Carl Sandburg: 20 books

Book cover of Honey and Salt
by Carl Sandburg
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015

A collection from the Pulitzer Prize–winning American poet with “a sharp lively wit and a tender approach to the human condition” (The Philadelphia Inquirer).   Though he was also renowned as a biographer of Abraham Lincoln, Carl Sandburg was first and foremost a poet—upon his death, President...
Book cover of The Sandburg Treasury

The Sandburg Treasury

Prose and Poetry for Young People

by Carl Sandburg
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018

An illustrated volume of all of Carl Sandburg's books for young readers: Rootabaga Stories, Early Moon, Wind Song, Prairie-Town Boy, and Abe Lincoln Grows Up. Introduction by Paula Sandburg.
Book cover of Chicago Poems

Chicago Poems

Unabridged

by Carl Sandburg
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012

Chicago Poems (1916) was Carl Sandburg's first-published book of verse. Written in the poet's unique, personal idiom, these poems embody a soulfulness, lyric grace, and a love of and compassion for the common man that earned Sandburg a reputation as a "poet of the people." Among the dozens...
Book cover of Always the Young Strangers

Always the Young Strangers

The Poet Historians Moving Recollection of His Small Town Youth

by Carl Sandburg
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015

The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet and historian recalls his midwestern boyhood in this classic memoir. Born in a tiny cottage in Galesburg, Illinois, in 1878, Carl Sandburg grew with America. As a boy he left school at the age of thirteen to embark on a life of work—driving a milk wagon and...
Book cover of The Pulitzer Prize Collection
by Booth Tarkington, Eugene O'Neill, Edward William Bok
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2010

A collection of twelve Pulitzer Prize winning books with an active table of contents to help you easily find the book you are looking for.Alice Adams" by Booth Tarkington Anna Christie" by Eugene O'Neill The Americanization of Edward Bok - The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After" by Edward...
Book cover of Rootabaga Stories
by Carl Sandburg
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017

"Takes the home-bred American fantasy of The Wizard of Oz even further … An old favorite, which no American child should miss." ― School Library Journal. "These stories out of the Rootabaga Country… have taken root in American soil — they are here to stay." — New York...
Book cover of The Chicago Race Riots
by Carl Sandburg, Paul Buhle
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013

Nearly a century ago, an African American teenager crossed an invisible line of segregation at a Chicago beach and paid with his life. The incident set off days of violence, resulting in dozens of deaths and hundreds of injuries. This contemporary account was written by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Carl Sandburg, who reported on the riots for the Chicago Daily News.
Book cover of Chicago Poems
by Carl Sandburg
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

"Chicago Poems" is an early collection of poems by American poet Carl Sandburg. This little volume includes the following poems: Chicago, Sketch, Masses, Lost, The Harbor, They Will Say, Mill-Doors, Halsted Street Car, Clark Street Bridge, Passers-by, The Walking Man of Rodin, Subway, The...
Book cover of Storm Over the Land

Storm Over the Land

A Profile of the Civil War

by Carl Sandburg
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015

Writings on the American Civil War selected from the Pulitzer Prize–winning presidential biography Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, with illustrations and maps. Drawn from Carl Sandburg’s magisterial biography of the sixteenth US president, this volume focuses in on the War Between the States,...
Book cover of Chicago Poems
by Carl Sandburg
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013

This early work by Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Sandburg is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It contains a large collection of his poetical works and is thoroughly recommended for anyone interested in the history of American poetry. Many of the earliest books, particularly those...
Book cover of The People, Yes
by Carl Sandburg
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2015

A long poem that makes brilliant use of the legends and myths, the tall tales and sayings of America. "If America has a folksinger today he is Carl Sandburg, a singer who comes out of the prairie soil... who can hand back to the people a creation that has scraps of their own insight, humor, and imagination" (Padraic Colum).
Book cover of The Wedding Procession of the Rag Doll and the Broom Handle and Who Was in It
by Carl Sandburg
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017

The Rag Doll was blessed with many friends — the Wisk Broom, the Furnace Shovel, and the Coffee Pot among them — but when it came time to marry, she chose the Broom Handle. On the day of their wedding, the bride and groom were attended by a fantastical procession of well-wishers: the Spoon Lickers,...
Book cover of American Poetry 1922
by AMY LOWELL, ROBERT FROST, CARL SANDBURG
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015

 Includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.   CONTENTS   AMY LOWELL       Lilacs Twenty-four Hokku on a Modern Theme The Swans Prime Vespers In Excelsis La...
Book cover of Harvest Poems

Harvest Poems

1910-1960

by Carl Sandburg
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015

A representative selection of poems, culled from the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet’s published verse, plus thirteen poems appearing in book form for the first time. “[Sandburg’s poetry] is independent, honest, direct, lyric, and it endures, clamorous and muted, magical as life itself” (New York Times). Introduction by Mark Van Doren.
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