Biography: writers Books
Cambridge University Press Edmond Malone Shakespearean Scholar
Book SynopsisEdmond Malone (1741–1812) laid the foundations for the scholarly study of literature; yet he was also gregarious, attracting many friends and enemies among his contemporaries. This first modern full-length biography illuminates the private world of the scholar and the public world of the late eighteenth-century intellectual elite.Table of ContentsList of illustrations; Preface; List of abbreviations; 1. Irish beginnings; 2. 'Shakspearomania'; 3. Dr Johnson and the club; 4. Courtship, books, forgeries, and Horace Walpole; 5. Scholarship and strife; 6. 'O Brave We!': helping Boswell with the Tour of the Hebrides; 7. Deep in Shakespeare; 8. Boswell's Life of Johnson; 9. Interruptions and disappointments; 10. The club of Hercules: exposing Shakespeare forgeries; 11. Art and politics: homage to Reynolds and Burke; 12. John Dryden and the closing of the century; 13. Signs of weariness; 14. 'The last of the Shakspearians'; Epilogue: The Malone–Boswell Third Variorum Edition (1821); Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press C.S. Lewis and the Problem of God
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Cambridge University Press C. S. Lewis and the Problem of God
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Cambridge University Press Suzanne Dumesnil Suzanne Beckett
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Cambridge University Press The Life and Letters of Leslie Stephen
Book SynopsisLeslie Stephen (18321904), the founding Editor of the Dictionary of National Biography, was one of the leading literary figures of the nineteenth century. This extensive biography, published in 1906, draws heavily from Stephen's letters to give a detailed account of the life of a most influential Victorian.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Parentage; 3. Boyhood (1832–50); 4. The undergraduate (1850–4); 5. Sketches of a don at Cambridge (1854–64); 6. The playground of Europe (1855–94); 7. The Times and the war (1863–5); 8. Free-thinking and plain-speaking (1862–5); 9. Journalism (1865–71); 10. The first marriage (1865–71); 11. Hours in a library (1867–73); 12. More hours in a library (1873–5); 13. Cornhill and Schreckhorn (1871–5); 14. Wordsworth's ethics (1875–8); 15. The second marriage (1878); 16. An ethical treatise (1878–82); 17. Tramps and contributors (1879–91); 18. The struggle with the Dictionary (1882–91); 19. An agnostics apology (1891–5); 20. Studies of a biographer (1895–1902); 21. The sunset (1902–4); Appendix I. Leslie Stephen's works; II. List of the Sunday Tramps; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Hume
Book SynopsisThis is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of the entire career of one of Britain''s greatest men of letters. It sets in biographical and historical context all of Hume''s works, from A Treatise of Human Nature to The History of England, bringing to light the major influences on the course of Hume''s intellectual development, and paying careful attention to the differences between the wide variety of literary genres with which Hume experimented. The major events in Hume''s life are fully described, but the main focus is on Hume''s intentions as a philosophical analyst of human nature, politics, commerce, English history, and religion. Careful attention is paid to Hume''s intellectual relations with his contemporaries. The goal is to reveal Hume as a man intensely concerned with the realization of an ideal of open-minded, objective, rigorous, dispassionate dialogue about all the principal questions faced by his age.Trade Review'Harris skillfully explores the background of Hume's economic and other essays, and indeed all of his works, describing in some depth the debates to which they contributed and the influences of Hume's own reading.' The New York Review of Books'Harris himself writes well up to Hume's own standard, and his analyses are always clearly expressed as well as thoroughly argued. For anyone with an interest in Hume, this is now probably the place to start if not with the great man's work itself.' Hector MacQueen, Irish Legal News'This is an excellent book. James Harris has explored not only David Hume's well-known interlocutors but also a wide range of lesser-known influences. In addition to being carefully and thoroughly researched, it is also written in a clear and engaging style, making it a pleasure to read. … Harris's book is a long-awaited addition to the literature that will not disappoint.' Donald C. Ainslie, Global DiscourseTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Pursuits of philosophy and general learning; 2. Anatomist of human nature; 3. Essayist; 4. Achievement of independence; 5. Two years at Ninewells; 6. The start of a history of Great Britain; 7. The completion of a history of Great Britain; 8. Paris, London, Edinburgh; Afterword: death and character.
