Sentimental Studies - Stories of Life and Love
Proofed and corrected from the original edition for enjoyable reading. (Worth every penny spent!)
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Guido Bruno (1884–1942) was a well-known Greenwich Village character, sometimes called 'the Barnum of Bohemia'.
He was based at his "Garret" on Washington Square where for an admission fee tourists could observe genuine "Bohemian" artists at work. He produced several little magazine publications from there, in particular around 1914-16: Greenwich Village magazine, then Bruno's Weekly, and the 15 cent Bruno Chap Books. He published Alfred Kreymborg, Djuna Barnes and Sadakichi Hartmann, letters of Oscar Wilde, Alfred Douglas, Richard Aldington on the Imagists. Others were Theodore Albert Schroeder, Edna W. Underwood, and Charles Kains-Jackson. In 1915-16 Bruno briefly partnered with Charles Edison in the operation of the "Little Thimble Theater" .
He was a close associate of Frank Harris, allegedly though stealing Harris's diary and trying to sell it.
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An excerpt from the beginning of the first story:
YOU, perhaps, have never taken a walk down Thompson Street right round the corner of Washington Square and, therefore, are not familiar with the row of a dozen or more small wooden houses which the irony of fate has left there among brick mansions and tenement buildings, a stone's throw away from the thundering Elevated; a sad memento of the Greenwich Village of yore.
But if you ever strolled past these houses you must have noticed the one whose door was painted white, which looked so clean amidst the ugliness of a neglected side street. Its windows shone in the sun; a couple of geraniums were on the window sill, and white muslin curtains swinging rhythmically with the blowing wind permitted now and then a peep into the rooms. The sidewalk was always well swept, and most likely a baby carriage would be standing before the open house door; a white baby carriage with netting spread all over it, a fat little baby slumbering peacefully in it, or playing with its tiny feet, searching with big black eyes for its mother. Often when I passed the little house I felt happy because there was such an idyll in this noisy side street. And we all are glad to see love in a little white cottage with a baby carriage standing in front of the door.
It is one of the tragedies of a big city that we live next to people who could be our friends and whose friends we could be, but whom we never meet We pass them daily; a change in the familiar surroundings would cause us to wonder and be curious, but we rarely take the initiative or trouble to inquire. We know we should lend our help if needed, but don't want to proffer it, and, therefore, we walk on and don't turn to the right or the left: ships that pass in the night.
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Guido Bruno (1884–1942) was a well-known Greenwich Village character, sometimes called 'the Barnum of Bohemia'.
He was based at his "Garret" on Washington Square where for an admission fee tourists could observe genuine "Bohemian" artists at work. He produced several little magazine publications from there, in particular around 1914-16: Greenwich Village magazine, then Bruno's Weekly, and the 15 cent Bruno Chap Books. He published Alfred Kreymborg, Djuna Barnes and Sadakichi Hartmann, letters of Oscar Wilde, Alfred Douglas, Richard Aldington on the Imagists. Others were Theodore Albert Schroeder, Edna W. Underwood, and Charles Kains-Jackson. In 1915-16 Bruno briefly partnered with Charles Edison in the operation of the "Little Thimble Theater" .
He was a close associate of Frank Harris, allegedly though stealing Harris's diary and trying to sell it.
***
An excerpt from the beginning of the first story:
YOU, perhaps, have never taken a walk down Thompson Street right round the corner of Washington Square and, therefore, are not familiar with the row of a dozen or more small wooden houses which the irony of fate has left there among brick mansions and tenement buildings, a stone's throw away from the thundering Elevated; a sad memento of the Greenwich Village of yore.
But if you ever strolled past these houses you must have noticed the one whose door was painted white, which looked so clean amidst the ugliness of a neglected side street. Its windows shone in the sun; a couple of geraniums were on the window sill, and white muslin curtains swinging rhythmically with the blowing wind permitted now and then a peep into the rooms. The sidewalk was always well swept, and most likely a baby carriage would be standing before the open house door; a white baby carriage with netting spread all over it, a fat little baby slumbering peacefully in it, or playing with its tiny feet, searching with big black eyes for its mother. Often when I passed the little house I felt happy because there was such an idyll in this noisy side street. And we all are glad to see love in a little white cottage with a baby carriage standing in front of the door.
It is one of the tragedies of a big city that we live next to people who could be our friends and whose friends we could be, but whom we never meet We pass them daily; a change in the familiar surroundings would cause us to wonder and be curious, but we rarely take the initiative or trouble to inquire. We know we should lend our help if needed, but don't want to proffer it, and, therefore, we walk on and don't turn to the right or the left: ships that pass in the night.
Sentimental Studies - Stories of Life and Love
Proofed and corrected from the original edition for enjoyable reading. (Worth every penny spent!)
