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La Tentazione della Chimera: Charles Brockden Brown e le origini del romanzo americano
by Marisa Bulgheroni
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- good
- Paperback
- Signed
- Condition
- Good
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Edizioni di Storia e letteratura, 1965. Soft cover. Good. THIS BOOK IS IN ITALIAN. 275 pages plus list of other titles from the publisher. Note bio-bibliografiche, Indice dei nomi. Trade paperback, edges of wraps and heel worn, crease to bottom of ffep, water spots on front cover. Price in pencil on inside back cover. Inscribed by author on ffep to former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff, whose handwritten notes appear on a few pages in the index and bibliography. In a separate note (not included), Berthoff wrote about this volume, "The book is the Italian standard work on CBB . . . The book seems to me to describe who Brown would have been if he'd been a representative European intellectual in the main historical stream.
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- Bookseller
- Berthoff Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WBB-771
- Title
- La Tentazione della Chimera: Charles Brockden Brown e le origini del romanzo americano
- Author
- Marisa Bulgheroni
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Edizioni di Storia e letteratura
- Date Published
- 1965
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN, AMERICAN LITERATURE, HISTORY OF GOTHIC NOVELS, NOVEL, STUDIES IN ITALY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literary criticism; Books in Italian (libri in italiano); Inscribed books;
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Berthoff Books sells books previously owned by the late Warner B. Berthoff, Professor of English and American Literature, emeritus, at Harvard University, and members of his family. Some books contain marginalia by Warner Berthoff, the late Prof. Ann E. Berthoff (U. Mass-Boston, English composition and rhetoric), or others, which we aim to describe accurately. Our inventory features English and American fiction and poetry, 20th-century literary criticism, world literature, history, and philosophy. Other categories are history and politics of Australia, Asia, South Africa and the Middle East; intelligence agencies and gnostic beliefs; Russian literature and criticism; and Russian and Soviet history.
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