LIBROS DEL AUTOR: gary scharnhorst

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  • Owen Wister and the West
    Gary Scharnhorst
    Westerns are rarely only about the West. From the works of James Fenimore Cooper to Gary Cooper, stories set in the American West have served as vehicles for topical commentary. More than any other pioneer of the genre, Owen Wister turned the Western into a form of social and political critique, touching on such issues as race, the environment, women’s rights, and immigration. ...
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    28,06 €

  • Mark Twain and the Critics, 1891-1910
    Gary Scharnhorst / Leslie Diane Myrick
    Over the last twenty years of his life, Mark Twain was a controversial figure. He evolved from the 'clown prince of American literature' into a biting social critic and political observer. While some pundits hailed him as a satirist equal to Cervantes and Jonathan Swift, others excoriated him as a 'degenerate literary freak' who wielded a 'scurrilous and venomous pen.' Th...
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    95,40 €

  • Bret Harte
    Gary Scharnhorst
     Bret Harte was the best known and highest paid writer in America in the early 1870s, yet his vexed attempts to earn a living by his pen led to the failure of his marriage and, in 1878, his departure for Europe. Gary Scharnhorst’s biography of Harte traces the growing commercial appeal of western fiction and drama on both sides of the Atlantic during the Gilded Age, a developme...
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    30,98 €

  • Literary Eats
    Gary Scharnhorst
    This is a comprehensive collection of authentic recipes, some 500 in all, for drinks and dishes that more than 150 American authors since the late 18th century are known to have enjoyed. The book should appeal to amateur chefs and so-called 'foodies' who may want to test some of the recipes in their kitchens; to American literature instructors and scholars who may use it as ...
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    43,96 €

  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    Gary Scharnhorst
    New in Paperback! Gilman (1860-1935), best known today for 'The Yellow Wall-paper' and Women and Economics and a prolific writer, was virtually forgotten until the 1970s. Even now her publications are still largle inaccessible, and this first comprehensive bibliography traces the original appearances of her works, their republications, and their translations. ...
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    86,25 €