Davenport, Guy.
The Jules Verne steam balloon : nine stories / Guy Davenport. - Johns Hopkins Paperbacks edition - 2715 North Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21218-4319 : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1993. - 150 pages : - Johns Hopkins, poetry and fiction .
Summary: Guy Davenport - called by the New York Times "one of our most gifted and versatile men of letters" - has produced in this collection of stories a remarkably harmonious synthesis of subjects and forms. Melding history, biography, botany, political theory, geology, and other interests, Davenport creates fictions that are complex but unified, mature, balanced, and resolved.
English
0801846803 [newsprint]
93020177
Fiction
The Jules Verne steam balloon : nine stories / Guy Davenport. - Johns Hopkins Paperbacks edition - 2715 North Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21218-4319 : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1993. - 150 pages : - Johns Hopkins, poetry and fiction .
Summary: Guy Davenport - called by the New York Times "one of our most gifted and versatile men of letters" - has produced in this collection of stories a remarkably harmonious synthesis of subjects and forms. Melding history, biography, botany, political theory, geology, and other interests, Davenport creates fictions that are complex but unified, mature, balanced, and resolved.
English
0801846803 [newsprint]
93020177
Fiction