Hakutulokset: Kirjoja kirjailijalta Christopher Benfey
yhteensä 14 hakutulosta
The Book of Tea
For a generation adjusting painfully to the demands of a modern industrial and commercial society, Asia came to represent an alternative vision of the good life: aesthetically …
The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan
An incisive study of cultural identity and the implications--good and bad--of cultural cross-pollination describes the historical and cultural reciprocity that existed in the era …
The Dickinsons of Amherst
Jerome Liebling, one of our foremost documentary photographers, has created a remarkable photographic record of the domestic environment of Emily Dickinson. As a fellow resident of …
Artists, Intellectuals and World War II
Sixty years ago, at the height of World War II, an extraordinary series of gatherings took place at Mount Holyoke College in western Massachusetts. During the summers of 1942-1944, …
Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay
Summer of Hummingbirds
Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay: Reflections on Art, Family, and Survival
"Beautiful, haunted, evocative and so open to where memory takes you. I kept thinking that this is the book that I have waited for: where objects, and poetry intertwine. Just …
Lafcadio Hearn: American Writings (LOA #190)
A translator of Flaubert and Gautier, Lafcadio Hearn was the master of a gaudy and sometimes self-consciously decadent literary style, but he was also a tough-minded and keenly …
Lafcadio Hearn: American Writings (LOA #190)
A translator of Flaubert and Gautier, Lafcadio Hearn was the master of a gaudy and sometimes self-consciously decadent literary style, but he was also a tough-minded and keenly …
North of Ordinary
The long-awaited return of a quintessentially American storyteller“You’re as likely to be hit twice by lightning on a Monday as see a wood chipper pull a man into its maw.”So …
A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Jo
The country's most noted writers, poets, and artists converge at a singular moment in American life, a great companion to fans of the film A Quiet Passion, starring Cynthia Nixon …