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The Old Man At The Railroad Crossing And Other Tales
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Book Synopsis The Old Man at the Railroad Crossing and Other Tales by : William Maxwell
Download or read book The Old Man at the Railroad Crossing and Other Tales written by William Maxwell and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 1987 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of twenty-nine short stories that provide insight into many types of human characters and traits.
Book Synopsis The Old Man at the Railroad Crossing and Other Tales by : William Maxwell
Download or read book The Old Man at the Railroad Crossing and Other Tales written by William Maxwell and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these tales, with one foot firmly planted in the present, Maxwell brings a certain sophisticated urbanity to the oral traditions of the fable and fairy tale. "The total effect is of something midway between the Brothers Grimm and Kafka, with perhaps a touch of Zen." (NYRB April 1966) While modern enough in locale and context, they are as old as humanity itself in what concerns them. And always that voice, the age old voice of the storyteller, the eternal magic of the speaking human voice. Such simplicity takes true artistry and Maxwell has that in spades.
Download or read book Short Story Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die by : James Mustich
Download or read book 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die written by James Mustich and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 961 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The ultimate literary bucket list.” —THE WASHINGTON POST Celebrate the pleasure of reading and the thrill of discovering new titles in an extraordinary book that’s as compulsively readable, entertaining, surprising, and enlightening as the 1,000-plus titles it recommends. Covering fiction, poetry, science and science fiction, memoir, travel writing, biography, children’s books, history, and more, 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die ranges across cultures and through time to offer an eclectic collection of works that each deserve to come with the recommendation, You have to read this. But it’s not a proscriptive list of the “great works”—rather, it’s a celebration of the glorious mosaic that is our literary heritage. Flip it open to any page and be transfixed by a fresh take on a very favorite book. Or come across a title you always meant to read and never got around to. Or, like browsing in the best kind of bookshop, stumble on a completely unknown author and work, and feel that tingle of discovery. There are classics, of course, and unexpected treasures, too. Lists to help pick and choose, like Offbeat Escapes, or A Long Climb, but What a View. And its alphabetical arrangement by author assures that surprises await on almost every turn of the page, with Cormac McCarthy and The Road next to Robert McCloskey and Make Way for Ducklings, Alice Walker next to Izaac Walton. There are nuts and bolts, too—best editions to read, other books by the author, “if you like this, you’ll like that” recommendations , and an interesting endnote of adaptations where appropriate. Add it all up, and in fact there are more than six thousand titles by nearly four thousand authors mentioned—a life-changing list for a lifetime of reading. “948 pages later, you still want more!” —THE WASHINGTON POST
Book Synopsis What There Is to Say We Have Said by : Suzanne Marrs
Download or read book What There Is to Say We Have Said written by Suzanne Marrs and published by HMH. This book was released on 2011-05-12 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters revealing a lost literary world—and a unique friendship between a brilliant author and a New Yorker editor. For over fifty years, Eudora Welty and William Maxwell, two of our most admired writers, penned letters to each other. They shared their worries about work and family, literary opinions and scuttlebutt, and moments of despair and hilarity. Living half a continent apart, their friendship was nourished and maintained by their correspondence. What There Is to Say We Have Said bears witness to Welty and Maxwell’s editorial relationship—both in Maxwell’s capacity as New Yorker editor and in their collegial back-and-forth on their work. It’s also a chronicle of the literary world of the time; they talk of James Thurber, William Shawn, Katherine Anne Porter, J. D. Salinger, Isak Dinesen, William Faulkner, John Updike, Virginia Woolf, Walker Percy, Ford Madox Ford, John Cheever, and many more. It is a treasure trove of reading recommendations. Here, Suzanne Marrs—Welty’s biographer and friend—offers an unprecedented window into two intertwined lives. Through careful collection of more than three hundred letters as well as her own insightful introductions, she gives us “a vivid snapshot of 20th-century intellectual life and an informative glimpse of the author-editor relationship, as well a tender portrait of devoted friendship” (Kirkus Reviews).
Download or read book Cheever written by Blake Bailey and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-03-09 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Cheever spent much of his career impersonating a perfect suburban gentleman, the better to become one of the foremost chroniclers of postwar America. Written with unprecedented access to essential sources—including Cheever’s massive journal, only a fraction of which has ever been published—Bailey’s Cheever is a stunning example of the biographer’s art and a brilliant tribute to an essential author.
