Robert Roper: 3 books
Nabokov in America
On the Road to Lolita
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
A unique portrait of Vladimir Nabokov told through the lens of the years he spent in a land that enchanted him, America.
The author of the immortal Lolita and Pale Fire, born to an eminent Russian family,conjures the apotheosis of the high modernist artist: cultured, refined-as European as...
Now the Drum of War
Walt Whitman and His Brothers in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
Walt Whitman's work as a nurse to the wounded soldiers of the Civil War had a profound effect on the way he saw the world. Much less well known is the extraordinary record of his younger brother, George, who led his men in twenty-one major battles, almost to die in a Confederate prison camp as the...
Fatal Mountaineer
The High-Altitude Life and Death of Willi Unsoeld, American Himalayan Legend
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Willi Unsoeld became an international hero during the Kennedy years, when he emerged as probably the greatest American climber of the Himalayan golden age. Displaying the sort of vigor that President Kennedy so admired, Unsoeld became the most visible hero of an ascent of Everest's previously-unclimbed...