Literary Houses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Literary Houses write by Rosalind Ashe. This book was released on 1982. Literary Houses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Offers an imaginative visual reconstruction of the houses that played a critical role in "Rebecca," "Dracula," "Great Expectations," "Jane Eyre," "Northanger Abbey," and other fictional works.
A Skeptic's Guide to Writers' Houses
A Skeptic's Guide to Writers' Houses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Skeptic's Guide to Writers' Houses write by Anne Trubek. This book was released on 2011-07-11. A Skeptic's Guide to Writers' Houses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Writers' Houses
Writers' Houses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Writers' Houses write by Francesca Premoli-Droulers. This book was released on 1995. Writers' Houses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The houses of writers are often places of both creation and inspiration, studio as much as home. This wonderful book takes readers into the intimacy of the homes of 20 great international figures--from Hemingway's simple, tropical world on Key West to the Connecticut Yankee home of Mark Twain to William Faulkner's Oxford plantation--to reveal their private worlds. 220 photos, 200 in color.
Seven Empty Houses (National Book Award Winner)
Seven Empty Houses (National Book Award Winner) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Seven Empty Houses (National Book Award Winner) write by Samanta Schweblin. This book was released on 2022-10-18. Seven Empty Houses (National Book Award Winner) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the 2022 National Book Award for Translated Literature A blazing new story collection that will make you feel like the house is collapsing in on you, from the 3 time International Booker Prize finalist, "lead[ing] a vanguard of Latin American writers forging their own 21st-century canon.” –O, the Oprah magazine The seven houses in these seven stories are strange. A person is missing, or a truth, or memory; some rooms are enticing, some unmoored, others empty. But in Samanta Schweblin's tense, visionary tales, something always creeps back inside: a ghost, a fight, trespassers, a list of things to do before you die, a child's first encounter with darkness or the fallibility of parents. In each story, twists and turns will unnerve and surprise: Schweblin never takes the expected path and instead digs under the skin, revealing surreal truths about our sense of home, of belonging, and of the fragility of our connections with others. This is a masterwork from one of our most brilliant modern writers.
Empty Houses
Empty Houses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Empty Houses write by Brenda Navarro. This book was released on 2020-10-17. Empty Houses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
