The Time of Man: A Novel / Edition 1

by Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Robert Penn Warren, Wade Hall

Overview

Considered her finest work and an American classic, Roberts's novel traces the coming of age of Ellen Chesser, the daughter of a poor itinerant farmer. Against all privations and the forces that would subdue her, Ellen is sustained by a sense of wonder and by an awareness of her own being. Reduced to the bare elements of life, her world becomes a ceremony of daily duties that bind her to the natural world and her family. The Time of Man stands as a beautifully written tribute to the human spirit.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813109817
Publisher:	University Press of Kentucky
Publication date:	02/24/2000
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	420
Sales rank:	481,384
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989), born in Guthrie, Kentucky, was one of America's most revered writers, producing fiction, poetry, history, and criticism, much of it focusing on the moral dilemmas of the South. He served as America's first poet laureate. He received the Pulitzer Prize three times, for his novel All the King's Men and for his books of poetry Promises: Poems 1954–1956 and Now and Then. He is also the author of Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back and The Cave.

Wade Hall is professor of English at Bellarmine College. He is the editor of the Kentucky Poetry Review and has written extensively on southern literature and history.

Editorial Reviews

One of the most authentic and moving depictions of a woman's identity and experience I have ever read.... I felt the same shock of recognition and revelation upon reading The Time of Man that I did when I read Their Eyes Were Watching God.

Appalachian Journal

This is a book that embraces life.... [I]t is written in a prose at once lucid and arresting, rhythmical, fresh in phrasing and construction, giving always the effect of effortless arrangement.

New York Times

Originally published in 1926, this re-released epic novel of Americana is now considered a classic.

Kentucky Living

Original, powerful, and, without ever verging upon sentimentality, tender.

Saturday Review of Literature

"One of the most authentic and moving depictions of a woman's identity and experience I have ever read.... I felt the same shock of recognition and revelation upon reading The Time of Man that I did when I read Their Eyes Were Watching God." -- Appalachian Journal

"Original, powerful, and, without ever verging upon sentimentality, tender." -- Saturday Review of Literature

"Originally published in 1926, this re-released epic novel of Americana is now considered a classic." -- Kentucky Living

"This is a book that embraces life.... [I]t is written in a prose at once lucid and arresting, rhythmical, fresh in phrasing and construction, giving always the effect of effortless arrangement." -- New York Times

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