| Edition |
[1st ed.] |
| Description |
x, 273 pages ; 21 cm |
| Note |
Essays. |
| Contents |
ǂg [1.] ǂt Critical: ǂt The days before -- ǂt On a criticism of Thomas Hardy -- ǂt Gertrude Stein: three views: ǂt "Everybody is a real one" (1927) ; ǂt Second wind (1928) ; ǂt The wooden umbrella (1947) -- ǂt Reflections on Willa Cather -- ǂt "It is hard to stand in the middle" -- ǂt The art of Katherine Mansfield -- ǂt Orpheus in purgatory -- ǂt "The laughing heat of the sun" -- ǂt Eudora Welty and "A curtain of green" -- ǂt Homage to Ford Madox Ford -- ǂt Virginia Woolf -- ǂt E.M. Forster -- ǂg [2.] ǂt Personal and particular: ǂt Three statements about writing: ǂt 1939: The situation in American writing ; ǂt 1940: Introduction to "Flowering Judas" ; ǂt 1942: Transplanted writers -- ǂt No plot, my dear, no story -- ǂt The flower of flowers, with a note on Pierre-Joseph Redouté -- ǂt Portrait: Old South -- ǂt Audubon's happy land -- ǂt A house of my own -- ǂt The necessary enemy -- ǂt "Marriage is belonging" -- ǂt American statement: 4 July 1942 -- ǂt The future is now -- ǂg [3.] ǂt Mexican: ǂt Notes on the life and death of a hero -- ǂt Why I write about Mexico -- ǂt Leaving the Petate -- ǂt The Mexican trinity -- ǂt La conquistadora -- ǂt Quetzalcoatl -- ǂt The charmed life. |
| ISBN |
083692066X |
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