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All the King's Men
Häftad, 2007
179 kr
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All the King's Men is considered the finest novel ever written on American politics. Set in the 1930s, this book traces the rise and fall of Willie Stark, who resembles the real-life Huey 'Kingfish' Long of Louisiana. Stark begins his political career as an idealistic man of the people but soon …
All The King's Men
Av Noel Polk, Robert Penn Warren
E-bok, 1996
113 kr
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Robert Penn Warren’s tale of ambition and power set in the Depression–era South is widely considered the finest novel ever written about American politics. All the King’s Men traces the rise and fall of demagogue Willie Stark, a fictional character loosely based on …
Democracy and Poetry
Häftad, 1975
362 kr
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In these two essays, one of America’s most honored writers fastens on the interrelation of American democracy and poetry and the concept of selfhood vital to each. “I really don’t want to make a noise like a pundit,” Mr. Warren declares, “What I do want to do is to return us—and myself most of …
Legacy of the Civil War
Häftad, 1998
168 kr
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In this elegant book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer explores the manifold ways in which the Civil War changed the United States forever. He confronts its costs, not only human (six hundred thousand men killed) and economic (beyond reckoning) but social and psychological. He touches on popular …
Band of Angels
A Novel
Häftad, 1994
447 kr
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Amantha Starr, born and raised by a doting father on a Kentucky plantation in the years before the Civil War, is the heroine of this powerfully dramatic novel. At her father's death Amantha learns that her mother was a slave and that she, too, is to be sold into servitude. What follows is a vast …
Brother to Dragons
A Tale in Verse and Voices
Häftad, 1996
301 kr
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The significantly revised version of Brother to Dragons appeared in 1979, twenty-six years after the original. It is, Warren wrote, ""in some important senses, a new work."" Told in the distinct voices of characters long dead and now gathered at an unspecified place and time, the poem recalls …
Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren
Av Robert Penn Warren, John D. Burt
Inbunden, 1998
1049 kr
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Winner of the C. Hugh Holman AwardA central figure in twentieth-century American literature, Robert Penn Warren (1905- 1989) was appointed by the Library of Congress as the first Poet Laureate of the United States in 1985. Although better known for his fiction, especially his novel All the King's …
Selected Poems of Robert Penn Warren
Av Robert Penn Warren, John D. Burt
Häftad, 2001
382 kr
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John Burt's Selected Poems of Robert Penn Warren is more broadly representative of Warren's poetry than any previous selected gathering. More than two hundred poems from every phase grace the volume, a vehicle ideal for sampling- or soaking in- the finest of Warren's rich output.With each poem, …
Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back
Inbunden, 1980
335 kr
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In 1979 Robert Penn Warren returned to his native Todd Country, Kentucky, to attend ceremonies in honor of another native son, Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, whose United States citizenship had just been restored, ninety years after his death, by a special act of Congress. From that …
Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back
E-bok, 2014
315 kr
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In 1979 Robert Penn Warren returned to his native Todd Country, Kentucky, to attend ceremonies in honor of another native son, Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, whose United States citizenship had just been restored, ninety years after his death, by a special act of Congress. From that …
Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back
E-bok, 2014
324 kr
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In 1979 Robert Penn Warren returned to his native Todd Country, Kentucky, to attend ceremonies in honor of another native son, Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, whose United States citizenship had just been restored, ninety years after his death, by a special act of Congress. From that …
Portrait Of A Father
E-bok, 2014
325 kr
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One of America's great poets writes of his father, lost through death and discovered again through insistent recollection. A death in the family forces a re-sorting and reshaping of all that we can recall of times and people gone from us as we measure our identities by their remembered images. …
Cave
Häftad, 2006
511 kr
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In his sixth novel, The Cave (1959), Robert Penn Warren tells the story of a young man trapped in a cave in fictional Johntown, Tennessee. His predicament becomes the center of national attention as television cameras, promoters, and newscasters converge on the small town to exploit the rescue …
Talking with Robert Penn Warren
Av Robert Penn Warren, Floyd C. Watkins m. fl.
Häftad, 1990
645 kr
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Filled with entertaining anecdotes and personal reflections, this collection of twenty-four conversations with Robert Penn Warren provides an illuminating glimpse of the man and his thoughts on life and literature. Warren's wide interests—history, politics, technological change, teaching, race …
Segregation
The Inner Conflict in the South
Häftad, 1994
300 kr
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First published in 1956, Segregation is a collection of Robert Penn Warren's informal conversations with southerners in the wake of the Brown v. Board of Education decision. Warren, who in his own writings often explored the theme of race in American life, traveled through his native region to talk …
Night Rider
E-bok, 1992
316 kr
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Warren''s first novel, set during the "tobacco wars" that raged in Kentucky and Tennessee in the early part of this century. Percy Munn is one of Warren''s innocent idealists whose delusions become murderous as he attempts to define himself by action in the unfolding violence around him. Southern …
Wilderness
A Tale of the Civil War
Häftad, 2001
382 kr
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“A moving and disturbing work—one which goes beyond events, to brood upon their meanings.”—Samuel Hynes, New York Times Book ReviewIn the summer of 1863, Adam Rosenzweig leaves a Bavarian ghetto and sails for the United States to fight for the North in the Civil War. Fired by a revolutionary …
Night Rider
Häftad, 1992
301 kr
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Warren’s first novel, set during the "tobacco wars" that raged in Kentucky and Tennessee in the early part of this century. Percy Munn is one of Warren’s innocent idealists whose delusions become murderous as he attempts to define himself by action in the unfolding violence around him. Southern …
John Brown
The Making of a Martyr
Häftad, 1993
278 kr
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Warren’s first book, a biography that foreshadows the themes developed in novels like All the King's Men, portrays the flawed idealist whose violent seizure of the Harper's Ferry arsenal led to the greater violence of the Civil War. Southern Classics Series.
Who Speaks for the Negro?
Häftad, 2014
271 kr
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In 1964, Robert Penn Warren interviewed leaders, activists, and artists engaged in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. His interviewees included well-known figures such as Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcom X, and James Baldwin, as well as lesser-known individuals whose names might otherwise be …
World Enough and Time
A Novel
Häftad, 1999
469 kr
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In the admixture of wilderness and elegant society that was 1826 Kentucky, Jeremiah Beaumont, a brilliant, imaginative lawyer, stood trial for murdering his benefactor and father figure, the politician Colonel Cassius Fort. Now all the documents are in hand to reconstruct Beaumont's life story - …
Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren
The Apprentice Years 1924-1934
Inbunden, 2000
603 kr
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In America's twentieth century, there is no man of letters more versatile, distinguished, and influential than the poet, novelist, editor, critic, social commentator, and teacher Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989). The most intimate of Warren's ""letters,"" his personal correspondence, now join his …
