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13 Ways of Looking at the Novel: What to Read and How to Write by Jane Smiley
Category: Non-Fiction
Over her 20-year career, Jane Smiley has written many kinds of novels - mystery, comedy, historical fiction, epic. But when her impulse to write faltered after 9/11, she decided to approach novels from a different angle: she read 100 of them, from the 1000-year-old Tale of Genji to the recent bestseller ...Show more
A Dangerous Business by Jane Smiley
Category: Crime Fiction
From a brilliant Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author: a rollicking murder mystery set in Gold Rush California, as two young prostitutes follow a trail of missing girls. Monterey, 1851. Ever since her husband was killed in a bar fight, Eliza Ripple has been working in a brothel. It seems like ...Show more
A Strange Life: Selected Essays of Louisa May Alcott by Louisa May Alcott; Liz Rosenberg (Editor); Jane Smiley (Preface by)
Category: Biography
Collected together for the very first time, witty and wide-ranging essays from the celebrated author of Little Women.Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) is, of course, best known as the author of Little Women (1868). But she was also a noted essayist who wrote on a wide range of subjects, including her father ...Show more
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
Category: Fiction
This powerful twentieth-century reimagining of Shakespeare's King Lear centers on a wealthy Iowa farmer who decides to divide his farm among his three daughters. When the youngest objects, she is cut out of his will, which sets in motion a chain of events that brings dark truths to light. Ambitiously co ...Show more
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: The Perennial Collection
Reprinted as part of the Perennial Collection of Prizewinners, Bestsellers and Modern Classics. The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling novel from one of America's greatest contemporary writers, repackaged as part of the Perennial fiction promotion. Larry Cook's farm is the largest in Zebulon County, Io ...Show more
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
Category: Fiction | Series: Flamingo Originals Ser.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling novel from one of America's greatest contemporary writers. Larry Cook's farm is the largest in Zebulon County, Iowa, and a tribute to his hard work and single-mindedness. Proud and possessive, his sudden decision to retire and hand over the farm to his three daugh ...Show more
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
Category: Fiction
A successful Iowa farmer decides to divide his farm between his three daughters. When the youngest objects, she is cut out of his will. This sets off a chain of events that brings dark truths to light and explodes long-suppressed emotions. An ambitious reimagining of Shakespeare's King Lear cast upon a ...Show more
An Innocent Abroad : Life-Changing Trips from 35 Great Writers by Lonely Planet Publications Staff; John Berendt; Dave Eggers; Richard Ford; Pico Iyer; Alexander McCall Smith; Jane Smiley
Category: Travel | Series: Lonely Planet Travel Literature Ser.
More than 20 well-known writers and celebrities share the travel experiences that shaped their personalities and changed their lives. Contributors include Dave Eggers, Richard Ford, Pico Iyer, John Berendt, Alexander McCall Smith and Jane Smiley. About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has ...Show more
An Innocent Abroad - Life-Changing Trips from 35 Great Writers by Lonely Planet Publications Staff; John Berendt; Dave Eggers; Richard Ford; Pico Iyer; Alexander McCall Smith; Jane Smiley
Category: Travel | Series: Travel Literature Ser.
More than 20 well-known writers and celebrities share the travel experiences that shaped their personalities and changed their lives. Contributors include Dave Eggers, Richard Ford, Pico Iyer, John Berendt, Alexander McCall Smith and Jane Smiley.About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has be ...Show more
Champion Horse (Abby Lovitt #4) by Jane Smiley
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: Abby Lovitt
Abby Lovitt doesn't realize how unprepared she is when she takes her beloved horse, True Blue, to a clinic led by the most famous equestrian anyone knows. The biggest surprise, though, is that Sophia, the girl who never makes a mistake, suddenly makes so many that she stops riding. Who will ride her hor ...Show more
Charles Dickens (Great Lives) by Jane Smiley
Category: Classics | Series: Lives Ser.
Superb, highly accessible biography of one of the giants of English literature by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A THOUSAND ACRES'Engaging and stimulating' Simon Callow'Jane Smiley, in her admirable contribution to Weidenfeld's series of short biographies, deals briskly with Dickens's career and w ...Show more