This an American writer."--The New York Times Book Review.

Edith Wharton : A Biography

Biographies & Memoirs

LEWIS, R.W.B.

Arts & Literature

Constable

Discusses such novels as The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth, and Ethan Frome, and explicates the social and psychological framework in which they were written

Edith Wharton: A Biography

Vintage

An insightful biography of Florence?s famous son Acclaimed biog rap her R.W.B. Lewis traces the life and complex development? emotional, artistic, philosophical?of this supreme poet-historian. Here we meet the boy who first encounters the mythic Beatrice, the lyric poet obsessed with love and death, the grand master of dramatic narrative and allegory, and his monumental search for ultimate truth in The Divine Comedy. It is in this masterpiece of self-discovery and redemption that Lewis finds Dante?s own autobiography?and the sum of all his shifting passions and epiphanies.

Dante: A Life (Penguin Lives)

Penguin Publishing Group

Intellectual history is viewed in this book as a series of "great conversations"—dramatic dialogues in which a culture's spokesmen wrestle with the leading questions of their times. In nineteenth-century America the great argument centered about De Crèvecoeur's "new man," the American, an innocent Adam in a bright new world dissociating himself from the historic past. Mr. Lewis reveals this vital preoccupation as a pervasive, transforming ingredient of the American mind, illuminating history and theology as well as art, shaping the consciousness of lesser thinkers as fully as it shaped the giants of the age. He traces the Adamic theme in the writings of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Henry James, and others, and in an Epilogue he exposes their continuing spirit in the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ralph Ellison, J. D. Salinger, and Saul Bellow.

The American Adam: Innocence, Tragedy, and Tradition in the Nineteenth Century (Phoenix Books)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

University of Chicago Press

Even if the James family hadn't given us both William the philosopher and psychologist, and Henry the novelist, the story of this quirky, wealthy, socially prominent clan would still be riveting. Full of incidents that would become legendary, The Jameses brings to life 150 years of unforgettable American history. Four 8-page inserts.

The Jameses: A Family Narrative

Publisher

DANTE (GRAND FIGUR LIT)

Dante

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

Poetry and prose illustrate the major themes and currents of American literature from the 17th century

American Literature: The Makers and the Making Book C 1861 to 1914

Brooks, Cleanth

Warren, Robert Penn.

St Martins Pr

A traveler's journey through Florence offers a historic portrait that gives insight into the city's influence on modern Western culture and its civil legacy from the Middle Ages, and covers the Arno, Duomo, Ponte Vecchio, Santa Croce, and other landmarks.

The City of Florence: Historical Vistas and Personal Sightings

History

Europe

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

Places the lives of Henry James, the writer, his brother, William, the philospher, and their sister, Alice, in the context of their family history

Reference

A thoughtful biography of the great medieval Italian poet and historian examines the life of Dante Alighieri from his Florence youth and military career to his creation of The Divine Comedy, his masterful allegorical poem of redemption and self-discovery. 22,500 first printing.

Dante (Penguin Lives)

Viking Press

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Edith Wharton : A Biography

Edith Wharton: A Biography

Dante: A Life (Penguin Lives)

The American Adam: Innocence, Tragedy, and Tradition in the Nineteenth Century (Phoenix Books)

The Jameses: A Family Narrative

Dante

American Literature: The Makers and the Making Book C 1861 to 1914

The City of Florence: Historical Vistas and Personal Sightings

The Jameses: A Family Narrative

Dante (Penguin Lives)