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Emily Kimbrough

Harper & Row, 1964

WONDERFUL PLEASURE READING!
This book takes the reader to Greece in the year 1964, along with Emily Kimbrough and three of her travelling companions. It has several chapters with titles which are stories that illustrate the Greek culture. The rest of the book is simply a delightful travelogue in Emily Kimbrough's usual style. Although the book must be considered a period piece in that the trip described took place nearly ...

Our Hearts Were Young and Gay

13 reviews
Cornelia Otis Skinner, Emily Kimbrough

Bantam Books, 1958

Hilarious, naive, a simpler time!
Cornelia Otis skinner is the real comedienne of this pair of authors and injects a lot more humor into this book, as opposed to most of Kimbrough's solo works. You cannot imagine two more naive college girls traveling about Europe in the 1920's. It was a simpler time, and today has great appeal to one's nostalgic side. If you get a chance to pick up a used copy, do so!

Our Hearts Were Young And Gay: An Unforgettable Comic Chronicle of Innocents Abroad in the 1920s

4 reviews
Cornelia Otis Skinner, Emily Kimbrough

Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2005

Heartwarming and hilarious
Having first watched the black-and-white movie based on this book, I was eager to meet Cornelia and Emily again inside its pages, and was not disappointed. The story of two young girls taking their first trip abroad, Our Hearts Were Young and Gay is the true story of their adventures, ranging from heartwarming to hilarious. Some memorable incidents: Emily throwing a deckchair over the side of the ...

Through Charley's Door

2 reviews
Emily Kimbrough

Harpercollins, 1952

intriguing account of working in a 1920's department store
Ms. Kimbrough's first job was at the Marshall Field & Company department store in Chicago. She began in the advertising department in 1923, knowing nothing. Through her eyes and experiences, we learn with her all about the people and inner workings of such a place. Her vivid and amusing style catch you up and make you crave for (as she did) her daily chats with dept. store "heads." During her ...

Forty Plus and Fancy Free: The gay excursion of youthful grandmothers romping through Paris and Italy and ...
Emily Kimbrough

Harper & Brothers, 1954

Now and Then
Emily Kimbrough

Harper & Row, 1972

How Dear to My Heart (Library of Indiana Classics)

1 review
Emily Kimbrough

Indiana University Press, 1991

I'll read anything by Emily!
Emily Kimbrough is the co-author, with Cornelia Otis Skinner, of the classic, OUR HEARTS WERE YOUNG AND GAY. On her own, she was a prolific author, and I wish that her publishers would re-issue more of her books. HOW DEAR TO MY HEART is a 1991 re-issue, underwritten by the Delaware County Historic Society, of her reminiscence of her earliest childhood in Muncie, Indiana at the turn of the 20th ...

AND A RIGHT GOOD CREW
EMILY KIMBROUGH

Harper & Brothers, 1958

Home Country/Mrs Mike/On Being a Real Person/Farmer Takes a Wife/Peace of Mind/Lost Boundaries/Our Hearts ...

1 review
Ernie Pyle, Benedict & Nancy Freedman, ...

Reader's Digest Association, 1948

Additional Books
The remainder of the books in this volume are We Shook the Family Tree by Hildegard Dolson, Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin, Spoonhandle by Ruth Moore, Biography of the Unborn by Margaret Shea Gilbert, Anna & the King of Siam by Margaret Landon and How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie.