About this title: Including stories, letters, memoirs, and journalism, "Americans in Paris" distills three centuries of vigorous, glittering, and powerfully emotional writing about the place that Henry James called "the most brilliant city in the world."
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Description: Good. Publishers Overstock. A Good copy with a Remainder Mark and wear to the extremities. There is a small tear on the dust jacket and chipping to the edges. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Library of America, New York
Date Published: (c.2004)
ISBN-13:9781931082563ISBN:1931082561
Description: Illustrated by (dj design) Number Seventeen. Fine in Near Fine dj. 1-931082-56-1. [beautiful as-new copy, tight, clean, unmarked, and unworn; the jacket shows just a trace of surface wear on the rear panel]. "Through stories, letters, memoirs, poems, and journalism, [this anthology] distills three centuries of vigorous, glittering, and powerfully emotional writing" about Paris, ranging "from the crucial early impressions of Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin to the latter-day reflections of ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Library of America
Date Published: 2004-03-01
ISBN-13:9781931082563ISBN:1931082561
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Library of America
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9781931082563ISBN:1931082561
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Library of America, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9781931082563ISBN:1931082561
Description: As New in As New jacket. Signed by Editor FINE stated 1st printing in a FINE color pictorial dust jacket (price intact). AUTHOR INSCRIBED: "For Albertine--/ Adam Gopnik" (in blue ink on the title page). read more
Edition: First edition-First printing.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Library of America, New York
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9781931082563ISBN:1931082561
Description: Fine book in fine dust jacket. Signed by author on full title page. read more
Description: Good. 1931082561 Good condition. May have some markings & or shelfwear. All pages intact. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: LIBRARY OF AMERICA
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9781931082563ISBN:1931082561
Description: New. Including stories, letters, memoirs, and journalism, "Americans in Paris" distills three centuries of vigorous, glittering, and powerfully emotional writing about the place that Henry James called "the most brilliant city in the world. " read more
"I loved Adam Gopnik's Paris to the Moon so when I heard about his latest - a compilation of esssays - I was delighted. It's not a book I read cover to cover, just pick it up for a read now and then. I do enjoy it."
"As a rule, I dislike anthologies. They remind me of reading only tiny chunks of great works for survey classes--as if you could fancy yourself well-read by reading only one act of every Shakespeare play. The emphasis on breadth instead of depth--vexing.
However--they are good for introducing a broad range of writers, and this one pushed me off my normal reading path. I was convinced to buy it because I knew that Gopnik is an engaged reader and that he would select good pieces. And so he has.
As a reference for myself, since it's too heavy to carry home and I must abandon it here, I particularly liked the pieces by:
James Gallatin Nathaniel Parker Willis George Catlin (and his tally of women walking with one small dog, two small dogs, three small dogs, or one large dog no string) Harriet Beecher Stowe Mark Twain, that rogue The grumpy Henry Adams Sherwood Anderson Anita Loos William Faulkner Janet Flanner, astute, intelligent, clear Elizabeth Bishop Dawn Powell ("I cannot get anyone to admit that rue Jacob is a continuation of rue de l'Universite or Boulevard des Italiens is a continuation of Boulevard des Capucines. No. These streets have nothing to do with each other. No, Madame, it is not the same street under a different name, it is an entirely different street...") James Baldwin SJ Perelman May Sarton Paul Zweig"
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