Selected Writings

7 best books like Selected Writings (Guillaume Apollinaire): Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment, Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World, Sonnets to Orpheus, After the Fire, On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society, Selected Writings, Italian Shoes

Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment

Author	Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
ISBN	0553272586

Jeanne Wakatsuki was seven years old in 1942 when her family was uprooted from their home and sent to live at Manzanar internment camp—with 10,000 other Japanese Americans. Along with searchlight towers and armed guards, Manzanar ludicrously featured cheerleaders, Boy Scouts, sock hops, baton...

Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World

Author	Margaret MacMillan
ISBN	0375760520

'Without question, Margaret MacMillan's Paris 1919 is the most honest and engaging history ever written about those fateful months after World War I when the maps of Europe were redrawn. Brimming with lucid analysis, elegant character sketches, and geopolitical pathos, it is essential reading.'

Between...

Sonnets to Orpheus

Author	Rainer Maria Rilke
ISBN	0393328856

To Rilke himself the Sonnets to Orpheus were "perhaps the most mysterious in the way they came up and entrusted themselves to me, the most enigmatic dictation I have ever held through and achieved; the whole first part was written down in a single breathless act of obedience, between the 2nd and 5th of...

After the Fire

Author	Henning Mankell
ISBN	1910701777

Fredrik Welin is a seventy-year-old retired doctor. Years ago he retreated to the Swedish archipelago, where he lives alone on an island. He swims in the sea every day, cutting a hole in the ice if necessary. He lives a quiet life. Until he wakes up one night to find his house on fire.

Fredrik escapes...

On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society

Author	Dave Grossman
ISBN	0316191442

The good news is that most soldiers are loath to kill. But armies have developed sophisticated ways of overcoming this instinctive aversion. And contemporary civilian society, particularly the media, replicates the army's conditioning techniques, and, according to Lt. Col. Dave Grossman's thesis,...

Selected Writings

Author	Paul Valéry
ISBN	0811202135

It begins with the poetry (French and English en face), including such masterpieces as "Le Cimetiere Marin" and portions of "La Jeune Parque"; then ranges through Valéry's work in fields as various as architecture, logic, the dance, literature, philosophy, and painting. It concludes with excerpts...

Italian Shoes

Author	Henning Mankell
ISBN	1595584366

From the prizewinning “master of atmosphere” (Boston Globe) comes the surprising and affecting story of a man well past middle age who suddenly finds himself on the threshold of renewal.

Living on a tiny island entirely surrounded by ice during the long winter months, Fredrik Welin is...