Thomas Mann: The Making of an Artist, 1875-1911

WINSTON, Richard

KNOPF

One of the great philosophers of the 20th Century, Josef Pieper, gives a penetrating introduction and guide to the life and works of perhaps the greatest philosopher ever, St. Thomas Aquinas. Pieper provides a biography of Aquinas, an overview of the 13th century he lived in, and a wonderful synthesis of his vast writings. Pieper shows how Aquinas reconciled the pragmatic thought of Aristotle with the Church, proving that realistic knowledge need not preclude belief in the spiritual realities of religion. According to Pieper, the marriage of faith and reason proposed by Aquinas in his great synthesis of a "theologically founded worldliness" was not merely one solution among many, but the great principle expressing the essence of the Christian West. Pieper reveals his extraordinary command of original sources and excellent secondary materials as he illuminates the thought of the great intellectual Doctor of the Church.

Guide to Thomas Aquinas

Biographies & Memoirs

Pieper, Josef

Winston, Clara

Leaders & Notable People

Univ of Notre Dame Pr

This book is a magnificently rich and complete portrait of Thomas Mann up to the midpoint of his life, from his tempestuous youth through the years of early brilliance that shaped his art, to 1911 and the creation of "Death in Venice."

Thomas Mann: The making of an artist, 1875-1911

This selection of Thomas Mann's letters, first published in a Vintage edition in 1975, spans sixty-six years from the first, written by a precocious fourteen-year-old, to the last, composed on his deathbed by the eighty-year-old Nobel Laureate, and includes letters to family and to such celebrated contemporaries as Gide, Freud, Brecht, Einstein, Hesse, Schoenberg, and Adorno. Covering two world wars and exile in Europe and America, Mann's letters offer the reader insight into the concerns and values of one of the great writers of our time.

Letters of Thomas Mann 1889-1955: 1942-1955

MANN, THOMAS

Winston, Clare

Literature & Fiction

Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)

Letters to Friends, Family and Editors

The most comprehensive edition in print of Kafka's letters, with ample notes and an indexPresenting Kafka as son, brother, student, friend, lover, writer, and critic, this volume reveals his fascination for life in all its complex, absurd, and tragic manifestations. Though aware of the precariousness of letterwriting, Franz Kafka entrusted to letters many of his thoughts, impressions, experiences, and expectations. These letters—which follow Kafka's life from his student years through his experience as an insurance clerk to his final days, and explore his friendships with Max Brod, Felix Weltsch, and Oskar Baum—confirm his place as one of the great letter-writers of the 20th century.

KAFKA, FRANZ

Calder Publications Ltd

In the remote Kingdom of Castalia, the scholars of the Twenty Third century play the Glass Bead Game. The elaborately coded game is a fusion of all human knowledge - of maths, music, philosophy, science, and art. Intrigued as a school boy, Joseph Knecht becomes consumed with mastering the game as an adult. As Knecht fulfills his life-long quest, he must contend with unexpected dilemmas and the longing for a life beyond the ivory tower.

The Glass Bead Game

HESSE,HERMANN

Literary

Peter Smith Pub Inc

Peter Bedrick Books

An illustrated history of the Gothic cathedral which has figured in important events for eight hundred years

Notre-Dame de Paris, (Wonders of man)

History

Europe

Newsweek

Beautiful glossy cover and great ilustrations.

Notre Dame De Paris

Charlemagne

From his father, Charlemagne inherited only a part of the Frankish kingdom - little more than half of modern France and the Low Countries. Before his astonishing career had ended, he had conquered half of Europe and his armies had marched through Italy, Germany, and Spain. In a glittering Christmas Day ceremony in Rome, in the year 800, he was crowned the new Holy Roman Emperor. More than the heroic conqueror of Western Europe, Charlemagne was an intense and thoughtful human being. His succession of five wives brought him a palace full of children. So warm was his love for his daughters that he could never bear to see them married away from the court, even though enticing alliances with other rulers were offered them. A deeply religious man, Charlemagne became the protector of orthodox Christianity against medieval heresies. A patron of learning, he established schools and brought artists and scholars to his court to work and study. As a result, most classical literature comes down to us in copies of books made in Charlemagne's time. Here, from National Book Award winner Richard Winston, is his remarkable story

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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