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This book is the story of the making of that garden and a distillation of what she learnt and observed about the plants -both native and introduced- she grew there, a book which she wrote (to use her own words) \"to assist other people wishing to make gardens in places with a \"Mediterranean climate\", believing that anything that grew under the difficult conditions prevailing on this Greek hillside would be almost certain to grow better elsewhere\".","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b84977.jpg","isbn":"960-7120-14-0","isbn13":"978-960-7120-14-4","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":null,"pages":247,"publication_year":1998,"publication_place":"Λίμνη Ευβοίας","price":"16.0","price_updated_at":null,"cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":null,"publisher_id":1194,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":84977,"url":"https://v2.bibliography.gr/books/making-a-garden-on-greek-hillside.json"},{"id":82930,"title":"The Wound of Greece","subtitle":"Studies in Neo-Hellenism","description":"Philip Sherrard in his introduction to this collection of his essays writes: \u003cbr\u003e\"The Greece of the classical heritage and of the romantic philhellene has gone, and anyhow has always been irrelevant to the Greek situation. Greece is not and never has been a lost paradise or a haνen for tourists or an object of study , and those who approach her as if she were any of these will always fail to make any real contact with her. For to achieve this it is not enough to act in the manner of those who singly οr in droves are to be seen pouring exhaustively and exhaustingly over the Greek landscape, guide-book or notebook in one hand, camera οr tape-measure in the other, hurrying from site to site, from island to island, pausing here to observe the niceness of the view, there the short- comings of the food οr drainage, elsewhere how graced with οr delight- fully free from western virtues the natives are; for this is merely an avoidance of experience οr understanding. He who would wish for these must have a more receptive and unhurried kind of temperament, one that is able to let things be what they are and to express their own natures rather than serve as the raw material for some purpose οr other, be it only one's own pleasure. He must have sought out not the past but the living fate of Greece, which is not a doom but a destiny, a process rather in which past and present blend and fuse, in which nature and man and something more than man participate: a process difficult, baffling, enigmatic, with its element of magic, its element of tragedy, working itself out in a landscape of bare hills and insatiable sea, in the miraculous cruetly of the summer sun, in the long generations of the lives of the Greek people. The essays in this book are an attempt, not indeed to define this destiny or this process (for that is impossible), but to indicate, through the lives and writings of Greeks themselves, something of their quality, as well as of the complexity of the forces -historical, cultural, social- which have helped to shape them\".\u003cbr\u003e","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b84964.jpg","isbn":null,"isbn13":null,"ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":null,"pages":128,"publication_year":1978,"publication_place":"Λίμνη Ευβοίας","price":"15.0","price_updated_at":null,"cover_type":"Σκληρό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":null,"publisher_id":1194,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":84964,"url":"https://v2.bibliography.gr/books/the-wound-of-greece.json"},{"id":82961,"title":"The Corfu Years","subtitle":"A Chronicle Presented Through his Letters and Journals","description":"Edward Lear first visited Corfu in 1848 and the island seems to have made a deep impression οn him. At all events, he returned in 1855, after further travels in Greece, Albania, Egypt and elsewhere; and for the next years Corfu was to provide him with the nearest he got to at least a winter base until he finally settled at San Remo in 1870. Lear's Corfu years coincide with the last years of the British Protectorate (the Ionian Islands were ceded to Greece in 1864 ); and his letters and journals written οn Corfu, from which the text of this book is composed, form a commentary, as unique as it is biting and poignant, οη the modes, manners and mentality of a mid-nineteenth century British colonial and garrison society .They also present a deeply moving account of an artist battling with his solitude and relentlessly pursuing his vocation in a world with whose values he is so much at odds. \u003cbr\u003eSet over against this is the incredible and then undevastated natural beauty of the island itself, a beauty to which Lear responds with his whole being and of which he gives us unforgettable testimony not only in his writings but also and above all in the many water-colours and sketches that accompany the text and that include some of his finest work. Αn introduction outlines the historical and social background of Lear's Corfu world, and offers a portrait of Lear himself, while an appendix assesses his achievement as a landscape painter. 