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Books by Randall Jarrell
  | | Pictures from an Institution A Comedy (Phoenix Fiction) by Randall Jarrell Paperback, 296 Pages, Published 2010 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-39375-9, ISBN: 0-226-39375-5 "Beneath the unassuming surface of a progressive women’s college lurks a world of intellectual pride and pomposity awaiting devastation by the pens of two brilliant and appalling wits. Randall Jarrell’s classic novel was originally published to overwhelming critical acclaim in 1954, forging a new standard for campus satire—and instantly yielding comparisons to Dorothy Parker’s razor-sharp barbs. Like his fictional nemesis, Jarrell cuts t ..." |
 | | No Other Book(Reprint) Selected Essays by Randall Jarrell, Brad Leithauser Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2000 by Harper Perennial ISBN-13: 978-0-06-095638-7, ISBN: 0-06-095638-0 ""Most critics," Randall Jarrell wrote in a 1952 essay, "are so domesticated as to seem institutions--as they stand there between reader and writer, so different from either, they remind one of the Wall standing between Pyramus and Thisbe." His complaint was as accurate then as it is now. Yet Jarrell himself had nothing of the literary obstructionist to him. The essays he wrote over the course of three decades--in which he mingled his a ..." |
 | | The Bat-Poet by Randall Jarrell, Maurice Sendak Paperback, 48 Pages, Published 1996 by Harpercollins ISBN-13: 978-0-06-205905-5, ISBN: 0-06-205905-X "There was once a little brown bat who couldn't sleep days-he kept waking up and looking at the world. Before long he began to see things differently from the other bats, who from dawn to sunset never opened their eyes. The Bat-Poet is the story of how he tried to make the other bats see the world his way.Here in The Bat-Poet are the bat's own poems and the bat's own world: the owl who almost eats him; the mockingbird whose irritable gen ..." |
 | | Selected Poems(1st Edition) by Randall Jarrell, William H. Pritchard Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2007 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-53088-4, ISBN: 0-374-53088-2 "Poet, novelist, literary critic, and teacher, Randall Jarrell was a writer with many facets, but most of all, he was a poet with a unique voice, one that was by turns imaginative, realistic, sensitive, and ironic. From the narratives of army life during the Second World War to the domestic scenes he wrote about so movingly in his final book, "The Lost World," Jarrell's poems are marked throughout by a voice that could be astonishingly i ..." |
 | | The Complete Poems(Reprint) by Randall Jarrell Paperback, 520 Pages, Published 1981 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-51305-4, ISBN: 0-374-51305-8 "Poet, novelist, critic, and teacher, Randall Jarrell was a diverse literary talent with a distinctive voice, by turns imaginative, realistic, sensitive, and ironic. His poetry, whether dealing with art, war, memories of childhood, or the loneliness of everyday life, is powerful and moving. A poet of colloquial language, ample generosity, and intimacy, Jarrell wrote beautifully "of the American landscape," as James Atlas noted in "Americ ..." |
 | | The BAT POET by Randall Jarrell, Maurice Sendak Paperback, 43 Pages, Published 1977 by Collier ISBN-13: 978-0-02-043910-3, ISBN: 0-02-043910-5 "A bat who can't sleep days makes up poems about the woodland creatures he now perceives for the first time." |
 | | Poetry and the Age(1st Edition) by Randall Jarrell Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2001 by University Press Of Florida ISBN-13: 978-0-8130-2108-9, ISBN: 0-8130-2108-1 "About Poetry and the Age:"Perhaps the most comprehensive and certainly the most detailed of all studies of modern poetry."-- Delmore Schwartz, New York Times Book Review"Randall Jarrell’s book about poetry and the criticism of poetry pulls the bung-cork out of the barrel. The reader is exhilarated, led on to agree with Mr. Jarrell joyfully, even to cap his opinions--and at last to grow reckless. . . . Poetry and the Age is enormously re ..." |
 | | Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs A Tale from the Brs Grimm (Sunburst Book) by Jacob W. Grimm, Wilhelm K. Grimm, Randall Jarrell, Nancy Ekholm Burkert, Nancy Eckholm Burkert, Nancy Buckert, Brothers Grimm, Burkert Jarrel Paperback, 32 Pages, Published 1987 by Square Fish ISBN-13: 978-0-374-46868-2, ISBN: 0-374-46868-0 ""Mirror, mirror on the wall, Who is the fairest of us all?" repeatedly asks the Queen, Snow White's stepmother. She always gets the answer she wants, until Snow White turns seven, and the mirror must truthfully answer, "Snow White." At the news, the Queen turns yellow and green with envy and commands the huntsman to kill Snow White and bring her "lung and liver as a token." Thus begins another enchanting fairy tale from the Brothers Gri ..." |
 | | The Animal Family(1st Edition) (Michael Di Capua Books) by Randall Jarrell, Maurice Sendak, Paper Back Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 1996 by Harpercollins ISBN-13: 978-0-06-205904-8, ISBN: 0-06-205904-1 ""Once upon a time, long, long ago, where the forest runs down to the ocean, a hunter lived all alone in a house made of logs he had chopped for himself and shingles he had split for himself." These words ease the reader into the elegant, dreamlike world of Randall Jarrell's Newbery Honor book The Animal Family. One night, the lonely hunter hears the singing of a mermaid, and because "he himself was as patient as an animal," the me ..." |
