Intro to Library Science

Pierce Butler

University of Chicago Press

In 1922, the New Zealand writer Katherine Mansfield was on the verge of literary celebrity. She was the friend of Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence, and her remarkable stories were changing the way people thought about the form. But she was also deeply unhappy in her marriage to John Middleton Murry and she was dying of tuberculosis. When she abandoned the nomadic life of an invalid in search of the ideal climate and put herself in the hands of George Ivanovich Gurdjieff, she was taking a step into the unknown. A mystic of Greek and Armenian parentage, Gurdjieff had traveled extensively among esoteric communities in the East before he fled the Revolution in Russia and established himself as a teacher in France. His Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man occupied the Prieuré de Basse Loges, a magnificent chateau in the woods of Fontainebleau. When Katherine Mansfield left Paris to live at the Prieuré, she ceased to write in her celebrated Journal. Taking up where the Journal leaves off, A Child of the Sun follows the course of Mansfield's inner life at the Prieuré, recounting her meetings with the remarkable people who had gathered about Gurdjieff: the editor and critic Alfred Orage; Olgivanna Hinzenberg, future wife of Frank Lloyd Wright; P. D. Ouspensky, whose books introduced Gurdjieff to the West. Mansfield is at first put off by Gurdjieff's rough and ready manner, and his offhand treatment of his students. But as her understanding of his method grows and as her physical condition deteriorates she experiences his great compassion and perceives the possibility of attaining the inner freedom that has eluded her throughout her life.

A Child of the Sun

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Beech Hill Publishing Company Inc

This chapbook is a 36 page Index prepared by professional indexer, Pierce Butler. Professor Butler has studied and practiced the Gurdjieff Teaching for over 30 years. In creating the index for Gurdjieff's 1,238 page book, he draws upon 40 years' experience as a professional indexer. The index works with the Penguin/Arkana single-volume paperback edition of Beelzebub s Tales to His Grandson (1999) which was based on the original 1950 Harcourt, Brace text (with typographical corrections and the addition of two missing paragraphs). It can also be used with the Two Rivers Press edition of 1993 (a facsimile reproduction of the original 1950 edition) with allowance for minor discrepancies in the page references for Chapter 32, "Hypnotism," in Book II (pp. 558-578) on account of the missing paragraphs on page 568. Many, if not most, of the non-English words used in Tales, are included on the grounds that this communicates the flavor (if not the sense) of the text. There are a number of summary entries (Transformation of cosmic substances; Vibrations) that draw together various thematically related parts of the text in their lists of sub-entries. The Index is of primary interest to students of The Fourth Way who have read and studied or are concurrently reading G.I. Gurdjieff s Beelzebub s Tales to His Grandson.

An Index for G.I. Gurdjieff s All and Everything First Series: Beelzebub s Tales to His Grandson

Dead In Good Company is a compelling collection of essays, poems and wildlife photographs of Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Sweet Auburn, as it is affectionately known, is America's first garden cemetery. An amazing group of authors have come together to celebrate this unique resource - including Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz; historical novelist William Martin; former Mayor of Boston and Ambassador to the Vatican, Ray Flynn; Boston author and television icon, Hank Phillippi Ryan; Pulitzer Prize winner, Megan Marshall; mystery/true-crime author Kate Flora; mystery author Katherine Hall Page; medical thriller author Gary Goshgarian (Braver); broadcasting legend Upton Bell; world renowned bird guide author and artist David Sibley; drama critic, author and host of the Theatre World Awards, Peter Filichia; screen writer, author Chris Keane; Mass Audubon's Wayne Petersen; Talkin' Birds radio host, Ray Brown; author, naturalist Peter Alden; founder of Project Coyote, Camilla Fox; Director of the World Bird Sanctuary, Jeff Meshach; senior scientist for wildlife at the Humane Society of the United States, John Hadidian; historian Dee Morris; and sports writer and commentator, Dan Shaughnessy. Come join us on this fantastic journey.

Dead In Good Company

Wayne R. Petersen

Alan M. Dershowitz

Clare Walker Leslie

Peter Alden

John Hadidian

Kim Nagy

Christopher Keane

Gayle Lakin

Sandra Lee

Elsa Lichman

Megan Marshall

William Martin

Joe Martinez

Edith Maxwell

Anneliese Merrigan

Jeffrey Scott Meshach

Dee Morris

Susan Moses

Helen Hannon

Maryanne O'Hara

Neil A. O'Hara

Katherine Hall Page

Mary Pinard

Paul M. Roberts

Hank Phillippi Ryan

Dan Shaughnessy

David Sibley

Leslie Wheeler

Gary Goshgarian (Gary Braver)

Camilla H. Fox

Ray Flynn

Kate Flora

Peter Filichia

Nanacy Esposito

George Ellenbogen

Wendy Drexler

Linda Darman

Douglas E. Chickering

Ray Brown

Je Anne Strott-Branca

Connie Biewald

Upton Bell

Ray, Daniel

John, Harrison

Ziggy Owl Press

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