Jane Smiley: 33 books

Book cover of The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton
by Jane Smiley
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007

See the difference, read #1 bestselling author Jane Smiley in Large Print * About Large Print All Random House Large Print editions are published in a 16-point typeface Six years after her Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller, A Thousand Acres, and three years after her witty, acclaimed,...
Book cover of Horse Heaven

Horse Heaven

A Novel

by Jane Smiley
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2001

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK "A WISE, SPIRITED NOVEL . . . [IN WHICH] SMILEY PLUMBS THE WONDROUSLY STRANGE WORLD OF HORSE RACING." --People "ONE OF THE PREMIER NOVELISTS OF HER GENERATION, possessed of a mastery of craft and an uncompromising vision that grow...
Book cover of Charles Dickens
by Jane Smiley
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2002

With the delectable wit, unforgettable characters, and challenging themes that have won her a Pulitzer Prize and national bestseller status, Jane Smiley naturally finds a kindred spirit in the author of classics such as Great Expectations and A Christmas Carol. As "his novels shaped his life...
Book cover of March Sisters: On Life, Death, and Little Women

March Sisters: On Life, Death, and Little Women

A Library of America Special Publication

by Kate Bolick, Jenny Zhang, Carmen Maria Machado
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2019

On its 150th anniversary, four acclaimed authors offer personal reflections on their lifelong engagement with Louisa May Alcott's classic novel of girlhood and growing up. For the 150th anniversary of the publication of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, Kate Bolick, Jenny Zhang, Carmen Maria...
Book cover of Good Faith
by Jane Smiley
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2003

Greed. Envy. Sex. Property. In her subversively funny and genuinely moving new novel, Jane Smiley nails down several American obsessions with the expertise of a master carpenter. Forthright, likable Joe Stratford is the kind of local businessman everybody trusts, for good reason. But it’s...
Book cover of The Man Who Invented the Computer
by Jane Smiley
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010

From one of our most acclaimed novelists, a  David-and-Goliath biography for the digital age. One night in the late 1930s, in a bar on the Illinois–Iowa border, John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics at Iowa State University, after a frustrating day performing tedious mathematical...
Book cover of An Innocent Abroad

An Innocent Abroad

Life-changing Trips from 35 Great Writers

by John Berendt, Dave Eggers, Richard Ford
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014

More than 20 well-known writers and celebrities share the travel experiences that shaped their personalities and changed their lives. Contributors include Dave Eggers, Richard Ford, Pico Iyer, John Berendt, Alexander McCall Smith and Jane Smiley. About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading...
Book cover of A Good Horse

A Good Horse

Book Two of the Horses of Oak Valley Ranch

by Jane Smiley
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010

When eighth grader Abby Lovitt looks out at those pure-gold rolling hills, she knows there’s no place she’d rather be than her family’s ranch—even with all the hard work of tending to nine horses. But some chores are no work at all, like grooming young Jack. At eight months, his rough foal...
Book cover of Duplicate Keys
by Jane Smiley
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010

Alice Ellis is a Midwestern refugee living in Manhattan. Still recovering from a painful divorce, she depends on the companionship and camaraderie of tightly knit circle of friends. At the center of this circle is a rock band struggling to navigate New York’s erratic music scene, and an apartment/practice...
Book cover of Golden Age
by Jane Smiley
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015

From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize: the much-anticipated final volume, following Some Luck and Early Warning, of her acclaimed American trilogy—a richly absorbing new novelthat brings the remarkable Langdon family into our present times and beyond   A lot can happen in one hundred years, as...
Book cover of The Greenlanders
by Jane Smiley
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011

This enthralling epic tale, written in the tradition of the old Norse sagas, takes us to fourteenth-century Greenland—a farflung place of glittering fjords, blasting winds, sun-warmed meadows, and high, dark mountains. Thisis the story of one family: proud landowner Asgeir Gunnarsson; his daughter...
Book cover of The Age of Grief
by Jane Smiley
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011

The luminous novella and stories in The Age of Griefexplore the vicissitudes of love, friendship, and marriage with all the compassion and insight that have come to be expected from Jane Smiley, the Pulitzer Prize—winning author of A Thousand Acres*.* In “The Pleasure of Her Company,”...
Book cover of Riding Lessons (An Ellen & Ned Book)
by Jane Smiley
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018

The first book in a new horse trilogy from Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley starring a feisty young rider. ** ** Eleven-year-old Ellen is a spunky—and occasionally misbehaving—young riding student. Her teacher Abby Lovitt (who readers might recognize from The Georges and the Jewels) is a high...
Book cover of The Georges and the Jewels

The Georges and the Jewels

Book One of the Horses of Oak Valley Ranch

by Jane Smiley
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009

A Pulitzer Prize winner makes her debut for young readers. Jane Smiley makes her debut for young readers in this stirring novel set on a California horse ranch in the 1960s. Seventh-grader Abby Lovitt has always been more at ease with horses than with people. Her father insists they call all...
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