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Illumination and Night Glare: The Unfinished Autobiography of Carson McCullers
ISBN: 9780299164409 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the autobiography of Carson McCullers, published more than 30 years after it was written. McCullers, one of the most gifted writers of her generation - the author of The Member of the Wedding, Reflections in a Golden Eye and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe - died of a stroke at the age of 50 before finishing this, her last manuscript. Editor Carlos L. Dews has brought her story back to life, complete with letters between McCullers and her husband Reeves, and an outline of her most famous novel, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
This is the autobiography of Carson McCullers, published more than 30 years after it was written. McCullers, one of the most gifted writers of her gen...
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Illumination and Night Glare: The Unfinished Autobiography of Carson McCullers
ISBN: 9780299164447 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dictated in an idiomatic, associative style, this book exposes the doubleness of Carson McCullers's life. A mine of information for anyone interested in McCullers and American literary life in the 1950s, these memoirs are also a testament to the courage and love of life of their author.
Dictated in an idiomatic, associative style, this book exposes the doubleness of Carson McCullers's life. A mine of information for anyone interested ...
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83,21 |
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The World of Mike Royko
ISBN: 9780299165406 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An account of the life of Chicago newspaper columnist Mike Royko, Pulitzer Prize winner, best-selling author and a journalist considered by many to personify Chicago. Drawing on interviews with Royko's family and intimates, the book chronicles his rise to one of the top names in US journalism.
An account of the life of Chicago newspaper columnist Mike Royko, Pulitzer Prize winner, best-selling author and a journalist considered by many to pe...
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39,13 |
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The Isherwood Century : Essays on the Life and Work of Christopher Isherwood
ISBN: 9780299167004 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Called the best English prose writer of this century by Gore Vidal, Christopher Isherwood is best known for "Goodbye to Berlin" the inspiration for the musical "Cabaret" but is also the author of plays, novels, and diaries. "The Isherwood Century "gathers twenty-four essays and interviews offering a fresh, in-depth view of Isherwood, his literary legacy, and his continuing influence as both a literary and a gay pioneer."
Called the best English prose writer of this century by Gore Vidal, Christopher Isherwood is best known for "Goodbye to Berlin" the inspiration for th...
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141,98 |
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The Isherwood Century: Essays on the Life and Work of Christopher Isherwood
ISBN: 9780299167042 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Called the best English prose writer of this century by Gore Vidal, Christopher Isherwood is best known for Goodbye to Berlin the inspiration for the musical Cabaret but is also the author of plays, novels, and diaries. The Isherwood Century gathers twenty-four essays and interviews offering a fresh, in-depth view of Isherwood, his literary legacy, and his continuing influence as both a literary and a gay pioneer."
Called the best English prose writer of this century by Gore Vidal, Christopher Isherwood is best known for Goodbye to Berlin the inspiration f...
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83,21 |
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American Byron: Homosexuality & the Fall of Fitz-Greene Halleck
ISBN: 9780299168049 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hailed in the mid-19th century as the most important American poet of the period, Fitz-Greene Halleck was dubbed the American Byron and had a large general readership despite his work's infusion of homosexual themes. This biography portrays him as a prophet of the literary and sexual revolution.
Hailed in the mid-19th century as the most important American poet of the period, Fitz-Greene Halleck was dubbed the American Byron and had a large ge...
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76,88 |
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Years Of Bloom: James Joyce In Trieste, 1904-1920
ISBN: 9780299169800 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the publication of Richard Ellmann's biography James Joyce in 1959, scholars have chipped away at various aspects of Ellmann's impressive edifice but have failed to construct anything that might stand alongside it. The Years of Bloom is arguably the most important work of Joyce biography since Ellmann. Based on extensive scrutiny of previously unused Italian sources and informed by the author's intimate knowledge of the culture and dialect of Trieste, The Years of Bloom documents a fertile period in Joyce's life. While living in Trieste, Joyce wrote most of the stories in Dubliners,...
Since the publication of Richard Ellmann's biography James Joyce in 1959, scholars have chipped away at various aspects of Ellmann's impressive edific...
