbery, Ron Padgett, Barbara Guest, AlexKatz, Joe Brainard, Kenneth Koch, and many more. They paint an indeliblepicture of a charmingly self-deprecating gentleman with an expansive intellectand a deliciously wicked tongue. "Jimmy wrote letters for the most civilized ofreasons," a friend of his once said, ?to inform and to entertain.?And thatthey do, in inimitable style. Peppering his aperçus with the occasional ?toutde sweetie? and ?pet noire,? the PulitzerPrize-winning author of The Morning of thePoem holds forth on everything from Dante and Delacroix totravel and gardening to the delicate workings of his own poems and those ofothers. While histone ranges from the lightly graceful to the racily profane, each letter isexquisitely tuned to its recipient. Schuyler's voice changes over the years andthrough periods of elation and struggle, including stays with friends and inpsychiatric wards. Reading these letters, one becomes intimately connected tothe man and to his words, which have only grown more savory and valuable withtime.

Set in Baden-Baden, Smoke is Ivan Turgenev's most cosmopolitan novel. It is an exquisite study of politics and society and an enduringly poignant love story. Smoke, with its European setting, barbed wit, and visionary call for Russia to look west, became the center of a famous philosophical breach between Turgenev and Dostoevsky.

"Reading The Dead of the House was like falling in love...".New York Times

A World War One love story about the arrival of a soldier at the home of an aviator friend, who happens to be a dandy and avant-garde composer. The novel was inspired by two images, Goya's engraving La Mala Noche and Burne-Jone's painting King Cophetua and the Beggar Girl.

At stately novel about an English brother and sister who grow up in a holiday colony in France. The colony depicted in the auto-biographical novel is in fact Le Touquet Paris-Plage, which was founded by the author's grandfather.

A detective story, a black comedy, a tragedy, Lord of Dark Places, thirty-five years out of print, is a dissertation on the histories and stereotypes that conspire to man and to unman Black Americans by a Faulkner Award-winning writer."Bennett is a New York Genet."-New Statesman

A witty, poignant account of Eton, early adolescence, awakining to the spell of Wagner.