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The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson - Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts. Although part of a prominent family with strong ties to its community, Dickinson lived much of her life highly introverted. After studying at the Amherst Academy for seven years in her youth, she briefly attended the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary before returning to her family's house in Amherst. Considered an eccentric by locals, she developed a noted penchant for white clothing and became known for her reluctance to greet guests or, later in life, to even leave her bedroom. Dickinson never married, and most friendships between her and others depended entirely upon correspondence. While Dickinson was a prolific private poet, fewer than a dozen of her nearly 1,800 poems were published during her lifetime. The work that was published during her lifetime was usually altered significantly by the publishers to fit the conventional poetic rules of the time. Dickinson's poems are unique for the era in which she wrote; they contain short lines, typically lack titles, and often use slant rhyme as well as unconventional capitalization and punctuation. Many of her poems deal with themes of death and immortality, two recurring topics in letters to her friends.

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, by Emily Dickinson

• Published on: 2015-11-25
• Original language: English
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• Dimensions: 11.00" h x .55" w x 8.50" l, 1.26 pounds
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• 242 pages

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, by Emily Dickinson

Amazon.com Review Emily Dickinson proved that brevity can be beautiful. Only now is her complete oeuvre--all 1,775 poems--available in its original form, uncorrupted by editorial revision, in one volume. Thomas H. Johnson, a longtime Dickinson scholar, arranged the poems in chronological order as far as could be ascertained (the dates for more than 100 are unknown). This organization allows a wide-angle view of Dickinson's poetic development, from the sometimes-clunky rhyme schemes of her juvenilia, including valentines she wrote in the early 1850s, to the gloomy, hell-obsessed writings from her last years. Quite a difference from requisite Dickinson entries in literary anthologies: "There's a certain Slant of light," "Wild Nights--Wild Nights!" and "I taste a liquor never brewed."

The book was compiled from Thomas H. Johnson's hard-to-find variorum from 1955. While some explanatory notes would have been helpful, it's a prodigious collection, showcasing Dickinson's intractable obsession with nature, including death. Poem 1732, which alludes to the deaths of her father and a onetime suitor, illustrates her talent:

My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me,

So huge, so hopeless to conceive As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell.

The musicality of her punctuation and the outright elegance of her style--akin to Christina Rossetti's hymns, although not nearly so religious--rescue the poems from their occasional abstruseness. The Complete Poems is especially refreshing because Dickinson didn't write for publication; only 11 of her verses appeared in magazines during her lifetime, and she had long-resigned herself to anonymity, or a "Barefoot-Rank," as she phrased it. This is the perfect volume for readers wishing to explore the works of one of America's first poets.

From Library Journal Complete is the keyword here as this is the only edition currently available that contains all of Dickinson's poems. The works were originally gathered by editor Johnson and published in a three-volume set in 1955. Essential for academic and public libraries.Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review This is now the definitive text of Dickinson, a poet one can open at random and find something exhilarating. (The Guardian)Mr. Franklin is the recognized authority on Emily Dickinson's poetry and gives us 1,789 poems, the largest and most accurate collection of her verse...For all those who love Emily Dickinson's unique verse this is a treasure trove from which to choose. This is a publishing coup of the first order. (Contemporary Review 2000-10-01)Not only is it the 'authoritative' and 'definitive' edition of her complete poems, it is a gorgeous volume printed by the Belknap Press, complete with a crimson ribbon bookmark...For those who like Emily Dickinson and who want all the poems as she wrote them, unmolested by well-meaning editors and thoughtless publishers, this is the book. In one volume you can hold the closest thing to the real Dickinson that anyone will ever get. (bn.com)

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181 of 186 people found the following review helpful. Johnson Edition By George H. Soule So, here's the deal, boys and girls. There are two versions of the reading edition of Emily Dickinson's poems that are usable. And by usable, I mean that the texts (note the work "texts") are what Emily Dickinson wanted the texts to be. The first version is, as I read the description of the volume in question, is the Thomas H. Johnson text. Now, friends, (excuse me if I seem patronizing, but as a Dickinson scholar, long of tooth, and weary of stupidity, I have my prejudices), Johnson's text has been a fully acceptable and competent version since it was published as the authoritative Dickinson in 1955 (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press issued the variorum, three volume version of all the authoritative poems in the same year.) This is cool. The newest version of Emily Dickinson poems was edited by R.W. Franklin, and the readers' edition was published in 1999. There is also a new variorum edition published by Belknap Press of Harvard and edited by Franklin. So. I am boring you with all of this detail to tell you that the Johnson texts are good texts. If you are serious about Dickinson--meaning if you actually care about what she wrote on the page--the Johnson and the Franklin will give accurate texts. F.W. Franklin has been working on details where Johnson lacked insight since the '60's. He knows whereof he speaks, and he has done his utmost to reassemble Ms. Dickinson's original manuscripts in their proper order. Previous versions of the poems--those before Johnson and Franklin--regularized rhyme and otherwise abrogated the accuracy of the poems. They were cleaned up according to late 19th century standards, and the texts--despite editorial comments to the contrary--are corrupt. That means that they are inaccurate. So, dear friends, if you want Emily Dickinson with accuracy--despite the rapturous testimony of some reviewers--go for the Johnson or Franklin texts. The others are mostly fraudulent. And in case you actually care, my credentials are respectable, and I don't work for a publisher. Use Johnson if you have him with confidence. Franklin is most current and should be impeccable. Other texts, including some that are in supposedly respectable American literature anthologies, may be suspect. (One of the most respectable uses texts that derive from late 19th century texts that were declared corrupt some 40 years ago.) So--hope this is of some use.

216 of 226 people found the following review helpful. Zero at the Bone By Dennis Littrell Nearly everyone who's had a brush with American lit knows the story of Emily Dickinson - her poetry unpublished in her lifetime, and then even after her death, her verses seeing the light of day only after having been "improved" on by an editor who found her rhymes imperfect and her meter "spasmodic." He even went so far as to make her metaphors "sensible." The fact is, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, to whom Dickinson had sent her poems, was a representative of the poetic establishment, and as with all artistic establishments then and now, was too rigid in his thinking and too impoverished in his imagination to comprehend a new voice of genius. As Editor Thomas H. Johnson writes in his terse but very instructive Introduction, "He was trying to measure a cube by the rules of plane geometry."Of course other women of literature suffered something similar during the nineteenth century. What I wonder is, who is being misread, ignored or denied today?Anyway, suffice it to say that this IS the definitive one-volume collection of the poetry of Emily Dickinson. It includes all the 1,775 poems that she wrote in her lifetime, and they are presented here just as she wrote them with only some minor corrections of obvious misspellings or misplaced apostrophes. Johnson has retained the sometimes "capricious" capitalization, and preserved the famous dashes.There is a subject index, which I found useful, and an index of first lines, which is invaluable.Dickinson can be playful...I'm Nobody! Who are you?Are you - Nobody - too?Then there's a pair of us!Don't tell! they'd advertise - you know!...she can be sarcastic..."Faith" is a fine inventionWhen Gentlemen can see -But Microscopes are prudentIn an Emergency.[Alas, the Amazon.com editor does not support italics. The words "see" and "Microscopes" are italicized above, and it really does make a difference!]...and grave...I heard a Fly buzz - when I died -The Stillness in the RoomWas like the Stillness in the Air -Between the Heaves of Storm -...and observant...I like a look of Agony,Because I know it's true -Men do not sham Convulsion,Nor simulate, a Throe -...and profound...Love reckons by itself - alone -"As large as I" - relate the Sunto One who never felt it blaze -Itself is all the like it has -..and desperate..."Hope" is the thing with feathers -That perches in the soul -And sings the tune without the words -And never stops - at all -...and self aware...I meant to have but modest needs -Such as Content - and Heaven -Within my income - these could lieAnd Life and I - keep even -...and even radical...Much Madness is divinest Sense -To a discerning Eye -Much Sense - the starkest Madness -'Tis the MajorityIn this, as All, prevail -Assent - and you are sane -Demur - you're straightway dangerous -And handled with a Chain -...and much more.She is a poet of strikingly apt and totally original phrases imbued with a deep resonance of thought and observation, especially on her favorite subjects, life, death and love. She can be cryptic and her references and allusions are sometimes too private for us to catch. She can also be amazingly terse. But the intensity of her experience and the "Zero at the Bone" emotion displayed in this, her "letter to the World/That never wrote to me -" are second to none in the world of letters. Unlike Shakespeare, who mastered the psychology of people in places high and low, Dickinson mastered only her own psychology, and yet through that we can see, as in a mirror, ourselves.--Dennis Littrell, author of "Like a Tsunami Headed for Hilo: Selected Poems"

