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May Sarton
ISBN: 9780393039542 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fittingly, an early letter thanks parents for books. Later we enter the world of the theater, then years rich with study, travel, teaching, and the discipline of craft. Sarton's deep anguish as World War II approaches pervades many letters, but readers will also encounter the things that gave Sarton joy: her love of flowers, her affection for animals, her celebration of beauty in all its guises As Sarton divides her time between America and Europe, in an era when ocean voyages were the norm, illustrious acquaintances and intimates are introduced, among them Eva Le Gallienne, Elizabeth Bowen,...
Fittingly, an early letter thanks parents for books. Later we enter the world of the theater, then years rich with study, travel, teaching, and the di...
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Learning to Fly: A Writer's Memoir
ISBN: 9780393057324 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Two years before her death in 2005, Mary Lee Settle sat down "to trace the way that led me into the writer I have been for fifty years." The result is this memoir, which picks up her life story where Addie (1998) left it, with a girl turning twenty, head over heels in love with the language of Shakespeare and determined to be an actress. That summer of 1938 her mother sends Mary Lee off to a theater apprenticeship, inadvertently setting her on a road few women of that era would have dared to travel. The road will lead to serious, "uncompromised" writing and over twenty books, including her...
Two years before her death in 2005, Mary Lee Settle sat down "to trace the way that led me into the writer I have been for fifty years." The result is...
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103,06 |
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A William Maxwell Portrait: Memories and Appreciations
ISBN: 9780393057713 / Angielski / Twarda / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Alec Wilkinson writes of Maxwell as mentor; Edward Hirsch remembers him in old age; Charles Baxter illuminates the magnificent novelSo Long, See You Tomorrow; Ben Cheever recalls Maxwell and his own father; Donna Tartt vividly describes Maxwell's kindness to herself as a first novelist; and Michael Collier admires him as a supreme literary correspondent. Other appreciations include insightful pieces by Alice Munro, Anthony Hecht, a poem by John Updike, and a brief tribute from Paula Fox. Ending this splendid collection is Maxwell himself, in the unpublished speech "The Writer as...
Alec Wilkinson writes of Maxwell as mentor; Edward Hirsch remembers him in old age; Charles Baxter illuminates the magnificent novelSo Long, See Y...
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173,41 |
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Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties
ISBN: 9780393302318 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Making use of the author's access to the Beach family papers, this account chronicles the literary circle that gathered at Beach's Paris book shop.
Making use of the author's access to the Beach family papers, this account chronicles the literary circle that gathered at Beach's Paris book shop.
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105,30 |
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E.B. White: A Biography
ISBN: 9780393303056 / Angielski / Miękka / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here is a richly detailed and vivid biography of the man who wrote Charlotte s Web, The Trumpet of the Swan, and Stuart Little; the White of Strunk and White; the writer whose style and humor were so important in distinguishing The New Yorker s first thirty years. Included are some fifty photographs and drawings, as well as manuscript facsimiles."
Here is a richly detailed and vivid biography of the man who wrote Charlotte s Web, The Trumpet of the Swan, and Stuart Little; the White of Strunk an...
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111,56 |
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A World of Light: Portraits and Celebrations
ISBN: 9780393305005 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. May Sarton's celebrations in this book center around the friendships that flowered in her life from age twenty-six to age forty-five between the end of I Knew a Phoenix and the beginning of Plant Dreaming Deep. Her subjects include her father, the noted science historian George Sarton; people in the arts Elizabeth Bowen, Louise Brogan, Jean Dominique; and people who lived lives remote from the center Marc, the vigneron of Satigny, in the foothills of the Jura mountains, and Quig, the painter of Nelson, New Hampshire."
May Sarton's celebrations in this book center around the friendships that flowered in her life from age twenty-six to age forty-five between the end o...
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84,59 |
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Evelyn Waugh: The Early Years, 1903-1939
ISBN: 9780393306057 / Angielski / Miękka / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Evelyn Waugh who emerges from this fascinating and masterful account is a far different, and a far more complex, figure than the one most readers know. . . . Not only supersedes all earlier accounts of the writer but also is a model of the biographer s art." Michael Gorra, New York Newsday"
"The Evelyn Waugh who emerges from this fascinating and masterful account is a far different, and a far more complex, figure than the one most readers...
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125,24 |
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After the Stroke: A Journal
ISBN: 9780393306309 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The author chronicles her efforts to regain her health after having suffered a stroke at the age of seventy-three, describes her self-proclaimed life of solitude, and offers keen observations on the natural world surrounding her.
The author chronicles her efforts to regain her health after having suffered a stroke at the age of seventy-three, describes her self-proclaimed life ...
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88,44 |
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The Real West Marginal Way: A Poet's Autobiography
ISBN: 9780393308600 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hugo was also an editor of the Yale Younger Poets series and a distinguished teacher and master of the personal essay. Now many of his essays have been assembled and arranged by Ripley Hugo, the poet's widow and a writer and teacher, and Lois and James Welch, writers and close friends of the poet. Together the essays constitute a compelling autobiographical narrative that takes Hugo from his lonely childhood through the war years and his working and creative life to an interview just before his death in 1982. William Matthews, also a friend of Hugo's, has written an introduction.
Hugo was also an editor of the Yale Younger Poets series and a distinguished teacher and master of the personal essay. Now many of his essays have bee...
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88,44 |
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Journal of a Solitude
ISBN: 9780393309287 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book, we are closer to the marrow than ever before in May Sarton's writing.
In this book, we are closer to the marrow than ever before in May Sarton's writing.
