Manuscripts
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
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Ghost train to the Eastern star : on the tracks of the great railway bazaar
Rare Books
In Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Theroux recreates an epic journey he took thirty years ago, a giant loop by train (mostly) through Eastern Europe, Turkey, the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, China, Japan, and Siberia. In short, he traverses all of Asia top to bottom, and end to end. In the three decades since he first travelled this route, Asia has undergone phenomenal change. The Soviet Union has collapsed, China has risen, India booms, Burma slowly smothers, and Vietnam prospers despite the havoc unleashed upon it the last time Theroux passed through. He witnesses all this and more in a 25,000 mile journey, travelling as the locals do, by train, car, bus, and foot, providing his penetrating observations on the changes these countries have undergone.--From publisher description.
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The great railway bazaar : by train through Asia
Manuscripts
Advance uncorrected proofs of the travelogue "The Great Railway Bazaar" in two volumes sent by the Houghton Mifflin Company to writer Graham Greene, with annotations by Theroux in the text to Greene. Signature and note of Theroux's annotations on the inside front cover by Greene. Accompanied by a three-page typescript document written by Paul Theroux, April 2017, describing the significance of these volumes.
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Professional correspondence and papers
Manuscripts
The professional correspondence (1963-2015), includes letters, notes, telegrams, faxes, cards, postcards from publishers, organizations, other writers, and readers. All letters are addressed to Paul Theroux unless otherwise noted; some folders also include correspondence from Paul Theroux. The agreements, literary contracts, correspondence, and royalty statements (1966-2015), include publishers, magazines and other publications, and literary agencies. The works by others (1969-2008), include a film treatment, novels, essays, poems, short stories, and a memoir written by, among others, Etienne Leroux, Alexander Theroux, Louis Theroux, Marcel Theroux, and Moritz Thomsen.
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Stranger on a Train: draft
Manuscripts
The collection is comprised primarily of the manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, and ephemera of Paul Theroux. His works are often semi-autobiographical and are based on his experiences living and traveling around the world. He is noted for his rich, sometimes ironic, description of people and places. The material comprises almost his entire career as a writer and includes multiple drafts of various works from working notebooks to printed galleys. The collection includes novels (1967-2016), short story collections (1972-2014), non-fiction and travel books (1972-2016), and shorter works including reviews, articles, short stories, plays, and lectures (1960-2015); the collection also includes Theroux's working and travel notebooks (1968-2014). The collection also contains professional papers and business correspondence (1963-2015), with publishers, agents, other authors and reader's letters; included in this material are letters from, among others, Eve Auchincloss, Peter De Vries, Margaret Drabble, Nadine Gordimer, Graham Greene, Blanche C. Gregory, Hamish Hamilton Ltd., Houghton Mifflin Company, V.S. Naipaul, Jonathan Raban, Oliver Sacks, Muriel Spark, Stephen Spender, William Styron, and Auberon Waugh. There is also a smaller amount of family material and personal correspondence (1939-2015), with family and friends; this correspondence includes Eugene Theroux, Alexander Theroux, Peter Theroux, Marcel Theroux, Louis Theroux, Anne Theroux, and various other family members. The ephemera consists of photographs, printed material and magazines (1941-1915).
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