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Collected Novels and Plays of James Merrill

Author : James Merrill
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307555216
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Collected Novels and Plays of James Merrill written by James Merrill and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2011-03-09 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the widely celebrated Collected Poems, this second volume in the series of James Merrill’s works brings us Merrill as novelist and playwright. Just as in his poems we come upon prose pieces, dramatic dialogue, and even a short play in verse, in his novels and plays we find the rhythms of his poetry reflected and given new form. Merrill’s first novel, The Seraglio, is a daring roman à clef derived in large part from his early life as the cosmopolitan son of Charles Merrill, one of America’s most famous twentieth-century financiers. Written in a highly refined prose that owes something to Henry James, the book is a compelling portrait of the luxury and treachery swirling around the Southampton beach house of an irrepressible family patriarch, with his many mistresses and ex-mistresses in attendance, told from the point of view of his lively but troubled son. At the other end of the narrative spectrum we find The (Diblos) Notebook, an experimental novel in which a young American’s adventures on a Greek island are deconstructed and assembled into a tentative fiction before our eyes. Merrill’s plays, including the one-act comedy of manners The Bait and the Chekhovian The Immortal Husband—a reinvention of the myth of Tithonus, who was granted eternal life but not eternal youth—are also fresh turns on his characteristic themes: home and travel, reality and artifice, simplicity and complication. And, for the first time in print, here is Merrill’s short play The Birthday, a fledgling effort written in 1947 and a fascinating window onto the concern with spiritual communication and the otherwordly that would later blossom into his great epic, The Changing Light at Sandover.

Collected Poems

Author : James Merrill
Publisher : Knopf Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 918 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Collected Poems written by James Merrill and published by Knopf Publishing Group. This book was released on 2001 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential addition to every shelf of 20-century poetry.

A Whole World

Author : James Merrill
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 110187550X
Total Pages : 745 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book A Whole World written by James Merrill and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 745 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • The selected correspondence of the brilliant poet, one of the twentieth century's last great letter writers. "I don't keep a journal, not after the first week," James Merrill asserted in a letter while on a trip around the world. "Letters have got to bear all the burden." A vivacious correspondent, whether abroad, where avid curiosity and fond memory frequently took him, or at home, he wrote eagerly and often, to family and lifelong friends, American and Greek lovers, confidants in literature and art about everything that mattered—aesthetics, opera and painting, housekeeping and cooking, the comedy of social life, the mysteries of the Ouija board and the spirit world, and psychological and moral dilemmas—in funny, dashing, unrevised missives, composed to entertain himself as well as his recipients. On a personal nemesis: "the ambivalence I live with. It worries me less and less. It becomes the very stuff of my art"; on a lunch for Wallace Stevens given by Blanche Knopf: "It had been decided by one and all that nothing but small talk would be allowed"; on romance in his late fifties: "I must stop acting like an orphan gobbling cookies in fear of the plate's being taken away"; on great books: "they burn us like radium, with their decisiveness, their terrible understanding of what happens." Merrill's daily chronicle of love and loss is unfettered, self-critical, full of good gossip, and attuned to the wicked irony, the poignant detail—a natural extension of the great poet's voice.

The Book of Ephraim

Author : James Merrill
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0525520244
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Ephraim written by James Merrill and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time in a stand-alone edition, the acclaimed poet's classic poem about his communication with Ephraim, a guiding spirit in the Other World, is here introduced and annotated by poet and Merrill scholar Stephen Yenser. "The Book of Ephraim," which first appeared as the final poem in James Merrill's Pulitzer-winning volume Divine Comedies (1976), tells the story of how he and his partner David Jackson (JM and DJ as they came to be known) embarked on their experiments with the Ouija board and how they conversed after a fashion with great writers and thinkers of the past, especially in regard to the state of the increasingly imperiled planet Earth. One of the most ambitious long poems in in English in the twentieth century, originally conceived as complete in itself, it was to become the first part of Merrill's epic The Changing Light at Sandover (1982), the multiple prize-winning volume still in print. Merrill's "supreme tribute to the web of the world and the convergence of means and meanings everywhere within it" is introduced and annotated by one of his literary executors, Stephen Yenser, in a volume that will gratify veteran readers and entice new ones.

