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Dedicates a chapter each to meaningful encounters between significant writers and artists, including Henry James and Matthew Brady, Willa Cather and Mark Twain, and Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston.
An interesting look at chance meeting between some of the literary worlds most prominent figures; Henry James, Mark Twain, WIlla Cather, and many others fill these pages with wonderful stories of friendship, commraderie, and the power of chance. ( )
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
If a walk across the Park, with a responsive friend, late on the golden afternoon of a warm week-day, and if a consequent desultory stroll, for speculation's sake, through certain northward and eastward streets and avenues, of an identity a little vague to me now, save as a blur of builded evidence as to proprietary incomes--if such an incident ministered, on the spot, to a boundless evocation, it then became history of a splendid order: but I perhaps must add that it became so for the two participants alone, and with an effect after all not easy to communicate. --Henry James, The American Scene, 1907
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
To Hilary and Michael Cohen
Eerste woorden
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
As if a river should carry all the scenes that it had once reflected shut in its waters...
In the middle of A Chance Meeting, Rachel Cohen tells us exactly where she got the title and, maybe, the germ of the idea, for her unique and beautifully written book of cultural history. (Foreword)
The thirty people gathered here met in ordinary ways: A careful arrangement after long admiration, a friend's casual introduction, or because they both just happened to be standing near the drinks. (Introduction to the First Edition)
Double portraits are an uncommon form in essays and biography, and, thirty years ago, I could not have said why it became an internal imperative for me to learn to write them. (Author's Afterword)
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Laatste woorden
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
They're as pleased with her as she is with them. (Foreword)
I have grown a little more used to the idea that we all, as Willa Cather remembered Marcel Proust having written, take our great men and women with us when we go. (Introduction to the First Edition)
Reading is a little different in every time and circumstance; I hope, for you who find this book now, that it may go on offering something of the strange and wonderful companionship these figures found among themselves. (Author's Afterword)
Dedicates a chapter each to meaningful encounters between significant writers and artists, including Henry James and Matthew Brady, Willa Cather and Mark Twain, and Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston.
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