Stand Still Like The Hummingbird

Author : Henry Miller
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811203220

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One of Henry Miller's most luminous statements of his personal philosophy of life, Stand Still Like the Hummingbird, provides a symbolic title for this collection of stories and essays. Many of them have appeared only in foreign magazines while others were printed in small limited editions which have gone out of print. Miller's genius for comedy is at its best in "Money and How It Gets That Way"--a tongue-in-cheek parody of "economics" provoked by a postcard from Ezra Pound which asked if he "ever thought about money." His deep concern for the role of the artist in society appears in "An Open Letter to All and Sundry," and in "The Angel is My Watermark" he writes of his own passionate love affair with painting. "The Immorality of Morality" is an eloquent discussion of censorship. Some of the stories, such as "First Love," are autobiographical, and there are portraits of friends, such as "Patchen: Man of Anger and Light," and essays on other writers such as Walt Whitman, Thoreau, Sherwood Anderson and Ionesco. Taken together, these highly readable pieces reflect the incredible vitality and variety of interests of the writer who extended the frontiers of modern literature with Tropic of Cancer and other great books.

Author : Henry Miller
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1962-06-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811224031

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Stand Still Like the Hummingbird by Henry Miller Pdf

One of Henry Miller's most luminous statements of his personal philosophy of life, Stand Still Like the Hummingbird, provides a symbolic title for this collection of stories and essays. Many of them have appeared only in foreign magazines while others were printed in small limited editions which have gone out of print. Miller's genius for comedy is at its best in "Money and How It Gets That Way"—a tongue-in-cheek parody of "economics" provoked by a postcard from Ezra Pound which asked if he "ever thought about money." His deep concern for the role of the artist in society appears in "An Open Letter to All and Sundry," and in "The Angel is My Watermark" he writes of his own passionate love affair with painting. "The Immorality of Morality" is an eloquent discussion of censorship. Some of the stories, such as "First Love," are autobiographical, and there are portraits of friends, such as "Patchen: Man of Anger and Light," and essays on other writers such as Walt Whitman, Thoreau, Sherwood Anderson and Ionesco. Taken together, these highly readable pieces reflect the incredible vitality and variety of interests of the writer who extended the frontiers of modern literature with Tropic of Cancer and other great books.

Author : Henry Miller
Publisher : [Norfolk, Conn.] New Directions [1962]
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UCSC:32106002130109

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Stand Still Like the Hummingbird by Henry Miller Pdf

One of Henry Miller's most luminous statements of his personal philosophy of life, Stand Still Like the Hummingbird, provides a symbolic title for this collection of stories and essays. Many of them have appeared only in foreign magazines while others were printed in small limited editions which have gone out of print. Miller's genius for comedy is at its best in Money and How It Gets That Way--a tongue-in-cheek parody of economics provoked by a postcard from Ezra Pound which asked if he ever thought about money. His deep concern for the role of the artist in society appears in An Open Letter to All and Sundry, and in The Angel is My Watermark he writes of his own passionate love affair with painting. The Immorality of Morality is an eloquent discussion of censorship. Some of the stories, such as First Love, are autobiographical, and there are portraits of friends, such as Patchen: Man of Anger and Light, and essays on other writers such as Walt Whitman, Thoreau, Sherwood Anderson and Ionesco. Taken together, these highly readable pieces reflect the incredible vitality and variety of interests of the writer who extended the frontiers of modern literature with Tropic of Cancer and other great books.

Author : Henry Miller
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811212262

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Aller Retour New York by Henry Miller Pdf

Aller Retour New York is truly vintage Henry Miller, written during his most creative period, between Tropic of Cancer (1934) and Tropic of Capricorn (1939). Miller always said that his best writing was in his letters, and this unbuttoned missive to his friend Alfred Perlès is not only his longest (nearly 80 pages!) but his best--an exuberant, rambling, episodic, humorous account of his visit to New York in 1935 and return to Europe aboard a Dutch ship. Despite its high repute among Miller devotees, Aller Retour New York has never been easy to find. It was first brought out in Paris in 1935 in a limited edition, and a second edition, "Printed for Private Circulation Only," was issued in the United States ten years later. It is now available in paperback as a Revived Modern Classic, with an introduction by George Wickes that illuminates the people and personal circumstances which inform Aller Retour New York.

Author : Henry Miller
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811218573

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The Colossus of Maroussi by Henry Miller Pdf

Henry Miller’s landmark travel book, now reissued in a new edition, is ready to be stuffed into any vagabond’s backpack. Like the ancient colossus that stood over the harbor of Rhodes, Henry Miller’s The Colossus of Maroussi stands as a seminal classic in travel literature. It has preceded the footsteps of prominent travel writers such as Pico Iyer and Rolf Potts. The book Miller would later cite as his favorite began with a young woman’s seductive description of Greece. Miller headed out with his friend Lawrence Durrell to explore the Grecian countryside: a flock of sheep nearly tramples the two as they lie naked on a beach; the Greek poet Katsmbalis, the “colossus” of Miller’s book, stirs every rooster within earshot of the Acropolis with his own loud crowing; cold hard-boiled eggs are warmed in a village’s single stove, and they stay in hotels that “have seen better days, but which have an aroma of the past.”

Author : Henry Miller
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0811201082

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The Books in My Life by Henry Miller Pdf

In this unique work, Henry Miller gives an utterly candid and self-revealing account of the reading he did during his formative years.

Author : Henry Miller
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-20
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780811222365

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The Wisdom of the Heart by Henry Miller Pdf

An essential collection of writings, bursting with Henry Miller’s exhilarating candor and wisdom In this selection of stories and essays, Henry Miller elucidates, revels, and soars, showing his command over a wide range of moods, styles, and subject matters. Writing “from the heart,” always with a refreshing lack of reticence, Miller involves the reader directly in his thoughts and feelings. “His real aim,” Karl Shapiro has written, “is to find the living core of our world whenever it survives and in whatever manifestation, in art, in literature, in human behavior itself. It is then that he sings, praises, and shouts at the top of his lungs with the uncontainable hilarity he is famous for.” Here are some of Henry Miller’s best-known writings: an essay on the photographer Brassai; “Reflections on Writing,” in which Miller examines his own position as a writer; “Seraphita” and “Balzac and His Double,” on the works of other writers; and “The Alcoholic Veteran,” “Creative Death,” “The Enormous Womb,” and “The Philosopher Who Philosophizes.”

Author : Henry Miller
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811201112

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The Henry Miller Reader by Henry Miller Pdf

A collection of works spanning the entire career of great 20th-century American writer Henry Miller, edited and introduced by Lawrence Durrell.

Author : Henry Miller
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1944-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811224048

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Sunday After the War by Henry Miller Pdf

"I always carry over 40,000 gold francs about with me in my belt. They weight about 40 pounds, and I am beginning to get dysentery from the load." A collection of stories and excerpts from longer works.

Author : Graciela LimÑn
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1996-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1611922925

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Song of the Hummingbird by Graciela LimÑn Pdf

An Aztec princess describes the Spanish conquest of Mexico. She is Huitzitzlin, 82, of the court of Montezuma and she tells her tale to a priest so history will know who the Aztecs really were. By the author of The Memories of Ana Calderon.

Author : Henry Miller
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1957-01-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780811219709

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Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch by Henry Miller Pdf

In his great triptych "The Millennium," Bosch used oranges and other fruits to symbolize the delights of Paradise. In his great triptych “The Millennium,” Bosch used oranges and other fruits to symbolize the delights of Paradise. Whence Henry Miller’s title for this, one of his most appealing books; first published in 1957, it tells the story of Miller’s life on the Big Sur, a section of the California coast where he lived for fifteen years. Big Sur is the portrait of a place—one of the most colorful in the United States—and of the extraordinary people Miller knew there: writers (and writers who did not write), mystics seeking truth in meditation (and the not-so-saintly looking for sex-cults or celebrity), sophisticated children and adult innocents; geniuses, cranks and the unclassifiable, like Conrad Moricand, the “Devil in Paradise” who is one of Miller’s greatest character studies. Henry Miller writes with a buoyancy and brimming energy that are infectious. He has a fine touch for comedy. But this is also a serious book—the testament of a free spirit who has broken through the restraints and clichés of modern life to find within himself his own kind of paradise.

Author : Henry Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Money
ISBN : UOM:39015056053989

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Money and how it Gets that Way by Henry Miller Pdf

Author : Henry Miller
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0811201066

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The Air-conditioned Nightmare by Henry Miller Pdf

His stories and essays celebrate those rare individuals (famous and obscure) whose creative resilience and mere existence oppose the mechanization of minds and souls.

Author : Henry Miller,Irving Stettner
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811208915

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From Your Capricorn Friend by Henry Miller,Irving Stettner Pdf

Presents the best of Miller's contributions to Stroker magazine, which included prose, letters, and drawings ranging in subject matter from his daily activities to Isaac Bashevis Singer's Nobel Prize acceptance speech.

Author : Natalie Lloyd
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781338654615

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Hummingbird by Natalie Lloyd Pdf

A Schneider Family Book Award Honor Book From the bestselling author of A Snicker of Magic comes a heartfelt story about a girl who -- armed with her trusty, snazzy wheelchair -- refuses to let her brittle bone disease stand in the way of adventure Twelve-year-old homeschooled Olive is tired of being seen as "fragile" just because she has osteogenesis imperfecta (otherwise known as brittle bone disease) so she's thrilled when she finally convinces her parents to let her attend Macklemore Elementary. Olive can't wait to go to a traditional school and make the friends she's always longed for, until a disastrous first day dashes her hopes of ever fitting in. Then Olive hears whispers about a magical, wish-granting hummingbird that supposedly lives near Macklemore. It’ll be the solution to all her problems! If she can find the bird and prove herself worthy, the creature will make her most desperate, secret wish come true. When it becomes clear that she can't solve the mystery on her own, Olive teams up with some unlikely allies who help her learn the truth about the bird. And on the way, she just might learn that our fragile places lead us to the most wonderful magic of all...