Americans in Paris
a Literary Anthology
by Adam Gopnik

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• Release date: March 30, 2004
• Format: hardcover, 650 pages
• Publisher: Library of America
• Language: english
• ISBN: 9781931082563 (1931082561)
• Genres: france, travel, essays, anthologies, american, academia, own, literature
• Author: Adam Gopnik

About The Book

From the earliest years of the American republic, Paris has provoked an extraordinary American literary response. An almost inevitable destination for writers and thinkers, Paris has been many things to many Americans: a tradition-bound bastion of the old world of Europe; a hotbed of revolutionary ideologies in politics and art; and a space in which to cultivate an openness to life and love thought impossible at home. Including stories, letters, memoirs, and journalism, “Americans in Paris” distills three centuries of vigorous, glittering, and powerfully emotional writing about the place that Henry James called ?the most brilliant city in the world.? American writers came to Paris as statesmen, soldiers, students, tourists, and sometimes they stayed as expatriates. This anthology ranges from the crucial early impressions of Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin to the latter-day reflections of writers as varied as James Baldwin, Isadora Duncan, and Jack Kerouac. Along the way we encounter the energetic travelers of the nineteenth century?Emerson, Mark Twain, Henry James?and the pilgrims of the twentieth: Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, E. E. Cummings, Cole Porter, Henry Miller. Come along as Thomas Paine takes a direct and dangerous part in the French Revolution; Harriet Beecher Stowe tours the Louvre; Theodore Dreiser samples the sensual enticements of Parisian night life; Edith Wharton movingly describes Paris in the early days of World War I; John Dos Passos charts the gathering political storms of the 1930s; Paul Zweig recalls the intertwined pleasures of language and sex; and A. J. Liebling savors the memory of his culinary education in delicious detail.

“Americans in Paris” is a diverse and constantly engaging mosaic, full of revealing cultural gulfs and misunderstandings, personal and literary experimentation, and profound moments of self-discovery.

Contents:

Letter to Mary Stevenson by Benjamin Franklin

Letters from Auteuil by Abigail Adams

Two letters by Thomas Jefferson

from A diary of the French Revolution by Gouverneur Morris

Shall Louis XVI. have respite? by Thomas Paine

from The diary of James Gallatin by James Gallatin

from Life, letters, and journals by George Ticknor

Letter to Stephen Longfellow, Jr. by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

from Journal, 1833 by Ralph Waldo Emerson

from Pencillings by the way by Nathaniel Parker Willis

from Gleanings in Europe by James Fenimore Cooper

from Struggles and triumphs; or, Forty years’ recollections by P.T. Barnum

from Catlin’s Notes of eight years’ travels and residence in Europe by George Catlin

from Things and thoughts in Europe by Margaret Fuller

from Sunny memories of foreign lands by Harriet Beecher Stowe

from The French notebooks by Nathaniel Hawthorne

from The innocents abroad by Mark Twain

The proclamation of the republic by Elihu Washburne

Occasional Paris ; “The velvet glove” by Henry James

Letter from Paris by Frederick Douglass

Letter to John Hay by Henry Adams

from The show-places of Paris by Richard Harding Davis. from My life by Isadora Duncan

from A life in photography by Edward Steichen

from Along this way by James Weldon Johnson

A traveler at forty by Theodore Dreiser

The look of Paris ; from A backward glance by Edith Wharton

Mon amie by Randolph Bourne

Paris notebook, 1921 by Sherwood Anderson

from Peter Whiffle by Carl Van Vechten

Significant gesture by Malcolm Cowley

from Life among the surrealists by Matthew Josephson

from The big sea by Langston Hughes

from Gentlemen prefer blondes by Anita Loos

Four letters from Paris, 1925 by William Faulkner

from Post impressions ; Vive la Folie! by E.E. Cummings

from The spirit of St. Louis by Charles Lindbergh

The flying fool by Waverly Root

from A moveable feast by Ernest Hemingway

Postcard to Samuel Loveman by Hart Crane

Paris diaries by Harry Crosby

You don’t know Paree by Cole Porter

Babylon revisited by F. Scott Fitzgerald

From an early diary by Lincoln Kirstein

from The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas ; from Paris France by Gertrude Stein

Walking up and down in China by Henry Miller

A spring month in Paris by John Dos Passos

from The flower and the nettle by Anne Morrow Lindberg. The last time I saw Paris by Oscar Hammerstein II

from Shakespeare and Company by Sylvia Beach

Letter from Paris by Janet Flanner

Paris, 7 A.M. by Elizabeth Bishop

No. 13 Rue St. Augustin by Ludwig Bemelmans

Place Pigalle by Richard Wilbur

Three letters by Dawn Powell

from First days in Paris by Art Buchwald

Equal in Paris by James Baldwin

from Remembrance of things past by Irwin Shaw

The saucier’s apprentice by S.J. Perlman

Good-bye to a world by May Sarton

from Departures by Paul Zweig

The first time I saw Paris by James Thurber

Trouble in Paris by Sidney Bechet

from Between meals : an appetite for Paris by A.J. Liebling

17 Quai Voltaire by Virgil Thomson

from Satori in Paris by Jack Kerouac

Gare de Lyon by M.F.K. Fisher

from D.V. by Diana Vreeland

from Birthday by Dorothea Tanning

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