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Vermont

A Novel of Tolstoy’s Last Year

The Last Station

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New York

A Novel of Tolstoy's Final Year

As Leo Tolstoy lies on his deathbed, his wife, Sofya Andreyevna, and his disciple, Vladimir Chertkov, battle for his soul, in a novel showing this great author and the contradictions in his life, work, and doctrine.

Small tear on dust jacket (see pics). Pet free smoke free home. Willing to bundle with other listings.!

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Florida

A Novel of Saint Paul

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 into existence and changed human history forever.

In the years after Christ's crucifixion, Paul of Tarsus, a prosperous tentmaker and Jewish scholar, took it upon himself to persecute the small groups of his followers that sprung up. But on the road to Damascus, he had some sort of blinding vision, a profound conversion experience that transformed Paul into the most effective and influential messenger Christianity has ever had. In The Damascus Road novelist Jay Parini brings this fascinating and ever-controversial figure to full human life, capturing his visionary passions and vast contradictions. In relating Paul's epic journeys, both geographical and spiritual, he unfolds a vivid panorama of the ancient world on the verge of epochal change. And in the alternating voice of the Gospel writer Luke, Paul's travel companion, scribe, and ghostwriter, a cooler perspective on his actions and beliefs emerges -- ironic but still filled with wonder at Paul's unshakable commitment to the Christ and his divinity.

The Damascus Road

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1995 stated first edition. Excellent book and dust jacket.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Arizona

A Biography

John Steinbeck

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Illinois

A Life of Gore Vidal

"The life of Gore Vidal was an amazingly full one: full of colorful incident, famous people, and lasting achievements that calls out for careful evocation and examination. Jay Parini crafts Vidal's life into [a] ... story that puts the experience of one of the great American figures of the postwar era into context; introduces the author and his works to a generation who may not know him; and looks behind the scenes at the man and his work in ways never possible before his death"--Amazon.com.

Empire of Self

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Rare first edition in excellent condition. 

Writer Against the Grain

Gore Vidal, known for such best-sellers as The City and the Pillar, Burr, Lincoln, and Myra Breckinridge, is a household name. The controversial Vidal ran for Congress in 1960, and set sparks flying with his public debates challenging William F. Buckley and Norman Mailer. Although one of America's most admired and prolific writers, Vidal has been steadfastly ignored or impugned by many critics. This is partly owing to the vast scope of his writings, which include more than twenty novels, half a dozen plays, dozens of screenplays, countless essays and book reviews, political commentary, and short stories; how do the critics approach such a writer? There has also been backlash against Vidal, whose radical polemics and undisguised contempt for those whom he has called "the hacks and hicks of academe" have hardly endeared him to the critical establishment.Gore Vidal: Writer Against the Grain is the first collection of critical essays to approach this important American writer in an attempt to rectify the unwarranted underestimation of his work. Jay Parini has drawn from the best of previously published criticism and commissioned fresh articles by leading contemporary critics to construct a comprehensive portrait of Vidal's multifaceted and memorable career. Writers as diverse as Harold Bloom, Stephen Spender, Catharine R. Stimpson, Richard Poirier, and Italo Calvino examine Vidal's work in their own highly individual ways, and each finds a different Vidal to celebrate, chide, recollect, or view close up. Also included is a recent interview with Parini in which Vidal discusses his career and his troubled relationship with the reviewers.The Vidal that finally emerges from these essays is a writer of undeniable weight and importance. As readers will agree, Gore Vidal: Writer Against the Grain establishes his rightful role as one of the premier novelists and leading critical observers of this century.

Gore Vidal

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Previous library book, please see photos for details. 

Oregon

Discusses the challenges that educators face in teaching.

The Art of Teaching

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Jay Parini was born in Pittston, Pennsylvania in 1948. In 1970 he graduated from Lafayette College and he received a doctorate from the University of St. Andrews in 1975. Before becoming a professor of Engliah and Creative Writing at Vermont's Middlebury College in 1982, Parini taught at Dartmouth College. Parini writes poetry, novels, biographies, and criticism, and he has published numerous reviews and essays in major journals and newspapers. He co-founded the New England Review in 1976. In 1995, he was appointed literary executor for author Gore Vidal. A film version of The Last Station, his 1990 novel, was released in 2009. Parini's novel, One Matchless Time: A Life of William Faulkner, made the New York Times bestseller list in 2015.


Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Nevada

Unlike most other poetry anthologies, arranged only chronologically or limited to the exploration of one type of poem, Jay Parini's WADSWORTH ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY collects 24 smaller, more accessible anthologies in one volume. With the guidance of an editorial board of pre-eminent literary scholars and world-renown poets, Parini has offers a meaningful structure to an ambitious collection, spanning from Beowulf to Jorie Graham. More a teaching and learning text than a definitive body of work, Parini's arrangement of poetry by form, content, and context offers a new way of looking at the teaching of poetry.

The Wadsworth Anthology of Poetry

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Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

This fascinating reassessment of America's most popular and famous poet reveals a more complex and enigmatic man than many readers might expect. Jay Parini spent over twenty years interviewing friends of Frost and working in the poet's archives at Dartmouth, Amherst, and elsewhere to produce this definitive and insightful portrait of both the public and private man. While he depicts the various stages of Frost's colorful life, Parini also sensitively explores the poet's psyche, showing how he dealt with adversity, family tragedy, and depression. By taking the reader into the poetry itself, which he reads closely and brilliantly, Parini offers an insightful road map to Frost's remarkable world.

Robert Frost

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Hardcover book , new, unread, with the exception of a small yellow highlighter mark on the outer pages as shown in last picture. #StPaul #SaintPaul #Bible #Christianity #Jesus #historical #StLuke #religion #Gospel #Apostle 

Maryland

Delaware

Excellent like new condition as shown! All books come hand packed and tissue wrapped. Thank you for shopping my bookstore! 📚

ISBN 9780805047004. 

Product information
Publisher	‎Henry Holt & Co; First Edition (January 1, 1995)
Language	‎English
Hardcover	‎535 pages
ISBN-10	‎0805016732
ISBN-13	‎978-0805016734
Item Weight	‎2.1 pounds
Dimensions	‎6.5 x 1.75 x 9.5 inches
Best Sellers Rank	#1,893,972 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
#9,759 in Author Biographies
Customer Reviews	4.4 out of 5 stars 45Reviews

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John Steinbeck: a biography

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Pennsylvania

Living a spiritual and ethical life

The way of jesus

English

The complete poetry of Edgar Allan Poe 

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Texas

A Life of William Faulkner

"Nothing less than spellbinding . . . It's an eye-opener. Anecdotal without being tawdry, analytical without being academic, it captures the essence of Faulkner's life with the narrative drive of a novel." -- Houston Chronicle

"A splendid life of William Faulkner . . . Not only readable but downright enthralling." -- Seattle Times

William Faulkner was a literary genius, and one of America's most important and influential writers. Drawing on previously unavailable sources--including letters, memoirs, and interviews with Faulkner's daughter and lovers--Jay Parini has crafted a biography that delves into the mystery of this gifted and troubled writer. His Faulkner is an extremely talented, obsessive artist plagued by alcoholism and a bad marriage who somehow transcends his limitations. Parini weaves the tragedies and triumphs of Faulkner's life in with his novels, serving up a biography that's as engaging as it is insightful.

One Matchless Time

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Ken Ciongoli

The Story of Italian Immigration and the Rebirth of America

Passage to Liberty recaptures the drama of the 19th and 20th century immigration to America through photos, letters, and other artifacts -- uniquely replicated in three-dimensional facsimile form. In the tradition of Lest We Forget, Chronicle's bestselling interactive tour through the African American experience, the text uses the stories of individuals and families -- from early explorers, through the wave of 19th century impoverished families, to contemporary figures -- to recapture the rich heritage the Italian people carried with them over the waves, and planted anew in the American soil. Among the topics covered here are: The roots of American democracy in Roman history The migration of 15 million Italians, 1880-1920 Catholicism in Italian-American culture Food, music, and other Italian cultural traditions The Mafia: myth and reality Cultural icons: DiMaggio, Sinatra, Madonna & more As vibrant and packed full of history as previous volumes in this extraordinary series, Passage to Liberty is a splendid and loving tribute to the Italian-American experience.

Passage to Liberty

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Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy's deterministic art achieves fanatic intensity and raw perfection in the characterzation of Jude Fawley, an impoversihed stonemason who aspires to the ministry. Throughout his agonized existence, the cloistered halls and facades of Christminster, where Jude longs to study, sadistically invite him to rid himself of ignorance. His failure to fulfill the opposite expectations of the two women he loves and the violent deaths of his children thwart him in this ideal and point to his destruction.Concerned with the annihilation of innocence, Jude the Obscure is a raging indictment of Victorian society. The censure attending its appearance was almost without precedent in the history of English literature. D.H. Lawrence detected "a constant revelation... a great background, vital and vivid.... This is the wonder of Hardy's novels, and gives them their beauty."Author Jay Parini's introduction gives contemporary perspective to this controversial classic.

