books by Wallace Stegner     books:       Great American Short Stories6 reviews Dell, 1985 Gems From Three Generations of Short Stories In their introduction, authors Wallace and Mary Stegner review the history of short story development in the United States. They argue that this literary form was invented by Edgar Allan Poe in 1832 with his publication of "Metzengerstein" in The Saturday Evening Post. Poe crafted "...the concentrated tale of effect, its single, preconceived impression attained with the greatest economy and ...             Crossing to Safety (Modern Library Classics)124 reviews Wallace Earle Stegner Modern Library, 2002 Glad to "discover" Stegner Crossing to Safety is simply an exceptionally well-told story. Stegner demonstrates the power of language when every word is chosen carefully. The story opens on Larry and Sally in later years. They have had a life-long friendship with another couple. At once the reader understands that life has dealt Larry and Sally some serious blows and that another defining moment is about to happen. Then ...             Angle of Repose (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)165 reviews Wallace Stegner Penguin Classics, 2000 Lush and poignant Stegner builds two stories, that of a man with a severe disability and his grandmother as a young woman. I was fascinated in his research of her life, marriage and move to Leadville, Colorado during the gold rush. She brought culture to the area and endured privation to "make it work." Lovely read - engrossing.             On Teaching and Writing Fiction4 reviews Wallace Stegner Penguin (Non-Classics), 2002 Remarkable Simple. Elegant. Potent. This thin paperback is a Master-Class on the Creative Writer. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author harnesses both his Socratic teaching philosophy and his obvious understanding of the literary modus operandi to pass on his knowledge of what the creative writer is and, more importantly, what he or she does on the page. From caveats of the craft to criticism of critics and on ...             Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West15 reviews Wallace Stegner Penguin (Non-Classics), 1992 Once Upon a Time in the West Once upon a time in the West, a man named William Gilpin was blown westward along with an expedition of John Fremont that took him as far as Walla Walla, Wash. In 1846 he fought in the Mexican War. In 1861 he went to Washington, DC, after Abraham Lincoln was elected. Later he became the first territorial governor of Colorado. Once upon a time, Gilpin saw the land beyond the 100th meridian (which ...             The Big Rock Candy Mountain27 reviews Wallace Stegner Penguin Classics, 2010 the Big Rock Cany Mountain Myth I loved this book. Stegner is a wonderful writer in that he gets to the meat of things and into people's heads in a way that draws one in. His character development is superb. I found myself pulling for them all the way. His books tend to expose the struggling part of life, but always there is that light coming though that gives one hope.             The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons (Penguin Classics)18 reviews John Wesley Powell Penguin Classics, 2003 Exploration of the "white spaces" of life... John Wesley Powell lost his right arm at Shiloh, in the Civil War battle of 1862. As Wallace Stegner says of him, in his excellent book, "Beyond the Hundredth Meridian,": "Losing one's right arm is a misfortune; to some it would be a disaster, to others an excuse. It affected Wes Powell's life about as much as a stone fallen into a swift stream affects the course of the river." The war finally ...             The Spectator Bird28 reviews Wallace Stegner Penguin Classics, 2010 A life lived, a life rememberd, a life imagined, intersect A meditation on a life lived and a life remembered. The time is the early 1970's. Joe Alston, a retired literary agent, nearly seventy, receives a post card from a Danish woman, Astrid, who he and his wife met 20 years earlier on a trip to Denmark. Upon receiving the post card from Astrid, Joe retrieves the journal he kept during the trip and ends up reading it to his wife, Ruth. The novel ...             Wolf Willow: A History, a Story, and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)10 reviews Wallace Stegner Penguin Classics, 2000 Vividly told account of the Canadian frontier This wonderful collection of essays and fiction about the last Western frontier is both romance and anti-romance. Writing in the 1950s, Stegner captures the breath-taking beauty of the unbroken plains of southwest Saskatchewan and the excitement of its settlment at the turn of the century. Part memoir, the book recounts the years of his boyhood in a small town along the Whitemud River in ...             