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61,47 |
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Henry Miller: A Life
ISBN: 9780393310191 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this engrossing biography Ferguson measures the cheerful amoralist of Tropic of Cancer and The Rosy Crucifixion against the guilt-ridden, insecure male in revolt against his bourgeois Brooklyn family. . . . The Miller in these pages is neither the macho bully portrayed by feminists nor the adolescent sexual philosopher dismissed by the academic establishment, but a unique and necessary literary figure, a popular American sage .Richly rewarding. Publishers Weekly"
In this engrossing biography Ferguson measures the cheerful amoralist of Tropic of Cancer and The Rosy Crucifixion against the guilt-ridden, insecure ...
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115,61 |
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At Seventy: A Journal
ISBN: 9780393310306 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. May Sarton--poet, novelist, and chronicler--occupies a special place in American letters. This new journal chronicles the year that began on May 3, 1982, her seventieth birthday. At her home in Maine, she savors "the experience of being alive in this beautiful place," reflecting on nature, friends, and work. "Why is it good to be old?" she was asked at one of her lectures. "Because," she said, "I am more myself than I have ever been."
May Sarton--poet, novelist, and chronicler--occupies a special place in American letters. This new journal chronicles the year that began on May 3, 19...
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92,30 |
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Evelyn Waugh: The Later Years 1939-1966
ISBN: 9780393311662 / Angielski / Miękka / 564 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Stannard has been the first commentator to make me not only understand but deeply sympathize with the desperate ambivalence in this great novelist between his passionate Christian concern with saving souls (including, of course, his own) and his almost maniacal scorn for the follies and mediocrity of the common man. Louis Auchincloss"
Stannard has been the first commentator to make me not only understand but deeply sympathize with the desperate ambivalence in this great novelist bet...
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125,24 |
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I Knew a Phoenix: Sketches for an Autobiography
ISBN: 9780393312485 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sarton's memoir begins with her roots in a Belgian childhood anddescribes her youth and education in Cambridge, Massachusetts, hercoming-of-age years, and the people who influenced her life as a writer.
Sarton's memoir begins with her roots in a Belgian childhood anddescribes her youth and education in Cambridge, Massachusetts, hercoming-of-age years,...
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84,59 |
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Encore: A Journal of the Eightieth Year
ISBN: 9780393313178 / Angielski / Miękka / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this affirmative journal, May Sarton describes both hardships and joys in the daily round of her life in old age--physical struggles counterbalanced by the satisfactions of friendship, nature, critical recognition, and creative spark. Readers both old and new will cherish this latest dispatch from her ongoing journey. Photos.
In this affirmative journal, May Sarton describes both hardships and joys in the daily round of her life in old age--physical struggles counterbalance...
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96,15 |
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Extra Innings: A Memoir
ISBN: 9780393313208 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This memoir offers an intense, sometimes funny, sometimes tart, and often very moving account of the life of Doris Grumbach, author of Coming into the End Zone. Grumbach records an eventful year crowded with literary pleasures and pains, and the natural beauties and social particulars of life in coastal Maine.
This memoir offers an intense, sometimes funny, sometimes tart, and often very moving account of the life of Doris Grumbach, author of Coming into the...
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88,44 |
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The Fading Smile: Poets in Boston, 1995-1960, from Robert Frost to Robert Lowell to Sylvia Plath
ISBN: 9780393313581 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This extraordinary account, by a participant who knew them all, offers vivid reminiscences of Robert Lowell, Adrienne Rich, Stanley Kunitz, Sylvia Plath, Richard Wilbur, Anne Sexton, W. S. Merwin, and many others who interacted with each other and shaped American poetry at mid-century.
This extraordinary account, by a participant who knew them all, offers vivid reminiscences of Robert Lowell, Adrienne Rich, Stanley Kunitz, Sylvia Pla...
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96,34 |
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Lost Puritan: A Life of Robert Lowell
ISBN: 9780393313741 / Angielski / Miękka / 552 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using hundreds of Lowell's unpublished manuscripts and letters, and dozens of interviews, Paul Mariani has given us a balanced, passionate, and readable life, capturing the man, his age, and his place in literary history
Using hundreds of Lowell's unpublished manuscripts and letters, and dozens of interviews, Paul Mariani has given us a balanced, passionate, and readab...
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134,87 |
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Balzac: A Life
ISBN: 9780393313871 / Angielski / Miękka / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Honore de Balzac was one of the greatest storytellers who ever lived, and now at last he has a biography that tells his story in a way Balzac himself would have loved with all the ambiguities, the flaws, the illusions and myths, the realities of street and salon, the loves and affairs, and above all the imperishable stories that still have the power to make us laugh out loud in one minute and weep in the next. Robb has given us a splendid tale, meticulously researched, lovingly put together, and beautifully told. Those who know Balzac will not be able to put his book down; those who don t...
Honore de Balzac was one of the greatest storytellers who ever lived, and now at last he has a biography that tells his story in a way Balzac himself ...
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125,24 |
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Endgame: A Journal of the Seventy-Ninth Year
ISBN: 9780393313888 / Angielski / Miękka / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "I had always imagined a philosophical journal of my seventy-ninth year, dealing with the joys and problems, the doors opening out from old age to unknown efforts and surprises. I looked forward to the year as a potent harvest," May Sarton writes. Assailed by debilitating illnesses, Sarton found herself instead using much of her energy battling for health. Yet, as this record shows, she did after all do what she had wanted to, as she persevered in work, friendships, and love of nature, discovering in the process new landscapes in the country of old age.
"I had always imagined a philosophical journal of my seventy-ninth year, dealing with the joys and problems, the doors opening out from old age to unk...
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96,15 |
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