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Evan Connell
We have here on the planet with us a man of such courage and strength of spirit that he has not lost what Alfred Adler calls ‘the nerve for excellence.’…
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From the critically acclaimed and best-selling author of Son of the Morning Star and Deus Lo Volt! comes a biography that breaks the mold-recounting with stunning immediacy the uncommon genius…
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Evan S. Connell
Karl Muhlbach, hero of Evan Connell’s previous novel, The Connoisseur, has a new obsession-a beautiful, nubile girl-about-New York named Lambeth Brent, whose puzzling background and swinging activities lead Muhlbach into…
Spurned by his wife at home and by superiors at work, a young man sits in his cramped San Francisco apartment during the turbulent 1960s and channels everything around him…
This text features essays on the advances made in anthropology, archaeology, astronomy and linguistics, stories of the Anasazi, the old ones of the southwestern desert and tales of the great…
The year is 1095. Pope Urban appeals for the liberation of Jerusalem and cries out Deus lo volt!, God Wills It! Wave upon wave of Christian pilgrims rush to assault…
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Tells tales of real-life adventure ranging from the archaeology of Olduvai gorge to the exploration of the Antarctic, and from Viking voyages to an Ice Age xylophone.
Another brilliant example of Evan Connell’s art, The Patriot deals with an American boy who grew to maturity with World War II. He had learned his father’s patriotism, and then…
Custer’s Last Stand is among the most enduring events in American history - 130 years after the fact, books continue to be written and people continue to argue about even…
Acclaimed author Evan S. Connell sends us through the complete experience of a man initially intrigued and then enslaved by art: a curious interest, a rapt fixation, and the becoming…
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Evan S. Connell emerged from the American Midwest determined to become a writer. He eventually made his mark with attention-getting fiction. This first portrait and appraisal of an under-recognized American…
Offers the first portrait and appraisal of an under-recognised American writer. The book is based on accounts by friends, relatives, writers, and others who knew Evan S. Connell; correspondence in…
Deus lo voit , or God wills it! The year is 1095 The Crusades have started, and wave after wave of Christian pilgrims rush to assault the growing power of…
Evan S Connell
Evan S. Connell is by any measure one of America’s greatest living writers. His restraint, concision, and perfect pitch lend themselves stunningly to the short story form. He intuitively senses…
Mr. Bridge is the companion volume to Mrs. Bridge told through a very different voice. The Bridge novels have been recognized as classics during their author’s lifetime. With their shared…
Praise for Notes from a Bottle Found on the Beach at Carmel A unique tour de force – The New York Times Book Review One of the most remarkable books…
Mrs Bridge, an unremarkable and conservative housewife in Kansas City, has three children and a kindly lawyer husband. She spends her time with shopping, going to bridge parties and bringing…
Walter Bridge, husband to India and father to three, is a successful lawyer in a Kansas suburb. The daily dramas of his life only serve to illuminate his prejudice, self-doubts…
Bestselling author Connell is expert at sketching the banalities and trivialities of middle-class values, customs, and habits. Like Mr. Bridge, its counterpart, Mrs. Bridge is comprised of over 100 titled…
‘Custer’s Last Stand’ is amongst the most enduring events in American history. This work details the heroism, foolishness and savagery of this crucial chapter in the history of the West.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
A fictional tour de force of rich historical recreation and spectacular prose by the author of Son of the Morning Star. Connell imagines the journals of different alchemists–a conscientious physician…
