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Product Description: This comprehensive biography of the actress film critic Rex Reed called “a national treasure” draws on Robert A. Schanke’s interviews and correspondence not only with Eva Le Gallienne but also with more than one hundred of her colleagues and friends, including Glenda Jackson, Burgess Meredith, Eli Wallach, Peter Falk, Ellen Burstyn, Anne Jackson, Farley Granger, Jane Alexander, Uta Hagen, and Rosemary Harris...read more
By May Sarton (foreword by) and Robert A. Schanke

Hardcover:

9780809318209 | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, December 9, 1992, cover price $38.00

Paperback:

9780809330089 | Reprint edition (Southern Illinois Univ Pr, August 20, 2010), cover price $38.00 | About this edition: This comprehensive biography of the actress film critic Rex Reed called “a national treasure” draws on Robert A.

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When he finds an acceptable home and makes a decision to stay with the Voices that inhabit it, Tom Jones, a Cat-about-Town, becomes a Gentleman Cat and in time evolves into a genuine Fur Person, in a new gift edition of the classc tale for cat lovers. 10,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9780393041941, titled "The Fur Person" | W W Norton & Co Inc, November 1, 2002, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: When he finds an acceptable home and makes a decision to stay with the Voices that inhabit it, Tom Jones, a Cat-about-Town, becomes a Gentleman Cat and in time evolves into a genuine Fur Person, in a new gift edition of the classc tale for cat lovers.
9780816130283, titled "The Fur Person" | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, February 1, 1980), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Long a dismal failure at finding lodgings, Tom Jones, a foundling cat, finally finds a home of his own and is transformed into a fur person, a cat who decides to stay with people as long as he lives

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9780393349900, titled "The Fur Person" | W W Norton & Co Inc, December 1, 2014, cover price $13.95
9780393301311 | W W Norton & Co Inc, November 1, 1983, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: When he finds an acceptable home and makes a decision to stay with the Voices that inhabit it, Tom Jones, a Cat-about-Town, becomes a Gentleman Cat and in time evolves into a genuine Fur Person
9780451120328 | Reissue edition (New Amer Library, June 1, 1980), cover price $1.75 | also contains God Is God

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Two hundred letters penned during the writer's later years include correspondences with actors, artists, teachers, admirers, and clergy and discuss her written works as well as the joys and challenges of her craft. (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780393051117 | W W Norton & Co Inc, April 1, 2002, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Provides a vivid portrait that follows Sarton's life and documents her relationships with friends, family, colleagues, and lovers

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Product Description: Poetry and prose quotations by May Sarton and black-and-white photographs by Edith Royce Schade are combined in this beautiful gift book. The framework comes from a quote by Sarton: The delights of the poet as turned out to be light, solitude, the natural world, love, time, creation itself...read more
By May Sarton and Edith Royce Schade (photographer)

Hardcover:

9780967384313 | Reissue edition (Goodale Hill Pr, September 1, 1999), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Poetry and prose quotations by May Sarton and black-and-white photographs by Edith Royce Schade are combined in this beautiful gift book.
9780918949523 | Papier Mache Pr, August 1, 1994, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Like many other women, Connecticut photographer Edith Royce Schade first discovered May Sarton's writing in the early seventies.

Paperback:

9780967384306 | Reissue edition (Goodale Hill Pr, August 1, 1994), cover price $14.00

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A remarkable, passionate relationship between the renowned author and her beloved Juliette is revealed in this series of letters that spans more than sixty years and gives readers a glimpse into their private world. (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780393047332 | W W Norton & Co Inc, June 1, 1999, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A relationship between the renowned author and her beloved Juliette is revealed in this series of letters that spans more than sixty years

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Sarton suffered a brutal review of her last novel, personal problems, and a mastectomy in 1979 and this journal reveals how she drew on her inner strength to surmount this series of crises and regain her creative powers

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9780393317176 | Reissue edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, December 1, 1997), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Sarton suffered a brutal review of her last novel, personal problems, and a mastectomy in 1979 and this journal reveals how she drew on her inner strength to surmount this series of crises and regain her creative powers
9780393303391 | W W Norton & Co Inc, March 1, 1987, cover price $5.95 | also contains Creativity and Discovery in the University Writing Class | About this edition: Sarton suffered a brutal review of her last novel, personal problems, and a mastectomy in 1979 and this journal reveals how she drew on her inner strength to surmount this series of crises and regain her creative powers

