Description |
xix, 610 pages ; 21 cm. |
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Series |
New York Review Books Classics |
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New York Review Books classics.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
Contents |
Memoirs, Conversations and Diaries -- Anderson, Millay, and Crane in Their Letters -- The Subjection of Women -- George Eliot's Husband -- The Neglected Novels of Christina Stead -- America and Dylan Thomas -- The Decline of Book Reviewing -- Boston -- William James: An American Hero -- Living in Italy: Reflections on Bernard Berenson -- Mary McCarthy -- Loveless Love: Graham Greene -- The Insulted and Injured: Books About Poverty -- Grub Street: New York -- Frost in His Letters -- Ring Lardner -- Grub Street: Washington -- Selma, Alabama: The Charms of Goodness -- After Watts -- The Apotheosis of Martin Luther King -- Chicago -- Reflections on Fiction -- Dead Souls: Ernest Hemingway -- In Maine -- Militant Nudes -- Sue and Arabella -- Sad Brazil -- Sense of the Present -- Simone Weil -- Domestic Manners -- Wives and Mistresses -- Unknown Faulkner -- Nabokov: Master Class -- English Visitors in America -- Bartleby in Manhattan -- Katherine Anne Porter -- Sons of the City's Pavements: Delmore Schwartz -- The Magical Prose of Poets: Elizabeth Bishop -- The Teller and the Tape: Norman Mailer -- The Genius of Margaret Fuller -- Gertrude Stein -- The Fictions of America -- Mrs. Wharton in New York -- On Washington Square -- Wind from the Prairie -- Mary McCarthy in New York -- Edmund Wilson -- Paradise Lost: Philip Roth -- In the Wasteland: Joan Didion -- Tru Confessions: Truman Capote -- Locations: The Landscapes of Fiction -- Melville in Love -- The Torrents of Wolfe: Thomas Wolfe -- The Foster Father: Henry James -- Funny as a Crutch: Nathaniel West. |
Subject |
American essays.
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Genre/Form |
Essays.
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Added Author |
Pinckney, Darryl, 1953- editor, author of introduction, etc.
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Added Title |
Essays. Selections
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Other Form: |
Online version: Hardwick, Elizabeth, author. Collected essays of Elizabeth Hardwick New York : New York Review Books, [2017] 9781681371559 (DLC) 2017014050 |
ISBN |
9781681371542 paperback |
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1681371545 paperback |
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