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Cambridge University Press The Afterlife of St Cuthbert
Book SynopsisIntroduces readers interested in insular spirituality and hagiography to the major texts associated with the cult of the great northern English saint, Cuthbert. The first sustained analysis of this textual tradition from 690-1500, emphasizing his ascetic evolution, and association with changing perceptions of northernness and nationhood.Table of Contents1. Blessings on pregnant seals: constructing Cuthbert's asceticism in his anonymous and Bedan vitae and the Historia ecclesiastica, 690-740; 2. Travels with my coffin: the dislocation and defence of the community of St Cuthbert in the Historia de Sancto Cuthberto, 793-1050; 3. The bishop in the rain: celebrating the new order in Symeon of Durham's Libellus de exordio, Old English Durham, and the Capitula de miraculis et translationibus sancti Cuthberti, 1066-1140; 4. Expansions and contractions of saintly space in two Cuthbertine miracle collections, 1150-1210; 5. Godric of Finchale, Bartholomew of Farne, and the 'Irish' Libellus de ortu Sancti Cuthberti: three eremitic responses to St Cuthbert, 1150-1210; 6. Delimiting sanctity in two meditations from Farne Island: the Exortacio ad Contemplacionem and the Meditaciones of the Monk of Farne, 1210-1370; 7. Vernacular epitomes and encyclopedias: Southern Legendaries and the Metrical Life of St Cuthbert, 1270-1500; Conclusion.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare
Book SynopsisWinner of the Baillie Gifford Prize’s 25th Anniversary Winner of Winners awardWhat accounts for Shakespeare’s transformation from talented poet and playwright to one of the greatest writers who ever lived? In this gripping account, James Shapiro sets out to answer this question, succeed[ing] where others have fallen short. (Boston Globe) 1599 was an epochal year for Shakespeare and England. During that year, Shakespeare wrote four of his most famous plays: Henry the Fifth, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, and, most remarkably, Hamlet; Elizabethans sent off an army to crush an Irish rebellion, weathered an Armada threat from Spain, gambled on a fledgling East India Company, and waited to see who would succeed their aging and childless queen.James Shapiro illuminates both Shakespeare’s staggering achievement and what Elizabethans experienced in the course of 1599, bringing toget
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Blue Suburbia
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Dust Tracks on a Road
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Letters of E. B. White
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Agatha Christies Secret Notebooks
Book SynopsisAgatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks is the fascinating exploration of the contents of Agatha Christie’s long hidden notebooks, including illustrations, analyses, and two previously unpublished Hercule Poirot short stories. Not only will Christie’s legions of ardent fans find a treasure chest of new material from the author of such classics as And Then There Were None, Murder on the Orient Express, and Death on the Nile, but Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks is also a must-read tutorial for writers who want to learn the intricacies of constructing crime novels.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Real Jane Austen
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Boy Detective A New York Childhood
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Art of Neil Gaiman
Book SynopsisWith unprecedented access to Neil Gaiman’s personal archives, author Hayley Campbell gives an insider’s glimpse into the artistic inspirations and musings of one of the world’s most visionary writers.Over the last twenty-five years, Neil Gaiman has mapped out a territory in the popular imagination that is uniquely his own. A master of several genres, including, but not limited to, bestselling novels, children’s books, groundbreaking comics, and graphic novels, it’s no wonder Gaiman has been called a rock star of the literary world. Now, for the first time, Gaiman reveals the inspiration behind his signature artistic motifs, giving author Hayley Campbell a rare, in-depth look at the contents of his personal notebooks and early work, even some of his abandoned projects. The result is a startling, intimate glimpse into the life and mind of one of the world’s most creative visionaries. The book is the first comprehensive, full-color examination
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Memorial Drive
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Memorial Drive
