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This is a collection of moving stories that transcend the guesome realities of concentration camps.

This volume offers a rich sampling of George Steiner's writing, including essays from his seminal books After Babel, The Death of Tragedy, Tolstoy or Dostoevsky, Language and Science, and Antigones. It also includes excerpts from his novel, The Portage of San Cristobel of A.H., and a reprint of "The Cleric of Treason," on the British spy scandal surrounding Sir Anthony Blunt.

Durante 30 anos, de 1967 a 1997, George Steiner escribio para la seccion de libros del semanario The New Yorker. Si bien algunas de sus resenas resultaban dificiles y poco familiares, la lucidez y el conocimiento de Steiner logro interesar tanto a los intelectuales como al lector comun. En los veintiocho textos reunidos en esta edicion puede constatarse su acercamiento a autores como George Orwell, Bertolt Brecht, Samuel Beckett, E. M. Cioran o Noam Chomsky, y temas como la historia del ajedrez y a la musica de Anton Webern.

Artwork by George Herms. Contributions by Walter Hopps, Charles Simic. Text by Anthony Seraphin.

Papers of the George Greer family of Oregon: commonplace book, undated, of George Hamilton Greer; copied words to hymns in notebook, by George H. Greer; reminiscences by Mrs. George (Cornelia J. Spencer) Greer of her family's first Christmas in Oregon, 1852, including account of the overland journey from Wilsonville, Ohio, to Lafayette, Oregon, via The Dalles in 1852; letter form William Valentine Spencer in Portland, Oregon, to Mrs. Greer, 1859 July 21, describing the activities of the local fire department; and a typed note from William Greenleaf Eliot, Jr., to George H. Greer, 1926 March 29.

Harry S. Truman was not only a major political figure of the twentieth century, he was also a skilled communicator who was proud of his plain speaking. His letters, speeches, news conferences, memoirs, and other books are filled with elements of folk speech. Proverbs, proverbial expressions, and proverbial comparisons play an especially important rhetorical and communicative role, both in his personal relationships with family members and on the visible stage of regional, national, and international politics. This book begins with an introductory essay that discusses and analyzes the importance of proverbial language in Truman's published works. The bulk of the volume is a key-word index to the occurrence of proverbs in his writings, with the proverbs arranged according to the most significant word in the text. The quotation from Truman is accompanied by a citation to the source in his works consulted. Each entry also provides references to standard proverb dictionaries, which readers may consult to learn more about the history of a particular proverbial utterance. An appendix overviews the frequency of proverbs in Truman's writings. The interpretive essay together with the index clearly demonstrate that Harry S. Truman knew how to use proverbs effectively as colorful and accessible folk wisdom to communicate complex political ideas.