Twilight of Love

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Richard Watson

Richard Watson, a well-known American scholar of Descartes, can read French. He can translate French. But he has never learned to speak it. When he is invited to deliver a paper in Paris - in French - he begins a hilarious and often harrowing voyage on the rough seas of learning to speak a foreign language in late middle age. In the course of the book, Watson digresses on the contrasts between France and America, on Americans in Paris, and on the mysteries of French engineering. He introduces eccentric French cave explorers and still more eccentric French scholars. But above all, we meet Watson himself - a cave explorer and a teacher with a mid-western reluctance to make his mouth perform the contortions required by French - as he confronts his own national prejudices and his obsession with learning to speak French.

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Jean Malaurie

"More than simple knolls, the jutting ice that emerges over time is a metaphor for the process of memory and recollection for Malaurie and in the collective memory of the Inuit. Hummocks is the first English translation of the renowned anthropologist's memoir of his expeditions to the Canadian Arctic, and a detailed evocation of Malaurie's travels among the Inuit. Haunted by the North and its people, Malaurie is the modern heir to a storied tradition of Northern exploration, and Hummocks is a dialogue with the great European explorers of the North - Amundsen, Sir John Franklin, Ross, and Rasmussen."--Jacket.

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Homa Katouzian

Sadeq Hedayat is the most famous and the most enigmatic Iranian writer of the twentieth century. He was born in 1903 and he lived a troubled life which ended in 1951 with his suicide in Paris. His most celebrated novel, The Blind Owl, has made an impact far beyond Iranian literary circles and has drawn the attention of Western critics. But Hedayat's impact on the development of modern fiction and on the lives of generations of Iranian intellectuals derives also from his. Other works and from what was a unique approach to life and art in a rapidly changing society. This book is the first comprehensive study of Hedayat's life and works set against the background of literary and political developments in Iran over the first half of the twentieth century. Homa Katouzian discusses Hedayat's life and times and the literary and political circles with which he was associated. But he also emphasises the uniqueness and universality of those ideas. That have set Hedayat apart from other Iranian writers of the period and have given him a mystique that has been instrumental in his posthumous success.

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Bob Sehlinger, Seth Kubersky, and Len Testa

The Top 10 Ways the Unofficial Guide to Disneyland Can Help You Have the Perfect Trip: 1. Every attraction rated and ranked for each age group, based on interviews and surveys of more than 1,300 families 2. When to go: the best times of year and the best days of the week 3. 86 Disneyland area hotels rated and ranked for value and quality of rooms 4. Field-tested touring itineraries for adults and families with children 5. Reviews of all full-service restaurants in Disneyland 6. Tips and warnings for first-time visitors and those with special needs 7. Proven strategies for planning the perfect Disneyland vacation with small children 8. How to find and meet the Disney characters 9. Comprehensive coverage of Mickey's Toontown and the Indiana Jones Adventure 10. Unvarnished, practical advice for families, couples, honeymooners, and singles. This guide is a completely independent evaluation of Disneyland and has not been reviewd or approved by Disneyland or the Walt Disney Company Inc.