Emily Hahn

• Apr-2020
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Seductio Ad Absurdum by Emily Hahn is a witty, incisive, and daring work that straddles the boundaries between social satire, psychological study, and feminist commentary. First published in 1930, the book captures the restless intellectual and emoti...

• Nov-2015
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After her sojourn in England, vivacious Francie Nelson strikes out on her own -- but this time she's not reluctant to do it. Her goal? To become a famous artist. Unfortunately, after she unexpectedly ends up spending a year in Portugal, she i...

• Nov-2015
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Francie, who has been traveling through Europe for more than five years, now finds herself resentful upon returning to her Midwest hometown Jefferson to deal with a family crisis. When she gets home, Francie confronts a crisis of her own ...

• Nov-2015
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Seventeen-year-old Francie Nelson is charming, saucy, and spoiled. Her father thinks it would be a good idea for her to see how other people live -- in this case, the other people are the English. So she packs up and, with heels dragging the whole wa...

• Apr-2015
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If you look at history through Emily Hahn's jaundiced eyes, you'll realize that romance just ain't what romantics crack it up to be. Using such notorious affairs as those of Caesar and Cleopatra or Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, Hahn reminds us that lov...

• Apr-2014
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A revolutionary woman for her time, Emily Hahn takes us on an adventure through the many faces that populate the landscape of China. Blending fiction and nonfiction seamlessly, Emily Hahn looks at everything and everyone she met on her breathtaking j...

• Apr-2014
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A novel about an enterprising Shanghai streetwalker from the American literary treasure and author of the memoir China to Me ( The New Yorker ). Meet Miss Jill, a young woman pursuing the oldest profession in prewar Shanghai. Fifteen, blonde, a...

• Apr-2014
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Mr. Pan is no highly-placed official. Mr. Pan is the Mr. Smith of China -- an ordinary man with extraordinary reach -- and China, like America, depends as much on its Mr. Pans as on its powerful and world famous officials. Here, in a series of linked...

• Sep-2013
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Emily Hahn was an eccentric, spirited and independent writer and engineer whose insatiable wanderlust compelled her to spend most of her life traveling around the world. Beginners Luck, her first novel, chronicles a colony of misfits and outcasts in ...

• Jan-1977
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