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KIPLING, AUDEN & CO.
In a series of essays on Kipling, Jarrell echoed Mark Twain's remark that "it isn't what they don't know that hurts people, it's what they do know that isn't so." He urged readers to forget what they thought they knew...
At his death he left two collections of his essays and reviews, Poetry and the Age and A Sad Heart at the Supermarket. In 1969 The Third Book of Criticism was published posthumously. Most of his last remaining pieces are now gathered in Kipling, Auden & Co. The result, inevitably, is...
The Last Nomad recaps these earlier works in text and photos, and then pushes on into Persia, Kurdistan, Afghanistan, the mountains of the Hindu Kush and the rocky heights of the Yemen. After 20 years, Thesiger's words and photographs maintain a clarity and freshness rarely found in books...
J.G.B.'s success is based on an intelligently demanding choice of texts, a discussion method called "shared inquiry," and on precise, literate questions calculated to unlock the pleasures and mysteries in each story's heart. For both students and discussion leaders there are some unusual rules. Program leaders...