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He was born in 1937 in The Bronx, New York City, and attended Lafayette High School and Brooklyn College.
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Humor does not last long. It has a shelf life of a fish and a computer software program. But a century after his death, Mark Twain is still one of the most powerful and popular American writers. He has continuous new readers: A twelve year old child recently finished reading The Adventures of Tom Sawyer without the supervision and urge of his parents and teachers. As usual, Mark Twain has a cigar in his hand, wearing exquisite white suits. Sit down and have a cup of coffee with him and you will see a different Mark Twain. He is not only a novelist, but also a gold digger, a sailor on the riverboat, an entrepreneur, and an inventor of self-help photograph album.
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In this magisterial full-scale biography of America’s greatest storyteller and satirist, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Fred Kaplan refashions our image of Mark Twain and etches a vibrant portrait of a singular personality who created some of the most memorable literary characters of our culture. He coined the phrase “the Gilded Age,” spoke out vigorously against racism and imperialism, and in his multifaceted singularity as writer, businessman, polemicist, investor, inventor, and self-promoter became the most widely extolled and most dominant icon of American literature. As Kaplan writes, “There has been no one like him since.”
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One of the most influential novelists, Henry James led a life that was as rich as his writing. Born into an eccentric and difficult family, he left the United States for Europe, where he quickly became a fixture of the expatriate writing community. Fred Kaplan recreates the world of Henry James: his friendships with Edith Wharton and Joseph Conrad, his love of all things exquisite―including exquisite writing―and his quest for understanding human nature. As James himself advocated and would have wanted, this is an artful, dramatic biography, placing the chronological narrative of James's life in the historical context of his times. "The twenty-one-year-old Henry James, Jr., preferred to be a writer rather than a soldier. His motives for writing were clear to himself, and they were not unusual: he desired fame and fortune. Whatever additional enriching complications that were to make him notorious for the complexity of his style and thought, the initial motivation remained constant. Deeply stubborn and persistently willful, he wanted praise and money, the rewards of recognition of what he believed to be his genius, on terms that he himself wanted to establish. The one battle he thought most worth fighting was that of the imagination for artistic expression. The one empire he most coveted, the land that he wanted for his primary home, was the empire of art."―from Henry James: The Imagination of Genius
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Drawing on fresh source material, Fred Kaplan considers the importance From Dickens and Mesmerism of Dickens' involvement with mesmerism for his work and his personality. In so doing he describes a significant intellectual and spiritual movement and provides new and controversial insights into Dickens' fiction. The mesmeric movement in England, particularly its controversial activities during the late 1830s and the 1840s, intensified Dickens' concern with the ways in which people discover and exert their energies and will to control each other. Dickens' own activities as a mesmerist provide the biographical touchstone for his image of himself as a doctor of the mind. Fred Kaplan examines the author's entire oeuvre in a synoptic, thematic fashion, exploring the attitudes shaped by the mesmerists that are reflected in the novels' psychological tensions. The final chapter provides an overview of the Romantic, Victorian, and Modern currents that may be found in Dickens' fascination with mesmeric power. Originally published in 1975. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Mark Twain shaped our view of childhood, the frontier spirit, slavery, and humankind’s follies and pretensions. Revel now in his caustic wit, tall tales, and colorfully expressed opinions, all told to a distinguished professor and biographer. This master of repartee regales us with stories about his many different guises, from humorist to riverboat pilot to inventor of the self-pasting photograph album.
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James, Henry Kaplan, Fred. Travelling in Italy with Henry James. Essays. London, Hodder and Stoughton LTD. 1994. 8°. 413 Pages, including Index. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Includes content such as: Venice: An Early impression / The Grand Canal / Casa Alvisi / Roman Rides / Roman Neighbourhoods / From a Roman Note-book / From Italy Revisited / The Autumn in Florence / Tuscan Cities / The old Saint-Gathard: Leaves / Siena Early and Late / Ravenna / Etc.
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biographer literature educator
He was born in 1937 in The Bronx, New York City, and attended Lafayette High School and Brooklyn College.
Bachelor, Brooklyn College, 1959. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1961. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1966.
Instructor Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin, 1962-1964. Assistant professor California State University, Los Angeles, 1964-1967. Associate professor to full professor English Queens College-CUNY, Flushing, 1967-1990.
Distinguished professor English Queens College and Graduate Center City University of New York, New York City, 1990—2005, Distinguished professor emeritus, since 2005. Visiting professor Bar-Ilan University, Israel, 1987, University Paris, 1985-1986. Fulbright professor University Copenhagen, 1972-1973.
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Member Modern Language Association, Dickens Society of America (president 1990-1991, 97-98).
Married Gloria Taplin, June 6, 1959 (divorced) children: Benjamin, Noah, Julia. Married Rhoda A. Weyr, June 12, 1993.