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Gordon Frey
About My Library
My library is heavy in works about furniture, architecture, and social history, particularly before the Twentieth Century.
I am also an opera buff, so i have lots of scores and books about opera.
Also, I am interested in culinary history and foodways, so there is a good concentration of this type of material.
I read nearly all non-fiction
About Me
I am an assistant professor in the Interior Design Department at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City, and i teach a series of courses in Design History for Interior Designers.
Location
Verona, NJ
Currently Reading
The Edible Monument: The Art of Food for Festivals by Marcia Reed
Robert Adam: Country House Design, Decoration & the Art of Elegance by Jeremy Musson
The Mistresses of Cliveden: Three Centuries of Scandal, Power, and Intrigue in an English Stately Home by Natalie Livingstone
Introducing Feminist Theology by Anne M Clifford
The Golden Legend: Readings on the Saints, Vol. 1 (Volume 1) by Jacobus de Voragine
The Islamic Jesus: How the King of the Jews Became a Prophet of the Muslims by Mustafa Akyol
The Book of English Folk Tales by Sybil Marshall
O Sing unto the Lord: A History of English Church Music by Andrew Gant
The Battle Of Kadesh - Ramses Volume Iii by Christian Jacq
Care for Creation: A Franciscan Spirituality of the Earth by Ilia Delio O. S. F.
Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey by Nicola Tallis
Hardwick Hall: A Great Old Castle of Romance by David Adshead
H. M. S. Surprise (Aubrey / Maturin) by Patrick O'Brian
Landfalls: On the Edge of Islam from Zanzibar to the Alhambra [Paperback] [2011] (Author) Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Lincoln's White House: The People's House in Wartime by James B. Conroy
The Egyptian Revival: Ancient Egypt as the Inspiration for Design Motifs in the West by James Stevens Curl
Rumi's Secret: The Life of the Sufi Poet of Love by Brad Gooch
The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects by Deborah Lutz
BY Austen, Jane ( Author ) [{ Sense and Sensibility (Revised) (Penguin Classics) By Austen, Jane ( Author ) Apr - 29- 2003 ( Paperback ) } ] by Jane Austen
Katherine Howard: A New History by Conor Byrne
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: Two Volumes in One (Tuttle Classics) by Lafcadio Hearn
King Without a Crown Albert Prince Conso by Daphne Bennett
The Golden Legend: Readings on the Saints, Vol. 2 by Jacobus de Voragine
The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life by Armand Nicholi
Zachary Taylor: Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old Southwest by K. Jack Bauer
Immoveable Feast: A Paris Christmas (P.S.) by John Baxter
All the Presidents' Gardens: Madison’s Cabbages to Kennedy’s Roses―How the White House Grounds Have Grown with America by Marta McDowell
Andre Charles Boulle: A New Style for Europe, 1642-1732 by Jean-Dominique Augard
Some Enchanted Evenings: The Glittering Life and Times of Mary Martin by David Kaufman
The Witches: Suspicion, Betrayal, and Hysteria in 1692 Salem by Stacy Schiff
Washington's Monument: And the Fascinating History of the Obelisk by John Steele Gordon
The Dakota: A History of the World's Best-Known Apartment Building by Andrew Alpern
Southern Food by John Egerton
La Cuisine Creole (trade): A Collection of Culinary Recipes From Leading Chefs and Noted Creole Housewives, Who Have Made New Orleans Famous for Its Cuisine by Lafcadio Hearn
Castles: Their History and Evolution in Medieval Britain by Marc Morris
The Great Angel: A Study of Israel's Second God by Margaret Barker
World's End (Contemporary American Fiction) by Boyle T.C. (1990-07-20) Paperback
Max Perkins: Editor of Genius by A. Scott Berg
Now I Sit Me Down: From Klismos to Plastic Chair: A Natural History by Witold Rybczynski
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
The Wisdom Books: Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes: A Translation with Commentary by Robert Alter
Millard Fillmore: Biography of a President by Robert J. Rayback
Pocket Museum: Ancient Rome (Pocket Museum) by Virginia Campbell
Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles by Marianne Williamson
Pocket Museum: Ancient Greece (Pocket Museum) by David Michael Smith
Time and Again by Jack Finney
New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America by Wendy Warren
You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn by Wendy Lesser
Melville in Love: The Secret Life of Herman Melville and the Muse of Moby-Dick by Michael Shelden
In the Days of Rain: A Daughter, a Father, a Cult by Rebecca Stott
A Day at Château de Fontainebleau by Guillaume Picon
The Private Lives of the Tudors: Uncovering the Secrets of Britain’s Greatest Dynasty by Tracy Borman
Fallen glory : the lives and deaths of history's greatest buildings by (Writer on aerial photography) James Crawford
The Lions of Lucerne (The Scot Harvath Series) by Brad Thor
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan
FRANKLIN PIERCE: Young Hickory of the Granite Hills by Roy Franklin Nichols
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
The Sagrada Familia: The Astonishing Story of Gaudí’s Unfinished Masterpiece by Gijs van Hensbergen
A Celebration of Death: An Introduction to Some of the Buildings, Monuments, and Settings of Funerary Architecture in the Western European Tradition by James Stevens Curl
Our Mutual Friend (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael W. Twitty
John Steinbeck : Novels and Stories, 1932-1937 : The Pastures of Heaven / To a God Unknown / Tortilla Flat / In Dubious Battle / Of Mice and Men (Library of America) by John Steinbeck
John Singer Sargent, His Portrait by Stanley Olson
A Week in the Life of Corinth by Ben Witherington Iii
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson
Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant by Tracy Borman
The Worst President-The Story of James Buchanan by Garry Boulard
The Roman Soldier (Aspects of Greek and Roman Life) by G. R. Watson
Lincoln's Pathfinder: John C. Fremont and the Violent Election of 1856 by John Bicknell
