Sharp is a vibrant depiction of the intellectual beau monde of twentieth-century New York, where gossip-filled parties gave out to literary slugging-matches in the pages of the Partisan Review or the New York Review of Books.
Along the way, Will tells the story in full of one of the most amazing rides through the worlds of music and film that anyone has ever had.
Orville Prescott of the New York Times wrote that “if enough such books are written, if enough millions of people read them maybe, someday, in the fullness of time, there will be a greater understanding and a more true democracy.” ...
Set in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of the terrain Baudelaire had covered in his verse masterpiece, The Flowers of Evil: the city and its squalor and inequalities, the pressures of ...
In an alternate world in which Africans enslaved Europeans, Doris, an Englishwoman, is captured and taken to the New World, where the hardships she endures as a slave are offset by dreams of escape and home.
... Hannah Kirby , 12 April 1819 ; Amy [ Willis ? ] to Amy Kirby , 8 December 1822 ; Phebe [ Willis ? ] to Amy Kirby ... Neale , Farmington , 8-9 , 23 ; and Wellman , “ 1816 Farmington Quaker Meeting- house , " 17-21 , 37-43 . 72 ...
Through unprecedented archival research and gripping personal testimonies, Greg Grandin powerfully challenges these views in this classic work.
This third edition of the bestselling Essentials of the Theory of Fiction provides a comprehensive view of the theory of fiction from the nineteenth century through modernism and postmodernism to the present.
Focusing on the variety of genres that make up pop music, Roy Shuker explores key subjects which shape our experience of music such as music production, the music industry, music policy, fans, audiences and subcultures.
Recognized as the best history of Harford County ever published, this work's genealogical importance is based on its numerous biographical sketches of the county's leading citizens, as well as lists of non-associators and non-enrollers, ...