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A brilliant, well-loved, but politically committed English professor, shocks the academic community into much soul searching by committing suicide

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9780393317152 | Reissue edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, December 1, 1997), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: A brilliant, well-loved, but politically committed English professor, shocks the academic community into much soul searching by committing suicide

By May Sarton and Edith Royce Schade (photographer)

Paperback:

9781576010228 | Wal edition (Papier Mache Pr, August 1, 1997), cover price $10.95

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The late poet's monument to a brief but passionate love affair, a collection of poems draws on the harsh beauty of nature during a Maine winter to reflect on the memory of love and the flowering it brings. Reissue.

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9780393317169 | W W Norton & Co Inc, June 1, 1997, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: This volume celebrates the poet's brief and passionate love affair, marks its passing, and bursts forth with the poetic vision it left behind

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Revealing aspects of her own life in the later years, the author presents a new collection of poems in which she reflects upon daily experiences such as admiring flowers, interacting with her cat, and anticipating death

Hardcover:

9780393036893 | W W Norton & Co Inc, November 1, 1994, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Revealing aspects of her own life in the later years, the author presents a new collection of poems in which she reflects upon daily experiences such as admiring flowers, interacting with her cat, and anticipating death

Paperback:

9780393316230 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, May 1, 1997), cover price $11.00 | About this edition: Revealing aspects of her own life in the later years, the author presents a new collection of poems in which she reflects upon daily experiences such as admiring flowers, interacting with her cat, and anticipating death

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Dying, Laura Spelman looks upon her illness as a journey during which she must take account of her life, see the connections between things, and then let go

Hardcover:

9780393088281 | W W Norton & Co Inc, October 1, 1978, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Dying, Laura Spelman looks upon her illness as a journey during which she must take account of her life, see the connections between things, and then let go

Paperback:

9780393316216 | Reissue edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, May 1, 1997), cover price $19.95

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Product Description: “Reporting from the front lines on the author’s daily battle with a body and a mind that increasingly refuse to cooperate, At Eighty-Two captures this struggle with a simplicity, elegance and strength that is characteristic of its author and her lifetime of work...read more

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9780393316223 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, May 1, 1997), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: “Reporting from the front lines on the author’s daily battle with a body and a mind that increasingly refuse to cooperate, At Eighty-Two captures this struggle with a simplicity, elegance and strength that is characteristic of its author and her lifetime of work.

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Presents poems reflecting on a journey taken by the author to celebrate her fiftieth birthday, as she travelled around the world to Greece by way of Japan and India

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9780393315523 | Reissue edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, September 1, 1996), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Presents poems reflecting on a journey taken by the author to celebrate her fiftieth birthday, as she travelled around the world to Greece by way of Japan and India

This story is set in New Hampshire and tells of the summer that the main character Andy Lightfoot, a poet who has lost his muse. 126 pages.

Paperback:

9780393315530 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, September 1, 1996), cover price $15.95
9780393301595 | W W Norton & Co Inc, June 1, 1984, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: This story is set in New Hampshire and tells of the summer that the main character Andy Lightfoot, a poet who has lost his muse.

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The poet-novelist describes her daily life in a graceful, eighteenth-century New Hampshire cottage

Hardcover:

9780844660943 | Peter Smith Pub Inc, August 1, 1983, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: May Sarton describes living at her eighteenth-century house in Nelson, New Hampshire―how she acquired it, how it and the garden became part of her.

Paperback:

9780393315516 | Reissue edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, September 1, 1996), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The poet-novelist describes her daily life in a graceful, eighteenth-century New Hampshire cottage
9780393301083 | W W Norton & Co Inc, December 1, 1982, cover price $5.95 | also contains New Techniques in Systems Neuroscience | About this edition: The poet-novelist describes her daily life in a graceful, eighteenth-century New Hampshire cottage

Poems deal with rural life, winter solitude, birds, night, Christmas, spring, gardens, drought, horses, trees, mortality, and dreams

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9780872330832 | Reprint edition (William L Bauhan, June 1, 1996), cover price $9.95
9780872330986 | William L Bauhan, November 1, 1987, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Poems deal with rural life, winter solitude, birds, night, Christmas, spring, gardens, drought, horses, trees, mortality, and dreams

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The marriage of Bostonian banker Ned Fraser and singer Anna Lindstrom results in a painful clash between his crippling reserve and her tempestuous, emotional nature

