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Umbertina

A Novel

de Helen Barolini, Edvige Giunta ...

The "panoramic, descriptive, and solidly crafted" historical novel of immigration, womanhood, and the feminist ideals of self-reliance and self-confidence ( Publishers Weekly).This sweeping, multi-generational novel begins in southern Italy's Calabria region in the late 1800s, as Umbertina—the wife of a simple farmer—persuades her husband to emigrate to the United States to pursue its promise of ... Leer más

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The "panoramic, descriptive, and solidly crafted" historical novel of immigration, womanhood, and the feminist ideals of self-reliance and self-confidence ( Publishers Weekly).This sweeping, multi-generational novel begins in southern Italy's Calabria region in the late 1800s, as Umbertina—the wife of a simple farmer—persuades her husband to emigrate to the United States to pursue its promise of
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Their Other Side

Six American Women and the Lure of Italy

de Helen Barolini ...

“Our lives are Swiss,” Emily Dickinson wrote in 1859, “So still—so cool.” But over the Alps, “Italy stands the other side.” For Dickinson, as for many other writers and artists, Italy has been the land of light, a seductive source of invention, enchantment, and freedom.So it was for Helen Barolini, who, as a student in Rome after World War II, wrote her first poetry and gave birth to her own ... Leer más

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“Our lives are Swiss,” Emily Dickinson wrote in 1859, “So still—so cool.” But over the Alps, “Italy stands the other side.” For Dickinson, as for many other writers and artists, Italy has been the land of light, a seductive source of invention, enchantment, and freedom.So it was for Helen Barolini, who, as a student in Rome after World War II, wrote her first poetry and gave birth to her own
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Sculpture of the Exposition Palaces and Courts

de Juliet Helena Lumbard James ...

Sculpture of the Exposition Palaces and Courts by Juliet Helena Lumbard James is a detailed examination of the sculptural art featured at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco in 1915. This exposition celebrated the completion of the Panama Canal and showcased advancements in culture, art, and technology, attracting international attention and participation.In the ... Leer más

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Sculpture of the Exposition Palaces and Courts by Juliet Helena Lumbard James is a detailed examination of the sculptural art featured at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco in 1915. This exposition celebrated the completion of the Panama Canal and showcased advancements in culture, art, and technology, attracting international attention and participation.In the
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Nothing If Not Critical

Essays on Art and Artists

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From Holbein to Hockney, from Norman Rockwell to Pablo Picasso, from sixteenth-century Rome to 1980s SoHo, Robert Hughes looks with love, loathing, warmth, wit and authority at a wide range of art and artists, good, bad, past and present.As art critic for Time magazine, internationally acclaimed for his study of modern art, The Shock of the New, he is perhaps America’s most widely read and admired ... Leer más

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From Holbein to Hockney, from Norman Rockwell to Pablo Picasso, from sixteenth-century Rome to 1980s SoHo, Robert Hughes looks with love, loathing, warmth, wit and authority at a wide range of art and artists, good, bad, past and present.As art critic for Time magazine, internationally acclaimed for his study of modern art, The Shock of the New, he is perhaps America’s most widely read and admired
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Margaret Fuller

A New American Life

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this biography of Fuller "is as seductive as it is impressive . . . In Ms. Marshall, Fuller has . . . her ideal biographer" ( New York Times ).From an early age, Margaret Fuller provoked and dazzled New England's intellectual elite. Her famous Conversations changed women's sense of how they could think and live; her editorship of the Transcendentalist literary journal ... Leer más

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this biography of Fuller "is as seductive as it is impressive . . . In Ms. Marshall, Fuller has . . . her ideal biographer" ( New York Times ).From an early age, Margaret Fuller provoked and dazzled New England's intellectual elite. Her famous Conversations changed women's sense of how they could think and live; her editorship of the Transcendentalist literary journal
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Light Years

de James Salter ...

Series series Vintage International
**A brilliant portrait of a marriage from the PEN/Faulkner Award-winner and author of A Sport and a Pastime, with an introduction by Richard Ford.“Light Years is a novel of almost holy radiance to me. It is great in every sense of the word: vast, and timeless, and enduring.”—Lauren Groff, bestselling author of Fates and Furies**“Remarkable. An unexpectedly moving ode to beautiful lives frayed by ... Leer más

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**A brilliant portrait of a marriage from the PEN/Faulkner Award-winner and author of A Sport and a Pastime, with an introduction by Richard Ford.“Light Years is a novel of almost holy radiance to me. It is great in every sense of the word: vast, and timeless, and enduring.”—Lauren Groff, bestselling author of Fates and Furies**“Remarkable. An unexpectedly moving ode to beautiful lives frayed by
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Intrigue in Capri

