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I'm going out and have a real life.I'm going to be somebody. - Esther BlodgettFew Hollywood films have had the impact of the original version of A Star Is Born. Released in 1937 and starring Janet Gaynor and Fredric March, it was nominated for nine Academy Awards and won two (for best original story and best cinematography). Since then, the movie has been remade three times, attesting to its continued allure. But none have matched the geniu...

These letters between the pioneering environmentalist and her beloved friend reveal "a vibrant, caring woman behind the scientist" ( Los Angeles Times)."Rachel Carson, author of The Silent Spring, has been celebrated as the pioneer of the modern environmental movement. Although she wrote no autobiography, she did leave letters, and those she exchanged—sometimes daily—with Dorothy Freeman, some 750 of which are collected here, are perhaps more sati...

I'm going out and have a real life.I'm going to be somebody. - Esther BlodgettFew Hollywood films have had the impact of the original version of A Star Is Born. Released in 1937 and starring Janet Gaynor and Fredric March, it was nominated for nine Academy Awards and won two (for best original story and best cinematography). Since then, the movie has been remade three times, attesting to its continued allure. But none have matched the geniu...

Experience Hollywood’s Golden Age in a Groundbreaking New WayImmersive Audio Cinema™: Hollywood Noir & Drama Masterworks transforms eight legendary films into a premium narrative audio experience — complete original film dialogue and cast performances, woven together with new scene-bridging narration by Sean Pratt.These are full-length audio reconstructions, not short radio dramatizations or abridged adaptations, so listeners will ...

The #1 New York Times–bestselling classic: A hilarious memoir of two parents, twelve kids, and " a life of cheerfully controlled chaos" ( The New York Times).Translated into more than fifty languages, Cheaper by the Dozen is the unforgettable story of the Gilbreth clan as told by two of its members. In this endearing, amusing memoir, siblings Frank Jr. and Ernestine capture the hilarity and heart of growing up in an oversi...

The classic 1939 collection of 3 novellas by the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning author and journalist, including the famous title story set during the influenza epidemic of 1918In Noon Wine? a family struggling to live on a farm in Texas is saved by the unexpected arrival of a mysterious stranger—only to have their world upended again by the arrival, nine years later, of a second stranger. The three parts of Old...

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A seminal collection from one of the true masters of the short story. Spanning the duration of Cheever’s long and distinguished career, these sixty-one stories chronicle and encapsulate the lives of what has been called “the greatest generation.”From the early wonder and disillusionment of city life in “The Enormous Radio” to the surprising discoveries and common mysteries of suburbia in “The Housebreaker of Shady Hill”...

The complete collection of short stories from one of the 20th century's wittiest writersDorothy Parker’s talents extended far beyond brash one-liners and clever rhymes. This collection of stories not only bring to life the urban milieu that was her bailiwick but lay bare the uncertainties and disappointments of ordinary people living ordinary lives.Penguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing a ...

**Winner of the National Book Award and the William Dean Howells MedalFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize for FictionWith a new introduction by Ann Patchett"A small, perfect novel." ―Washington Post Book WorldIn this magically evocative novel, William Maxwell explores the enigmatic gravity of the past, which compels us to keep explaining it even as it makes liars out of us every time we try.**On a winter morning in the 1920s, a shot rings out on a...

A comprehensive collection of the American humorist’s best work—including “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”—plus original drawings and a chronology of Thurber’s own troubled lifeJames Thurber, whimsical fantasist and deadpan chronicler of everyday absurdities, brought American humor into the 20th century. His comic persona, a modern city-dweller whose zaniest flights of free association are tinged with anxiety, remains hilarious, subtly disturbing, and instantly re...

Thirty years after the smashing success of Zelda, Nancy Milford returns with a stunning second act. Savage Beauty is the portrait of a passionate, fearless woman who obsessed American ever as she tormented herself.ONE OF ESQUIRE’S 50 BEST BIOGRAPHIES OF ALL TIMEIf F. Scott Fitzgerald was the hero of the Jazz Age, Edna St. Vincent Millay, as flamboyant in her love affairs as she was in her art, was its heroine. The...