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“ardyth kennelly”

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  • Millionaire Housekeeping

    A Novel

    by Ardyth Kennelly ...
    Under the guise of writing a handbook for the "elegant conduct" of a "millionaire philanthropist's" household, Mary-nicknamed Minette by the mistress's French maid-recounts her rise in one such New York establishment, from a fourteen-year-old dining hall maid in the 1930s to the superintending housekeeper by the 1960s. She's no Mrs. Hughes of "Downton Abbey," but fans of that show will see much ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Bodies Adjacent

    Ardyth's Memoir & Egon's Journal

    by Ardyth Kennelly, Egon V. Ullman ...
    Part memoir, part confession, part journal, Bodies Adjacent is the story of two lives told by each one about the other. The novelist Ardyth Kennelly and her physician husband, the Jewish Viennese émigré Egon V. Ullman, began their unlikely love affair in the heart of Oregon's Willamette Valley in the 1930s and continued it for nearly three decades in Portland-contending first with the Depression, ... Read more

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  • New York on $5 a Day

    A Novelist's Memoir, 1963-64

    by Ardyth Kennelly ...
    New York on $5 a Day, the last book by the novelist Ardyth Kennelly (1912-2005), is a brief but charming account of her two-year sojourn in New York City (1963-64), where she had gone to try to revive her writing career after the death of her husband a year earlier. Written in 2001, the memoir is a chatty and engaging reminiscence about the unusual people she met in New York, including the English ... Read more

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  • Variation West

    by Ardyth Kennelly ...
    The crowning literary achievement of Ardyth Kennelly, a best-selling novelist in the late 1940s and 1950s, is finally available--ten years after her death, and twenty years after the book was written. Fans of her previous books will love the fresh stories of life in Mormon Utah, and she is sure to gain many new admirers with this sweeping novel covering not only a century of Western life and ... Read more

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  • A Reader's Book of Days: True Tales from the Lives and Works of Writers for Every Day of the Year

    True Tales from the Lives and Works of Writers for Every Day of the Year

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    A witty and addictively readable day-by-day literary companion.At once a love letter to literature and a charming guide to the books most worth reading, A Reader's Book of Days features bite-size accounts of events in the lives of great authors for every day of the year. Here is Marcel Proust starting In Search of Lost Time and Virginia Woolf scribbling in the margin of her own writing, "Is it ... Read more

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  • Am I Alone Here?

    Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live

    by Peter Orner ...
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  • The Hue and Cry at Our House

    A Year Remembered

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  • Daily Rituals

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  • Ernest Hemingway on Writing

    Edited by Larry W. Phillips ...
    A collection of reflections on writing and the nature of the writer from one the greatest American writers of the 20th century.Throughout Hemingway’s career as a writer, he maintained that it was bad luck to talk about writing—that it takes off “whatever butterflies have on their wings and the arrangement of hawk’s feathers if you show it or talk about it.”Despite this belief, by the end of his ... Read more

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  • The Receptionist

    An Education at The New Yorker

    by Janet Groth ...
    In 1957, when a young Midwestern woman landed a job at The New Yorker, she didn’t expect to stay long at the reception desk. But stay she did, and for twenty-one years she had the best seat in the house. In addition to taking messages, she ran interference for jealous wives checking on adulterous husbands, drank with famous writers at famous watering holes throughout bohemian Greenwich Village, ... Read more

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    by E. B. White ...
    A wise, witty, spirited collection of short pieces and essays by the inimitable E. B. White.Written for the New Yorker over a span of forty-nine years, these 161 pieces show White’s changing concerns and development as a writer. In matchless style White writes about everything from cicadas to Khrushchev, from Thoreau to hyphens, from academic freedom to lipstick, from New York garbagemen to the ... Read more

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