Wild Nights! Deluxe Edition : Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway

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Iconic authors' last moments brought alive.

This book portrays the last days of some of the most renowned authors in history, giving the readers unique insights into the troubled lives and turbulent minds of these literary giants. Joyce Carol Oates' "Wild Nights!" imaginatively explores the existential loneliness of Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson's uncertainties in the unknown future, Mark Twain's relationships with young girls, Henry James' transformative experience during wartime and Ernest Hemingway's dark and chaotic life. This book is a must-read for any literature aficionado looking to get an understanding of the personal lives of authors whose works have changed the world.

  • Shirley Jackson Award Nominee for Single-Author Collection (2008)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Wild Nights! Deluxe Edition : Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway

Regular price RM42.85 MYR
Unit price
per
ISBN: 9780061434822
Publisher: Ecco
Date of Publication: 2015-10-06
Format: Paperback
Related Topics: Literature
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New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates’ imaginative look at the last days of five giants of American literature, now available in a deluxe paperback edition in Ecco’s The Art of the Story Series. Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Samuel Clemens (“Mark Twain”), Henry James, Ernest Hemingway—Joyce Carol Oates evokes each of these American literary icons in this work of prose fiction, poignantly and audaciously reinventing the climactic events of their lives. In subtly nuanced language suggestive of each of these writers, Oates explores the mysterious regions of the unknowable self that is “genius.” Darkly hilarious, brilliant, and brazen, Wild Nights! is an original and haunting work of the imagination.
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Iconic authors' last moments brought alive.

This book portrays the last days of some of the most renowned authors in history, giving the readers unique insights into the troubled lives and turbulent minds of these literary giants. Joyce Carol Oates' "Wild Nights!" imaginatively explores the existential loneliness of Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson's uncertainties in the unknown future, Mark Twain's relationships with young girls, Henry James' transformative experience during wartime and Ernest Hemingway's dark and chaotic life. This book is a must-read for any literature aficionado looking to get an understanding of the personal lives of authors whose works have changed the world.

  • Shirley Jackson Award Nominee for Single-Author Collection (2008)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.