Author: Thomas Shaw Baron Craigmyle
Publisher: London : Cassell
ISBN:
Category : English letters
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Letters to Isabel
Author: Thomas Shaw Baron Craigmyle
Publisher: London : Cassell
ISBN:
Category : English letters
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Publisher: London : Cassell
ISBN:
Category : English letters
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Letters to Isabella Stewart Gardner
Author: Henry James
Publisher: Pushkin Press Classics
ISBN: 1805330918
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
“One of the most satisfying of all letter-writers.” — Spectator Henry James’s beautiful letters to his friend and inspiration, the unconventional art collector Isabella Stewart Gardner Surrounded by the artists, writers and musicians who made up her court in Boston as they did in Venice, Isabella Stewart Gardner, a passionate art collector, was as revered and sought after as royalty. Henry James was inspired by the rich and powerful Gardner, as well as by the Palazzo Barbaro in Venice, when he wrote his novel The Wings of the Dove. Gardner was to recreate a larger-than-life version of Palazzo Barbaro in Boston, which is now the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. These dazzling letters bring to life James’s passion for Venice and the Palazzo Barbaro, and serve as an introduction to the fascinating world of Isabella Stewart Gardner herself.
Publisher: Pushkin Press Classics
ISBN: 1805330918
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
“One of the most satisfying of all letter-writers.” — Spectator Henry James’s beautiful letters to his friend and inspiration, the unconventional art collector Isabella Stewart Gardner Surrounded by the artists, writers and musicians who made up her court in Boston as they did in Venice, Isabella Stewart Gardner, a passionate art collector, was as revered and sought after as royalty. Henry James was inspired by the rich and powerful Gardner, as well as by the Palazzo Barbaro in Venice, when he wrote his novel The Wings of the Dove. Gardner was to recreate a larger-than-life version of Palazzo Barbaro in Boston, which is now the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. These dazzling letters bring to life James’s passion for Venice and the Palazzo Barbaro, and serve as an introduction to the fascinating world of Isabella Stewart Gardner herself.
Isabella D'Este: Selected Letters
Author: Deanna Shemek
Publisher: Medieval & Renais Text Studies
ISBN: 9780866985727
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher: Medieval & Renais Text Studies
ISBN: 9780866985727
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Alphabet Fun
Author: Isabel Thomas
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN: 1432988026
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Shows children using their bodies to make the shape of each letter of the alphabet.
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN: 1432988026
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Shows children using their bodies to make the shape of each letter of the alphabet.
Letters to Kristi
Author: Ruth Harms Calkin
Publisher: Tyndale House Pub
ISBN: 9780842328340
Category : Christian women
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
Warm, practical answers to a young woman's questions about relationships, romance, and love to last a lifetime.
Publisher: Tyndale House Pub
ISBN: 9780842328340
Category : Christian women
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
Warm, practical answers to a young woman's questions about relationships, romance, and love to last a lifetime.
Uncollected Early Prose of Katherine Anne Porter
Author: Katherine Anne Porter
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292765443
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This volume brings together 29 pieces dating from before 1932, none of which appear in her collected works and many of which are published here for the first time. Includes both fiction and essays.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292765443
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This volume brings together 29 pieces dating from before 1932, none of which appear in her collected works and many of which are published here for the first time. Includes both fiction and essays.
Four Letters of Love
Author: Niall Williams
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1632863197
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Niall Williams's internationally bestselling “delicate and graceful love story . . . a magical work of fiction” (NYTBR), now a major motion picture starring Pierce Brosnan, Helena Bonham Carter, and Gabriel Byrne. Nicholas Coughlan is twelve years old when his father, an Irish civil servant, announces that God has commanded him to become a painter. He abandons the family and a wife who is driven to despair. Years later, Nicholas's own civil-service career is disrupted by tragic news: his father has burned down the house, with all his paintings and himself in it. Isabel Gore is the daughter of a poet. She's a passionate girl, but her brother is the real prodigy, a musician. And yet this family, too, is struck by tragedy: a seizure leaves the boy mute and unable to play. Years later, Isabel will continue to somehow blame herself, casting off her own chances for happiness. And then, the day after Isabel's wedding to man she doesn't love, Nicholas arrives on her western isle, seeking his father's last surviving painting. Suddenly the winds of fortune begin to shift, sweeping both these souls up with them. Nicholas and Isabel, it seems, were always meant to meet. But it will take a series of chance events-and perhaps, a proper miracle-to convince both to follow their hearts to where they're meant to be.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1632863197
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Niall Williams's internationally bestselling “delicate and graceful love story . . . a magical work of fiction” (NYTBR), now a major motion picture starring Pierce Brosnan, Helena Bonham Carter, and Gabriel Byrne. Nicholas Coughlan is twelve years old when his father, an Irish civil servant, announces that God has commanded him to become a painter. He abandons the family and a wife who is driven to despair. Years later, Nicholas's own civil-service career is disrupted by tragic news: his father has burned down the house, with all his paintings and himself in it. Isabel Gore is the daughter of a poet. She's a passionate girl, but her brother is the real prodigy, a musician. And yet this family, too, is struck by tragedy: a seizure leaves the boy mute and unable to play. Years later, Isabel will continue to somehow blame herself, casting off her own chances for happiness. And then, the day after Isabel's wedding to man she doesn't love, Nicholas arrives on her western isle, seeking his father's last surviving painting. Suddenly the winds of fortune begin to shift, sweeping both these souls up with them. Nicholas and Isabel, it seems, were always meant to meet. But it will take a series of chance events-and perhaps, a proper miracle-to convince both to follow their hearts to where they're meant to be.
