Glenway Wescott
Author
Publisher
Harper & Bros
Pub. Date
[1940]
Language
English
Description
One afternoon in a French village in the 1920s, Alwyn Tower is visiting another American friend, Alexandra Henry. The Cullens, an Irish couple, accompanied by their chauffeur and a trained bird, Lucy, stop by. Alexandra's servants, Jean and Eva, complete this peaceful scene. But as the afternoon wears on, Lucy upsets this cozy assemblage and therein lies a tale of love and fidelity.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
Glenway Wescott is one of the noteworthy figures of mid-century American letters. His aim was to write a totally honest account of himself, his friends and relations, and his loves, in the tradition of the greatest confessional literature, and he succeeded.
Author
Series
Publisher
Dial Press
Pub. Date
1951.
Language
English
Description
Colette's work consists of fifteen novels, fifteen long stories, scores of very short tales and sketches, and half a dozen volumes of nonfiction. This preset additions of the Permanent Library makes available, for the fist time, what we consider to be the best and most typical of her novels.
Author
Series
Publisher
[J. Laughlin]
Pub. Date
[1956]
Language
English
Description
A self-portrait of a great writer's rise and fall, intensely personal and etched with F. Scott Fitzgerald's signature blend of romance and realism, The Crack-Up tells the story of his sudden descent at the age of thirty-nine from glamorous success to empty despair, and his determined recovery. This revealing collection of Fitzgerald's most visceral essays and of letters to and from his friends Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, T.S. Eliot, John Dos Passos,...
