intellectual life

"... follows the lives of four people born at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. Each of them came of age with unprecedented expectations, some as the children and grandchildren of the very architects of the new Russia, each with newfound aspirations of their own-as entrepreneurs, activists, thinkers, and writers, sexual and social beings ... charts their paths against the machinations of the regime that would crush them all, and against the war it waged on understanding itself, which ensured the unobstructed reemergence of the old Soviet order in the form of today's terrifying and seemingly unstoppable mafia state."--Dust jacket.

Presents a collection of essays that discuss the root causes of the decline of the American mind.

Discusses the life of Ernest Hemingway, beginning with early influences in Oak Park, Illinois, then his first job in Kansas City, and on to adventures in Italy, France, Spain, Key West, and Cuba, and reflects on those individuals and locations that inspired him, as well as the influence his critics had on his writing.

Nineteenth-century novel about Emma Bovary, the wife of a provincial doctor who seeks to escape her boredom by indulging in romantic fantasies and adulterous affairs.

An alphabetical guide to the major writers and works associated with the American Transcendentalist movement of the nineteenth century includes entries covering significant places, concepts, and periodicals of the movement.

Alberto Ruiz-Tagle exploits the 1973 coup in order to launch a multimedia enterprise that consists of sky-writing, torture, photography, murder, and verse.

A history of the Renaissance, examining the economic, social, and technological undergirdings of the sudden outpouring of genius, and providing analyses of specific artists and their works of literature, painting, sculpture, and architecture.

"In the mid-1930s, Irmina, an ambitious young German, moves to London. At cocktail party, she meets Howard Green, one of the first black students at Oxford, who like Irmina, is working towards an independent existence. However, their relationship comes to an abrupt end when Irmina, constrained by the political situation in Hitler's Germany is forced to return home. As war approaches and her contact with Howard is broken, it becomes clear to Irmina that prosperity will only be betrayal of her ideals"--Back cover.