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NISIOTIKA
NISIOTIKA is a book about the living tradition of Greek island music. Nisiotika derives from the Greek word for island, nisi, and has come to describe in particular the music and songs that are played and sung at festivals and celebrations on the islands of the Aegean. It is music to be danced to, and, as revealed in this book, in traditional celebrations with live music it is the dancers who call the tune. The songs tell of the sea and people whose lives are bound up with often dangerous sea trades, of love and of pretty girls, sometimes ...
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WOUNDED BY LOVE

A Greek quintet
During the twentieth century the Greek world produced a wealth of poetry that is as astonishing in its scope as it is in its vigour, and this anthology brings together a selection from the works of the five poets who may be said to take pride of place in substantiating this achievement. Two of them, George Seferis and Odysseus Elytis, are Nobel Laureates, Cavafy is certainly one of the most ubiquitous poets of our times, the oracular grandeur of Angelos Sikelianos companions him with W. B. Yeats, while Nikos Gatsos, less known outside Gree...
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ΔΡΟΜΟΣ ΓΙΑ ΤΟ ΡΕΜΠΕΤΙΚΟ ΚΑΙ ΑΡΘΡΑ ΓΙΑ ΤΟ ΡΕΜΠΕΤΙΚΟ ΤΡΑΓΟΥΔΙ ΑΠΟ ΤΟΝ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΟ ΤΥΠΟ (1947-76)
Όταν πρωτοήρθα στην Ελλάδα το 1966, αγνοούσα όλη σχεδόν την ελληνική μουσική και δεν ήξερα λέξη Ελληνικά. Ταξίδεψα στην επαρχία από δω κι' από κει, πέρασα αρκετό καιρό στην Κρήτη κι' ανακάλυψα την δημοτική μουσική και τους χορούς, αλλά εγκαταστάθηκα στην Πλάκα, γι' αυτό και γνώρισα καλύτερα την μουσική της πόλης. Δεν μπορώ να πω ότι κατέληξα με ενστικτώδικη βεβαιότητα στα τραγούδια, που θα θεωρούσα σήμερα "κλασσικά ρεμπέτικα". Χρειάστηκε να περάσουν μήνες για ν' αρχίσω να ξεχωρίζω και να ταξινομώ τα διάφορα είδη της λεγόμενης "λαϊκής" μουσ...
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THE MURDERESS
FROM ITS FIRST APPEARANCE IN 1903 "The Murderess" has been regarded as Papadiamandis's finest work. Set on his native island 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 u...
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THE BOUNDLESS GARDEN (VOLUME ΙΙ)
THE STORIES INCLUDED IN THIS SECOND VOLUME of Alexandros Papadiamandis's literary work were written during the years 1894-1902, a period regarded as his most creative. As the nineteenth century gives way to the twentieth, in these stories we are presented with an unrivalled gallery of authentic individuals who are emerging out of a past defined by traditional beliefs and practices while moving into a new age shaped by the challenges of modernity. Wandering dervishes, naked witches in the moonlight, a child falling in love with a hamadryad,...
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AEGEAN NOTEBOOKS
In one of his Notebooks, Zissimos Lorenzatos says: "The present text does not require footnotes". I have taken this as a statement of intent: even though he eventually published these journals, he is careful to emphasize that they were written under sail, and that they are above all the expression of a present that was being lived moment by moment, not recollected in tranquillity at a later date (apart from some subsequent insertions which he specifically identifies). In order to be read as such, it has been decided to minimize the footnot...
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THE BOUNDLESS GARDEN (VOLUME ONE)
(. . .) The stories presented in this selection encompass the main and universal themes that best exemplify his work. In them he records and recreates that modern Greek experience as it was lived in its many perspectives - displacement, emigration, home-coming, estrangement, exile, attempts to reclaim lost innocence, visions of Paradise, the daily struggle for survival - and explores the souls of men and women as they succumbed to or struggled against the power of evil and dealt with life's ambiguities. Within these themes Papadiamantis al...
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THE BLIND MAN WITH THE LAMP
Tasos Leivaditis (1922-1988) is one of the unacknowledged greats of Modern Greek literature. Not only is he unacknowledged in the English-speaking world, largely because nearly all of his writing remains untranslated, but he also has limited recognition within modern Greek literary circles, where he is often overshadowed by twentieth-century giants such as Cavafy, Seferis, Elytis, Ritsos and Kazantzakis, who have become established names in the literary world at large. The Blind Man with the Lamp, originally published in Greek in 1983, is ...
