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Barzun, Jacques
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present
New York HarperCollins 2000 0060175869 / 9780060175863 Hard Cover Very Good Very Good
Cloth, gilt, xviii, 877 pp., biblio., index; 25 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket, price-clipped on front flap, protected in a mylar book cover. Another copy available. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. "Highly regarded here and abroad for some thirty works of cultural history and criticism, master historian Jacques Barzun has now set down in one continuous narrative the sum of his discoveries and conclusions about the whole of Western culture since 1500. In this account, Barzun describes what Western Man wrought from the Renaisance and Reformation down to the present in the double light of its own time and our pressing concerns. He introduces characters and incidents with his unusual literary style and grace, bringing to the fore those that have 'Puritans as Democrats,' 'The Monarch's Revolution,' 'The Artist Prophet and Jester' -- show the recurrent role of great themes throughout the eras. The triumphs and defeats of five hundred years form an inspiring saga that modifies the current impression of one long tale of oppression by white European males. Women and their deeds are prominent, and freedom (even in sexual matters) is not an invention of the last decades. And when Barzun rates the present not as a culmination but a decline, he is in no way a prophet of doom. Instead, he shows decadence as the creative novelty that will burst forth -- tomorrow or the next day. Only after a lifetime of separate studies covering a broad territory could a writer create with such ease the synthesis displayed in this magnificent volume. / Born in France in 1907, Jacques Barzun came to the United States in 1920. After graduating from Columbia College, he joined the faculty of the university, becoming Seth Low Professor of History and, for a decade, Dean of Faculties and Provost. The author of some thirty books, including the New York Times bestseller From Dawn to Decadence, he received the Gold Medal for Criticism from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, of which he was twice president. He lives in San Antonio, Texas." - Publisher.
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Barzun, Jacques
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present
New York HarperCollins 2000 0060175869 / 9780060175863 Hard Cover Fine Fine
Cloth, gilt, xviii, 877 pp., biblio., index; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. "Highly regarded here and abroad for some thirty works of cultural history and criticism, master historian Jacques Barzun has now set down in one continuous narrative the sum of his discoveries and conclusions about the whole of Western culture since 1500. In this account, Barzun describes what Western Man wrought from the Renaisance and Reformation down to the present in the double light of its own time and our pressing concerns. He introduces characters and incidents with his unusual literary style and grace, bringing to the fore those that have 'Puritans as Democrats,' 'The Monarch's Revolution,' 'The Artist Prophet and Jester' -- show the recurrent role of great themes throughout the eras. The triumphs and defeats of five hundred years form an inspiring saga that modifies the current impression of one long tale of oppression by white European males. Women and their deeds are prominent, and freedom (even in sexual matters) is not an invention of the last decades. And when Barzun rates the present not as a culmination but a decline, he is in no way a prophet of doom. Instead, he shows decadence as the creative novelty that will burst forth -- tomorrow or the next day. Only after a lifetime of separate studies covering a broad territory could a writer create with such ease the synthesis displayed in this magnificent volume. / Born in France in 1907, Jacques Barzun came to the United States in 1920. After graduating from Columbia College, he joined the faculty of the university, becoming Seth Low Professor of History and, for a decade, Dean of Faculties and Provost. The author of some thirty books, including the New York Times bestseller From Dawn to Decadence, he received the Gold Medal for Criticism from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, of which he was twice president. He lives in San Antonio, Texas." - Publisher.
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Swift, Jonathan; Barzun, Jacques (Introduction by)
Gulliver's Travels
New York and Toronto Oxford University Press 1977 0195199782 / 9780195199789 Hard Cover Very Good Very Good Chappell, Warren
Cloth, gilt, xxxii, 299 pp., illus.; 25 cm. Topstained yellow. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, with a slightly faded spine & light edgewear, protected in a mylar book cover. Text reprinted from Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, edited by H. Davis, which was published by B. Blackwell, Oxford, 1939-1968. Davis's text of Gulliver's travels is based on the 1735 edition.
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Stendhal (Henri Marie Beyle); Scott-Moncrieff, C. K. (Translated by), and Barzun, Jacques (Afterword by)
The Charterhouse of Parma
New York Signet Classic; NAL 1981 0451517318 / 9780451517319 2nd printing Mass Market Paperback Good TV Tie-in
Revised and Updated Bibliography. Firm binding, creased spine. Clean inside copy. Browning. "This fictionalized account explores the intrigues within a small Italian court during the time of Napoleon's final exile. / Henri Marie Beyle, known through his writing as Stendhal, was born in Grenoble in 1783 and educated there at the École Centrale. A cousin offered him a post in the Ministry of War, and from 1800 he followed Napoleon's campaigns in Italy, Germany, Russia and Austria. In between wars, he spent his time in Paris drawing rooms and theatres. After the fall of Napoleon, he retired to Italy, adopted his pseudonym and started to write books on Italian painting, Haydn and Mozart, and travels in Italy. In 1821 the Austrian police expelled him from the country, and on returning to Paris he finished his book De l’amour. This was followed by Racine et Shakespeare, a defense of Romantic literature. Le Rouge et le noir was his second novel, and he also produced or began three others, including La Chartreuse de Parme and Lucien Leuwen. None of his published works was received with any great understanding during his lifetime. Beyle was appointed Consul at Civitavecchia after the 1830 revolution, but his health deteriorated and six years later he was back in Paris and beginning a Life of Napoleon. In 1841 he was once again recalled for reasons of illness, and in the following year suffered a fatal stroke. Various autobiographical works, Journal, Souvenirs de l'egotisme and La Vie de Henri Brulard, were published later, as his fame grew." - Publisher.
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Barzun, Jacques
The Use and Abuse of Art
Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press; Bollingen Ser. XXXV, No. 22 1975 0691018049 / 9780691018041 Trade Paperback Very Good
150 pp.; 22 cm. The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, 1973. Firm binding, clean text. Previous owner's ink stamp/flyleaf, otherwise fine. "The lecturer traces the historical development of attitudes toward the arts over the past 150 years, suggesting that the present is a period of cultural liquidation, nothing less than the ending of the modern age that began with the Renaissance." - Publisher.
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