***
Guido Bruno (1884–1942) was a well-known Greenwich Village character, sometimes called 'the Barnum of Bohemia'.
He was based at his "Garret" on Washington Square where for an admission fee tourists could observe genuine "Bohemian" artists at work. He produced several little magazine publications from there, in particular around 1914-16: Greenwich Village magazine, then Bruno's Weekly, and the 15 cent Bruno Chap Books. He published Alfred Kreymborg, Djuna Barnes and Sadakichi Hartmann, letters of Oscar Wilde, Alfred Douglas, Richard Aldington on the Imagists. Others were Theodore Albert Schroeder, Edna W. Underwood, and Charles Kains-Jackson. In 1915-16 Bruno briefly partnered with Charles Edison in the operation of the "Little Thimble Theater" .
He was a close associate of Frank Harris, allegedly though stealing Harris's diary and trying to sell it.
***
An excerpt from the beginning of the first story:
YOU, perhaps, have never taken a walk down Thompson Street right round the corner of Washington Square and, therefore, are not familiar with the row of a dozen or more small wooden houses which the irony of fate has left there among brick mansions and tenement buildings, a stone's throw away from the thundering Elevated; a sad memento of the Greenwich Village of yore.
But if you ever strolled past these houses you must have noticed the one whose door was painted white, which looked so clean amidst the ugliness of a neglected side street. Its windows shone in the sun; a couple of geraniums were on the window sill, and white muslin curtains swinging rhythmically with the blowing wind permitted now and then a peep into the rooms. The sidewalk was always well swept, and most likely a baby carriage would be standing before the open house door; a white baby carriage with netting spread all over it, a fat little baby slumbering peacefully in it, or playing with its tiny feet, searching with big black eyes for its mother. Often when I passed the little house I felt happy because there was such an idyll in this noisy side street. And we all are glad to see love in a little white cottage with a baby carriage standing in front of the door.
It is one of the tragedies of a big city that we live next to people who could be our friends and whose friends we could be, but whom we never meet We pass them daily; a change in the familiar surroundings would cause us to wonder and be curious, but we rarely take the initiative or trouble to inquire. We know we should lend our help if needed, but don't want to proffer it, and, therefore, we walk on and don't turn to the right or the left: ships that pass in the night.
***
Guido Bruno (1884–1942) was a well-known Greenwich Village character, sometimes called 'the Barnum of Bohemia'.
He was based at his "Garret" on Washington Square where for an admission fee tourists could observe genuine "Bohemian" artists at work. He produced several little magazine publications from there, in particular around 1914-16: Greenwich Village magazine, then Bruno's Weekly, and the 15 cent Bruno Chap Books. He published Alfred Kreymborg, Djuna Barnes and Sadakichi Hartmann, letters of Oscar Wilde, Alfred Douglas, Richard Aldington on the Imagists. Others were Theodore Albert Schroeder, Edna W. Underwood, and Charles Kains-Jackson. In 1915-16 Bruno briefly partnered with Charles Edison in the operation of the "Little Thimble Theater" .
He was a close associate of Frank Harris, allegedly though stealing Harris's diary and trying to sell it.
***
An excerpt from the beginning of the first story:
YOU, perhaps, have never taken a walk down Thompson Street right round the corner of Washington Square and, therefore, are not familiar with the row of a dozen or more small wooden houses which the irony of fate has left there among brick mansions and tenement buildings, a stone's throw away from the thundering Elevated; a sad memento of the Greenwich Village of yore.
But if you ever strolled past these houses you must have noticed the one whose door was painted white, which looked so clean amidst the ugliness of a neglected side street. Its windows shone in the sun; a couple of geraniums were on the window sill, and white muslin curtains swinging rhythmically with the blowing wind permitted now and then a peep into the rooms. The sidewalk was always well swept, and most likely a baby carriage would be standing before the open house door; a white baby carriage with netting spread all over it, a fat little baby slumbering peacefully in it, or playing with its tiny feet, searching with big black eyes for its mother. Often when I passed the little house I felt happy because there was such an idyll in this noisy side street. And we all are glad to see love in a little white cottage with a baby carriage standing in front of the door.
It is one of the tragedies of a big city that we live next to people who could be our friends and whose friends we could be, but whom we never meet We pass them daily; a change in the familiar surroundings would cause us to wonder and be curious, but we rarely take the initiative or trouble to inquire. We know we should lend our help if needed, but don't want to proffer it, and, therefore, we walk on and don't turn to the right or the left: ships that pass in the night.
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| BN ID: | 2940013219809 |
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| Publisher: | OGB |
| Publication date: | 10/06/2011 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 333 KB |
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