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2) Mistakes were made (but not by me): why we justify foolish beliefs, bad decisions, and hurtful acts
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Two distinguished psychologists look at the role of self-justification in human life, explaining how and why we create fictions that absolve us of responsibility and restore our belief in our intelligence, moral rectitude, and correctness; assess the potential repercussions of such a course of action; and reveal how it can be overcome.
Author
Series
Harvest book volume HB244
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers
Pub. Date
[1973]
Language
English
Description
Examines the rise of antisemitism in Central and Western European Jewish history in the 19th century, European colonial imperialism from 1884 to World War I, and the institutions and operations of totalitarian movements and governments.
Author
Series
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[1972], ©1961
Language
English
Description
Down and Out in Paris and London follows the journey of a writer among the down-and-out in two great cities. Without self-pity and often with humor, this novel is Orwell at his finest—a sobering, truthful protrayal of poverty and society.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
1976.
Language
English
Description
Cavafy, the foremost modern Greek poet, is a master at presenting a scene, an intense feeling, or an idea in direct, unornamented verse. Many of the poems are openly homosexual. Sixty-three newly translated poems have been added to the widely praised edition which includes the classic poem "Ithaca." Introduction by W. H. Auden. Translated by Rae Dalven.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich/Bruccoli Clark
Pub. Date
©1981
Language
English
Description
The acclaimed author presents his unique insights into the works of great Russian authors including Tolstoy, Dostoevski, Gogol, Gorki, and Chekhov.
In the 1940s, when Vladimir Nabokov first embarked on his academic career in the United States, he brought with him hundreds of original lectures on the authors he most admired. For two decades those lectures served as the basis for Nabokov's teaching, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, as he introduced...
9) The spire
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace & Co
Pub. Date
[1992], ©1946
Language
English
Description
The vision that drives Dean Jocelin to construct an immense new spire above his cathedral tests the limits of all who surround him. The foundationless stone pillars shriek and the earth beneath them heaves under the structure's weight as the Dean's will weighs down his collapsing faith.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1974, c1942]
Language
English
Description
A highly acclaimed collection of twenty-eight essays, sketches, and short stories presenting nearly every facet of Virginia Woolf's work, mainly on literary, personal, biographical, theatrical, and social subjects.
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