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    Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda

    The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald

    by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda Fitzgerald ...
    Narrated by Mike Chamberlain, Amy Landon ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 15 min

    Through his alcoholism and her mental illness, his career lows and her institutional confinement, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's devotion to each other endured for over twenty-two years. Now, for the first time, we have the story of their love in the couple's own letters. Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda consists of more than seventy-five percent previously unpublished or out-of-print letters as well as ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Beautiful and Damned"

    New Critical Essays

    by Jackson R. Bryer, Sarah Sue Goldsmith, James L. W. West III, Bonnie Shannon McMullen, Walter Raubicheck, Gail D. Sinclair, Joseph K. Stitt, Richard Webb Jr. ...
    F. Scott Fitzgerald’s second novel, The Beautiful and Damned*,* has frequently been dismissed as an outlier and curiosity in his oeuvre, a transitional work from the coming-of-age plot of This Side of Paradise to the masterful critique of American aspiration in The Great Gatsby*.*The Beautiful and Damned belongs to a genre that is widely misunderstood, the “bright young things” novel in which ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels and Stories 1920-1922 (LOA #117)

    This Side of Paradise / Flappers and Philosophers / The Beautiful and Damned / Tales of the Jazz Age

    Edited by Jackson R. Bryer ...
    At the outset of what he called "the greatest, the gaudiest spree in history," F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the works that brought him instant fame, mastering the glittering aphoristic prose and keen social observation that would distinguish all his writing. This Library of America volume brings together four volumes that collectively offer the fullest literary expression of one of the most ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Dear Scott/Dear Max

    The F. Scott Fitzgerald - Maxwell Perkins Correspondence

    Edited by John Kuehl, Jackson R. Bryer ...
    The collected letters between F. Scott Fitzgerald and his editor, Maxwell Perkins, illuminates their friendship as well as the collaborative and complex nature of the editor/author relationship. ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder

    by Thornton Wilder, Jackson R. Bryer, Robin Gibbs Wilder ...
    Spanning his entire life, The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder is a comprehensive and fascinating collection of the great American writer’s correspondence.The author of such classics as Our Town and The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder was a born storyteller and dramatist—rare talents on glorious display in this volume of more than three hundred letters he penned to a vast array of ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda

    The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald

    by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda Fitzgerald ...
    **“Pure and lovely…to read Zelda’s letters is to fall in love with her.” —**The Washington PostEdited by renowned Fitzgerald scholars Jackson R. Bryer and Cathy W. Barks, with an introduction by Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's granddaughter, Eleanor Lanahan, this compilation of over three hundred love letters tells the couple's epic love story in their own words.Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's devotion ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Sixteen Modern American Authors

    A Survey of Research and Criticism since 1972

    Edited by Jackson R. Bryer ...
    Praise for the earlier edition:“Students of modern American literature have for some years turned to Fifteen Modern American Authors (1969) as an indispensable guide to significant scholarship and criticism about twentieth-century American writers. In its new form—Sixteenth Modern American Authors—it will continue to be indispensable. If it is not a desk-book for all Americanists, it is a book to ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Conversations with Beth Henley

    Edited by Jackson R. Bryer, Mary C. Hartig ...
    Series series Literary Conversations Series
    With roots in the American South, Beth Henley (b. 1952) has for four decades been a working playwright and screenwriter. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1981 at the age of twenty-eight, Henley so far has written twenty-five produced plays that are always original, usually darkly comic, and often experimental. In these interviews, Henley speaks of the plays, from her early crowd-pleasers, Crimes of ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • William Inge

    Essays and Reminiscences on the Plays and the Man

    Edited by Jackson R. Bryer, Mary C. Hartig ...
    William Inge's popular plays of the 1950s received Tony nominations (Bus Stop [1956], and Dark at the Top of the Stairs [1958]) and won a Pulitzer Prize (Picnic [1953]). As a screenwriter, he won an Academy Award (Splendor in the Grass [1961]). Yet Inge's career ended in perceived failure, depression and finally suicide. These previously unpublished essays take a fresh look at some of his most ... Read more

    $28.59 CAD

  • Conversations with Sam Shepard

    Edited by Jackson R. Bryer, Robert M. Dowling, Mary C. Hartig ...
    Series series Literary Conversations Series
    A prolific playwright, Sam Shepard (1943–2017) wrote fifty-six produced plays, for which he won many awards, including a Pulitzer Prize. He was also a compelling, Oscar-nominated film actor, appearing in scores of films. Shepard also published eight books of prose and poetry and was a director (directing the premiere productions of ten of his plays as well as two films); a musician (a drummer in ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Conversations with Neil Simon

    Edited by Jackson R. Bryer, Ben Siegel ...
    Series series Literary Conversations Series
    Neil Simon (1927–2018) began as a writer for some of the leading comedians of the day—including Jackie Gleason, Red Buttons, Phil Silvers, and Jerry Lewis—and he wrote for fabled television programs alongside a group of writers that included Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, Larry Gelbart, Michael Stewart, and Sid Caesar. After television, Simon embarked on a playwriting career. In the next four decades he ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Magical Muse

    Millennial Essays on Tennessee Williams

    by Philip C. Kolin, Albert J. Devlin, Jeffrey B. Loomis, Robert Siegel, Nancy M. Tischler, Allean Hale, Barbara M. Harris, Michael Paller, Dan Sullivan, George W. Crandell, W. Kenneth Holditch, Jackson R. Bryer ...
    In this unique and engaging collection, twelve essays celebrate the legacy of one of America's most important playwrights and investigate Williams's enduring effect on America's cultural, theatrical, and literary heritage.Like Faulkner before him, Tennessee Williams gave universal appeal to southern characters and settings. His major plays, from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and The Glass Menagerie to A ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD