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Jay Parini
An intimate, authorized yet totally frank biography of Gore Vidal (1925-2012), one of the most accomplished, visible, and controversial American novelists and cultural figures of the past century
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Bruce Piasecki
In Doing More with One Life, best-selling author Piasecki welcomes the reader into his home, revealing the heart-breaking early death of his father, and his deep respect and love for…
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Robert Frost, Jay Parini
Celebrate Robert Frost's 150th birthday with a deluxe keepsake edition featuring 16 of his greatest poems-with brilliant essays highlighting his special genius and the power of memorization to unlock the…
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Jay Parini (b. 1948) is best known for his novel about Leo Tolstoy’s last year, The Last Station, but he has also published numerous volumes of poetry; biographies of William…
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Interviews with the author of The Last Station, Why Poetry Matters, Promised Land: Thirteen Books that Changed America, and The Passages of H. M.: A Novel of Herman Melville
John Steinbeck
A witty, incisive classic of road-trip literature, from one of the great champions and critics of the American identity
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From the author of the international bestseller The Last Station, a superb historical novel of the Apostle Paul, whose tireless and epic preaching of the message of Jesus brought Christianity…
Examines the importance of the poetic voice and the mysteries of metaphor. This book argues that a poet’s originality depends on a deep understanding of the traditions of political poetry…
This volume includes essays on Toni Morrison’s Beloved , J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye , Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita , John Updike’s Rabbit, Run and others. It also features timelines…
This title covers approximately 24 of the most influential works of British literature, including Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales , Jane Austen’s Emma , Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations and James…
By 1910, Leo Tolstoy had become an almost religious figure, surrounded on his lavish estate by family and followers alike. Too ill to continue beyond the tiny station of Astapovo…
Drawing on three decades of new material, a major portrait of the twentieth-century author of The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, and Absalom Absalom sets his fictional…
A powerful and moving novel recounting the life and death of Walter Benjamin from the award-winning author.
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An intimate and magical memoir about embarking on a road trip with Borges through Scotland and the famed writer’s thoughts on literature, love and poetry.
A new collection of poems from celebrated poet, novelist, and biographer Jay Parini This new collection from acclaimed poet Jay Parini, the first in well over a decade, revolves around…
Renowned poet and novelist Jay Parini’s The Way of Jesus is a book for progressive Christians and spiritual seekers who struggle, as Parini does, with some of the basic questions…
A new book, the first in over a decade, from acclaimed poet Jay Parini;;This volume revolves around his deep connection to nature and underlines his concerns about the impacts of…
Originally published: New York: Henry Holt and Co., c1990.
From the author of the international bestseller The Last Station comes a stirring novel about the adventurous life and tragic literary career of Herman Melville.
An apprentice writer has an entirely unexpected encounter with literary genius Jorge Luis Borges that will profoundly alter his life and work –
A four-volume set comprising 350 substantive critical and interpretive essays on the most-studies American authors, literary masterworks, and genres or movements, arranged in alphabetical order.The |Encyclopedia is available in print…
The acclaimed and now-classic biographical novel of Walter Benjamin’s last days is part tragedy, part dark comedy, and one of the great and most moving peripheral stories of the Holocaust.
Parini spent more than 20 years interviewing friends of Frost and working in the poet’s archives to produce this definitive and insightful portrait of both the public and private man…
This collection of critical essays attempts to construct a comprehensive portrait of Vidal’s writings and to determine why his work has been underestimated. It includes an interview with Vidal in…
This major anthology includes all of the major American poets–Anne Bradstreet, Walt Whitman, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Adrienne Rich–but also a broad sampling from voices that have not been widely…
Distinguished poet and novelist Jay Parini presents some of his best writings – both classic and previously unpublished works – on topics ranging from baseball to Frost and Emerson to…
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This is a supplementary text to American Writers - a title that features a collection of critical and biographical articles that cover notable American authors from the 17th century onwards.
Among the 18 authors in this supplement to American Writers are Paul Auster, Robert Olen Butler, J.D. McClatchy, Frank McCourt, Sue Miller and Ann Patchett.
Including 18 additional authors, this supplement aims to round out the American Writers set.
This supplement to American Writers covers 18 writers, including Stephen Vincent Benet, Michael Chabon, Harry Crews, Mark Doty, Terry Southern and Richard Yates.
When Alex Massolini’s brother is killed in Vietnam, he drops out of school to live in Capri and serve as secretary to world-famous writer Rupert Grant. Told with wry humor…
This supplement reflects contemporary scholarship on some of the most important figures featured in the original British Writers set. 20 new articles, all written by scholars, provide a fresh look…
Twenty-two of the most studied and most popular writers in British literature are re-examined in this second retrospective supplement to the British Writers series. Authors covered include Jane Austen, Chaucer…
Including 19 additional authors, this supplement aims to round out the American Writers set.
Including 18 additional authors, this supplement rounds out the American Writers set.
This supplement adds essays on an additional 25 writers to the British Writers set.
Among the 18 authors included in this supplement to American Writers are Rachel Carson, Zelda Fitzgerald, John Muir, Dorothy Parker and Henry Roth.
Among the 18 authors profiled in this supplement to American Writers are Madison Smartt Bell, Alice Hoffman, Paul Monette, Anais Nin, Tom Robbins and Amy Tan.
This supplement continues the British Writers series with biocritical essays on 22 acclaimed writers. The writers covered include Simon Armitage, Alan Bennett, Wendy Cope and T.F. Powys.
Professor Jay Parini (Middlebury College)
Parini examines the life and times of 13 books that have changed America. Each of the books has been a watershed, gathering intellectual currents and marking a turn in American…
The essential American form of expression. -from the Introduction by Jay Parini
Leo Tolstoy
A collection of Leo Tolstoy’s autobiographical writing, diaries, and letters related to the last year of Tolstoy’s life.
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At age 58, Steinbeck and his poodle, Charley, embarked on a journey across America. This chronicle of their trip meanders from small towns, to growing cities, and to glorious wilderness…
