Wescott, Glenway 1901-1987

Images of truth; remembrances and criticism by Glenway Wescott( Book )
14 editions published between 1962 and 1972 in English and held by 1,301 libraries worldwide
Essays on the author's friends, Katherine Anne Porter and Thornton Wilder, and on Somerset Maugham, Colette, Isak Dinesen, and Thomas Mann.

Apartment in Athens by Glenway Wescott( Book )
35 editions published between 1945 and 2007 in 9 languages and held by 1,218 libraries worldwide
Like Wescott's extraordinary novella The Pilgrim Hawk (which Susan Sontag described in The New Yorker as belonging "among the treasures of 20th-century American literature"), Apartment in Athens concerns an unusual triangular relationship. In this story about a Greek couple in Nazi-occupied Athens who must share their living quarters with a German officer, Wescott stages an intense and unsettling drama of accommodation and rejection, resistance and compulsion - an account of political oppression and spiritual struggle that is also a parable about the costs of closeted identity.

The grandmothers : a family portrait by Glenway Wescott( Book )
25 editions published between 1927 and 1996 in English and held by 1,187 libraries worldwide
A reprint of a 1927 autobiographical novel about Alwyn Tower, a ninteenth-century man who leaves Wisconsin for Europe but is haunted by the spirits of family members whose lives were destroyed by the events of the Civil War.

Short novels of Colette by Colette( Book )
1 edition published in 1951 in English and held by 1,122 libraries worldwide

The pilgrim hawk : a love story by Glenway Wescott( Book )
38 editions published between 1940 and 2011 in 5 languages and held by 720 libraries worldwide
This powerful short novel describes the events of a single afternoon. Alwyn Towers, an American expatriate and sometime novelist, is staying with a friend outside of Paris, when a well-heeled, itinerant Irish couple drops in - with Lucy, their trained hawk, a restless, sullen, disturbingly totemic presence. Lunch is prepared, drink flows. A masquerade, at once harrowing and farcical, begins. A work of classical elegance and concision, The Pilgrim Hawk stands with Faulkner's The Bear as one of the finest American short novels: a beautifully crafted story that is also a poignant evocation of the implacable power of love.

Good-bye, Wisconsin by Glenway Wescott( Book )
17 editions published between 1928 and 1970 in English and Undetermined and held by 533 libraries worldwide

The crack-up by F. Scott Fitzgerald( Book )
4 editions published between 1945 and 1956 in English and held by 478 libraries worldwide

Continual lessons : the journals of Glenway Wescott, 1937-1955 by Glenway Wescott( Book )
5 editions published in 1990 in English and held by 364 libraries worldwide

12 fables of Aesop( Book )
5 editions published between 1954 and 1964 in English and held by 217 libraries worldwide

The apple of the eye by Glenway Wescott( Book )
11 editions published between 1924 and 1926 in English and held by 209 libraries worldwide