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Love Without Wings
Some Friendships in Literature and Politics
EPUB
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ISBN-13:
9780547994901
Veröffentl:
1991
Einband:
EPUB
Seiten:
0
Autor:
Louis Auchincloss
eBook Typ:
EPUB
eBook Format:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
The author of The Vanderbilt Era examines sixteen famous friendships, from Boswell and Johnson to Hawthorne and Melville.This delightful series of short essays explores friendship in its various forms-from true intimacy to professional detente between rivals. The friendships, literary and political, span two continents and three centuries-Boswell and Johnson, Fitzgerald and Hemingway, Richelieu and Father Joseph, FDR and Harry Hopkins, Edith Wharton and Margaret Chanler-sixteen sketches in all.Auchincloss approaches his subjects with grace, tact, and insight, subtly defining the peculiar, gentle chemistry on which platonic bonds depend. The result is a surprising array of social patterns and personal destinies, all stemming from the simple desire for human company.
The author of The Vanderbilt Era examines sixteen famous friendships, from Boswell and Johnson to Hawthorne and Melville.This delightful series of short essays explores friendship in its various forms-from true intimacy to professional detente between rivals. The friendships, literary and political, span two continents and three centuries-Boswell and Johnson, Fitzgerald and Hemingway, Richelieu and Father Joseph, FDR and Harry Hopkins, Edith Wharton and Margaret Chanler-sixteen sketches in all.Auchincloss approaches his subjects with grace, tact, and insight, subtly defining the peculiar, gentle chemistry on which platonic bonds depend. The result is a surprising array of social patterns and personal destinies, all stemming from the simple desire for human company.