Michael Edward Gorra
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"How do we read William Faulkner in the twenty-first century? asks Michael Gorra, one of America's most preeminent literary critics. Should we still read William Faulkner in this new century? What can his works tell us about the legacy of slavery and the Civil War, that central quarrel in our nation's history? These are the provocative questions that Michael Gorra asks in this historic portrait of the novelist and his world. Born in 1897 in Mississippi,...
Author
Publisher
London
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"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 Journal
First 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 on the Master's novels, essays, reviews, plays, criticism,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Over the course of a career that spanned six decades, the southern novelist and short story writer Elizabeth Spencer established herself as one of the finest literary artists of a generation that included Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, and Eudora Welty. This definitive volume brings together three remarkable novels: The Voice at the Back Door, her powerful masterpiece about racial politics in the world of Jim Crow Mississippi; the beloved classic...
