Author: Carolyn Porter
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1510719342
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Finalist for the 2018 Minnesota Book Award A graphic designer’s search for inspiration leads to a cache of letters and the mystery of one man’s fate during World War II. Seeking inspiration for a new font design in an antique store in small-town Stillwater, Minnesota, graphic designer Carolyn Porter stumbled across a bundle of letters and was immediately drawn to their beautifully expressive pen-and-ink handwriting. She could not read the letters—they were in French—but she noticed all of them had been signed by a man named Marcel and mailed from Berlin to his family in France during the middle of World War II. As Carolyn grappled with designing the font, she decided to have one of Marcel’s letters translated. Reading it opened a portal to a different time, and what began as mere curiosity quickly became an obsession with finding out why the letter writer, Marcel Heuzé, had been in Berlin, how his letters came to be on sale in a store halfway around the world, and, most importantly, whether he ever returned to his beloved wife and daughters after the war. Marcel’s Letters is the incredible story of Carolyn’s increasingly desperate search to uncover the mystery of one man’s fate during WWII, seeking answers across Germany, France, and the United States. Simultaneously, she continues to work on what would become the acclaimed P22 Marcel font, immortalizing the man and his letters that waited almost seventy years to be reunited with his family.
Marcel's Letters
Author: Carolyn Porter
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1510719342
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Finalist for the 2018 Minnesota Book Award A graphic designer’s search for inspiration leads to a cache of letters and the mystery of one man’s fate during World War II. Seeking inspiration for a new font design in an antique store in small-town Stillwater, Minnesota, graphic designer Carolyn Porter stumbled across a bundle of letters and was immediately drawn to their beautifully expressive pen-and-ink handwriting. She could not read the letters—they were in French—but she noticed all of them had been signed by a man named Marcel and mailed from Berlin to his family in France during the middle of World War II. As Carolyn grappled with designing the font, she decided to have one of Marcel’s letters translated. Reading it opened a portal to a different time, and what began as mere curiosity quickly became an obsession with finding out why the letter writer, Marcel Heuzé, had been in Berlin, how his letters came to be on sale in a store halfway around the world, and, most importantly, whether he ever returned to his beloved wife and daughters after the war. Marcel’s Letters is the incredible story of Carolyn’s increasingly desperate search to uncover the mystery of one man’s fate during WWII, seeking answers across Germany, France, and the United States. Simultaneously, she continues to work on what would become the acclaimed P22 Marcel font, immortalizing the man and his letters that waited almost seventy years to be reunited with his family.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1510719342
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Finalist for the 2018 Minnesota Book Award A graphic designer’s search for inspiration leads to a cache of letters and the mystery of one man’s fate during World War II. Seeking inspiration for a new font design in an antique store in small-town Stillwater, Minnesota, graphic designer Carolyn Porter stumbled across a bundle of letters and was immediately drawn to their beautifully expressive pen-and-ink handwriting. She could not read the letters—they were in French—but she noticed all of them had been signed by a man named Marcel and mailed from Berlin to his family in France during the middle of World War II. As Carolyn grappled with designing the font, she decided to have one of Marcel’s letters translated. Reading it opened a portal to a different time, and what began as mere curiosity quickly became an obsession with finding out why the letter writer, Marcel Heuzé, had been in Berlin, how his letters came to be on sale in a store halfway around the world, and, most importantly, whether he ever returned to his beloved wife and daughters after the war. Marcel’s Letters is the incredible story of Carolyn’s increasingly desperate search to uncover the mystery of one man’s fate during WWII, seeking answers across Germany, France, and the United States. Simultaneously, she continues to work on what would become the acclaimed P22 Marcel font, immortalizing the man and his letters that waited almost seventy years to be reunited with his family.
Letters of Marcel Proust
Author: Marcel Proust
Publisher: Helen Marx Books
ISBN: 9781885586452
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Presents selected correspondence from the French novelist, which details his life as a dutiful son and socialite, and reveals his signature ideas about life, art, and character, which appear as major themes in his masterpiece.
Publisher: Helen Marx Books
ISBN: 9781885586452
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Presents selected correspondence from the French novelist, which details his life as a dutiful son and socialite, and reveals his signature ideas about life, art, and character, which appear as major themes in his masterpiece.
