Sarton, May

Journal of a Solitude

May Sarton writes with keen observation 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. "An honorable confession of the writer's faults, fears, sadnesses, and disappointments. . . ."--Cleveland Plain Dealer. Reissue.

As We Are Now: A Novel

A novel in the form of a diary, this story tells of Caroline Spencer, a 76-year-old retired schoolteacher who has suffered a heart attack and been deposited by relatives in an old people's home. Subjected to subtle humiliations and petty cruelties, she fights back with all she has, and in a powerful climax wins a terrible victory. "I shared the anger and the righteous indignation which I felt behind every line."--Madeleine L'Engle. Reissue.

Plant Dreaming Deep

The House by the Sea: A Journal

In 1973, May Sarton moved to a house on the seacoast of Maine. It was a place that was alone in all but a few months in the summer, with the sea and the woods, and a wide sky ever present. She discovered that what she has to give does not depend on others. This is her journal of that time.

The Small Room: A Novel (Norton Library ; N832)

Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing

Fur Person

Recovering: A Journal

May Sarton's sixty-sixth year,1978-79, was a difficult time: a cherished relationship came to an end, she had a mastectomy, she fought against depression. How her friendships, her love of the natural world, and her growing audience of readers brought her back is this journal's story.

At Seventy

"Sarton has fashioned her journals, 'sonatas'as she calls them, into a distinctive literary form: relaxed yet shapely, a silky weave of reflection . . . with the reader made companion to her inmost thoughts.

After the Stroke: A Journal

"A lyrical, candid, sensitive spirit pervades this chronicle, which ends with Sarton well again, rejoicing in the present and putting the past behind her."--Publishers Weekly.