"Paperback. Pub Date: 1995 Publisher: Penguin Originally published in 1957. The Flower Drum Song was a groundeaking work of withpopular literature An immediate bestseller it inspired the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical This charming bittersweet tale of romance and the powerful bonds of family tells the story of Wang Ta. who wants what every young American man wants: a great career and a woman to love. Living in San Francisco's Ch ..."
Faulkner and Idealism Perspectives from Paris by Michel Gresset, PatrickSamway Paperback, 168 Pages, Published 2008 by University Press Of Mississippi ISBN-13: 978-1-60473-185-9, ISBN: 1-60473-185-0
"The essays in this volume are indicative of the scope of international scholarship concerning the works of William Faulkner. They reflect particularly the distinctive and somewhat varying views that American and European scholars have of the Nobel Prize author.The nine papers included, a representative sampling of those delivered at the First International Colloquium on William Faulkner, articulate the relationship between Faulkner and ..."
"CANTICLE. FOR. LEIBOWITZ. 1 his book, A Canticle for Leibowitz, is
recommended, but not without certain qualifications. That is to say, I would not
want my recorded enthusiasm for it and the fact that I have read it several times to
be taken as a conventional literary ploy to call attention to an underrated work of
literature. Thus, I am not setting up as a Malcolm ... It is also of more moment than
the better-known sci-fi futurist ..."
"From the time they first met as undergraduates at Columbia College in New York City in the mid-1930s, the noted editor Robert Giroux (1914 2008) and the Trappist monk and writer Thomas Merton (1915 1968) became friends. "The Letters of Robert Giroux and Thomas Merton" capture their personal and professional relationship, extending from the time of the publication of Merton's 1948 best-selling spiritual autobiography, "The Seven Storey M ..."
"Ben Forkner, Patrick Samway. INTRODUCTION. Stories of the Old South covers
a century of Southern short fiction, from roughly the 1830s on up through the
early 1930s. The later dates, of course, point to the first full wave of the
remarkable creative tide of Southern writing that even today, almost three
generations later, gives little sign of faltering. The 1830s, however, mark perhaps
an even more important transition in the histo ..."
"Mining the same terrain as in their previous collection, Stories of the Modern South, Forkner and Samway turn their attention to an earlier era. Most of the stories in this collection were written in the 19th century."
A New Reader of the Old South(1st Edition) Major Stories, Tales, Slave Narratives, Diaries, Essays, Travelogues, Poetry and Songs : 1820-1920 by Ben Forkner, PatrickSamway Paperback, 644 Pages, Published 1991 by Peachtree Publishers ISBN-13: 978-1-56145-020-6, ISBN: 1-56145-020-0
"The literary Canon of the old South is redefined in this remarkable companion to the highly acclaimed A Modern Southern Reader. The literary canon of the old South is redefined in this remarkable companion to the highly acclaimed A Modern Southern Reader. Editors Ben Forkner and Patrick Samway, S. J. have selected from the most original and lasting works of nineteenth-century Southern writing (1820-1920) to reflect the full range of the ..."
"At the time of his death in 1990, Walker Percy left a considerable legacy of uncollected non-fiction. Now assembled here, these essays on language, literature, philosophy, religion, psychiatry, morality, and life and letters in the South display the imaginative versatility of this legendary writer."
Educating Darfur Refugees(1st Edition) A Jesuit's Efforts in Chad by PatrickSamway Hardcover, 300 Pages, Published 2007 by University Of Scranton Press ISBN-13: 978-1-58966-157-8, ISBN: 1-58966-157-5
"As a result of the genocide in Darfur, tens of thousands of people have been forced to flee Sudan and seek refuge in overcrowded, desolate desert camps along the Chadian border. Educating Darfur Refugees is the unforgettable journal of a Jesuit priest who spent nine months in 2004 and 2005 working in three of those refugee camps. Samway’s diaries, deeply informed by his perspective as a religious scholar but as engrossing as any page-tu ..."
