Author: Wilfred PartingtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Selected Letters of Rebecca West
Author: Rebecca WestPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300163541
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
From the time that George Bernard Shaw remarked that “Rebecca West could handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely,” West’s writings and her politics have elicited strong reactions. This collection of her letters—the first ever published—has been culled from the estimated ten thousand she wrote during her long life. The more than two hundred selected letters follow this spirited author, critic, and journalist from her first feminist campaign for women’s suffrage when she was a teenager through her reassessments of the twentieth century written in 1982, in her ninetieth year. The letters, which are presented in full, include correspondence with West’s famous lover H. G. Wells and with Shaw, Virginia Woolf, Emma Goldman, Noel Coward, and many others; offer pronouncements on such contemporary authors as Norman Mailer, Nadine Gordimer, and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.; and provide new insights into her battles against misogyny, fascism, and communism. West deliberately fashions her own biography through this intensely personal correspondence, challenging rival accounts of her groundbreaking professional career, her frustrating love life, and her tormented family relations. Engrossing to read, the collection sheds new light on this important figure and her social and literary milieu.
The Bookman's Journal and Print Collector
Author: Wilfred PartingtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
American Nights Entertainment
Author: Grant OvertonAthenaeum
Author: James Silk BuckinghamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Country Life Illustrated
Author: Critical Essays on Henry James
Author: Peter RawlingsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429873123
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 477
Book Description
First published in 1993. Including essays by T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and H.G. Wells, this is an anthology of critical thought about Henry James, designed to give scholars and students of James' work access to material that they would otherwise have difficulty finding.
The American Essays
Author: Henry JamesPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691014715
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
"No one, among American writers, was more contemporary or had a more powerful grasp of American history and American myth," writes Leon Edel of Henry James. This collection of James's essays on American letters, together with some of his miscellaneous writings on other American subjects, is a pivotal document in the reassessment of James as less cloistered--and more American--than previously supposed. James is relaxed and informal as he writes of Emerson, Hawthorne, Lowell, Godkin, Norton, and Howells: he is fondly recalling--but also criticizing--the cultural orthodoxy in which he was reared. The American Essays remarkably prefigures current efforts to revise and challenge the aesthetic idealism of the Emersonian tradition.
Selected Letters of Henry James
Author: Henry JamesPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374527431
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Legend has tended to preserve Henry James as "The Master" that Joseph Conrad called him, a rather long-winded Olympian given to great utterances on the art of fiction and the writing of profound psychological studies. The real-life figure revealed in these letters is more terse, and even astringent, a professional writer, an eager observer of life, a man who delighted in meeting people and who made an art of friendship, but who did not hesitate to descend into the marketplace of letters and get the best possible price for his wares.Leon Edel designed this selection to show the kinds of letters James wrote--to his family, his contemporaries, to would-be writers--letters injected with irony and obdurate truth. Here are letters to Conrad, Wells, Galsworthy, Henry Adams, Howells, Edith Wharton, Fanny Kemble--to great Victorians as well as those who bridged that era and the modern one.
The London Mercury
Author: Sir John Collings SquirePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
Henry James
Author: James HenryPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 0141922133
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 895
Book Description
James's correspondents included presidents and prime ministers, painters and great ladies, actresses and bishops, and the writers Robert Louis Stevenson, H.G. Wells and Edith Wharton. This fully-annotated selection from James's eloquent correspondence allows the writer to reveal himself and the fascinating world in which he lived. The letters provide a rich and fascinating source for James' views on his own works, on the literary craft, on sex, politics and friendship. Together they constitute, in Philip Horne's own words, James' 'real and best biography'.