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122,40 |
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Glenway Wescott Personally: A Biography
ISBN: 9780299177300 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As a writer, Glenway Wescott (1901 1987) left behind several novels, including The Grandmothers and The Pilgrim Hawk, noted for their remarkable lyricism. As a literary figure, Wescott also became a symbol of his times. Born on a Wisconsin farm in 1901, he associated as a young writer with Hemingway, Stein, and Fitzgerald in 1920s Paris and subsequently was a central figure in New York s artistic and gay communities. Though he couldn t finish a novel after the age of forty-five, he was just as famous as an arts impresario, as a diarist, and for the company he kept: W. H. Auden, Christopher... As a writer, Glenway Wescott (1901 1987) left behind several novels, including The Grandmothers and The Pilgrim Hawk, noted for their remarkable ly... |
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122,40 |
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Living at the Edge: Biography of D H Lawrence & Frieda Von Richthofen
ISBN: 9780299177508 / Angielski / Twarda / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dashingly told and meticulously researched, this double biography of D. H. Lawrence and his wife Frieda von Richthofen is the first to draw fully on Frieda s unpublished letters and on interviews with people who knew her well. It explores their collision with an industrial world they hated and chronicles the stormy relationship between husband and wife. The strong sexual vitality that inspired Lawrence s art brought both joy and anguish to his marriage. Here, the Lawrences emerge as proud but not conceited in their unconventional lives, staunch in the face of fierce opposition from a...
Dashingly told and meticulously researched, this double biography of D. H. Lawrence and his wife Frieda von Richthofen is the first to draw fully on F...
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141,98 |
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Virginia Woolf's Women
ISBN: 9780299183400 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first biography to concentrate exclusively on Woolf's close and inspirational friendships with the key women in her life, including the caregivers of her Victorian childhood who instilled in her a lifelong struggle between creativity and convention: her taciturn sister, Vanessa Bell; enigmatic artist Dora Carrington; complex writer Katherine Mansfield; independent novelist Vita Sackville-West; and riotous, militant composer Ethel Smyth.
This is the first biography to concentrate exclusively on Woolf's close and inspirational friendships with the key women in her life, including the ca...
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107,71 |
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Isaac Bashevis Singer: A Life
ISBN: 9780299186944 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Isaac Bashevis SInger brought the vibrant milieu of pre-Holocaust Polish Jewry to the English-speaking world through his subtle psychological insight, deep sympathy for the eccentricities of Jewish folk custom and unerring feel for the heroism of everyday life. His novels, including The Family Moskat and Enemies: A Love Story and his short stories such as Yentl and Gimpel the Fool prove him to be a consummate storyteller and one of the greatest Yiddish writers of the 20th century.
Isaac Bashevis SInger brought the vibrant milieu of pre-Holocaust Polish Jewry to the English-speaking world through his subtle psychological insight,...
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78,32 |
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Ilan Stavans : Eight Conversations
ISBN: 9780299199104 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Ilan Stavans has emerged as Latin America s liveliest and boldest critic and most innovative cultural enthusiast," states the "Washington Post." And the "New York Times" described him as "the czar of Latino literature in the United States." But his influential oeuvre doesn t address Hispanic culture exclusively. It has also opened fresh new vistas into Jewish life globally, which has prompted the Forward to portray Stavans as "a maverick intellectual whose canonical work has already produced a whole array of marvels that are redefining Jewishness."
Neal Sokol devoted almost a decade to... "Ilan Stavans has emerged as Latin America s liveliest and boldest critic and most innovative cultural enthusiast," states the "Washington Post." And ...
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102,81 |
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Black Eye: Escaping a Marriage, Writing a Life
ISBN: 9780299199302 / Angielski / Twarda / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Seventeen years after she married, Judith Strasser escaped her emotionally and physically abusive husband and sought a better way to live. In the process, Strasser rediscovered what she had suppressed through that long span of time: exceptional strength and a passion for writing.
Black Eye includes excerpts from a journal Strasser kept from 1985 to1986, the year she made the decision to leave her marriage, and present-day commentary on the journal passages and her family history. Strasser works like a detective investigating her own life, drawing clarity and power from journal... Seventeen years after she married, Judith Strasser escaped her emotionally and physically abusive husband and sought a better way to live. In the proc...
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107,70 |
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A Pan-American Life : Selected Poetry and Prose of Muna Lee
ISBN: 9780299202309 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The extraordinary Muna Lee was a brilliant writer, lyric poet, translator, diplomat, feminist and rights activist, and, above all, a Pan-Americanist. During the twentieth century, she helped shape the literary and social landscapes of the Americas. This is the first biography of her remarkable life and a collection of her diverse writings, which embody her vision of Pan America, an old concept that remains meaningful today.
