In this family chronicle set in early twentieth century Ohio, young Marcia Willard’ s family struggles to keep up with the rapidly changing times, and Marcia endures disillusionment, cruelty, and betrayal to forge a survivor’s sense of independence. John Updike has compared Powell with Theodore Dreiser, Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, “and those other Midwestern writers who felt something epic in the national shift from rural to urban, from provincial sequestration to metropolitan liberation.” By 1941, when Powell set to work on My Home Is Far Away, she was better known for the smart, boozy, bawdy, hilarious send-ups of Manhattan high and low life. She had begun to attain a reputation for high sophistication and nothing could be less “sophisticated” – in the glittering, all-knowing, furiously present-tense, big-city manner Powell had perfected – than My Home Is Far Away.This was the month of cherries and peaches, of green apples beyond the grape arbor, of little dandelion ghosts in the grass, of sour grass and four-leaf clovers, of still dry heat holding the smell of nasturtiums and dying lilacs. This was the best month of all and the best day. It was not birthday, Easter, Christmas, or picnic, but all these things and something else, something wonderful, something utterly unknown. The two little girls in embroidered white Sunday dresses knew no way to express their secret joy but by whirling each other dizzily over the lawn crying, “We’re moving, we’re moving! We’re moving to London Junction!”My Home Is Far Away is one of the very few examples of a book written for adults, with an adult command of the language, that maintains the vantage point of a hungry, serious child throughout. It might be likened to a memoir that has been penned not with the usual tranquility of distance but rather with the sense that everything happening to the characters is happening right now, without any promise of eventual escape, without any assurance that childhood, too, shall pass away.My Home is Far Away had been out of print for sixty years when Steerforth reissued it in 1995. It received immediate widespread acclaim, and was featured on the cover of the New York Times Book Review.

    The Portable Shakespeare contains the brightest gems from the Shakespearean treasury, including seven favourite plays complete: Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, and The Tempest; memorable passages from the other plays; all the sonnets and all the songs; and a key-word index to one thousand Shakespeare quotations.--back coverThe Brightest Gems from the Shakespearean Treasury Including . . .Seven Complete Plays - Hamlet - Macbeth - Romeo and Juliet - Julius Caesar - A Midsummer Night's Dream - As You Like It - The TempestSelections from Other Plays - The Merchant of Venice - Othello - Twelfth Night - The Taming of the Shrew - King Lear - Two Gentleman of Verona - Measure for Measure - Much Ado About Nothing - Love's Labor's Lost - All's Well That Ends Well - The Winter's Tale - King John - Richard the Second - The Merry Wives of Windsor - The First Part of King Henry the Fourth - The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth - King Henry the Fifth - Henry the Sixth Part One - Henry the Sixth Part Two - Henry the Sixth Part Three - Richard the Third - King Henry the Eighth - Troilus and Cressida - Coriolanus - Antony and CleopatraSongs from the playsSonnetsKeyword Index to One Thousand Shakespeare Quotations.

    S. Lewis, who paved the way... worthy mentors with broad shouldersA middle-aged man awakens to a new but present reality, containing neither a before nor an after. Reminiscent of C. S. Lewis and George MacDonald, another thought-provoking story from this bestselling novelist. It is written in 30 chapters with an Afterword and Notes.Author calls this "a devotional fantasy, not a theological treatise" (p. 154)..."Obviously the germinal idea for The Garden, for those familiar with their works, will be seen to have come from MacDonald's Phantastes and Lilith (the two 'great books' mentioned in chapter 30) and Lewis's The Great Divorce - all first-person death and dream fantasies" (p.155)Cover illustration by Erin Dertner.Cover design by the Lookout Design Group.

    The unlikely friends, representing the extremes of age and youth, are out on an undercover poaching trip when they become swept up in the currents of a salmon pool. When they awaken they have been transported from the Highlands of our world to an alternative Highland universe: a beautiful, fertile land called the Green Isle. Despite the abundance of the land, and the trees dripping with fruit, the population are subdued and miserable, ruled over by a strict upper class and forbidden to touch the fruit. Young Art, however, is not so easily controlled and his actions begin a chain of events which will change the Green Isle forever. Gunn draws many parallels in this tale, from the biblical references to Eden and the Tree of Knowledge, to contemporary commentary on the Nazi situation in 1940s Europe.