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  • What There Is to Say We Have Said

    The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and William Maxwell

    Modifié par Suzanne Marrs ...
    Letters revealing a lost literary world—and a unique friendship between a brilliant author and a New Yorker editor.For over fifty years, Eudora Welty and William Maxwell, two of our most admired writers, penned letters to each other. They shared their worries about work and family, literary opinions and scuttlebutt, and moments of despair and hilarity. Living half a continent apart, their ... En savoir plus

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  • Meanwhile There Are Letters

    The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald

    Modifié par Suzanne Marrs, Tom Nolan ...
    *2016 Edgar Award Finalist**2016 Anthony Award Finalist**2016 Macavity Award Finalist*In 1970, Ross Macdonald wrote a letter to Eudora Welty, beginning a thirteen-year correspondence between fellow writers and kindred spirits. Though separated by background, geography, genre, and his marriage, the two authors shared their lives in witty, wry, tender, and at times profoundly romantic letters, each ... En savoir plus

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  • Eudora Welty

    A Biography

    par Suzanne Marrs ...
    Eudora Welty's works are treasures of American literature. When her first short-story collection was published in 1941, it heralded the arrival of a genuinely original writer who over the decades wrote hugely popular novels, novellas, essays, and a memoir, One Writer's Beginnings, that became a national bestseller. By the end of her life, Welty (who died in 2001) had been given nearly every ... En savoir plus

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    A social history that pulls back the covers on the most intimate piece of furniture in our lives: "Entertaining . . . will keep you awake long into the night." —Paul Chrystal, author of The History of SweetsLouis XIV ruled France from his bedchamber. Winston Churchill governed Britain from his during World War II. Travelers routinely used to bed down with complete strangers, and whole families ... En savoir plus

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  • For the Love of Books

    Stories of Literary Lives, Banned Books, Author Feuds, Extraordinary Characters, and More

    par Graham Tarrant ...
    A light-hearted book about books and the people who write them for all lovers of literature.Do you know:Which famous author died of caffeine poisoning?Why Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was banned in China?Who was the first British writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature?What superstitions Truman Capote kept whenever he wrote?Who the other Winston Churchill was?A treasure trove of compelling ... En savoir plus

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  • Lectures on Literature

    The acclaimed author of Lolita offers unique insight into works by James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Jane Austen, and others—with an introduction by John Updike.In the 1940s, when Vladimir Nabokov first embarked on his academic career in the United States, he brought with him hundreds of original lectures on the authors he most admired. For two decades those lectures served as the basis for Nabokov's ... En savoir plus

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  • Exit Berlin

    How One Woman Saved Her Family from Nazi Germany

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    Centered around one family's preserved personal letters, this is "an intimate, engaging examination of the plight of German Jewish refugees" ( Kirkus Reviews).Just a week after the Kristallnacht terror in 1938, young Luzie Hatch, a German Jew, fled Berlin to resettle in New York. Her rescuer was an American-born cousin and industrialist, Arnold Hatch. Arnold spoke no German, so Luzie quickly ... En savoir plus

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  • The Secret Poisoner

    A Century of Murder

    par Linda Stratmann ...
    "This fine social history charts the changing patterns of using poison" and the forensic methods developed to detect it in the Victorian Era ( The Guardian, UK).Murder by poison alarmed, enthralled, and in some ways even defined the Victorian age. Linda Stratmann's dark and splendid social history reveals the nineteenth century as a gruesome battleground where poisoners went head-to-head with ... En savoir plus

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  • Word for Word

    A Translator's Memoir of Literature, Politics, and Survival in Soviet Russia

    A remarkable memoir of living in the Soviet Union and working as a literary translator.In the early twentieth century, Lilianna Lungina was a Russian Jew born to privilege, spending her childhood in Germany, France, and Palestine. But when she was thirteen, her parents moved to the USSR—where Lungina became witness to many of the era's greatest upheavals.Exiled during World War II, dragged to KGB ... En savoir plus

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  • Lina & Serge

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  • Deep Pockets

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    The Boston PI gets caught up in extortion, murder, and Ivy League secrets in a " poisonous . . . nail-biter" by the Anthony Award–winning author ( Publishers Weekly).Six-foot-tall, redheaded ex-cop and Boston-based private eye Carlotta Carlyle is "the genuine article: a straightforward, funny, thoroughly American mystery heroine" ( New York Post).Harvard professor Wilson Chaney is in a comprising ... En savoir plus

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  • Let Me Finish

    par Roger Angell ...
    Essays from the award-winning New Yorker writer and author of This Old Man: "Witty, worldly, deeply elegiac, and…heartbreaking."— The Boston GlobeFor more than fifty years, as both editor of and contributor for The New Yorker, Roger Angell has honed a reputation as a master of the autobiographic essay—sharp-witted, plucky, and at once nostalgic and unsentimental.In Let Me Finish, Angell reflects ... En savoir plus

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