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In this book he tells the story of his life and, in simple, deeply reflected and profoundly wise words, he expounds the Christian faith for today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book was compiled after his death from an archive of notes and recordings of his reminiscences, conversations and words of guidance, and was first published in Greek in 2003.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe vibrant personality of Elder Porphyrios at all times shines through his words with great transparency and charm. In his introduction to the Greek edition Bishop Irenaeus of Chania writes: \"The words of blessed Elder Porphyrios are the words of a holy Father, of a man with the gift of clear sight, who was ever retiring, humble, simple and ardent and whose life was a true and authentic witness to Christ, to His truth and to His joy. Through his presence, love, prayer, counsel and guidance he supported an untold number of people in the difficult hours of illness, mourning, pain, loss of faith and death. He is a god-bearing Father of our days, a true priest and teacher who in his ascetic way fell in love with Christ and faithfully served his fellow man. His teaching is deeply impregnated with the ethos and theology of the Orthodox Church and is dominated by the person and image of Christ our Saviour. 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A pioneering book of prose-poems, Leivaditis here gives powerful voice to a post-war generation divested of ideologies and illusions, imbued with the pain of loss and mourning, while endlessly questing for something wholly other, indeed for the holy Other.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA substantial introduction by the translator, N. N. Trakakis, situates and reviews the poet and his work within his times with special reference to this present collection.","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b205126.jpg","isbn":"978-960-7120-32-8","isbn13":"978-960-7120-32-8","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":null,"pages":140,"publication_year":2014,"publication_place":"Λίμνη Ευβοίας","price":"10.0","price_updated_at":"2015-11-05","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί - Εκκρεμής εγγραφή","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":"Ο τυφλός με τον λύχνο","publisher_id":1194,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":205126,"url":"https://v2.bibliography.gr/books/the-blind-man-with-lamp.json"},{"id":85399,"title":"The Sacred in Life and Art","subtitle":null,"description":"We are becoming increasingly aware that the forms of our life and art - of our modern civilization generally - have over the last few centuries been characterized by the progressive loss of precisely that sense which gives virtually all other civilizations and cultures of the world their undying lustre and significance: the sense of the sacred. In fact, the concept of a completely profane world - of a cosmos wholly desacralized - is a fairly recent invention of the western mind, and only now are we beginning to realize the apalling consequences of trying to order and mould our social, personal and creative life in obedience to its dictates. It is not even too much to say that we are also beginning to realize that unless we can re-instate the sense of the sacred at the heart of all our activities there can be no hope of avoiding the cosmic catastrophe for which we are heading.\u003cbr\u003eThis book is an attempt to clarify what is demanded if we are to have any chance of achieving this. It examines the nature and significance of the sacred itself, why the sense of its presence has been eroded from our consciousness over recent centuries, how we can re-awaken this sense, and what such a re-awakening must mean in terms of our personal and creative life. It complements the author's \"Rape of man and nature\", and \"Human image: World image\" (both of which focus on the emergence of the thought-forms whose ascendancy has produced our present state of dereliction and chaos) affirming as it does the ever-present, timeless qualities of beauty, love and miracle through which we can be renewed and transformed, whatever the conditions of the world in which we live.","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b87442.jpg","isbn":"960-7120-18-3","isbn13":"978-960-7120-18-2","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":null,"pages":162,"publication_year":2004,"publication_place":"Λίμνη Ευβοίας","price":"12.0","price_updated_at":null,"cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":null,"publisher_id":1194,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":87442,"url":"https://v2.bibliography.gr/books/the-sacred-in-life-and-art.json"},{"id":178470,"title":"The Murderess","subtitle":"A Social Tale","description":"The \"Murderess\" has been regarded as Alexandros Papadiamandis’s finest work. Set on his native island of Skiathos it tells the story of Hadoula, a widow with grown-up children, who has convinced herself that it is better little girls should leave this life when young so that they and their parents should not suffer the trials that inevitably would be inflicted on them by an inequitable society. In the throes of this misguided compassion she first murders her own granddaughter