81 of 85 people found the following review helpful. OK, not great By 0101101 The first review is correct that the table of contents and divisions help greatly in navigating this edition. I have a huge issue, though, with the formatting.Poetry flows - or, should. A poem comprises both linguistic content and graphic display. Its presentation on the page is a part of the poem. The display of poems in this edition is flawed in a ways that can be jarring and distracting: Although many of the poems are short, short enough to fit on a page, they are not arranged that way. A poem of just a few lines will frequently begin on a page and be continued on the following page, often with the division occurring in the middle of a stanza. Then, below it, the next poem will begin and be chopped up in the same fashion.I am disappointed to find yet another Kindle book that shows disregard for quality as evidenced in negligent formatting. ok, it's cheap, but reinforces what should be a constant 'Kindle rule': always view the sample before buying anything.

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Simon The Jester, by WILLIAM J. LOCKE

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Simon The Jester, by WILLIAM J. LOCKE

• Published on: 2015-11-16
• Original language: English
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Simon The Jester, by WILLIAM J. LOCKE

About the Author William John Locke was an English novelist, some of whose works have remained best-sellers. He amalgamated realism with some unusual scientific ideas and rendered great works.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Simon the Jester By hereswhatithink When Simon de Gex, wealthy and successful MP, finds he has six months to live, he embarks on a quest for "eumoiriety".In the words of Marcus Aurelius, " Let death surprise me when or where it will, I may be eumoiros, or a happy man, nevertheless. For he is a happy man who in his lifetime dealeth unto himself a happy lot and portion...in good desires, good actions."So in the matter of a few months, Simon disposes of his wealth in handouts, charities, in hefty tips etc. After all, what good is money when you're six feet under? If Simon can "fix " the universal woes by dipping into his pockets then by all means live, laugh and be eumoirous!But doctors can be wrong, one can meddle where one is not desired, and what does one do when there is a return from the grave but its a return to a bleak world? No money. No society friends. No real skills. No desire? It is a quest for eumoiriety all over again. But this time, perhaps this time, Simon returns a wiser man...I really liked this. What Ive summarized seems pretty straightforward and tame, but there are a lot of twists and turns along the way and interesting characters to spice things up. There's Lola the lion tamer, an eccentric dwarf "Mr. Anastasius Papadopoulos"; Simon's young friend Dale, and Eleanor Faversham, Simon's finance, about whom he admits:"There seemed a whimsical attraction in the idea of marrying a girl with a thousand virtues. Before me lay the pleasant prospect of reducing them, say, ten at a time, until I reached the limit at which life was possible, and then one by one until life became entertaining."CONTENT: GPROFANITY : A few D's

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. A fine book By J. G. Buxbaum "It was a soft November day, full of blue mist and invested with a dying grace by a pale sunshine struggling through thin, grey rain clouds. It was a faded lady of a day - a lady of waxen cheeks, attired in pearl-grey and old lace, her dim eyes illumined by a last smile." Such were his thoughts after Simon de Gex, MP, learned that he had 6 months to live. He might have isolated himself and waited the inevitable outcome, but if he had we would not have a wonderful story of a man struggling to do good in his final days and failing and succeeding and finally understanding what it means. Don't get the idea that this is a melancholy tale. It is not. William John Locke is a delightfully humourous writer and that wit appears throughout this book. His style, grasp of language, development of memorable characters, and, best of all, storytelling ability shine through in this book. I think he is among the very best English writers of any age.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Her name was Lola, she was a showgirl By A. Woman Diagnosed with a terminal illness, Englishman Simon de Gex wants to leave some kind of legacy behind. First up on the docket is his political protégé, Dale Kynnersley. Dale has dared to fall in love with Lola Brandt, a circus performer who says she's not a circus performer but I'm going to call her a circus performer. We just can't have the upper classes mixing with the lower classes! Simon worms his way in-between with the intent of breaking the couple up only to discover to his surprise he has fallen himself in love with Lola.Being a performer, Lola's life was full of trials, tribulations, and travel. In short she was a much more interesting character. I would rather have read about her life story rather than put up with Simon "Check out my vocabulary" de Gex.

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Love Lies Beneath (Thorndike Press Large Print Core Series), by Ellen Hopkins

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A #1 New York Times Bestselling Author From the bestselling author of Collateral and Triangles comes a gripping novel about a woman caught in a love affair that could be her salvation . . . or her undoing. Writing in beautiful prose, Ellen Hopkins unveils a new style while evoking the signature poetic form that readers love.

Love Lies Beneath (Thorndike Press Large Print Core Series), by Ellen Hopkins

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• Published on: 2015-11-25
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Love Lies Beneath (Thorndike Press Large Print Core Series), by Ellen Hopkins

Review Praise for Love Lies Beneath: "Hopkins is at her best in this outstanding novel written in gorgeous prose and interspersed with her signature free verse between chapters. She leaves no stone unturned and keeps the reader guessing until the very last pages. This fabulous, sex-filled masterpiece of mystery and romance has an ending that will give readers major chills." (Library Journal (starred review))"The characters are strong, the writing is vivid, and the plot is engaging." (Booklist)Praise for Collateral: “Uplifting and heartbreaking... featuring characters grappling with the serious issues of our time.” (Publishers Weekly)“Searing. . . . Hopkins examines the highs and lows of the mercurial nature of a relationship with someone whose first loyalty is to his (or her) country.” (The Denver Post)“Hopkins examines the difficulties often overlooked in military marriages, such as limited communication, infidelity, worry over injury, loneliness, and the physical and mental issues of returning veterans. . . . The story will appeal to many readers.” (Library Journal)Praise for Triangles: “Though Hopkins is known mostly for her young-adult novels, her latest is an absorbing grown-up story, told in beautiful blank verse, about three friends with messy family and romantic lives.” (EW.com ("Must-List" pick))“Hopkins delivers a raw and riveting tale of love and forgiveness that will captivate readers.” (Publisher's Weekly)

About the Author Ellen Hopkins is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of eleven young adult novels, as well as the adult novels Triangles, Collateral, and Love Lies Beneath. She lives with her family in Carson City, Nevada, where she has founded Ventana Sierra, a nonprofit youth housing and resource initiative. Visit her at EllenHopkins.com and on Facebook, and follow her on Twitter at @EllenHopkinsLit.

