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An Autobiography
Alfred Kazin, one of the central figures of America’s intellectual life in the 20th century, takes us into his own life and times. His autobiography...
Critical and Personal Writings
Over the course of sixty years, Alfred Kazin's writings confronted virtually all of our major imaginative writers, from Emerson to Emily Dickinson to ...
A literary icon’s “singular and beautiful” memoir of growing up as a first-generation Jewish American in Brownsville, Brooklyn (The New Yorker)....
An American Procession is a study, on the largest scale, of the major American writers at work during the historically and literarily crucial century ...
An Interpretation of Modern American Prose Literature
“With On Native Grounds [Kazin] takes his place in the first rank of American practitioners of the higher literary criticism” (The New York Times)...
At the time of his death in 1998, Alfred Kazin was considered one of the most influential intellectuals of postwar America. What is less well known is...
Blending autobiography, history, and criticism, this book is a reaffirmation of literature in an age of deconstruction and critical dogma and stands a...
A Novel
When Henry Roth published his debut novel Call It Sleep in 1934, it was greeted with considerable critical acclaim though, in those troubled times, la...
The classic story of Moby Dick, the whale pursued relentlessly by the crazed Captain Ahab....
From the Journals of Alfred Kazin
While leading an active life, Kazin has faithfully kept diaries from the late 1930s up to the present. A Lifetime Burning in Every Moment offers reade...
"Brilliant in its assessment of the magazines he worked for, the colleges he taught in, the countries he visited, the women he loved.... His is the vo...
This book, the autobiographical sequel to his famous A Walker In The City, at once the public and the private portrait of a young intellectual in the ...
The Art and Craft of Memoir
The author of On Writing Well presents stories and advice on the writing process from Frank McCourt, Annie Dillard, and many more. For anyone who enjo...
Essays
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American Novelists and Storytellers from Hemingway to Mailer
Examines American fiction from the 1940's to the 1970's....
Fortunately it's their New York, not ours. Writer Kazin and photographer Finn reveal the most interesting and varied city in America, but be forewarne...
A Critical Survey of the Man and His Work CEdited by Alfred Kazin and Charles Shapiro
Essays for Our Time
with an introduction
Step into the world of 20th century literature and culture through the eyes of one of America's most acclaimed critics. Featuring essays on writers su...
A Selection of Essays
One of America's foremost literary critics presents twenty-eight essays on American and European writers, including Joyce, Flaubert, Fitzgerald, Melvi...
Or, The New Pilgrims' Progress, Being Some Account of the Steamship Quaker City's Pleasure Excursion to Europe and the Holy Land
Recounts the adventures of a young boy and an escaped slave as they travel down the Mississippi River on a raft....
Lectures Presented at the York Campus, the Pennsylvania State University, April-May 1976
A Critical Survey of the Man and His Work
Selected and Arranged with an Introduction by Alfred Kazin
A collection of the poetry, prose, and art of the English mystic, accompanied by a biographical sketch...