Edward Burns is professor of English at William Paterson University and editor of
A Tour of the Darkling Plain: The “Finnegans Wake” Letters of Thornton Wilder and Adaline Glasheen;
A Passion for Joyce: The Letters of Hugh Kenner and Adaline Glasheen; and
The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Thornton Wilder.
22 Ebooks by Carl Van Vechten
Gertrude Stein & Carl Van Vechten: The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten, 1913-1946
This monumental collection of correspondence between Gertrude Stein and critic, novelist, and photographer Carl Van Vechten provides crucial insight into Stein’s life, art, and artistic milieu as wel …
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English
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€54.99
Carl Van Vechten: Lords of the Housetops: Thirteen Cat Tales
From Mark Twain to Edgar Allan Poe, this short story collection features thirteen classic tales about the secret life of cats, all carefully curated by Carl Van Vechten. Lords of the Housetops is a s …
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English
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€9.49
Carl van Vechten: Nigger Heaven
Als Nigger Heaven 1926 erschien, verursachte das Buch einen handfesten Skandal und wurde zum meist diskutierten Roman der Saison. Im Mittelpunkt steht ein junges Paar, eine Bibliothekarin und ein Möc …
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German
€17.99
Carl van Vechten: Parties
Wenn F. Scott Fitzgeralds ‘This Side of Paradise’ die literarische Ouvertüre zu den ‘Roaring Twenties’ bildet, so stellt Carl van Vechtens Roman ‘Parties’ Das Memento Mori dieses sagenumwobenen Jahrz …
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German
€17.99
Carl Van Vechten: Lords of the Housetops
Cat lovers, you’re in for a literary treat. Lords of the Housetops brings together a carefully curated selection of beloved stories with one key criterion in common: fabulous felines feature prominen …
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English
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€3.47
Carl Van Vechten: Lords of the Housetops
Cat lovers, you’re in for a literary treat. Lords of the Housetops brings together a carefully curated selection of beloved stories with one key criterion in common: fabulous felines feature prominen …
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English
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€3.45
Carl Van Vechten: El tigre en la casa
El amor que sentimos por ‘el tigre que come de la mano’, como se ha llamado en Japón al más doméstico de los felinos, no es un fenómeno reciente. Venerado por los antiguos egipcios, compañía silencio …
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Spanish
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€13.99
Carl Van Vechten: Peter Whiffle
Peter Whiffle (1922) is a novel by Carl Van Vechten. Framing himself as his character’s literary executor, Van Vechten provides a satirical self portrait of his unusual life in the arts through the l …
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€8.99
Carl Van Vechten: Firecrackers
Firecrackers: A Realistic Novel (1925) is a novel by Carl Van Vechten. Published in the same year as F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Anita Loos’ Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Van Vechten’s nov …
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€8.99
Langston Hughes: Weary Blues
The Weary Blues is Langston Hughes's first published collection of poems, immediately celebrated as a tour de force upon its release. Over ninety years after its publication, it remains a critica …
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English
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€6.42
Carl Van Vechten: El tigre en la casa
El amor que sentimos por ‘el tigre que come de la mano’, como se ha llamado en Japón al más doméstico de los felinos, no es un fenómeno reciente. Venerado por los antiguos egipcios, compañía silencio …
EPUB
Spanish
€9.49
Carl Van Vechten: Peter Whiffle (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
This 1922 novel is an early example of a modern metafiction. Based on Van Vechten’s own experiences in Paris, and featuring himself as first-person narrator, as well as many of his friends and …
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English
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€1.99
Carl Van Vechten: Music and Bad Manners (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
Carl Van Vechten was not only America’s first dance critic, but the first to champion American music and consider ragtime and jazz serious genres. This 1916 collection of writings heralded the Jazz A …
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English
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€1.99
Carl Van Vechten: The Tiger in the House (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
Think you know cats? Here is the domesticated feline in history, folklore, art, theater, fiction, poetry, music, the law, and even the occult. The author includes a list of more than 300 references t …
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English
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€1.99
Langston Hughes: Where the Jazz Band Plays – The Weary Blues – Poetry by Langston Hughes
A leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes was the first to use his poetry to reflect the real daily lives of average Black people. This collection celebrates Black pride and contain …
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€6.49
Carl Van Vechten: Firecrackers – A Realistic Novel
One of the defining novels of Jazz Age literature, Carl Van Vechten’s Firecrackers encapsulates the extravagance and freedom of New York City in the Roaring 20s. Paul Moody’s life is almost completel …
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€6.49
Carl Van Vechten: Music and Bad Manners
"SINGERS, musicians of all kinds, are notoriously bad mannered. The storms of the Titan, Beethoven, the petty malevolences of Richard Wagner, the weak sulkiness of Chopin ("Chopin in disple …
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English
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€2.56
Carl Van Vechten: Parties Scenes From Contemporary New York Life
This portrait of the smart set in Jazz Age New York by one of the most interesting personalities in 1920s New York, writer and photographer Carl Van Vechten.Exhausted by wars and peace conferences, w …
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€3.83
Carl Van Vechten: Music of Spain
First published in 1920, The Music of Spain deals with historical periods, schools and style and appears to embrace everything related to music provided it affects or is affected by Spain in some deg …
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English
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€63.74
Carl Van Vechten: Music of Spain
First published in 1920, The Music of Spain deals with historical periods, schools and style and appears to embrace everything related to music provided it affects or is affected by Spain in some deg …
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English
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€64.18
Carl Van Vechten: Caruso’s Mustache Off: and Other Writings about Music and Musicians
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€8.15