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One

As gyms go, this one is exceptionally clean. Hardwood gleams beneath the December sun flurrying down through the fog-misted skylight, and the place smells more like floor polish than the afternoon regulars’ liberal drips of sweat. Even the Pilates mats manage to shed the odor of perspiration, and that pleases me. I prefer to inhale the scent of exertion only during coition. Coition. Good word. Appears before “coitus” in the dictionary, and though they mean the same thing, the softer “shun” sounds chicer than the “tus” to my ear. Not that class is requisite to the act itself, but in conversation, tone is everything. “Tara! Concentrate. Your form is terrible. Straighten your back. Lift your chest.” I do as instructed but complain, “Squats stink. And anyway, I thought you appreciated my form.” Nick slinks closer, bends to lower his face close to mine, and I wait for his tongue to tease the pulse beneath my ear. Instead, he slaps my behind, hard enough to sting. “You told me your goal is perfection. You’re not there yet.” His words slap sharper than the gesture. “That’s why you need me.” Honestly, most personal trainers could accomplish the task. I’ve handpicked a half dozen over the years, trying them on for size, so to speak. I’ve kept Nick the longest because of ability above and beyond, not to mention outside of the gym. I do enjoy specialized service, and Nick has exceptional talents. Still, he has bruised my ego. “I don’t need you at all, Mr. de la Rosa. In fact, I think we’re finished . . .” The look on his face is priceless. I’m an excellent tipper. “With squats and thrusts and weights, at least for today. As for the postworkout workout, give me thirty to shower and I’ll meet you out front.” “You are a wicked, wicked woman. Almost scary, in fact.” “Almost? You underestimate me, sir.” Our little exchange did not go unnoticed, and envious eyes follow my retreat toward the women’s shower room. That’s correct, ladies. He and I are doing the filthy, and you’re right to be jealous. What Nick de la Rosa may lack in discretionary income, he more than makes up for in carnal creativity. Who needs to go out when one can have so much fun staying in, playing doctor? My locker is well stocked with aromatic soaps and lotions, but before I use those I take a few minutes to douche away feminine fragrance, heightened by the previous ninety minutes of effort. One of my exes called me fastidious. Another claimed I’m obsessively clean. But, as my late, great first husband once told me, “A sweet pussy invites the tongue to tango.” I plan on plenty of oral dance in an hour or so. Meanwhile, I run the water hot, perfume my hair with gardenia-scented shampoo, and soften my skin to silk with this fabulous vanilla-cedar shower gel. My eyes are closed against the final rinse of conditioner when a voice flutters softly within the tiled walls. “What is that amazing incense smell?” “It’s body wash from Kiehl’s.” “Expensive?” “Not too.” I blink away water, and when I identify the person on the far side of the conversation, I hope the showerhead’s splash disguises the serrated intake of my breath. Penelope teaches yoga, and while she’s something to see in a tank top and stretch pants, naked she is simply exquisite. In a side-by-side comparison, I can hold my own against pretty much any woman here. But Penelope is one of those rare young things whose obviously natural curves and fawn suede complexion rival anything my pricey plastic surgeon could accomplish. If I had hackles, they’d be bristling. “You can find the body wash online. Vanilla and cedarwood.” I grab a towel, cover my imperfect assets, and try not to stare at Penelope as she and I trade places. For the next twenty minutes, I work serums and moisturizer into my skin before applying foundation. Not sure why I’m bothering. It will all come dripping off in a little while. Oh well. At least I’ll look attractive until then and turn a few heads on my way to the door. December shrouds San Francisco in gray. I step out into the heavy, wet curtain and am happy I took the time to blow-dry my hair, which is long and thick and would stay damp otherwise. My stylist calls it problematic because it takes extra time to color. But I’m determined to keep it as close to its original fox red as possible. My sister is two years younger, and at not quite thirty-nine her hair has gone completely silver. It’s actually striking on her, but the look would be wrong for me. I stand back against the building beneath a wide awning, watching sidewalk travelers hustle by. Everyone walks quickly here, worried more about what’s behind them than the appointments waiting for them up ahead. It’s an eclectic stream—high school kids with prominent piercings, street dwellers of various ages and genders, a young black woman in short leather, an older white man in ankle-length mink. It’s quite the show, and I’m enjoying it well enough until it strikes me that I’ve been loitering here for a very long time. I look in through the big plate-glass window, beyond weight machines and treadmills. Oh, there he is, in loose jeans and a flimsy flannel shirt that doesn’t exactly hide all the lovely musculature I’ve almost memorized. Nick starts in this direction, but before he can take a dozen steps, Penelope cozies up behind him, pouts against the back of his neck, and lifts on her toes slightly, saying something into his ear. He spins and now his face is hidden. But I can see hers clearly. Her smile is more than flirtatious. It’s tinted with affection. And her eyes, locked on his, tell a story I really don’t want to know. I have hackles after all. Rage sizzles, white-hot, and my hands tremor. Unreasonably, it’s Penelope my inner bitch wants to maul. It’s not her fault Nick wants his steak and his cupcake, too. She must sense the devil’s gaze, because her head swivels, side to side. When she glances over Nick’s shoulder and notices me glaring through the glass, she gives him a playful shove. Does she realize he’s meeting me? Do they have some quirky arrangement? Nick turns his back on pretty Penelope, heads straight for the door, and when it opens a shock wave of anger hits him square. He looks at me, and I swear he has no idea why I’m pissed. “What’s wrong?” I force my voice low and level. “Why do you think something’s wrong?” “Well, I don’t know, Tara. Maybe it’s your body language.” He reaches for my elbow, tries to steer me clear of curious eyes on the far side of the window. I yank my arm away and hold my ground. “Do not touch me again unless I say it’s okay. Understand?” He nods, dumbstruck, and I continue. “Does she know we’re sleeping together?” “Does who know?” “Stop playing stupid! God, I hate when men play stupid! Penelope. Does she know? You two obviously have something going on.” Nick starts up the sidewalk, sure I’ll follow, or at the very least let him leave me standing here like an idiot. “You don’t own me, bitch.” I have no choice but to take the bait. But I’m not going to be gutted without a fight. I catch up to him and strike from behind, jabbing with words. “I’m sorry, Nick. I thought you liked our arrangement, that it was mutually beneficial.” He stops, turns to face me. “I do like it. But there was never any mention of exclusivity.” “You are seeing Penelope, then?” “Well, yeah. And others. It’s not like I’m engaged to any of you. Like I said, you don’t own me.” Maggot. “I believe you said, ‘You don’t own me, bitch.’ ” The smirk slips from his face. “Uh yeah, guess I did, and I’m sor—” “Shut up.” Damage control? I don’t think so. “No one talks to me like that, Nick, least of all hired help. And, make no mistake, that’s exactly what you are . . . uh, were. I do hope your ‘others’ are as generous as I have been, because there will be no more under-the-table supplemental income from me. Come to think of it, I might have to 1099 you.” My turn to smirk, and he doesn’t like it. “Go ahead and try. You paid me in cash and can’t prove a thing.” That makes me laugh. “Do you really think I wouldn’t take steps to protect myself, just in case you turned out to be the weasel you are? You know those nanny-cam things? So happens I have a boudoir cam. I don’t suppose you ever noticed I always paid you before you got out of bed?” Not completely true, but close enough. The camera covers the entire room. Anyway, it’s not like I’d really 1099 him, but it won’t hurt to make him sweat a little. Damn, I am going to miss his sweat. But I could never have sex with him again, knowing he might have just come from someone else’s bed. Who wants to sleep with a harem? “So, we’re finished?” Cheeky little bastard. “You needed confirmation of that?” “What about the gym?” “This city is crawling with personal trainers. I’m sure I can find another one as multifaceted as you. Meanwhile, I can handle my own workouts. I really don’t need you, or anyone, to tell me how to squat.” I start to walk away. Turn back. “You never did say if Penelope knew about me.” He stares at me stupidly for a moment. Then he dares, “I didn’t see the need to disclose the dirty details.” My hackles lower and I smile. “I think I should take up yoga. Don’t you?” I turn my back on him, and as I start to walk away he calls, “You say one word to her and you will be very sorry.” In a low, measured voice, I reply, “I hope that’s not a threat. This is a game you can’t win.” He changes tactics. “You don’t understand. I love her.” “Then why have you been fucking me?” I leave before he can answer. Wounded. Envious. I don’t even know what love feels like. It’s unfair an asshole like Nick should know. But if it’s even remotely like having sex on the side with whomever, all the while claiming your heart is taken, maybe it’s just as well that it’s outside my realm of experience.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Unlikeable characters and too graphic By booklover343 I'm surprised at the many great reviews of this novel. Frankly, I barely finished it. In fact, I stopped in the middle, read another book, and then did finish it.First of all it is too graphic. The constant repetitious descriptions of Tara's giving oral sex, getting oral sex, getting manipulated to orgasm were not needed. I don't care if a character is being manipulated with one, two or three fingers of her partner. Really! The author could have used some subtlety for heaven's sake.It's hard for me to really like a novel without one likeable character. This book had none for me. Not one. Tara could best be described as a sexual predator...picking up men in restaurants and going to their hotels, screwing around with her personal trainer at the gym and then when she finds out he is also seeing someone else, she gets him fired by saying he was being inappropriate with her. Blatant lie.There were many inconsistencies in the story. Tara, who is very computer savvy, does not seem to have her email password protected. She is focused on her security in SOME areas but clearly not in others. At the time of the story she has been married three times...widowed once and divorced twice. It seems she made a pile of money in each marriage. Even at the time of the novel, she is described as a very successful fund-raiser, but during the book only seems to work for a couple of days.And would someone REALLY opt to have extensive knee surgery at a hospital in Lake Tahoe instead of San Francisco where she lives? Seems like she chose the hospital to be near the man she was dating (though only for a short time). She is described as being very focused on fitness, and I think someone like that would choose the best hospital around. And if she is THAT allergic to something, wouldn't she check the ingredients of what she drank?There are poems sprinkled throughout the book. I guess they were by the author but they just seemed odd and not very good.The book sort of just ends. There is a quick explanation about some things but others are left hanging. Frankly, it did not bother me because I just didn't care about Tara.If there is a sequel, I certainly won't buy it!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Uneven adult novel by the author of Crank By Cecile Sune Tara lives in San Francisco and is a wealthy 40-year-old confident woman who has been married 3 times but has never been in love. While on vacation in Tahoe with her sister, Melody, she has a skiing accident and ends up in the hospital where she meets handsome Dr. Cavin Lattimore. They start going out, and everything seems to be going great until Tara meets Cavin’s son, Eli. The father-son relationship is very tense, and Eli makes unsettling declarations about Cavin. Meanwhile, Tara starts receiving threatening emails and notices strange cars seemingly keeping watch in front of her house.Because I am a fan of Ellen Hopkins’ young adult novels, I was disappointed that Love Lies Beneath was not written in verse like her previous novels. In fact, it’s her first fiction written in prose. There are a few poems scattered throughout the story though, giving rhythm to the book. In addition, some steamy scenes spice up the narrative. At its core though, Love Lies Beneath deals with trust issues and the perception of truth. Tara is a strong, independent woman who doesn’t shy away from taking risks. Abused as a child, she is not afraid of seeking revenge when someone wrongs her. However, she is not a very likable character, and I found that the story was slow going at times, especially at the beginning. Finally, the ending, though surprising, was not entirely satisfying. Perhaps this is due to the fact that the author is planning on writing a sequel that will be published in 2016…Love Lies Beneath was sent to me for free in exchange for an honest review.Please go to my blog, Cecile Sune - Bookobsessed, if you would like to read more reviews or discover fun facts about books and authors.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Misleading description By Ellie P. Being completely honest, I didn't like this book at all. The "action" that the description describes really never happens. She is not held hostage in the house with him. Secondly, the main character is completely unbelievable. She's sassy and a man-user, then she's completely head over heels wishy-washy in love? I do not buy this at all.The poems in between the sections are weird, frankly. The sex scenes were unnecessarily crass, and I'm no prude when it comes to romance/love stories -- I just felt like it was unnecessary and took away from the story.I do not think this book should have a sequel, especially if it's like the first one at all. Perhaps it would have seemed a smidge better if the description actually matched what the book was about.I was provided a copy of this book by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

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• Published on: 2015-11-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.21" h x .75" w x 6.14" l, 1.39 pounds
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• 326 pages

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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A glimpse into another time. By Bonnie Tedesco Although many of the ideas expressed in the book are thankfully outmoded, the content gives a glimpse into another time, another way of life. I am a fan of her son Albert Payson Terhune's books, and this gives me more of an idea of the times in which he grew up.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #1909808 in Books
• Published on: 2015-11-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.00" h x .24" w x 6.00" l, .33 pounds
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About the Author Iris Jamahl Dunkle's latest poetry book, There's a Ghost in this Machine of Air, about the untold history of Sonoma County, CA, will be published in January 2016. Her debut poetry collection, Gold Passage, was selected by Ross Gay to win the 2012 Trio Award and was published by Trio House Press in 2013. Her chapbooks Inheritance and The Flying Trolley were published by Finishing Line Press in 2010 and 2013. Her poetry, essays and creative non-fiction have been published widely. She is currently co-writing a new biography on Jack London's wife, Charmian London. Dunkle teaches writing and literature at Napa Valley College.She received her B.A. from the George Washington University, her M.F.A. in Poetry from New York University, and her Ph.D. in American Literature from Case Western Reserve University. She is on the staff of the Napa Valley Writers conference and co-facilitates the book discussion group at Jack London State Historic Park. Visit irisjamahldunkle.com for recent publications and upcoming readings.

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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Poems of Memory and Place By Terry Lucas A terrific collection of poems centered on the history of Sonoma County and Sebastopol, California. Dunkle's poems are lyrical narratives, grounded in real life events that utilizes heightened language appropriate to the task of elevating even the smallest of facts into our memory, so that we are richer for having read them. Naming the natural and emotional landscape like an Eve first noticing the details of her existence--"Gravenstein apples," "The Naming of Sebastopol in Mudtime," "Luther Burbank Garden, Santa Rosa," "Laguna, as Sebastopol's Sewer," "The Llano de Santa Rosa Rancho"--these are some of the poems and places that populate this necessary collection of poems.

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Even Worse Poetry is rated M for mature and is Alexandra's second attempt at creating a book of poetry. This one focuses on self-love and hatred, sex, and poems for other people.