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9780393313895 | Reissue edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, April 1, 1996), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: The marriage of Bostonian banker Ned Fraser and singer Anna Lindstrom results in a painful clash between his crippling reserve and her tempestuous, emotional nature

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May Sarton describes her internal and external adjustments to life on the Maine coast, where a deepening sense of solitude and oneness with the sea brought her to new heights of creative passion
By Beverly Hallam (photographer) and May Sarton

Paperback:

9780393313901 | Reissue edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, December 1, 1995), cover price $21.00 | About this edition: May Sarton describes her internal and external adjustments to life on the Maine coast, where a deepening sense of solitude and oneness with the sea brought her to new heights of creative passion

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The award-winning poet presents a daily record of her thoughts and feelings during her eighty-second year, reflecting on her youth, the vicissitudes of her cat, the rigors of a Maine winter, and the mystery of old age.

Hardcover:

9780393038897 | W W Norton & Co Inc, December 1, 1995, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: The award-winning poet presents a daily record of her thoughts and feelings during her eighty-second year, reflecting on her youth, the vicissitudes of her cat, the rigors of a Maine winter, and the mystery of old age

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Product Description: Sarton's memoir begins with her roots in a Belgian childhood and describes her youth and education in Cambridge, Massachusetts, her coming-of-age years, and the people who influenced her life as a writer. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Paperback:

9780393312485 | Reissue edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, December 1, 1995), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Sarton's memoir begins with her roots in a Belgian childhood and describes her youth and education in Cambridge, Massachusetts, her coming-of-age years, and the people who influenced her life as a writer.

Records May Sarton's seventy-ninth year as a period of change during which she battled for her health while persevering in her work, friendships, and love of nature. Reprint. LJ.

Hardcover:

9780393033465 | W W Norton & Co Inc, May 1, 1992, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Disabled by heart and lung problems, the author nevertheless chronicles the triumphs and tribulations of her seventy-ninth year, meeting her friends, learning to live with a disability, and experiencing the joy of nature

Paperback:

9780393313888 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, December 1, 1995), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Records May Sarton's seventy-ninth year as a period of change during which she battled for her health while persevering in her work, friendships, and love of nature.

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The author recounts the physical struggles of her daily life that are counterbalanced by friendship, nature, growing fame, and a return to writing poetry

Hardcover:

9780393035292 | W W Norton & Co Inc, August 1, 1993, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: The author recounts the physical struggles of her daily life that are counterbalanced by friendship, nature, growing fame, and a return to writing poetry

Paperback:

9780393313178 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, July 1, 1995), cover price $21.95

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Product Description: "At long last in early June the Gordons were expected home at Dene's Court, the house in Ireland which Violet Dene Gordon had inherited." So begins May Sarton's evocative early novel about Violet Gordon's return, after thirty years, to her childhood home, where much had to be settled in one brief summer―fateful decisions about a marriage, a love affair, and a career...read more

Hardcover:

9780393085990, titled "A Shower of Summer Days." | W W Norton & Co Inc, June 1, 1970, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: "At long last in early June the Gordons were expected home at Dene's Court, the house in Ireland which Violet Dene Gordon had inherited.

Paperback:

9780393312508 | Reissue edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, February 1, 1995), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: "At long last in early June the Gordons were expected home at Dene's Court, the house in Ireland which Violet Dene Gordon had inherited.

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The fifty-year friendship of two remarkable women, Jane and Cam, is relived as Cam, in her seventies, recalls and celebrates the personality, compassion, and fulfilling career of her recently deceased friend (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780816140961 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, April 1, 1987), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The fifty-year friendship of two remarkable women, Jane and Cam, is relived as Cam, in her seventies, recalls and celebrates the personality, compassion, and fulfilling career of her recently deceased friend

Paperback:

9780393312492 | Reissue edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, February 1, 1995), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The fifty-year friendship of two remarkable women, Jane and Cam, is relived as Cam, in her seventies, recalls and celebrates the personality, compassion, and fulfilling career of her recently deceased friend
9780393305609 | W W Norton & Co Inc, March 1, 1989, cover price $5.95 | also contains Iliade | About this edition: The fifty-year friendship of two remarkable women, Jane and Cam, is relived as Cam, in her seventies, recalls and celebrates the personality, compassion, and fulfilling career of her recently deceased friend

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