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Book Letters

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  • Author : Henry James
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 1974
  • ISBN : 9780674387829
  • Pages : 620 pages

Download or read book Letters written by Henry James and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third volume of Leon Edel's superb edition of Henry James's letters finds the novelist settled in Europe and his expatriation complete. The letters of this time reflect the growth of James's literary and personal friendships and introduce the reader to the frescoed palazzos, Palladian villas, and great estates of the Roseberys, the Rothschilds, the Bostonian-Venetian Curtises, and the Florentine-American Boott circle. In all his travels, James closely observes the social scene and the dilemmas of the human beings within it. During this fruitful period he writes The Bostonians, The Princess Casamassima, The Tragic Muse, and some thirty-five of his finest international tales. Undermining his success, however, are a devastating series of disappointments. Financial insecurity, an almost paraniod defensiveness following the utter failure of his dramatic efforts, and the deaths of his sister, his friend Robert Louis Stevenson, and his ardent admirer Constance Fenimore Woolson all combine to take him to what he recognizes is the edge of an abyss of personal tragedy. And yet James endures, and throughtout these trials his letters reveal the flourish, the tongue-in-cheek humor, and the social insight that marked his genius. As Edel writes in his Introduction: "The grand style is there, the amusement at the vanities of this world, the insistence that the great ones of the earth lack the imagination he is called upon to supply, and then his boundless affection and empathy for those who have shown him warmth and feeling." In an appendix Mr. Edel presents four remarkable unpublished letters from Miss Woolson to James. These throw light on their ambiguous relationship and on James's feelings of guilt and shock after her suicide in Venice.

Book Letters and Speeches

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  • Author : Charles Dickens
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1908
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 580 pages

Download or read book Letters and Speeches written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mark Twain s Letters

Download or read book Mark Twain s Letters written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Complete Letters of Henry James  1883   1884

Download or read book The Complete Letters of Henry James 1883 1884 written by Henry James and published by University of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1883–1884 includes 125 letters, of which 72 are published for the first time, written from January 29, 1884, to November 9, 1884. The letters mark Henry James’s confidence and achievements as an internationally important professional writer, including his participation in conceiving and carrying out with editors and publishers complicated plans to distribute his work and maximize his income. James details his work on mid-career novels The Bostonians and The Princess Casamassima as well as work on a number of tales that would help to define his career. This volume concludes with James’s anticipation of the arrival in England from the United States of his sister, Alice, who would never again return to her homeland.

Book The Complete Letters

Download or read book The Complete Letters written by Mark Twain and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-12-06 with total page 849 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created volume of "The Complete Letters" of Mark Twain. This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. These letters were arranged in six volumes by Albert Bigelow Paine, Samuel L. Clemens's literary executor, as a supplement to Mark Twain, A Biography, which Paine wrote. They are, for the most part, every letter written by Clemens known to exist at the time of their publication in 1917. Table of Contents: Volume I — Letters 1853-1866 Volume II — Letters 1867-1875 Volume III — Letters 1876-1885 Volume IV — Letters 1886-1900 Volume V — Letters 1901-1906 Volume VI — Letters 1907-1910 Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835-1910), quintessential American humorist, lecturer, essayist, and author wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

Book Letters

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  • Author : Robert Green Ingersoll
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1951
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 770 pages

Download or read book Letters written by Robert Green Ingersoll and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Theatre Magazine

Download or read book Theatre Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Theatre Magazine

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  • Author : W. J. Thorold
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1905
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 524 pages

Download or read book Theatre Magazine written by W. J. Thorold and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The British Academy The Pilgrim Edition of the Letters of Charles Dickens  Volume 12  1868 1870

Download or read book The British Academy The Pilgrim Edition of the Letters of Charles Dickens Volume 12 1868 1870 written by Charles Dickens and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2002-03-14 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This final volume presents 1,151 letters, many previously unpublished or published only in part, for the years 1868 to Dickens's death from a stroke on 9 June 1870; also included is an Addenda of 235 letters belonging to earlier volumes, discovered since the publication of the first such collection in Volume 7, and a Cumulative Index of Correspondents for the entire edition. The volume begins with the final four months of Dickens's American tour of 75 readings, which had been conspicuously successful throughout, despite the appalling weather and his sufferings from "American" catarrh. The tour culminated on 18 April 1868 when the American Press held a dinner in his honour in New York. In July he rented Windsor Lodge, Peckham for Ellen Ternan, where she remained until after his death; he was to give two more English reading tours before his collapse at Preston on 22 April 1869. In early January 1869 he was elected President of the Birmingham and Midland Institute; and a dinner in his honour was given in St George's Hall, Liverpool. Between January and March 1870 he gave a series of Farewell readings in London, and on 31 March Edwin Drood, No. 1 was published, illustrated by Luke Fildes; it continued monthly until 31 August. Of the friends who died during this period, much the closest were the painter Daniel Maclise, to whom Dickens paid especial tribute at the Royal Academy Banquet of 30 April 1870; Mark Lemon, who died only 18 days before Dickens himself, and with whom he had a brief reconciliation after their bitter quarrel in 1858; and Chauncy Hare Townshend, who left him £2,000 to publish, as his Literary Executor, Religious Opinions of the Late Chauncy Hare Townshend, which appeared in November 1870.

Book The Theatre

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1888
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 686 pages

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Book Mark Twain s Letters

Download or read book Mark Twain s Letters written by Mark Twain and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mark Twain's Letters Volume 3" includes the correspondences of Mark Twain from 1876-1885.

Book Life in Letters of William Dean Howells

Download or read book Life in Letters of William Dean Howells written by William Dean Howells and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Complete Letters of Henry James  1884   1886

Download or read book The Complete Letters of Henry James 1884 1886 written by Henry James and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-10-22 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fifteenth installment in the complete collection of Henry James’s more than ten thousand letters records James’s ongoing efforts to care for his sister, develop his work, strengthen his professional status, build friendships, and engage timely political and economic issues.

Book Epoch

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  • Author : Percy MacKaye
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1927
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 666 pages

Download or read book Epoch written by Percy MacKaye and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bibliography: v.2 p. CIV-CVII.

Book The Collected Letters of Ellen Terry

Download or read book The Collected Letters of Ellen Terry written by Dame Ellen Terry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Letters From the People

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  • Author : Ralph E. Shaffer
  • Publisher : The Endangered History Project
  • Release : 2020-11-14
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 812 pages

Download or read book Letters From the People written by Ralph E. Shaffer and published by The Endangered History Project. This book was released on 2020-11-14 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1881, Los Angeles was a rough, frontier community more in touch with the past than the future. The city had two dailies, the Herald and the Express, and the founding of the Times drew only modest attention. Then, in 1882, Harrison Gray Otis launched a formal column, LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. Hundreds of letter writers used the column to call attention to the matters they thought should be the immediate concern of all Angelenos. While historians have recorded the euphoria of skyrocketing real estate prices, mass migration from the east, the Americanization of the city, and the growth of specific industries and institutions, life in Los Angeles can only be fully understood by examining the concerns of its citizens. The topics discussed reveal a Los Angeles that was occupied with concerns that still divide us today: education, crime, unequal justice, immigration, the treatment of minorities, women's rights, health care, transit, water, the river, lack of infrastructure, and government's negative effect on the business climate. Derived from more than 2,000 letters to the editor, LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE is an in-depth anthology supplemented with much historical data about the writers and events that shaped early Los Angeles on the eve of its explosive growth.