| Description |
xxxiii, 613 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Letter to Mary Stevenson / Benjamin Franklin -- Letters from Auteuil / Abigail Adams -- Two letters / Thomas Jefferson -- from A diary of the French Revolution / Gouverneur Morris -- Shall Louis XVI. have respite? / Thomas Paine -- from The diary of James Gallatin / James Gallatin -- from Life, letters, and journals / George Ticknor -- Letter to Stephen Longfellow, Jr. / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- from Journal, 1833 / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- from Pencillings by the way / Nathaniel Parker Willis -- from Gleanings in Europe / James Fenimore Cooper -- from Struggles and triumphs; or, Forty years' recollections / P.T. Barnum -- from Catlin's Notes of eight years' travels and residence in Europe / George Catlin -- from Things and thoughts in Europe / Margaret Fuller -- from Sunny memories of foreign lands / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- from The French notebooks / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- from The innocents abroad / Mark Twain -- The proclamation of the republic / Elihu Washburne -- Occasional Paris ; "The velvet glove" / Henry James -- Letter from Paris / Frederick Douglass -- Letter to John Hay / Henry Adams -- from The show-places of Paris / Richard Harding Davis. |
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from My life / Isadora Duncan -- from A life in photography / Edward Steichen -- from Along this way / James Weldon Johnson -- A traveler at forty / Theodore Dreiser -- The look of Paris ; from A backward glance / Edith Wharton -- Mon amie / Randolph Bourne -- Paris notebook, 1921 / Sherwood Anderson -- from Peter Whiffle / Carl Van Vechten -- Significant gesture / Malcolm Cowley -- from Life among the surrealists / Matthew Josephson -- from The big sea / Langston Hughes -- from Gentlemen prefer blondes / Anita Loos -- Four letters from Paris, 1925 / William Faulkner -- from Post impressions ; Vive la Folie! / E.E. Cummings -- from The spirit of St. Louis / Charles Lindbergh -- The flying fool / Waverly Root -- from A moveable feast / Ernest Hemingway -- Postcard to Samuel Loveman / Hart Crane -- Paris diaries / Harry Crosby -- You don't know Paree / Cole Porter -- Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- From an early diary / Lincoln Kirstein -- from The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas ; from Paris France / Gertrude Stein -- Walking up and down in China / Henry Miller -- A spring month in Paris / John Dos Passos -- from The flower and the nettle / Anne Morrow Lindberg. |
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The last time I saw Paris / Oscar Hammerstein II -- from Shakespeare and Company / Sylvia Beach -- Letter from Paris / Janet Flanner -- Paris, 7 A.M. / Elizabeth Bishop -- No. 13 Rue St. Augustin / Ludwig Bemelmans -- Place Pigalle / Richard Wilbur -- Three letters / Dawn Powell -- from First days in Paris / Art Buchwald -- Equal in Paris / James Baldwin -- from Remembrance of things past / Irwin Shaw -- The saucier's apprentice / S.J. Perlman -- Good-bye to a world / May Sarton -- from Departures / Paul Zweig -- The first time I saw Paris / James Thurber -- Trouble in Paris / Sidney Bechet -- from Between meals : an appetite for Paris / A.J. Liebling -- 17 Quai Voltaire / Virgil Thomson -- from Satori in Paris / Jack Kerouac -- Gare de Lyon / M.F.K. Fisher -- from D.V. / Diana Vreeland -- from Birthday / Dorothea Tanning. |
| Summary |
"From the earliest years of the American republic, Paris has provoked an extraordinary American literary response. An almost inevitable destination for writers and thinkers, Paris has been many things to many Americans: a bastion of old-world traditionalism, a hot-bed of revolutionary ideologies in politics and art, and above all a space in which to cultivate an openness to life and love impossible at home. Through stories, letters, memoirs, poems 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" and that Ernest Hemingway characterized as "a moveable feast.""--BOOK JACKET. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Subject |
Paris (France) -- Literary collections.
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Americans -- France -- Paris -- Literary collections.
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Americans -- France -- Paris -- History -- Sources.
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Paris (France) -- Description and travel.
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American literature.
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| Added Author |
Gopnik, Adam.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Americans in Paris. New York : Library of America, 2004 (OCoLC)603910434 |
| ISBN |
1931082561 alkaline paper |
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9781931082563 alkaline paper |
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