Even Worse Poetry, by Alexandra J. Rimany

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4004427 in Books
• Published on: 2015-11-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
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The sequel to Cherry Lips answers the questions readers may have been asking. Will Cerise and Duncan be happy? What kind of revenge is Arietta plotting? Is Cerise's mother ever going to be found? Why did Shelle suddenly turn against Robin? Is Fendral all that he seems? Will Leopold ever be resurrected? Will Merewald finally get the baby she wants so badly? And what's the story with all those cats and the wooden owl?

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #502312 in eBooks
• Published on: 2015-11-13
• Released on: 2015-11-13
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What happened to the characters of Decline and Fall and Vile Bodies when the war broke out? Put Out More Flags shows them adjusting to the changing social pattern of the times. Some of them play valorous parts; others, like the scapegrace Basil Sea, disclose their incorrigible habit of self-preservation in all circumstances.

Basil's contribution to the war effort involves the use of his peculiar talents in such spheres of opportunity as the Ministry of Information and an obscure section of Military Security - adventures which incite Evelyn Waugh to another pungent satire upon the coteries of Mayfair.

Put Out More Flags, by Evelyn Waugh

• Amazon Sales Rank: #184795 in Audible
• Published on: 2015-11-05
• Released on: 2015-11-05
• Format: Unabridged
• Original language: English
• Running time: 357 minutes

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27 of 28 people found the following review helpful. Nothing Phoney about this 'Waugh'" By M. A Newman This is one the great comic novels of the history of the world. I would expect it would not be quite the work to start out with, but for people aware of what Britain was like during the first days of WWII, this is pure pleasure.The book, like most of Waugh's satires, contains a number of secondary characters who are often quite amusing. In this Waugh is the equal of Dickens (a comparison Waugh might not have appreciated), in his celebration of the English eccentric. From a technical execution the novel is rather interesting in that its main character, its anti-hero, Basil Seal, is somewhat of a character himself.Basil Seal originally appeared in the work "Black Mischief" is a trickster, eternally on the lookout for a way of earning a dishonest living. Basil's life is complicated by the outbreak of war and the insistance by the women in his life to play a hero's part in it (preferably dying while do so, in the case of his mother).Possessed of considerable guile he hotfoots it off to the country where he runs a profitable extortion racket involving three very undesirable war refugee children. These obnoxious brats manage to destroy most of the stately cottages of, if not the upper classes, then the upper middle classes.Another central character in the book is Ambrose Silk. Silk wishes the war would go away and at the same time wonders what his role should be. Eventually he settles on publishing an arts magazine, whose most notable work celebrates his love for a German soldier is twisted into Nazi propaganda by Basil working as a counterespionage agent.Though filled with topical humor, "Put out More Flags" manages to transcend the time in which it was written. It contains a number of thinly disguised portraits of famous people. If anyone is curious as to the various identities, I would recommend Humphrey Carpenter's excellent work, "The Brideshead Generation."The work is also interesting for fans of Waugh aswell. It is the second to last of his "funny" books. The next books would take on a more serious tone. Waugh's next book would be Brideshead Revisited. With the exception of "The Loved One" Waugh's later works would take on a seriousness which ultimately would set him apart from his contemporaries. I also recently read "The Sword of Honour" Trilogy and it is interesting to compare this work with "Put out More Flags." The themes are similar, but the approach is markedly different. This book shows Waugh as a writer who had already conquered many worlds, but at the same time was preparing to take on new challenges.

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful. Grimness beneath the humor By A.J. Not even the traumas of World War II could put Evelyn Waugh's delightfully satirical pen on hold; the horrors of war expose the grimness beneath his humor and invite a new kind of irreverence. Consider a scene in "Put Out More Flags" (1942) in which a woman's husband has just been killed in combat and the man with whom she's been having an affair wastes no time in proposing marriage. Her lackadaisical response to this most solemn of requests: "Yes, I think so. Neither of us could ever marry anyone else, you know."Like Wodehouse, but with greater subtlety, Waugh finds an underlying silliness in all types of characters and sets them up to be knocked down like ducks in a shooting gallery. In "Put Out More Flags," he dredges up some characters from previous novels and introduces them into comic situations within the context of the incipient European war (1939-1940). Foremost among them is Basil Seal, a thirty-six-year-old who is as unemployable as a six-year-old. His mother tries to help him get a prestigious position in the Army, but he blows it when he unintentionally and unknowingly insults the Lieutenant-Colonel of the Bombardiers. Fortunately, he is able to get a job with the War Department where he discovers that the secret to success is to level charges of Communism and Nazism against his (mostly) innocent friends and inform on them.Basil's friends and family also make the most of war time. Ambrose Silk, a Jewish atheist, takes advantage of his job at the Religious Department of the Ministry of Information to start a fustian periodical. Alastair Trumpington, a pampered aristocrat, dutifully enlists as a soldier because he believes that "he would make as good a target as anyone else for the King's enemies to shoot at," while his wife Sonia waits for him in the car outside the training camp like a mother picking up her kid at school. Meanwhile, Basil's sister Barbara is allowing the use of their country estate as a shelter for poor people evacuating London for fear of German bombing raids; among them are a trio of insufferable brats named the Connollys who provide Basil with the fodder for an irresistible extortion scheme.Waugh's great insight was the immediate recognition of the potential humor of the war's impact on the British class conflict, and therein lies his brilliance. His books are funny, but more importantly, they're every bit as intelligent, perceptive, and well-written as any "serious" novel, whose level of social consciousness they rival. The twentieth century needed an Evelyn Waugh, and we certainly could use one now.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful. Vintage Waugh By D. P. Birkett It's vintage Waugh, standing halway between the farcical funny ones and the serious ones. He's unique in being a satirist of the idiocy of war who can also deal with patriotism and courage. This is set in that strange time when Britain had just gone to war but France had not fallen. You meet some characters from his other books. This added to the pleasure for me but I don't know if it's the one I would recommend to someone who'd never read any Waugh before. It also helps if you know something about the 1930's British literary scene and can recognize who is being satirized. Parsnip and Pimpernell are presumably Auden and Spender. I've heard of various candidates fir being Ambose Silk.

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À Parme, l'ombre de la chartreuse s'étend sur la cour et sur les intrigues aristocratiques des quelques happy few qui l'animent : Gina la belle duchesse, le comte Mosca, mais surtout le jeune Fabrice del Dongo, qui suscite l'amour de tous ceux qui le croisent. Comment ne pas l'aimer, ce jeune rêveur plein de grâce, qui transfigure la réalité ? Mais lui, que tout le monde aime, qui saura-t-il aimer ?

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• Published on: 2015-11-26
• Released on: 2015-11-26
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About the Author STENDHAL(Marie-Henri Beyle) was born in Grenoble in 1783. He served in Napoleon's cavalry and thereafter lived in Italy and Paris, where he wrote many books, including On Love, the autobiographical Life of Henri Brulard, The Charterhouse of Parma (which he wrote in fifty-two days), and The Red and the Black. He died in 1842. BURTON RAFFEL is a distinguished professor of humanities at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His many translations include Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel, winner of the 1991 French-American Foundation Translation Prize, Chretien de Troyes's Arthurian Romances, Cervantes's Don Quijote, and Balzac's Pere Goriot. His translation of Beowulf has sold more than a million copies. DIANE JOHNSON Is the author of ten novels--most recently Le Mariage and Le Divorce--two books of essays, two biographies, and the screenplay for Stanley Kubrick's classic film "The Shining," She has been a finalist four times for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.A prolific writer, Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) is generally regarded, along with Gustave Flaubert, as a founding father of realism in European literature, and as one of France's greatest fiction writers.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. typos By noraida agosto The book is excellent, although there are frequent typos one must descipher to understand the text. For example, apostrophes, which are very frequent in French.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. The story is wonderful and well written By Straus Laureline The story is wonderful and well written, but the edition of the book is terrible, full of spelling and typos. I wouldn't recommend!

