Christopher Benfey

8 books

American Audacity: Literary Essays North and South by Christopher Benfey

American Audacity: Literary Essays North and South

Writers on Writing (University of Michigan)

Christopher Benfey

247 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction classics essays literary reflective medium-paced
Emily Dickinson and the Problem of Others by Christopher Benfey

Emily Dickinson and the Problem of Others

Christopher Benfey

144 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction autobiography biography history literary poetry challenging reflective medium-paced
The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan by Christopher Benfey

The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan

Christopher Benfey

352 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous informative slow-paced
If: The Untold Story of Kipling's American Years by Christopher Benfey

If: The Untold Story of Kipling's American Years

Christopher Benfey

256 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction biography history adventurous slow-paced
Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay: Reflections on Art, Family, and Survival by Christopher Benfey

Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay: Reflections on Art, Family, and Survival

Christopher Benfey

291 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction art biography history emotional informative reflective slow-paced
A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Jo by Christopher Benfey

A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Jo

Christopher Benfey

287 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction biography history poetry reflective slow-paced
War and the Iliad by Simone Weil, Mary McCarthy, Hermann Broch, Rachel Bespaloff, Christopher E.G. Benfey

War and the Iliad

Simone Weil, Mary McCarthy, Hermann Broch, Rachel Bespaloff, Christopher E.G. Benfey

121 pages • first pub 1941 (editions)

nonfiction classics essays philosophy informative reflective slow-paced
Emily Dickinson: Lives of a Poet by Christopher Benfey
Emily Dickinson: Lives of a Poet
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Christopher Benfey

Emily Dickinson: Lives of a Poet

Christopher Benfey

141 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction autobiography biography literary poetry medium-paced
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