The marriage of Ned Fraser, a Boston banker, and Anna Lindstrom, a singer on the brink of fame, is a battlefield of opposing temperaments.More
"I am not mad, only old. . . . I am in a concentration camp for the old."More
Grandfathers are generally produced by the birth of grandchildren. But Sprig Wyeth needed more than the arrival of his first grandchild to welcome that role.More
"Beautifully wrought . . . deeply felt and significant in theme." —Saturday ReviewMore
In this collection, May Sarton takes on the subject of herself in old age.More
"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 AtlanticMore
In these extraordinary letters, we see May Sarton in all her complexities and are privy to her tangled relationship with Juliette Huxley, whom May considered her muse and the greatest love of her life.More
In this affirmative journal, May Sarton describes both hardships and
joys in the daily round of her life in old age—physical struggles
counterbalanced by the satisfactions of friendship, nature, critical
recognition, and creative spark.More
"Sarton has been the lighthouse light for millions of women, and despite the dimming of that light, she remains [in this book] the Sarton who wrote Journal of a Solitude."—Library JournalMore
Set in the academic world of Harvard and Cambridge, this novel dramatizes the plight of the embattled American liberal in the 1950s.More
A delightful, whimsical tale—one of the most popular books for cat lovers ever written.More
Pure lyric poems come rarely in any poet's life.More
This is the first journal Sarton wrote after she moved in 1973 from New Hampshire to the seacoast of Maine.More
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 writer.More
For Joanna the month's holiday was to be an escape, a chance to paint and think and release the bitter memories of the war in Greece and of her mother's death.More
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,
ideas—and throughout everything, her spiritual and artistic journey.More
Friendship, marriage, and intertwined lives in a small New Hampshire town.More
In poems gathered into three sections under the titles "Letters from Maine," "A Winter Garland," and "Letters to Myself," Sarton's inspiration was a new, brief, and passionate love affair.More
This book presents the distinguished poet talking about herself and her work and reading from her poems, with a section of poems accompanied by the poet's commentary on each.More
Still writing and growing in her early eighties, May Sarton long ago established a unique niche for herself in twentieth-century American literature: in numerous volumes of poetry, fiction, and personal journals she has created a body of work that is both artistically beautiful and comforting, while always testifying to the importance of courage and love in the survival of the perceptive individual.More
Appearing in book form for the first time, this treasure trove of letters illuminates the life of the beloved poet/writer from early childhood into middle age.More
Forty years of correspondence from one of America's most beloved authors, chronicling her life with compelling candor.More
May Sarton describes living at her eighteenth-century house in Nelson, New Hampshire—how she acquired it, how it and the garden became part of her.More
"A small, sophisticated, elegantly sentimental journey through a New Hampshire village summer. Our companions are an aging poet, who is sad because he can no longer write—he has lost the joy he used to have in simply being alive–and a young, mischievous female donkey, who is sad because she can't run and play—she has a touch of arthritis. . . . There is a moral, of course, but any moral looks dull next to the simple happiness of the old poet and his long-eared muse."—The New YorkerMore
In these poems, May Sarton reflects on a journey undertaken to celebrate her fiftieth birthday, a journey that took her around the world to Greece via Japan and India, and finally home to the New Hampshire village where she had put down roots.More
When Laura Spelman learns that she will not get well, she looks on this last illness as a journey during which she must reckon up her life, give up the nonessential, and concentrate on what she calls "the real connections."More
"Sarton's 'art of making exquisite distinctions' and her vulnerability as a human being are her timeless gifts to her readers." —Library JournalMore
"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."More
“Her complex ideas are born into verse with the easy, simple beauty that is typical of her stunning lyric style.”—Boston GlobeMore
Anxiously embarking on her first teaching job, Lucy Winter arrives at a New England women's college and shortly finds herself in the thick of a crisis: she had discovered a dishonest act committed by a brilliant student who is a protégée of a powerful faculty member.More
"Its revelations, its tender frankness, its acutely sensitive observations recommend [this book] to Sarton's growing legion of readers." —ChoiceMore