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  • All The King's Men

    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

    by Robert Penn Warren ...
    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE“All the King’s Men, the best American political novel ever written, is generally read as a cautionary tale about how power poisons slowly, like arsenic, or cynicism. But it’s also a fable about history, and why, like poetry, it’s so hard to write it fast." -Jill LeporeRobert Penn Warren’s masterpiece follows the career of Willie Stark, a back-country lawyer whose ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • It's All About the Bike

    The Pursuit of Happiness On Two Wheels

    by Robert Penn ...
    As seen on TVThe bicycle is one of mankind's greatest inventions - and the most popular form of transport in history. Robert Penn has ridden one most days of his adult life. In his late 20s, he pedalled 40,000 kilometres around the world. Yet, like cyclists everywhere, the utilitarian bikes he currently owns don't even hint at this devotion. Robert needs a new bike, a bespoke machine that reflects ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Wilderness: A Tale of the Civil War

    by Robert Penn Warren ...
    In the summer of 1863, Adam Rosenzweig has left a Bavarian ghetto and sailed for America to join the Union Army. Fired by the revolutionary idealism of mid-nineteenth-century Europe, he hopes to aid a cause which he believes to be as simple as he knows it to be just. But thwarted by the discovery of a physical deformity which he had hoped to conceal, he must try other means to find his "truth." ... Read more

    $4.18 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Man Who Made Things Out of Trees

    by Robert Penn ...
    Robert Penn cut down an ash tree to see how many things could be made from it. After all, ash is the tree we have made the greatest and most varied use of over the course of human history. Journeying from Wales across Europe and Ireland to the USA, Robert finds that the ancient skills and knowledge of the properties of ash, developed over millennia making wheels and arrows, furniture and baseball ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Slow Rise

    A Bread-Making Adventure

    by Robert Penn ...
    'Charming, important . . . a journey of discovery' TelegraphOver the course of a year, Robert Penn learns how to plant, harvest, thresh and mill his own wheat, in order to bake bread for his family. In returning to this pre-industrial practice, he tells the fascinating story of our relationship with bread: from the domestication of wheat in the Fertile Crescent at the dawn of civilization, to the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • At Heaven's Gate

    Novel

    by Robert Penn Warren ...
    The second novel by Robert Penn Warren, author of the Pulizter-Prize-winning All The King's Men, is a tour de force and a neglected classic.At Heaven’s Gate, Robert Penn Warren’s second novel, is a neglected classic of twentieth-century fiction. First published in 1943, it grew out of the author’s years in Nashville during a period of political and financial scandals much like those later so ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren

    The Apprentice Years 1924-1934

    by Robert Penn Warren ...
    Series series Southern Literary Studies
    In America’s twentieth century, there is no man of letters more versatile, distinguished, and influential than the poet, novelist, editor, critic, social commentator, and teacher Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989). The most intimate of Warren’s “letters,” his personal correspondence, now join his published canon under William Bedford Clark’s expert supervision. Volume One, The Apprentice Years, forms ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Who Speaks for the Negro?

    by Robert Penn Warren ...
    In 1964, Robert Penn Warren interviewed leaders, activists, and artists engaged in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. His interviewees included well-known figures such as Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcom X, and James Baldwin, as well as lesser-known individuals whose names might otherwise be lost to history. Transcripts from these interviews, combined with Warren’s reflections on the movement ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Portrait Of A Father

    by Robert Penn Warren ...
    One of America's great poets writes of his father, lost through death and discovered again through insistent recollection. A death in the family forces a re-sorting and reshaping of all that we can recall of times and people gone from us as we measure our identities by their remembered images.While prowling in the past, Warren is drawn to likenesses between himself and his father, between himself ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Legacy of the Civil War

    by Robert Penn Warren Estate ...
    In this elegant book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer explores the manifold ways in which the Civil War changed the United States forever. He confronts its costs, not only human (six hundred thousand men killed) and economic (beyond reckoning) but social and psychological. He touches on popular misconceptions, including some concerning Abraham Lincoln and the issue of slavery. The war in all its ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren

    New Beginnings and New Directions, 1953-1968

    by Robert Penn Warren ...
    Series series Southern Literary Studies
    Volume four of the Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren covers a crucial time of personal and professional rejuvenation in Warren's life. During the fifteen-year period spanned by this correspondence, he completed Brother to Dragons; Segregation: The Inner Conflict in the South; and Who Speaks for the Negro? As these titles suggest, these years were marked by Warren's immersion in American ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    All the King's Men

    by Robert Penn Warren ...
    Narrated by Michael Emerson ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 55 min

    This landmark book is a loosely fictionalized account of Governor Huey Long of Louisiana, one of the nation's most astounding politicians. All the King's Men tells the story of Willie Stark, a southern-fried politician who builds support by appealing to the common man and playing dirty politics with the best of the back-room deal-makers. Though Stark quickly sheds his idealism, his right-hand man, ... Read more

    $42.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus