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  • Slow Rise

    A Bread-Making Adventure

    by Robert Penn ...
    'Charming, important . . . a journey of discovery' TelegraphOver the course of a year, Robert Penn learns how to plant, harvest, thresh and mill his own wheat, in order to bake bread for his family. In returning to this pre-industrial practice, he tells the fascinating story of our relationship with bread: from the domestication of wheat in the Fertile Crescent at the dawn of civilization, to the ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Audiobook

    It's All About the Bike

    The Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels

    by Robert Penn ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Cowley ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 40 min

    Robert Penn has saddled up nearly every day of his adult life. In hislate twenties, he pedaled 25,000 miles around the world. Today he ridesto get to work, sometimes for work, to bathe in air and sunshine, totravel, to go shopping, to stay sane, and to skip bath time with hiskids. He's no Sunday pedal pusher. So when the time came for a new bike,he decided to pull out all the stops. He would build ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • It's All About the Bike

    The Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels

    by Robert Penn ...
    Robert Penn has saddled up nearly every day of his adult life. In hislate twenties, he pedaled 25,000 miles around the world. Today he ridesto get to work, sometimes for work, to bathe in air and sunshine, totravel, to go shopping, to stay sane, and to skip bath time with hiskids. He's no Sunday pedal pusher. So when the time came for a new bike,he decided to pull out all the stops. He would build ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Man Who Made Things Out of Trees

    by Robert Penn ...
    The story of how one man cut down a single tree to see how many things could be made from it.Out of all the trees in the world, the ash is most closely bound up with who we are: the tree we have made the greatest and most varied use of over the course of human history. One frigid winter morning, Robert Penn lovingly selected an ash tree and cut it down. He wanted to see how many beautiful, ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Man Who Made Things Out of Trees

    by Robert Penn ...
    Narrated by Robert Penn ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 58 min

    Out of all the trees in the world, the ash is the most closely bound up with who we are. From tool handles to arrows, wheels and bowls to furniture and baseball bats, humans have made more and varied use of ash than any other kind of wood. Journeying across the English-speaking world, Robert Penn meets craftsmen with rare skills and a knowledge of the properties of ash developed over millennia. He ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • All The King's Men

    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this classic book is generally regarded as the finest novel ever written on American politics. It describes the career of Willie Stark, a back-country lawyer whose idealism is overcome by his lust for power. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    All the King's Men

    Narrated by Michael Emerson ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 55 min

    This landmark book is a loosely fictionalized account of Governor Huey Long of Louisiana, one of the nation's most astounding politicians. All the King's Men tells the story of Willie Stark, a southern-fried politician who builds support by appealing to the common man and playing dirty politics with the best of the back-room deal-makers. Though Stark quickly sheds his idealism, his right-hand man, ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Wilderness: A Tale of the Civil War

    In the summer of 1863, Adam Rosenzweig has left a Bavarian ghetto and sailed for America to join the Union Army. Fired by the revolutionary idealism of mid-nineteenth-century Europe, he hopes to aid a cause which he believes to be as simple as he knows it to be just. But thwarted by the discovery of a physical deformity which he had hoped to conceal, he must try other means to find his "truth." ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Who Speaks for the Negro?

    In 1964, Robert Penn Warren interviewed leaders, activists, and artists engaged in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. His interviewees included well-known figures such as Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcom X, and James Baldwin, as well as lesser-known individuals whose names might otherwise be lost to history. Transcripts from these interviews, combined with Warren’s reflections on the movement ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren

    New Beginnings and New Directions, 1953-1968

    Series series Southern Literary Studies
    Volume four of the Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren covers a crucial time of personal and professional rejuvenation in Warren's life. During the fifteen-year period spanned by this correspondence, he completed Brother to Dragons; Segregation: The Inner Conflict in the South; and Who Speaks for the Negro? As these titles suggest, these years were marked by Warren's immersion in American ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back

    In 1979 Robert Penn Warren returned to his native Todd Country, Kentucky, to attend ceremonies in honor of another native son, Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, whose United States citizenship had just been restored, ninety years after his death, by a special act of Congress. From that nostalgic journey grew this reflective essay on the tragic career of Jefferson Davis—"not a modern ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Portrait Of A Father

    One of America's great poets writes of his father, lost through death and discovered again through insistent recollection. A death in the family forces a re-sorting and reshaping of all that we can recall of times and people gone from us as we measure our identities by their remembered images.While prowling in the past, Warren is drawn to likenesses between himself and his father, between himself ... Read more

    $18.99 USD