An homage to the West and to two great writers who set the standard for
all who celebrate and defend it.Archetypal wild man Edward Abbey and proper, dedicated Wallace Stegner left their footprints all over the western landscape. Now, award-winning ...
An incisive and absorbing biography of the legendary emperor who bridged ancient and modern Europe
and singlehandedly altered the course of Western history. Charlemagne was an extraordinary figure: an ingenious military strategist, a wise but ruthless leader, a cunning politician, and ...
One of the most prolific and popular authors in the world today, Stephen King has
become part of pop culture history. His best-selling novels such as Carrie, It, Christine, and many others have captured the imaginations of millions of readers. ...
George Ehrlich Award Recipient In the summer of 1917, Ernest Hemingway was an eighteen-year-old high
school graduate unsure of his future. The American entry into the Great War stirred thoughts of joining the army. While many of his friends in ...
This is a magisterial retelling of who did what with and to whomEzra Pound, the
Fitzgeralds, the Murphys, Getrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, Sylvia Beach and James Joyce, Robert McAlmon, Bryher, H.D., and all the other major and minor ...
National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistA brilliantly conceived and illuminating reconsideration of a key period
in the life of Ernest Hemingway that will forever change the way he is perceived and understood.Focusing on the years 1934 to 1961—from Hemingway’s pinnacle ...
One of the very first books to take Stephen King seriously, Landscape of Fear (originally
published in 1988) reveals the source of King's horror in the sociopolitical anxieties of the post-Vietnam, post-Watergate era. In this groundbreaking study, Tony Magistrale shows ...
Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul brings his signature gifts of observation, his ferocious impatience with
received truths, and his masterfully condensed prose to these eleven essays on reading, writing, and identity—which have been brought together for the first time.Here the ...