Letters to the Lady Upstairs
Author: Marcel Proust
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008262888
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
A charming, funny, poignant collection of twenty-three letters from Marcel Proust to his upstairs neighbour
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008262888
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
A charming, funny, poignant collection of twenty-three letters from Marcel Proust to his upstairs neighbour
The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder
Author: Henry Miller
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811205566
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Henry Miller called The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder his "most singular story."
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811205566
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Henry Miller called The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder his "most singular story."
Marcel and the Shakespeare Letters
Author: Stephen Rabley
Publisher: Penguin Readers: Level 1
ISBN: 9781405876735
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Original / British English Marcel visits his friend, Henry, in London. Henry knows a professor and he has some very interesting letters -- by William Shakespeare! Marcel and Henry want to see the letters, but they are not in the professor's flat. Marcel is a detective. Can he find them?
Publisher: Penguin Readers: Level 1
ISBN: 9781405876735
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Original / British English Marcel visits his friend, Henry, in London. Henry knows a professor and he has some very interesting letters -- by William Shakespeare! Marcel and Henry want to see the letters, but they are not in the professor's flat. Marcel is a detective. Can he find them?
Marcel Proust; Letters to His Mother
Author: Marcel Proust
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Mothers and sons
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Mothers and sons
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The Winona Letters . Book One
Author: Richard N. Williamson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781940306018
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
This first of the four volumes in the Letters from the Rector series includes the initial 62 of then Fr. Williamson's letters, dating from between May 24, 1983, and June 1, 1988, while he led the seminary in Ridgefield. Includes a detailed index.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781940306018
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
This first of the four volumes in the Letters from the Rector series includes the initial 62 of then Fr. Williamson's letters, dating from between May 24, 1983, and June 1, 1988, while he led the seminary in Ridgefield. Includes a detailed index.
Affectionately, Marcel
Author: Marcel Duchamp
Publisher: Ludion
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Marcel Duchamp left behind a large volume of correspondence, more than a thousand documents forming a valuable archive of primary source materials on one the 20th Century's most important cutural figures. In his letters, Duchmap writes about his latest plans, works in progress, concepts such as the "ready-made," his passion for chess, the mundane details of life, as well as extraordinary ideas. The letters are reproduced in their entirety along with chronological and biographical data illumintaing the circumstances behind the letters. An essential volume for art historians and students of 20th Century culture.
Publisher: Ludion
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Marcel Duchamp left behind a large volume of correspondence, more than a thousand documents forming a valuable archive of primary source materials on one the 20th Century's most important cutural figures. In his letters, Duchmap writes about his latest plans, works in progress, concepts such as the "ready-made," his passion for chess, the mundane details of life, as well as extraordinary ideas. The letters are reproduced in their entirety along with chronological and biographical data illumintaing the circumstances behind the letters. An essential volume for art historians and students of 20th Century culture.
Marcel Proust
Author: Jean-Yves Tadié
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1030
Book Description
This biography of Marcel Proust provides a picture of the intellectual and social universe that fed his art, along with a critcal reading of the work itself.
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1030
Book Description
This biography of Marcel Proust provides a picture of the intellectual and social universe that fed his art, along with a critcal reading of the work itself.
Marcel and the Shakespeare Letters
Author: Stephen Rabley
Publisher: Longman
ISBN: 9780582427686
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
There are fireworks in London on 5th November when Marcel goes to stay with his friend, Henry. Henry lives next door to a professor who is looking after some very special letters written by William Shakespeare. When Marcel and Henry go to look at them, they are not there. Someone has stolen them But Marcel is a detective, and he has to find the Shakespeare letters. A thrilling mystery novel featuring Marcel, the French mouse detective.
Publisher: Longman
ISBN: 9780582427686
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
There are fireworks in London on 5th November when Marcel goes to stay with his friend, Henry. Henry lives next door to a professor who is looking after some very special letters written by William Shakespeare. When Marcel and Henry go to look at them, they are not there. Someone has stolen them But Marcel is a detective, and he has to find the Shakespeare letters. A thrilling mystery novel featuring Marcel, the French mouse detective.