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Series
Garland reference library of the humanities volume 1520
Publisher
Garland Pub
Pub. Date
1998.
Physical Desc
2 volumes (lii, 1,158 pages) : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The plan was as idealistic as it was audacious---and utterly unprecedented. Take thousands of hard-up writers and put them to work charting a country on the brink of social and economic collapse, with the aim of producing a series of guidebooks to the then forty-eight states--along with hundreds of other publications dedicated to cities, regions, and towns--while also gathering reams of folklore, narratives of formerly enslaved people, and even recipes,...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 331 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Explores the lives of the poets, writers, artists and politicians who mingled in Paris between 1940 and 1950 and gave the world some of the most celebrated works of the past century, including Richard Wright, Albert Camus, James Joyce and Saul Bellow.
Author
Series
World's classics volume 245-247
Publisher
H. Milford, Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[1923]
Physical Desc
3 volumes : frontispiece (portraits), plates (part folded) ; 16 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As the Roaring Twenties wind down, the great minds of the time have their minds on other concerns besides art and war. Jean-Paul Sartre waits anxiously in a Parisian café for his first date with Simone de Beauvoir, who stands him up. Marlene Dietrich slips from a loveless marriage into the dive bars of Berlin. Thomas and Klaus Mann clash over the father's repressed homosexuality, the son's open embrace of his own. The fledgling writer Vladimir Nabokov...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On April 18th, 1941, twenty-two days after Virginia Woolf went for a walk near her weekend house and never returned, her body was reclaimed from the River Ouse. For more than half a century, Woolf's suicide has been attributed to alleged depression; bipolar disorder; her impaired mental state after two of her London apartments had been bombed during the Second World War's brutal Blitz. With Adeline--a stunning and provocative reimagining of the events...
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