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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

    $12.59 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

  • All The King's Men

    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE“All the King’s Men, the best American political novel ever written, is generally read as a cautionary tale about how power poisons slowly, like arsenic, or cynicism. But it’s also a fable about history, and why, like poetry, it’s so hard to write it fast." -Jill LeporeRobert Penn Warren’s masterpiece follows the career of Willie Stark, a back-country lawyer whose ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren

    Toward Sunset, at a Great Height, 1980–1989

    Series series Southern Literary Studies
    In the last decade of his life, Robert Penn Warren remained a vibrant force in American literature, producing new works of poetry and nonfiction while also dealing courageously with the gradual decline of his health and the diminishment of his poetic powers. Toward Sunset, at a Great Height, 1980--1989, the sixth and final volume of the author's selected letters, provides crucial documentation of ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Wilderness: A Tale of the Civil War. Illustrated

    Robert Penn Warren, celebrated poet, novelist, and critic, brings his lyrical mastery and profound sense of history to Wilderness: A Tale of the Civil War. This short novel, one of Warren’s earliest works, captures the turmoil of a nation divided and the inner conflict of those caught within the struggle. Set during the brutal campaigns of the American Civil War, the story follows Adam Rosenzweig, ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren

    The Apprentice Years 1924-1934

    Series series Southern Literary Studies
    In America’s twentieth century, there is no man of letters more versatile, distinguished, and influential than the poet, novelist, editor, critic, social commentator, and teacher Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989). The most intimate of Warren’s “letters,” his personal correspondence, now join his published canon under William Bedford Clark’s expert supervision. Volume One, The Apprentice Years, forms ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • At Heaven's Gate

    Novel

    The second novel by Robert Penn Warren, author of the Pulizter-Prize-winning All The King's Men, is a tour de force and a neglected classic.At Heaven’s Gate, Robert Penn Warren’s second novel, is a neglected classic of twentieth-century fiction. First published in 1943, it grew out of the author’s years in Nashville during a period of political and financial scandals much like those later so ... Read more

    $11.99 USD