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Da Vinci's Bicycle: Ten Stories
Da Vinci's Bicycle Ten Stories
Author: Guy Davenport
Guy Davenport's second collection of stories first published in 1979, contains ten stories, written with tremendous wit, intelligence and verve, based on historical figures whose endeavors were too early, too late, or went against the grain of their times. — Stories include: —
  • The Richard Nixon Freischütz rag
  • C. Musonius ...  more »
  • The wooden dove of Archytas
  • John Charles Tapner
  • Au tombeau de Charles Fourier
  • The Haile Selassie funeral train
  • Ithaka
  • The invention of photography in Toledo
  • The antiquities of Elis
  • A field of snow on a slope of the Rosenberg
ISBN-13: 9780811213509
ISBN-10: 0811213501
Publication Date: 5/1997
Pages: 185
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Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Book Type: Paperback
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