Best Selling Books by Wallace Stegner

A concise, inspirational discourse by one of America''s finest writers, on the difficulties, rewards, and importance of teaching creative writing.

The story of a young man grown old in war, and of his quest for peace with himself and the world.

Through his work for the Sierra Club and the Wilderness Society and his service as special assistant to the Secretary of the interior, Stegner contributed substantially to the emergence and development of the environmental movement.

A biography of Clarence Edward Dutton written with the flair and the technical skill of novelist Wallace Stegner.

A re-publication of a lecture originally delivered by Wallace Stegner as a Tanner Lecture at the University of Utah on February 25, 1980.

''This is the age for the short story. None will be better or more worthy of admiration than Wallace Stegner''s Collected Stories'' Washington Post Book World In a literary career spanning more than fifty years, Wallace Stegner, winner of a Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, has created a remarkable record of the history and culture of twentieth-century America. These thirty-one stories demonstrate why he is acclaimed as one of America''s master storytellers. Here are tales of young love and older wisdom, of the order and consistency of the natural world and the chaos, contradictions and continuities of the human being. ''Exemplary stories ... The reader of Stegner''s writing is immediately reminded of an essential America ... a distinct place, a unique people, a common history, and a shared heritage remembered as only Stegner can'' Los Angeles Times

Tracing North American Exploration from Balboa to Lewis and Clark, Devoto tells in a classic fashion how the drama of discovery defined the American nation. The Course of Empire is the third volume in historian Bernard Devotoʹs monumental trilogy of the West. Entertaining and incisive, this is the dramatic story of three hundred years of exploration of North America leading up to 1805.