After a brilliant and fulfilling career, Charles Arrowby revels in his perfect refuge, an isolated home by the sea, but soon his complex past makes unbidden visits.
Archive for the ‘Literary’
Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters, 1957-1969
The first volume of Jack Kerouac’s selected letters, published in 1995, was hailed as an important and revealing addition to Kerouac scholarship. This second and final volume of letters, written between 1957, the year On the Road was published, to one day before his death in 1969 at age forty-seven, tell Kerouac’s life story through his candid correspondence with friends, confidants, and editors — among them Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Philip Whalen, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Joyce Johnson, and Malcolm Cowley. Documenting his continuing development as a writer, his travels, love affairs, and complicated family life, the letters also reveal Kerouac’s amazing courage in the face of criticism and his never-ending quest to be the best writer possible. Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters 1957-1969 offers unparalleled insight into the life and mind of this giant of the American literary landscape.
The Tiger in the Grass: Stories and Other Inventions
This collection of 15 short pieces reveals the same startling sensitivity and sculpted prose that made Harriet Doerr’s novels beloved bestsellers. In The Tiger in the Grass, Doerr explores the magical power of memory as it harvests experience, bringing us a wealth of unforgettable characters–all captured in the web of life with all the richness and beauty that distinguishes Doerr’s writing.
War And Peace
A major new translation of the classic work interweaves the stories of an idealist, a cynical intellectual, and a count’s daughter against a backdrop of Napoleon’s invasion of Russia, in a volume that attempts to resolve ambiguities of other modern translations and is complemented by character listings, battle descriptions, and chapter summaries. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.
The Pickwick Papers
The Pickwick Papers explores the perils, travels, and adventures of the Pickwick Club’s members: the founding chairman, former businessman and amateur scientist Mr. Pickwick; his trusted companion Sam Weller; the sportsman Winkle; the poet Snodgrass; and the lover Tracy Tupman. This Penguin Classic makes available the first volume edition of 1837 together with the original illustrations.