The Republic of Letters
Author: Alexander Whitelaw
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Letters of Ayn Rand
Author: Ayn Rand
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101137282
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 705
Book Description
The publication of the letters of Ayn Rand is a cause for celebration, not only among the countless millions of Ayn Rand admirers the world over, but also among all those interested in the key political, philosophical, and artistic issues of our century. For there is no separation between Ayn Rand the vibrant, creative woman and Ayn Rand the intellectual dynamo, the rational thinker, who was also a passionately committed champion of individual freedom. These remarkable letters begin in 1926, with a note from the twenty-year-old Ayn Rand, newly arrived in Chicago from Soviet Russia, an impoverished unknown determined to realize the promise of the land of opportunity. They move through her struggles and successes as a screenwriter, a playwright, and a novelist, her sensational triumph as the author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and her eminence as founder and shaper of Objectivism, one of the most challenging philosophies of our time. They are written to such famed contemporaries as Cecil B. DeMille, Frank Lloyd Wright, H.L. Mencken, Alexander Kerensky, Barry Goldwater and Mickey Spillane There are letters to philosophers, priests, publishers, and political columnists; to her beloved husband, Frank O' Connor; and to her intimate circle of friends and her growing legion of followers. Her letters range in tone from warm affection to icy fury, and in content from telling commentaries on the events of the day to unforgettably eloquent statements of her philosophical ideas. They are presented chronologically, with explanatory notes by Michael S. Berliner, who identifies the recipients of the letters and provides relevant background and context. Here is a chronicle that captures the inspiring drama of a towering literary genius and seminal thinker, and--often day-by-day--her amazing life.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101137282
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 705
Book Description
The publication of the letters of Ayn Rand is a cause for celebration, not only among the countless millions of Ayn Rand admirers the world over, but also among all those interested in the key political, philosophical, and artistic issues of our century. For there is no separation between Ayn Rand the vibrant, creative woman and Ayn Rand the intellectual dynamo, the rational thinker, who was also a passionately committed champion of individual freedom. These remarkable letters begin in 1926, with a note from the twenty-year-old Ayn Rand, newly arrived in Chicago from Soviet Russia, an impoverished unknown determined to realize the promise of the land of opportunity. They move through her struggles and successes as a screenwriter, a playwright, and a novelist, her sensational triumph as the author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and her eminence as founder and shaper of Objectivism, one of the most challenging philosophies of our time. They are written to such famed contemporaries as Cecil B. DeMille, Frank Lloyd Wright, H.L. Mencken, Alexander Kerensky, Barry Goldwater and Mickey Spillane There are letters to philosophers, priests, publishers, and political columnists; to her beloved husband, Frank O' Connor; and to her intimate circle of friends and her growing legion of followers. Her letters range in tone from warm affection to icy fury, and in content from telling commentaries on the events of the day to unforgettably eloquent statements of her philosophical ideas. They are presented chronologically, with explanatory notes by Michael S. Berliner, who identifies the recipients of the letters and provides relevant background and context. Here is a chronicle that captures the inspiring drama of a towering literary genius and seminal thinker, and--often day-by-day--her amazing life.
Letters to Jud
Author: Don Alderman
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1440181365
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Missouri native Don Alderman always regretted not visiting his father for one ?nal goodbye on the morning he left town to begin life on his own. That was in 1956. Only months later, in 1957, his father died, and that goodbye was left unsaid. Now, half a century later, the author makes amends in Letters to Jud, a sensitive, funny, and sometimes scary coming-of-age tale of life in a quirky little town at the edge of the Missouri Ozarks. The narrative is told in two dozen letters written to the spirit of the authors father, Jud Alderman, depot agent for the Frisco Railroad. The setting is Republic, Missouri, in the years just before, during, and after World War II. Initially seen through a young boys eyes, the narrative ends years later when the author returns to his hometown as a grown man and discovers that his fathers beloved old depot has vanished, and with it, the last symbol of his familys years in Republic. Letters to Jud is an engaging portrait of a classically American small town experience. It is a tale that o?ers relief from the coarseness of our culture today an antidote that can be taken as often as needed. A World War II era small town sparkles to life in this luminous memoir ... A funny, moving ?nely wrought remembrance of a lost Middle America. Kirkus Reviews Letters to Jud is a beautiful novel-as-stories written in a most engaging and elegant narrative voice. The language of this book is pure pleasure Judge, Writers Digest International Self-Published Book Awards
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1440181365
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Missouri native Don Alderman always regretted not visiting his father for one ?nal goodbye on the morning he left town to begin life on his own. That was in 1956. Only months later, in 1957, his father died, and that goodbye was left unsaid. Now, half a century later, the author makes amends in Letters to Jud, a sensitive, funny, and sometimes scary coming-of-age tale of life in a quirky little town at the edge of the Missouri Ozarks. The narrative is told in two dozen letters written to the spirit of the authors father, Jud Alderman, depot agent for the Frisco Railroad. The setting is Republic, Missouri, in the years just before, during, and after World War II. Initially seen through a young boys eyes, the narrative ends years later when the author returns to his hometown as a grown man and discovers that his fathers beloved old depot has vanished, and with it, the last symbol of his familys years in Republic. Letters to Jud is an engaging portrait of a classically American small town experience. It is a tale that o?ers relief from the coarseness of our culture today an antidote that can be taken as often as needed. A World War II era small town sparkles to life in this luminous memoir ... A funny, moving ?nely wrought remembrance of a lost Middle America. Kirkus Reviews Letters to Jud is a beautiful novel-as-stories written in a most engaging and elegant narrative voice. The language of this book is pure pleasure Judge, Writers Digest International Self-Published Book Awards