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  • Angling Days

    A Fly Fisher's Journals

    by Robert DeMott ...
    “From the very first, it seems, fishing was a respite and a therapy along with all of its other potentially redemptive qualities.” —Robert DeMottSpanning more than forty-five years, Angling Days is a collection of Robert DeMott’s numerous journal entries, each a small essay in itself, jotted down during the placid moments of fishing in and along the streams and rivers of North America. Through his ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Steinbeck's Imaginarium

    Essays on Writing, Fishing, and Other Critical Matters

    by Robert DeMott ...
    In Steinbeck’s Imaginarium, Robert DeMott delves into the imaginative, creative, and sometimes neglected aspects of John Steinbeck's writing. DeMott positions Steinbeck as a prophetic voice for today as much as he was for the Depression-era 1930s as the essays explore the often unknown or unacknowledged elements of Steinbeck’s artistic career that deserve closer attention. He writes about the ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Steinbeck's Typewriter

    Essays on His Art

    by Robert DeMott ...
    [Steinbecks Typewriter: Essays on His Art] collects several of DeMotts finest essays on Steinbeck... [that are] so carefully revised as to warn other critics seeking their own collected essay volume of the difference between a genuinely lapidary compilation and a kitchen midden. Illustrated with some rare photos, this collection is especially notable...John Ditsky, Choice...Steinbecks Typewriter.. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Grapes of Wrath

    by John Steinbeck, Robert DeMott ...
    The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized—and sometimes outraged—millions of readers.One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsFirst published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Audiobook

    The Grapes of Wrath

    by John Steinbeck, Robert DeMott ...
    Narrated by Dylan Baker ...
    Series series Penguin Audio Classics

    Unabridged

    21 hours 1 min

    John Steinbeck's powerful evocation of the suffering and hardship caused by the Great Depression, and a panoramic vision of the struggle for the American Dream, The Grapes of Wrath includes a critical introduction by Robert DeMott in Penguin Modern Classics. 'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.' Shocking and controversial when it was first published ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

    Also available as: eBooks

    Also available as: eBooks

  • To a God Unknown

    by John Steinbeck, Robert DeMott ...
    A Penguin ClassicAncient pagan beliefs, the great Greek epics, and the Bible all inform this extraordinary novel by Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck, which occupied him for more than five difficult years. While fulfilling his dead father’s dream of creating a prosperous farm in California, Joseph Wayne comes to believe that a magnificent tree on the farm embodies his father’s spirit. His brothers ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Sweet Thursday

    by John Steinbeck, Robert DeMott ...
    A Penguin ClassicIn Monterey, on the California coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday, which is one of those days that are just naturally bad. Returning to the scene of Cannery Row—the weedy lots and junk heaps and flophouses of Monterey, John Steinbeck once more brings to life the denizens of a netherworld of laughter and tears—from Doc, based on Steinbeck’s ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Making Game

    An Essay on Woodcock

    by Guy de la Valdène, Robert DeMott ...
    Guy de la Valdène’s beautifully written essay (and first book) is an ode to an iconic bird, part natural history, and part hunting memoir. It’s a well-regarded and undisputed classic—an edgy, elegant examination of the habits and history of a reclusive gamebird, the Woodcock, native to Europe and North America, a bird that’s been hunted and celebrated since Roman times. Valdène writes exuberantly ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Steinbeck’s Uneasy America

    Rereading “Travels with Charley”

    by Barbara A. Heavilin, Susan Shillinglaw, Robert DeMott, Danica Cerce, William P. Childers, Donald V. Coers, Cecilia Donohue, Charles Etheridge0, Mimi Reisel Gladstein1, Kathleen Hicks2, Carter Davis Johnson3, Gavin Jones4, Sally S. Kleberg5, Jay Parini6, Brian Railsback7, Nicholas P. Taylor8 ...
    A road trip through Steinbeck’s America—revisited, reimagined, and reinterpreted.Steinbeck’s Uneasy America is the first collection of critical scholarship devoted to Travels with Charley in Search of America, John Steinbeck’s best-selling, late-career travel memoir. In 1960, Steinbeck was a renowned man of American letters. Many considered him America’s troubadour of ordinary people, the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Beyond Boundaries

    Rereading John Steinbeck

    by Lorelei Cederstrom, Gavin Cologne-Brookes, James C. Kelley, Warren G. French, Paul Hadella, Charlotte Hadella, Hiroshi Kaname, Michael J. Meyer, Kiyoshi Nakayama, John Ditsky, Mimi Reisel Gladstein, Kyoko Ariki, Brian Railsback, Robert DeMott, Christine Rucklin, P. Balaswamy, John Seelye, Rodney P. Rice, Christina Sheehan Gold, Hiromasa Takamura, Malithat Promathatavedi, Carol L. Hansen, Stephen K. George ...
    The result of a worldwide effort to assess both the current state of critical understanding of John Steinbeck’s works and the extent of his cultural influenceAs a writer who, beginning in the 1930s, illuminated the lives of ordinary people, Steinbeck came to be the conscience of America. He witnessed and recorded with clarity much of the political and social upheaval of the 20th century: The Great ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Astream

    American Writers on Fly Fishing

    Edited by Robert DeMott ...
    This marvelous collection features stories from some of America’s finest and most respected writers about one of the world’s most solitary and satisfying sports: fly fishing. For the first time, the stories of thirty-one acclaimed writers including Kim Barnes, Walter Bennett, Russell Chatham, Guy de la Valdène, Robert DeMott, Chris Dombrowski, Ron Ellis, Jim Fergus, Kate Fox, Charles Gaines, Bruce ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Afield

    American Writers on Bird Dogs

    Edited by Robert DeMott, Dave Smith ...
    This marvelous collection features stories from some of America’s finest and most respected writers about every outdoorsman’s favorite and most loyal hunting partner: his dog. For the first time, the stories of acclaimed writers such as Tom Brokaw, Howell Raines, Rick Bass, Sydney Lea, Jim Harrison, Tom McGuane, and Chris Camuto, come together in one collection. Hunters and non-hunters alike will ... Read more

    $10.99 USD