A Writing Life Revisiting the Past
In A Writing Life, Stanley Weintraub applies the biographical skills he perfected over a lifetime of writing to tell his own story. In doing so, he introduces us to a who's who of the twentieth century whom he encountered in his life and in his research, from Eddie Fisher to C. P. Snow, from Le...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse
2020
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| Colección: | 1880-1920 British authors series ;
no. 33. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009431267806719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface I. Making the most of possibilities
- Preface II. Acquiring a name
- A kid's war I : beginnings, 1929-1941
- A kid's war Ii : the real thing, 1941-1945
- Kid to khaki, 1946-1951
- Korea, 1951-1953
- War in the wards, 1952-1953
- Golden gates, 1953-1956
- Beginning again, 1956-1965
- Beardsley and beyond, 1966-1968
- The Whistler decade, 1969-1977
- Victoria and its successors
- Victorian sunset
- Pearl Harbor and after
- Victorian aftermath
- Farewell, Victoria!
- Wartime Christmases
- American wars
- Afterword. Tributes to Stanley Weintraub by fellow Bernard Shaw scholars.
