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Die amerikanische Autorin und Journalistin Janet Flanner, berühmt als feministische Exzentrikerin im Paris der "lost generation" wie als scharfsichtige Zeitzeugin und Verfasserin brillanter Essays und Reportagen, porträtiert dreizehn Frauen und einen Mann, die auf sehr unterschiedliche Weise das kulturelle Selbstbewusstsein unseres Jahrhunderts geprägt haben: Isadora Duncan, Josephine Baker, Marlene Dietrich, Sarah Bernhardt, Duchesse d'Usèz, ...

Excerpt from The Christmas Burglar: A Play in One Act Scene. - The Professor's study. There is a door L. C., leading into Meg's room, another, practical leading out of doors - and a window, practical, in plain sight. A Library table has a small Christmas tree on it and this table must be placed so that it can not be seen by Meg when she "backs" out from her room. A Basket of tree trimmings is placed at one side of the stage where it can be re...

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Excerpt from Mansions: A Play in One ActFrom time to time special announcements will be printed giving complete lists of the Plays.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repa...

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Janet Flanner forma parte del grupo de escritoras norteamericanas que poblaron la Orilla Izquierda de París a partir de la década de 1920, figuras como Gertrude Stein o Djuna Barnes con las que Flanner compartió amistad y experiencias, así como un lesbianismo apenas velado. Entre 1925 y 1975 ?con la interrupción apenas de los años de la guerra mundial- Janet Flanner escribió quincenalmente una columna para la revista New Yorker con el título d...

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Here is a continuation of selections from Flanner's celebrated "Letter from Paris, " a series that appeared in the New Yorker from 1925 to 1975 over the signature" Genet." With clarity and authority, Flanner writes about the arts, the politics, and the economy of postwar Paris. This is the era in which Roosevelt and Matisse die, Francoise Sagan bursts on the literary scene, and Josephine Baker stages a comeback. Index.

This volume begins with the French elections of 1956 and concludes with a portrait of an aging, lonely President Charles de Gaulle. Flanner shows readers a Paris (and, from a Parisian perspective, a world) very much in flux-politically, socially, and artistically. Edited by William Shawn, Index.

In 1925 Flanner began her New Yorker "Letter from Paris, " from which most of the pieces in this collection are drawn. They give an incomparable view of French life before World War II. Edited by Irving Drutman, Index.

This portrait of a city and an era is drawn from the the author's celebrated "Letter from Paris, " a series that appeared in The New Yorker from 1925 to 1975 over the signature "Genet." Edited by William Shawn, Index.

The pieces collected here include an early profile of Hitler, reports on the Nuremberg trials, portraits of Thomas Mann, Bette Davis, Picasso, and concerts and art exhibits. Edited by Irving Drutman. Preface by William Shawn.

A witty and tender spirit emerges in Flanner's correspondance with her friend Natalia Danesi Murray, revealing a gifted person who left an indelible image of an era. Edited and with an Introduction by Natalia Danesi Murray, Index, photographs.