Wendell Berry: 57 books
Bringing It to the Table
On Farming and Food
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2009
Only a farmer could delve so deeply into the origins of food, and only a writer of Wendell Berry’s caliber could convey it with such conviction and eloquence. Long before Whole Foods organic produce was available at your local supermarket, Berry was farming with the purity of food in mind. For the...
The Long-Legged House
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
The debut collection of essays by one of America’s most acclaimed literary lights, celebrating his deep love for language, the land, and humanity.
Published in 1969, The Long-Legged House was Wendell Berry’s first collection of essays, the inaugural work introducing many of the central themes...
by Wendell Berry
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Here, Wendell Berry revisits for the first time his immensely popular Collected Poems, which The New York Times Book Review described as “a straightforward search for a life connected to the soil, for marriage as a sacrament, and family life” and “[returns] American poetry to a Wordsworthian...
The Way of Ignorance
And Other Essays
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2006
A soulful, searching collection of essays that tackle the complexities of contemporary America from “the prophet of rural America” (New York Times).
From the war in Iraq to Hurricane Katrina to the political sniping engendered by Supreme Court nominations—contemporary American society is...
Remembering
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
A poetic novel of despair, hope, and the redemptive power of work deepens an award-winning author’s grand Port Williams literary project.
After losing his hand in an accident, Andy Catlett confronts an agronomist whose surreal vision can see only industrial farming. This vision is powerfully...
Watch With Me
and Six Other Stories of the Yet-Remembered Ptolemy Proudfoot and His Wife, Miss Minnie, Née Quinch
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
This volume of six linked stories and the novella from which the book derives its title is set in Port William from 1908 to the Second World War. Here Wendell Berry introduces two of his more indelible and poignant characters, Ptolemy Proudfoot and his wife Miss Minnie, remarkable for the comic and...
The Art of the Commonplace
The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
"Here is a human being speaking with calm and sanity out of the wilderness. We would do well to hear him." —The Washington Post Book World
The Art of the Commonplace gathers twenty essays by Wendell Berry that offer an agrarian alternative to our dominant urban culture. Grouped...
by Wendell Berry
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
An impassioned, thoughtful, and fearless essay on the effects of racism on the American identity by one of our country’s most humane literary voices.
Acclaimed as “one of the most humane, honest, liberating works of our time” (The Village Voice), The Hidden Wound is a book-length essay...
Life Is a Miracle
An Essay Against Modern Superstition
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2003
One of the most perceptive critics of modern society petitions for an urgent return to knowing things intimately, reverently, and with affection.
Deeply rooted to the land he has lived on for decades, award-winning author, poet, farmer, and environmentalist Wendell Berry argues against the...
Nathan Coulter
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
This, the first title in the Port William series, introduces the rural section of Kentucky with which novelist Wendell Berry has had a lifelong fascination. When young Nathan loses his grandfather, Berry guides readers through the process of Nathan's grief, endearing the reader to the simple humanity...
What Matters?
Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
Over the years, Wendell Berry has sought to understand and confront the financial structure of modern society and the impact of developing late capitalism on American culture. There is perhaps no more demanding or important critique available to contemporary citizens than Berry’s writings - just as...
by Wendell Berry
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2011
A “superb study” that “reminds us that Williams remains our contemporary not only for the lively cadences and fresh imagery that animate his poems, but for the ethical imperative of his example” (The Sewanee Review).
Acclaimed essayist and poet Wendell Berry was born and has always lived...
A Continuous Harmony
Essays Cultural and Agricultural
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
A collection of essays on agrarian living from the poet and author hailed as “America’s greatest philosopher on sustainable life” (The Chicago Tribune).
In A Continuous Harmony, renowned poet, farmer, and environmental activist Wendell Berry makes an impassioned case for returning to...
A Place in Time
Twenty Stories of the Port William Membership
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
One of America’s most acclaimed writers deepens and expands his great literary saga set in small-town Kentucky spanning the Civil War to the present.
For more than fifty years, Wendell Berry has been telling us stories about Port William, a mythical town on the banks of the Kentucky River,...