Garrets and Pretenders and the Quartet in C

and the Quartet in C Minor

so deeply felt

this text provides undergraduates with a straightforward guide to special functions

Reprint of the Faber & Faber

Garrets and Pretenders and the Quartet in CHailed as "thoroughly fascinating" and "an excellent account" by The New York Times, this chronicle recaptures the vibrantly eccentric lifestyles of generations of free spirited Americans. Its evocative profiles range from Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, and Ambrose Bierce to lesser known nonconformists and iconoclasts. Hoboes, starving poets, suffragettes, and artists' models populate these pages, forming a bustling panoply of banquets, suicides, and