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With increasing candor and openness May Sarton’s conversations have given an intimate view of her honest, courageous inner life. Best known to her many readers as a novelist and keeper…
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A brilliant portrait of one of America’s major literary figures. Through her spiritual journals, May Sarton created the image of a strong, independent woman who lived peacefully with solitude–an image…
May Sarton
2016 Reprint of 1937 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. The subject of the book is the human heart. The emotion is intense…
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This fictionalised account of a cat’s adventures begins with a fiercely independent street cat. After years of roaming, it takes the right human to make his transformation from Cat About…
One of the most beloved stories ever written about sharing one’s life with a cat.
An extended fable about a Latin mistress, in retirement with her translations of Horace, and a hobo who takes up residence in the henhouse nearby.
A collection of poetry by the author of Endgame: A Journal of the Seventy-ninth Year and Among the Usual Days celebrates sixty years of creative output with poems culled from…
I am not mad, only old… I am in a concentration camp for the old.
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When Harriet Hatfield opens a bookstore for women in a blue-collar neighborhood near Boston, she is bombarded by anonymous threats. And when the Boston Globe reports Lesbian Bookstore Owner Threatened…
Set in Willard, a small town in the hills of New Hampshire, this novel delves into the intertwined lives of the old Bostonian, Christina, her husband, Cornelius, and her young…
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…
Absolutely compelling … . A monument to love, to friendship, and to the certainty that wisdom and goodness can still exist in a deeply troubled world. -Eugenia Thornton, Cleveland Plain…
When Laura Spelman learns that she will not get well, she looks on this last illness as a journey during which she must reckon up her life, give up the…
In this collection, May Sarton takes on the subject of herself in old age.
In these extraordinary letters, we see May Sarton in all her complexities and are privy to her tangled relationship with Juliette Huxley, whom May considered her muse and the greatest…
The plot of this short novel is deceptively simple, the mood subtle, the feeling intense. And the music of Miss Sarton’s prose leaves compelling echoes in one’s mind. -New York…
A delightful, whimsical tale-one of the most popular books for cat lovers ever written.
The cat Tom has grown tired of his vagabond lifestyle, and he concludes that there might…
Anxiously embarking on her first teaching job, Lucy Winter arrives at a New England women’s college and shortly finds herself in the thick of a crisis: she had discovered a…
Compilation of intense, spirited verse which explores the realms of religion, politics, nature, violence, and old age.
Twenty-six-year-old Francis Chabrier fears his inability to love until he discovers the distinctive beauties of Paris and his first love at the same time
First published in 1946, a novel centred around the experiences of a Belgian family during the interwar years. The mother of the family has to try and maintain normal life…
For Joanna the month’s holiday was to be an escape, a chance to paint and think and release the bitter memories of the war in Greece and of her mother’s…
The author of The House By the Sea , Recovering and I Knew a Phoenix celebrates the friendships that have dominated her life in this volume of reminiscences. Her subjects…
Grandfathers are generally produced by the birth of grandchildren, but one man needs more than the arrival of a first grandchild to accept that role. This novel by the author…
A collection of poems which deals with old age, with absence and with the death of beloved animals and human friends. Included in this collection are some of the author’s…
A story of two poets, one an elderly Belgian woman, the other a young Englishman, who, when he finds his life and art broken up by his love for an…
May Sarton’s provocative novel is about a wife who has outgrown her husband, and after twenty-seven years of marriage decides that she has had enough… . she is altogether believable…
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.
The marriage of Ned Fraser, a Boston banker, and Anna Lindstrom, a singer on the brink of fame, is a battlefield of opposing temperaments.
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.
Its central character is Edward Cavan, a brilliant English professor, who commits suicide. His death sets off a shock wave among Cavan’s friends and changes things for some of them…
In poems gathered into three sections under the titles Letters from Maine, A Winter Garland, and Letters to Myself, Sarton’s inspiration was a new, brief, and passionate love affair.
In these poems, May Sarton reflects on a journey undertaken to celebrate her fiftieth birthday, a journey that took her around the world to Greece via Japan and India, and…
Pure lyric poems come rarely in any poet’s life.
Lenora P. Blouin,Constance Hunting
This work presents May Sarton’s complete oeuvre, bringing together as a whole her vision of life . The text seeks to demonstrate the range of thought and opinion expressed about…
The steady growth of May Sarton’s following and critical importance in recent years has revealed a creative writer of remarkable scope-equally at home in three literary forms: fiction, autobiography, and…
Appearing in book form for the first time, this treasure trove of letters illuminates the life of the beloved poet/writer from early childhood into middle age.
Forty years of correspondence from one of America’s most beloved authors, chronicling her life with compelling candor.
A small, sophisticated, elegantly sentimental journey through a New Hampshire village summer. Our companions are an aging poet, who is sad because he can no longer write-he has lost the…
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May 1912- Sarton
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May 1912-1995 Sarton