Collected Stories (Penguin Classics)2 reviews Wallace Stegner Penguin Classics, 2006 LITERATURE WITH A BIG "L" In his short stories, Wallace Stegner writes scenes and descriptions that come alive as if the reader were right there, looking and feeling and smelling the world of the 1930's, 1940's and 1950's, shaking hands with down-home people, making small talk and eating a home-cooked meal. In fact, they are so well written, his stories remind me of 3-D. When 3-D movies first came out people in the ...             Marking the Sparrow's Fall: The Making of the American West Wallace Stegner Holt Paperbacks, 1999 Winner of three O. Henry Awards, the Commonwealth Gold Medal, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Kirsch Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement, Wallace Stegner was a literary giant. In Marking the Sparrow's Fall, the first collection of Stegner's work published since his death, Stegner's son Page has collected, annotated, and edited fifteen essays that have never before been published in any edition, as well as a little-known ...             Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West (Modern Library Classics)6 reviews Wallace Stegner Modern Library, 2002 The American west. "Easterners are constantly being surprised and somehow offended that California's summer hills are gold, not green. We are creatures shaped by our experiences; we like what we know, more than we know what we like. ... Sagebrush is an acquired taste." Stegner taught writing at the University of Wisconsin and at Harvard, but he had a strong sense of place and his place was the West. He accepted a ...             Mormon Country (Second Edition)10 reviews Wallace Stegner Bison Books, 2003 Mormonism in Utah Explained Prof. Stegner has written an objective and informative book on Mormon ideas and how they are practiced in Utah. Although a non-Mormon, his respect for his subjects has rightfully gained their confidence on many topics. Yet, this is not a "white-wash". Mr. Stegner combined history and contemporary practices to provide a very insightful presentation of this intriguing society.             All the Little Live Things (Contemporary American Fiction)21 reviews Wallace Stegner Penguin (Non-Classics), 1991 "Life is One New Position After Another." Reading this novel was often like looking at an impressionist's painting. It's incredibly rich in scenic description, character nuances and, most importantly, mood setting tone. Wallace Stegner lives on through his writing and we shall all be richer for this reading experience. This novel, while focused on a socially turbulent era (late 1960s), is timeless. Generational and political conflict, as ...             American Places (Penguin Classics) Wallace Stegner, Page Stegner Penguin Classics, 2006 A collection of musings by Pulitzer Prize?winning author Wallace Stegner and his son, Page, American Places reconciles the many images that embody Americans, America, and the land that made it all possible.             Wallace Stegner's West (California Legacy) Wallace Stegner Heyday Books, 2008 A collection as broad as the Great Basin and as dynamic as California s coastline fiction and essays by Wallace Stegner Literary critic Charles E. Cascio compared reading Wallace Stegner s short fiction to entering a great community, one that invites readers into a larger conversation, not through soaring prose or gimmicky plots, but with writing that is as real as the moment and as enduring as history. In his nonfiction Stegner explores with ...             Recapitulation8 reviews Wallace Stegner Penguin (Non-Classics), 1997 Stegner's Beautiful Insight When a real-life event pulls you back into The Past, where you didn't want to go, this is what happens. Though not an action-packed thriller, it is elegant and touching.             The Ox-Bow Incident (Modern Library Classics)50 reviews Walter Van Tilburg Clark Modern Library, 2004 An American classic and a classic Western THE OX-BOW INCIDENT is a classic tale. It also is a classic Western, and because the Western is so central to American culture, THE OX-BOW INCIDENT surely is more important -- more "classic", if you will -- for Americans than for others. To be sure, at times the writing is somewhat dated, but that "flaw" is negligible. The cast of characters (at least 20) is very finely drawn, with only one ...             Remembering Laughter8 reviews Wallace Stegner Penguin (Non-Classics), 1996 Stegner's genesis About five years ago I stumbled onto Wallace Stegner, and I haven't been able to leave him behind. I just got around to reading _Remembering Laughter_ this past winter, mainly because it was usually not even listed among his better books; that is too bad. Stegner is one of the best American writers that hardly anybody knows, and this is probably one of his most underrated works. 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