In this vivid portrait of G. I. Gurdjieff, Fritz Peters goes back to the 1920s to recall the four boyhood years he spent in France at Gurdjieff's Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man. Peters tells how the Master used every situation in the life of the community to illustrate his principles and how the rigorous demands that he made even on children were always tempered by warmth and humanity. Boyhood with Gurdjieff is much more than a picture of a great spiritual leader and of the extraordinary disciples who followed him into a new way of life. Above all, it is a primer on the inner education of sensitive young people.

Boyhood with Gurdjieff

Peters, Fritz

Literature & Fiction

Penguin??Books

Finistere

A lyrical gay coming-of-age story first published in 1951, acclaimed by Gore Vidal and The New York Times, about Matthew, a young American who moves to France with his mother following his parents’ divorce. As Matthew navigates his budding sexuality and complicated new relationships, he is forced to confront finistère—land’s end—where the brutal truths of the world can be found.Includes an appendix of materials about the book and author, as well as an introduction by acclaimed author Michael Bronski. Part of the Little Sister’s Classics series, which resurrects out-of-print gay and lesbian books from the past.

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Signet

The basic writings of Existentialism, many never before translated. Edited, with an introduction, prefaces, and new translations by Walter Kauffmann

Descent

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Plume

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Ex-lib, but good, clean & sound contents. Orange covers, diagonal split top of spine.

Gurdjieff

Wildwood House

Gurdjieff remembered,

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

Red Wheel/Weiser

The author recounts his boyhood friendship with Gurdjieff, shares his impressions of the philosopher, and attempts to depict his complex personality

My Journey With a Mystic

Tale Weaver

In 1924, at the age of eleven, Fritz Peters first met Gurdjieff, the great master who introduced the West to the teachings of the Fourth Way. This hardcover volume brings together all three of Peters' books on Gurdjieff for the first time. Boyhood with Gurdjieff covers Fritz Peters' time as a young troublemaker at Gurdjieff's Institute in Fontainbleau, France. Gurdjieff's unconventional yet strangely logical behavior made him the only adult who made sense to Fritz Peters. In a series of brilliantly told anecdotes, Peters relates Gurdjieff's impromptu and surprising responses to the day-to-day problems of the Institute. In Gurdjieff Remembered, Peters describes his adult encounters with Gurdjieff from 1932 to 1947. As an adult, Peters is more circumspect about Gurdjieff, but Gurdjieff still makes a huge impression on him as a man who lives in the present, heedless of the opinions of others. Peters' third and final book about Gurdjieff, the rare Balanced Man, which has never before been published in the USA, looks back at the previous two books, and to the future of Gurdjieff's teaching.

Boyhood With Gurdjieff; Gurdjieff Remembered; Balanced Man

Religion & Spirituality

New Age & Spirituality

Bardic Pr

Finistère (Little Sister's Classics)

United States

Arsenal Pulp Press

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