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Great litterary work, but bad edition By Amazon Customer The story, with a number of picturesque characters and sceneries, is admirably told, with frequent nods from the author on various topics. It's no wonder this book is a classic, and it is a reminder that if one wants to know about human nature, one should read the classics; if one wants to express oneself well, one should read the classics.However, this publication/edition does great injury to the work and to the author: How could there be so many typos and errors!? This book was written in the 19th century; surely there have been many editions since then so that all the typos would be corrected! How can Amazon and CreateSpace, in the 21st Century, the age of the Internet, still use such a mediocre edition!

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The Ambassadors, by Henry James

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Having travelled to Paris in order to convince his wealthy fiancée’s son, Chad, to return to the United States, Lambert Strether experiences the culture and sophistication of Europe for the first time, and becomes enamoured of the life that Chad has built.

But, as he lingers in Europe despite his fiancée’s wishes, Strether comes to understand that the life that Chad chooses to lead is not necessary the life that he himself should lead.

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The Ambassadors, by Henry James

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• Published on: 2015-11-24
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The Ambassadors, by Henry James

Amazon.com Review The Ambassadors, which Henry James considered his best work, is the most exquisite refinement of his favorite theme: the collision of American innocence with European experience. This time, James recounts the continental journey of Louis Lambert Strether--a fiftysomething man of the world who has been dispatched abroad by a rich widow, Mrs. Newsome. His mission: to save her son Chadwick from the clutches of a wicked (i.e., European) woman, and to convince the prodigal to return to Woollett, Massachusetts. Instead, this all-American envoy finds Europe growing on him. Strether also becomes involved in a very Jamesian "relation" with the fascinating Miss Maria Gostrey, a fellow American and informal Sacajawea to her compatriots. Clearly Paris has "improved" Chad beyond recognition, and convincing him to return to the U.S. is going to be a very, very hard sell. Suspense, of course, is hardly James's stock-in-trade. But there is no more meticulous mapper of tone and atmosphere, nuance and implication. His hyper-refined characters are at their best in dialogue, particularly when they're exchanging morsels of gossip. Astute, funny, and relentlessly intelligent, James amply fulfills his own description of the novelist as a person upon whom nothing is lost. --Rhian Ellis

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From the Back Cover "Live all you can; it's a mistake not to," declares the primary "ambassador" of this 1903 novel, adding, "It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?"In this complex tale of self-discovery, Henry James invokes his favorite theme: the clash of American innocence with European experience. It traces the path of an aging idealist, Lambert Strether, who arrives in Paris intending to persuade his young charge to abandon an obsession with a French woman and return home. Once abroad, however, Strether arrives at unexpected conclusions.Henry James regarded The Ambassadors as his finest work. Astute, humorous, and intelligent, this masterpiece from the pinnacle of the author's long and brilliant career remains ever vital.

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86 of 88 people found the following review helpful. Tough As It Gets, But Worth the Monumental Effort By oh_pete THE AMBASSADORS demands more effort and concentration from the reader than probably any other novel written by an American. But the payoff is worth the effort, however we may begrudge James' frustratingly and intentionally thick prose. James does indeed describe intense human situations in great depth and detail: duty, honor, nostalgia; the contrast between the starchy-collared stiffness of Brahmin Boston (read: America) contrasted with the joie de vivre of Paris (read: Europe); how difficult certain of life's choices can be. These are just a few themes that make this book worthwhile. James' America is young and trying to assert itself (and so takes itself too seriously); his Europe is old and satisfied (and perhaps doesn't take itself seriously enough).Lambert Strether, a fiftysomething turn-of-the-20th-century bourgeois Bostonian gentleman on an aristocratic lady's errand--she will not marry him until he convinces her son Chad to return to Massachusetts. We see his struggle with his uncomfortable position when he realizes Chad is no longer a spoiled young prep-schooler, but a young gentleman of increasing refinement and self-awareness. And if Strether is anything, by the way, he is one of the most supremely self-aware characters in literary history. Once that Paris air starts to play its magic with Strether himself, we are off to the races. Keeping in mind, of course, that with James' prose we are racing with tortoises. James invites us to ponder how many chances a person truly gets in this life to reinvent his or her self? And if we get the chance, do we always take it? How much should we weigh the consequences before we decide? How much are we willing to accept them after we have chosen?For similar themes with clearer, faster-paced, and wittier prose, try Edith Wharton's marvelous homage to James, THE AGE OF INNOCENCE.

42 of 45 people found the following review helpful. An Aesthetic Triumph By Daniel Myers This is a novel about a man named Strether, who is as obviously an alter ego of Henry James as Ralph Touchett is of Mr. James in Portrait of A Lady or, to jump continents and switch authors, the main character in Remembrance of Things Past is of Proust. Strether is in Paris to retrieve his (hopefully?) future son-in-law Chad from the wiles of the City of Light and return him to New England so that Strether can marry, settle down and pass his waning years in Puritan New England (New England was still Puritan at the time.). At least, that's the plan. But once Strether arrives, something happens to him, and that mysterious something is what makes this work great. One could easily sum it up and say that Strether becomes enraptured by beauty, and one would be quite right. But to do so would be to miss the point....What is beauty? This is the question the novel essentially asks, all plotting and sub-plotting (and plenty of it) aside. Strether's paralysis because of his inability to grasp what is holding him there and why he becomes one of the greatest procrastinators in English literature (not excepting a certain Danish prince) is the great theme around which all else revolves. Strether is essentially a sensitive, cultured man with hyper-refined sensibilities. Alighting in Paris from the drab New England factory town awakens things in him that can only be perceived through the mind's eye of such a man. He is a sort of Geiger counter which registers things missed by others not so equipped (i.e., the rest of the characters.) "Strether had not for years so rich a consciousness of time-a bag of gold into which he constantly dipped for a handful." Ch.6 The beginning of Ch. 16 has a beautifully succinct line of his predicament, "How could he wish it to be lucid for others, for any one, that he, for the hour, saw reasons enough in the mere way the bright, clean, ordered water-side life came in at the open window?" Reasons, that is, to stay in beloved Paris. The denouement of the struggle between this sensibility and his deeply engrained New England morality becomes really beside the point. All the tergiversations and multiple reflections and subtle dialogue that convey the consciousness of a great soul constitute the book's undisputed prominence. I came away from the novel asking myself anew the question raised by Plato and other great philosophers and artists throughout history: What is beauty? What is the mysterious hold it has on us? And why do those who feel its power most acutely, such as Strether, suffer the most?

