The Jules Verne Steam Balloon (johns Hopkins: Poetry And Fiction)

Guy Davenport - regarded 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. Offers a synthesis of subjects and forms. Melding history, biography, botany, political theory, geology and other interests, Davenport creates fictions that are complex but also unified, mature, balanced and resolved. His other collections include "Tatlin!" and "DaVinci's Bicycle"