Jude the Obscure

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Idaho

(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

A collectible 50th anniversary deluxe edition featuring an updated introduction by Jay Parini and first edition cover art and illustrated maps of Steinbeck's route by Don Freeman

A Penguin Classic

In September 1960, John Steinbeck embarked on a journey across America. He felt that he might have lost touch with the country, with its speech, the smell of its grass and trees, its color and quality of light, the pulse of its people. To reassure himself, he set out on a voyage of rediscovery of the American identity, accompanied by a distinguished French poodle named Charley; and riding in a three-quarter-ton pickup truck named Rocinante.
 
His course took him through almost forty states: northward from Long Island to Maine; through the Midwest to Chicago; onward by way of Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana (with which he fell in love), and Idaho to Seattle, south to San Francisco and his birthplace, Salinas; eastward through the Mojave, New Mexico, Arizona, to the vast hospitality of Texas, to New Orleans and a shocking drama of desegregation; finally, on the last leg, through Alabama, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey to New York.

Travels with Charley in Search of America is an intimate look at one of America's most beloved writers in the later years of his life--a self-portrait of a man who never wrote an explicit autobiography. Written during a time of upheaval and racial tension in the South--which Steinbeck witnessed firsthand--Travels with Charley is a stunning evocation of America on the eve of a tumultuous decade. This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition also features French flaps and deckle-edged paper.


For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Travels with Charley in Search of America 50ty Anniversary Edition 

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

Ruth Prigozy

Ohio

Anthony Patch discovers that the excesses of his financially-secure world prevent him from finding married happiness.

The Beautiful and Damned

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Washington

Edgar Allan. Poe

April Bernard

Minnesota

A collection of Poe's classic poetry that includes classic poems such as "To Helen" and "The Raven" alongside lesser-known poems such as "Alone."

The Complete Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe

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Internally, this copy is like new. Externally, there is light wear to the corners and spine ends. Note small crease to top corner of the flyleaf.

Travels with Charley in Search of America

California

An intimate journey across America, as told by one of its most beloved writers

A Penguin Classic

In September 1960, John Steinbeck embarked on a journey across America. He felt that he might have lost touch with the country, with its speech, the smell of its grass and trees, its color and quality of light, the pulse of its people. To reassure himself, he set out on a voyage of rediscovery of the American identity, accompanied by a distinguished French poodle named Charley; and riding in a three-quarter-ton pickup truck named Rocinante.

His course took him through almost forty states: northward from Long Island to Maine; through the Midwest to Chicago; onward by way of Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana (with which he fell in love), and Idaho to Seattle, south to San Francisco and his birthplace, Salinas; eastward through the Mojave, New Mexico, Arizona, to the vast hospitality of Texas, to New Orleans and a shocking drama of desegregation; finally, on the last leg, through Alabama, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey to New York.

Travels with Charley in Search of America is an intimate look at one of America's most beloved writers in the later years of his life--a self-portrait of a man who never wrote an explicit autobiography. Written during a time of upheaval and racial tension in the South--which Steinbeck witnessed firsthand--Travels with Charley is a stunning evocation of America on the eve of a tumultuous decade. This Penguin Classics edition includes an introduction by Jay Parini.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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Empire of Self

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The Art of Teaching

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The Damascus Road

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John Steinbeck: a biography

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The complete poetry of Edgar Allan Poe

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One Matchless Time

Ken Ciongoli; Jay Parini

Passage to Liberty

Thomas Hardy; Jay Parini

Jude the Obscure

John Steinbeck; Jay Parini

Travels with Charley in Search of America 50ty Anniversary Edition

F. Scott Fitzgerald; Jay Parini; Ruth Prigozy

The Beautiful and Damned

F. Scott Fitzgerald; Jay Parini; Ruth Prigozy

The Beautiful and Damned

Edgar Allan. Poe; Jay Parini; April Bernard

The Complete Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe

John Steinbeck; Jay Parini

Travels with Charley in Search of America

John Steinbeck; Jay Parini

Travels with Charley in Search of America

F. Scott Fitzgerald; Jay Parini; Ruth Prigozy

The Beautiful and Damned