26 of 28 people found the following review helpful. The Ambassadors: Worlds In Conflict & Readers In Conflict By Martin Asiner If one were to choose just one novel from Henry James and say that this one is the quintessential example of a work that combines theme and style, one could do worse than to choose THE AMBASSADORS. James had a fascination with yanking Americans from their new world padded cells of insulation and transporting them to Europe, an old world that simply reeked of style and long held cultural givens. Lambert Strether is the ambassador of the title, an American who has grown up with typical American values, most of which relate to the Jamesian belief (often incorrect and exaggerated) that Americans were a breed of money mad social cretins who would not recognize class if they bumped into it. At the beginning of the novel, Strether is depicted as a basically good-hearted man who exists--but does not live--at least in the sense that he later comes to understand. It is he who is sent to London to retrieve a wayward Chad Newsome, a fellow American, son of the immensely wealthy Mrs. Newsome, who is eager for her son to return to America to take his rightful place as heir to the family fortune. In Europe, Strether is the fish out of water--at first. His job is to convert Chad or at least retrieve him from what Mrs. Newsome considers the clutches of a dissipated anti-Puritan and lascivious culture. But the conversion works in reverse. Lambert is affected by the openness of the European lifestyle, which compares refreshingly favorably to an American lifestyle that he now views as ponderous and stifling. He is further affected by a growing closeness with the target of his journey, Chad, a man that his mother assured Strether needed saving, but the only saving that Chad needs is to be saved from having to return to an America that will surely destroy Chad's new-found soul just as surely as it had stifled Strether's. Strether is finally affected by his relation with Mme. Marie de Vionnet, a lovely, elegant, and older European woman who is the girlfriend of Chad. This woman is another in a long line of Jamesian old-world icons of feminine exoticism who can seemingly float in mid air, so appealing is her capacity for infinite variety. Lambert concludes that she is RIGHT for Chad. Further, Europe is RIGHT for Chad, and finally, America is WRONG for Chad as well. By extension, Lambert learns the same lessons for himself. If he remains in Europe, he will suffer considerable sacrifice, not the least of which is that he has considered marrying Chad's mother, who suggests that at the successful conclusion to Lambert's journey, she will marry him, thus assuring him a share of her wealth. When Lambert delays in his mission, Mrs. Newsome sends yet another set of ambassadors, Chad's sister and her husband, both of whom prove invulnerable to the charms of Europe. Ironically, James shows that in the disreputable actions of the two in Europe (both engage in some tawdry behavior like drunken American sailors in a seedy Parisian saloon), that true class is a state of mind and not a function of where one hangs one's hat. At the end of the novel, James does not definitively wrap up all the loose ends. Presumably, Chad will eventually return to America--or perhaps not. Lambert will probably remain in Europe--or again perhaps not. Clearly, in THE AMBASSADORS, James leaves the door deliberately and ambiguously open, so that the resolution may need some unfolding after the words "the end."Just as Henry James sets up a collision of cultural worlds in crisis, so does he do with a parallel collision of style in crisis. Many readers complain that James' style--ornate, ponderous, excessively prone to mutlti-pages of interminable dialogue--simply will not let them read a book that to them needs more plowing than reading. The problem here is that such readers have been taught to read conventional novels of slam-bang action, Hemingway-esque dialogue, and rapid pacing. In THE AMBASSADORS, James explores a different universe. His universe is the microverse, one is which most of the action is internalized. James wishes to unveil conscience and the intricacies of human dynamics. One might almost argue that the events in THE AMBASSADORS occur in real time. If it seems to take days to read, then perhaps that is the way that events occur in the fictional construct of any Jamesian novel. To read Henry James is to reread him as well. Just as human beings pause to use their memories of significant events to consider what to do for the future, so must the reader pause to reread passages to ponder past events. Thus, Henry James is one of the few authors (Proust is another) who has melded content to style. One does not read James merely to satisfy the requirements of a college class on the novel. One rereads James after the college class is over, and it is only then that one discovers the beauty of exploring the infinitely more beautiful world of the inner landscape over the outer.

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Howl: of Woman and Wolf, by Susan Imhoff Bird

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"Enormously personal and perceptive…a compelling wildlife study that extends beyond familiar settings."—BOOKLIST"Howl has all the depth, complexity, and moving power of that most haunting of sounds: the howl of a wild wolf. Bird shows us that the gap between tameness and wildness…is not so far as it might seem, and we ought to venture across to find out how wild feels. [Howl is] an education on a singular animal and an identification with a singular storyteller."—15 BYTES"An accessible, quick-paced read, [Howl] extends the reader's imagination to see wolves and many other issues in perspectives he or she might not have ever anticipated…Bird's book demonstrates what creative nonfiction can accomplish in motivating a disconnected citizenry to rediscover and rejuvenate its relationship with nature and the non–human world."—THE UTAH REVIEW"Howl: of Woman and Wolf is an emotional, spiritual and educational literary journey…with fascinating information about wolves, it makes for a soulful, intriguing story."—THE DESERET NEWS"Transporting the reader to her beloved high deserts and canyons with her gorgeous prose…Susan Imhoff Bird seamlessly weaves the story of the wolf with her own narrative."—BLUE RIDGE OUTDOORS"With humor, sensitivity, and probing intelligence, Bird's inquiry into the world of the wolf weaves an outer journey with inner way-finding, resulting in an inspiring book about more than being human—it's about being alive."—MARY ELLEN HANNIBAL, author of The Spine of the Continent: The Race to Save America's Last, Best Wilderness"A well–rounded wolf tale told by a writer who is comfortable both inside and outside her human skin. It speaks with an unsheltered heart reaching beyond loss for a wilder tether, that ancient yet enduring story of (wo)man and beast."—DOUG PEACOCK, author of Grizzly Years"With wit, emotion and passion, Susan thinks like many who have pondered the issue do not. It's well worth the time reading this preciously fresh look at an ancient conflict."—DOUG SMITH, author of Decade of the Wolf, senior wildlife biologist, Yellowstone National Park"The brave writers of natural history understand both the technical and the spiritual sides of ecology; and they don't shy from either. Susan Imhoff Bird is one of these."—MICHAEL SOULE, editor of Conservation Biology: Research priorities for the next decade"A quest to find the heart and soul of the wolf."—RICK MCINTYRE, author of A Society of WolvesCommemorating the twentieth anniversary of the reintroduction of wolves to the American West, Howl follows Susan Imhoff Bird's exploration into the passions and controversies surrounding nature's most fascinating predator. At a crossroads in her own life, Bird travels around the West, talking with wolf watchers, landowners, wildlife managers, conservationists, and hunters about their understandings of what matters most, which almost always is their connection with the natural world. However, the often-conflicting issues raised by hunters, ranchers, and politicians prompt Bird's personal examination of wolf science, myths, and ethics, culminating in her conviction that wolves must be allowed to recover and thrive on our lands. Along the way, Bird begins to unleash her own wild nature, learning to howl and inviting us to do the same.Susan Imhoff Bird finds inspiration in Utah's canyons, valleys, and water-sculpted rock. She can often be found on her bicycle or snowshoes, absorbing the wisdom of the natural world. Bird lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Howl: of Woman and Wolf, by Susan Imhoff Bird

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• Published on: 2015-09-21
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Howl: of Woman and Wolf, by Susan Imhoff Bird

