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Images of truth : remembrances and criticism / Glenway Wescott.

LIBRA PN3503 .W4 1962
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LIBRA Special PN3503 .W4 1962 copy 2
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Wescott, Glenway, 1901-1987.
Contributor:
Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
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

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