House Of Grand Illusions
Trompe l'oeil is a French phrase meaning "to fool the eye", and it's the name of an art-form which is all about illusion, subterfuge and fun. The technique involves using the laws of perspective to create an impression of depth on flat walls, [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Henrik Ibsen
Here, in a single volume, are four major plays by the first modern playwright, Henrick Ibsen. Ghosts -the startling portrayal of a family destroyed by disease and infidelity. The Wild Duck -- A poignant drama of lost illusions. An Enemy Of The ... [... more]
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Neil Bissoondath
Neil Bissoondath was born in Trinidad, and lives in Quebec. He is the author of several award-winning works of fiction, including A Casual Brutality, Digging Up the Mountains, The Innocence of Age, and in non-fiction, Selling Illusions. He is ... [... more]
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Jacob Slichter
How I Machine-Gunned a Roomful Of Record Executives and Other True Tales from a Drummer's Life After years of working day jobs and making music in his basement, Jacob Slichter wondered if his dreams of rock stardom were a vain illusion. Then he ... [... more]
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Christoph Peters
By one of the most promising novelists in Germany today, The Fabric of Night is a frightening, profound reflection on the nature of illusion and reality. Albin Kranz is a sculptor, haunted by hallucinations and by painful memories of his ... [... more]
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Zachary Karabell
Fourteen Centuries of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Conflict and Cooperation In a narrative that is at once thoughtful and passionate, hopeful but without illusions, award-winning historian Zachary Karabell reveals the history of peaceful ... [... more]
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Randolph Weaver
In this delightful memoir, Jean Renoir, the director of such masterpieces of the cinema as Grand Illusion and The Rules of the Game, tells the life story of his father, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the great Impressionist painter. Recounting ... [... more]
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Dorothy Weaver
In this delightful memoir, Jean Renoir, the director of such masterpieces of the cinema as Grand Illusion and The Rules of the Game, tells the life story of his father, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the great Impressionist painter. Recounting ... [... more]
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The Money Illusion
The budget should be balanced; the treasury should be refilled; public debt should be reduced; and the arrogance of public officials should be controlled. Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it ... [... more]
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Noah Hawley
This is Noah Hawley's first novel. He lives in San Francisco. In this remarkably smart and totally absorbing literary thriller, Noah Hawley cracks through our last remaining illusions about life in America to expose the dark, eccentric paranoia ... [... more]
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