Review "Enormously personal and perceptive…a compelling wildlife study that extends beyond familiar settings."—BOOKLIST"Howl has all the depth, complexity, and moving power of that most haunting of sounds: the howl of a wild wolf. Bird shows us that the gap between tameness and wildness…is not so far as it might seem, and we ought to venture across to find out how wild feels. [Howl is] an education on a singular animal and an identification with a singular storyteller."—15 BYTES"An accessible, quick-paced read, [Howl] extends the reader's imagination to see wolves and many other issues in perspectives he or she might not have ever anticipated…Bird's book demonstrates what creative nonfiction can accomplish in motivating a disconnected citizenry to rediscover and rejuvenate its relationship with nature and the non–human world."—THE UTAH REVIEW"Howl: of Woman and Wolf is an emotional, spiritual and educational literary journey…with fascinating information about wolves, it makes for a soulful, intriguing story."—THE DESERET NEWS"Transporting the reader to her beloved high deserts and canyons with her gorgeous prose…Susan Imhoff Bird seamlessly weaves the story of the wolf with her own narrative."—BLUE RIDGE OUTDOORS"With humor, sensitivity, and probing intelligence, Bird's inquiry into the world of the wolf weaves an outer journey with inner way-finding, resulting in an inspiring book about more than being human—it's about being alive."—MARY ELLEN HANNIBAL, author of The Spine of the Continent: The Race to Save America's Last, Best Wilderness"A well–rounded wolf tale told by a writer who is comfortable both inside and outside her human skin. It speaks with an unsheltered heart reaching beyond loss for a wilder tether, that ancient yet enduring story of (wo)man and beast."—DOUG PEACOCK, author of Grizzly Years"With wit, emotion and passion, Susan thinks like many who have pondered the issue do not. It's well worth the time reading this preciously fresh look at an ancient conflict."—DOUG SMITH, author of Decade of the Wolf, senior wildlife biologist, Yellowstone National Park"The brave writers of natural history understand both the technical and the spiritual sides of ecology; and they don't shy from either. Susan Imhoff Bird is one of these."—MICHAEL SOULE, editor of Conservation Biology: Research priorities for the next decade"A quest to find the heart and soul of the wolf."—RICK MCINTYRE, author of A Society of Wolves

About the Author Susan Imhoff Bird finds inspiration in Utah’s stunning canyons, valleys and water-sculpted rock. Traveling in Asia, South America, and Europe has exposed her to varied cultures and societies, resulting in an award-winning short story and a book about humanitarian work in Nepal. A mom of three and owner of a gratitude-based business, she is fascinated by human interactions. When not writing, reading, trying to meditate, or attempting yoga asanas, she can be found on her bicycle or snowshoes, absorbing the wisdom of the natural world. And occasionally howling.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Does she have any blood left in her??? By Michael A. Kalm Howl: Of Woman and Wolf by Susan Imhoff Bird is that rarest of reads - informative, insightful, nuanced, and paradoxically, a heart-wrenching delight. In the title, Woman comes before Wolf, and that is exactly as it should be, despite all the careful, painstaking research that went into the study of the precarious and controversial comeback of wolves into our ecosystems. Bird is an individual who has weathered some very severe traumas in her life -a biological father who abandoned her, a stepfather who said he was there for her, but only on his terms, and even then with a hovering brutality. She also “married forever” twice, only to have both marriages fail. And the most devastating blow of all, her first pregnancy with twins, only to have one die in utero and the other cripplingly handicapped. Bird found herself drawn to the environment, to the natural, to the wild, as temporary oases of solace from her many griefs. It was that attachment that very likely interested her in the subject of wolves. Wolves are an iconic entity of the wild juxtaposed to “civilization.” They are creatures of myth and mystery, loved, hated, feared and misunderstood. Bird set out to study them as comprehensively and scientifically as possible. She also set out to study public reactions, to fully understand those whose attitude toward wolves ranged from reverence to loathing. In doing this, she found out more and more about herself, how in many ways she had been trapped as wolves have been, and also how much she yearned to be wild and free as wolves can be. In revealing that part of her story, Bird goes into the details of her upbringing, her marriages and her experience as a mother. Authentic is too mild a word to use for the pure outpouring of heart that permeates Bird’s manuscript. This is a human being of total intensity and honesty. Nothing is left out. And she manages to do this, not in a maudlin way, but in a philosophical spiritual way, even with doses of humor along the way. It is an extraordinary tour-de-force. It will leave you in tears and drained at times, laughing at other times. By the way, the reader may find the book frustratingly disjointed as the narrative jumps between wolf and personal, past and present, research and anecdote and back again. I think this was actually done deliberately. One thing we discover that is certain about wolves is that they are predictably unpredictable. You cannot tell from one minute to the next, where they will choose to go, how they will choose to act, when they will kill – and when they will love. Bird channels her inner wolf by giving her narrative the freedom to wander, only better to let us get the whole panoply of her experience. Read this book. I doubt you will ever have read anything else like it.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Howl is a must read, the kind of book that transforms you by the time you read the last word. By Ky Delaney Susan Imhoff Bird seamlessly weaves the story of the wolf with her own narrative. From interviews with ranchers, hunters, wolf watchers and biologists, she writes about the complex ecology and politics behind wolf management. Susan reveals difficult personal experiences, from parenting a special needs child to letting go of failed marriages to a bone-smashing cycling accident.Susan delves into her desire to live close to the truest version of herself. “I sat quietly by myself and felt my own being – I’d squished her for a long time and I was lettering her fill back-up, be who she really was. Is.”She identifies herself as a people-pleaser and nice. Her transformative journey, digging herself out from under a mound of nice, respectful, and reticent to become a wild women who runs with wolves and howls with abandon, doesn’t happen all at once.While following the Yellowstone packs, she learns of a wolf with a broken leg who goes hunting. Being broken doesn’t define the wolf. Even though the wolf is hurt, she keeps hunting.All the heartache that life dishes up – divorce, death, and accidents – leave Susan feeling split, cracked, and halved by life. She demonstrates the same tenacity and grit of the wolf, showing up again and again with a willingness to get uncomfortable. Whether it’s driving on icy roads or tracking wolves in sub-zero temperatures Susan doesn’t give up.The more Susan gets out in nature, the more she notices, transporting the reader to her beloved high deserts and canyons with her gorgeous prose. She finds the places and wild animals that help her be more present. “I reach down into the earth and into the sky,” she writes. In the process of documenting the story of the wolf, she discovers another way of being. “It’s awe that saves us.”Susan’s transformation, much like the survival of the wolf in American West, require reaching and failing, searching and doubting, arguing and listening. If Susan has her way, we’ll all learn from wolves. “Wolves only give up when the only thing to do is give up.”

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Truth about Wolves and Women By Scott Abbott This book surprised me. I expected a good read and wasn’t disappointed. I didn’t, however, anticipate the complexities I found as the author investigated attempts to reintroduce wolves into contested territory. Journalists reporting on controversies like this one often present both sides of an issue and call it good. Susan Imhoff Bird had something else in mind. She wanted to get to the bottom of things. She wanted to come to conclusions. As a result, her interviews with scientists and ranchers don’t read like attempts to be fair and unbiased, although she is both; they feel like a thoughtful and thorough probing in the service of knowledge. Truth is objective, based on facts, dependent on good science, and there is plenty of that here. Truth is also subjective, and the truth-seekers I admire examine themselves at the same time they work to understand the question at hand. And that double focus is the magic of HOWL. The complexities of lost children and failed marriages and obsessive and therapeutic biking and self-doubt and self-assertion accompany the extensive research and the wide-ranging interviews.That Torrey House Press’s Kirsten Allen and Mark Bailey appear as players and facilitators in the narrative is no surprise, given the press’s stated values: “We believe that culture is changed through conversation and that lively contemporary literature is the cutting edge of social change. We believe that by building and engaging community in the conversation of conservation, we make our contribution to, as Wallace Stegner hoped for, a ‘society to match the scenery.’”

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