John Mellor: 4 books

Gripping in its intensity, excruciating in its detail, John Mellor’s account of the 1942 Canadian raid on the well-fortified beach town of Dieppe, France, is written with the fairness of a good historian, the eloquence of a well-honed author, and the compassion of a good interviewer—a man who...

This book is not easy to classify but I would place it somewhere between Fairy Tale and Magical Realism. A London publisher called it "One of those unique and wonderful manuscripts that come one’s way all too rarely”. A reclusive outcast rock star heads a band of lonely misfits...

This book examines the role of agriculture in the economic transformation of developing low- and middle-income countries and explores means for accelerating agricultural growth and poverty reduction. In this volume, Mellor measures by household class the employment impact of alternative agricultural...

This interdisciplinary book honors Columbia professor and New York intellectual Carl Woodring. Chapters on Romantic and Victorian literary culture written by leading scholars in the field join in conversation with Woodring’s teachings on literature and visual art and his commentaries on American...