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Kazin, Alfred was born on June 5, 1915 in Brooklyn. Son of Charles and Gita (Fagelman) Kazin.
(Kazin's memorable description of his life as a young man ...)
Kazin's memorable description of his life as a young man as he makes the journey from Brooklyn to "americanca"-the larger world that begins at the other end of the subway in Manhattan. A classic portrayal of the Jewish immigrant culture of the 1930s. Drawings by Marvin Bileck.
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( One of America's foremost literary critics presents twe...)
One of America's foremost literary critics presents twenty-eight essays on American and European writers, including Joyce, Flaubert, Fitzgerald, Melville, Dostoevsky, and Faulkner.
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(New York, Delta Books, 1974, Good., Paperback. 334 pages....)
New York, Delta Books, 1974, Good., Paperback. 334 pages. Half-title page clipped. Pages lightly tanned. [Literary Criticism, American Literature] Out-of-print and antiquarian booksellers since 1933. We pack and ship with care.
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(Alfred Kazin, one of the central figures of intellectual ...)
Alfred Kazin, one of the central figures of intellectual life for three decades in the middle of the 20th century, tells his own story and with it a history of contemporary American letters.
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(In this illuminating study of the "crucial century" (1830...)
In this illuminating study of the "crucial century" (1830-1930), Alfred Kazin views the major figures in American writing, beginning in the 1830s when Ralph Waldo Emerson founded a national literature on the basis of a religious revolution, and ending on the eve of the 1930s with modernism--Eliot, Pound, Hemingway, Fitzgerald--and with the revelation of the "postponed power" of those who had been modern before their time--Henry Adams, Melville, Whitman, Dickinson.
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( A widely held vision of nineteenth-century American wom...)
A widely held vision of nineteenth-century American women is of lives lived in naive, domestic peace—the girls of Little Women making do until father comes home from the war. Nothing could be less true of Harriet Prescott Spofford's stories. In fact, her editor at the Atlantic Monthly at first refused to believe that an unworldly woman from New England had written them. Her style, though ornate by our 20th century standards, adds to its atmosphere, like heavy, Baroque furniture in a large and creepy house. The title story presents a self-centered and captivating woman who ruthlessly steals her orphan cousin's lover. In "Circumstance," a pioneer woman returning home through the woods at night is caught by a panther; her husband, who has come to save her, can only watch from the ground as she sings for her life, pinned in a tree. A train engineer hallucinates again and again that he is running over his wife. And Mrs. Craven, who's a bit "weak" in the head, mindlessly repeats "Three men went down cellar and only two came up." These stories combine elements of the best ghost stories—timing, detail, and character —with just enough chill to make you think twice about turning out your lights at night.
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(A study of American Prose Literature from 1890 to the pre...)
A study of American Prose Literature from 1890 to the present - abridged with a new postscript.
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(Feb. 1985 trade paperback. ISBN: 0394729234. Alfred Kazin...)
Feb. 1985 trade paperback. ISBN: 0394729234. Alfred Kazin. The major writers of 1830-1930, including Emerson, Poe, Hawthorne, Lincoln Dickinson, Twain, Pound, Eliot, Hemingway, Faulkner, Yeats, Mencken & Scott-Fitzgerald. The impact their writings had on their world & the future of literature.
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( For more than sixty years Alfred Kazin has been one of...)
For more than sixty years Alfred Kazin has been one of the most eloquent witnesses to the literary life of the mind in America. Writing Was Everything is a summation of that life, a story of coming of age as a writer and critic that is also a vibrant cultural drama teeming with such characters as Hart Crane and Allen Ginsberg, Simone Weil and Flannery O'Connor, Hannah Arendt and Robert Lowell, Edmund Wilson and George Orwell. A deft blend of autobiography, history, and criticism that moves from New York in the 1930s to wartime England to the postwar South, Writing Was Everything emerges as a reaffirmation of literature in an age of deconstruction and critical dogma. In his encounters with books, Kazin shows us how great writing matters and how it involves us morally, socially, and personally on the deepest level. Whether reflecting on modernism, southern fiction, or black, Jewish, and New Yorker writing or reliving the work of Richard Wright, Saul Bellow, and John Cheever, he gives a penetrating, moving account of literature observed and lived. In his life as a critic, Kazin personifies the lesson that living and writing are necessarily intimate. Writing Was Everything encapsulates the lively wit and authority of this timeless critic's unmistakable voice. It stands as clear testimony to Kazin's belief that "literature is not theory but, at best, the value we can give to our experience, which in our century has been and remains beyond the imagination of mankind."