Teleny; or, The Reverse of the Medal [Annotated scholarly edition with a new introduction and appendix] (Valancourt Classics) by Oscar Wilde
Age of Empires: Art of the Qin and Han Dynasties by Zhixin Sun
The History and Religious Heritage of Old Cairo: Its Fortress, Churches, Synagogue, and Mosque by Gawdat Gabra
The Churches of Egypt: From the Journey of the Holy Family to the Present Day by Gawdat Gabra
Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends by Richard Ormond
The Venetian Ghetto by Roberta Curiel
Ocean Liners: Glamour, Speed and Style by Daniel Finamore
Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate: Consuming the World by Yao-Fen You
Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics) by Emily Bronte
Outlandish Knight: The Byzantine Life of Steven Runciman
Ramses: The Lady of Abu Simbel - Volume IV by Christian Jacq
The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain by Bill Bryson
The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist by Marcus Rediker
John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath and Other Writings 1936-1941: The Grapes of Wrath, The Harvest Gypsies, The Long Valley, The Log from the Sea of Cortez (Library of America) by John Steinbeck
Inside the Seraglio: Private Lives of the Sultans in Istanbul (Tauris Parke Paperbacks) by John Freely
Pathfinder: John Charles Fremont and the Course of American Empire by Tom Chaffin
Beyond the Passion: Rethinking the Death and Life of Jesus by Stephen J. Patterson
One Hot Summer: Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858 by Rosemary Ashton
The Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art by Ingrid Rowland
Living Buddha, Living Christ: 20th Anniversary Edition by Thich Nhat Hanh
Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour by Lynne Olson
Upstairs at the White House: My Life with the First Ladies by J. B. West
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild
Building a Bridge: How the Catholic Church and the LGBT Community Can Enter into a Relationship of Respect, Compassion, and Sensitivity by James Martin
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey Fitzharris
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels and Stories 1920-1922: This Side of Paradise / Flappers and Philosophers / The Beautiful and the Damned / Tales of the Jazz Age (Library of America) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years by Carl Sandburg
Saints, Shrines and Pilgrims (Shire Library) by Roger Rosewell
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book) by Don Miguel Ruiz
Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India by Sujatha Gidla
The French Chef in America: Julia Child's Second Act by Alex Prud'homme
Thaddeus Stevens: Scourge of the South by Fawn M. Brodie
Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey
The Time Traveler's Guide to Restoration Britain: A Handbook for Visitors to the Seventeenth Century: 1660-1699 by Ian Mortimer
Lee by Douglas Southall Freeman
The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve by Stephen Greenblatt Ph.D.
Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray
Steinbeck Novels 1942-1952: The Moon Is Down / Cannery Row / The Pearl / East of Eden (Library of America) by John Steinbeck
Best Food Writing 2017 by Holly Hughes
Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone by Richard Lloyd Parry
Messiah: The Composition and Afterlife of Handel's Masterpiece by Jonathan Keates
White Rajah by Nigel Barley
Henry David Thoreau: A Life by Laura Dassow Walls
Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York Hardcover – October 13, 2009
Hitler's Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich by Eric Kurlander
Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin
The Epicurean: The Classic 1893 Cookbook (Calla Editions) by Charles Ranhofer
Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (King Legacy) by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
A Cabinet of Byzantine Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from History's Most Orthodox Empire by Anthony Kaldellis
What the Qur'an Meant: And Why It Matters by Garry Wills
Best Food Writing 2016 by Holly Hughes
Little Women, Little Men, Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott
Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
Yemen: The Unknown Arabia by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Beauty and the Beast: Classic Tales About Animal Brides and Grooms from Around the World by Maria Tatar
The Unfinished Palazzo: Life, Love and Art in Venice: The Stories of Luisa Casati, Doris Castlerosse and Peggy Guggenheim by Judith Mackrell
What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories by Laura Shapiro
Faith Forward Future: Moving Past Your Disappointments, Delays, and Destructive Thinking by Chad Veach
The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America by Frances FitzGerald
Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis and the Confederate Civil War by George Henry Davis '86 Professor of History James M McPherson (2015-09-15)
Faith Fox by Jane Gardam
The Oxford Book of Royal Anecdotes
Palmyra: An Irreplaceable Treasure by Paul Veyne
The Silver Caesars: A Renaissance Mystery by Ellenor Alcorn
The Mauritius Command (Aubrey/Maturin ) by Patrick O'Brian
Fighting with the Bible: Why Scripture Divides Us and How It Can Bring Us Together by Donn Morgan
The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsars by Daniel Beer
The Friendly Persuasion by Jessamyn West
Summer of Blood: The Peasants' Revolt of 1381 by Dan Jones
All Passion Spent (Vintage Classics) by Vita Sackville-West
Seward's Folly: A New Look at the Alaska Purchase by Lee A. Farrow
5: Ramses: Under the Western Acacia - Volume V by Christian Jacq
Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities by Bettany Hughes
Horace Greeley: Champion of American Freedom by Robert C. Williams
Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings: A Novel by Stephen O'Connor
The Complete Roman Emperor: Imperial Life at Court and on Campaign (The Complete Series) by Michael Sommer
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar
A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression by Jane Ziegelman

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