Books from David R. Godine Publisher

  • I Saw Three Ships
    By Elizabeth Goudge

    In spite of the fact that Polly's two aunts will not leave the door unlocked on Christmas Eve, their cottage is still visited by three wise men, one of whom has come home to stay after a long absence.

  • The World of William Notman: The Nineteenth Century Through a Master Lens
    By Roger Hall, Gordon Dodds, Stanley Triggs

    "Largely forgotten today, Notman was a dominant figure of photography in the U.S. and Canada in the 1870s and '80s.

  • Easy to Remember: The Great American Songwriters and Their Songs
    By William Zinsser

    ... WILLIAM ZINSSER Extraordinary Lives : The Art and Craft of American Biography Inventing the Truth : The Art and Craft of Memoir Spiritual Quests : The Art and Craft of Religious Writing Paths of Resistance : The Art and Craft of the ...

  • Monadnock Summer: The Architectural Legacy of Dublin, New Hampshire
    By William Morgan

    Barry Faulkner, “Charles Adams Platt: Part II,” ms. ofa radio address delivered on WKNE (Keene, N.H.: 1960), 4 (collection of Mrs. Jocelyn Bolle). Faulkner was another Thayer student, and by Little ...

  • Selected Poems of Herman Melville
    By Herman Melville

    The revaluation of Melville's poetry is due in large part to the influence of this landmark volume, for Melville the poet has never found a more judicious, eloquent, or persuasive champion than Robert Penn Warren.

  • Bitches Ride Alone
    By Laura Chester

    Stories by Laura Chester.

  • The Philosopher's Diet: How to Lose Weight & Change the World
    By Richard Watson

    Its topic sentence contains a promise that should sell millions: In this book, I tell how to take weight off and keep it off. He doesn't stop there, but continues, The book also embodies a philosophy of life.

  • Cogito, Ergo Sum: The Life of René Descartes
    By Richard Watson

    This is the biography of Descartes, and it describes the life of Descartes, in the flesh and blood, rather than a technical analysis of his philosophical, scientific, and mathematical ideas.

  • Tales of the Rose Tree: Ravishing Rhododendrons and Their Travels Around the World
    By Jane Brown

    ... 143 Glenarn , Argyll , 14 , 60-1 , 112 , 159 , 258-9 Glendoick , Perthshire , 267–8 Glendoick Nursery , 233 Glendurgan , Cornwall , 255 Glenn Dale hybrids , 203–4 , 263 Godfrey , Robert , 177 Godman , Dame Alice , 59 , 142 Godman ...

  • The Woodcut Art of J.J. Lankes
    By Welford Dunaway Taylor

    The friendship with Anderson had been particularly valuable , as it had afforded Lankes a tangible affirmation of his own worth , something he needed but received all too seldom . “ A man is good only in relation to the men he attracts ...

  • The Secret Garden Notebook: A First Gardening Book

    ... The excitement of tending a garden and seeing plants burst into life has been revealed to generations of children through the experiences of Mary , Dickon and Colin in Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic story , The Secret Garden .

  • A White Heron
    By Sarah Orne Jewett

    A nine-year-old New England girl has to decide whether or not she will help the ornithologist who is searching for the rare white heron.

  • The Man Who Lived Alone
    By Donald Hall

    A man who had been unhappy as a child finds after he has grown up that he is happy living alone in his cabin in the New England woods.

  • Lucy's Summer
    By Donald Hall

    For Lucy Wells, who lives on a farm in New Hampshire, the summer of 1910 is filled with helping her mother can fruits and vegetables, enjoying the Fourth of July celebration, and other activities.

  • Every Eye
    By Isobel English

    The sea wind swept into me , filling the arms and pockets of my clothes so that I was like a bird buoyed up with air sacks . " All through this hour , " I shouted madly , " Lord be my guide , " and then to Stephen : " I bet you don't ...

  • Ned Kelly & the City of the Bees
    By Thomas Keneally

    During a bout of appendicitis, ten-year-old Ned Kelly is reduced to the size of a bee and spends the summer in a beehive.

  • Les Fleurs Du Mal: The Complete Text of The Flowers of Evil
    By Charles Baudelaire

    And the honor was well-deserved, for this is one of Richard Howard's greatest efforts. It's all here: a timeless translation, the complete French text, and Mazur's striking black and white monotypes in one elegant edition.

  • A Palpable Elysium: Portraits of Genius and Solitude
    By Jonathan Williams

    He attended CCNY and Columbia University , and since 1961 has taught at Bard College . Forty - two volumes of his poetry have appeared , the major collections published by Black Sparrow Press , including Kill the Messenger Who Brings ...

  • No Respect: New & Selected Poems, 1964-2000
    By Gerard Malanga

    This monumental retrospective volume includes all the major highlights of Malanga's previously published work, plus many new or rediscovered poems appearing here in book form for the first time.

  • Mythologies of the Heart
    By Gerard Malanga

    A collection by Gerard Malanga.