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Selected Poems of May Sarton by May Sarton 9780393045123
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £18.04The poems in this first selection from her whole work were written over a period of forty years. They convey a wonderfully energetic alternation of mood, idea, and experience that are part of her... -
May Sarton: Selected Letters, 1915-1954 by May Sarton 9780393039542
RRP: £43.00Booksplease Price: £39.74All her life, May Sarton carried on a voluminous private correspondence-with family, friends, and lovers. From the beginning, as these remarkable letters show, the essence of an extraordinary human... -
Sarton Selected: An Anthology of the Journals, Novels, and Poetry of May Sarton by May Sarton 9780393335835
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £21.62Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Dear Juliette: Letters of May Sarton to Juliette Huxley by May Sarton 9780393335491
RRP: £23.50Booksplease Price: £22.98May Sarton's love for Juliette Huxley, ignited that first moment she saw her in 1936, transcended sixty years of friendship, passion, rejection, silence, and reconciliation. The letters chart their... -
A Reckoning: A Novel by May Sarton 9780393316216
RRP: £18.50Booksplease Price: £17.25The heart of the story is Laura's realization that for her the real connections have been with women: her brilliant and devastating mother, a difficult daughter, and most of all a woman she knew when... -
Anger: A Novel by May Sarton 9780393313895
RRP: £16.50Booksplease Price: £16.20Emotional and forthright, Anna battles against Ned's crippling reserve. In the clash of these two strong personalities, May Sarton explores the different ways that men and women express both... -
Kinds of Love by May Sarton 9780393311013
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £23.07Christina Chapman and her husband Cornelius, both past seventy, are "summer people"-people who come to rural New England for the summer months and go home to the city when the cold weather comes... -
The Fur Person by May Sarton 9780393349900
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.73This enchanting story and classic of cat literature is drawn from the true adventures of Tom Jones, May Sarton's own cat. Prior to making the author's acquaintance, he is a fiercely independent,... -
Recovering: A Journal by May Sarton 9780393317176
RRP: £18.50Booksplease Price: £16.39May Sarton's sixty-sixth year, 1978-79, was a difficult time: a cherished relationship came to an end, she had a mastectomy, she fought against depression. But, she writes, "When there is personal... -
Joanna and Ulysses by May Sarton 9780393304145
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.37She had chosen the dazzling island of Santorini, remote and inaccessible as her own heart. The holiday was to be a solitary experience. But that was before Joanna met Ulysses, the mistreated little... -
The Magnificent Spinster by May Sarton 9780393312492
RRP: £21.50Booksplease Price: £20.93The "magnificent spinster" is Jane Reid, a teacher who became not only a revered role model but a dear friend to Cam, the narrator of this novel within a novel. After Jane's death, the accidental... -
Crucial Conversations by May Sarton 9780393311020
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £13.97Reed and Poppy Whitelaw's conventional and apparently serene life together is shattered when Poppy tells Reed that she has decided to leave him. In a series of encounters that follow the shock of... -
The Single Hound by May Sarton 9780393307856
RRP: £18.50Booksplease Price: £16.81This is the story of two poets, one an elderly Belgian woman known to the world as Jean Latour, the other a young Englishman. When Mark Taylor finds his life and art broken up by his love for an... -
The Small Room by May Sarton 9780393008326
RRP: £18.50Booksplease Price: £15.49How the central characters-students and teachers-react to the crisis and what effect the scandal has on their personal and professional lives are the central motifs of May Sarton's sensitive, probing... -
At Seventy: A Journal by May Sarton 9780393310306
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.22May Sarton-poet, novelist, and chronicler-occupies a special place in American letters. This new journal chronicles the year that began on May 3, 1982, her seventieth birthday. At her home in Maine,... -
The Fur Person by May Sarton 9781773239828
Booksplease Price: £6.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773239828Author May SartonFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint -
The House by the Sea: A Journal by May Sarton 9780393313901
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £14.99Here she found the peace and aloneness she sought-and partly feared. The journal records the renewing of her life and work in this place.About the AuthorMay Sarton (1912-1995) was an acclaimed poet,... -
After the Stroke: A Journal by May Sarton 9780393306309
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £17.68The author chronicles her efforts to regain her health after having suffered a stroke at the age of seventy-three, describes her self-proclaimed life of solitude, and offers keen observations on the... -
At Eighty-Two: A Journal by May Sarton 9780393316223
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £19.16May Sarton's eagerly awaited journals have recorded her life as a single, woman writer and, in later years, as a woman confronting old age. She completed this pilgrimage through her eighty-second... -
Coming into Eighty: Poems by May Sarton 9780393316230
RRP: £13.50Booksplease Price: £11.10Here are Sarton's observations and reflections, many of which came to her as if by magic during the small hours of the morning. Along with the daily events of writing a letter, appreciating her... -
May Sarton: A Biography by Margot Peters 9780449907986
RRP: £18.90Booksplease Price: £15.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Triangle Awards (Lesbian Nonfiction) 1998. Short-listed for Lambda Literary Awards (Women's... -
A Private Mythology: Poems by May Sarton 9780393315523
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £14.68Ethereal and sensual, these intensely vivid poems capture the sights and textures of new places, people, and landscapes as experienced with a poet's fresh eye.Book InformationISBN 9780393315523Author... -
The Bridge of Years: A Novel by May Sarton 9780393302394
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £19.25This novel, first published in 1946, is one of May Sarton's earliest and, some critics think, one of her best. It takes place during the years between the world wars and explores the life of a... -
Shadow Of A Man: A Novel by May Sarton 9780393300307
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.46Twenty-six-year-old Francis Chabrier fears his inability to love until he discovers the distinctive beauties of Paris and his first love at the same timeAbout the AuthorMay Sarton (1912-1995) was an... -
Faithful Are the Wounds: A Novel by May Sarton 9780393317152
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.62Its central character is Edward Cavan, a brilliant English professor, who commits suicide. His death sets off a shock wave among Cavan's friends and changes things for some of them forever.About the... -
The Birth of a Grandfather: A Novel by May Sarton 9780393305913
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £17.13This is the story of the Wyeth family, set in Cambridge, Massachusetts (and in the summer, Maine): the very old, who are looking back; Sprig and his wife Frances, who are finding their way in the... -
The Poet and the Donkey: A Novel by May Sarton 9780393315530
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £13.21"A small, sophisticated, elegantly sentimental journey through a New Hampshire village summer. Our companions are an aging poet, who is sad because he can no longer write-he has lost the joy he used... -
Letters from Maine: Poems by May Sarton 9780393317169
RRP: £13.50Booksplease Price: £11.16The book celebrates that time, marks its passing, and opens up the poetic vision it left behind. The poems speak of the permanence of the memory of love and of the flowering it brings. They also draw... -
Auguries & Divinations: Poems by Heather Treseler 9780872333826
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £12.86Brad Crenshaw, in choosing the book for the May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize, notes: "Heather Treseler is compelling. We immediately want to listen to her the way we might listen to a lyric... -
Encore: A Journal of the Eightieth Year by May Sarton 9780393313178
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £19.04Sarton writes perceptively of how age affects her: the way small things take longer and tire more, what it feels like to endure pain and to be afraid. Other days her energy returns, her spirits lift,... -
Plant Dreaming Deep: A Novel by May Sarton 9780393315516
RRP: £16.50Booksplease Price: £14.73May Sarton describes living at her eighteenth-century house in Nelson, New Hampshire-how she acquired it, how it and the garden became part of her.About the AuthorMay Sarton (1912-1995) was an... -
Conversations with May Sarton by Earl G. Ingersoll 9780878055333
Booksplease Price: £27.46With increasing candor and openness May Sarton's conversations have given an intimate view of her honest, courageous inner life. Best known to her many readers as a novelist and keeper of journals,... -
A Shower of Summer Days: A Novel by May Sarton 9780393312508
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £16.81So begins May Sarton's evocative early novel about Violet Gordon's return, after thirty years, to her childhood home, where much had to be settled in one brief summer-fateful decisions about a... -
The Education of Harriet Hatfield: A Novel by May Sarton 9780393310290
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £18.09When Harriet Hatfield opens a bookstore for women in a blue-collar neighborhood near Boston, she is bombarded by anonymous threats. And when the Boston Globe reports "Lesbian Bookstore Owner... -
A Grain of a Mustard Seed: Poems by May Sarton 9780393043440
RRP: £14.50Booksplease Price: £12.50Compilation of intense, spirited verse which explores the realms of religion, politics, nature, violence, and old age.Book InformationISBN 9780393043440Author May SartonFormat PaperbackPage Count -
A World of Light: Portraits and Celebrations by May Sarton 9780393305005
RRP: £18.50Booksplease Price: £16.29May Sarton's celebrations in this book center around the friendships that flowered in her life from age twenty-six to age forty-five-between the end of I Knew a Phoenix and the beginning of Plant... -
Halfway to Silence: New Poems by May Sarton 9780393009927
RRP: £12.50Booksplease Price: £11.16When they do, the must be treasured as gifts from the White Goddess, "sister of the mirage and echo." To May Sarton, poetry was life's deepest creative passion. It reflected the preoccupations of her... -
Collected Poems, 1930-1993 by May Sarton 9780393034936
RRP: £45.50Booksplease Price: £41.49Lucid, ardent, and contemplative, May Sarton is one of America's best-loved writers. This comprehensive collection - the first in twenty years - celebrates six decades of bold imagination and fifteen... -
Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing by May Sarton 9780393309294
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £15.96May Sarton's ninth novel explores a woman's struggle to reconcile the claims of life and art, to transmute passion and pain into poetry. As it opens, Hilary Stevens, a renowned poet in her seventies,... -
I Knew a Phoenix: Sketches for an Autobiography by May Sarton 9780393312485
RRP: £18.50Booksplease Price: £16.27Sarton's memoir begins with her roots in a Belgian childhood and describes her youth and education in Cambridge, Massachusetts, her coming-of-age years, and the people who influenced her life as a...