Overview :Jay Parini (b. 1948), is best known for The Last Station, a novel about Leo Tolstoy's last year has been translated into more than twenty-fi... Read More
Overview :Soon to be a motion picture starring Colin Firth and directed by Pat O'Connor.The acclaimed and now-classic biographical novel of Walter Ben... Read More
Overview :When Alex Massolini's brother is killed in Vietnam, he drops out of Columbia University and leaves his conservative family behind for Capri ... Read More
Overview :The "Scribner Writers Series has set the standard for literary reference for more than 25 years. In addition to addressing the lives and car... Read More
Overview :In the nineteenth century, Alexis de Tocqueville suggested that the poetry of the new American democratic state, free from the staggering we... Read More
Overview :Poetry doesn't matter to most people, observes Jay Parini at the opening of this book. But, undeterred, he commences a deeply felt meditatio... Read More
Overview :Becoming an effective teacher can be quite painful and exhausting, taking years of trial and error. In The Art of Teaching, writer and criti... Read More
Overview :A comprehensive study of American poetry from colonial times to the present day, which features a wealth of views and reviews by contemporar... Read More
Overview :In this groundbreaking anthology, respected writer and critic Jay Parini brings together an abundant selection from over three centuries of ... Read More
Overview :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 fin... Read More
Overview :A new book, the first in over a decade, from acclaimed poet Jay Parini This volume revolves around his deep connection to nature and underli... Read More