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Barfield Press
UK publishes 2 new novellas by Owen Barfield |
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This year, the Owen Barfield Literary
Estate made the decision to produce the long-awaited first edition of
Eager Spring, and to publish Night Operation as a
standalone novella. The books are available at all major booksellers,
including online at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk.
A proportion of the proceeds from all book
sales will be used to support research and academic activities in the
works and ideas of Owen Barfield. |
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Eager Spring
- new publication |
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from Amazon.com |
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Eager Spring is a
never-before-published eco-thriller, written when the author was
almost 90.
A young academic is drawn
towards activism when she is increasingly troubled by the growing
threat of biocides. Through Virginia Brooke, Barfield charts the
mental and spiritual journey of a thinking person - and, by extension,
of all thinking persons - faced with "the need for action and the
obligation to take it".
From environmental thriller
to Iron Age settlement, domestic estrangement and the alienation of
Man from Nature, Barfield's last work of fiction will continue to
delight admirers and provoke a fresh generation of thinkers.
With an introduction by John D. Rateliff.
Published: October 2008 (Barfield Press
UK)
UK £7.99 EU
€10.99
US $14.99 |
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Night Operation
- new publication |
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from Amazon.com
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Set in a dystopian future,
humanity has been driven underground by fears of terrorist attack.
Dwelling in the sewers of an abandoned city, society is closed,
crowded, obsessed with security and its own biological processes. In
our post-9/11 world, Barfield's portrayal of the repressive,
claustrophobic effects of anxiety on human communities is startlingly
timely. Night Operation is a contemporary allegory on the fall and
potential rise of humanity.
With an introduction by Jane Hipolito.
Published: October 2008 (Barfield Press
UK)
UK £6.99 EU
€8.99
US $12.99 |
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Catalogue
of Barfield papers at Bodleian Library, Oxford available Sept '09 |
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An inventory of the Barfield papers on
deposit at the Bodleian Library in Oxford has been completed; and work
has commenced on the catalogue. The catalogue will be done to the
highest, electronically-searchable, standard, and will be accessible
to scholars internationally from September 2009.
Please
contact us if you require more
information about the cataloguing work. |
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Correction |
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Correction: The text under the Owen
Barfield bookplate displayed at the back of Eager Spring and
Night Operation, should read "from c.1953 by Josephine Grant
Watson". |
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Events |
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Barfield
Conference at the Goetheanum: 27-29 March 2009 |
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Owen Barfield and the Redemption of the
Western Mind |
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The conference will explore the
achievements of this fearlessly independent, creative English thinker,
especially in relation to the work of Rudolf Steiner. This event will
take place in the Goetheanum, Dornach, Switzerland.
A full programme is available in the brochure. For further information,
please visit:
http://ssw.goetheanum.org/1928.html?&L=1
The Goetheanum website also contains a
helpful section on accommodation in the area. Please consider booking
early as rooms in Dornach fill up quickly.
http://www.goetheanum.org/45.html?L=1
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