James Merrill

Author : Langdon Hammer
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0375413332
Total Pages : 978 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (754 download)

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Download or read book James Merrill written by Langdon Hammer and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2015 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A biography of the acclaimed poet James Merrill"--

The Changing Light at Sandover

Author : James Merrill
Publisher : Scribner
ISBN 13 : 9780689112836
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book The Changing Light at Sandover written by James Merrill and published by Scribner. This book was released on 1982 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mystical poems explore the author's experiences communicating with a spirit named Ephraim through an Ouija board

Collected Novels and Plays of James Merrill

Author : James Merrill
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0375710833
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book Collected Novels and Plays of James Merrill written by James Merrill and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2005-10-18 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the widely celebrated Collected Poems, this second volume in the series of James Merrill’s works brings us Merrill as novelist and playwright. Just as in his poems we come upon prose pieces, dramatic dialogue, and even a short play in verse, in his novels and plays we find the rhythms of his poetry reflected and given new form. Merrill’s first novel, The Seraglio, is a daring roman à clef derived in large part from his early life as the cosmopolitan son of Charles Merrill, one of America’s most famous twentieth-century financiers. Written in a highly refined prose that owes something to Henry James, the book is a compelling portrait of the luxury and treachery swirling around the Southampton beach house of an irrepressible family patriarch, with his many mistresses and ex-mistresses in attendance, told from the point of view of his lively but troubled son. At the other end of the narrative spectrum we find The (Diblos) Notebook, an experimental novel in which a young American’s adventures on a Greek island are deconstructed and assembled into a tentative fiction before our eyes. Merrill’s plays, including the one-act comedy of manners The Bait and the Chekhovian The Immortal Husband—a reinvention of the myth of Tithonus, who was granted eternal life but not eternal youth—are also fresh turns on his characteristic themes: home and travel, reality and artifice, simplicity and complication. And, for the first time in print, here is Merrill’s short play The Birthday, a fledgling effort written in 1947 and a fascinating window onto the concern with spiritual communication and the otherwordly that would later blossom into his great epic, The Changing Light at Sandover.

Familiar Spirits

Author : Alison Lurie
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0142000450
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Familiar Spirits written by Alison Lurie and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-02-26 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alison Lurie, one of America's greatest novelists, has written a loving memoir of world-famous poet James Merrill and his longtime partner David Jackson. Drawing on her forty-year friendship with Merrill and Jackson, Lurie reveals the couple's deep involvement with ghosts, gods, and spirits, with whom they communicated through a Ouija board. Among the results of their intense twenty-year preoccupation with the occult is the brilliant book-length poem "The Changing Light at Sandover", which Merrill called his "chronicles of love and loss." Recalling Merrill and Jackson's life together in New York, Athens, and Key West, Familiar Spirits is a poignant memoir infused with great affection and generous amounts of Lurie's signature wit.

The Furies

Author : Janet Hobhouse
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 9781590170854
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Furies written by Janet Hobhouse and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2004-09-30 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A SELECTION OF THE LOST BOOKS CLUB An exhilarating, fiercely honest, ultimately devastating book, The Furies confronts the claims of family and the lure of desire, the difficulties of independence, and the approach of death. Janet Hobhouse's final testament is beautifully written, deeply felt, and above all utterly alive.

James Merrill's Apocalypse

Author : Timothy Materer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801437601
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (376 download)

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Download or read book James Merrill's Apocalypse written by Timothy Materer and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Materer interprets Merrill's body of work from the perspective of his epic The Changing Light at Sandover and shows that in his earliest poems and in the volumes preceding The Changing Light, Merrill repeatedly expressed his fear of nuclear holocaust and his sense that some momentous revelation was near at hand. Materer demonstrates how apocalyptic motifs also inspire Late Settings, The Inner Room, and A Scattering of Salts."--BOOK JACKET.

