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A retrospective article on Leslie Fiedler in the New York Times Book Review in 1965 referred to Love and Death in the American Novel as “one of the great, essential books on the American imagination . . . an accepted major work.” This groundbreaking work views in depth both American literature and character from the time of the American Revolution to the present. From it, there emerges Fiedler’s once scandalous—now increasingly accepted—judgme...

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Twelve iconoclastic and eye-opening essays on life and culture.

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Dal generale Tom Thumb, il nano del Connecticut che incantò la regina Vittoria, a Millie e Christine, le sorelle siamesi afroamericane che vissero tutta la vita da schiave (di terzi, oltre che l'una dell'altra). Dal circo di P.T. Barnum ai film di Tod Browning e Federico Fellini, dalla Venere ottentotta, le cui enormi natiche nel 1815 mandarono in confusione mezza Parigi, a Lady Olga Barnell, che a dispetto dei baffoni e di trentatré centimetr...

Excerpt from Pull Down Vanity: And Other StoriesMeanwhile, they were all outside: the shrill kids and runty dogs (but their shrillness broke against the persistence of heat), the shirtless fathers watching the brief rest of their hairy arms, the ¿ushed women in doorways, their supper dishes done, not daring to think yet - sleep.It was as if the airless houses had been turned inside out, and Warren had the sense of trespassing before each stoop...

Excerpt from Pull Down Vanity: And Other Stories Meanwhile, they were all outside: the shrill kids and runty dogs (but their shrillness broke against the persistence of heat), the shirtless fathers watching the brief rest of their hairy arms, the ¿ushed women in doorways, their supper dishes done, not daring to think yet - sleep. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www....

No other study of the American novel has such fascinating and on the whole right things to say."--Washington Post

Leslie Fiedler's radical opinions and theories have changed the way we think about American literature and pop culture, challenging long-established schools and ushering in a genre of first-person, experience-based criticism. Praised and respected as "one of the most important figures in the history of American cultural thought in this century, " Fiedler introduced groundbreaking ideas that now permeate university studies in literature: a homo...