A trio take a midday walk in the woods where each amuses himself with his private thoughts.

A walk through the woods

Literature & Fiction

SARTON, May

Poetry

Harper&Row

Although content with his life, Punch the parrot gets lonely now and then until he acquires a secret friend.

Punch's Secret.

Harpercollins

MINOR READING CREASE ON EDGE OF COVER BY SPINE. NO WRITING OR MARKS ON PAGES.

The House by the Sea

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

May Sarton's ninth novel explores a woman's struggle to reconcile the claims of life and art, to transmute passion and pain into poetry. As it opens, Hilary Stevens, a renowned poet in her seventies, is talking with Mar, an intense young man who has sought her out and whose passionate despair reminds her of herself when young. Mar has had an unhappy love affair with a man. Bewildered by both his sexuality and his writing talent, he flings his anguish against Hilary’s brusque, sympathetic intelligence.

Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids

W.W.Norton

Anxiously embarking on her first teaching job, Lucy Winter arrives at a New England women's college and shortly finds herself in the thick of a crisis: she had discovered a dishonest act committed by a brilliant student who is a protégée of a powerful faculty member. How the central characters―students and teachers―react to the crisis and what effect the scandal has on their personal and professional lives are the central motifs of May Sarton's sensitive, probing novel.

The Small Room (Norton Library (Paperback))

Literary

W.W.Norton&Company

Journal of a Solitude

1977, mass market paperback reprint edition, Norton, NY. 208 pages. This highly respected writer wrote poetry, novels, books on writing, books on cats, and fun books for children. Here is a simple but compelling work discussing her daily life in New Hampshire, with ideas and attitudes on every page. Very nicely written.

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

W.W.Norton & Co

Sarton's memoir begins with her roots in a Belgian childhood and describes her youth and education in Cambridge, Massachusetts, her coming-of-age years, and the people who influenced her life as a writer.

I Knew a Phoenix: Sketches for an Autobiography

A Shower of Summer Days [paperback] Sarton, May [Apr 01, 1979] ...

A Shower of Summer Days

Romance

Kinds of Love: A Novel [Apr 01, 1980] Sarton, May ...

Kinds of Love

WW Norton & Co.

Crucial Conversations

Reed and Poppy Whitelaw's conventional and apparently serene life together is shattered when Poppy tells Reed that she has decided to leave him. In a series of encounters that follow the shock of this news, which affects not only Reed but also their children and friends--in particular Philip, who must learn why he is so invested in their marriage--Reed and Poppy struggle to make sense of their lives in this alien new terrain.

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