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Christopher Benfey

9 books

American Audacity: Literary Essays North and South by Christopher Benfey

American Audacity: Literary Essays North and South

Writers on Writing (University of Michigan)

Christopher Benfey

247 pages • paperback

nonfiction classics essays literary reflective medium-paced
Emily Dickinson and the Problem of Others by Christopher Benfey

Emily Dickinson and the Problem of Others

Christopher Benfey

144 pages • hardcover

nonfiction autobiography biography history literary poetry challenging reflective medium-paced
The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan by Christopher Benfey

The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan

Christopher Benfey

352 pages • paperback

nonfiction history adventurous informative slow-paced
If: The Untold Story of Kipling's American Years by Christopher Benfey

If: The Untold Story of Kipling's American Years

Christopher Benfey

256 pages • hardcover

nonfiction biography history adventurous slow-paced
Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay: Reflections on Art, Family, and Survival by Christopher Benfey

Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay: Reflections on Art, Family, and Survival

Christopher Benfey

291 pages • paperback

nonfiction art biography history emotional informative reflective slow-paced
A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Jo by Christopher Benfey

A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Jo

Christopher Benfey

287 pages • paperback

nonfiction biography history poetry reflective slow-paced
War and the Iliad by Simone Weil, Rachel Bespaloff

War and the Iliad

Simone Weil, Rachel Bespaloff

152 pages • paperback • 1941

nonfiction classics essays philosophy informative reflective slow-paced
Emily Dickinson: Lives of a Poet by Christopher Benfey
Emily Dickinson: Lives of a Poet
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Christopher Benfey

Emily Dickinson: Lives of a Poet

Christopher Benfey

141 pages • hardcover

nonfiction autobiography biography literary poetry medium-paced
North of Ordinary by John Rolfe Gardiner
North of Ordinary
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John Rolfe Gardiner

North of Ordinary

John Rolfe Gardiner

224 pages • paperback

fiction literary short stories