Author: Lewis CampbellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Physicists
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
The Life of James Clerk Maxwell
Author: Lewis CampbellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Physicists
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
Life and Correspondence of James Iredell
Author: Griffith John McReeMemoir of the Life, Writings, and Correspondence of James Currie ...
Author: William Wallace CurriePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
Letters of James Agee to Father Flye
Author: James AgeePublisher: Melville House
ISBN: 1612193625
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
“I’ll croak before I write ads or sell bonds—or do anything except write.” James Agee’s father died when he was just six years old, a loss immortalized in his Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, A Death in the Family. Three years later, Agee’s mother moved the mourning family from Knoxville, Tennessee, to the campus of St. Andrew’s, an Episcopal boarding school near Sewanee. There, Agee met Father James Harold Flye, who would become his history teacher. Though Agee was just ten, the two struck up an unlikely and enduring friendship, traveling Europe by bicycle and exchanging letters for thirty years, from Agee’s admission to Exeter Academy to his death at forty-five. The intimate letters, collected by Father Flye after Agee’s death, form the most intimate portrait of Agee available, a starkly revealing account of the internal and external life of a tortured twentieth-century genius. Agee candidly shares his struggles with depression, professional failure, and a tumultuous personal life that included three wives and four children. First published in 1962, Letters of James Agee to Father Flye followed the rediscovery of Agee’s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and the posthumous publication of A Death in the Family, which won the 1958 Pulitzer Prize and became a hit Broadway play and film. The collection sold prolifically throughout the 1960s and ’70s in mass-market editions as a new generation of readers discovered the deep talents of the writer Dwight Macdonald called “the most broadly gifted writer of our American generation.”
The Life and Letters of James Wolfe
Author: Beckles WillsonPublisher: London : W. Heinemann
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
A Whole World
Author: James MerrillPublisher: Knopf
ISBN: 110187550X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 745
Book Description
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • The selected correspondence of the brilliant poet, one of the twentieth century's last great letter writers. "I don't keep a journal, not after the first week," James Merrill asserted in a letter while on a trip around the world. "Letters have got to bear all the burden." A vivacious correspondent, whether abroad, where avid curiosity and fond memory frequently took him, or at home, he wrote eagerly and often, to family and lifelong friends, American and Greek lovers, confidants in literature and art about everything that mattered—aesthetics, opera and painting, housekeeping and cooking, the comedy of social life, the mysteries of the Ouija board and the spirit world, and psychological and moral dilemmas—in funny, dashing, unrevised missives, composed to entertain himself as well as his recipients. On a personal nemesis: "the ambivalence I live with. It worries me less and less. It becomes the very stuff of my art"; on a lunch for Wallace Stevens given by Blanche Knopf: "It had been decided by one and all that nothing but small talk would be allowed"; on romance in his late fifties: "I must stop acting like an orphan gobbling cookies in fear of the plate's being taken away"; on great books: "they burn us like radium, with their decisiveness, their terrible understanding of what happens." Merrill's daily chronicle of love and loss is unfettered, self-critical, full of good gossip, and attuned to the wicked irony, the poignant detail—a natural extension of the great poet's voice.
The Correspondence of William James
Author: William JamesPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
Consisting of some 572 letters with annotations, with another 460 summarized by date, this tenth volume in a projected set of 12 offers all of James's known correspondence during a pivotal period in his development as a philosopher. The introduction notes that among the torrent of philosophical works that James (1842-1910) wrote during a time of poor health were The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) and articles on what he called "radical empiricism." Skrupskelis (emeritus, philosophy, U. of South Carolina) and Berkeley (editorial coordinator, The Works of William James) include a chronology of the letters, many to novelist brother, Henry James, and fellow philosophers including Dewey, Schiller, and Bergson; a biographical register; textual record of major revisions; and James family tree. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Life, Times, and Correspondence of James Manning, and the Early History of Brown University
Author: Reuben Aldridge GuildPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Life and Letters of James David Forbes
Author: John Campbell ShairpPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108014062
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
A wide-ranging 1873 biography of a Victorian Scottish physicist who was also Britain's 'father of Alpine adventure'.
James Merrill
Author: Langdon HammerPublisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0375413332
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 978
Book Description
"A biography of the acclaimed poet James Merrill"--