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The Prompt Copy of A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens, introduction by Isaac Gewirtz

Go onstage with Charles Dickens as he performs his Christmas Carol.

Charles Dickens could not only write a crackling good story, he could perform it. And so in 1853, he took his Christmas Carol show on the road, first in Britain and then in the United States. Audiences loved it. Dickens didn't simply read from his book. He transformed it into a stageworthy script—cutting, pasting together pages of excised passages, adding stage cues for himself, rewriting, then cutting some more.

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224 pages, full-color facsimile. Published by Levenger Press, 2009.

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Kerouac at Bat: Fantasy Sports and the King of the Beats

Isaac Gewirtz

In these records of his imaginary horse races and baseball games, and in the publications that accompanied them, we see both a true sports fanatic and a fledgling writer beginning to spread his mighty wings.

— Isaac Gewirtz

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76 pages, 50 images 4-color throughout. Published by The New York Public Library, 2009.

Hardcover. $25.00.
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Yaddo: Making American Culture

Founded in 1900 by financier and philanthropist Spencer Trask and his wife, Katrina Trask, Yaddo began receiving guests in 1926 and was immediately hailed by The New York Times as “a new and unique experiment, which has no exact parallel in the world of fine arts.” Since that inaugural season, Yaddo has navigated the roiled cultural and political life of 20th-century America while hosting thousands of artists and writers, including such luminaries as James Baldwin, Saul Bellow, Flannery O'Connor, Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Truman Capote, Jacob Lawrence, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Philip Guston and Sylvia Plath.

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170 pages, 4-color illustrations. Published by Columbia University Press, 2008.

Hardcover. $29.95.
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Hardcover. $79.50. ISBN: 10-987-65432-1.
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Voltaire: The Martin J. Gross Collection in The New York Public Library

The Library’s Martin J. Gross Collection ranks very near the top of all Voltaire collections in the libraries of North America. Its holdings include virtually all of Voltaire’s major publications, a great many in first editions or in editions showing significant signs of revision. Numerous publications about Voltaire by his contemporaries—about 175 titles in all—provide part of the background against which Voltaire worked with extraordinary energy as a philosopher, poet, novelist, dramatist, historian, popularizer of science, legal advocate, satirist, and champion of intellectual freedom. This checklist of the collection’s holdings (as of 2008) will serve to make this resource 

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92 pages, 18 illustrations. Published by The New York Public Library, 2008.

Hardcover. $20.00.
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Beatific Soul: Jack Kerouac on the Road

Isaac Gewirtz

This companion volume to a New York Public Library exhibition traces Jack Kerouac's tumultuous and often traumatic journey from his working-class boyhood in Lowell, Massachusetts, to New York City, where he, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs would become the fathers of the Beat movement, and beyond. Drawing on journals, diaries, manuscripts, and typescripts in the Library's Jack Kerouac Archive--material never before seen by the general public, and only a very small proportion of which has been seen even by scholars--Beatific Soul explores Kerouac's evolution as a writer and his spiritual passage from Christianity to Buddhism and back again.

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208 pages, more than 125 illustrations. Published by The New York Public Library in association with Scala Publishers, 2007.

Hardcover. $45.00.
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The Medici Aesop: NYPL Spencer 50 from the Spencer Collection of The New York Public Library

Introduction by Everett Fahy; fables translated from the Greek by Bernard McTigue; Afterword by H. George Fletcher.

One of the treasures of the Library's Spencer Collection, The Medici Aesop is a fifteenth-century Florentine manuscript of Aesop's fables, traced to the library of Lorenzo de' Medici's son Piero and illustrated with exquisite miniature paintings -- among the loveliest in any Renaissance work. Its magnificently illustrated pages feature a rainbow of brilliant colors and elaborate decorations that will dazzle today's reader as they once did the Medicis. With their conversations between animals, people, and gods and their sharp-edged moral lessons, these fables have been favorites for generations. This new softcover edition contains 139 classic tales, both familiar and less so

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176 pages, full color illustrations throughtout. Published by The New York Public Library, 2005.

Hardcover. $27.50.
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"I Am with You": Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1855-2005)

Isaac Gewirtz

Walt Whitman's publication of Leaves of Grass, on July 4, 1855, stands as one of the more improbable achievements in American literary history. Nothing in the earlier writings of the thirty-six-year-old former Long Island schoolteacher, who himself received only six years of formal education, had suggested that he was capable of the revolutionary style or of the radically unorthodox combination of spiritual, sexual, and political sensibilities that make Leaves of Grass as much a prophetic teaching as a pioneering literary work. Today, 150 years after its first appearance, Leaves of Grass remains disturbingly honest and demanding, unique, and inimitable.

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52 pages, b/w illustrations. Published by The New York Public Library, 2005.

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Charting the Here of There: French and American Poetry in Translation in Literary Magazines, 1850-2002

Guy Bennett and Béatrice Mousli

"A splendid job of mapping the interaction between French and American poetry ever since Baudelaire fell in love with Poe. Succinct, informative and particularly fascinating in showing how the two World Wars both hindered and helped the exchange."

--Rosmarie Waldrop

For the past 150 years, literary magazines have served as the telegraph/telephone/e-mail connection for a literary dialogue between French and American writers, permitting, with relative speed and facility, the transmission of poetry from one people to the other. The ephemeral, periodic quality of the "little review" has provided a unique forum

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165 pages, Illustrated. Published by Granary Books, 2002.

The New York Public Library Literature Companion

Pick up The New York Public Library Literature Companion to check the dates of Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past or to find out how James Joyce's Ulysses changed U.S. obscenity laws, and hours later you may find yourself absorbed in the imaginary worlds of Camelot and the Matrix or sidetracked by the fascinating history of The New Yorker. Designed to satisfy the curious browser as well as the serious researcher, this exciting new resource offers the most up-to-date information on literature available in English from around the world, from the invention of writing to the year 2000.

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772 pages.Published by The Free Press, 2001.

Hardcover. $40.00.
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Movin': Teen Poets Take Voice

Diverse, strong, and still in their teens, a talented new generation of poets speaks out. An ode to an eyebrow, poems about school and sports, dreams for the future, reminiscences of the past -- the poems gathered here were written by teenage poets from across the country who participated, either online or in person, in workshops sponsored by The New York Public Library. As one of the gifted young participants writes: "Who knows what the brilliant / minds of tomorrow will conjure up." This inspiring poetry collection, illustrated with Chris Raschka's distinctive drawings, will captivate readers who don't want to wait. "Poignant introspection, sly observations, lovely images

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64 pages, Illustrated. Published by Orchard Books, 2000.

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