Best of
American-Classics
1961
The Winter of Our Discontent
John Steinbeck - 1961
With Ethan no longer a member of Long Island’s aristocratic class, his wife is restless, and his teenage children are hungry for the tantalizing material comforts he cannot provide. Then one day, in a moment of moral crisis, Ethan decides to take a holiday from his own scrupulous standards.Set in Steinbeck’s contemporary 1960 America, the novel explores the tenuous line between private and public honesty that today ranks it alongside his most acclaimed works of penetrating insight into the American condition. This edition features an introduction and notes by Steinbeck scholar Susan Shillinglaw.
Selections from Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman - 1961
With an introduction by Walter Lowenfels.
Clock Without Hands
Carson McCullers - 1961
A small-town druggist dying of leukemia calls himself and his community to account in this tale of change and changelessness, of death and the death-in-life that is hate. It is a tale, as McCullers herself wrote, of "response and responsibility--of man toward his own livingness."
Eloise Wilkin's Mother Goose
Eloise Wilkin - 1961
Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes book w/ illustrations by Eloise Wilkin.A Little Golden book.