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Series series An Amory Ames Mystery
A stylish, sun-drenched original short story featuring amateur sleuth Amory Ames and her husband Milo, from the Edgar Award-shortlisted Ashley Weaver.“Amory Ames and her rakish husband Milo might just be the new Nick and Nora Charles.” —Deborah CrombieSurely mysteries and the Mediterranean must be incompatible. The setting was so idyllic, so tranquil and perfect, that it was hard to imagine ... Leer más

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A stylish, sun-drenched original short story featuring amateur sleuth Amory Ames and her husband Milo, from the Edgar Award-shortlisted Ashley Weaver.“Amory Ames and her rakish husband Milo might just be the new Nick and Nora Charles.” —Deborah CrombieSurely mysteries and the Mediterranean must be incompatible. The setting was so idyllic, so tranquil and perfect, that it was hard to imagine
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Creators

From Chaucer and Durer to Picasso and Disney

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“Johnson emphasizes the rarity of truly visionary artists . . . his approach is unfailingly generous. . . . Genuinely revealing.” —Publishers WeeklyFrom celebrated journalist and historian Paul Johnson, an enlightening look at the imagination and drive of visionaries who have changed our world.Paul Johnson believes that creation is a mysterious business which cannot be satisfactorily analyzed. But ... Leer más

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“Johnson emphasizes the rarity of truly visionary artists . . . his approach is unfailingly generous. . . . Genuinely revealing.” —Publishers WeeklyFrom celebrated journalist and historian Paul Johnson, an enlightening look at the imagination and drive of visionaries who have changed our world.Paul Johnson believes that creation is a mysterious business which cannot be satisfactorily analyzed. But
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Art in America 1945-1970 (LOA #259)

Writings from the Age of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Minimalism

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Experience the creative explosion that transformed American art—in the words of the artists, writers, and critics who were thereIn the quarter century after the end of World War II, a new generation of painters, sculptors, and photographers transformed the face of American art and shifted the center of the art world from Paris to New York. Signaled by the triumph of abstraction and the ascendancy ... Leer más

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Experience the creative explosion that transformed American art—in the words of the artists, writers, and critics who were thereIn the quarter century after the end of World War II, a new generation of painters, sculptors, and photographers transformed the face of American art and shifted the center of the art world from Paris to New York. Signaled by the triumph of abstraction and the ascendancy
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Seven Seasons in Siena

My Quixotic Quest for Acceptance Among Tuscany's Proudest People

de Robert Rodi ...

Siena seems at first glance a typical Italian city: within its venerable medieval walls the citizens sport designer clothes, wield digital phones, and prize their dazzling local cuisine. But unlike neighboring Florence, Siena is still deeply rooted in ancient traditions—chiefly the spectacular Palio, in which seventeen independent societies known as contrade vie for bragging rights in an annual ... Leer más

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Siena seems at first glance a typical Italian city: within its venerable medieval walls the citizens sport designer clothes, wield digital phones, and prize their dazzling local cuisine. But unlike neighboring Florence, Siena is still deeply rooted in ancient traditions—chiefly the spectacular Palio, in which seventeen independent societies known as contrade vie for bragging rights in an annual
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Everybody's Autobiography

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“Alice B. Toklas wrote hers and now everybody will write theirs.” In 1933 Gertrude Stein’s The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas skyrocketed to the top of the bestseller lists, and the author found herself a celebrity. Everybody’s Autobiography is the very Steinian account of her soul-satisfying next five years in France, England, and America, where she made a triumphant tour of the country. Here ... Leer más

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“Alice B. Toklas wrote hers and now everybody will write theirs.” In 1933 Gertrude Stein’s The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas skyrocketed to the top of the bestseller lists, and the author found herself a celebrity. Everybody’s Autobiography is the very Steinian account of her soul-satisfying next five years in France, England, and America, where she made a triumphant tour of the country. Here
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Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece

Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece

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A revelatory biography of the American master as told through the lens of his greatest novel.Henry James (1843–1916) has had many biographers, but Michael Gorra has taken an original approach to this great American progenitor of the modern novel, combining elements of biography, criticism, and travelogue in re-creating the dramatic backstory of James’s masterpiece, Portrait of a Lady (1881). Gorra ... Leer más

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A revelatory biography of the American master as told through the lens of his greatest novel.Henry James (1843–1916) has had many biographers, but Michael Gorra has taken an original approach to this great American progenitor of the modern novel, combining elements of biography, criticism, and travelogue in re-creating the dramatic backstory of James’s masterpiece, Portrait of a Lady (1881). Gorra
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