Author: Lydia Maria Child
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385121426
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.

Author: Lydia Maria Child
Publisher: Books for Libraries
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Prominent author and abolitionist Lydia Maria Child began writing her "letters" from New York in August 1841 as a response to the troubling realities marki

Author: Lydia Maria Child
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1786895412
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 138

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In Letters of Note: New York, Shaun Usher curates a collection of extraordinary written exchanges about the Big Apple, from the marvelling of wide-eyed newcomers and the devoted outpourings of native citizens, to the frustrated outcries of the dispossessed and the fond reminiscences of old-timers. Includes letters by: Italo Calvino, Ralph Ellison Kahlil Gibran, Helen Keller, Martin Scorsese Saum Song Bo, Rebecca West & many more.

Author: Helene Hanff
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781919642147
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Gene Schermerhorn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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Author: Eliza Fay
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 326

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Author: William Gaddis
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681375842
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 705

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A revelatory collection of correspondence by the lauded author of titanic American classics such as The Recognitions and J R, shedding light on his staunchly private life. UPDATED WITH OVER TWO DOZEN NEW LETTERS AND PHOTOGRAPHS Now recognized as one of the giants of postwar American fiction, William Gaddis shunned the spotlight during his life, which makes this collection of his letters a revelation. Beginning in 1930 when Gaddis was at boarding school and ending in September 1998, a few months before his death, these letters function as a kind of autobiography, and also reveal the extent to which he drew upon events in his life for his fiction. Here we see him forging his first novel, The Recognitions (1955), while living in Mexico, fighting in a revolution in Costa Rica, and working in Spain, France, and North Africa. Over the next twenty years he struggles to find time to write the National Book Award–winning J R (1975) amid the complications of work and family; deals with divorce and disillusionment before reviving his career with Carpenter’s Gothic (1985); then teaches himself enough about the law to produce A Frolic of His Own (1994). Resuming his lifelong obsession with mechanization and the arts, he finishes a last novel, Agapē Agape (published in 2002), as he lies dying. This newly revised edition includes clarifying notes by Gaddis scholar Steven Moore, as well as an afterword by the author’s daughter, Sarah Gaddis.

Author: Rob Walker
Publisher: Garrett County Press
ISBN: 1891053183
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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In January of 2000, Rob Walker left a high-powered media job in New York, and with his girlfriend, moved to New Orleans. Letters from New Orleans collects, in one volume, the delightful and unsettling observations Walker sent to friends and fans about his intriguing new life in New Orleans.

Author: Marquis de Custine
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141394528
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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The Marquis de Custine's unique perspective on a vast, fascinating country in the grip of oppressive tyranny In 1839, encouraged by his friend Balzac, Custine set out to explore Russia. His impressions turned into what is perhaps the greatest and most influential of all books about Russia under the Tsars. Rich in anecdotes as much about the court of Tsar Nicholas as the streets of St Petersburg, Custine is as brilliant writing about the Kremlin as he is about the great northern landscapes. An immediate bestseller on publication, Custine's book is also a central book for any discussion of 19th century history, as - like de Tocqueville's Democracy in America - it dramatizes far broader questions about the nature of government and society.