Jay Parini is Axinn Professor of English at Middlebury College, Vermont. In addition to New and Collected Poems: 1975–2015, he has published eight novels including The Last Station and Benjamin’s Crossing. He has written biographies of John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, William Faulkner and Gore Vidal. He edited The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature and writes regularly for the Guardian and other publications.jayparini.com
38 Ebooks tarafından Jay Parini
Stephen K. George: Ethics, Literature, and Theory
Ethics, Literature, and Theory: An Introductory Reader brings together the work of contemporary scholars, teachers, and writers into lively discussion on the moral role of literature and the relation …
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Jay Parini: Anthracite Country
poems on coal mining and the hard coal region of Pennsylvania …
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Jay Parini: House of Days
In House of Days, his fourth collection of poems, Jay Parini moves beyond his earlier work to address the environmental and spiritual crises that afflict us in the late twentieth century. The book mo …
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Jay Parini: The Patch Boys
Fifteen-year-old Sammy di Cantini, resident of a mining region of Pennsylvania, is determined to rise above his class, falls disastrously in love with a Protestant, and visits his Mafia brother in Ne …
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Jay Parini: The Art of Subtraction
An acclaimed American poet, Jay Parini is widely recognized for his ability to confront modern issues in a variety of forms, while adding a highly musical sense of phrasing and a relentless sense of …
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Jay Parini: Theodore Roethke
Jay Parini’s biography of the poet, Theodore Roethke. Parini views Roethke through the lens of a Romantic poet. With this incredibly researched and well written work, Parini reaffirms Roethke’s reput …
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Jay Parini: Apprentice Lover
When Alex Massolini’s brother is killed in Vietnam, he drops out of Columbia University and leaves his conservative family behind for Capri to become secretary to Rupert Grant, a famous British novel …
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Jay Parini: One Matchless Time
William Faulkner was a literary genius, and one of America’s most important and influential writers. Drawing on previously unavailable sources — including letters, memoirs, and interviews with Faulk …
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Jay Parini: Art of Teaching
Becoming an effective teacher can be quite painful and exhausting, taking years of trial and error. In The Art of Teaching, writer and critic Jay Parini looks back over his own decades of trials, err …
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Jay Parini: Art of Teaching
Becoming an effective teacher can be quite painful and exhausting, taking years of trial and error. In The Art of Teaching, writer and critic Jay Parini looks back over his own decades of trials, err …
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Lesley Lee Francis: You Come Too
Robert Frost observed in his wife, Elinor, a desire to live ‘a life that goes rather poetically.’ The same could be said of many members of the Frost family, over several generations. In You Come Too …
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Jay Parini: The Passages of Herman Melville
‘Deep, deep, and still deep and deeper must we go, if we would find out the heart of a man . . .’ Herman Melville Descend into the dark waters of one of the greatest writers America has ever produced …
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Jay Parini: Every Time a Friend Succeeds Something Inside Me Dies
An intimate yet frank biography of Gore Vidal, one of the most accomplished, visible and controversial American novelists and cultural figures of the past century. The product of thirty years of frie …
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Leo Tolstoy: Last Steps: The Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy
1910. Anna Karenina and War and Peace have made Leo Tolstoy the world’s most famous author. But fame comes at a price. In the tumultuous final year of his life, Tolstoy is desperate to find respite, …
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Robert Frost: Poetry for Kids: Robert Frost
A 2018 Notable Poetry Book for Children (National Council of Teachers of English) Poetry for Kids: Robert Frost is a collection specially curated for young readers which won’t just be read, …
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Jay Parini: The Last Station
1910. Anna Karenina and War and Peace have made Leo Tolstoy the world’s most famous author. But fame comes at a price. In the tumultuous final year of his life, Tolstoy is desperate to find respite, …
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Jay Parini: Borges and Me
LONGLISTED FOR THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE In frantic flight from the Vietnam War, Jay Parini leaves the United States for Scotland. There, through unlikely circumstances, he meets famed Argentinian auth …
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Jay Parini: Benjamin’s Crossing
There is no such thing as history, you see. It’s a dream, perhaps even a dream of a dream . . . Walter Benjamin is dead. One of the most radiant minds of the twentieth century has been snatched away …
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John Steinbeck: Travels with Charley
In 1960, John Steinbeck set out in his pick-up truck with his dog Charley to rediscover and chronicle his native USA, from Maine to California.He felt that he might have lost touch with its sights, s …
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Jay Parini: A travessia de Walter Benjamin
Este romance recria os últimos anos da vida de Walter Benjamin, um dos maiores filósofos e críticos de literatura do século XX. Durante a década de 1930, o judeu alemão Walter Benjamin escreveu seus …
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Bruce Piasecki: Doing More with One Life
In Doing More with a Life, best-selling author Piasecki welcomes the reader into his home, revealing the heart-breaking early death of his father, and his deep respect and love for the women in his l …
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Robert Frost & Jay Parini: Robert Frost: Sixteen Poems to Learn by Heart
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Chris Sloane: Savvy Investor’s Pocket Guide
<p>Your guide to becoming financially savvy quickly and successfully!<br>The Savvy Investors Pocket Guide is a self-improvement guide that provides ordinary people with the tools that wil …
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Angelo Cannavacciuolo: When Things Happen
Michele Campo is living the bourgeois Italian dream. Now a speech pathologist in his forties, he resides in an expensive Naples home with his partner, Costanza, daughter of an upper-class family. Mic …
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