Jay Parini eBooks

By 1910, Leo Tolstoy, the world's most famous author, had become an almost religious figure, surrounded on his lavish estate by family and followers alike. Set in the tumultuous last year of the count's >>

'Deep, deep, and still deep and deeper must we go, if we would find out the heart of a man . . .' Descend into the dark waters of the soul of one of the greatest writers America has ever produced. In this >>

Poetry doesn¿t matter to most people, observes Jay Parini at the opening of this book. But, undeterred, he commences a deeply felt meditation on poetry, its language and meaning, and its power to open >>