Book SynopsisAn Instant New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book One of Barack Obama''s Favorite Books of 2020Named One of the Best Books of the Year by: The Washington Post, NPR, Shelf Awareness, Esquire, Electric Literature, Slate, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and InStyleA chillingly personal and exquisitely wrought memoir of a daughter reckoning with the brutal murder of her mother at the hands of her former stepfather, and the moving, intimate story of a poet coming into her own in the wake of a tragedyAt age nineteen, Natasha Trethewey had her world turned upside down when her former stepfather shot and killed her mother. Grieving and still new to adulthood, she confronted the twin pulls of life and death in the aftermath of unimaginable trauma and now explores the way this experience lastingly shaped the artist she became.With penetrating insight and a searing voice that moves from the wrenching to the elegiac, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey explores this profound experience of pain, loss, and grief as an entry point into understanding the tragic course of her mother’s life and the way her own life has been shaped by a legacy of fierce love and resilience. Moving through her mother’s history in the deeply segregated South and through her own girlhood as a “child of miscegenation” in Mississippi, Trethewey plumbs her sense of dislocation and displacement in the lead-up to the harrowing crime that took place on Memorial Drive in Atlanta in 1985.Memorial Drive is a compelling and searching look at a shared human experience of sudden loss and absence but also a piercing glimpse at the enduring ripple effects of white racism and domestic abuse. Animated by unforgettable prose and inflected by a poet’s attention to language, this is a luminous, urgent, and visceral memoir from one of our most important contemporary writers and thinkers.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc City Poet
Book SynopsisThe definitive biography of Frank O’Hara, one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century, the magnetic literary figure at the center of New York’s cultural life during the 1950s and 1960s.City Poet captures the excitement and promise of mid-twentieth-century New York in the years when it became the epicenter of the art world, and illuminates the poet and artist at its heart. Brad Gooch traces Frank O’Hara’s life from his parochial Catholic childhood to World War II, through his years at Harvard and New York. He brilliantly portrays O’Hara in in his element, surrounded by a circle of writers and artists who would transform America’s cultural landscape: Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Helen Frankenthaler, Jackson Pollock, Gregory Corso, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, LeRoi Jones, and John Ashbery.Gooch brings into focus the artistry and influence of a life “of guts and wit and style and passion” (Luc Sa
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Ted Hughes
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Ted Hughes
Book SynopsisTed Hughes, Poet Laureate, was one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. He was one of Britain’s most important poets.With an equal gift for poetry and prose, he was also a prolific children’s writer and has been hailed as the greatest English letterwriter since John Keats. His magnetic personality and insatiable appetite for friendship, love, and life also attracted more scandal than any poet since Lord Byron. His lifelong quest to come to terms with the suicide of his first wife, Sylvia Plath, is the saddest and most infamous moment in the public history of modern poetry.Hughes left behind a more complete archive of notes and journals than any other major poet, including thousands of pages of drafts, unpublished poems, and memorandum books that make up an almost complete record of Hughes’s inner life, which he preserved for posterity. Renowned scholar Jonathan Bate has spent five years in the Hughes archives, unearthing a wealth of new m
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Lost Landscape A Writers Coming of Age
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Melville in Love
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Age of Disenchantments
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Real Lolita
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Real Lolita
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Papillon Movie TieIn
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Scoundrel
Book SynopsisA Recommended Read from: The Los Angeles Times * Town and Country * The Seattle Times * Publishers Weekly * Lit Hub * Crime Reads * AlmaFrom the author of The Real Lolita and editor of Unspeakable Acts, the astonishing story of a murderer who conned the people around him—including conservative thinker William F. Buckley—into helping set him freeIn the 1960s, Edgar Smith, in prison and sentenced to death for the murder of teenager Victoria Zielinski, struck up a correspondence with William F. Buckley, the founder of National Review. Buckley, who refused to believe that a man who supported the neoconservative movement could have committed such a heinous crime, began to advocate not only for Smith’s life to be spared but also for his sentence to be overturned.So begins a bizarre and tragic tale of mid-century America. Sarah Weinman’s Scoundrel leads us through the
