He is a standup-comedy star, the author of three volumes of classic New Yorker casuals and five plays (including two Broadway hits), an actor, and, of course, a writer-director of movies.
I particularly loved the Library (left), where I could spend days on end picking through volumes of classic American and European literature from the shelves, settling down in a comfortable chair and ordering tea or a cocktail as I wile away hours ripping through a volume or two of James Fenimore Cooper or boning up on Wisconsin wildlife.
Would you buy your children a beautiful new volume of classic fairy tales this season?
The Paris correspondent for Vogue Entertaining and Travel, Calder has delivered a warm, no-nonsense volume of classic recipes (tarragon chicken, potato torte, steak au poivre), nearly all of which are simple to make, even if you don't have the luxury of shopping in big-city food markets.
For young schoolchildren there were printed multiplication tables and primers for elementary vocabulary; for adult examination candidates there were mass-produced, inexpensive volumes of Confucian classics and successful examination answers.
Trying one with a glass of chilled 2009 Chassagne-Montrachet, Jean-Pierre Ribaut, the food critic for Le Monde and Mr. Alléno's co-author of a two-volume work of classic French recipes, had two words: "Wow!
In his early African years, Mr. Meredith writes, Rhodes was "often to be seen supervising black laborers while sitting on an upturned bucket reading a volume of the classics, deaf to the noise about him".
Kang Zhengguo's gripping and poignant memoir, "Confessions: An Innocent Life in Communist China," intelligently and fluently translated by Susan Wilf, revolves around one man's passion for bound volumes of all kinds — classics of warfare and poetry, adventure novels, foreign fiction, and Kang's own diligently kept diaries.
Since the level set function is continuous, the normal vector calculation is easy and accurate compared to a classic volume-of-fluid method, while tracking the volume fraction is essential for enforcing mass conservation.
Steven Spielberg used motion-capture technology in adapting three volumes of Hergé's classic comic-book series, "The Adventures of Tintin," in which Jamie Bell plays the young hero; Andy Serkis, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, and Daniel Craig co-star.
While I have in the past greatly savored the first two volumes of Anthony Trollope's classic oeuvre, The Chronicles of Barsetshire, I have never read the entire six volume series.
