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Love Without Wings - Some Friendships in Literature and Politics - cover

Love Without Wings - Some Friendships in Literature and Politics

Louis Auchincloss

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Summary

The author of The Vanderbilt Era examines sixteen famous friendships, from Boswell and Johnson to Hawthorne and Melville. 
 
This delightful series of short essays explores friendship in its various forms—from true intimacy to professional detente between rivals. The friendships, literary and political, span two continents and three centuries—Boswell and Johnson, Fitzgerald and Hemingway, Richelieu and Father Joseph, FDR and Harry Hopkins, Edith Wharton and Margaret Chanler—sixteen sketches in all. 
 
Auchincloss approaches his subjects with grace, tact, and insight, subtly defining the peculiar, gentle chemistry on which platonic bonds depend. The result is a surprising array of social patterns and personal destinies, all stemming from the simple desire for human company.

Available since: 01/23/1991.

Print length: 139 pages.

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