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Brenda Wineapple
"Brenda Wineapple's wonderful account of the Scopes trial sheds light not only on the battles of the past but on the struggles of the present."-Jon Meacham
"History at its most…
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Wineapple brings to life the handsome, reserved, almost frighteningly aloof–until he was approached, then playful, cordial–Nathaniel Hawthorne who was as mercurial and double-edged as his writing.
The daughter of an Indianapolis mortician, Janet Flanner really began to live at the age of thirty, when she fled to Paris with her female lover. That was in 1921…
Wineapple gives a radiant portrayal of one of the most remarkable friendships in American letters–between the elusive, original poet Emily Dickinson and Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the radical abolitionist, reformer…
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Americans, expatriates, and virtually orphans, Gertrude and Leo Stein, lived together for almost forty years, collaborating in one of the great artistic and literary adventures of the twentieth century. This…
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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times * The New York Times Book Review * NPR * Publishers Weekly
This absorbing…
Walt Whitman
Published to coincide with the commemoration of Walt Whitman’s 200th birthday, this is a selection of observations and insights from ‘America’s greatest poet’, carefully curated from his fascinating late-in-life conversations…
Sybille Bedford
Against the background of the Kaiser’s Germany - dotty, militaristic, doomed - and the Europe of which it forms a part, two families are joined in marriage. Out of this…
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Dark, weird, psychologically complex, Hawthorne’s short fiction continues to fascinate readers. Brenda Wineapple has made a generous selection of Hawthorne’s stories, including some of his best-known tales as well as…
Essays, letters, poems, prose, and excerpts of interviews by fifty-seven leading authors of the century
The incomparable wisdom of America’s greatest poet, distilled from his late-in-life conversations with Horace Traubel.
A tale of an evil house, cursed through the centuries by a man who was hanged for witchcraft, haunted by ghosts of its dead and the terror of its living…
