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Author | : Susan E. Gunter |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 443 |
Release | : 2009-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0803222750 |
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Alice in Jamesland, the first biography of Alice Howe Gibbens James wife of the psychologist and philosopher William James, and sister-in-law of novelist Henry James was made possible by the rediscovery of hundreds of her letters and papers thought to be destroyed in the 1960s. Encompassing European travel, Civil War profiteering, suicide, a stormy courtship, séances, psychedelic mushrooms, the death of a child, and an enduring love story, Alice in Jamesland is a portrait of a nineteenth-century upper-middle-class marriage, told often through Alice s own letters and made all the more dynamic because of her role in the James family. Susan E. Gunter positions Alice as a lens through which to view the family, as a perceptive observer privy to knowledge of relationships to which those outside the James family were not. She also portrays Alice as the cohesive factor that held the Jameses together, bridging the gap between brothers William and Henry and acting as the stable center for a highly gifted but eccentric family. An idealistic, serious young woman, Alice was uniquely suited to join this clan, bringing psychological soundness and unshakeable personal conviction to her union with the Jameses. Her life s story provides a fascinating view of one of America s most important intellectual dynasties and offers new insights into the lives of nineteenth-century women.
Author | : Michelle Huneven |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2007-12-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307426459 |
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Jamesland, the buoyant second novel by Michelle Huneven, critically acclaimed author of Round Rock, is a witty, sophisticated, and deeply humane comedy of unlikely redemption. When thirty-three-year-old Alice Black discovers a deer in her dining room after fighting with her boyfriend, she wonders if she’s going crazy. Pete Ross, forty-six, knows he’s crazy. He’s wrecked his marriage, slashed his wrists, and done time in a psychiatric institution, and now he's being cared for by his mother, who’s a nun. Forty-five-year-old Helen Harland, a spirited Unitarian Universalist minister, is being driven crazy by her hostile church administration. Living in Los Feliz, California, the three meet at Helen’s Wednesday midweek services. Though initially incompatible, the sheer force of Helen’s idiosyncratic ministering (her “variety show of religious experience”)–paired with Alice’s illustrious ancestor William James–proves to be a catalyst for friendship and a kind of transcendence. Generous and compassionate, Michelle Huneven delivers a joyful new novel about love, faith, and a few wayward souls waiting for life to begin.
Author | : Henry James |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780472030002 |
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The romantic side of Henry James, revealed through his letters to young male friends
Author | : Paul Harding |
Publisher | : Bellevue Literary Press |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 2019-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1942658613 |
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Special edition of Paul Harding’s Pulitzer Prize–winning debut novel—featuring a new foreword by Marilynne Robinson and book club extras inside In this deluxe tenth anniversary edition, Marilynne Robinson introduces the beautiful novel Tinkers, which begins with an old man who lies dying. As time collapses into memory, he travels deep into his past, where he is reunited with his father and relives the wonder and pain of his impoverished New England youth. At once heartbreaking and life affirming, Tinkers is an elegiac meditation on love, loss, and the fierce beauty of nature. The story behind this New York Times bestselling debut novel—the first independently published Pulitzer Prize winner since A Confederacy of Dunces received the award nearly thirty years before—is as extraordinary as the elegant prose within it. Inspired by his family’s history, Paul Harding began writing Tinkers when his rock band broke up. Following numerous rejections from large publishers, Harding was about to shelve the manuscript when Bellevue Literary Press offered a contract. After being accepted by BLP, but before it was even published, the novel developed a following among independent booksellers from coast to coast. Readers and critics soon fell in love, and it went on to receive the Pulitzer Prize, prompting the New York Times to declare the novel’s remarkable success “the most dramatic literary Cinderella story of recent memory.” That story is still being written as readers across the country continue to discover this modern classic, which has now sold over half a million copies, proving once again that great literature has a thriving and passionate audience. Paul Harding is the author of two novels about multiple generations of a New England family: Enon and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Tinkers. He teaches at Stony Brook Southampton.
Author | : Paul Fisher |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 711 |
Release | : 2009-05-26 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0805090207 |
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A portrait of the eccentric and brilliant James family, which produced three famous children--novelist Henry, philosopher William, and feminist Alice--examines the experiences, relationships, ideas, conflicts, and lifestyle that shaped members of the family.
Author | : J. Grimes |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 674 |
Release | : 2018-03-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781983639784 |
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Published in 1910, this volume contains an abstract of North Carolina wills. Compiled from original and recorded wills in the office of The Secretary of State.
Author | : Henry James |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2012-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0803246196 |
Download The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1876–1878 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Volume 2. This volume contains letters written from December 21, 1877, to September 29, 1878, when, having settled comfortably into London life, James finished preparing the foundation for the career that would define his reputation as a critic and fiction writer. During this time James published "Daisy Miller" and "The Europeans" as well as other fiction, reviews, and cultural criticism.
Author | : Henry James |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Boston (Mass.) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Jerome K. Jerome |
Publisher | : Read Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 11 |
Release | : 2015-04-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1473373239 |
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This early work by Jerome K. Jerome was originally published in 1893 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Dancing Partner' is a short story about the scarcity of young men as dancing dancing partners and a creepy solution offered by a mechanical toy maker. Jerome Klapka Jerome was born in Walsall, England in 1859. Both his parents died while he was in his early teens, and he was forced to quit school to support himself. In 1889, Jerome published his most successful and best-remembered work, 'Three Men in a Boat'. Featuring himself and two of his friends encountering humorous situations while floating down the Thames in a small boat, the book was an instant success, and has never been out of print. In fact, its popularity was such that the number of registered Thames boats went up fifty percent in the year following its publication.
Author | : Wallace R. Forrester |
Publisher | : Рипол Классик |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 588281183X |
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At least nine Forrester individuals immigrated from England, Scotland, or Ireland to the English colonies in the new world in the 1600s and 1700s. The names and particulars about these nine Forrester indivi- duals are listed (v. 1, p. 42-43), and they settled in various places in New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and Georgia. Descen- dants and relatives also lived in Mississippi River states plus Indiana, Kansas, South Dakota, Wyoming, Texas, Arizona, California and elsewhere. Includes ancestry in England, Scotland, Ireland, Flanders to 836 A.D. or earlier. Also includes organization and some officers of the Forrester Genealogical Association, Inc., which became the Clan Forrester Society, Inc., with U.S. headquarters at Stone Mountain, Georgia.