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Lillian Hellman

Author : William Wright
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2000-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780743210737

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Lillian Hellman by William Wright Pdf

This portrait traces the controversial life of the successful playwright, including her relationship with Dashiell Hammett and details her active role in ideological battles and her celebrated feuds with everyone from Tallulah Bankhead to Mary McCarthy.

Unfinished Woman

Author : Robyn Davidson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781526673657

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Unfinished Woman by Robyn Davidson Pdf

'The zigzagging life of an adventurer' GUARDIAN 'An astonishing, wonderful memoir of an extraordinary life' HENRY MARSH, author of Do No Harm 'Exciting and complex, full of insight and humour' SPECTATOR An unforgettable memoir from the author of the sensational international bestseller Tracks: the story of a mother and daughter, of love, loss and the pursuit of freedom In 1977, twenty-seven-year-old Robyn Davidson set off with a dog and four camels to cross 1,700 miles of Australian desert to the sea. A life of almost constant travelling followed. From the deserts of Australia, to Sydney's underworld; from Sixties street life, to the London literary scene; from migrating with nomads in Tibet, to 'marrying' an Indian prince, Davidson's quest was motivated by an unquenchable curiosity about other ways of seeing and understanding the world. Davidson threw bombs over her shoulder and seeds into her future on the assumption that something would be growing when she got there. The only terrain she had no interest in exploring was the past. In Unfinished Woman Davidson turns at last to explore that long avoided country. Through this brave and revealing memoir, she delves into her childhood and youth to uncover the forces that set her on her path, and confront the cataclysm of her early loss. Unfinished Woman is an unforgettable investigation of time and memory, and a powerful interrogation of how we can live with and find beauty in the uncertainty and strangeness of being. 'In her twenties, Davidson trekked 1,700 miles through the Australian wilderness. This led to the bestselling book Tracks and global fame. Half a century later she has written about what motivated her – including the tragic early death of her mother' Simon Hattenstone, GUARDIAN

The Autumn Garden

Author : Lillian Hellman
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : American drama
ISBN : 0822200821

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The Autumn Garden by Lillian Hellman Pdf

THE STORY: In the words of New York Post : Miss Hellman is contemplating the meaning of middle age to an assorted group of people gathered together in a summer home... All of them are in one way or another frustrated and unhappy. Most of them

Hellman and Hammett

Author : Joan Mellen
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020699687

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Hellman and Hammett by Joan Mellen Pdf

In the first dual biography of Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett, New York Times bestselling author Joan Mellen sheds new light on two of the twentieth century's most intriguing characters. The first biographer to draw from the Hellman-Hammett archives at the University of Texas, and with unprecedented access to their circle of friends, Mellen taps mines of fresh material to produce a groundbreaking look at these extraordinary American nonconformists, separately and together. Cutting against the social and political grain of their day, Hellman and Hammett as proud American radicals were persecuted during McCarthyism. They also turned out some of the most compelling prose of our country: Hammett's classic Red Harvest, The Maltese Falcon, and The Thin Man, and Hellman's plays The Little Foxes, Watch on the Rhine, and her memoirs An Unfinished Woman and Pentimento. Meanwhile, Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett defied every accepted formula of how a man and woman should love each other: intimate as a couple, they lived together infrequently, drank to excess, participated in orgies, and engaged in flagrant infidelities. For the first time, members of Hellman and Hammett's circle, including Peter Feibleman, Norman Mailer, and Rose Styron, have agreed to speak openly about this enigmatic relationship which defined an era.