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Miss Chloe
Book Synopsis“Passionate, personal, insightful, testy, and unique.” —Kirkus (starred review)Verdelle offers us testimony in praise and consideration of life as a literary citizen and Black woman alongside the guiding light of Toni Morrison. This is a holy testimony, indeed, one that deserves to be amen''d forever.” —Jason Reynolds, #1 New York Times Bestselling AuthorVerdelle gives us the greatest gift—our beloved ancestor returned to us—generous and alive, remembered and revered. So grateful for this book in the world.” —Jacqueline Woodson, author of Another BrooklynIf you let a black girl loose in a library, you may not recognize the woman who emerges.—from Miss ChloeToni Morrison, born Chloe A Wofford, was a towering figure in the world of literature when she entered A.J. Verdelle
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc These Precious Days
Book SynopsisThe beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in this deeply personal collection of essays. The elegance of Patchett’s prose is seductive and inviting: with Patchett as a guide, readers will really get to grips with the power of struggles, failures, and triumphs alike. —Publisher''s Weekly“Any story that starts will also end.” As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming. Patchett ponders this truth in these wise essays that afford a fresh and intimate look into her mind and heart. At the center of These Precious Days is the title essay, a surprising and moving meditation on an unexpected friendship that explores “what it means to be seen, to find someone with whom you can be your best and most complete self.” When Patchett chose an early galley of actor and producer Tom Hanks’ short story collection to read one night before bed, she had no idea that this single choice would be life changing. It would introduce her to a remarkable woman—Tom’s brilliant assistant Sooki—with whom she would form a profound bond that held monumental consequences for them both. A literary alchemist, Patchett plumbs the depths of her experiences to create gold: engaging and moving pieces that are both self-portrait and landscape, each vibrant with emotion and rich in insight. Turning her writer’s eye on her own experiences, she transforms the private into the universal, providing us all a way to look at our own worlds anew, and reminds how fleeting and enigmatic life can be. From the enchantments of Kate DiCamillo’s children’s books (author of The Beatryce Prophecy) to youthful memories of Paris; the cherished life gifts given by her three fathers to the unexpected influence of Charles Schultz’s Snoopy; the expansive vision of Eudora Welty to the importance of knitting, Patchett connects life and art as she illuminates what matters most. Infused with the author’s grace, wit, and warmth, the pieces in These Precious Days resonate deep in the soul, leaving an indelible mark—and demonstrate why Ann Patchett is one of the most celebrated writers of our time.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc These Precious Days CD
Book SynopsisThe beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in this deeply personal collection of essays. The elegance of Patchett’s prose is seductive and inviting: with Patchett as a guide, readers will really get to grips with the power of struggles, failures, and triumphs alike. —Publisher''s Weekly“Any story that starts will also end.” As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming. Patchett ponders this truth in these wise essays that afford a fresh and intimate look into her mind and heart. At the center of These Precious Days is the title essay, a surprising and moving meditation on an unexpected friendship that explores “what it means to be seen, to find someone with whom you can be your best and most complete self.” When Patchett chose an early galley of actor and producer Tom Hanks’ short story collection to read one night before bed, she had no idea that this single choice would be life changing. It would introduce her to a remarkable woman—Tom’s brilliant assistant Sooki—with whom she would form a profound bond that held monumental consequences for them both. A literary alchemist, Patchett plumbs the depths of her experiences to create gold: engaging and moving pieces that are both self-portrait and landscape, each vibrant with emotion and rich in insight. Turning her writer’s eye on her own experiences, she transforms the private into the universal, providing us all a way to look at our own worlds anew, and reminds how fleeting and enigmatic life can be. From the enchantments of Kate DiCamillo’s children’s books (author of The Beatryce Prophecy) to youthful memories of Paris; the cherished life gifts given by her three fathers to the unexpected influence of Charles Schultz’s Snoopy; the expansive vision of Eudora Welty to the importance of knitting, Patchett connects life and art as she illuminates what matters most. Infused with the author’s grace, wit, and warmth, the pieces in These Precious Days resonate deep in the soul, leaving an indelible mark—and demonstrate why Ann Patchett is one of the most celebrated writers of our time.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc These Precious Days
