Professor John Williams

Japanese edition of Stoner by John Williams, author of the National Book Awardwinning Augustus. This book was selected as a book of the year 2013 by Waterstones. Translated by Agarie Kazuki. William Stoner chooses a different career from his parents wishes and although first succesful it stalls; eventually he gravitates back to the lifestyle of his parents in a strange way. In Japanese. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

Stoner

John Williams

The first of five volumes that will offer the entire corpus of extraordinary illuminations from 26 codices spanning the 9th to the 13th century, which contain portions of the Commentary on the Apocalypse, the Book of Revelation, compiled by the Asturian monk Beatus around the year 776. These illustrations represent the greatest single tradition of Apocalyptic imagery in the Middle Ages. The present introductory volume provides a general overview of the textual and visual tradition of all manuscripts containing Beatus' commentary. Includes 41 color plates and 100 monochrome illustrations. Distributed by Oxford U. Press. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

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