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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045026155
Author : William Saroyan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1412551549
Author : William Saroyan
Publisher : Creative Arts Book Company
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015010470436
The only comprehensive anthology of this beloved American author presents the reader with a warmhearted, sumptuous literary feast.
Author : William Saroyan
Publisher : Heyday Books
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : California
ISBN : UCSC:32106017404861
A major Centennial anthology of the beloved writer. Includes unpublished works as well as short stories, essays, plays, and excerpts from novels
Author : William Saroyan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UOM:39015060835165
This book introduces the Essentials Collection that showcases celebrated California writers whose works have gained international recognition. This selection draws on the best of Saroyan's short stories, novels, drama, and autobiography.
Author : William Saroyan
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811212823
Eleven of William Saroyan's most delightful tales, Fresno Stories springs straight from the source of the author's vision--"the archetypal Armenian families who inhabit Saroyan country, in and around Fresno, California." (Chicago Tribune)
Author : William Saroyan
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780486810669
Once upon a time there was only one word — me. If you wanted to say here I am, you said — me. It was the only word anyone ever heard! But only people said me. Dogs said bark, bark, take me to the park; cats said purr, purr, I am the Queen be kind to her; cows said moo, moo, I am a cow, what are you? But slowly, change came, and in his first children's book, Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist William Saroyan spins a fanciful fable that speculates on how members of the human race actually started talking to each other. Recounted with catchy rhymes and a spirited simplicity, this story is illustrated with lively pictures that glow with the warmth of watercolors. An internationally renowned writer, playwright, and humanitarian, William Saroyan wrote short stories, plays, novels, memoirs, and essays. His tale of Me is illustrated by Murray Tinkelman, whose art has appeared in Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and many other prominent publications. Their charming children's story has been out of print for decades but now returns to circulation in this vibrant new edition.
Author : William Saroyan
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811211290
"What a delight to find seventeen of Saroyan's uncollected stories within one cover!....charming tales, all blessed with Saroyan's pixieish imagination and magical writing style....Even today they read as though they have been freshly minted from the Saroyan treasure house. A discovery for those who love Saroyan's fiction; his spark is still wonderfully alive." --Library Journal
Author : William Saroyan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448214761
When Evan Nazarenus returns from a teaching post at the summer school in Nebraska, he cannot wait for a couple of blissful weeks spent with his wife and two children in Clovis, a small town where his brother has a summer house. But soon after they arrive for the long awaited holiday, Swan, Evan's wife, announces that she is expecting a child ... who is not fathered by Evan. This news shocks and hurts Evan deeply, but for his children's sake he decides to keep it to himself through the holidays they dreamt of for so long. But a family secret of such calibre is difficult to hide and the curious small-town neighbours begin to notice that something is amiss with the couple. The Laughing Matter, first published in 1953, is a disturbing family drama set against the landscape of a small Californian town, with a close-knit community who embrace new-comers with the curiosity of those hungry for gossip. William Saroyan draws his characters with immense sensitivity for human erring and self-inflicted suffering.
Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410356581
A Study Guide for William Saroyan's "Resurrection of a Life," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
Author : Nona Balakian
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 083875368X
In this work, the author tells how Saroyan transformed the short story by personalizing it and by loosening the structure of the novella form. He went on to bring new life to the theater and to the telling of autobiography. Better than that of any recent drama critic, Balakian's chapters on the theater place Saroyan's plays in the larger framework of the American theater of his time and achieve the creation of a total picture of the state of the American theater of the 1930s.
Author : John Leggett
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015056228441
He was so famous that Saroyanesque entered the vocabulary of his time, an adjective expressing the childlike sweetness, the evocation of loneliness, the innocence that characterized his work. His name was known to anyone in America who read a magazine, listened to the radio, cared about theater, or bought a book. At one time he had three plays simultaneously on Broadway, including My Heart’s in the Highlands and The Time of Your Life (which won the Pulitzer Prize and the Drama Critics’ Circle Award). His first collection of stories, The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, was published by Bennett Cerf when Saroyan was twenty-six years old; it was a critical and commercial success. Saroyan went to Hollywood and wrote The Human Comedy over a Christmas holiday; it became a major wartime movie and won him an Oscar for best screenplay. His writing was a mixture of old-world suffering and new-world optimism. But for all of his promise and brilliance, and his half-century struggle to reach the pantheon of American writers, his gift was not large enough to sustain him. Now, in this full-scale biography, John Leggett gives us Saroyan whole, from the immigrant boy and his lonely orphanage years to the internationally acclaimed American writer. Here is the all-encompassing story —the fun, the follies, the lights, and the shadows of his life. Leggett writes about Saroyan’s roller-coaster courtship and two marriages to the beautiful Carol Marcus (she was seventeen and he thirty-four when they met); about his relationships with his publishers and with his long-time agent, Hal Matson; about his friendships with Budd Schulberg, Irwin Shaw, George Jean Nathan, and others, and the many productions (on Broadway and off) of Saroyan’s plays. He writes about Saroyan’s constant struggle with his addictions to gambling and extravagant living . . . his disappointments as a writer and his undiminished belief in his own talent, a belief that it would prevail, no matter how many colleagues turned away from his excesses and his demands. Drawing on interviews and on Saroyan’s letters, notes, and diaries, John Leggett, author of Ross and Tom (“A great book”—Leon Edel), gives us a revealing portrait of the man and the writer whose work charmed and touched the heart of mid-twentieth-century America.
Author : William Saroyan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:39015002756958
Observations and reflections by the author on a coast-to-coast trip in his 1941 Lincoln limousine during the summer of 1963.
Author : Judith Kay,Rosemary Gelshenen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781107652224
Discovering Fiction features short stories that enhance students' reading skills, language learning, and enjoyment of literature. Discovering Fiction, Second Edition, Student's Book 1 presents stories with universal appeal to engage students and make them think critically. Among the authors included are O. Henry, William Saroyan, Gwendolyn Brooks, Isaac Asimov, and Sandra Cisneros. Extensive pre-reading activities capture students' interest. Post-reading activities check their comprehension, increase their knowledge of grammar and vocabulary, and provide thought-provoking discussion and writing assignments. Literary term explanations and tasks enhance students' appreciation of literature.
Author : William Saroyan
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486490908
"Marvelously captivating." — The New York Times. First published in 1940, Saroyan's international bestseller recounts the exploits of an Armenian clan in northern California at the turn of the 20th century. Based on the author's loving and eccentric extended family, the characters in these 14 related short stories provide humorous and touching scenes from immigrant life.