Recounting an art dealer's recuperation from major surgery in the famous Claridge's Hotel in London, this idiosyncratic (and semi-autobiographical) novel humorously and surreally interweaves reality with fantasy.
Without a doubt, there is one event in the history of Native Americans that overshadows all others in its impact on their cultures—the discovery of the Western Hemisphere by European explorers. This pivotal motif is at the center of The Native American Experience, which tells the story of America’s ...
"An American in Victorian Cambridge" is a richly detailed account of student life in the Cambridge of the 1840s. The rationale for the book, which is as appealing today as it was then, is that this is pre-eminently a book about an American student at an English university. In this new edition, some substantial additions have been made.