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Crossing to Safety (Modern Library Classics)
Wallace Earle Stegner
Modern Library, 2002
Fabulous!
Beautifully written, provocative, and enduring. Hated for it to end. Wanted to reread it immediately.
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Angle of Repose (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
Wallace Stegner
Penguin Classics, 2000
A Great American Novel
I read Angle of Repose many years ago for the first time, and was astounded then as now by its power. Stegner continues to be one of the least recognized of our great American novelsits. Angle of Repose and Crossing to Safety are masterpieces that should be on ...
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The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons (Penguin Classics)
John Wesley Powell
Penguin Classics, 2003
Perilous journey into a sublime landscape
Anyone who is enthralled by the beauty of the Southwest, or as Powell defines it - the Colorado River watershed, should read this book. It's not the same now as it was in his day. For one thing, Glen Canyon, which he named, is now submerged under Lake Powell (could any ...
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The Spectator Bird (Contemporary American Fiction)
Wallace Stegner
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1990
Perfect, Funny, and Wise
In all the entangled limbs, passionate melodrama, wild fantasy, and bloody gore of today's pop and contemporary fiction, there is no match for this fine masterwork. In just a little over two hundred pages, Wallace Stegner manages to present a brilliant portrait of a ...
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Discovery!: The Search for Arabian Oil
Wallace Stegner
Selwa Press, 2007
A Very Negative Review....
...of this book written by Philip L. Fradkin in the San Francisco Chronicle lead me to Stegner's work. Fradkin's article was not actually about the CONTENT of the book so much as the circumstances surrounding its commissioning and publication. The conclusion is stated ...
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The Ox-Bow Incident (Modern Library Classics)
Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Modern Library, 2004
An American classic and a classic Western
THE OX-BOW INCIDENT is a classic tale. It also is a classic Western, and because the Western is so central to American culture, THE OX-BOW INCIDENT surely is more important -- more "classic", if you will -- for Americans than for others. To be sure, at times the ...
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All the Little Live Things (Contemporary American Fiction)
Wallace Stegner
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1991
Recommended companion reading
This is my third Stegner novel including Angle of Repose and Crossing to Safety. All the Little Live Things has a more 'elemental' style than the other 2 novels. It is compact and extremely logical. There is not a throwaway sentence in the book. For anyone looking for ...
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The Big Rock Candy Mountain (Contemporary American Fiction)
Wallace Stegner
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1991
Well worth the time it takes to read - Excellent!
I think I first tried to read BRCM more than 20 years ago, but set it aside for something shorter and more immediate. Maybe I just needed the extra years under my belt to fully appreciate Stegner's accomplishment with this book. Four major characters, all members of ...
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Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
Wallace Stegner
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1992
Powell's Vision - Ageless and Far-reaching
I re-read this book and Powell's own "Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons" over the Holidays and have decided that these 2 books are absolutely inseparable. You must read both and I'm glad to see that Amazon offers a special deal for the purchase of ...
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Great American Short Stories
Dell, 1985
EXECELLENT LEARNING TOOK.
This was an execellent learning tool to introduce my 9th grade homeschooler to great works in literature. After reading this book he started reading more of the classic novels.
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The Gathering of Zion: The Story of the Mormon Trail
Wallace Stegner
Bison Books, 1992
Engaging History of the Mormon Trek West
Being raised Mormon I have been exposed my entire life to the mythical stories of the pioneers. I knew the names and places in the book for the most part, but Stegner brought the people to life. Just because the pioneers had normal human foibles doesn't make their ...
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Sound of Mountain Water
Wallace Stegner
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1997
One of My Favorite Books of Essays
I am the lone voice crying in the Wilderness here I guess. This was the first book by Stegner that I ever read (on advice from Edward Abbey) and I love this book. It is one of the finest books of essays I've read. I've read it several times and It doesn't grow ...
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Joe Hill
Wallace Stegner
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1990
Harrowing, controversial, engaging and deeply moving
Wallace Stegner's novel attempts to strip away the layers of mythology
created around songwriter, artist and organiser Joe Hill. Taciturn Swedish sailor,
fervent Wobbly, possible murderer, victim of conspiracy and, ultimately,
willing martyr - all these aspects of the ...
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Mormon Country (Second Edition)
Wallace Stegner
Bison Books, 2003
Mormonism in Utah Explained
Prof. Stegner has written an objective and informative book on Mormon ideas and how they are practiced in Utah. Although a non-Mormon, his respect for his subjects has rightfully gained their confidence on many topics. Yet, this is not a "white-wash". Mr. Stegner ...
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Remembering Laughter
Wallace Stegner
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1996
Stegner's genesis
About five years ago I stumbled onto Wallace Stegner, and I haven't been able to leave him behind. I just got around to reading _Remembering Laughter_ this past winter, mainly because it was usually not even listed among his better books; that is too bad. Stegner is ...
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