Literary Feuds: A Century of Celebrated Quarrels- from Mark Twain to Tom Wolfe Literary Feuds and millions of other books are available for Amazon Kindle. . One good thing about fights between scribes -- they leave lots of luscious feuds beginning with Mark Twain and Bret Harte, and ending with Tom Wolfe and.
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- Literary Feuds A Century of Celebrated Quarrels - From Mark Twain to Tom Wolfe by Anthony Arthur
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Save Extra with 1 offer. From Booklist Arthur has uncovered a treasure trove of stories that offers revealing glimpses into that most entertaining of spectator sports: All rights reserved Review "A Liar, a thief, a swindler, a snob, a sot, a sponge, a coward' - thus Mark Twain on Bret Harte, another 19th-century yarn-spinner and his onetime mentor and friend. To get the free app, enter mobile phone number.
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Share your thoughts with other customers. Write a product review. Most helpful customer reviews on Amazon. Anthony Arthur presents eight literary feuds in chronological order: Arthur is an excellent writer, and it is great fun to read his elegant prose about badly behaved literary types.
I was familiar with some of the authors discussed but not all, as I was familiar with some of the animosities but not all of them. Arthur turns a beautiful phrase and has a knack for finding illustrative, sometimes toxic quotes.
One good thing about fights between scribes -- they leave lots of luscious things in writing! The eight disputes are interesting by virtue of the characters or the topic or both, and the author does a fine job of describing the people involved and laying out the foundation and history of each quarrel. Moreover, he makes insightful comments about the disagreement or the relative merits of the protagonists.
I thoroughly enjoyed these tales of intelligent people behaving poorly.
Literary Feuds A Century of Celebrated Quarrels - From Mark Twain to Tom Wolfe by Anthony Arthur
It actually got a little tedious reading about every little disagreement. I quite enjoyed this overview of some of the more famous feuds in American literature, from Twain's argument with Bret Harte to Gore Vidal and Truman Capote's vitriolic exchanges. Interesting without being catty.
I kept wishing there were pictures of each of the authors.
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens Mark Twain. For Nell and Duncan, who are hardly ever quarrelsome.
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References to this work on external resources. Wikipedia in English None. Mark Twain and Bret Harte The boy with the interested eyes: Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein The slap heard 'round the world: Leavis "Now there's a play": Truman Capote and Gore Vidal Not-so-dry bones: