Описание: What I lacked and what I needed,"" confessed Samuel Clemens in 1908, "was grandchildren." Near the end of his life, Clemens became the doting friend and correspondent of twelve schoolgirls ranging in age from ten to sixteen. For Clemens, "collecting" these surrogate granddaughters was a way of overcoming his loneliness, a respite from the pessimism, illness, and depression that dominated his later years.In Mark Twain's Aquarium, John Cooley brings together virtually every known communication exchanged between the writer and the girls he called his "angelfish." Cooley also includes a number of Clemens's notebook entries, autobiographical dictations, short manuscripts, and other relevant materials that further illuminate this fascinating story.Clemens relished the attention of these girls, orchestrating chaperoned visits to his homes and creating an elaborate set of rules and emblems for the Aquarium Club. He hung their portraits in his billiard room and invented games and plays for their amusement. For much of 1908, he was sending and receiving a letter a week from his angelfish. Cooley argues that Clemens saw cheerfulness and laughter as his only defenses against the despair of his late years. His enchantment with children, years before, had given birth to such characters as Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher, and Huck Finn. In the frivolities of the Aquarium Club, it found its final expression.Cooley finds no evidence of impropriety in Clemens behavior with the girls. Perhaps his greatest crime, the editor suggests, was in idealizing them, in regarding them as precious collectibles. "He tried to trap them in the amber of endless adolescence," Cooley writes. ""By pleading that they stay young and innocent, he was perhaps attempting to deny that, as they and the world continued to change, so must he.
Название: W. B. Yeats and T. Sturge Moore ISBN: 113868760X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138687608 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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The letters in this book, first published in 1953, throw light on the literary scene at a time in which William Butler Yeats and Thomas Sturge Moore regularly corresponded. In the early days of their friendship Yeats and Sturge Moore often saw each other in London where they both played an active part in the literary and artistic scene. When Yeats later lived chiefly in Ireland and Sturge Moore spent much of his time in the country and abroad they met less often but kept in touch by letter. Many of these letters, and therefore a record of their friendship, has been preserved and presented in this book. This title will be of interest to students of literature and literary history.
Автор: S. Graham; J. Walters Название: Langston Hughes and the South African Drum Generation ISBN: 1349287490 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349287499 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 11179.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This collection combines previously unpublished letters between African-American poet Langston Hughes and South-African writers of the 1950s and 1960s with scholarly commentary and criticism. The letters tell a fascinating story of the civil rights movement and apartheid and the struggle to overthrow it.
Автор: Byron Название: Correspondence of Lord Byron ISBN: 1108034063 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108034067 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 7443.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A regular correspondent of Byron, Robert Charles Dallas (1754-1824) was entrusted with many of his personal letters. First published in 1825, amid a dispute with Byron`s executors, this book contains letters from the young Byron to his mother, his correspondence with Dallas, and Dallas` own `Recollections` of the poet.
Автор: Byron Название: Lord Byron`s Correspondence ISBN: 1108033954 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108033954 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4910.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: First published in 1922, this two-volume book brings together letters written by Byron (1788-1824) from 1808 up to his death. It contains an introduction and biographical notes by John Murray IV. Volume 2 focuses on Byron`s exile in Italy and his involvement in the Greek independence movement.
Автор: Byron Название: Lord Byron`s Correspondence ISBN: 1108033946 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108033947 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4594.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: First published in 1922, this two-volume book brings together letters written by Byron (1788-1824) from 1808 up to his death. It contains an introduction and biographical notes by John Murray IV. Volume 1 covers the period up to Byron`s marriage in 1815, including his travels as a young man.
Автор: Ezra Pound Название: Ezra Pound and `Globe` Magazine: The Complete Correspondence ISBN: 1472589599 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472589590 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 28512.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In the summer of 1936, Ezra Pound agreed to take on the role of European Correspondent for a newly launched travel journal entitled Globe: The International Magazine. Ezra Pound and 'Globe' Magazine: The Complete Correspondence collects for the first time Pound’s writings for the journal and his extensive correspondence with one of its editors, James Taylor Dunn, and the leading writers who Pound himself attempted to recruit for the magazine. Numbering almost forty letters and twenty published and unpublished articles, these writings represent a darkly significant time in Pound’s thought as his infatuation with the rise of fascism took root. Annotated throughout and supported by substantial explorations of the historical and cultural contexts of the writings, the book also includes a substantial bibliography of related writings and a biographical glossary of the major figures discussed in the correspondence and writing. Together, these texts represent an important resource for anyone interested in an important phase of 20th-Century literary modernism.
Автор: K. Jameson-Cemper; George Solovieff; Anne Louise G Название: Selected Correspondence ISBN: 0792360419 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780792360414 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 27251.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In her letters Mme de Stael provides a panoramic historical outlook of the European literary, cultural and political scene between 1789 and 1817, i.e. This edition, as its French original, includes rare contemporary illustrations never published before in this connection. For this book there is no specific level of readership.
Автор: Grant Название: Letters from the Mountains ISBN: 1108033490 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108033497 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4435.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: First published in 1806, and revised and edited by her son for this 1845 sixth edition, this two-volume work by Anne Grant (1755-1838) tells her story of thirty years` residence in the Scottish Highlands. It presents an engaging view of Highland life at this time of major historical transition.
Автор: Grant Название: Letters from the Mountains ISBN: 1108033482 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108033480 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4435.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: First published in 1806, and revised and edited by her son for this 1845 sixth edition, this two-volume work by Anne Grant (1755-1838) tells her story of thirty years` residence in the Scottish Highlands. It presents an engaging view of Highland life at this time of major historical transition.
Автор: Hewitt Название: Correspondence and American Literature, 1770–1865 ISBN: 0521123739 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521123730 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Elizabeth Hewitt uncovers the centrality of letter-writing to antebellum American literature. She argues that many canonical American authors, including Jefferson, Emerson, Melville, Dickinson and Whitman, turned to the epistolary form as an idealised genre with which to consider the challenges of American democracy before the Civil War.
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