Vidal and His Family: From Salonica to Paris: The Story of a Sephardic Family in the Twentieth Century
Book: Vidal and His Family: From Salonica to Paris: The Story of a Sephardic Family in the Twentieth Century , by Edgar Morin, ISBN-10: 1845192745 ISBN-13: ISBN13: 9781845192747, Sussex Academic Press, May 2009, Paperback
"Edgar Morin, one of France's greatest living intellectuals, tells the story of his father, Vidal Nahoum, but also the story of Sephardic Jews, and of Europe. In this "holographic history" Vidal's story, and that of his family, carries within it...
A Story Teller's Story: The tale of an American writer's journey through his own imaginative world and through the world of facts, with many of his experiences and impressions among other writers--told in many notes--in four books--and an Epilogue
Book: A Story Teller's Story: The tale of an American writer's journey through his own imaginative world and through the world of facts, with many of his experiences and impressions among other writers--told in many notes--in four books--and an Epilogue , by Sherwood Anderson, Thomas Lynch, ISBN-10: 0472030833 ISBN-13: ISBN13: 9780472030835, University of Michigan Press, September 2005, Paperback
A memoir of Midwestern life and culture from the author of Winesburg, Ohio...
Stephen Leacock: His Remarkable Life
Book: Stephen Leacock: His Remarkable Life , by Albert Moritz, Albert, A. F. Moritz, Theresa Moritz, ISBN-10: 1550416006 ISBN-13: ISBN13: 9781550416008, Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Limited, April 2002, Hardcover
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Mark Twain and the American West (Mark Twain and His Circle Series)
Book: Mark Twain and the American West (Mark Twain and His Circle Series) , by Joseph L. Coulombe, ISBN-10: 0826214614 ISBN-13: ISBN13: 9780826214614, University of Missouri Press, April 2003, Hardcover
In Mark Twain and the American West, Joseph Coulombe explores how Mark Twain deliberately manipulated contemporary conceptions of the American West to create and then modify a public image that eventually won worldwide fame. He establishes the central role of...
Hemingway on the China Front: His WWII Spy Mission with Martha Gellhorn
Book: Hemingway on the China Front: His WWII Spy Mission with Martha Gellhorn , by Peter Moreira, ISBN-10: 1574888811 ISBN-13: ISBN13: 9781574888812, Potomac Books, Inc., April 2006, Hardcover
Love, fame, war, and espionage...
Stephen Leacock: His Remarkable Life
Book: Stephen Leacock: His Remarkable Life , by Albert Moritz, Theresa Moritz, ISBN-10: 1550417371 ISBN-13: ISBN13: 9781550417371, Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Limited, May 2004, Paperback
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The Perfect Hour: The Romance of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ginevra King, His First Love
Book: The Perfect Hour: The Romance of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ginevra King, His First Love , by James L.W. West, ISBN-10: 0812973275 ISBN-13: ISBN13: 9780812973273, Random House Publishing Group, February 2006, Paperback
In The Perfect Hour, biographer James L. W. West III reveals the never-before told story of the romance between F. Scott Fitzgerald and his first love, Ginevra King. They met in January 1915, when Scott was nineteen, a Princeton student,...
Pocahontas' Descendants. A Revision, Enlargement And Extension Of The List As Set Out By Wyndham Robertson In His Book Pocahontas And Her Descendants (1887). Combined With Two Volumes Of Corrections And Additions
Book: Pocahontas' Descendants. A Revision, Enlargement And Extension Of The List As Set Out By Wyndham Robertson In His Book Pocahontas And Her Descendants (1887). Combined With Two Volumes Of Corrections And Additions , by Stuart E. Brown, Lorraine F. Myers, Eileen M. Chappel, ISBN-10: 0806314079 ISBN-13: ISBN13: 9780806314075, Genealogical Publishing Company, Incorporated, January 2010, Paperback
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Mark Twain in Paradise: His Voyages to Bermuda
Book: Mark Twain in Paradise: His Voyages to Bermuda , by Donald Hoffmann, ISBN-10: 0826216420 ISBN-13: ISBN13: 9780826216427, University of Missouri Press, March 2006, Hardcover
For Mark Twain, it was love at first landfall. Samuel Clemens first encountered the Bermuda Islands in 1867 on a return voyage from the Holy Land and found them much to his liking. One of the most isolated spots in...
Kerouac: His Life and Work
Book: Kerouac: His Life and Work , by Paul Maher, David Amram, ISBN-10: 1589793668 ISBN-13: ISBN13: 9781589793668, Taylor Trade Publishing, May 2007, Paperback
This authoritative biography of writer, poet, and beat generation icon Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) recounts in gripping detail the story of his exceptional life and the key relationships that affected Kerouac's development as an artist, including those with his three wives,...
