Robert Penn: 18 books

The years 1969 and 1979 bookend a volatile decade in American history. As an articulate witness to the era of the Vietnam War, Watergate, Jimmy Carter, and the national "malaise," Robert Penn Warren produced a phenomenal body of work, securing his place in the canon of American poetry. Volume...

In the last decade of his life, Robert Penn Warren remained a vibrant force in American literature, producing new works of poetry and nonfiction while also dealing courageously with the gradual decline of his health and the diminishment of his poetic powers. Toward Sunset, at a Great Height, 1980--1989,...

In America’s twentieth century, there is no man of letters more versatile, distinguished, and influential than the poet, novelist, editor, critic, social commentator, and teacher Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989). The most intimate of Warren’s “letters,” his personal correspondence, now join...

Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren, Volume three, provides an indispensable glimpse of Warren the writer and the man, covering a crucial decade in his life. Edited by Randy Hendricks and James A. Perkins, and introduced by William Bedford Clark, this collection of largely previously unpublished...

Volume four of the Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren covers a crucial time of personal and professional rejuvenation in Warren's life. During the fifteen-year period spanned by this correspondence, he completed Brother to Dragons; Segregation: The Inner Conflict in the South; and Who Speaks for...

Robert Penn has saddled up nearly every day of his adult life. In his late twenties, he pedaled 25,000 miles around the world. Today he rides to get to work, sometimes for work, to bathe in air and sunshine, to travel, to go shopping, to stay sane, and to skip bath time with his kids. He's no Sunday...

The story of how one man cut down a single tree to see how many things could be made from it. Out of all the trees in the world, the ash is most closely bound up with who we are: the tree we have made the greatest and most varied use of over the course of human history. One frigid winter morning,...

The second novel by Robert Penn Warren, author of the Pulizter-Prize-winning All The King's Men, is a tour de force and a neglected classic. At Heaven’s Gate, Robert Penn Warren’s second novel, is a neglected classic of twentieth-century fiction. First published in 1943, it grew out of...

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Senza dubbio il più popolare mezzo di trasporto nella storia, la bicicletta è una delle più grandi invenzioni dell'umanità. Robert Penn ci va da quando ha memoria, ci ha anche fatto il giro del mondo. Tuttavia, nessuna delle innumerevoli due ruote che ha posseduto è riuscita a incarnare fino...

Ein Buch über das Glück des Holzhackens und über die heilende Kraft des Waldes. Eine sinnliche Reise, eine Rückbesinnung auf die Kraft der Natur und die Geschichte von einem Mann und seinem Baum. Robert Penn hat den perfekten Baum für sein Vorhaben gefunden. Eine Esche - nicht umsonst "Venus...

Das Fahrrad ist eine der größten Erfindungen der Menschheit - und das meistbenutzte Verkehrsmittel weltweit. Auch der Journalist Robert Penn fährt fast jeden Tag Rad, zur Arbeit, zu Freunden, zum Einkaufen oder um der Welt zu entkommen. Mit Ende 20 fuhr er auf dem Rad um die ganze Welt, 40.000 Kilometer....

In 1979 Robert Penn Warren returned to his native Todd Country, Kentucky, to attend ceremonies in honor of another native son, Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, whose United States citizenship had just been restored, ninety years after his death, by a special act of Congress. From that...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this classic book is generally regarded as the finest novel ever written on American politics. It describes the career of Willie Stark, a back-country lawyer whose idealism is overcome by his lust for power.