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ROAD TO REMBETIKA
Rembetika, the music which began in the jails and hashish-dens of Greek towns and became the popular bouzouki music of the 30's, 40's and 50's, has many parallels with American blues. Like the blues, the rembetika songs were the soul music of a group of people who felt themselves to be outside the mainstream of society, who developed their own slang and their own forms of expression. «Road to Rembetika» is the first book in English to attempt a general survey of the world of the «rembets», who smoked hashish while they played the bouzouki ...
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COSMOS, LIFE, AND LITURGY IN A GREEK ORTHODOX VILLAGE
"A lovely work of ethnographic art. . . the book is virtually unsurpassed in its careful but not laborious coherence and overall development of exposition that convincingly extends the network of significant connections and at the same time presses the analysis deeper towards the ultimate grounds of Greek village imagination" (Rodney Needham, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, All Souls College, Oxford), "This elegantly written and beautifully constructed book illumines the imaginative world underpinning the ordinary lives of Greek villag...
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LOXANDRA
Loxandra of "big arched feet and slim ankles", of "big hands like those of a patriarch? hands for kissing, fingers long and shapely, made to bless and to smell of mahlepi and incense, hands made for giving", was born, it is said, in the times of Abdul-Medjid I, the 31st Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, who reigned from 1839 to 1861. Life for the Greeks of Constantinople was relatively untroubled then. The 19th century was the time of reforms which established, on paper at least, the freedom of belief and equality of all citizens of the Empire...
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THE CRETAN JOURNAL
WHEN EDWARD LEAR set off from Corfu for Crete in April 1864, it was in no very optimistic frame of mind. For the last nine years Corfu had been his winter home but after half a century of British rule the island had been ceded to Greece and Lear felt obliged to move. His livelihood required an immediate expedition to new scenes and he probably assumed that another book of Mediterranean travels would be likely to sell. So it was that he chose Crete. This journal of his travels through the island - now updated and re-issued in paperback - is...
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ON THE GREEK STYLE
This is the first collection of the essays of George Seferis to be published in English. The selection was made by Seferis himself, drawing upon his prose work written over a period of thirty years. Seferis was a classicist and a humanist, a man of modern sensibility imbued with a deep respect for Mediterranean tradition. He is present in all these aspects in his essays. When he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1963, the citation spoke of "his eminent lyrical writings inspired by a deep feeling for the Hellenic world of cultur...
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THE BOUNDLESS GARDEN (VOLUME ΙΙ)
The year 2011 was the centenary anniversary of Alexandros Papadiamandis's death. The event was honoured throughout Greece with numerous celebrations and commemorations of the man and his work, not only in the main cities and urban centres of the country but also in small towns and villages. It was our wish also to mark this centenary with the publication of the second volume of his Selected Short Stories in English translation, a project which had been planned in three volumes and inaugurated in 2007 with the publication of Volume I entitl...
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ΜΥΘΟΛΟΓΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΩΡΑΙΟΥ
Κάποτε-κάποτε λέγεται ή γίνεται δεκτό μ' ελαφρότητα πως ποιητές και καλλιτέχνες που πεθαίνουν νέοι πεθαίνουν την ορισμένη ώρα κι ακόμα κι αν ένα προμήνυμα του θανάτου τους δεν μπορεί να βρεθεί στο έργο τους, τούτο αποκαλύπτει καθαρά, πως δώσανε στον κόσμο όλα όσα είχαν να δώσουν. Υπάρχουν πράγματι ποιητές για τους οποίους αυτό φαίνεται παράξενα αληθινό, κι ο Σέλλεϋ είναι μέσα σ' αυτούς υπάρχουν όμως άλλοι, κι ο Κητς είναι μέσα σ' αυτούς, για τους οποίους δεν μπορεί κανείς να το παραδεχτεί αυτό παρά με μεγάλη δυσκολία. Ο θάνατός τους φαίνε...
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ROAD TO REMBETIKA (H/B)
Rembetika, the music which began in the jails and hashish-dens of Greek towns and became the popular bouzouki music of the 30’s, 40’s and 50’s, has many parallels with American blues. Like the blues, the rembetika songs were the soul music of a group of people who felt themselves to be outside the mainstream of society, who developed their own slang and their own forms of expression. "Road to Rembetika" is the first book in English to attempt a general survey of the world of the "rembets", who smoked hashish while they played the bouzouki ...
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ΑΝΔΡΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΓΥΝΑΙΚΑ - Η ΜΥΣΤΑΓΩΓΙΑ ΤΟΥΣ