4 options
Images of truth : remembrances and criticism / Glenway Wescott.
LIBRA PN3503 .W4 1962
Available from offsite location
LIBRA Special PN3503 .W4 1962 copy 2
Available in person
Request an item
Access options
LIBRA Special PN3503 .W4 1962 copy 4
Available in person
Request an item
Access options
LIBRA Special PN3503 .W4 1962 copy 3
Available in person
Request an item
Access options
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wescott, Glenway, 1901-1987.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Authors.
- Fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- Fiction.
- Authors--Correspondence.
- Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980.
- Porter, Katherine Anne.
- Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965.
- Maugham, W. Somerset.
- Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975.
- Wilder, Thornton.
- Genre:
- Correspondence.
- Personal correspondence.
- Penn Provenance:
- Ragan, David (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2)
- Wescott, Glenway, 1901-1987 (autograph) (inscription) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 4)
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1-4)
- Physical Description:
- 310 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harper & Row, [1962]
- Summary:
- Essays on the author's friends, Katherine Anne Porter and Thornton Wilder, and on Somerset Maugham, Colette, Isak Dinesen, and Thomas Mann.
- Contents:
- Fiction writing in a time of troubles
- Katherine Anne Porter personally
- Somerset Maugham and posterity
- An introduction to Colette
- A call on Colette and Goudeket
- Isak Dinesen, the storyteller
- Thomas Mann: will power and fiction
- Talks with Thornton Wilder.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 2 & 3 has dustjacket retained.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 has signature on front flyleaf: "David Ragan".
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 3 has signature on half t.p.: "Patrick [?] 6 Jul '89".
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 4 has ms. inscription on front flyleaf: "For Nin as always Glenway August 22, 1962".
- ISBN:
- 0836927303
- 9780836927306
- OCLC:
- 273196
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.