In this collection of poems, the author meditates on the follies, cruelties and frailties of humankind adopting an outraged, vehement and sardonic tone as he gazes through his "teleidoscope" - an instrument for viewing the images of the ends of things.

Points for a Compass Rose

EVAN S. CONNELL

Vintage

mrs bridge. evan s. connell

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Penguin Press/Classics

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Mr Bridge

Mrs Bridge and Mr Bridge

Penguin??Books

Mrs. Bridge & Mr Bridge

Contemporary

Picador

On a scorching June Sunday in 1876, thousands of Indian warriors - Lakota Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho - converged on a grassy ridge above the valley of Montana's Little Bighorn River. On the ridge five companies of United States cavalry - 262 soldiers, comprising officers and troopers - fought desperately but hopelessly. When the guns fell silent, no soldier - including their commanding officer, Lt Col. George Armstrong Custer - had survived. Custer's Last Stand is among the most enduring events in American history - 130 years after the fact, books continue to be written and people continue to argue about even the most basic details surrounding the Little Bighorn. Evan S. Connell, whom Joyce Carol Oates has described as 'one of our most interesting and intelligent American writers', wrote what continues to be the most reliable - and compulsively readable - account of the subject. Connell makes good use of his research and novelist's eye for story and detail to re-create the heroism, foolishness and savagery of this crucial chapter in the history of the West.

Son of the Morning Star: General Custer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn (Picador Books)

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward narrate the story of successful Kansas City lawyer Walter Bridge and his dissatisfied wife, India, in a portrait of a marriage that reflects both the husband's and wife's points of view.

Mr Bridge And Mrs Bridge

Evan S. Connell explores the quixotic obsession with the new, the hidden, the unattainable that burns in us all. Each essay is an extraordinary account of passionate pursuit by legendary explorers, visionaries, and seekers compelled by a singular desire. Here we find Marco Polo, El Dorado, Paracelsus, Columbus, the thousands of children in the Innocents' Crusade, Magellan, Mary Kingsley (a Victorian naturalist, ethnologist, sailor, scholar, and guest of cannibals, and Ibn Batuta (an indefatigable explorer of the fourteenth century whose travels in the Arab world and beyond made 'the journey of Marco Polo look like a stroll around the block'). 'There's no end to the list, of course,' Connell adds, 'because gradually it descends from such legendary individuals to ourselves when, as children, obsessed by that same urge, we got permission to sleep in the backyard.'

El Dorado and Other Pursuits

Travel

Travel Writing

Pimlico

Mr. Bridge

Literary

Sinclair Browne

Stories portray turning points in the lives of characters, including a tramp watching a dying woman, a pilot shot down over the ocean, and an amputee in a naval hospital

Saint Augustine's Pigeon: The Selected Stories of Evan S. Connell

Short Stories & Anthologies

NORTH POINT PRESS

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