Book SynopsisThe beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in this deeply personal collection of essays. The elegance of Patchett’s prose is seductive and inviting: with Patchett as a guide, readers will really get to grips with the power of struggles, failures, and triumphs alike. —Publisher''s Weekly“Any story that starts will also end.” As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming. Patchett ponders this truth in these wise essays that afford a fresh and intimate look into her mind and heart. At the center of These Precious Days is the title essay, a surprising and moving meditation on an unexpected friendship that explores “what it means to be seen, to find someone with whom you can be your best and most complete self.” When Patchett chose an early galley of actor and producer Tom Hanks’ short story collection to read one night before bed, she had no idea that this single choice would be life changing. It would introduce her to a remarkable woman—Tom’s brilliant assistant Sooki—with whom she would form a profound bond that held monumental consequences for them both. A literary alchemist, Patchett plumbs the depths of her experiences to create gold: engaging and moving pieces that are both self-portrait and landscape, each vibrant with emotion and rich in insight. Turning her writer’s eye on her own experiences, she transforms the private into the universal, providing us all a way to look at our own worlds anew, and reminds how fleeting and enigmatic life can be. From the enchantments of Kate DiCamillo’s children’s books (author of The Beatryce Prophecy) to youthful memories of Paris; the cherished life gifts given by her three fathers to the unexpected influence of Charles Schultz’s Snoopy; the expansive vision of Eudora Welty to the importance of knitting, Patchett connects life and art as she illuminates what matters most. Infused with the author’s grace, wit, and warmth, the pieces in These Precious Days resonate deep in the soul, leaving an indelible mark—and demonstrate why Ann Patchett is one of the most celebrated writers of our time.
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Penguin Putnam Inc America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction
Book SynopsisA Penguin ClassicMore than four decades after his death, John Steinbeck remains one of the nation''s most beloved authors. Yet few know of his career as a journalist who covered world events from the Great Depression to Vietnam. Now, this distinctive collection offers a portrait of the artist as citizen, deeply engaged in the world around him. In addition to the complete text of Steinbeck''s last published book, America and Americans, this volume brings together for the first time more than fifty of Steinbeck''s finest essays and journalistic pieces on Salinas, Sag Harbor, Arthur Miller, Woody Guthrie, the Vietnam War and more. This edition is edited by Steinbeck scholar Susan Shillinglaw and Steinbeck biographer Jackson J. Benson.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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Penguin Putnam Inc Traveling with Pomegranates
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewPraise for Traveling with Pomegranates:“Thoughtful, honest, and uplifting.” —The Los Angeles Times“Any mother or daughter would enjoy or relate to the touching struggle of developing a close relationship as adult women.” —The Associated Press“Read this one as a memoir, a travelogue and as a self-renewal book” —Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Mockingbird Next Door
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Penguin Putnam Inc Here We Are
Book SynopsisFinalist for the National Jewish Book Award A deeply felt, beautifully crafted meditation on friendship and loss in the vein of A Year of Magical Thinking, and a touching portrait of Philip Roth from his closest friend.I had a baseball question on the tip of my tongue: What was the name of the natural, the player shot by a stalker in a Chicago hotel room? He gave me an amused look that darkened in-to puzzlement, then fear. Then he pitched forward into the soup, unconscious. When I entered the examining room twenty minutes after our arrival at Charlotte Hungerford Hospital, Philip said, No more books. Thus he announced his retirement.So begins Benjamin Taylor''s Here We Are, the unvarnished portrait of his best friend and one of America''s greatest writers. Needless to say, Philip Roth''s place in the canon is secure, but what is less clear is what the man himself was like. In Here We Are, Benjamin Taylor''s b
