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Lust for Life by Irving Stone (1984, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-100452262496

ISBN-139780452262492

eBay Product ID (ePID)991205

Product Key Features

Book TitleLust for Life

Number of Pages512 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicGeneral, Techniques / Oil Painting, Artists, Architects, Photographers, History / General

Publication Year1984

GenreArt, Fiction, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorIrving Stone

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.4 in

Item Weight14 Oz

Item Length7.9 in

Item Width5.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN83-024666

Reviews"A story of excruciating power."-- The New York Times "Whoever reads Lust for Life will gain all the important facts concerning the life of the painter... a poetic and touching portrayal."-- Christian Science Monitor "Extraordinary! A moving story retold with sensitiveness and insight."-- Forum "Thorough, sympathetic, skillful."-- Saturday Review of Literature, "A story of excruciating power."-- The New York Times "Whoever reads Lust for Life will gain all the important facts concerning the life of the painter... a poetic and touching portrayal."-- Christian Science Monitor "Extraordinary! A moving story retold with sensitiveness and insight."-- Forum "Thorough, sympathetic, skillful."-- Saturday Review of Literature

Dewey Edition19

Grade FromTwelfth Grade

Dewey Decimal813/.52

Grade ToUP

Table Of ContentLust for Life Prologue - London 1. L'ange aux poupons 2. Goupil and Company 3. In its own image, love creates love 4. "Let's forget it, shall we?" 5. The Van Goghs 6. "Why, you're nothing but a country boor!" 7. Ramsgate and Isleworth Book One - The Borinage 1. Amsterdam 2. Kay 3. A stuffy, provincial clergyman 4. Latin and Greek 5. Mendes da Costa 6. Where lies the greater strength? 7. Evangelical school 8. The Blackjaws 9. A miner's hut 10. Success! 11. Terril 12. Marcasse 13. A lesson in economics 14. Fragile 15. Black Egypt 16. Exit God 17. Bankruptcy 18. An incident of little importance 19. As one artist to another 20. Enter Theo 21. The old mill at Ryswyk Book Two - Etten 1. "There's a living in that!" 2. Fou 3. The student 4. Mijnheer Tersteeg 5. Anton Mauve 6. Kay comes to Etten 7. "No, never, never!" 8. There are some cities in which a man is forever ill-fated Book Three - The Hague 1. The first studio 2. Christine 3. Work in progress 4. A man needs a woman 5. "You must hurry and begin to sell!" 6. Goodness grows in curious places 7. Savoir souffir sans se plaindre 8. The merciless sword 9. Love 10. The Holy Family 11. Theo comes to the Hague 12. Fathers are funny 13. L'art, c'est un combat Book Four - Nuenen 1. A studio in the vicarage 2. The weavers 3. Margot 4. "It's loving that's important, not being loved" 5. Whither thou goest 6. Inquisition 7. "Your work is almost salable, but..." 8. The Potato Eaters Book Five - Paris 1. "Ah, yes, Paris!" 2. The explosion 3. "Why should anyone want to be a count when he can be a painter?" 4. Portrait of a primitive 5. Painting must become a science! 6. Rousseau gives a party 7. A poor wretch who hanged himself 8. Art goes amoral 9. Pere Tanguy 10. The Petit Boulevard 11. Art for the workingman 12. The Communist Art Colony 13. Southward, ever southward, to the sun! Book Six - Arles 1. Earthquake or revolution? 2. The painting machine 3. Le Pigeon 4. Postman 5. The Yellow House 6. Maya 7. Gaugin arrives 8. The sound and the fury 9. Fou-rou 10. "In existing society, the painter is but a broken vessel" Book Seven - St. Remy 1. Third Class Carriage 2. The fraternity of fous 3. An old crock is an old crock 4. "I discovered painting when I no longer had teeth or breath" Book Eight - Auvers 1. The first one-man exhibition 2. A specialist in nervous diseases 3. One cannot paint goodbye 4. A more resilient earth 5. "And in their death they were not divided"

Synopsis"A story of excruciating power."-- The New York Times The classic, bestselling biographical novel of Vincent Van Gogh Since its initial publication in 1934, Irving Stone's Lust for Life has been a critical success, a multimillion-copy bestseller, and the basis for an Academy Award-winning movie. The most famous of all of Stone's novels, it is the story of Vincent Van Gogh--brilliant painter, passionate lover, and alleged madman. Here is his tempestuous story: his dramatic life, his fevered loves for both the highest-born women and the lowest prostitutes, and his paintings--for which he was damned before being proclaimed a genius. The novel takes us from his desperate days in a coal mine in southern Belgium to his dazzling years in the south of France, where he knew the most brilliant artists (and the most depraved whores). Finally, it shows us Van Gogh driven mad, tragic, and triumphant at once. No other novel of a great man's life has so fascinated the American public for generations.

LC Classification NumberPS3537.T669L8 1984