Robert Frost never felt more at home in America than when watching baseball "be it in park or sand lot." Full of heroism and heartbreak, the most beloved of American sports is also the most poetic. Its rhythms are those of the seasons. Its memories are sa
With works by Henry James, Stephen Crane, John Cheever, James Joyce and many others, this outstanding collection of 35 American and British short pieces of fiction from the first half of the 20th century is one of the bestselling collections of our time.
This 50th anniversary edition has been newly annotated by David Schmittgens and Bill Savage with explanations for everything from Chicago history to slang to what the Black Sox scandal was and why it mattered.In this slender classic ... Algren tells us al
Algren's short stories are now generally acknowledged to be literary triumphs - The New York TimesNelson's stories are part of our lasting literature. They don't fade away. - Studs Terkel, from the AfterwordOnce more I have been impressed by Algren's tale
"An unusual book and a brilliant book." —The New York Times"One of the finest works of American literature that I have read." —James T. Farrell"A knockout." —Saturday Review of Literature"Never Come Morning depicts the intensity of feeling, the tawd
The struggle to write with deep emotion is the subject of this extraordinary book, the previously unpublished credo of one of America's greatest 20th-century writers."You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague l
He becomes thoroughly attached to her and confides a terrifying truth: he is immortal. But having been resuscitated into enjoying life again, he soon starts breaking free from her grasp and all notions of mortality.
"Non" ; elle a cri� tout haut. Pas Catherine. Je ne permettrai pas qu'on lui fasse ce qu'on m'a fait. Qu'a-t-on fait de moi ? Cette femme qui n'aime personne, insensible aux beaut�s du monde, incapable m�me de pleurer, cette femme que je vomis. Cath
Jean Blomart, patriot leader against the German forces of occupation, waits throughout an endless night for his lover, Helene, to die. He is the one who sent her on the mission that led to her death, and before morning, he must decide how many others to s
