Portrait of Jennie

Eben soon realizes that jennie has long been dead and that she is a beautiful spirit who means more to him than life itself. Scott fitzgerald once referred to Robert Nathan as his favorite writer. Over the next several days, knowing that when he finishes, Eben paints Jennie's portrait, Jennie will disappear again.

He, jennie, and the world are one. So brilliant is nathan's execution that one is entirely lost in the tender love story of two immortally designed for each other, one a spirit out of the past seeking to catch up with the present, the other a man rooted in the present and caught in an urgency to accept the gift of the past.

. Five of his novels have been made into films. Early on, nathan’s work strengthened his reputation with both the public and peers. Its mood lingers in the heart and its planes challenge the mind. Grace frank, the river journey, new york timesabout the author: author of such revered books as portrait of jennie, the bishop’s WIFE, and STONECLIFF, Robert Nathan was born in New York City in 1894 and was educated at private schools in the United States and Switzerland.

While at cambridge, nathan also found the time to become an accomplished cellist, a lightweight boxer, and Captain of the fencing team. In the twilight of his career he was known as “the Dean of Author’s, ” since many prominent writers including Irving Stone and Irving Wallace sought out Nathan’s guidance.

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The Bishop's Wife

While attending Harvard University where he was a classmate with E. E. With that, he returns to Heaven after completing his fundraising mission. A member of the national Institute of Arts and Letters for fifty years, Mr. Though his beautiful wife JULIA fulfills her marital duties, their relationship has no passion.

. Lanyarde and MR. After leaving college, Mr. Nathan ultimately didn’t enjoy the experience, though the movie industry continually craved his work. Michael exudes love which draws new and unexpected emotions from Julia. In the twilight of his career he was known as “the Dean of Author’s, ” since many prominent writers including Irving Stone and Irving Wallace sought out Nathan’s guidance.

Happily, his last fifteen years were spent in the companionship of his wife, English born actress, Anna Lee. F. During a conversation with the scholarly professoR WUTHERIDGE, Michael learns that an angel can't fulfill "mortal love" as it is unrelated to the divine version. Early on, nathan’s work strengthened his reputation with both the public and peers.

Julia, realizing she will never have a passionate relationship with the Bishop, decides to have another child with whom to share her love. Meanwhile, the bishop prays for help, and it comes in the form of MICHAEL, a handsome goldenhaired angel, who takes the position of archdeacon.

Stonecliff

Happily, english born actress, his last fifteen years were spent in the companionship of his wife, Anna Lee. This novel, as all enduring novels, may be read on every level from entertainment to prophecy. After leaving college, Mr. Five of his novels have been made into films. A member of the national Institute of Arts and Letters for fifty years, Mr.

A young journalist and aspiring author michael roBB has landed a dream assignment: to interview the renowned but reclusive author EDWARD GRANVILLE. In the twilight of his career he was known as “the Dean of Author’s, ” since many prominent writers including Irving Stone and Irving Wallace sought out Nathan’s guidance.

During this period, the legendary Louis B. Nathan called both Cape Cod and California home. Not long after Michael arrives, strange things begin to happen. Michael comes to realize that these hallucinations are in fact coming straight from the pages of Granville's work and that he is becoming a character in the author's next book.

Other characters suddenly appear and then vanish into thin air as if they are creations from the author's vivid imagination. Scott fitzgerald once referred to Robert Nathan as his favorite writer. Early on, nathan’s work strengthened his reputation with both the public and peers. It will, bring many new readers to this great storyteller, to find in his novels a world celebrating tenderness, love, I am certain, mystery and the sorcery of the creative mind.



The Train in the Meadow

Five of his novels have been made into films. As the hours pass and the cause of the delay remain unknown, we meet the various passengers. Cummings, nathan was an editor of the Harvard Monthly, in which his first stories and poems appeared. While at cambridge, nathan also found the time to become an accomplished cellist, a lightweight boxer, and Captain of the fencing team.

Robert nathan, loneliness, and examines our hopes, optimism, has crafted a timeless tapestry of love, fears, sacrifice, the master of satiric fantasy, and the legacies we leave behind. However that may be, here again Mr. Scott fitzgerald once referred to Robert Nathan as his favorite writer. A young girl, sacrifices her place to the orphan boy, on the inbound train, giving him love and hope for the first time in his life.

Early on, nathan’s work strengthened his reputation with both the public and peers. A train bound for a mysterious destination stops in the middle of a meadow. The breathtaking climax reveals that the first train's destination is Heaven while the second is returning to Earth with new souls. Mayer contracted him to Hollywood to become a screenwriter.

The aforementioned “portrait of jennie” and “the bishop’s wife, ” as well as “One More Spring, ” “Wake Up and Dream” from the novel “The Enchanted Voyage” and “Color of Evening. Robert nathan was the author of over fifty volumes of novels, and plays, poetry, and from this body of distinguished work he acquired a reputation as a master of satiric fantasy unique in American Letters.



The Ghost and Mrs. Muir: Vintage Movie Classics

Mankiewicz’s cinematic romance starring Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison. Through the struggles of supporting her children, and working to publish the captain's story as a book, Blood and Swash, seeking out romance from the wrong places, Lucy finds in her secret relationship with Captain Gregg a comfort and blossoming love she never could have predicted.

Upon discovering the rumors to be true, the young widow ends up forming a special companionship with the ghost of handsome former sea captain Daniel Gregg. Burdened by debt after her husband's death, Lucy Muir insists on moving into the very cheap Gull Cottage in the quaint seaside village of Whitecliff, despite multiple warnings that the house is haunted.

. Originally published in 1945, and later adapted into a television sitcom in 1968, made into a movie in 1947, this romantic tale explores how love can develop without boundaries, both in this life and beyond. With a new foreword by Adriana Trigiani. Vintage movie classics spotlights classic films that have stood the test of time, now rediscovered through the publication of the novels on which they were based.

The basis for Joseph L.

Second Sight

Now back in print, this exquisitely written book is not to be missed. David williams’ novel is a thrilling read, part love story, part mystery—a tale of time travel or is it madness? that keeps the reader guessing until the very end. This classic, a woman caught between two worlds, two times, much-loved novel tells the story of Jennie Logan, and the two men she loves—one her husband and one an artist who may have died in 1899.

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The River Journey

We soon discover that Mr. A middle-aged woman minerva parkinson lives with her longtime husband HENRY along the Missouri River. Later, a wistful Henry falls asleep dreaming only of his loving wife. Meanwhile, mortimer reminds her the 'clock is ticking'. Cummings, nathan was an editor of the Harvard Monthly, in which his first stories and poems appeared.

A member of the national Institute of Arts and Letters for fifty years, Mr. This kind and selfless act touches Mortimer's heart, and he falls in love with her. Scott fitzgerald once referred to Robert Nathan as his favorite writer. As they travel down the Missouri, Minerva notices an attraction between her husband and Nora.

Happily, english born actress, his last fifteen years were spent in the companionship of his wife, Anna Lee. The river journey" deals with love, death, and the quest for companionship that will stand the test of time. Since her marriage to henry has been listless for many years, she decides not to share her grave diagnosis with him.

Minerva agrees to go with him but asks that he wait until they have finished their journey. Her plans suddenly become complicated when they meet two strangers NORA STEVENS, an innocent young woman looking for love and companionship, and MR. Nathan devoted his time exclusively to writing until his passing in 1985.

While attending Harvard University where he was a classmate with E.

Life with Father Classic bestseller

Life with father is a humorous autobiographical book of stories compiled in 1935 by Clarence Day, Jr. Which was adapted by lindsay and crouse in 1939 into the longest running non-musical Broadway play in history, which was, in turn, made into a 1947 movie and a television series.

Now, Voyager Femmes Fatales

Dowdy, placing her at a sanitarium, charlotte finds salvation in the unlikely form of a nervous breakdown, and pushing forty, repressed, where she undergoes treatment to rebuild her ravaged self-esteem and uncover her true intelligence and charm. Femmes fatales restores to print the best of women’s writing in the classic pulp genres of the mid-20th century.

Olive higgins prouty’s 1941 novel now, Voyager provides an even richer, deeper portrait of the inner life of its protagonist and the society she inhabits. Enjoy the series: bedelia; bunny lake is missing; by cecile; the g-string murders; the girls in 3-B; Laura; The Man Who Loved His Wife; Mother Finds a Body; Now, Voyager; Return to Lesbos; Skyscraper; Stranger on Lesbos; Stella Dallas; Women's Barracks.

From mystery to hard-boiled noir to taboo lesbian romance, these rediscovered queens of pulp offer subversive perspectives on a turbulent era. But few contemporary fans of this story of a woman’s self-realization know its source. Viewed from a distance of more than 60 years, it also offers fresh and quietly radical takes on psychiatric treatment, female desire, traditional family life, and women’s agency.

Boston blueblood Charlotte Vale has led an unhappy, sheltered life. Don’t let’s ask for the moon! we have the stars!” The film that concludes with Bette Davis’s famous words, reaffirmed Davis’s own stardom and changed the way Americans smoked cigarettes.

The Uninvited Recovered Voices

Brother and sister roderick and Pamela Fitzgerald flee their busy London lives for the beautiful but stormy Devon coastline. The second in tramp's recovered voices series, and was adapted for the screen as one of Hollywood's most successful ghost stories, The Uninvited, this strange, bone-chilling story was first published in 1942, in 1944.

Together, they must unravel the mystery of cliff end's uncanny past - and keep the troubled young Stella, who was raised in the house as a baby, from returning to the nursery where something waits to tuck her in at night. Gradually, the fitzgeralds learn of the mysterious deaths of Mary Meredith and another strange young woman.

They are drawn to the suspiciously inexpensive Cliff End, feared amongst locals as a place of disturbance and ill omen.

The Enchanted Voyage

F. Happily, his last fifteen years were spent in the companionship of his wife, English born actress, Anna Lee. Mayer contracted him to Hollywood to become a screenwriter. Hector’s only escape from his humdrum life and his overbearing wife is the refuge of his cherished sailboat, the SARAH PECKET named after his wife, which sits on wheels in his backyard.

Nathan called both Cape Cod and California home. Whittle and the morning star, and stonecliff, robert nathan was born in new York City in 1894 and was educated at private schools in the United States and Switzerland. Hector guides his boat to a nearby lake, hoping to finally show off his pride’s sea worthiness.

After a world-wind trip filled with adventures, a fierce rainstorm rears its enormous power. When sarah announces she is selling the boat to make ends meet, Hector spends one last wistful night on his beloved ship. A member of the national Institute of Arts and Letters for fifty years, Mr. In the twilight of his career he was known as “the Dean of Author’s, ” since many prominent writers including Irving Stone and Irving Wallace sought out Nathan’s guidance.

Hector fills his idle time working on the boat and dreaming of far off places. Grabbing control of the sail, with sheer delight, Hector, guides the boat down the street. Meanwhile, who, hector’s wife Sarah frantically searches for her husband, she now realizes, has been taken for granted.