Hsien
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Hsien. Immortal beings depicted in Chinese art, literature, religion, and folklore since the 3rd cent. BCE. As bird-like people or wise old men lost in misty mountains, they could fly great distances or change their appearance at will. Among the most popular immortals is
Hsi Wang Mu, Queen Mother of the West, whose famous peaches of immortality ripen once every 3,000 years. Her orchards were once raided by another renowned hsien, Sun Wukʾung, the monkey king. A Taoist group of ‘Eight Immortals’ (
Pa-hsien) contains the famous Lu Tung-pen with his gourd of immortal
elixir.
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Leon Edel, Biographer of Henry James, Dies at 89
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 9/9/1997; ; 700+ words
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Leon Edel: the life of a biographer.
Magazine article from: American Scholar; 9/22/1997; ; 700+ words
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Pride and Prejudice
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 8/24/2003; ; 700+ words
; FABULOUS SMALL JEWS By Joseph Epstein Houghton Mifflin. 340 pp. $24 ENVY By Joseph Epstein Oxford Univ. 102...polished familiar essays, Joseph Espstein has quietly cultivated...transparent stand-in for Leon Edel get a mild spanking. The...
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Shortcomings and sins
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 6/29/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...The Seven Deadly Sins By Joseph Epstein Oxford. $17.95. To be published in August Joseph Epstein has earned his...disguises, it tells of a Leon Edel- like biographer of a...he most reminds me of is Joseph Epstein. With Envy (to...
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A final farewell
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 12/28/1997; ; 361 words
; ...Michael Dorris, Jean Conan Doyle, Leon Edel, Donald I. Fine, Leon Forrest, Allen Ginsberg, John...Thatcher Hurd, Elspeth Huxley, Joseph Kastner, Alexander P. Kazhdan...James R. Phelan, Robert Pinget, Leon Poliakov, Dudley Pope, V. S...
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A Hawai'i Anthology: A Collection of Works by Recipients of the Hawai'i Award for Literature, 1974-1996.
Magazine article from: World Literature Today; 3/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; Joseph Stanton, ed. Honolulu. State Foundation on Culture and the Arts (University...Up Elsewhere" contains varyingly autobiographical pieces by Reuel Denny, Leon Edel, and Maxine Hong Kingston and is the section most challenging to the unity...
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Publisher names tops in non-fiction.
Newspaper article from: The Florida Times Union; 4/30/1999; 700+ words
; ...Agee and Walker Evans' Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Leon Edel's biography of Henry James and Betty Friedan's The...B. Yeats. 40. Science and Civilization in China, Joseph Needham. 41. Goodbye to All That, Robert Graves. 42...
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FRIENDS AND RIVALS IN JAMES' CIRCLE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 7/12/1989; ; 700+ words
; ...H. G. Wells, Stephen Crane, Ford Madox Ford and Joseph Conrad, the so-called Rye mafia who had settled in...literary biographies of the principals, in particular Leon Edel's life of Henry James, yet her account achieves freshness...
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Cradling lives in our hands: towards a theory of cultural biography.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Christianity and Literature; 9/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...discussing biography itself. Famous biographers such as Leon Edel, Joan Hedrick, Peter Aykroyd, Justin Kaplan, Linda...been used in recent book titles on figures from Mozart to Joseph Smith, and we now have available "cultural biographies...
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BIOGRAPHY UNWORTHY OF GRAHAM GREENE.(Perspective)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 7/2/1989; 700+ words
; ...death? Boastfulness does not disqualify a biographer; Leon Edel is not a shrinking violet; neither was the late Richard...partly out of admiration for a book he had written about Joseph Conrad. At the same time, Greene wrote a friend that...
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Joseph Leon Edel
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Joseph Leon Edel (Joseph Leon Edel) , 1907-97, American literary scholar and biographer, b. Pittsburgh, Pa. A professor at New York Univ. (1953-72) and the Univ. of Hawaii (1972-78), he received the 1963 Pulitzer Prize and National...
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Edel, (Joseph) Leon
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Edel, [Joseph] Leon (1907–1997), born in Pittsburgh but educated at McGill...its volumes. A one‐volume version was published in 1985. Edel's other works include a study of Joyce (1947), The Modern Psychological...
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James, Henry
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History
...1916. See also Literature: Civil War to World War I . Bibliography Leon Edel , Henry James , 5 vols., 1953–72. The Henry James Review, (1979– ), published three times a year. Joseph Wiesenfarth
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