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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Literary Existentialism France Horror tales, American History and criticism Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips) 1890-1937 Appreciation Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips) 1890-1937 Criticism and interpretation Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips) 1890-1937 Influence Philosophers Philosophy Philosophy, ModernNicolson, Juliet
Summary: "A family memoir that traces the myths, legends, and secrets of seven generations of remarkable women. All families have their myths and legends. For many years Juliet Nicolson accepted hers--the dangerous beauty of her flamenco dancing great-great-grandmother Pepita, the flirty manipulation of her great-grandmother Victoria, the infamous eccentricity of her grandmother Vita Sackville-West, her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
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Summary: Paris, 1933: three contemporaries meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are the young Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and longtime friend Raymond Aron, a fellow philosopher who raves to them about a new conceptual framework from Berlin called Phenomenology. “You see,” he says, “if you are a phenomenologist you can talk about this cocktail and make...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2016
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Summary: "In the Mountains of Madness interweaves the biography of the legendary writer with an exploration of Lovecraft as a phenomenon. It aims to explain this reclusive figure while also challenging some of the general views held by Lovecraft devotees, focusing specifically on the large cross-section of horror and science fiction fans who know Lovecraft through films, Role Playing Games, and video...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soft Skull Press 2016