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  • The Garden of Eros

    The Story of the Paris Expatriates and the Post-war Literary Scene

    by John Calder ...
    The Garden of Eros brings to life some of last century’s leading cultural figures, who shaped our modern thinking and defined the tastes of an entire generation, changing for ever the way we look at literature and the world around us. Drawing from the accounts of two fellow publishers Maurice Girodias and Barney Rosset, who were also active in the heady days of 1950s and 1960s Paris, London and ... Read more

    $9.79 USD

  • Pursuit

    The Memoirs of John Calder

    by John Calder ...
    “Publish and be damned”, Wellington’s famous adage, runs like a leitmotiv through John Calder’s memoirs. He has been damned by a censorious press, by politicians, by other publishers and by organs of the state for publishing books on sensitive issues. Damned also for publishing such authors as Henry Miller, William Burroughs, Alexander Trocchi and Hubert Selby Jr, as well as for bringing to public ... Read more

    $10.09 USD

  • The Philosophy of Samuel Beckett

    by John Calder ...
    Increasingly Samuel Beckett’s writing is seen as the culmination of the great literature of the twentieth century succeeding the work of Proust, Joyce and Kafka. Beckett is a writer whose relevance to his time and use of poetic imagery can be compared to Shakespeare’s in the late Renaissance. John Calder has examined the work of Beckett principally for what it has to say about our time in terms of ... Read more

    $8.49 USD

  • The Theology of Samuel Beckett

    by John Calder ...
    Like all the greatest writers, Samuel Beckett was primarily interested in discovering the meaning and purpose of life and of the world into which we are born. Knowledgeable about the religion his family and education instilled in him, which as an adult he could neither accept nor reject, he used it extensively in his novels, plays and poetry. Beckett's works also explored philosophy and the ... Read more

    $9.79 USD

  • Solo

    by John Calder ...
    John Calder's new poetry collection, 'Solo', avoids strict poetic forms in favour of a casual and natural expression of thought. Honest in its pessimism, the tone is often questioning, and some of the biggest issues, such as politics and war, are not shirked. ... Read more

    $9.79 USD

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  • Modern Culture

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  • Reading Godot

    Waiting for Godot has been acclaimed as the greatest play of the twentieth century. It is also the most elusive: two lifelong friends sing, dance, laugh, weep, and question their fate on a road that descends from and goes nowhere. Throughout, they repeat their intention Let’s go,” but this is inevitably followed by the direction (They do not move.).” This is Beckett’s poetic construct of the human ... Read more

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  • Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (Book Analysis)

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    Unlock the more straightforward side of Waiting for Godot with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, a play which follows a pair of tramps over two days of their lives as they wait for a mysterious man called Godot. Nothing else really happens, and that is exactly the point of play: through the somewhat ... Read more

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