Robert Nathan
1) The Weans
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1960.
Language
English
Description
Nothing has so completely stirred the imagination of the entire civilized world as the recent discovery of a civilization, lost for more than 5,000 years, of the Weans of the Great West, or Salt, Continent. Now for the first time this fascinating story of the expeditions of Kenya's greatest scientists is told-in terms comprehensible to the general reader.Who were these Weans, whose eastern coast was guarded by a ferocious giantess, who worshipped...
Author
Publisher
Tandem
Pub. Date
1969.
Language
English
Description
Eben Adams is a young painter in Depression-era New York just looking to make a living. His work has thus far left influential art dealers unimpressed. Then Eben happens upon a young schoolgirl named Jennie in Central Park. Intrigued by her mystical quality and her knowledge of things that happened well before her time, Eben begins to sketch a portrait of the young girl. The drawing turns out to be the most emotional piece Eben has ever done, and...
5) Stonecliff
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1967.
Language
English
Description
The haunting novel of a strange love…Michael Robb, a young journalist and aspiring author, has just landed a dream assignment: interviewing the renowned but reclusive author Edward Granville. The famous writer and his devoted wife, Virginia, have for many years lived in isolation on the Pacific Coast at their hilltop retreat, Stonecliff. Not long after Michael's arrival, strange things begin to happen. Granville's wife disappears, and Michael meets...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1962.
Language
English
Description
"Joseph Victor, a newspaper correspondent, a rather disconsolate figure who has never been able to live with his default (a child prodigy, he had run away from his concert career) is now, in 1948, in Rome. There too he fails to connect with life and after a brief affair, is sent on the the Middle East to Palestine. Aboard a refugee packed ship, he meets Anna, and her child Mia, and Anna is the victim of a greater grief- the bitter war experience,...
10) One more spring
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1933.
Language
English
Description
"Four social misfits weather the Depression in a tool shed in Central Park." Cf. Hanna, A. Mirror for the nation
14) Road of ages
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1935.
Language
English
Description
Having been exiled from all corners of the globe, the Jews of the world make their way across Europe to the deserts of China where they have been granted asylum. Though united by their common faith, cultural, political, national, and economic differences threaten to divide them. As they endure the harsh winter, we meet several members of this large exodus, including a strong-willed woman in her seventies and her optimistic grandson. A radical communist...
16) Winter in April
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1938.
Language
English
Description
"Story of the close comradeship between a man and his naive fifteen-year-old granddaughter." --
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1948.
Language
English
Description
Presents a story of young love and tragedy on Cape Cod. A lonely and unwanted young girl is befriended by a kindly summer visitor who hires her to tidy up his cottage. During that summer, Johanna learns of joy and love and belonging for the first time in her young life, until suddenly the sea takes it all away.