The extraordinary Muna Lee was a brilliant writer, lyric poet, translator, diplomat, feminist and rights activist, and, above all, a Pan-Americanist. ...
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284,07 |
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Pan-American Life: Selected Poetry and Prose of Muna Lee
ISBN: 9780299202347 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The extraordinary Muna Lee was a brilliant writer, lyric poet, translator, diplomat, feminist and rights activist, and, above all, a Pan-Americanist. During the twentieth century, she helped shape the literary and social landscapes of the Americas. This is the first biography of her remarkable life and a collection of her diverse writings, which embody her vision of Pan America, an old concept that remains meaningful today.
The extraordinary Muna Lee was a brilliant writer, lyric poet, translator, diplomat, feminist and rights activist, and, above all, a Pan-Americanist. ...
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97,90 |
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Fred in Love
ISBN: 9780299209100 / Angielski / Twarda / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the early 1970s, when he was still an aspiring, unpublished writer, Felice Picano began a remarkable relationship with an extraordinary animal: a days-old kitten slated for euthanasia who refused to perish. Rescued, named, and trained, Fred became an extraordinarily intelligent companion, ally, teacher, and constant wonder to the author as he began his ascent through the Bohemian circles of Greenwich Village, among musicians, actors, curious characters, and even the famous British actress in hiding right next door.
But when an acquaintance brought his female cat to be serviced by Fred,... In the early 1970s, when he was still an aspiring, unpublished writer, Felice Picano began a remarkable relationship with an extraordinary animal: a d...
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56,66 |
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Ford Madox Ford and the Regiment of Women
ISBN: 9780299210908 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Engaging and energetic, this biography of Ford Madox Ford presents the modernist writer in a previously unexplored way. Other biographies have approached Ford as an author; indeed, his memoirs give almost no indication that the women in his life were of any importance or, in fact, that they ever existed. Literary scholar Joseph Wiesenfarth revises this approach by tracing Ford's relationships with four women central to his life.
Wiesenfarth shows how these four women Violet Hunt, Jean Rhys, Stella Bowen, and Janice Biala established themselves as artists in their own right and depicted... Engaging and energetic, this biography of Ford Madox Ford presents the modernist writer in a previously unexplored way. Other biographies have approac...
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141,98 |
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Man Who Would Marry Susan Sontag: And Other Intimate Literary Portraits of the Bohemian Era
ISBN: 9780299213244 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Long before Stonewall, young Air Force veteran Edward Field, fresh from combat in WWII, threw himself into New York's literary bohemia, searching for fulfillment as a gay man and poet. In this vivid account of his avant-garde years in Greenwich Village and the bohemian outposts of Paris's Left Bank and Tangier--where you could write poetry, be radical, and be openly gay--Field's intimate portraits of literary contemporaries such as Susan Sontag, Alfred Chester, May Swenson, and Frank O'Hara bring back the sadness, bawdiness, humor, and romanticism of the nigh-forgotten postwar bohemian...
Long before Stonewall, young Air Force veteran Edward Field, fresh from combat in WWII, threw himself into New York's literary bohemia, searching for ...
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83,21 |
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Secret of M. Dulong: A Memoir
ISBN: 9780299214203 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A search for roots and identity has rarely been captured with such irony, unusual insight, and surprising humor as in this memoir of heartbreak and hope. Today a distinguished American poet, Colette Inez first came to the United States when she was eight years old, as an apparent Belgian orphan escorted by two complete strangers. Growing up in post-World War II America, a stranger to her own past, she survived a harrowing adolescence and an increasingly menacing, abusive adoptive family by learning to define her single solace: a developing passion for literature. Facing possible deportation...
A search for roots and identity has rarely been captured with such irony, unusual insight, and surprising humor as in this memoir of heartbreak and ho...
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115,42 |
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Sherwood Anderson: A Writer in America, Volume 2
ISBN: 9780299220204 / Angielski / Twarda / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sherwood Anderson, an important American novelist and short-story writer of the early twentieth century, is probably best known for his novel Winesburg, Ohio. His realistic and nonformulaic writing style would influence the next generation of authors, most notably Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner.
Walter Rideout s Sherwood Anderson: A Writer in America is a seminal work that reintroduces us to this important, yet recently neglected, American writer, giving him long overdue attention. This second volume of the monumental two-volume work covers Anderson s life after his... Sherwood Anderson, an important American novelist and short-story writer of the early twentieth century, is probably best known for his novel Wines...
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244,89 |
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