Author: Sotheby Parke Bernet & CoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Valuable Autograph Letters, Literary Manuscripts and Historical Documents ...
Author: Sotheby Parke Bernet & CoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Plan of a Novel According to Hints from Various Quarters
Author: Jane AustenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Novelists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 5
Author: Mark TwainPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520918843
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 976
Book Description
"Livy darling, it was flattering, at the Lord Mayor's dinner, tonight, to have the nation's honored favorite, the Lord High Chancellor of England, in his vast wig & gown, with a splendid, sword-bearing lackey, following him & holding up his train, walk me arm-in-arm through the brilliant assemblage, & welcome me with all the enthusiasm of a girl, & tell me that when affairs of state oppress him & he can't sleep, he always has my books at hand & forgets his perplexities in reading them!" (10 November 1872) On his first trip to England to gather material for a book and cement relations with his newly authorized English publishers, Samuel Clemens was astounded to find himself hailed everywhere as a literary lion. America's premier humorist had begun his long tenure as an international celebrity. Meanwhile, he was coming into his full power at home. The Innocents Abroad continued to produce impressive royalties and his new book, Roughing It, was enjoying great popularity. In newspaper columns he appeared regularly as public advocate and conscience, speaking on issues as disparate as safety at sea and political corruption. Clemens's personal life at this time was for the most part fulfilling, although saddened by the loss of his nineteen-month-old son, Langdon, who died of diphtheria. Life in the Nook Farm community of writers and progressive thinkers and activists was proving to be all the Clemenses had hoped for. The 309 letters in this volume, more than half of them never before published, capture the events of these years with detailed intimacy. Thoroughly annotated and indexed, they are supplemented by genealogical charts of the Clemens and Langdon families, a transcription of the journals Clemens kept during his 1872 visit to England, book contracts, his preface to the English edition of The Gilded Age, contemporary photographs of family and friends, and a gathering of all newly discovered letters written between 1865 and 1871. This volume is the fifth in the only complete edition of Mark Twain's letters ever attempted, and the twenty-fourth in the comprehensive edition known as The Mark Twain Papers and Works of Mark Twain.
Saturday Review of Literature
Author: The Athenaeum
Author: Race, Sexuality and Identity in Britain and Jamaica
Author: Gemma RomainPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472588665
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
This is the first biography of the extraordinary, but ordinary life of, Patrick Nelson. His experiences touched on some of the most important and intriguing historical themes of the twentieth century. He was a black migrant to interwar Britain; an aristocrat's valet in rural Wales; a Black queer man in 1930s London; an artist's model; a law student, a recruit to the Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps and Prisoner of War during the Second World War. Through his return to Jamaica after the war and his re-migrations to London in the late 1940s and the early 1960s, he was also witness to post-war Jamaican struggles and the independence movement as well as the development of London's post-war multi-ethnic migrations. Drawing on a range of archival materials including letters sent to individuals such as Bloomsbury group artist Duncan Grant (his former boyfriend and life-long friend), as well as paintings and newspaper articles, Gemma Romain explores the intersections of these diverse aspects of Nelson's life and demonstrates how such marginalized histories shed light on our understanding of broader historical themes such as Black LGBTQ history, Black British history in relation to the London artworld, the history of the Second World War, and histories of racism, colonialism and empire.
Catalogue
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1104
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Maggs BrosPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Athenæum and Literary Chronicle
Author: James Silk BuckinghamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
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