Presents a collection of familiar essays. The author comes from the generation in which girls read books about horses, and boys, about dogs, and his prose is old-fashioned and marvellously clear. He is a meanderer, and Parades End celebrates the pa...Loe edasi...
One Grand, Sweet Song is a collection of familiar essays in which Sam Pickering explores libraries and woods and fields. He wanders over hills and far away—to Caribbean and Canada—but he always returns to the local, to Connecticut and his...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Sep-2015, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Tennessee Press, ISBN-13: 9781621901860)
The essays in Sam Pickering’s new collection sing with thoughtful observations on life, death, love, and literature. Whether attending a reunion at Sewanee, cruising the Caribbean, wandering the streets of Storrs, Connecticut, or rambling throug...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-May-2014, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Missouri Press, ISBN-13: 9780826220288)
A New York Times article once stated that “the art of the essay as delivered by ( Sam) Pickering is the art of the front porch ramble.” As Pickering himself puts it, “Well, I have gotten considerably older, and humor has come to mean more...Loe edasi...
Alexander Smith stated that a good essayist needed an ability to discern the infinite suggestiveness of common things. Arthur Benson seconded the idea, saying an essayist needed a far-ranging curiosity. For three decades Sam Pickering has...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Sep-2011, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of South Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781611170382)
Sweeping in and out of real and imagined places, Dreamtime highlights the curious character of an unconventional teacher, writer, traveler, husband, and father as he takes stock of his multifaceted life. Sam Pickering—the inspiration for the main cha...Loe edasi...
Sam Pickering spends six months roaming Australia and New Zealand, tramping landscapes pocked by sheep stations, art galleries and bakeries, and always libraries, their dusty shelves troves quick with life and literature....Loe edasi...
Essays describing meanderings that range from authors backyard to Canada and Australia, from the remnant of a salt water farm to fly-specked dinners, from running half-marathons to dozing through a hernia operation. Journeys is a collection...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Aug-2007, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Tennessee Press, ISBN-13: 9781572335967)
Pickering (English, U. of Connecticut), who was the inspiration for the teacher in the movie Dead Poets Society, presents a collection of his essays drawn from literary journals such as Harvard Review, Missouri Review, and North Dakota Quarterly. Des...Loe edasi...
Ten witty, eloquent essays on literature, competition, curiosity, enthusiasm, and truth from the teacher who inspired The Dead Poets Society reveal the joys of teaching and the power of innovation over stale formalism. Reprint.Ten essays on literatu...Loe edasi...
Filled with hundreds of metaphors, axioms, and ideas, a brilliant adaptation of the classic fables includes The Fox and the Grapes, The Ant and the Grasshopper, The Country Mouse and the City Mouse, and two hundred others. Reprint....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Mar-2004, Hardback, Kirjastus: The University of Michigan Press, ISBN-13: 9780472113781)
Pickerings greatest themes, including nature, family, and living life to the fullest are captured in more than two dozen of the authors finest essays--including Still Life and Magic....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Mar-2004, Hardback, Kirjastus: The University of Michigan Press, ISBN-13: 9780472113774)
Sam Pickering chronicles his year-long family trip to Australia in this travelogue that chronicles his experiences, including snorkeling at Turquoise Bay and bird watching. An unabashedly sensuous and vivid travelogue of the authors yea...Loe edasi...
