As the best-selling author of Exodus, Mila 18, QB VII, and Trinity, Leon Uris blazed a path to celebrity with books that readers could not put down. Uris's thirteen novels sold millions of copies, spent months on the best-seller lists, appeared in fifty languages, and have been adapted into equally popular movies and TV miniseries. Few other writers equaled Uris's fame in the mid-twentieth century. His success fueled the rise of mass-market paperbacks, movie tie-ins, and celebrity author tours. Beloved by the public, Uris was, not surprisingly, dismissed by literary critics. Until now, his own life—as full of drama as his fiction—has never been the subject of a book.
In Leon Uris: Life of a Best Seller, Ira Nadel traces Uris from his disruptive youth to his life-changing experiences as a marine in World War II. These experiences, coupled with Uris's embrace of his Judaism and desire to write, led to his unprecedented success and the lavish excesses of a career as a best-selling author. Nadel reveals that Uris lived the adventures he described, including his war experiences in the Pacific (Battle Cry), life-threatening travels in Israel (Exodus), visit to Communist Poland (Mila 18), libel trial in Britain (QB VII), and dangerous sojourn in fractious Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic (Trinity). Nadel also demonstrates that Uris's talent for writing action-packed, yet thoroughly researched, novels meshed perfectly with the public's desire to revisit and understand the tumultuous events of recent history. This made him far more popular (and wealthy) than more literary authors, while paving the way for writers such as Irving Wallace and Tom Clancy.

Leon Uris: Life of a Best Seller (Jewish History, Life, and Culture)

Biographies & Memoirs

Nadel, Ira B.

Arts & Literature

University of Texas Press

Known as the "Prince of Bummers," Leonard Cohen is a multi-talented poet, singer-songwriter, novelist, and Zen Buddhist whose career has spanned more than forty years and inspired countless other artists. In this critically acclaimed biography originally published in 1996 by Pantheon Books, Ira Nadel draws on extensive interviews with Cohen, as well as excerpts from his unpublished letters, journals, notebooks, songs, and other writings, to offer a full portrait of this enigmatic man and his artistic career. A new concluding chapter brings Cohen's story up-to-date, including the release of the albums Dear Heather, Ten New Songs, The Essential Leonard Cohen, and Blue Alert, as well as the publication of Book of Longing and the screening of the documentary film Leonard Cohen, I'm Your Man.

Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen (Jewish History, Life, and Culture)

History

The four sections - Style as Choice, Clarity, Grace, and Ethics - feature principles of effective prose, chapter summaries for quick and easy review, and group exercises that encourage students to work and learn together. Williams/Nadel offers these principles as reason-based approaches to improving prose, rather than hard and fast rules to writing well. Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace, empowers students to use their writing not only as a tool to identify and solve problems, but also as a method for exploring their own thinking.

Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace, Canadian Edition

Reference

Williams, Joseph M.

Words, Language & Grammar

Pearson Education Canada

In this collection a group of political scientists, literary critics, social historians and writers reassess "Nineteen Eighty-Four" and other parts of Orwell's oeuvre. Bernard Crick's "Orwell and English Socialism" serves as an introduction to the various threads followed up in these essays - Orwell's evolving political ideas, his devotion to good writing, and the final concentration of his thought into the savage satire of "Nineteen Eighty-Four".

George Orwell: A Reassessment

Buitenhuis, Peter

Literature & Fiction

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

The Cambridge Introduction to Ezra Pound (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)

Ezra Pound is one of the most visible and influential poets of the twentieth century. He is also one of the most complex, his poetry containing historical and mythical allusions, experiments of form and style and often controversial political views. Yet Pound's life and work continue to fascinate. This Introduction, first published in 2005, is designed to help students reading Pound for the first time. Pound scholar Ira B. Nadel provides a guide to the rich webs of allusion and stylistic borrowings and innovations in Pound's writing. He offers a clear overview of Pound's life, works, contexts and reception history and his multidimensional career as a poet, translator, critic, editor, anthologist and impresario, a career that placed him at the heart of literary modernism. This invaluable and accessible introduction explains the huge contribution Pound made to the development of modernism in the early twentieth century.