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The University of Chicago Press Camus and Sartre The Story of a Friendship and
Book SynopsisThe full story of the rupture between Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre is described here as a falling out over fundamental differences of opinion regarding the use of violence as a path to change.Trade Review"With meticulous even-handedness, this internationally renowned Sartre expert has produced a remarkably non-partisan account which also reminds us that it is possible to combine the highest level of scholarship with a lively and readable style of writing.... An important contribution to twentieth-century intellectual and cultural history." - David Drake, Times Literary Supplement; "Aronson's literary acuity combined with an entertaining use of anecdotes on social and personal jealousies Sartre and Camus harbored make the book a useful biographical background to the major works of these authors and a most enjoyable tale of the turmoil of intellectual life in postwar France." - Publishers Weekly; "A masterful synthesis of intellectual history, political context, and biographical narrative.... A book that will reward both those unfamiliar with either thinker and the expert It will doubtless be the standard account of the Sartre-Camus debate for a long time to come." - Scott McLemee, Bookforum"
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The University of Chicago Press Music at Midnight
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MO - University of Illinois Press Brother Mine The Correspondence of Jean Toomer
Book SynopsisPresents a literary friendship, preserved in letters.Trade Review"Unusually valuable for the history of modernism. This fascinating correspondence will create further interest in Toomer, Frank, and the mixed-race environment of the 1920s.”--Linda Wagner-Martin, author of Telling Women's Lives: The New Biography“Readers and scholars will welcome this fully annotated and contextually framed collection of the alchemy that comes from the significant voices of Jean Toomer and Waldo Frank. This volume brings long-needed light to two figures whose reputations and influence on American letters has been skewed by the lack of mutually illuminating materials, until now."--Steve H. Cook, editor of The Correspondence Between Hart Crane and Waldo Frank"A groundbreaking work of scholarship. These fascinating letters tell the story of Toomer and Frank's relationship as the writers shared their writing and criticized and commented on each other's work. An important addition to any serious collection on early Harlem Renaissance writers."--Choice
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MO - University of Illinois Press Casanova the Irresistible
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewPraise for the French edition: "Sollers wants his hero to shock us still, challenge our orthodoxies, scoff at our timidity and political correctness. A very readable, often perceptive response to the Histoire de ma vie which consciously sets out to tell us about our own prejudices and preoccupations as much as those of his subject."--Times Literary Supplement "Our thanks to Philippe Sollers for having restored to us an ungraspable and unpredictable Casanova."--Le Nouvel Observateur "Fills a gap between the less accessible scholarly studies and the popular, often inaccurate, literature on Casanova. If this territory has already been well-traveled, a new perspective and innovative approach make it seem fresh and appealing."--Eighteenth Century Studies "Fills a gap between the less accessible scholarly studies and the popular, often inaccurate, literature on Casanova. If this territory has already been well-traveled, a new perspective and innovative approach make it seem fresh and appealing."--Eighteenth Century Studies
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Hachette Books Papa Hemingway
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Random House USA Inc The Life of Saul Bellow Volume 1 To Fame and
Book SynopsisFor much of his adult life, Saul Bellow was the most acclaimed novelist in America, the winner of, among other awards, the Nobel Prize in Literature, three National Book Awards, and the Pulitzer Prize. The Life of Saul Bellow, by the literary scholar and biographer Zachary Leader, draws on unprecedented access to Bellow’s papers, including much previously restricted material, as well as interviews with more than 150 of the novelist’s relatives, close friends, colleagues, and lovers, a number of whom have never spoken to researchers before. Through detailed exploration of Bellow’s writings, and the private history that informed them, Leader chronicles a singular life in letters, offering original and nuanced accounts not only of the novelist’s development and rise to eminence, but of his many identities—as writer, polemicist, husband, father, Chicagoan, Jew, American.
