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“michael gorra”

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  • The Daily Henry James

    A Year of Quotes from the Work of the Master

    by Henry James ...
    "The virtue of The Daily Henry James is how rousingly it distills the exhortation that echoes across James's work: Seize the day!"— The Wall Street JournalFirst published with novelist Henry James's approval in 1911 as the ultimate token of fandom—a limited edition quote-of-the-day collection titled The Henry James Year Book—this new edition remains a timeless delight for modern readers. Drawing ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On Writers and Writing

    Selected Essays

    by Henry James ...
    A new selection of Henry James's essays on the art of writing, from his famous essay "The Art of Fiction" to pieces on George Eliot, Ivan Turgenev, Honoré de Balzac, and others. Witty, erudite, and passionate, James's essays are a delight for any lover of the written word."James knew how to be generous without sacrificing the truth. What lends dignity and breadth to [his essays] above their ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Saddest Words

    William Faulkner's Civil War

    by Michael Gorra ...
    A “timely and essential” (New York Times Book Review) reconsideration of William Faulkner’s life and legacy that vitally asks, “How should we read Faulkner today?”With this “rich, complex, and eloquent” (Drew Gilpin Faust, Atlantic) work, Pulitzer Prize finalist Michael Gorra charts the evolution of an author through his most cherished—and contested—novels. Given the undeniable echoes of “Lost ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece

    Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece

    by Michael Gorra ...
    A revelatory biography of the American master as told through the lens of his greatest novel.Henry James (1843–1916) has had many biographers, but Michael Gorra has taken an original approach to this great American progenitor of the modern novel, combining elements of biography, criticism, and travelogue in re-creating the dramatic backstory of James’s masterpiece, Portrait of a Lady (1881). Gorra ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The House of Mirth

    by Edith Wharton, Michael Gorra ...
    Edith Wharton's classic novel, The House of Mirth, is a brillaint exposé of the pretense and greed of fashionable New York Society.In The House of Mirth, which helped to establish Edith Wharton’s literary reputation, she honed her acerbic style and discovered her defining subject: the fashionable New York society in which she had been raised and that held the power to debase both people and ideals ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • On Being Blue

    A Philosophical Inquiry

    by William H. Gass ...
    On Being Blue is a book about everything blue—sex and sleaze and sadness, among other things—and about everything else. It brings us the world in a word as only William H. Gass, among contemporary American writers, can do.Gass writes:Of the colors, blue and green have the greatest emotional range. Sad reds and melancholy yellows are difficult to turn up. Among the ancient elements, blue occurs ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Doting

    by Henry Green ...
    Doting, the last of Henry Green’s novels, is, as its title would suggest, a story of aging and yearning in which a wife and a brash young woman run hilarious circles around a hapless hardworking civil servant suddenly seized by long dormant desire. Like its immediate predecessor Nothing, it stands out from the rest of his work in being composed almost entirely of dialogue, and in both books, Green ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Guide

    A Novel

    by R. K. Narayan ...
    For the centennial of his birth, R. K. Narayan's most celebrated novelFormerly India's most corrupt tourist guide, Raju—just released from prison—seeks refuge in an abandoned temple. Mistaken for a holy man, he plays the part and succeeds so well that God himself intervenes to put Raju's newfound sanctity to the test. Narayan's most celebrated novel, The Guide won him the National Prize of the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Portable Conrad

    by Joseph Conrad ...
    A collection of Conrad's most enduring work, edited by Pulitzer Prize finalist Michael GorraA great novelist of the sea, a poet of the tropics, a critic of empire and analyst of globalization, a harbinger of the modern spy novel, an unparalleled observer of the moments in which people are stripped of their illusions-Joseph Conrad is one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. This ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Mani

    Travels in the Southern Peloponnesse

    by Patrick Leigh Fermor ...
    Join a classic adventurer on his travels throughout southern Greece, where he explores remote villages, swims in the Aegean and Ionian seas, and finds history wherever he goes.The Mani, at the tip of Greece’s—and Europe’s—southernmost promontory, is one of the most isolated regions of the world. Cut off from the rest of the country by the towering range of the Taygetus and hemmed in by the Aegean ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Elizabeth Spencer: Novels & Stories (LOA #344)

    The Voice at the Back Door / The Light in the Piazza / Knights and Dragons / Stories 

    by Elizabeth Spencer ...
    On her centennial, a contemporary of Flannery O’Connor and Harper Lee joins the Library of America with a volume that restores to print her searing novel about the late Jim Crow SouthElizabeth Spencer (1921-2019) was a major figure of the Southern Renaissance, though today her many books and stories are scattered or out of print. This Library of America volume brings together the very best of her ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Bells in Their Silence

    Travels through Germany

    by Michael Gorra ...
    Nobody writes travelogues about Germany. The country spurs many anxious volumes of investigative reporting--books that worry away at the "German problem," World War II, the legacy of the Holocaust, the Wall, reunification, and the connections between them. But not travel books, not the free-ranging and impressionistic works of literary nonfiction we associate with V. S. Naipaul and Bruce Chatwin. ... Read more

    $29.99 USD