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Author : Charles Knight
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Literature
ISBN : PRNC:32101071987372
Author : Charles Knight
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Liberty
ISBN : CHI:42311195
Author : Half hours
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555005582
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : English literature
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000031065
Author : Anne Trubek
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-11
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780812205817
There are many ways to show our devotion to an author besides reading his or her works. Graves make for popular pilgrimage sites, but far more popular are writers' house museums. What is it we hope to accomplish by trekking to the home of a dead author? We may go in search of the point of inspiration, eager to stand on the very spot where our favorite literary characters first came to life—and find ourselves instead in the house where the author himself was conceived, or where she drew her last breath. Perhaps it is a place through which our writer passed only briefly, or maybe it really was a longtime home—now thoroughly remade as a decorator's show-house. In A Skeptic's Guide to Writers' Houses Anne Trubek takes a vexed, often funny, and always thoughtful tour of a goodly number of house museums across the nation. In Key West she visits the shamelessly ersatz shrine to a hard-living Ernest Hemingway, while meditating on his lost Cuban farm and the sterile Idaho house in which he committed suicide. In Hannibal, Missouri, she walks the fuzzy line between fact and fiction, as she visits the home of the young Samuel Clemens—and the purported haunts of Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher, and Injun' Joe. She hits literary pay-dirt in Concord, Massachusetts, the nineteenth-century mecca that gave home to Hawthorne, Emerson, and Thoreau—and yet could not accommodate a surprisingly complex Louisa May Alcott. She takes us along the trail of residences that Edgar Allan Poe left behind in the wake of his many failures and to the burned-out shell of a California house with which Jack London staked his claim on posterity. In Dayton, Ohio, a charismatic guide brings Paul Laurence Dunbar to compelling life for those few visitors willing to listen; in Cleveland, Trubek finds a moving remembrance of Charles Chesnutt in a house that no longer stands. Why is it that we visit writers' houses? Although admittedly skeptical about the stories these buildings tell us about their former inhabitants, Anne Trubek carries us along as she falls at least a little bit in love with each stop on her itinerary and finds in each some truth about literature, history, and contemporary America.
Author : Charles Knight
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : English literature
ISBN : UCAL:$B272964
A collection of literature from over three hundred English authors.
Author : Charles Knight
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023855320
Author : Charles Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : American wit and humor
ISBN : UCAL:B4626130
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : English literature
ISBN : OCLC:684921176
Author : Charles Knight
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1322980453
Author : Charles Knight
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : English literature
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000031068
Author : Charles Knight
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : Literature
ISBN : OCLC:1067025928
Author : Charles Knight
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : English literature
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000031067
Author : Charles Knight
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : Anthologies
ISBN : UCAL:B3285599
Author : Charles Knight
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Literature
ISBN : OCLC:6966244