Pantheon imprint: 214 books
by Gwendolyn Wright
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
For Gwendolyn Wright, the houses of America are the diaries of the American people. They create a fascinating chronicle of the way we have lived, and a reflection of every political, economic, or social issue we have been concerned with. Why did plantation owners build uniform cabins for their slaves?...
Stardust Melodies
The Biography of Twelve of America's Most Popular Songs
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
In Stardust Melodies, Will Friedwald takes each of these legendary songs apart and puts it together again, with a staggering wealth of detail and unprecedented understanding.
Each chapter gives us an extended history of one song—the circumstances under which it was written and first performed—and...
by Gerald Nachman
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
For everybody "raised on radio"—and that's everybody brought up in the thirties, forties, and early fifties—this is the ultimate book, combining nostalgia, history, judgment, and fun, as it reminds us of just how wonderful (and sometimes just how silly) this vanished medium was. Of course,...
Time Song
Journeys in Search of a Submerged Land
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019
Julia Blackburn has always collected things that hold stories about the past, especially the very distant past: mammoth bones, little shells that happen to be two million years old, a flint shaped as a weapon long ago. Shortly after her husband’s death, Blackburn became fascinated with Doggerland,...
by Catherine Clinton
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
This pioneering study of the much-mythologized Southern belle offers the first serious look at the lives of white women and their harsh and restricted place in the slave society before the Civil War. Drawing on the diaries, letters, and memoirs of hundreds of planter wives and daughters, Clinton sets...
The Feud
Vladimir Nabokov, Edmund Wilson, and the End of a Beautiful Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
The Feud is the deliciously ironic (and sad) tale of how two literary giants destroyed their friendship in a fit of mutual pique and egomania.
In 1940, Edmund Wilson was the undisputed big dog of American letters. Vladimir Nabokov was a near-penniless Russian exile seeking asylum in the States....
Mud and Stars
Travels in Russia with Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Other Geniuses of the Golden Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2019
A witty and insightful tour of contemporary Russia, using its Golden Age writers, from Pushkin to Tolstoy, as guides: part history, part sociopolitical commentary, Mud and Stars reveals the heart of a country that never fails to surprise us.
"We sit in the mud, my friend, and reach for the...
by Richard Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
Winner of the 1989 Whitbread Prize for Book of the Year, this is the first volume of Holmes's seminal two-part examination of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of Britain's greatest poets. Coleridge: Early Visions is the first part of Holmes's classic biography of Coleridge that forever transformed our...
Europe, Europe
Forays into a Continent
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
In this highly acclaimed and entertaining book, already "among the touchstones of the new travel writing" (Newsweek), one of West Germany's leading authors takes us on an insider's tour of Europe in the recent past. Focusing on Italy, Poland, Hungary, Sweden, Spain, and Portugal, he describes...
On Empire
America, War, and Global Supremacy
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2008
In there four incisive and keenly perceptive essays, one of out most celebrated and respected historians of modern Europe looks at the world situation and some of the major political problems confronting us at the start of the third millennium.
With his usual measured and brilliant historical...
Haunts of the Black Masseur
The Swimmer as Hero
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
In a masterful work of cultural history, Charles Sprawson, himself an obsessional swimmer and fluent diver, explores the meaning that different cultures have attached to water, and the search for the springs of classical antiquity.
In nineteenth-century England bathing was thought to be an...
A Guest of the Reich
The Story of American Heiress Gertrude Legendre's Dramatic Captivity and Escape from Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2019
**"Thrilling! An intimate spy story, as though a dear friend is taking us along on her misadventure behind Nazi lines."
—Bill Dedman, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Empty Mansions
From the co-author of The Zhivago Affair, a finalist for the National Books Critics Circle...
Spring
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
What unites Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, Rilke, Beethoven, Brexit, the present, the past, the north, the south, the east, the west, a man mourning lost times, a woman trapped in modern times?
Spring. The great connective.
With an eye to the migrancy of story...
Blow-Up
And Other Stories
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
A young girl spends her summer vacation in a country house where a tiger roams . . . A man reading a mystery finds out too late that he is the murderer’s intended victim . . .
Originally published in hardcover as End of the Game and Other Stories, the fifteen stories collected here—including...