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( For more than sixty years Alfred Kazin has been one of...)
For more than sixty years Alfred Kazin has been one of the most eloquent witnesses to the literary life of the mind in America. Writing Was Everything is a summation of that life, a story of coming of age as a writer and critic that is also a vibrant cultural drama teeming with such characters as Hart Crane and Allen Ginsberg, Simone Weil and Flannery O'Connor, Hannah Arendt and Robert Lowell, Edmund Wilson and George Orwell. A deft blend of autobiography, history, and criticism that moves from New York in the 1930s to wartime England to the postwar South, Writing Was Everything emerges as a reaffirmation of literature in an age of deconstruction and critical dogma. In his encounters with books, Kazin shows us how great writing matters and how it involves us morally, socially, and personally on the deepest level. Whether reflecting on modernism, southern fiction, or black, Jewish, and New Yorker writing or reliving the work of Richard Wright, Saul Bellow, and John Cheever, he gives a penetrating, moving account of literature observed and lived. In his life as a critic, Kazin personifies the lesson that living and writing are necessarily intimate. Writing Was Everything encapsulates the lively wit and authority of this timeless critic's unmistakable voice. It stands as clear testimony to Kazin's belief that "literature is not theory but, at best, the value we can give to our experience, which in our century has been and remains beyond the imagination of mankind."
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There are a lot of things for kids to do in the big city, but their parents often don’t enjoy the crowds, expenses, and hassles that go with them. The Cool Parents Guide to All of New York goes beyond other guides by offering special highlights and suggestions to make your day-trips that much cooler—and only taking you to the places your family will actually like going. For this updated fourth edition, the Cool Parents have revisited old favorites, and found all the latest kid-friendly spots that parents will actually enjoy taking them to. Cool Parents also includes all the information that parents will want to know before they commit to an excursion—what time to go to beat the crowds, where to eat nearby, and where to find bathrooms all over the city.
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( For more than sixty years Alfred Kazin has been one of...)
For more than sixty years Alfred Kazin has been one of the most eloquent witnesses to the literary life of the mind in America. Writing Was Everything is a summation of that life, a story of coming of age as a writer and critic that is also a vibrant cultural drama teeming with such characters as Hart Crane and Allen Ginsberg, Simone Weil and Flannery O'Connor, Hannah Arendt and Robert Lowell, Edmund Wilson and George Orwell. A deft blend of autobiography, history, and criticism that moves from New York in the 1930s to wartime England to the postwar South, Writing Was Everything emerges as a reaffirmation of literature in an age of deconstruction and critical dogma. In his encounters with books, Kazin shows us how great writing matters and how it involves us morally, socially, and personally on the deepest level. Whether reflecting on modernism, southern fiction, or black, Jewish, and New Yorker writing or reliving the work of Richard Wright, Saul Bellow, and John Cheever, he gives a penetrating, moving account of literature observed and lived. In his life as a critic, Kazin personifies the lesson that living and writing are necessarily intimate. Writing Was Everything encapsulates the lively wit and authority of this timeless critic's unmistakable voice. It stands as clear testimony to Kazin's belief that "literature is not theory but, at best, the value we can give to our experience, which in our century has been and remains beyond the imagination of mankind."
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(From the jacket flap, this work ". . . Traces the course ...)
From the jacket flap, this work ". . . Traces the course of modern literature in America...from the eighteen-nineties to the present period." "On Native Grounds" is the first published work by this noted literary critic. --- In light grey cloth-covered boards w/titling in dark green on spine.
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(From the jacket flap, this work ". . . Traces the course ...)
From the jacket flap, this work ". . . Traces the course of modern literature in America...from the eighteen-nineties to the present period." "On Native Grounds" is the first published work by this noted literary critic. --- In light grey cloth-covered boards w/titling in dark green on spine.