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Random House USA Inc The Man Who Invented Christmas
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Vintage Espanol Gabriel GarcÃa MÃrquez Gabriel GarcÃa MÃrquez A
Book SynopsisLa primera biografía completa y autorizada sobre el más querido y admirado escritor latinoamericano Gerald Martin dedicó más de dos décadas a investigar y escribir esta magistral biografía. Pasó horas con Gabriel García Márquez y entrevistó a más de trescientas personas, incluyendo a la madre, mujer, hijos y familiares del autor, además de a famosos escritores y políticos como Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa y Fidel Castro. El resultado revela tanto al escritor como al hombre.Nacido en 1927 y educado por sus abuelos en una pequeña aldea colombiana, el tímido e inteligente muchacho se convirtió en un hombre reservado, un periodista que encontró la fama como novelista, a los cuarenta años, tras publicar Cien años de soledad, la novela que dio lugar al Realismo Mágico y obra cumbre de la literatura latinoamericana del siglo XX. Pero a pe
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Random House USA Inc Gabriel GarcÃa MÃrquez
Book SynopsisIn this exhaustive and enlightening biography—nearly two decades in the making—Gerald Martin dexterously traces the life and times of one of the twentieth century’s greatest literary titans, Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel García Márquez. Martin chronicles the particulars of an extraordinary life, from his upbringing in backwater Colombia and early journalism career, to the publication of One Hundred Years of Solitude at age forty, and the wealth and fame that followed. Based on interviews with more than three hundred of Garcia Marquez’s closest friends, family members, fellow authors, and detractors—as well as the many hours Martin spent with ‘Gabo’ himself—the result is a revelation of both the writer and the man. It is as gripping as any of Gabriel García Márquez’s powerful journalism, as enthralling as any of his acclaimed and beloved fiction.
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Random House USA Inc Farther and Wilder
Book SynopsisCharles Jackson’s novel The Lost Weekend—the story of five disastrous days in the life of an alcoholic—was published in 1944 to triumphant success. Although he tried to escape its legacy, Jackson is often remembered only as the author of this thinly veiled autobiography. In Farther & Wilder, the award-winning biographer of Richard Yates and John Cheever goes deeper, exploring Jackson’s life—from growing up in the scandal-plagued village of Newark, New York, to a career in Hollywood and friendships with everyone from Judy Garland and Billy Wilder to Thomas Mann and Mary McCarthy. This is the fascinating biography of a writer whose life and work encapsulated what it meant to be an addict and a closeted homosexual in mid-century America, and who was far ahead of his time in bringing these forbidden subjects into the popular discourse.
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Random House USA Inc Emily Dickinson Letters Everymans Library Pocket
Book SynopsisA selection of the remarkable letters of Emily Dickinson in an elegant Pocket Poet edition.The same inimitable voice and dazzling insights that make Emily Dickinson’s poems immortal can be found in the whimsical, humorous, and often deeply moving letters she wrote to her family and friends throughout her life. The selection of letters presented here provides a fuller picture of the eccentric recluse of legend, showing how immersed in life she was: we see her tending her garden; baking bread; marking the marriages, births, and deaths of those she loved; reaching out for intellectual companionship; and confessing her personal joys and sorrows. These letters, invaluable for the light they shed on their author, are, as well, a pure pleasure to read.
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group This Earthly Globe
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Random House USA Inc Sydney and Violet
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