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Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
Mariner Books Classics, January 2019. Trade Paperback. A selection of works from one of the most original cultural critics of the twentieth century--as selected by Hannah Arendt and including a classic essay of her own about Walter Benjamin's life and philosophy.¶ "There has been no more original, no more serious..... More
The Storyteller Essays
NYRB Classics, July 2019. Trade Paperback. A new translation of philosopher Walter Benjamin's work as it pertains to his famous essay, "The Storyteller," this collection includes short stories, book reviews, parables, and as a selection of writings by other authors who had an influence on Benjamin's work. "The Storyteller" is..... More
About Looking
Vintage, January 1992. Trade Paperback. As a novelist, art critic, and cultural historian, Booker Prize-winning author John Berger is a writer of dazzling eloquence and arresting insight whose work amounts to a subtle, powerful critique of the canons of our civilization. In About Looking he explores our role as observers..... More
A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor
Vintage, March 1997. Trade Paperback. In this quietly revolutionary work of social observation and medical philosophy, Booker Prize-winning writer John Berger and the photographer Jean Mohr train their gaze on an English country doctor and find a universal man--one who has taken it upon himself to recognize his patient's humanity..... More
G.: A Novel
Vintage, January 1992. Trade Paperback. Explores the intersection of the erotic and the historic through the life and loves of a young man forging an energetic sexual career against the turbulent backdrop of northern Italy in the early decades of this century. More
Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance (Vintage International)
Vintage, November 2008. Trade Paperback. From a Booker Prize-winning author and one of the most impassioned of writers of our time, this powerful collection of essays offers a stark portrait of post-9/11 realities. John Berger occupies a unique position in the international cultural landscape: artist, filmmaker, poet, philosopher, novelist, and..... More
Pig Earth: Book One of the Into Their Labours Trilogy
Vintage, October 1992. Trade Paperback. With this haunting first volume in his Into Their Labours trilogy, John Berger begins his chronicle of the eclipse of peasant cultures in the twentieth century. Set in a small village in the French Alps, Pig Earth relates the stories of skeptical, hard-working men and..... More
Selected Essays
Vintage, March 2003. Trade Paperback. The writing career of Booker Prize winner John Berger-poet, storyteller, playwright, and essayist-has yielded some of the most original and compelling examinations of art and life of the past half century. In this essential volume, Geoff Dyer has brought together a rich selection of many..... More
A Seventh Man
Verso, October 2010. Trade Paperback. More
Ways of Seeing: Based on the BBC Television Series
Penguin Books, December 1990. Trade Paperback. "The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled" -- so opens John Berger's revolutionary million-copy bestseller on how to look at art John Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and the most influential books on..... More
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist
NYRB Classics, September 1999. Trade Paperback. In 1892, Alexander Berkman, Russian émigré, anarchist, and lover of Emma Goldman, attempted to assassinate industrialist Henry Clay Frick. The act was intended both as retribution for the massacre of workers in the Homestead strike and as an incitement to revolution. Captured and sentenced..... More
The Farm
Counterpoint, October 2018. Hardcover. A collector's edition, and the perfect gift for the stalwart Wendell Berry fan. First printed in 1995 by Gray Zeitz of the beloved Larkspur Press in Monterey, Kentucky, this gift edition is a beautiful reproduction of Wendell Berry's book-length poem, illustrated with the original drawings by..... More
Fidelity: Five Stories
Counterpoint, August 2018. Trade Paperback. Reissued as part of Counterpoint's celebration of beloved American author Wendell Berry, the five stories in Fidelity return readers to Berry's fictional town of Port William, Kentucky, and the familiar characters who form a tight-knit community within. "Berry richly evokes Port William's farmlands and hamlets..... More
The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry
Counterpoint, August 1999. Trade Paperback. This poetry collection about nature, community, and tradition is a stunning primer on the poetic works of the award-winning Kentucky writer, environmentalist, and cultural critic. The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry gathers one hundred poems written between 1957 and 1996. Chosen by the author, these..... More
The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
Counterpoint, September 2015. Trade Paperback. Since its publication in 1977, The Unsettling of America has been recognized as a classic of American letters. In it, Wendell Berry argues that good farming is a cultural and spiritual discipline. Today's agribusiness, however, takes farming out of its cultural context and away from..... More
The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry
Counterpoint, May 2019. Trade Paperback. The most comprehensive?and only author-authorized?Wendell Berry reader, "America's greatest philosopher on sustainable life and living" (Chicago Tribune). In a time when our relationship to the natural world is ruled by the violence and greed of unbridled consumerism, Wendell Berry speaks out in these prescient essays..... More
All Aboard! Trains Activity & Coloring Book (Dover Kids Activity Books)
Dover Publications, October 2006. Trade Paperback. If you're looking for a fun book about trains, choo-choo-choose this one! Ride the rails with 25 pages of simple brainteasers, including hidden pictures, crosswords, and connect-the-dots -- they ALL feature trains! You'll find a train circling a Christmas tree, a weird railroad station..... More
A Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising (New York Review Books Classics)
NYRB Classics, October 2015. Trade Paperback. On August 1, 1944, Miron Bialoszewski, later to gain renown as one of Poland's most innovative poets, went out to run an errand for his mother and ran into history. With Soviet forces on the outskirts of Warsaw, the Polish capital revolted against five..... More
The Little Captain
Pushkin Children's Books, September 2022. Trade Paperback. A timeless and enchanting children's fantasy classic by the author of The King of the Copper Mountains One morning, after a fierce storm, the people of the harbour come down to find a strange ship called the Neversink stuck fast on top of..... More
Geography III: Poems (FSG Classics)
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, March 2008. Trade Paperback. Whether writing about waiting as a child in a dentist's office, viewing a city from a plane high above, or losing items ranging from door keys to one's lover in the masterfully restrained One Art, Elizabeth Bishop somehow conveyed both large and..... More
Having and Being Had
Riverhead Books, August 2021. Trade Paperback. A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME, NPR, INSTYLE, AND GOOD HOUSEKEEPING "A sensational new book [that] tries to figure out whether it's possible to live an ethical life in a capitalist society. . .... More
The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II
Harper, September 2022. Hardcover. More
The Little Old Man Who Could Not Read
Purple House Press, June 2015. Hardcover. More
Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
Penguin Classics, August 2002. Trade Paperback. By turns bizarre, unsettling, spooky, and sublime, Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories showcases nine incomparable stories from master conjuror Algernon Blackwood. Evoking the uncanny spiritual forces of Nature, Blackwood's writings all tread the nebulous borderland between fantasy, awe, wonder, and horror. Here Blackwood..... More
