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His rock star days may be behind him, but stay-at-home dad Grant Kelly's life is getting more interesting by the day. It's the beginning of the post 9/11 era, and he and his wife and four-year-old son have traded a New York City apartment for a Catskills farmhouse, where ghosts from the past, worries for the future, and temptations in the present converge to bring about drastic changes in their marriage, their friendships, and their family. A ...

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A 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 Men, it is mainly his poetry-spanning sixty years, fifteen volumes of verse, and a wide range of styles-that reveals Warren to be one of this nation's foremost men of letters. T.S. ...

This is Robert Penn Warren's best book. . . . Cruel sometimes, crude sometimes, obsessed sometimes, the book is always extraordinary: it does know, and knows sadly and tenderly, even. It is, in short, an event, a great one."-Randall Jarrell, New York Times Book Review 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 i...

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 panorama of one of the most turbulent periods of American history as seen through the eyes of this star-crossed young woman. Amantha soon finds hersel...

At Heaven's Gate, Robert Penn Warren's second novel, is a neglected classic of twentieth-century fiction. First published in 1943, it grew out of the author's years in Nashville during a period of political and financial scandals much like those later so memorably portrayed his Pulitzer-Prize-winning All The King's Men. Other formative elements, as he has said, "came originally out of Dante by a winding path." During the winter of 1939-40 in R...

As relevant today as it was 50 years ago, "All the King's Men" is a classic novel about American politics. Set in the 1930s, this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel traces the rise and fall of demagogue Willie Stark, a fictional character based on the real-life Huey Long of Louisiana.

Volume Four of the SELECTED LETTERS OF ROBERT PENN WARREN covers a crucial time of personal and professional rejuvenation in Warren's life. During the fifteen-year period spanned by this correspondence, he completed BROTHERS TO DRAGONS, SEGREGATION: THE INNER CONFLICT IN THE SOUTH, and WHO SPEAKS FOR THE NEGRO? As these titles suggest, these years were marked by Warren's immersion in American history and his maturing interest in race relations...

In de jaren dertig wordt de slimme boerenzoon en plattelandsadvocaat Willie Stark gekozen tot gouverneur van Louisiana. Met mooie beloftes heeft hij de 'gewone man' achter zich weten te scharen. Een groep van invloedrijke zakenlieden heeft hem gesteund omdat zij hem meenden te kunnen gebruiken.Maar Stark gaat zijn eigen gang. Met zijn bodyguard Sugar Boy, de journalist Jack Burden (die het verhaal vertelt) en zijn onwrikbare secretaresse Sadie...

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In diesem Buch geht es um die Qualität einer Gemeinde, nicht um Zahlen und Wachstumskurven. Robert Warren hat eine Reihe von Gemeinden untersucht und sieben Merkmale herausgefunden, die die Qualität einer vitalen Gemeinde ausmachen. Anhand dieser Merkmale kann jede interessierte Gemeinde ihren Ist-Zustand analysieren, ihre Stärken und Schwächen erkennen und entscheiden, ob sie eine lebendige Gemeinde sein will, die in ihrer Umgebung wahrgenomm...

Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) was born in Guthrie, Kentucky. In his lifetime he won three Pulitzer Prizes, the National Book Award, the National Medal for Literature, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 1986 he was named the country's first Poet Laureate.

A collection of Penn Warren's best short fiction: two novelettes and twelve stories that skillfully handle a variety of themes and styles."Worth reading for their craftsmanship and variety" (Charles Poore, New York Times).

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In 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 revolutionary idealism inherited from his father, he hopes to aid a cause that he believes to be as simple as he knows it to be just.Over the course of his journey, Adam becomes a witness to a world whose complexity does not readily conform to his ideals of liberty. When his twisted foot attracts unw...

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 -- his crime, his trial, his ultimate sin, and punishment -- and the historian-narrator of World Enough and Time sets about doing just that. Based on th...

Two film makers arrive in a small Tennessee town which will soon vanish when the massive dam being built downriver is completed. Originally published in 1963, this is Warren's last novel and a eulogy for the agrarian South.

John Burt's Selected Poems of Robert Penn Warren is more broadly representative of Warren's poetry than any previous such gartering. 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. Burt has carefully located the version that constitutes Warren's final revision. His introduction gives an eloquent overview of the poet's career, touching o...

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 published canon under William Bedford Clark's expert supervision. Volume One, The Apprentice Years, forms a kind of epistolary coming-of-age novel, takin...