Package 2 (Volumes C+D+E) Volume D by Nina Baym

Package 2 (Volumes C+D+E) Volume D by Nina Baym

Inspiration. It's all around us if we know where to look. Sometimes
it's found in the beauty of nature or the dynamics of the big city.
Sometimes it's in the most elegant places on earth. The artist Paul
Gauguin found his muse among the islands and people of Tahiti.
Other times it's in some of the most unimaginable of places or
situations. Viktor Frankel found it in the Nazi concentration camps.
Mother Teresa found inspiration in the slums of Calcutta. Nelson
Mandela found his in a jail cell.
These amazing authors share their life experiences and challenges
and how inspiration played the key role in their overcoming adversity
and growing as human beings. Some come from very modest means
and some from great wealth. Some found their inspiration against
incredible odds with no support from friends and family. Others had
caring mentors who pointed the way.
Whatever path you may be on, these stories will enlighten, enthuse
and inspire you and, hopefully, lead you to inspire others.

Nina Baym taught at the University of Illinois, where she specialized in American Literature. She is General Editor of the Norton Anthology of American Literature, the most widely used textbook in the field. She has won Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Mellon Foundation fellowships. In 2000 she won the Jay Hubbell Award from the Modern Language Association, awarded for lifetime contributions to the study of American literature. Her first book was about Nathaniel Hawthorne, and she has published a Twayne study of The Scarlet Letter. Hawthorne's complaint in a private letter about the damn'd mob of scribbling women, whose works were popular while his were not inspired her to find out who these forgotten women were and what they wrote. The first of her books on this topic was Woman's Fiction (1978); then came American Women Writers and the Work of History; next American Women of Letters and the Nineteenth-Century Sciences. Some of her essays were brought together in Feminism and American Literary History. Her newest foray is Women Writers of the American West, 1833-1927, which describes the western books of over 340 American women including Native American women and African Americans, and covers the transMississippi West from Texas to Oregon.

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ISBN 13	9780393979008
ISBN 10	0393979008
Title	Package 2 (Volumes C+D+E) Volume D
Author	Nina Baym
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	WW Norton & Co
Year published	2002-07-12
Number of pages	820
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