Book Synopsis "A Study Guide for William Keepers Maxwell Jr.'s ""So Long, See You Tomorrow""" by : Gale, Cengage
Download or read book "A Study Guide for William Keepers Maxwell Jr.'s ""So Long, See You Tomorrow""" written by Gale, Cengage and published by Gale, Cengage Learning. This book was released on 2018-12-13 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Study Guide for William Keepers Maxwell Jr.'s ""So Long, See You Tomorrow"", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs."
Book Synopsis William Maxwell by : Barbara A. Burkhardt
Download or read book William Maxwell written by Barbara A. Burkhardt and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known as the longtime fiction editor at The New Yorker, William Maxwell worked closely with greats like Vladimir Nabokov, John Updike, Mary McCarthy, John Cheever, and many others. His own novels include They Came Like Swallows and So Long, See You Tomorrow, and have become so highly acclaimed that many now consider him to be one of the twentieth-century's most important writers. Barbara A. Burkhardt's William Maxwell: A Literary Life represents the first major critical study of Maxwell's life and work.Writing with an economy and elegance befitting her subject, Burkhardt addresses Maxwell's highly autobiographical fiction by skillfully interweaving his biography with her own critical interpretations. She begins each chapter with commentary on the biographical circumstances and literary influences that affected each of his compositions. By contextualizing his novels and short stories in terms of events including his mother's early death from influenza, his marriage, and the role of his psychoanalysis under the guidance of Theodore Reik, Burkhardt's subsequent literary analyses achieve an unprecedented depth.Drawing on a wide range of previously unavailable material, Burkhardt includes letters written to Maxwell by authors like Eudora Welty and Louise Bogan, excerpts from Maxwell's unpublished manuscripts and correspondence, and her own interviews with key figures from his life, including John Updike, Roger Angell, New Yorker fiction editor Robert Henderson, and Maxwell's family and friends. She also presents several lengthy sessions with Maxwell himself.A must for anyone already familiar with the understated charms of Maxwell's writing, this volume also represents a major addition to the growing collection of New Yorker lore, sure to fascinate anyone interested in the fiction, history, and personalities connected with the most influential weekly.Barbara A. Burkhardt is an assistant professor of English at the University of Illinois at Springfield. A close acquaintance of Maxwell, she organized his correspondence for the Maxwell archives at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign library, as well as writing the catalog for two exhibitions.
Book Synopsis A Step from Death by : Larry Woiwode
Download or read book A Step from Death written by Larry Woiwode and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critically acclaimed poet, novelist, and memoirist Larry Woiwode returns to the fertile territory of his life in this stirring memoir. In this deeply afflicting memoir, Larry Woiwode addresses his son as heir to his emotional interior. A man of be...
Book Synopsis Time Will Darken It by : William Maxwell
Download or read book Time Will Darken It written by William Maxwell and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-09-23 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pregnant with her second child, Martha King finds her marriage to lawyer Austin King more and more frustrating when her husband befriends his young foster cousin, Nora, and, in the process, unwittingly jeopardizes his marriage, career, and place in the community.
Download or read book The Chateau written by William Maxwell and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-02-08 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1948 and a young American couple arrive in France for a holiday, full of anticipation and enthusiasm. But the countryside and people are war-battered, and their reception at the Chateau Beaumesnil is not all the open-hearted Americans could wish for.
Download or read book The New Criterion written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Conversations with William Maxwell by : William Maxwell
Download or read book Conversations with William Maxwell written by William Maxwell and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2012-05-09 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conversations with William Maxwell collects thirty-eight interviews, public speeches, and remarks that span five decades of the esteemed novelist and New Yorker editor's career. The interviews collectively address the entirety of Maxwell's literary work--with in-depth discussion of his short stories, essays, and novels including They Came Like Swallows, The Folded Leaf, and the American Book award-winning So Long, See You Tomorrow--as well as his forty-year tenure as a fiction editor working with such luminaries as John Updike, John Cheever, Eudora Welty, Vladimir Nabokov, and J.D. Salinger. Maxwell's words spoken before a crowd, some previously unpublished, pay moving tribute to literary friends and mentors, and offer reflections on the artistic life, the process of writing, and his Midwestern heritage. All retain the reserved poignancy of his fiction. The volume publishes for the first time the full transcript of Maxwell's extensive interviews with his biographer and, in an introduction, correspondence with writers including Updike and Saul Bellow, which enlivens the stories behind his interviews and appearances.
Download or read book Best Sellers written by and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Best Books for Academic Libraries written by and published by Best Books Incorporated. This book was released on 2002 with total page 1132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books recommended for undergraduate and college libraries listed by Library of Congress Classification Numbers.
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Download or read book New York Times Saturday Book Review Supplement written by and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 1336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series by : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1968 with total page 1216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
