HardCover. Pub the Date: October 2004 Pages: 224 in Publisher: penguin American Writers at Home affords an unprecedented opportunity to visit the private homes the where our greatest writers crafted their on masterpieces of. In the process. it opens a window onto the writer's life that will forever change the way you read. As he wrote Moby-Dick. Herman Melville imagined that his study had become a whaling ship's cabin. In pencil tracings still visible today. William Faulkner plotted the intricate webs of his fiction on his study walls. In these and myriad other ways. the imaginations of the twenty-one writers profiled in this book transformed their surroundings. even as those surroundings shaped the character and context of their classic works. The photographic and literary portraits in this book reveal as never before how important place - a sense of home - has been in the ...
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A collection of photographic and literary portraits of the homes of some of America's top writers includes coverage of such figures as Ernest Hemingway, Frederick Douglass, Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, and Robert Frost; in a volume complemented by discussions of how their living environments refle
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