A Modern Southern Reader Major Stories, Drama, Poetry, Essays, Interviews, and Reminiscences from the Twentieth-Century South by Ben Forkner, PatrickSamway Hardcover, 736 Pages, Published 1986 by Peachtree Pub Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-934601-01-6, ISBN: 0-934601-01-1
"This anthology represents the best work of important Southern writers of the twentieth century - from the 1920s (and the beginning of the Southern Renaissance) to the present. The volume includes examples of fiction, drama, poetry, essays, interviews, and reminiscences. Ben Forkner and Patrick Samway, who edited the highly acclaimed STORIES OF THE MODERN SOUTH, draw from the works of such greats as Ernest Gaines, William Faulkner, C. ..."
"This new edition of Southern Writers assumes its distinguished predecessor’s place as the essential reference on literary artists of the American South. Broadly expanded and thoroughly revised, it boasts 604 entries—nearly double the earlier edition’s—written by 264 scholars. For every figure major and minor, from the venerable and canonical to the fresh and innovative, a biographical sketch and chronological list of published works pr ..."
"Selected as an Outstanding Academic Title by ChoiceSelected as an Outstanding Reference Source by the Reference and User Services Association of the American Library AssociationThere are many anthologies of southern literature, but this is the first companion. Neither a survey of masterpieces nor a biographical sourcebook, The Companion to Southern Literature treats every conceivable topic found in southern writing from the pre-Columbian ..."
"This excellent collection includes works by Truman Capote, James Agee, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Anne Tyler, Reynolds Price, and many others."
"Flannery O'Connor is considered one of America's greatest fiction writers. The immensely talented Robert Giroux, editor-in-chief of Harcourt, Brace & Company and later of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, was her devoted friend and admirer. He edited her three books published during her lifetime, plus Everything that Rises Must Converge, which she completed just before she died in 1964 at the age of thirty-nine, the posthumous The Complete Stori ..."
John Berryman and Robert Giroux(1st Edition) A Publishing Friendship by Samway, Patrick S.J. Hardcover, 298 Pages, Published 2020 by University Of Notre Dame Press ISBN-13: 978-0-268-10841-0, ISBN: 0-268-10841-2
Educating Darfur Refugees A Jesuit's Efforts in Chad by Patrick H. Samway Paperback, 300 Pages, Published 2007 by University Of Scranton Press ISBN-13: 978-1-58966-164-6, ISBN: 1-58966-164-8
"As a result of the genocide in Darfur, tens of thousands of people have been forced to flee Sudan and seek refuge in overcrowded, desolate desert camps along the Chadian border. Educating Darfur Refugees is the unforgettable journal of a Jesuit priest who spent nine months in 2004 and 2005 working in three of those refugee camps. Samwayâs diaries, deeply informed by his perspective as a religious scholar but as engrossing as any page- ..."
"Forkner and Samway have selected from the most original and lasting works of nineteenth-century Southern writing (1820-1920) to reflect the full range of the Southern experience. The thorough introduction illuminates the individual pieces, providing insight into the culture of the Old South, from which rose a new generation of prominent, American writers."
A Gathering of Evidence(1st Edition) Essays on William Faulkner's 'Intruder in the Dust' by Michel Gresset, Patrick H. Samway Hardcover, 200 Pages, Published 2004 by St. Joseph's University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-916101-46-6, ISBN: 0-916101-46-0
"This book gathers together twelve recent and classic essays on Faulkner's Intruder in the Dust, which he termed "a mystery-murder" whose theme concerns a "relationship between Negro and white, specifically or rather the premise being that the white people in the south, before the North or the govt. or anyone else, owe and must pay a responsibility to the Negro." These essays provide a rich set of resources to teachers who wish to assign ..."
Walker Percy(1st Edition) A Life by Patrick H. Samway, S. J. Samway Paperback, 528 Pages, Published 1999 by Loyola Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8294-1268-0, ISBN: 0-8294-1268-9
"The author is particularly well qualified to evaluate novelist Walker Percy's philosophical interests and 1947 conversion to Catholicism: Patrick Samway, a Jesuit priest, edited a volume of Percy's uncollected essays and another of his correspondence on the subject of American semiotician Charles Sanders Pierce. Although he knew Percy (1916-90) personally in his final years, Samway maintains a scholarly distance in this meticulously res ..."