The Best Years of the Century

The Best Years of the Century
Author: Arthur John
Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 326
Release: 1981
Genre: History
ISBN:

"This study is basically the story of a great American magazine in its greatest years - the magazine that began as Scribner's Monthly in 1870 and became the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine in 1881." -- Preface.

Scribner's Magazine

Scribner's Magazine
Author: Edward Livermore Burlingame
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1020
Release: 1927
Genre:
ISBN:

Scribner's Magazine

Scribner's Magazine
Author: Edward Livermore Burlingame
Publisher:
Total Pages: 934
Release: 1899
Genre: American periodicals
ISBN:

Scribners

Scribners
Author: Charles Scribner III
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2023-11-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1493079980

Scribners tells the inside story of five generations—over 150 years—at the legendary publishing house of Charles Scribner's Sons, beginning with its founding in an unused chapel in downtown New York, continuing through its golden era on Fifth Avenue above the famous landmark bookstore and down to the present day. The author, the fifth of the Charleses to work at that house of celebrated authors, provides here an inside view—"between the covers" of illustrious and notorious books—of the family members, editors, and authors of this colorful literary history. Among the writers who illuminate this story, we find in the early years Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Teddy Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, John Galsworthy, and the artists Charles Dana Gibson, N. C. Wyeth, and Maxfield Parrish, who illustrated Scribner's Magazine as well as Scribner books. Then with the arrival of "editor of genius" Max Perkins, the story takes off into the heights of twentieth-century fiction with Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Wolfe, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Marcia Davenport, Alan Paton, James Jones and—above all—Ernest Hemingway, that most loyal and enduring author whose works were published by four generations of Scribners. Famous children's classics The Wind in the Willows, Peter Pan, and The Yearling also take their place of honor in the firm's contribution to new generations of readers. This engaging personal account of family history—both in and out of the office—includes the most colorful controversies: from Mussolini and Trotsky to Lindbergh and C. P. Snow, as well as behind-the-scenes adventures of the author's father as he navigated the seas with industry storms and publishing corsairs before finding a safe harbor at Macmillan and finally, after the demise of tycoon Robert Maxwell, Simon & Schuster. The author, an art historian, found himself for thirty years in the company of writers by "an accident of birth." But it proved an adventure beyond his reckoning, here told with the candor and informality of a family gathering, as well as with humor and affection for his father, P. D. James, Louis Auchincloss, Andrew Greeley, and other authors with whom he worked personally. As Scott Fitzgerald wrote, "If it wasn't life, it was magnificent."

Across the River and Into the Trees

Across the River and Into the Trees
Author: Ernest Hemingway
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2014-05-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1476770034

In the fall of 1948, Ernest Hemingway made his first extended visit to Italy in thirty years. His reacquaintance with Venice, a city he loved, provided the inspiration for Across the River and into the Trees, the story of Richard Cantwell, a war-ravaged American colonel stationed in Italy at the close of the Second World War, and his love for a young Italian countess. A poignant, bittersweet homage to love that overpowers reason, to the resilience of the human spirit, and to the worldweary beauty and majesty of Venice, Across the River and into the Trees stands as Hemingway's statement of defiance in response to the great dehumanizing atrocities of the Second World War. Hemingway's last full-length novel published in his lifetime, it moved John O'Hara in The New York Times Book Review to call him “the most important author since Shakespeare.”