Daniel Adam Mendelsohn

Henry Green

Henry Green's first novel, and the book that began his career as a master of British modernism Blindness--Henry Green's first novel, begun while he was still at Eton and finished before he left university--is the story of John Haye, a young student with literary airs. It starts with an excerpt from his diary, brimming with excitement and affectation and curiosity about life and literature. Then a freak accident robs John of his sight, plunging him into despair. Forced to live with his high-handed, horsey stepmother in the country, John begins a weird dalliance with a girl named Joan, leading to a new determination. Blindness is the curse of youth and inexperience and love and ambition, but blindness, John will discover, can also be the source of vision.

Blindness

Lecturer in the Department of Classics Daniel Mendelsohn

The present study makes use of recent insights into classical Greek conceptions of gender (in real life and on stage) and Athenian notions of civic identity to demonstrate that the political plays are, in face, intellectually subtle and structurally coherent exercises in political theorizing - works that use complex interactions between female and male characters to explore the advantages, and costs, of being a member of the polis."--BOOK JACKET.

Gender and the City in Euripides' Political Plays

een vader, een zoon, een epos

Een odyssee

'A gripping detective story, a stirring epic, a tale of ghosts and dark marvels, a thrilling display of scholarship, a meditation on the unfathomable mystery of good and evil, "The Lost" is as complex and rich with meaning and story as the past it seeks to illuminate. A beautiful book, beautifully written.' Michael Chabon

A Search for Six of the Six Million

The Lost

Daniel Mendelsohn grew up in a family haunted by the disappearance of six relatives during the Holocaust. Decades later, spurred by the discovery of a cache of desperate letters written to his grandfather in 1939, Mendelsohn embarked on a hunt for the remaining eyewitnesses to his relatives' fate.

A Search for Six of Six Million

The gay classics scholar explores the meanings to be derived from conflicting and overlapping social and cultural experiences, family history, and personal identity

Desire and the Riddle of Identity

The Elusive Embrace

Daniel Mendelsohn makes use of insights into classical Greek conceptions of gender and Athenian notions of civic identity to demonstrate that the plays 'Children of Herakles' and 'Suppliant Women' by Euripides are subtle and coherent exercises in political theorizing.

Constantine Cavafy

This volume includes the English translation of 30 unfinished poems that Constantine Cavafy left in drafts when he died. Daniel Mendelsohn provides an in-depth introduction and commentary situating each work in a rich historical, literary, and biographical context.

Daniel Adam Mendelsohn

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