From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize. the much-anticipated
final volume, following Some Luck and Early Warning,
of her acclaimed American trilogy—a richly absorbing
new novel that brings the remarkable Langdon family into our
present times and beyond
A lot can happen in one hundred years, as Jane Smiley shows to
dazzling effect in her Last Hundred Years trilogy.
From the Pulitzer Prize-winner. the second installment,
following Some Luck, of her widely acclaimed, best-selling
American trilogy, which brings the journey of a remarkable family
with roots in the Iowa heartland into mid-century America
Early Warning opens in 1953 with the Langdon family at a crossroads.
Early Warning opens in 1953 with the Langdon family at a crossroads.
Longlisted for the 2014 National Book Award
From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize. a powerful, engrossing new novel—the life and times of a remarkable family over three transformative decades in America.
On their farm in Denby, Iowa, Rosanna and Walter Langdon abide by time-honored values that they pass on to their five wildly different children.
From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize. a powerful, engrossing new novel—the life and times of a remarkable family over three transformative decades in America.
On their farm in Denby, Iowa, Rosanna and Walter Langdon abide by time-honored values that they pass on to their five wildly different children.
This timeless classic is now an easy-to-read chapter
book.
The four March sisters--Meg, Amy, Beth, and feisty Jo--share the joys and sorrows of growing up while their father is away at war. The family is poor in worldly goods, but rich in love and character.
The four March sisters--Meg, Amy, Beth, and feisty Jo--share the joys and sorrows of growing up while their father is away at war. The family is poor in worldly goods, but rich in love and character.
From one of our most acclaimed novelists, a
David-and-Goliath biography for the digital age.
One night in the late 1930s, in a bar on the Illinois–Iowa border, John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics at Iowa State University, after a frustrating day performing tedious mathematical calculations in his lab, hit on the idea that the binary number system and electronic switches, combined with an array of capacitors on a moving drum to serve as memory, could yield a computing machine that would make his life and the lives of other similarly burdened scientists easier.
One night in the late 1930s, in a bar on the Illinois–Iowa border, John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics at Iowa State University, after a frustrating day performing tedious mathematical calculations in his lab, hit on the idea that the binary number system and electronic switches, combined with an array of capacitors on a moving drum to serve as memory, could yield a computing machine that would make his life and the lives of other similarly burdened scientists easier.
A riveting new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winner that
traverses the intimate landscape of one woman’s life, from
the 1880s to World War II.
Margaret Mayfield is nearly an old maid at twenty-seven in post–Civil War Missouri when she marries Captain Andrew Jackson Jefferson Early.
Margaret Mayfield is nearly an old maid at twenty-seven in post–Civil War Missouri when she marries Captain Andrew Jackson Jefferson Early.
Of Charles Dickens, Jane Smiley says that "his novels shaped his
life as much as his life shaped his novels." Smiley's Charles
Dickens is at once a sensitive profile of the great master
and a fascinating meditation on the writing life. Smiley evokes
Dickens as he might have seemed to his contemporaries.
Six years after her Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller, A
Thousand Acres, and three years after her witty, acclaimed, and
best-selling novel of academe, Moo, Jane Smiley once again
demonstrates her extraordinary range and brilliance.
Her new novel, set in the 1850s, speaks to us in a splendidly quirky voice--the strong, wry, no-nonsense voice of Lidie Harkness of Quincy, Illinois, a young woman of courage, good sense, and good heart.
Her new novel, set in the 1850s, speaks to us in a splendidly quirky voice--the strong, wry, no-nonsense voice of Lidie Harkness of Quincy, Illinois, a young woman of courage, good sense, and good heart.