A Difficult Woman

Author : Alice Kessler-Harris
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781608193790

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A Difficult Woman by Alice Kessler-Harris Pdf

Lillian Hellman was a giant of twentieth-century letters and a groundbreaking figure as one of the most successful female playwrights on Broadway. Yet the author of The Little Foxes and Toys in the Attic is today remembered more as a toxic, bitter survivor and literary fabulist, the woman of whom Mary McCarthy said, "Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the.'" In A Difficult Woman, renowned historian Alice Kessler-Harris undertakes a feat few would dare to attempt: a reclamation of a combative, controversial woman who straddled so many political and cultural fault lines of her time. Kessler-Harris renders Hellman's feisty wit and personality in all of its contradictions: as a non-Jewish Jew, a displaced Southerner, a passionate political voice without a party, an artist immersed in commerce, a sexually free woman who scorned much of the women's movement, a loyal friend whose trust was often betrayed, and a writer of memoirs who repeatedly questioned the possibility of achieving truth and doubted her memory. Hellman was a writer whose plays spoke the language of morality yet whose achievements foundered on accusations of mendacity. Above all else, she was a woman who made her way in a man's world. Kessler-Harris has crafted a nuanced life of Hellman, empathetic yet unsparing, that situates her in the varied contexts in which she moved, from New Orleans to Broadway to the hearing room of HUAC. A Difficut Woman is a major work of literary and intellectual history. This will be one of the most reviewed, and most acclaimed, books of 2012.

A Likely Story

Author : Rosemary Mahoney
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1999-11-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780385479318

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A Likely Story by Rosemary Mahoney Pdf

Now in paperback--from the author of the acclaimed Whoredom in Kimmage, a moving, controversial, and supremely intelligent memoir of a bright and vulnerable teenager's hellish summer job. In 1978, Rosemary Mahoney, an aspiring young writer of seventeen, wrote her personal idol Lillian Hellman inquiring whether the famed woman of American letters might need domestic help for the summer. When Hellman responded affirmatively, Mahoney imagined an idyll on Martha's Vineyard of mentoring and friendship. But in reality Mahoney's summer unfolded into an exquisite and grueling exercise in humiliation at the hands of the acerbic Hellman and her retinue of celebrated acquaintances. By turns heartbreaking and uproariously funny, A Likely Story portrays the coming-of-age of a brilliant and troubled young woman--a universal tale of illusions shattered and an object lesson in the often misdirected search for heroes.

Lillian Hellman

Author : Dorothy Gallagher
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300164978

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Lillian Hellman by Dorothy Gallagher Pdf

A fresh look at Hellman’s restless life, her extraordinary plays, and her autobiographical myths

Conversations with Lillian Hellman

Author : Lillian Hellman
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0878052933

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Conversations with Lillian Hellman by Lillian Hellman Pdf

Twenty-six interviews with the outspoken writer range over six decades of her life and career.

Pentimento

Author : Lillian Hellman
Publisher : Back Bay Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2000-03-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0316352888

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Pentimento by Lillian Hellman Pdf

In this widely praised follow-up to her National Book Award-winning first volume of memoirs, An Unfinished Woman, the legendary playwright Lillian Hellman looks back at some of the people who, wittingly or unwittingly, exerted profound influence on her development as a woman and a writer. The portraits include Hellman's recollection of a lifelong friendship that began in childhood, reminiscences that formed the basis of the Academy Award-winning film Julia.

The Children's Hour

Author : Lillian Hellman
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0822202050

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The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman Pdf

A serious play about two women who run a school for girls.

Understanding Lillian Hellman

Author : Alice Griffin,Geraldine Thorsten
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1570033021

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Understanding Lillian Hellman by Alice Griffin,Geraldine Thorsten Pdf

People remain fascinated by her love affairs, her thirty-year relationship with the detective fiction writer Dashiell Hammett, and her visits to Spain during its civil war and to Russia during World War II."--BOOK JACKET.

An Unfinished Woman

Author : Lillian Hellman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Lilly

Author : Peter Feibleman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0380708930

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Lilly by Peter Feibleman Pdf

The author first met Hellman when he was 10 and she 35. Here he recounts the evolution of their relationship that lasted until her death.

Conversations with Lillian Hellman

Author : Lillian Hellman
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0878052941

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Conversations with Lillian Hellman by Lillian Hellman Pdf

From six decades, 26 interviews with the renowned playwright that show her pungency, directness, honesty, & wit. Includes three previously unprinted interviews from television broadcasts--with Dan Rather, Bill Moyers, & Marilyn Berger.

Toys in the Attic

Author : Lillian Hellman
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0822211637

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Toys in the Attic by Lillian Hellman Pdf

Length: 3 acts.