Новинки Фреда Каплана
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His Masterly Pen: A Biography of Jefferson the Writer Фред М. Каплан, Фред Каплан
ISBN: 9780062440037, 0062440039 Год издания: 2022 Издательство: Harper Язык: Английский As he did for Abraham Lincoln and John Quincy Adams, award-winning biographer Fred Kaplan offers a fresh, illuminating look at the life of Thomas Jefferson and his contributions as a writer. In this unique biography, Fred Kaplan emphasizes Thomas Jefferson’s genius with language and his ability to use the power of words to inspire and shape a nation. A man renowned for many talents, writing was one of the major activities of the statemen’s life, though much of his best, most influential writing—with the exception of the letters he wrote up to his death, numbering approximately 100,000—was done by 1789, when Jefferson was just forty-six.…
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Henry James – The Imagination of Genius, A Biography Фред Каплан
ISBN: 080186271X, 9780801862717 Год издания: 1999 Издательство: Johns Hopkins University Press Язык: Английский One of the most influential novelists, Henry James led a life that was as rich as his writing. Born into an eccentric and difficult family, he left the United States for Europe, where he quickly became a fixture of the expatriate writing community. Fred Kaplan recreates the world of Henry James: his friendships with Edith Wharton and Joseph Conrad, his love of all things exquisite—including exquisite writing—and his quest for understanding human nature. As James himself advocated and would have wanted, this is an artful, dramatic biography, placing the chronological narrative of James's life in the historical context of his times. "The…
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Dickens – A Biography Фред Каплан
ISBN: 0801860180, 9780801860188 Год издания: 1998 Издательство: Johns Hopkins University Press Язык: Английский From a bitter childhood mired in poverty and hard work to a career as the most acclaimed and best-loved writer in the English-speaking world, Charles Dickens had a life as tumultuous as any he created in his teeming novels of life in Victorian England. And no one has captured the rich texture of this life as colorfully and persuasively as Fred Kaplan in this acclaimed biography. Drawing on unpublished and long-forgotten sources, Kaplan presents a full-scale portrait of Dickens and his world. From the autobiographical basis of his novels and his extraordinary circle of friends to the course of his unhappy marriage and complicated family…
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Thomas Carlyle: A Biography Фред Каплан
ISBN: 0520082001 Год издания: 1993 Язык: Английский In this definitive biography of the great Victorian essayist Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), Fred Kaplan provides a vivid picture of Victorian life as he gives the reader a sensitive and candid portrait of a complex and difficult man.