William Maxwell
Bright Center of Heaven / They Came Like Swallows / The Folded Leaf / Time Will Darken It / stories 1938-1956
(Sprache: Englisch)
A first of two omnibus volumes of best works by the twentieth-century American chronicler of small-town life includes the previously out-of-print'boarding house'comedy, Bright Center of Heaven, as well as an assortment of short stories and early signature novels.
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A first of two omnibus volumes of best works by the twentieth-century American chronicler of small-town life includes the previously out-of-print'boarding house'comedy, Bright Center of Heaven, as well as an assortment of short stories and early signature novels.
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With his second book, They Came Like Swallows (1937), William Maxwell found his signature subject matter the fragility of human happiness as well as his voice, a quiet, cadenced Midwestern voice that John Updike has called one of the wisest and kindest in American fiction. Set against the background of the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918, this short novel presents the loving character of Elizabeth Morison, a devoted wife and mother, through the eyes of those whom she is fated to leave decades before her time.Edmund Wilson described The Folded Leaf (1945) as a quite unconventional study of adolescent relationships between two boys, with a girl in the offing in Chicago and in a Middle Western college: very much lived and very much seen. He praised this drama of the immature for the compassion Maxwell brings to his male protagonists, whose intensely felt, unarticulated bond is beyond their inchoate ability to understand.
Time Will Darken It (1948) is a drama of the mature: a good man s struggle to keep duty before desire and his family s needs before his own. It paints a portrait of Draperville, Illinois, in 1912, a proud and isolated community governed by gossip, where an ambitious young woman must not overreach the limits society has placed on her sex, and an older, married gentleman must not encourage her should she dare.
Together with these major works, this Library of America edition of Maxwell s early fiction collects his lighthearted first novel, Bright Center of Heaven (1934), out of print for nearly 70 years, and nine masterly short stories. It concludes with The Writer as Illusionist (1955), Maxwell s fullest statement on the art of fiction as he practiced it.
LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America s best and most significant writing. The Library of America
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series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
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Autoren-Porträt
William Keepers Maxwell, Jr. (1908 2000) served as a fiction editor at The New Yorker from 1936 to 1975. Christopher Carduff is Books Editor of The Wall Street Journal and a former consulting editor at the Library of America. He is the editor of John Updike s posthumous collections Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism, Always Looking: Essays on Art, Selected Poems, and Collected Stories.
Bibliographische Angaben
- 2008, 920 Seiten, Maße: 13,2 x 20,7 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Christopher Carduff
- Verlag: Library of America
- ISBN-10: 159853016X
- ISBN-13: 9781598530162
- Erscheinungsdatum: 18.01.2008
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
At last at last! The Library of America brings out a pair of volumes devoted to the writings of the New Yorker editor who in his spare time produced some of America s most lyrical and poignant fiction. Arts Journal
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