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William Maxwell

William Maxwell

·3.95·11,370 Ratings
“ Seek knowledge from cradle to the grave. ” ― Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him)
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  • The Folded Leaf

    1999·
    ·3.95·574 Ratings
    In the suburbs of Chicago in the 1920s, two boys initiate an unusual friendship: Lymie Peters, a skinny and somewhat clumsy boy who always gets good grades, and newcomer Spud Latham, a star athlete and mediocre student. Spud accepts Lymie’s devotion
  • So Long, See You Tomorrow

    1998·
    ·3.93·5,127 Ratings
    On an Illinois farm in the 1920s, a man is murdered, and in the same moment the tenuous friendship between two lonely boys comes to an end. In telling their interconnected stories, American Book Award winner William Maxwell delivers a masterfully restrain
  • The Element of Lavishness: Letters of William Maxwell and Sylvia Townsend Warner, 1938-1978

    2001·
    ·4.51·61 Ratings
    An instant classic in the literature of friendship: the witty, affectionate 40-year correspondence between a great story-writer and her New Yorker editor. For forty years, until her death in 1978, Sylvia Townsend Warner (poet, novelist, and short-story wr
  • They Came Like Swallows

    1937·
    ·4.02·994 Ratings
    First published in 1937, They Came Like Swallows was WilliamMaxwell's second novel. It tells of an ordinary American familyovertaken by the devastating epidemic of the Spanish influenza of1918. The book begins on the day before the armistice in a smallmid
  • The Chateau

    2000·
    ·3.58·361 Ratings
    It is 1948 and a young American couple arrive in France for a holiday, full of anticipation and enthusiasm. But the countryside and people are war-battered, and their reception at the Chateau Beaumesnil is not all the open-hearted Americans could wish for
  • All the Days and Nights: The Collected Stories

    1995·
    ·4.25·258 Ratings
    From the American Book Award-winning author of Ancestors and Time Will Darken comes a masterful collection of stories, spanning more than 50 years--a tour of a world that engages readers entirely, and whose characters command the deepest loyalty and tende
  • Time Will Darken It

    1997·
    ·4.05·542 Ratings
    Pregnant with her second child, Martha King finds her marriage to lawyer Austin King more and more frustrating when her husband befriends his young foster cousin, Nora, and, in the process, unwittingly jeopardizes his marriage, career, and place in the co
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