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Kazin, Alfred was born on June 5, 1915 in Brooklyn. Son of Charles and Gita (Fagelman) Kazin.
BSS, City College of New York, 1935. AM, Columbia University, 1938. Doctor of Letters, Adelphi University, 1965.
Doctor of Letters, University New Haven, 1976. Doctor of Letters, Hebrew Union College, 1982. Doctor of Letters, City College of New York, 1986.
Doctor of Letters, State University of New York, 1987. Doctor of Letters, Long Island University, 1989. Doctor of Letters, American University, 1995.
Literature editor New Republic, 1942-1943, contributing editor, 1943-1945. Associate editor Fortune Magazine, 1943-1944. Professor American studies Amherst College, 1955-1958.
Distinguished professor English State University of New York-Stony Brook, 1963-1973, Hunter College, City University of New York, 1973-1985. Visiting lecturer New School for Society Research, 1941-1942, 48-49, 51, 52-53, 58-63, Black Mountain College, 1944, Harvard University, 1952. Fulbright lecturer Cambridge University, 1952.
William Allan Neilson research professor Smith College, Northampton, 1953-1954. Berg professor literature New York University, 1957. Visiting professor University Minnesota, 1946, 50, University Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, 1959.
Christian Gauss lecturer Princeton University, 1961. Buell Gallagher professor City College, City University of New York, 1962. Beckman professor University California, Berkeley, 1963.
Writer-in-residence American Academy in Rome, 1975. William White professor English University Notre Dame, 1978-1979. Newman professor Cornell University, 1988.
Heritage professor George Mason University, 1990, Brown University, 1995.
(In this illuminating study of the "crucial century" (1830...)
(Cool parents Gingold and Rogan "offer tantalizing details...)
(Alfred Kazin, one of the central figures of intellectual ...)
(Kazin's memorable description of his life as a young man ...)
( One of America's foremost literary critics presents twe...)
( A widely held vision of nineteenth-century American wom...)
(There are a lot of things for kids to do in the big city,...)
( For more than sixty years Alfred Kazin has been one of...)
( For more than sixty years Alfred Kazin has been one of...)
( For more than sixty years Alfred Kazin has been one of...)
(A study of American Prose Literature from 1890 to the pre...)
(Bright Book Of Life: American Novelists & Storytellers Fr...)
(Autobiography, New York City Studies, Jewish Literature &...)
("A study of American Prose Literature from 1890 to the pr...)
(book; classic; antique; short stories)
(Literary criticism, index, 425 pages.)
(New York, Delta Books, 1974, Good., Paperback. 334 pages....)
(From the jacket flap, this work ". . . Traces the course ...)
(From the jacket flap, this work ". . . Traces the course ...)
(Literary Studies, Essays)
(anthology)
(Feb. 1985 trade paperback. ISBN: 0394729234. Alfred Kazin...)
Writer-in-residence American Academy in Rome, 1975. Author: On Native Grounds, 1942, A Walker in the City, 1951, The Inmost Leaf, 1955, Cointemporaries, 1962, Starting Out in the Thirties, 1965, Bright Book of Life, 1973, New York Jew, 1978, An American Procession, 1984, A Writers America, 1988, Writing Was Everything, 1995, A Lifetime Burning in Every Moment, 1996, God and the American Writer, 1997. Co-author: Introduction to the Works of Anne Frank, 1959, (with David Finn) Our New York, 1989, General Introduction to Dell Edition of the Novels of Theodore Dreiser, 1960, others.Editor: The Viking Portable William Blake, 1946, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Man and His Work, 1951, Moby-Dick, 1956, Introduction to Selected Stories of Sholem Aleichem, 1956, The Open Form: Essays for Our Time, 1961, The Selected Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1966. Co-editor: The Stature of Theodore Dreiser, 1955, Emerson: A Modern Anthology, 1958, The Ambassadors (James), 1969. Contributor articles to newspapers, magazines.
Member American Academy Arts and Letters, American Academy Arts and Sciences, Phi Beta Kappa (honorary).
Married 1st Caroline Bookman in 1947 (divorced), one son one daughter. Married 2nd Ann Birstein 1952 (divorced), one daughter. Married 3rd Judith Dunford in 1983.