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by Arthur Christopher Benson
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing (2004-06)
Binding/Media: Paperback - 172 pages
SKU: 27591
Condition: G / NONE

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What no doubt heightened the pleasure for me was that I had been passing through a somewhat dreary period. Things had been going wrong, had tied themselves into knots. Several people whose fortunes had been bound up with my own had been acting perversely and unreasonably--at least I chose to think so. My own work had come to a standstill. I had pushed on perhaps too fast, and I had got into a bare sort of moorland tract of life, and could not discern the path in the heather. There did not seem any particular task for me to undertake; the people whom it was my business to help, if I could, seemed unaccountably and aggravatingly prosperous and independent.

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Candelabra: Selected Essays and Addresses

by John Galsworthy
Publisher: Fredonia Books (NL) (2001-06-01)
Binding/Media: Paperback - 320 pages
SKU: 13244
Condition: G+

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Essays and addresses are supposed to be enlightening: that is why Galsworthy has called this selection of them Candelabra. But whether the candles are alight is for the reader rather than the author to judge.

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Emerson's Essays

by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher: Harper Perennial (1981-07-24)
Binding/Media: Paperback - 480 pages
SKU: 41801
Condition: VG

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The only collection of the complete First and Second Series of essays by America's most popular sage, available in an affordable paperback edition. A must for students of American culture and literature.

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Mammoth Book of Private Lives

by Jon Lewis
Publisher: Robinson Publishing (1999-11-11)
Binding/Media: Paperback - 508 pages
SKU: 47761
Condition: VG

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Three hundred unforgettable missives from classical antiquity to the present day: a letter from Cicero's about his dinner with Caesar, and another from Elvis Presley offering himself to President Nixon as an FBI agent. There are letters of love, war, family affairs, high politics, financial disaster, rural life, exploration, poverty, immigration, artistic endeavour, spirital awakeneing, reportage, health, gossip, last letters fom the condemned, and the spurned, letters written in madness, sadness and badness. Every letter in this collection reveals a startling insight into an age or a hitherto unsuspected side to a well-known personality.

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Traveling Souls: Contemporary Pilgrimage Stories

by (Editor: Brian Bouldrey)
Publisher: Whereabouts Press (1999-10-15)
Binding/Media: Paperback - 208 pages
Edition: 1
SKU: 81327
Condition: VG

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from the Foreword by Pico Iver
"Reading the wonderfully varied and unexpected stories assembled here, I was struck by how much the notion of pilgrimage today has to do with retrieving a sense of purpose (and simplicity, and constancy); with putting oneself, quite literally, in the footsteps of the past. Once upon a less secular time, almost everyone made pilgrimages, and most of the great works of our early literature--Dante's ascent into the stars, Chaucer's wanderers to Canterbury, the tales of Orpheus and Odysseus and Hercules--commemorate both inward and outward journeys; these days, I suspect, many of us travel in part to experience pilgrimage by proxy. Most of the travelers in this volume leave home, as I have done, to partake of someone else's pilgrimage, and so to learn what animates people to undertake such sacrificial tasks; the destination of pilgrimage is pilgrimage itself."

Table of Contents

Pico Iyer Foreword
Brian Bouldrey Preface

Abigail Seymour, "Ultreya"
Malcolm X, "Mecca"
Alice Walker, "Looking for Zora"
Alane Salierno Mason, "Holy City"
Marvin Barrett, "Climbing to Christmas"
Rachel Kadish, "Reparation Spoken Here?"
Gretel Ehrlich, "The Road to Emei Shan"
John Hanson Mitchell, "Providence Hill"
Barbara Wilson , "Joshua Tree"
Michael Wolfe, "When Men and Mountains Meet"
Satish Kumar, "Iona"
Anne Cushman, "Spiritual Discomfort"
Oliver Statler, "Japanese Pilgrimage"
Jennifer Lash, "Lourdes"
Gary Paul Nabhan, "La Verna's Wounds"