Reading List
by Celia Eddy
published: 22/01/2007
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ARTS AND CRAFTS
M.C.Richards: Centering in Pottery, Poetry and the Person (Out of print and apparently unavailable.)
Jonathan Holstein: The Pieced Quilt. An American Design Tradition
Bets Ramsey,Merikay Waldvogel: Southern Quilts. Quilts of the Civil War
Faun Valentine: West Virginia Quilts and Quiltmakers
Carla Needleman: The Work of Craft
Suzi Gablik: The Re-Enchantment of Art
Anne Truitt: Daybook. The Journey of an Artist
Henry Glassie: The Spirit of Folk Art
Garard Degeorge and Yves Porter: The Art of the Islamic Tile
West Virginia Quilts and Quilmakers by Faun Valentine
BIOGRAPHY
Richard Holmes: Coleridge – Vol.I: Early Visions. Vol.II: Darker Reflections
Hilary Spurling: Matisse. The Master (Two Volumes)
Molly Hughes: A London Childhood of the 1870s (Persephone)
Etty Hillesum: An Interrupted Life. Diaries and Letters (Persephone)
Geoffrey Wainwright: Lucy Duff Gordon
Iris Irigo: The Last Attachment. The Story of Byron and Teresa Guiccioli
John McGahern: Memoir
Claire Tomalin: Samuel Pepys. The Unequalled Self
Philip Callow: Lost Earth. A Life of Cezanne
Richard Holmes: Coleridge – Vol.I: Early Visions. Vol.II: Darker Reflections
Hilary Spurling: Matisse. The Master (Two Volumes)
Molly Hughes: A London Childhood of the 1870s (Persephone)
Etty Hillesum: An Interrupted Life. Diaries and Letters (Persephone)
Geoffrey Wainwright: Lucy Duff Gordon
Iris Irigo: The Last Attachment. The Story of Byron and Teresa Guiccioli
John McGahern: Memoir
Claire Tomalin: Samuel Pepys. The Unequalled Self
Philip Callow: Lost Earth. A Life of Cezanne
Richard Holmes: Coleridge – Vol.I: Early Visions. Vol.II: Darker Reflections
The Pieced Quilt. An American Design Tradition by Jonathan Holstein
TRAVEL
A.W. Kinglake: Eothen.
Robert Byron: The Road to Oxiana
LIT.CRIT.
Louis McNeice: The Poetry of W.B.Yeats. (“..for existence is still existence, whether the tense is past or future.” “..the poet is a specialist in something everyone does.”
The Art of the Islamic Tile by Garard Degeorge and Yves Porter:
NOVELS
Norah Hoult: There Were No Windows. (Persephone)
Dorothy Whipple: They Were Sisters. (Persephone)
Kashuo Ishiguro: Never Let me Go. The Remains of the Day. When We Were Orphans. An Artist of the Floating World.
Colm Toibin: The Master (Fictionalised account of later years in the life of Henry James)
Lionel Shriver: We Need to Talk About Kevin
Pat Barker: Double Vision
Michael Frayn: Spies
Noel Streatfield: Saplings (Persephone)
Sebastian Barry: A Long, Long Way
Khaled Hosseini: The Kite Runnerv
Ian Mckewan: The Cement Garden
Alan Hollinghurst: The Line of Beauty
Alexander McCall Smith: Portuguese Irregular Verbs. The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs. At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances. (Trilogy)
Laura Graham: The Unfortunates
Patrick Gale: Rough Music
Robert Edric: Gathering the Waters.
Carol Shields: Larry’s Party
Marina Lewycka: A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
Louise Erdich: The Master Butcher’s Singing Club
Nicola Kraus: The History of Love
Niccolò Ammaniti: I’m Not Scared
(Non-fiction)
Kay Smallshaw: How to Run Your Home Without Help (Persephone)
Swann's Way.Volume One of In Search of Lost Time
SOME ALL-TIME FAVOURITE BOOKS
Andre Gide: La Porte Etroite. Les Nourritures Terrestre (Translated by Dorothy Bussy as Straight is the Gate and Fruits of the Earth
Proust: A La Recherche du Temps Perdus (In the translation by Scott Moncrieff. I’ve tried some of the contemporary translations but go back to Scott Moncrieff as being, perhaps, less literal, but still true to the spirit of the book.)
Ford Maddox Ford: The Good soldier
Tolstoy: Anna Kerenina
M.C.Richards: Centering in Pottery, Poetry and the Person (Out of print and apparently unavailable.)
Jonathan Holstein: The Pieced Quilt. An American Design Tradition
Carla Needleman: The Work of Craft
Anne Truitt: Daybook. The Journey of an Artist
T.C.McCluhan: Touch the Earth
Henry James: The Golden Bowl.What Maizie Knew. Portrait of a Lady
Flora Annie Steel: The Garden of Fidelity
Edith Wharton: The House of Mirth
Jonathan Holstein: The Pieced Quilt. An American Design Tradition
© Celia Eddy
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