Books by David Adams Leeming and Complete Book Reviews

David Adams Leeming, Author . Oxford $20 (150p) ISBN 978-0-19-514789-6
Teeming with gods, goddesses and heroes, the ancient Middle East served as the cradle of numerous mythologies that provided the religious, political and cultural foundations of civilizations from Egypt and Sumer to Palestine. In this helpful primer,
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David Adams Leeming, Author Oxford University Press, USA $40 (224p) ISBN 978-0-19-514361-4
From Iceland to India, from prehistoric cave paintings and fertility figurines to such modern-day""myths"" as the invisible hand, the Oedipal conflict and Schrodinger's cat, Leeming's intriguing treatise on comparative mythology covers a lot of...
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David Adams Leeming, Author Henry Holt & Company $27.5 (304p) ISBN 978-0-8050-4249-8
Spender (1909-1995) was the longest-lived and certainly the most ""clubbable"" (to use a quaint English phrase) of the modernist English poets who made their names in the early 1930s by rebelling against the genteel Georgian school. His...
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David Adams Leeming, Author Alfred A. Knopf $25 (442p) ISBN 978-0-394-57708-1
James Baldwin (1924-1987), whose novels and essays aimed to liberate white America from the hypocrisy that made oppression and racism possible, was obsessed with his mission to bear witness to injustice, observes Leeming, who was Baldwin's secretary
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David Adams Leeming, Author Oxford University Press, USA $30 (256p) ISBN 978-0-19-509784-9
Leeming's admiration for Beauford Delaney (1901-1979), a brilliant but largely overlooked African American modernist painter, shines through every page of this intimate and engrossing biography. Despite constant struggles with poverty, loneliness,...
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David Adams Leeming, Author Oxford University Press $19.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-19-514288-4
In this slender collection of four essays, Leeming brings myth out of the past and smartly into the present. One chapter each is devoted to the themes of religion, creation, deity and heroes. Like Joseph Campbell before him, Leeming aims not to ...
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