Doctor Thorne

Author : Anthony Trollope
Publisher : London : Chapman and Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doctor Thorne written by Anthony Trollope and published by London : Chapman and Hall. This book was released on 1879 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Scattering of Salts

Author : James Merrill
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 9780679765905
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (659 download)

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Download or read book A Scattering of Salts written by James Merrill and published by Knopf. This book was released on 1995 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of poetry in which the author transforms autobiographical insights and experiences into profound meditations on life and the world around him.

Beautiful & Pointless

Author : David Orr
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062079417
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Beautiful & Pointless written by David Orr and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-04-12 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "David Orr is no starry-eyed cheerleader for contemporary poetry; Orr’s a critic, and a good one. . . . Beautiful & Pointless is a clear-eyed, opinionated, and idiosyncratic guide to a vibrant but endangered art form, essential reading for anyone who loves poetry, and also for those of us who mostly just admire it from afar." —Tom Perrotta Award-winning New York Times Book Review poetry columnist David Orr delivers an engaging, amusing, and stimulating tour through the world of poetry. With echoes of Francine Prose’s Reading Like a Writer, Orr’s Beautiful & Pointless offers a smart and funny approach to appreciating an art form that many find difficult to embrace.

Ernestine, Catastrophe Queen

Author : Merrill Wyatt
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0316471577
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book Ernestine, Catastrophe Queen written by Merrill Wyatt and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this tantalizing mystery that's "filled with laugh out loud moments" and "reads like a middle-grade version of the movie Clue", Ernestine is the smart, spunky, and fearless Nancy Drew for today's young readers! We all know and love Ramona, Matilda, and Harriet the Spy. Now meet Ernestine. When a series of suspicious accidents befalls the wealthy residents of the retired artists' home where she works, Ernestine is determined to piece together clues to find the real culprit. She suspects it might be a zombie, but maybe greedy relatives can be just as scary! Catastrophe has never been so much fun!

Only the Nails Remain

Author : Christopher Merrill
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742516861
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (168 download)

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Download or read book Only the Nails Remain written by Christopher Merrill and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001-10-23 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only the Nails Remain: Scenes from the Balkan Wars is a chronicle of poet and critic Christopher MerrillOs ten war-time journeys to the Balkans from the years 1992 through 1996. At once a travelogue, a book of war reportage, and a biography of the imagination under siege, this beautifully written and personal narrative takes the reader along on the authorOs journeys to all the provinces and republics of the former Yugoslavia and surrounding countries. This literary meditation on war is a fascinating portrait of the poetry, politics and the people of the Balkans which will provide insight into the past, present, and future of those war-torn lands.

The Inner Room

Author : James Merrill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book The Inner Room written by James Merrill and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Topper

Author : Thorne Smith
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
ISBN 13 : 3985105413
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (851 download)

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Download or read book Topper written by Thorne Smith and published by Phoemixx Classics Ebooks. This book was released on 2022-01-29 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Topper Thorne Smith - Thorne Smith's hilarious and ribald comedy about boring and staid bank manager Cosmo Topper who decides to buy a flashy car only to discover it is haunted by its previous owners, George and Marion Kerby. George's and Marion's mischievous spirits (and a few other ghostly friends and an irresistible dog) make it their mission to lead the respectable Topper astray and give him a fresh outlook on life. Liquor flows, pranks are common, and although not always willing, George becomes a new man. He realizes life is what you make of it, and there are so many possibilities. Laugh out loud when Marion scares away the clientele and staff of a boutique or when George challenges Topper to a duel with clam shells. Thorne Smith's ghosts, their wit and repartee, are bound to entertain. Topper is the perfect beach read. As captivating today as when it was first written in 1926, Topper set the standard for a host of other ghost stories and was made into a movie starring Cary Grant (1936) and adapted for a TV series (1953). A remake of the movie is scheduled starring comedian Steve Martin as Topper, but no production start date has been set. "[Thorne Smith] created the modern American ghost. A ghost with style and wit. A ghost that haunts us still." --New York Times