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Now recognized as one of the giants of postwar American fiction, William Gaddis (1922–98) shunned the spotlight during his life, which makes this collection of his letters a revelation. Beginning in 1930 when Gaddis was at boarding-school and ending in September 1998, a few months before his death, these letters function as a kind of autobiography, and are all the more valuable because Gaddis was not an autobiographical writer. Here we see him forging his first novel The Recognitions (1955) while living in Mexico, fighting in a revolution in Costa Rica, and working in Spain, France, and North Africa. Over the next twenty years he struggles to find time to write the National Book Award-winning J R (1975) amid the complications of work and family; deals with divorce and disillusionment before reviving his career with Carpenter's Gothic (1985); then teaches himself enough about the law to indite A Frolic of His Own (1994), which earned him another NBA. Returning to a topic he first wrote about in the 1940s, he finishes his last novel Agape Agape as he lay dying.


Complete Letters of Mark Twain Complete Letters of Mark Twain

Автор: Марк Твен

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The letters of Mark Twain are peculiarly of the revealing sort. He was a man of few restraints and of no affectations. In his correspondence, as in his talk, he spoke what was in his mind, untrammeled by literary conventions.


The confessions of William Henry Ireland The confessions of William Henry Ireland

Автор: William Ireland

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Полный вариант заголовка: «The confessions of William Henry Ireland : сontaining the particulars of his fabrication of the Shakspeare manuscripts; together with anecdotes and opinions (hitherto unpubl.) of many distinguished persons in the literary, political, and theatrical world».


Models of letters for the use of schools and private students Models of letters for the use of schools and private students

Автор: Группа авторов

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Полный вариант заголовка: «Models of letters : for the use od schools and private students : being an epitome of the large 8 volume, entitled, Elegant epistles : and containig Select letters from the best English authors : with many translated from the French, which have never appeared in any miscellaneous collection».


The commentaries of Sir William Blackstone, Knt. on the laws and constitution of England The commentaries of Sir William Blackstone, Knt. on the laws and constitution of England

Автор: William Blackstone

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Полный вариант заголовка: «The commentaries of Sir William Blackstone, Knt. on the laws and constitution of England: carefully abridged, in a new manner, and continued down to the present time: with notes, corrective and explanatory by William Curry».


Unpublished letters of the eighteenth century Unpublished letters of the eighteenth century

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Полный вариант заголовка: «Unpublished letters of the eighteenth century : illustrative of the Herbert family ; and of the latter part of king William's and the earlier part of queen Anne's reigns : with notes / edited by Rebecca Warner».