Essays & Correspondence

Cambridge University Press

Reissued with a new afterword Leonard Cohen is back! With a #1 bestselling poetry collection, The Book of Longing, flying off bookshelves; Lian Lunson’s acclaimed documentary, Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man, in theatres this summer (the DVD will release this fall); and the superb soundtrack in music stores everywhere, Leonard Cohen proves he is Canada’s most enduring icon. Now, in the newly reissued Various Positions, Ira Nadel peels back the many layers to reveal the man and explain the fascinating relationship between Leonard Cohen’s life and his art. This book is a remarkable and rare look at Leonard Cohen, up close and personal. For nearly forty years, Leonard Cohen has endured the ups and downs of an international career that has alternately identified him as the "Prince of Bummers" and Canada's most respected poet and performer. Now, author Ira Nadel brings us closer to understanding these conflicting descriptions and allows us to enter Cohen's private world. He peels back the many layers to reveal the man and explain the fascinating relationship between Cohen's life and his art. This is a remarkable and rare look at Leonard Cohen, up close and personal. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen

Vintage Canada

Incorporating previously unpublished letters, journals, notebooks, songs, and other writings--a massive archive that Cohen himself has preserved--and hours of interviews with Cohen and his closest friends and colleagues, Ira Nadel gives readers an extraordinary rich and revealing life of one of the most fascinating and artists of our time. Photos.

Pantheon

Various Positions: Biography of Leonard Cohen

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

From reviews of the first edition: "The first book-length effort to lay out the pieces of Joyce's complicated affinities with the Jews. . . . Joyce saw in language per se something of the power, the magic, that energized much of Judaic study. And it is here that Nadel's study strikes me as both more sophisticated in its scholarly approach and more knowledgeable about the connectors between Joyce and Judaism than previous critics. . . . Nadel's thesis makes good sense--both in Joycean and in Judaic terms. Indeed, it is this happy combination that makes Joyce and the Jews worth 're-joycing' about."--Sanford Pinsker, Modern Judaism "As Ira Nadel amply demonstrates, Joyce's affinities with the Jews, whether in their way of life or in their beliefs, impinged upon his personal and artistic development. Why Joyce ever identified with the Jews--a central question never systematically studied before--forms the subject matter of this carefully documented and ably argued book."--Dominic Manganiello, James Joyce Quarterly "A short, lucid book filled with detailed accounts of Jewish history and culture, which are adroitly linked to Joyce's biography, letters, the books in his library, notebooks, notesheets, drafts, and his novels. Ira Nadel . . . writes clearly, moves nimbly, argues incisively. . . . He also extends the reach of the tradition that Joyce strove to escape, expose, parody, and undermine."--Richard Pearce, James Joyce Literary Supplement "Provides us with a very informed description of just how exactly Jewish Bloom is, what he knows and doesn't know of his heritage, how he loves and hates it, accepts and rejects it, quotes and misquotes its literature. And, most importantly, Nadel shows us how important the Talmud is as a model of the Wake."--Terrence Doody, Novel James Joyce, an Irish Catholic by upbringing, was described as "the greatest Jew of all" by his countryman and fellow writer Frank O'Connor. In this exploration of Joyce's identity with Jews and their cultural heritage, Ira Nadel's thesis is that Joyce's Judaism is textual, his Jewishness cultural. Beginning with a narrative of the exodus undertaken by Joyce in 1904 when he left Ireland, Nadel examines parallels between Joycean and Judaic concepts of history, typology, and cultural identity. He also reviews major Jewish events that occurred in each of the cities where Joyce lived. Ira B. Nadel is professor of English at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Biography: Fiction, Fact, and Form and the coeditor of many books, including Orwell: A Reassessment; Gertrude Stein and The Making of Literature; and Victorian Biography: A Collection of Essays from the Period. His biography of singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen has just been published.

Joyce and the Jews: Culture and Texts (Florida James Joyce)

British & Irish

University Press of Florida

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Leon Uris: Life of a Best Seller (Jewish History, Life, and Culture)

Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen (Jewish History, Life, and Culture)

Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace, Canadian Edition

George Orwell: A Reassessment

The Cambridge Introduction to Ezra Pound (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)

The Cambridge Introduction to Ezra Pound (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)

Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen

Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen

Various Positions: Biography of Leonard Cohen

Joyce and the Jews: Culture and Texts (Florida James Joyce)