and afterwards finds herself set on a course she is unable to stop despite the promptings of her conscience and her awareness of the consequences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePapadiamandis charts this course and the events in her life that preceded it, and against a background of the island’s verdant and untrodden places and the living presence of the Church he explores the particular quality evil has of disguising itself as good, but without ever passing judgement on the murderess herself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLong considered one of Greece's most important writers, Papadiamandis's reflections on and observations of modern Greek life define the Greek experience in a way unmatched by any of his contemporaries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis new translation of \"The Murderess\" has been undertaken and published to mark the centenary of Papadiamandis's death.","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b181595.jpg","isbn":"978-960-7120-28-1","isbn13":"978-960-7120-28-1","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":{"id":9761,"name":"Romiosyni Series","books_count":5,"tsearch_vector":"'romiosyni' 'series'","created_at":"2017-04-13T02:21:03.425+03:00","updated_at":"2017-04-13T02:21:03.425+03:00"},"pages":290,"publication_year":2011,"publication_place":"Λίμνη Ευβοίας","price":"10.0","price_updated_at":"2012-07-23","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί - Εκκρεμής εγγραφή","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":"Η φόνισσα","publisher_id":1194,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":181595,"url":"https://v2.bibliography.gr/books/the-murderess.json"},{"id":183125,"title":"Aegean Notebooks","subtitle":"Reflections by Sea and Land in the Archipelago","description":"Zissimos Lorenzatos (1915-2004), essayist, thinker and poet, was arguably Greece’s most significant man of letters in the twentieth century. In the Aegean Notebooks, a record of his observations and reflections while sailing among the Greek islands in the 1970s and 1980s, the special quality of his literary and philosophical gifts, and of the man himself, are vividly present.\u003cbr\u003eAlong with everything a mariner yearns to bring ashore, all he has felt and experienced at sea with the wake of the boat unfurling behind him, Lorenzatos brings us in addition a lifetime’s learning and contemplation. For him, life, and the living of it, was of the essence. As he observes in his foreword to these notebooks: '...life itself writes nothing, it erases everything that is written about it, and simply, irreplaceably lives, like the inaccessible \"well of water springing up\".'","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b186255.jpg","isbn":"978-960-7120-31-1","isbn13":"978-960-7120-31-1","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":{"id":9761,"name":"Romiosyni Series","books_count":5,"tsearch_vector":"'romiosyni' 'series'","created_at":"2017-04-13T02:21:03.425+03:00","updated_at":"2017-04-13T02:21:03.425+03:00"},"pages":138,"publication_year":2012,"publication_place":"Λίμνη Ευβοίας","price":"9.0","price_updated_at":"2013-02-15","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί - Εκκρεμής εγγραφή","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":"Στου τιμονιού το αυλάκι","publisher_id":1194,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":186255,"url":"https://v2.bibliography.gr/books/aegean-notebooks.json"},{"id":218415,"title":"Loxandra","subtitle":null,"description":"\"Loxandra\" is the story of a Greek family living in Constantinople (Istanbul) from the mid-18th century up to the beginning of the First World War. It is not biographical as such, and many of the characters are fictional. Others, including the main character of Loxandra, are real. Constantinople was the author's home during the first years of her life and in her book she conveys the historical events, the customs, the spirit of those times when life for the Greeks of Constantinople was relatively untroubled. The real Loxandra was brought up in the Anatolian tradition of love of good food; culinary delights flowed from her hands and her kitchen as from the horn of plenty, and her generosity and enthusiasm for life and food was not confined to her family but spilled over to whomsoever she had contact with.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Greek edition of Loxandra , first published in 1963, has been perhaps the most acclaimed and best-selling popular publication in Greece of the 20th century and remains continuously in print.","image":null,"isbn":"978-960-7120-39-7","isbn13":"978-960-7120-39-7","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":{"id":12826,"name":"Romiosyni","books_count":1,"tsearch_vector":"'romiosyni'","created_at":"2017-10-11T06:00:27.896+03:00","updated_at":"2017-10-11T06:00:27.896+03:00"},"pages":266,"publication_year":2017,"publication_place":"Λίμνη Ευβοίας","price":"14.0","price_updated_at":"2017-10-10","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί - Εκκρεμής εγγραφή","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":"Λωξάντρα","publisher_id":1194,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":221634,"url":"https://v2.bibliography.gr/books/loxandra.json"}]