William Maxwell

In this novel, William Maxwell explores the gravity of the past. On a winter morning in the 1920s, a shot rings out on a farm in rural Illinois. A man named Lloyd Wilson has been killed. And the tenuous friendship between two lonely teenagers - one privileged yet neglected, the other a troubled farm boy - has been shattered.Fifty years later, one of those boys - now a grown man - tries to reconstruct the events that led up to the murder. In doing so, he is inevitably drawn back to his lost friend Cletus, who has the misfortune of being the son of Wilson's killer and who in the months before witnessed things that Maxwell's narrator can only guess at.

So Long, See You Tomorrow

Pregnant with her second child, Martha King finds her marriage to lawyer Austin King more and more frustrating when her husband befriends his young foster cousin, Nora, and, in the process, unwittingly jeopardizes his marriage, career, and place in the community. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Time Will Darken It

Discover William Maxwell’s classic, heart-breaking portrait of an ordinary American family struck by the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic 'A story of such engaging warmth that it would thaw the heart of any critic... Will melt many a reader to tears’ TIME Elizabeth Morison is an ordinary woman. Yet, to eight-year-old Bunny, his mother is the centre of his universe. To Robert, her elder son, she is someone he must protect against the dangers of the outside world. And to her husband, James, she is the foundation on which his family rests and life without her is unimaginable. As the dark winter of 1918 dawns and the shadow of Spanish flu starts to disturb day-to-day life, a moving portrait of Elizabeth takes shape, set against the lives and fate of the Morison family. ‘As you read They Came Like Swallows, you catch yourself from time to time being astonished at how tightly you're gripping the pages... There isn't a word that has dated. It could have been written yesterday, or tomorrow’ Nicholas Lezard, Guardian

They Came Like Swallows

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The path to adulthood is littered with broken relationships. In the suburbs of 1920s Chicago two boys form an unlikely friendship. Spud Latham is slow at school but quick to fight and a natural athlete - Lymie Peters, thin, pigeon-chested and terrible at games, is devoted to him. As they graduate from school to college, tensions start to surface. It is Lymie who first meets Sally Forbes, but it is Spud she falls in love with. This signals the end of their friendship and the rift is almost more than Lymie can bear.

The Folded Leaf

It is 1948. A young American couple arrive in France for a holiday. They find the countryside and people are war-battered, and their reception at the Chateau Beaumesnil is not all the open-hearted Americans could wish for."

The Chateau

Sylvia Townsend Warner

Letters of William Maxwell and Sylvia Townsend Warner, 1938-1978

The Element of Lavishness

Kirlangiclar Gibi Geldiler

While the Marvell family are on a trip to visit a grandmother, their farm is taken care of by the characters from the Zodiac.

The Heavenly Tenants

Bright Center of Heaven

A collection of twenty-nine short stories that provide insight into many types of human characters and traits.

The Old Man at the Railroad Crossing and Other Tales

Letters of Frank O'Connor and William Maxwell, 1945-1966

Happiness of Getting It Down Right, The

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Excerpt from Salesmanship If one average man, fifty years old, could and would tell the truth about himself, we should have a priceless textbook on life. The other day I sat beside a man in the library car of a twenty-hour New York to Chicago railway train. Faintly, like the outline of year-old furrows in a fallow field, there lay upon his face the traces of a fast-lived youth. Discretion had checked and right living in part repaid youth's borrowings from old age. He had funded and underwritten the debt of his youth. He held the shares himself and was paying to himself a yearly dividend upon a capitalized deficit of wasted brain and body. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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