New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1964. — viii, 312 p. The complete text of William Saroyan's best-known work, The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories, and a book of reflections on his thirty years as a writer. Contains the original preface (4 p.) plus the new one written specifically for the 30th anniversary edition (129 p.), in which Saroyan shares...
Bloomsbury Reader: London, New Delhi, New York, Sydney. — 131 p. America in the 1960's; a golden time for the family, when children behaved, wives stayed at home and men wore suits to work. But in all this perfection, reality, life, relationships and people can't help but expose this idyll for the lie that it is. Dick is a respected writer, with a beautiful young wife, and two...
1978. Quality: originally electronic This is William Saroyan’s forty-sixth book. Like most of his latter-day works, it is anecdotal, sentimental, and professionally Armenian. There are small glimmers of the Saroyan of the mid-1930’s, the man who wrote so movingly in the short story collection The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, but not many. On the law of averages there...
15 short stories. — 58 p. A selection of William Saroyan's short stories. His name was on the lips of two generations, and countries around the world clamored for his work. He was the only writer to turn down the Pulitzer Prize. Through his plays, short stories and novels, he exalted the mysteries of youth, pondered the impossibility of love, and spoke to this strange condition...
15 short stories. A selection of William Saroyan's short stories. His name was on the lips of two generations, and countries around the world clamored for his work. He was the only writer to turn down the Pulitzer Prize. Through his plays, short stories and novels, he exalted the mysteries of youth, pondered the impossibility of love, and spoke to this strange condition of...
A unique collection of works by William Saroyan (1908-1981), an internationally renowned American writer, playwright, and humanitarian. He achieved great popularity in the thirties, forties, and fifties through his hundreds of short stories, plays, novels, memoirs, and essays. William Saroyan's stories celebrated optimism in the midst of the trials and tribulations of the...
Many of William Saroyan's stories were based on his childhood experiences. This collection includes eight short stories, which can be read on the go: The Daring Young Man On The Flying Trapeze. The Story Of The Young Man And The Mouse. Seventy Thousand Assyrians. The Bike. Laughter. An Ornery Kind Of Kid. Starting With A Tree And Finally Getting To The Death Of A Brother....
New York, Barricade Books Inc., 1995. — 308 p., ill. Here is Saroyan at the top of his form — the unmistakable voice in all its resonant variety — setting out to tell the story of his life. Personal memoirs of his childhood and youth with a disillusioned glance at his present life, his tax troubles, his obsessive gambling, and his humor turned sour. In superbly rendered scenes...
Boston, Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1956. Fourth printing. — 245 (264) p. The Saroyan simplicity is sounded by nine year old Twink as she tells the story of Mama Girl and herself in New York, when Mama Girl has left California on a momentary whim to look for a part in a real play. Papa Boy and her brother, Peter, are in Paris, for Papa Boy and Mama Girl have been...
Faber and Faber, London, 1971. — 257 p. — ISBN: 0-571-05632-6. First published in 1941. — 15 short stories, including The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse, The Pomegranate Trees, The Presbyterian Choir Singers , and Locomotive 38, the Ojibway . William Saroyan's most celebrated work of short fiction - a boy's view of the American Dream. Aram Garoghlanian was a Californian,...
Faber and Faber, 1971. — 257 p. — ISBN: 0-571-05632-6. First published in 1941. — 15 short stories. William Saroyan's most celebrated work of short fiction - a boy's view of the American Dream. Aram Garoghlanian was a Californian, born in Fresno on the other side of the Southern Pacific tracks. But he was also part of a large, sprawling family of immigrant Armenians - a whole...
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1983. Compiled with a commentary by James H. Tashjian. — 391 (414) p. The 103 Saroyan pieces found in the present anthology were earliest and originally published in one or another of the three organs of the Hairenik publishers, of Boston, Massachusetts: the Hairenik Daily, Hairenik Weekly (now Armenian Weekly ), and The Armenian Review. “My...