 | | Fly by Night(Reprint) by Randall Jarrell, Maurice Sendak Paperback, 40 Pages, Published 1986 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux (Byr) ISBN-13: 978-0-374-42350-6, ISBN: 0-374-42350-4 ""At night David can fly. In the daytime he can't. In the daytime he doesn't even remember that he can. But at night, after his mother has put him to bed, he wakes up, sometimes.... It isn't flying exactly, but floating--he floats in the air." As he hovers over his parents, he can see their dreams, round and yellow, just over their heads. He can faintly see his dog Reddy's furry dream, too, before floating outside. In the moonlight, he c ..." |
 | | Randall Jarrell's Book of Stories(Reprint) (New York Review Books Classics) by Randall Jarrell, Nyrb Classics Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2002 by Nyrb Classics ISBN-13: 978-1-59017-005-2, ISBN: 1-59017-005-9 "Storytelling as a fundamental human impulse, one that announces itself at the moment, hidden in infancy, that dreams begin--this is what the poet and critic Randall Jarrell set out to illuminate in this extraordinary book. Here Jarrell presents ballads, parables, anecdotes, and legends along with some of the finest work of Chekhov, Babel, Elizabeth Bowen, Isak Dinesen, Kafka, Peter Taylor, and Katherine Anne Porter. This wonderful antho ..." |
 | | THE JUNIPER TREE and Other Tales from Grimm(1st Edition) (2 volumes in a slip case) by Maurice Sendak, Lore Segal, Randall Jarrell, Jacob W. Grimm, Wilhelm K. Grimm, Grimm Brothers, Sendak Grimm Hardcover, 332 Pages, Published 1973 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-18057-7, ISBN: 0-374-18057-1 "Twenty-seven newly translated fairy tales from Grimm including many old favorites as well as such lesser-known tales as "The Juniper Tree," "Many-Fur," and "Brother Gaily."" |
 | | The Gingerbread Rabbit(Reprint) by Randall Jarrell, Garth Williams Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 2004 by Harpercollins ISBN-13: 978-0-06-053302-1, ISBN: 0-06-053302-1 "Mary's mother has a surprise for her--a delicious gingerbread rabbit. But the real surprises start when this cookie comes to life! The raisin-eyed rabbit, still uncooked on the counter, bemoans his fate to the paring knife, mixing bowl, and rolling pin, when they warn him that nothing has ever escaped from the kitchen without being eaten. When the rabbit spies Mary's mother, just back from the grocery store, a "giant" with "dozens of tr ..." |
 | | The Gingerbread Rabbit(Reprint) by Randall Jarrell, Garth Williams Hardcover, 64 Pages, Published 2003 by Harpercollins ISBN-13: 978-0-06-052768-6, ISBN: 0-06-052768-4 "One morning a mother mixes up some dough and cuts out a gingerbread rabbit to surprise her little daughter. But when the mother puts him in to bake, she gets the surprise of her life. The rabbit jumps to the floor, runs to the door, and disappears into the forest!Fleeing through the forest with the mother close behind, the innocent rabbit gets some surprises of his own. The worst surprise is a "friendly" red animal who says he's a rabbi ..." |
 | | The Gingerbread Rabbit by Randall Jarrell Paperback, Published 1994 by Diamond Books ISBN-13: 978-0-261-66484-5, ISBN: 0-261-66484-0 |
 | | The Joy of Songbirds (Gifts of Nature) by Elaine S. Furlow, Annie Dillard, Michael Harwood, Roger T. Peterson, Randall Jarrell, Hal Borland, National Wildlife Federation, Natl Wildlife Federation Hardcover, 64 Pages, Published 1990 by Natl Wildlife Federation ISBN-13: 978-0-945051-15-2, ISBN: 0-945051-15-8 "Nature Venice, Florida 34292. 23: art by of Henry Ford Museum & stories. I. National Wildlife Heather Dieter Bartmann. 24: Greenfield Village; bottom right, Federation. 11. Title: Songbirds. top, art by Charley Harper, from the permanent collection of III. Series. photo by Kim Simmons; bottom, the Museum of American Folk QL682.J68 1990 art by Susan Hegenbarth. 25: Art, New York City. 45 all: with 598.80973— dc20 89-48025 from the c ..." |
 | | Pictures from an Institution(Updated) A Comedy by Randall Jarrell Paperback, 298 Pages, Published 1988 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-14587-4, ISBN: 0-571-14587-6 |
 | | Kipling, Auden and Company(1st Edition) Essays and Reviews, 1935-1964 by Randall Jarrell Paperback, 381 Pages, Published 1982 by Farrar Straus Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-51668-0, ISBN: 0-374-51668-5 "This fourth and final collection of Randall Jarrell's essays and reviews follows Poetry and the Age (1953), A Sad Heart at the Supermarket (1962), and The Third Book of Criticism (1969), and makes available virtually all of Jarrell's previously uncollected criticism." |
 | | The Gingerbread Rabbit (Lions S.) by Randall Jarrell, Garth Williams Paperback, 55 Pages, Published 1977 by Young Lions ISBN-13: 978-0-00-671230-5, ISBN: 0-00-671230-4 |
 | | The Animal Family. Decorations by Maurice Sendak. by Randall Jarrell, Maurice Illus Sendak Paperback, 127 Pages, Published 1976 by Penguin Books Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-14-030821-1, ISBN: 0-14-030821-0 |
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