Twenty Years of My Life
Twenty Years of My Life

Author: Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-06-03

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13:

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"The twenty years of my life which I here present to readers are the twenty years which I spent at 32, Addison Mansions, Kensington, during which I was in constant intercourse with most of the best-known writers of the generation." - Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen

Selected Magazine Articles of Theodore Dreiser
Selected Magazine Articles of Theodore Dreiser

Author: Theodore Dreiser

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 9780838631744

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This collection of Dreiser's early periodical writings covers his articles on American literary figures; art and music criticism; the American landscape; and science, technology, and industry; and his writings about the changing social conditions in American cities that he later drew on in his naturalistic novels.

Poets' homes
Poets' homes

Author: Richard Henry Stoddard

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-11-24

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 3368633996

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1879.

A Yankee in Meiji Japan
A Yankee in Meiji Japan

Author: James L. Huffman

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 9780742526211

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This unique book portrays the evolution of Meiji Japan through the life of crusading journalist Edward H. House (1836-1901). In chapters that alternate between history and biography, James Huffman, shows how one man bridged continents--shaping American attitudes, influencing Japan's movement toward modernity, and providing a contemporary critique of imperialism. Huffman also captures the human drama of House's life: his early bohemianism, the mystical way Japan drew him, the painful struggle with gout, the joy and torment of adopting a Japanese girl, his fight for women's education, and the vicissitudes of friendship with Mark Twain. Meticulously researched, the book draws on House's voluminous writings and on hundreds of letters between House and major figures in both America and Japan, including Mark Twain, U.S. Grant, John Russell Young, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Okuma Shigenobu, and Inoue Kaoru. With its lively, accessible prose and seamless interweaving of the life of House with the history of the Meiji era, this book will be welcomed by students, scholars, and general readers interested in modern Japanese history and in America's nineteenth-century foreign relations.