Java Head (Dodo Press) - Softcover

Hergesheimer, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1406596981 ISBN 13: 9781406596984

Verlag: DODO PR, 2008

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Joseph Hergesheimer (1880-1954) was a prominent American writer of the early 20th century known for his naturalistic novels of decadent life amongst the very wealthy. He initially studied as a painter but quickly turned to writing. He established an early reputation with his first novel The Lay Anthony in 1914. The Three Black Pennys, which followed in 1917, cemented the author's style of dealing with upper-class characters through a floridly descriptive style he referred to as "aestheticism. " Hergesheimer also received critical recognition for his novels Java Head (1918), Linda Condon (1919), and Balisand (1924). His last novel The Foolscap Rose appeared in 1934. Amongst his other works are The Happy End (1919), Cytherea (1922), From an Old House (1925), Quiet Cities (1928), Swords and Roses (1929) and The Party Dress (1930).

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May, but early in the morning, Laurel A mmidon lay in bed considering two widely different aspects of chairs. The day before she had been eleven, and the comparative maturity of that age had filled her with a moving disdain for certain fanciful thoughts which had given her extreme youth a decidedly novel if not an actually adventurous setting. Until yesterday, almost, she had regarded the various chairs of the house as beings endowed with life and character; she had held conversations with some, and, with a careless exterior not warranted by an inner dread, avoided others in gloomy dusks. All this, now, she contemptuously discarded. Chairs were chairs, things to sit on, wood and stuffed cushions. Yet she was slightly melancholy at losing such a satisfactory lot of reliable familiars: unlike older people, victims of the most disconcerting moods and mysterious changes, chairs could always be counted on to remain secure in their individual peculiarities. She could see by her fireplace the elaborately carved teakwood chair that her grandfather had brought home from China, which had never varied from the state of a brown and rather benevolent dragon; its claws were always claws, the grinning fretted mouth was perpetually fixed for a cloud of smoke and a mild rumble of complaint.
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• Verlag: DODO PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1406596981
• ISBN 13: 9781406596984
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 180