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- Mar 4, 2007
- Real Name
- myrna gwin called miriam (hebrew name)
- About My Library
- I have reduced my library by half so my catalog is out of date. I now have mostly english 19th and 20th century fiction,with some European, Latin American, Asian and African fiction. I have a lot of English and American poetry, and European,Latin American, Yiddish and Hebrew in dual language and translation. There is also literary criticsm,economics, political theory, biography, history and philosophy. I have a few hundred art books. I have come to love the modern Polish poets, but I cannot read Polish. I collect short story and poetry anthologies in dual language if possible.
- About Me
- I am 88, widowed,a retired systems analyst/programmer and former art teacher. Product of the U of Chicago Great Books College in the 40's. Humanist,feminist, progressive and grandmother. I am giving my books away slowly.
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- Tampa, Fl
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- Alfred Portale's Twelve Seasons Cookbook: A Month-by-Month Guide to the Best There is to Eat by Alfred PortaleSephardic Cooking: 600 Recipes Created in Exotic Sephardic Kitchens from Morocco to India by Copeland MarksFixing the World: Jewish American Painters in the Twentieth Century (Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life) by Ori Z. SoltesEdouard Vuillard by Andrew Carnduff Museum of Modern Art New York Ritchie, N.Y. ; Cleveland Museum of Art.The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History by Robert M. EdselPurple Hibiscus: A Novel by Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi published by Anchor (2004) by chimamanda ngozi adichieGood Evening, Mrs Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes (Persephone Classics) by Mollie Panter-DownesSilencing the Past (20th anniversary edition): Power and the Production of History by Michel-Rolph TrouillotCarmen dvd by bizetIn a French Kitchen: Tales and Traditions of Everyday Home Cooking in France by Susan Herrmann LoomisHow to Read literature Like a Professor: A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form by Thomas C. Foster
- Favorite Authors
- Vladislav Khodasevich, Aeschylus, Anna Ahkmatova, Guillaume Apollinaire, Hannah Arendt, Aristotle, Louis Armstrong, art tatum and ben webster, Machado de Assis, Jane Austen, Isaac Babel, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ingeborg Bachmann, Honoré de Balzac, Béla Bartók, Cecilia Bartoli, Charles Baudelaire, John Bayley, Samuel Beckett, Max Beckmann, Ludwig van Beethoven, Louis Begley, Saul Bellow, Vanessa Bell, Walter Benjamin, Rose Levy Beranbaum, Nina Berberova, Isaiah Berlin, Thomas Bernhard, Mark Bittman, Heinrich Böll, Harold Bloom, Elizabeth Bowen, Georges Braque, Bertolt Brecht, Hermann Broch, Anita Brookner, Fanny Burney, John le Carré, Elliott Carter, Paul Celan, Geoffrey Chaucer, Anton Chekhov, Julia Child, J. M. Coetzee, Ivy Compton-Burnett, William Congreve, Anna Del Conte, E. E. Cummings, Elizabeth David, Miles Davis, Robert Desnos, Emily Dickinson, Margaret Anne Doody, Maria Edgeworth, George Eliot, T. S. Eliot, Paul Eluard, Euripides, Bill Evans, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Carol Field, Ida Fink, Penelope Fitzgerald, E. M. Forster, Max Frisch, Robert Frost, Elizabeth Gaskell, William H. Gass, Edward Giobbi, Nikolai Gogol, Joyce Esersky Goldstein, Glenn Gould, Graham Greene, Juan Gris, Vasily Grossman, George Frideric Handel, Coleman Hawkins, Marcella Hazan, Maida Heatter, Zbigniew Herbert, Billie Holiday, Homer, Gerard Manley Hopkins, David Hume, Henry James, James Joyce, Frida Kahlo, Immanuel Kant, Lynne Rossetto Kasper, Hugh Kenner, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Paul Klee, Oskar Kokoschka, John Locke, Robert Lowell, Sheila Lukins, Stéphane Mallarmé, Olivia Manning, Henri Matisse, Edna St. Vincent Millay, John Stuart Mill, Czesław Miłosz, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Amedeo Modigliani, Thelonious Monk, Eugenio Montale, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Vladimir Nabokov, Pablo Neruda, Jessye Norman, Seán O'Casey, Flannery O'Connor, Clifford Odets, Eugene O'Neill, Cynthia Ozick, Grace Paley, Nicanor Parra, Cesare Pavese, Fernando Pessoa, Pablo Picasso, Ezra Pound, Sergei Rachmaninoff, John Rawls, Terry Riley, Arthur Rimbaud, Claudia Roden, Sonny Rollins, Julee Rosso, Joseph Roth, Philip Roth, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, William Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, I. J. Singer, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Tobias Smollett, Sophocles, Muriel Spark, Gertrude Stein, Stendahl, Laurence Sterne, wyslawa symborska, John Millington Synge, Tōru Takemitsu, Elizabeth Taylor, William Makepeace Thackeray, Colm Tóibín, Leo Tolstoy, Honor Tracy, Anthony Trollope, Barbara Tropp, Ivan Turgenev, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Cesar Vallejo, Giovanni Verga, Paul Verlaine, Giambattista Vico, Antonio Vivaldi, Eudora Welty, Edith Wharton, Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, Paula Wolfert, James Wood, Frank Lloyd Wright, William Wycherley, Lester Young
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