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    Emerson Among the...

    Emerson Among the Eccentrics

    Halflinnen. Dikke hardback met stofomslag in goede staat. Enkele kleine aantekening in index. Geillustreerd. Engelstalig.

    When Carlos Baker died in 1987, he had completed all but the finishing touches on what will be considered his masterpiece. An esteemed literary critic and mentor to several generations of younger scholars, Carlos Baker had a lifelong interest in the writers of the American Renaissance, particularly in Ralph Waldo Emerson, its intellectual centerpiece, but also in Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Amos Bronson Alcott, and Margaret Fuller, all of whom made Concord a mecca for American intellectuals, with Emerson undoubtedly its foremost citizen. Lucky for us that in his last years Carlos Baker poured his resources, wisdom, and affections into this remarkable book." "Emerson Among the Eccentrics is that rarest of accomplishments: a magnificent biography that functions equally as a group portrait and a highly detailed reconstruction of an entire area. Carlos Baker was indefatigable in going through all of the principal characters, journals, and correspondence to reconstruct, minutely, entire days; the result is a vivid and textured mosaic not just of the group's interrelationships but of their daily lives - what they ate, what they wore, what they did for entertainment, what they valued and what they did not, how they "managed" life. All of this, though, went to serve Baker's larger aim and hope of bringing Emerson to life in his quotidian relationships: as young man and old; husband, father, son, and brother; preacher, lecturer, editor, and clubman; farmer, householder, host, and guest.

    Carlos Baker;

    € 17,50

    The Shadow Man

    The Shadow Man

    Hardback met stofomslag in zeer goede staat. Engelstalig.

    "My father died when I was seven years old. I've always thought that was the most important thing anyone could know about me." The beloved, lost father - the Shadow Man: in this searing memoir, one of America's finest writers discovers the truth about the man whose romantic image defined her life. But who was David Gordon really? In Mary Gordon's memories of him, he was an erudite and charming man: an intellectual, a writer and publisher, a Harvard dropout and Jazz Age bohemian. But at midlife she began to question these loving memories and to go in search of the man whose presence - and absence - haunted her life. Unburying startling truths, Gordon discovers both a devoted, inventive, and loving father and a person desperate to cover up the underside of the immigrant's encounter with the American dream. As Gordon tracks her father - in the archives, in libraries, in the middle of America - she uncovers lies, despair, madness: a man who lied about many things, including his date and place of birth, his native language, his family, his education. A Jew born in the last years of the nineteenth century, he became a convert to Catholicism and to right-wing politics, a literary critic who was also a pornographer, and a vicious anti-Semite. As a realistic portrait of her father emerges, Mary Gordon reevaluates herself in the light of these painful discoveries about her heritage and past.

    Auteur onbekend;

    € 9,50

    Alfred Douglas, De...

    Alfred Douglas, De boezemvriend van Oscar Wilde

    Linnen band. Hardback met leeslint in goede staat. Stofomslag ontbreekt. Binnenwerk netjes. Met een voorwoord van Gerrit Komrij.

    'Wat vreemd te moeten leven in een land waar de cultus van schoonheid en de passie der liefde infaam worden bevonden. Ik haat Engeland; ik kan het er enkel uithouden omdat jij er woont.' Dat schreef Oscar Wilde aan Lord Alfred Douglas, bijgenaamd 'Bosie'(1870-1945), zijn jonge minnaar, zoon van de excentrieke markies van Queensberry, een edelman die hun geruchtmakende verhouding met lede ogen aanzag, en door wie de beroemde schrijver geprovoceerd werd tot het aanspannen van een rampzalig proces wegens smaad. Het jaar 1895, voor Wilde zo glorieus begonnen met de première van twee van zijn komedies An Ideal Husband en The Importance of Being Earnest, markeerde niet slechts het abrupte einde van de carrière van 'de hogepriester der Decadenten', ook voor diens discipel, Alfred Douglas, zou het leven nooit meer hetzelfde zijn. Hij noemde het ooit 'zo melodramatisch als een roman van Balzac', en de juistheid van deze vergelijking blijkt overduidelijk uit deze eerste Nederlandstalige biografie van Lord Alfred. Het is een kroniek van hartstocht en jaloezie, van intriges en rechtszaken, van trouw en verraad. Het boek breekt een lans voor Douglas, een markante figuur die beslist zijn tekortkomingen had, maar wiens kwaliteiten tot op de dag van vandaag onderbelicht zijn gebleven. Rehabilitatie van deze dichter baant ook de weg voor de appreciatie van zijn verzen. In Nederland wekten zij destijds de bewondering van kenners als P. C. Boutens, E. du Perron en P. N. van Eyck. Douglas' geciseleerde gedichten - waaronder 'Two Loves', met daarin de fameuze regel 'I am the Love that dare not speak its name' - zijn tegenwoordig alleen antiquarisch, en met moeite, verkrijgbaar. In deze leemte voorziet Alfred Douglas. De boezemvriend van Oscar Wilde door de opname in een appendix van een ruime keuze uit zijn poëtisch oeuvre.

    Caspar Wintermans;

    € 5,00

    My Beloved World

    My Beloved World

    Dikke hardback in zeer goede staat. Stofomslag. Engelstalig. Geillustreerd.

    The first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor has become an instant American icon. Now, with a candor and intimacy never undertaken by a sitting Justice, she recounts her life from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench, a journey that offers an inspiring testament to her own extraordinary determination and the power of believing in oneself.

    Here is the story of a precarious childhood, with an alcoholic father (who would die when she was nine) and a devoted but overburdened mother, and of the refuge a little girl took from the turmoil at home with her passionately spirited paternal grandmother. But it was when she was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes that the precocious Sonia recognized she must ultimately depend on herself.  She would learn to give herself the insulin shots she needed to survive and soon imagined a path to a different life. With only television characters for her professional role models, and little understanding of what was involved, she determined to become a lawyer, a dream that would sustain her on an unlikely course, from valedictorian of her high school class to the highest honors at Princeton, Yale Law School, the New York County District Attorney’s office, private practice, and appointment to the Federal District Court before the age of forty. Along the way we see how she was shaped by her invaluable mentors, a failed marriage, and the modern version of extended family she has created from cherished friends and their children. Through her still-astonished eyes, America’s infinite possibilities are envisioned anew in this warm and honest book, destined to become a classic of self-invention and self-discovery.

    Sonia Sotomayor;

    € 7,50
    € 5,00
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