This living hand: and other essays
A wide-ranging collection of essays by a contemporary critic and historian traces four decades of writing and considers such diverse topics as Beethoven, Kilimanjaro, and Britain's Imperial War Museum.
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- Full title :This living hand : and other essays / Edmund Morris.
Summary
A wide-ranging collection of essays by a contemporary critic and historian traces four decades of writing and considers such diverse topics as Beethoven, Kilimanjaro, and Britain's Imperial War Museum.
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- Publication Date:©2012.
- Edition:1st ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Random House
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2012.
Notes
Includes index.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xx, 497 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780679644668, 0679644660, 9781299077386, 1299077382
- oclc:ocn820839607
- LC Classification:E176
- Dewey Decimal:973
Table of Contents
The Bumstitch : Lament for a Forgotten Fruit -- How I Escaped Death by Snakebite : And Lived to Write About Beethoven -- The Curfew Tolls the Knell of Parting Day : Remembering Mr. Atkinson -- The Last Snows of Kilimanjaro : A Lament -- A Ghostly Tour with TR : The Badlands of North Dakota -- Documenting the Intangible : The New York Public Library's Dance Collection -- Heard Melodies Are Sweet, but Those Unheard Are Sweeter : A Low-Calorie Diet for the Musically Obese -- Brutalities of Marriage : Otto Friedrich's Clover : The Tragic Love Story of Clover and Henry Adams -- Theodore Roosevelt the Diplomat : Frederick W. Marks's Velvet on Iron -- "Look, Mother, My Public!" : The Custody Trial of Gloria Vanderbilt -- Theodore Roosevelt the Polygon : Address at the National Portrait Gallery -- Wilson as Warmonger : Walter Karp's Politics of War -- The Line of Concern : an Interview with Nadine Gordimer -- A Strangeness in the Sight : The Shadow World of Tom Bostelle -- The Pen Is Mightier than the Smith-Corona : Typing and the Murder of Style -- Music v. Musicology : Donald Francis Tovey, Counsel for the Defense -- Land of Lost Content : South Africa Revisited in the Last Days of Apar…
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