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Illustrated with 53 images drawn by Sidney Paget.

Marjorie Agosín is an award-winning poet, essayist, fiction writer, and activist, as well as Professor of Spanish language and Latin American literature at Wellesley College. The United Nations has honored her work on human rights, notably for women's rights in Chile. Professor Agosín has won many important literary awards and in this book she, once again, uses her evocative poetry and distinctive voice to illuminate a hidden history of Venice that so richly deserves to be recorded and remembered.

The Guardian of Memory chronicles the meetings between the author and Aldo Izzo, the eponymous Guardian of Memory, a man who has tended the Venetian Jewish cemeteries for over 30 years. However, this work goes far beyond a mere homage to Aldo Izzo's tireless work and becomes a sensory journey through the ancient city of Venice that is interleaved with memories and stories of those who have gone before.

Venice, perhaps the most liminal of cities, serves a backdrop to this meditation on the profound aspects of human existence. The elemental contrasts of light and dark, water and land, past and present, life and death, are enhanced by the atmospheric black and white photographs of Samuel Shats to provide an unforgettable and unique insight into the mysteries of the city.

As the book progresses, so the strange and, at times, ominous aspects of this history of Venice unfold, thus making this book so much more than a mere walk through the ancient streets of La Serenissima.

Marjorie Agosín is an award-winning poet, essayist, fiction writer, and activist, as well as Professor of Spanish language and Latin American literature at Wellesley College. The United Nations has honored her work on human rights, notably for women's rights in Chile. Professor Agosín has won many important literary awards and in this book she, once again, uses her evocative poetry and distinctive voice to illuminate a hidden history of Venice that so richly deserves to be recorded and remembered.

The Guardian of Memory chronicles the meetings between the author and Aldo Izzo, the eponymous Guardian of Memory, a man who has tended the Venetian Jewish cemeteries for over 30 years. However, this work goes far beyond a mere homage to Aldo Izzo's tireless work and becomes a sensory journey through the ancient city of Venice that is interleaved with memories and stories of those who have gone before.

Venice, perhaps the most liminal of cities, serves a backdrop to this meditation on the profound aspects of human existence. The elemental contrasts of light and dark, water and land, past and present, life and death, are enhanced by the atmospheric black and white photographs of Samuel Shats to provide an unforgettable and unique insight into the mysteries of the city.

As the book progresses, so the strange and, at times, ominous aspects of this history of Venice unfold, thus making this book so much more than a mere walk through the ancient streets of La Serenissima.

In this evocative and emotional work, the poet, novelist, and human rights activist Marjorie Agosin pays homage to her great-grandmother, Helena Broder. As a young woman, Helena escaped Vienna to seek refuge in Chile, leaving shortly after the Night of Broken Glass in 1938 when the Nazi regime unleashed a campaign of violence, terror and destruction against the Jewish population. This book takes readers on Marjorie's journey through time and space, and across thresholds between life, death and dreams, to discover Helena's lost voice. This is not a linear journey, but one that braids together the past, the present, and the future, allowing Marjorie to give Helena, an exiled woman, a third home in the liminal space of memory and literature; a safe haven where she can be complete rather than fragmented, a place where her exhausted suitcase can finally rest. This touching collection of poems, in Marjorie Agosin's native Spanish together with Alison Ridley's delicate English translation, is accompanied by evocative images from the Chilean photographer Samuel Shats, as well as poignant memorabilia of Helena herself.

Mr. O'Sullivan, an authentic personal acquaintance of Wilde in those days, with no special affection for him nor any reason for whitewashing him, gives the first sane and credible description of him.-George Bernard Shaw

This book offers a series of intimate portraits of Oscar Wilde's later life as witnessed by the Irish-American writer Vincent O'Sullivan. O'Sullivan had known Wilde as a celebrated member of the late nineteenth-century London literary circles. However, it was after Wilde fled to Europe following his release from Reading Gaol that O'Sullivan came to know him well.

Although written over 30 years after Wilde's death, the insights into his life, personality, and place among other literary and artistic figures are rich. Blending recollection and literary commentary, O'Sullivan offers an unusual and intelligent perspective on this great literary figure that is both poignant and honest.

This new edition includes a critical introduction by Lesley Gray (PhD in Comparative Literature) along with brief biographies of the many people O'Sullivan mentions in the text.

'I have put all my genius into my life; I have put only my talent into my works.'-Oscar Wilde.

André Gide first met Wilde in Paris when Wilde had fled Britain following his release from Reading gaol. This short book was first published in English in 1905 and was written shortly after Oscar Wilde's death in 1900.

Through personal recollections, Gide states that he set out to show Wilde as an object of admiration and then demonstrate how his work was illuminated by his personality.

André Gide (1869-1951) was the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. His works included many books of fiction as well as autobiographies. He was sexually attracted to boys, describing himself as a pederast. In his Si le Grain Ne Meurt (1924), Gide claims that in 1895 Wilde had 'inveigled him [Gide] into debauchery' with a young Arab boy in Algiers: this was not the case as Gide had already 'discovered his homosexuality' some years earlier.

Stuart Mason (the nom de plume of Christopher Sclater Millard, 1872-1927) translated the book from the original French magazine article and added an introduction, notes and a bibliography. It was Mason's bibliography, listing all of Wilde's works that helped Wilde's literary executor, Robbie Ross, establish copyright on his works. Millard, like Wilde, was imprisoned for his homosexuality.

The book includes the five images from the original publication; three of which are of Oscar Wilde.

Mr. O'Sullivan, an authentic personal acquaintance of Wilde in those days, with no special affection for him nor any reason for whitewashing him, gives the first sane and credible description of him.-George Bernard Shaw

This book offers a series of intimate portraits of Oscar Wilde's later life as witnessed by the Irish-American writer Vincent O'Sullivan. O'Sullivan had known Wilde as a celebrated member of the late nineteenth-century London literary circles. However, it was after Wilde fled to Europe following his release from Reading Gaol that O'Sullivan came to know him well.

Although written over 30 years after Wilde's death, the insights into his life, personality, and place among other literary and artistic figures are rich. Blending recollection and literary commentary, O'Sullivan offers an unusual and intelligent perspective on this great literary figure that is both poignant and honest.

This new edition includes a critical introduction by Lesley Gray (PhD in Comparative Literature) along with brief biographies of the many people O'Sullivan mentions in the text.