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Edgar A. Poe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 564

Edgar A. Poe

The unchallenged life of Edgar A Poe - one of the best literary biographies everwritten.

Houdini!
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 552

Houdini!

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1996
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  • Publisher: Unknown

American self-liberator, Europe's eclipsing sensation, world's handcuff king and prison breaker -- nothing on earth can hold Houdini a prisoner.

Begin Again
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 497

Begin Again

A man of extraordinary and seemingly limitless talents—musician, inventor, composer, poet, and even amateur mycologist—John Cage became a central figure of the avant-garde early in his life and remained at that pinnacle until his death in 1992 at the age of eighty. Award-winning biographer Kenneth Silverman gives us the first comprehensive life of this remarkable artist. Silverman begins with Cage’s childhood in interwar Los Angeles and his stay in Paris from 1930 to 1931, where immersion in the burgeoning new musical and artistic movements triggered an explosion of his creativity. Cage continued his studies in the United States with the seminal modern composer Arnold Schoenberg, and h...

Lightning Man
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 512

Lightning Man

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-04-07
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  • Publisher: Knopf

In this brilliantly conceived and written biography, Pulitzer Prize–winning Kenneth Silverman gives us the long and amazing life of the man eulogized by the New York Herald in 1872 as “perhaps the most illustrious American of his age.” Silverman presents Samuel Morse in all his complexity. There is the gifted and prolific painter (more than three hundred portraits and larger historical canvases) and pioneer photographer, who gave the first lectures on art in America, became the first Professor of Fine Arts at an American college (New York University), and founded the National Academy of Design. There is the republican idealist, prominent in antebellum politics, who ran for Congress and...

New Essays on Poe's Major Tales
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 152

New Essays on Poe's Major Tales

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1993
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  • Publisher: CUP Archive

A variety of critical approaches illuminate different facets of Poe's complex imagination by concentrating on such famous tales as The Cask of Amontillado, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Black Cat and The Murders in the Rue Morgue.

The Life and Times of Cotton Mather
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 500

The Life and Times of Cotton Mather

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Reintroducing Kenneth Silverman's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of the most celebrated of all New England Puritans, at once a sophisticated work which succeeds admirably in presenting a complete portrait of a complex man and a groundbreaking study that accurately portrays Mather and his contemporaries as the first true American rather than European expatriates.

Consciousness and the Acquisition of Language
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 149

Consciousness and the Acquisition of Language

The tools, concepts, and vocabulary of phenomenology are used in this book to explore language in a multitude of contexts.

Continuing Bonds
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 384

Continuing Bonds

First published in 1996. This new book gives voice to an emerging consensus among bereavement scholars that our understanding of the grief process needs to be expanded. The dominant 20th century model holds that the function of grief and mourning is to cut bonds with the deceased, thereby freeing the survivor to reinvest in new relationships in the present. Pathological grief has been defined in terms of holding on to the deceased. Close examination reveals that this model is based more on the cultural values of modernity than on any substantial data of what people actually do. Presenting data from several populations, 22 authors - among the most respected in their fields - demonstrate that ...

Edgar A. Poe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 600

Edgar A. Poe

Biography of author Edgar Allan Poe containing new information about Poe and his life.

Charles Thomas Jackson,
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 476