Janet Lewis was a novelist, poet, and short-story writer whose literary career spanned almost the entire twentieth century. The New York Times has praised her novels as "some of the 20th century's most vividly imagined and finely wrought literature." Born and educated in Chicago, she lived in California for most of her adult life and taught at both Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley. Her works include The Wife of Martin Guerre (1941), The Trial of Soren Qvist (1947), The Ghost of Monsieur Scarron (1959), Good-Bye, Son and Other Stories (1946), and Poems Old and...
Janet Lewis was a novelist, poet, and short-story writer whose literary career spanned almost the entire twentieth century. The New York Times has pra...
"Good-bye, Son," Lewis only collection of short fiction, was originally published in 1946, but it remains as quietly haunting today as it was then. Set in small communities of the upper Midwest and northern California in the '30s and '40s, these stories focus on the imperceptible processes, or cycles, connecting youth with age, despair and hope, life and death. Through a variety of characters (mostly female) at various stages of life, we glimpse the motion of these cycles. To some, they appear incomprehensible and therefore wholly destructive. To others, they are the source of mystery,...
"Good-bye, Son," Lewis only collection of short fiction, was originally published in 1946, but it remains as quietly haunting today as it was then. Se...
Against a Darkening Sky was original published in 1943. Set in a semi-rural community south of San Francisco, it is the story of an American mother of the mid-1930s and the sustaining influence she brings, through her own profound strength and faith, to the lives of her four growing children.
Against a Darkening Sky was original published in 1943. Set in a semi-rural community south of San Francisco, it is the story of an American mother of...
»Ein großartiges Porträt Frankreichs zur Zeit des Sonnenkönigs in all seiner Pracht und in all seinen Schwächen.« 'Times Literary Supplement'
Ein Pamphlet diffamiert Ludwig XIV. und seine Mätressenwirtschaft. Wer trägt die Verantwortung für das Flugblatt? Und wer soll fälschlicherweise beschuldigt werden?
»Ein großartiges Porträt Frankreichs zur Zeit des Sonnenkönigs in all seiner Pracht und in all seinen Schwächen.« 'Times Literary Supplement'
