The long-awaited biography of John Kennedy Toole ("A Confederacy of Dunces"), whose fascinating life and tragic death is one of the most amazing publishingstories in American literature.
... FLETCHER , JOHN . Life and Appeal ; Posthumous Pieces ; History of Independency ; Life and Correspondence ; Parliamentary Portraits , by Grenville Fletcher ... in Author Land . 3 vols . 12mo . 531 FORSTER , C. Three Heavenly Witnesses ...
One of the judges who awarded him the Booker Prize described Barnes as "an unparalleled magus of the heart." This book confirms that opinion.
... John Steven McGroarty to Fr. Zephyrin Englehardt , August 12 , 1910 , from copies of original . The author's thanks ... Fletcher Lummis : " Hav- ing had such very unpleasant experiences in connection with the miscalled Mis- sion ...
... ( In author's pre- face called a " Tragi - comedy . " ) Erminia . Or , The ... ( John Fletcher and Philip Mas- singer . ) 1647. ( Folio of 1679 , “ A Tragi ... In author's preface , " a pastoral tragi - comedy . " ) The False ...
This is also the first biography to explore in detail Marlowe's relations with fellow playwrights such as Kyd and Shakespeare, and to show how Marlowe's relations with Shakespeare evolved from 1590 to 1593.
This biography, the first comprehensive work on Howells in fifty years, enters the consciousness of the man and his times, revealing a complicated and painfully honest figure who came of age in an era of political corruption, industrial ...
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize “A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue.”—The New York Times Book Review A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece.
Presents a treasure trove of 135 letters, written over a period of 42 years, from Edith Wharton to her teacher, considered a great find in the literary world, given that only three letters from the Age of Innocence author's childhood and ...