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1964. – 246 (264) p. A hectic week in the life of a popular writer, down on his luck, who returns to New York to sell his plays and to meet again with his ex-wife and children. One Day in the Afternoon of the World is a fantastic read; simple but leaves you with something to walk away with. “One day in the afternoon of the world, glum...
A short story. — 14 p. Resurrection of a Life was first published in Story magazine in 1935. It was such a strong story that Saroyan chose to include it in his much-anticipated second collection of short fiction, Inhale & Exhale (1936). Resurrection of a Life is typical of Saroyan’s short fiction in style and content. Stylistically, the story is representative of Saroyan’s...
Doubleday & Company, Inc. Garden City, New York, 1951. — First edition. — 302 p. All his life a man fights death, and then at last loses the fight, always having known he would. Loneliness is every man's portion, and failure. The man who seeks to escape from loneliness is a lunatic. The man who does not know that all is failure is a fool. The man who does not laugh at these...
Bloomsbury Reader: London, New Delhi, New York, Sydney. — 165 p. All his life a man fights death, and then at last loses the fight, always having known he would. Loneliness is every man's portion, and failure. The man who seeks to escape from loneliness is a lunatic. The man who does not know that all is failure is a fool. The man who does not laugh at these things is a bore....
New York: Avon Book Company, 1944. — 166 p. The second edition of William Saroyan's 1938 book The Trouble with Tigers. Some Day I'll be a Millionaire Myself - The Ants - The Acrobats - Memories of Paris - The Dale Carnegie Friend - The Broken Hearted Comedian and the Girl who Took the Place of his Unfaithful Wife - The Tiger - Sweetheart — Sweetheart — Sweetheart - The Brothers...
New Directions Books: New York. — 168 p. A timeless selection of brilliant short stories won William Saroyan a position among the foremost, most widely popular writers of America when it first appeared in 1934. With the greatest of ease William Saroyan flew across the literary skies in 1934 with the publication of The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories ....
First published in 1953 by Doubleday & Company. — 132 p. The Laughing Matter is a disturbing family drama set against the landscape of a small Californian town, with a close-knit community who embrace new-comers with the curiosity of those hungry for gossip. William Saroyan draws his characters with immense sensitivity for human erring and self-inflicted suffering. When Evan...
Bloomsbury Reader, 2014 (eBook). 159 p. When Evan Nazarenus returns from a teaching post at the summer school in Nebraska, he cannot wait for a couple of blissful weeks spent with his wife and two children in Clovis, a small town where his brother has a summer house. But soon after they arrive for the long awaited holiday, Swan, Evan's wife, announces that she is expecting a...
San Francisco: Donald S. Ellis, Creative Arts Book Company, 1984. — 308 (344) p. A comprehensive anthology of the beloved American author. This anthology was in preparation prior to Saroyan's death in 1981, and the selection had his enthusiastic approval. Antranik of Armenia, 1924 Cadillac for Sale, Confessions of a Playwright, Joe Gould and 'The Oral History of the World,' The...
The parsley garden represents a world where everyone is at home, at peace, and can be in control of their lives; they are their own masters within the realm of the garden. People have always squashed bugs without another thought, and most of the bugs are perfectly harmless. In the short story Gaston one of the main characters, the father, does something odd - he doesn't squash...
Harcourt, Brace And Company, Inc., New York, 1939. — 248 p. 'In the time of our life, live - so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it'. The Time of Your Life , a rich tapestry of human life, peopled by a profusion of wistful dreamers, pining lonely hearts, and...
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1951. Drawings by Henry Koerner. — 152 p., ill. More buffoonery from Saroyan's beautiful people, with a thick mix of symbolic fantasy and some genuinely amusing moments. Thomas Tracy had a tiger, an obliging, beautiful tiger, who always seemed to know the right answers in regard to Tom's job-getting, love-making and other...
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