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  • Journal of a Solitude

    May Sarton

    Paperback, 1993

    In this, her bestselling journal, May Sarton writes with keen observation and emotional courage of both inner and outer worlds: a garden, the seasons, daily life in New Hampshire, books, people,...
  • Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing

    May Sarton

    Paperback, 1993

    “The plot of this short novel is deceptively simple, the mood subtle, the feeling intense. And the music of Miss Sarton’s prose leaves compelling echoes in one’s mind.” —New York Times Book Review...
  • As We Are Now: A Novel

    May Sarton

    Paperback, 1993

    "I am not mad, only old. . . . I am in a concentration camp for the old."
  • The Education of Harriet Hatfield: A Novel

    May Sarton

    Paperback, 1993

  • At Seventy: A Journal

    May Sarton

    Paperback, 1993

  • Kinds of Love

    May Sarton

    Paperback, 1994

    Friendship, marriage, and intertwined lives in a small New Hampshire town.
  • Crucial Conversations

    May Sarton

    Paperback, 1994

    "May Sarton's provocative novel is about a wife who has outgrown her husband, and after twenty-seven years of marriage decides that she has had enough. . . . she is altogether believable." —The...
  • I Knew a Phoenix: Sketches for an Autobiography

    May Sarton

    Paperback, 1996

    Sarton's memoir begins with her roots in a Belgian childhood and describes her youth and education in Cambridge, Massachusetts, her coming-of-age years, and the people who influenced her life as a...
  • The Magnificent Spinster

    May Sarton

    Paperback, 1995

    “Absolutely compelling . . . . A monument to love, to friendship, and to the certainty that wisdom and goodness can still exist in a deeply troubled world.” —Eugenia Thornton, Cleveland Plain...
  • A Shower of Summer Days: A Novel

    May Sarton

    Paperback, 1995

    "At long last in early June the Gordons were expected home at Dene's Court, the house in Ireland which Violet Dene Gordon had inherited."