Carl Van Vechten

• Jun-1986
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• Jan-2000
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Opening on a scene of tawdry sensationalism, this novel shifts decisively to a world of black middle-class respectability, defined by intellectual values, professional ambition, and an acute consciousness of class and racial identity....

• Aug-2011
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In conjunction with the Carl Van Vechten Trust, Mondial republishs the late author's long-unprinted novel, "Firecrackers: A Realistic Novel." --- In what must be considered a milestone, the book will be published after being out of print for over eig...

• Apr-2012
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The splendid drunken twenties in New York: First published in 1925, the novel centers around a wide cast of characters whose lives are irrevocably changed by the mysterious Gunnar O'Grady in 1920s New York. Though, like most Van Vechten novels, there...

• Jun-2012
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Cat lovers, you're in for a literary treat. Lords of the Housetops brings together a carefully curated selection of beloved stories with one key criterion in common: fabulous felines feature prominently in all of them. Curl up with your kitty and set...

• Feb-2014
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THE career of Olive Fremstad has entailed continuous struggle: a struggle in the beginning with poverty, a struggle with a refractory voice, and a struggle with her own overpowering and dominating temperament. Ambition has steered her course. After s...

• Mar-2014
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An excerpt from the PREFACE: IN the essay and especially in poetry the cat has become a favourite subject, but in fiction it must be admitted that he lags considerably behind the dog. The reasons for this apparently arbitrary preference on the part ...

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...

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This 1922 novel is an early example of a modern metafiction.  Based on Van Vechten's own experiences in Paris, and featuring himself as first-person narrator, as well as many of his friends and acquaintances as characters, the novel revolves aro...

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