Time Will Darken It: A Novel (Nonpareil Book, 28)
 Writing From Another Time of Another Time: The world is the less for the death of William Maxwell at age 91 last year. His prose is restrained and precise. He knows the use of silence on the page; his dialogue convinces both in the words and the spaces [... more]
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The Chateau
Beautifully written but unfortunately overlooked: The Chateau is a wonderful "travelogue" for people who love well written novels. The story begins with the interesting premise of vacationing in France just after the war. The novel shows the [... more]
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The Folded Leaf
One of my all time favorites: This is the best William Maxwell novel I've read and one of the best novels I've ever read. I found the writing in this book to have the quality of a daydream and for the situations to ring true to life. The novel unfolds as [... more]
$14.00
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The Element of Lavishness: Letters of William Maxwell ...
Letters that show delight in language and friendship: Sylvia Townsend Warner counted herself very lucky to have William Maxwell as her New Yorker editor and readers of this volume of their correspondence would agree Warner wrote 153 stories between 1936 [... more]
$27.50
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The Old Man at the Railroad Crossing and Other Tales ...
a masterpiece!: One of the most beautifully written collection of stories I have ever read. Maxwell is a master of the short story form, and these brief tales feel as if they are suspended in an enchanted, slightly melancholy, time and space. Author: [... more]
$10.95
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All the Days and Nights: The Collected Stories
American Bible: This, like the Bible, is a book of two halves: one long and relatively weighty, the other short and attractively simple. The first part is Maxwell's collected stories, chosen to represent a period of time stretching from the thirties to [... more]
$15.00
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They Came Like Swallows
Amazon.com Review: In the Morison house the important goes unsaid and indirection is the operative mode--conversation stops where it should start and key terms such as fear, pain, pregnancy, fail to be addressed. The younger son, an eight-year-old, [... more]
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Time Will Darken It
Writing From Another Time of Another Time: The world is the less for the death of William Maxwell at age 91 last year. His prose is restrained and precise. He knows the use of silence on the page; his dialogue convinces both in the words and the spaces [... more]
$15.00
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The Outermost Dream: Literary Sketches
Amazon.com Review: With the publication of The Outermost Dream, a collection of essays by William Maxwell, Graywolf Press's Rediscovery Series has saved from obscurity yet another literary jewel. Most of these pieces originally appeared in the New Yorker, [... more]
$12.95
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Ancestors: A Family History
Yes, a good book.: This is an interesting, absorbing account of Maxwell's family. The writing is wonderful. William Maxwell's middle initial is K, not F, as this page reads now. Thank you. Author: William Maxwell Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: [... more]
$14.95
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So Long, See You Tomorrow
Reconstructing a lost world: William Maxwell, in So Long, See You Tomorrow, performs one of the prime directives of literature, reconstructing a lost world. And Maxwell is patient and rigorous. We get the feeling, when reading this novel, that Maxwell is [... more]
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All The Days And Nights: The Collected Stories of ...
Inspiration: I loved this short story collection. His portrayal of 1920s and 30s New York is inviting, raw, interesting, and a hits home to all the universal qualities of life and the way we perceive the world. The stories are a treasure trove of [... more]
$25.00
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