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1	Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn more books like this by Evan S Connell add to wishlist Refusing to see Custer's defeat at Little Big Horn on June 25, 1876, as a contest between heroes and villains, Evan S. Connell recreates that historic day, and the events leading up to it, in a powerful novel that provides a refreshing view of the Old West. SON OF THE MORNING STAR is both historical novel and straightforward narrative, the result ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.93! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Son of the morning star more books like this by Evan S. Connell add to wishlist Refusing to see Custer's defeat at Little Big Horn on June 25, 1876, as a contest between heroes and villains, Evan S. Connell recreates that historic day, and the events leading up to it, in a powerful novel that provides a refreshing view of the Old West. SON OF THE MORNING STAR is both historical novel and straightforward narrative, the result ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Deus Lo Volt!: Chronicle of the Crusades more books like this by Evan S Connell add to wishlist "Deus lo volt" means "God wills it," and served as the rallying cry for the 11th- and 12th-century invasion of the Holy Land that became known as the Crusades. Connell's recreation takes as its hero an actual man of that period, Jean de Joinville, and imagines that he wrote a chronicle of the entire 200-year history of the Crusades. Connell has ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Aztec Treasure House more books like this by Evan S Connell add to wishlist Here are tales of fabulous advances made in anthropology, archaeology, astronomy, and linguistics, stories of the Anasazi, the "old ones" of the south-western desert, of the great explorers, eccentrics, dreamers, scientists, cranks, and geniuses. "There's no end to the list, of course, " Connell says, "because gradually it descends from such ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.63! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Mr Bridge more books like this by Evan S Connell add to wishlist This series of vignettes mercilessly exposes the stunted, quietly tragic life of an ordinary, middle-class, Middle American family man in Kansas City. Mr. Bridge is dutiful and generous but utterly unable to feel, and completely lacking in self-knowledge. Trying to do the right thing, he is mired in a Babbit-like respect for conformity and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.20! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Mrs. Bridge more books like this by Evan S Connell add to wishlist Evan S. Connell's novel, structured like a musical work in the form of 117 brief episodes, is the devastating portrait of the barren life of India Bridge, a Midwestern housewife, set in the 1930s and '40s. Mrs. Bridge is a woman who, despite middle-class prosperity and all its comforts, is frustrated, idle, and sad. Plodding through her restricted ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.74! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Diary of a Rapist more books like this by Evan S Connell add to wishlist In Evan S. Connell's 1966 novel, the harrowing journal of Earl Summerfield tells the tale of a man obsessed with sex and violence--a man whose compulsions eventually culminate in the act he has been heading for all along, followed by a descent into madness. Earl's diary is the record of a profoundly disturbed soul who, in his complexity and his ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.40! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Francisco Goya more books like this by Evan S Connell add to wishlist From the critically acclaimed and best-selling author of "Son of the Morning Star and "Deus Lo Volt! comes a biography that breaks the mold--recounting with stunning immediacy the uncommon genius behind the renowned Spanish painter. Darkly brilliant and casually masterful in turn, Francisco Goya changed art forever. During the days of the Spanish ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Lost in Uttar Pradesh: New and Selected Stories more books like this by Evan S Connell add to wishlist Although he may be best known for his novels "Mr. Bridge" and "Mrs. Bridge," or perhaps for his brilliant biography of Custer, "Son of the Morning Star," Evan S. Connell is an undisputed master of the short story. His restraint, concision, and perfect pitch lend themselves beautifully to the form, and he intuitively senses when to explain and when ... see all copies from $3.41! new only from $9.82! \| first editions \| SVS
10	The White Lantern more books like this by Evan S Connell add to wishlist In these seven essays, a continuation of some of the themes in his collection THE LONG DESIRE, Evan S. Connell writes about a variety of topics, most of them touching on explorers and exploration. He ranges around the world and through the centuries in pursuit of the brave and determined and often eccentric souls whose passion was the discovery ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11	Francisco Goya: A Life more books like this by Evan S Connell add to wishlist Novelist Connell's life of Goya brings to life the circles in which the painter moved as he traces his career in Spain at the time of the Inquisition. He also surveys 200 years of criticism of the artist and his works, and interjects his own learned opinions. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Aztec Treasure House: New and Selected Essays more books like this by Evan S Connell add to wishlist THE AZTEC TREASURE HOUSE collects the essays in two previous Connell collections, THE WHITE LANTERN and A LONG DESIRE, plus two new ones. Connell's subjects reveal his multiple interests, which include anthropology, archeology, astronomy, exploration, and linguistics. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13	Saint Augustine's Pigeon: The Selected Stories of Evan S. Connell by Evan S. Connell, Gus Blaisdell (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.39! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The Collected Stories of Evan S. Connell more books like this by Evan S Connell add to wishlist Fifty years' worth of stories from the author of MR. BRIDGE, MRS. BRIDGE, and several other novels. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Points for a Compass Rose more books like this by Evan S Connell add to wishlist In this collection of poems, the author meditates on the follies, cruelties and frailties of humankind adopting an outraged, vehement and sardonic tone as he gazes through his "teleidoscope" - an instrument for viewing the images of the ends of things. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $31.66! \| first editions \| SVS
16	A Long Desire more books like this by Evan S Connell add to wishlist This 1979 nonfiction book about exploration is really about obsession. Evan S. Connell writes about the men who embarked on the search for the legendary Atlantis, for the seven golden cities of Cibola in the American Southwest, and for the Northwest Passage. Tracing the lives of the explorers as they endured hardship and terrors in pursuit of ... see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17	Notes from a bottle found on the beach at Carmel more books like this by Evan S. Connell add to wishlist A collection of anecdotes, scraps of history, arcane lore and unfamiliar quotations on the condition of man and the world he lives in. This is a prose poem that is part diary, part almanac, part anthology. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $65.59! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	El Dorado & other pursuits more books like this by Evan S. Connell add to wishlist Evan S. Connell explores the quixotic obsession with the new, the hidden, the unattainable that burns in us all. Each essay is an extraordinary account of passionate pursuit by legendary explorers, visionaries, and seekers compelled by a singular desire. Here we find Marco Polo, El Dorado, Paracelsus, Columbus, the thousands of children in the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.95! \| first editions
19	Saint Augustine's Pigeon more books like this by Evan S Connell, Gus Blaisdell (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
20	The Anatomy Lesson, and Other Stories, more books like this by Evan S. Connell add to wishlist see all copies from $9.95! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Alchymic Journals more books like this by Evan S Connell add to wishlist A fictional tour de force of rich historical recreation and spectacular prose by the author of Son of the Morning Star. Connell imagines the journals of different alchemists--a conscientious physician, a Christian historian, a revolutionary, a philosopher, and others. "One of our most interesting and intelligent American writers".--Joyce Carol ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.13!
22	The patriot by Evan S Connell add to wishlist see all copies from $9.00! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23	Double Honeymoon by Evan S Connell add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
24	Mr. Bridge: A Novell more books like this by Evan S Connell add to wishlist This series of vignettes mercilessly exposes the stunted, quietly tragic life of an ordinary, middle-class, Middle American family man in Kansas City. Mr. Bridge is dutiful and generous but utterly unable to feel, and completely lacking in self-knowledge. Trying to do the right thing, he is mired in a Babbit-like respect for conformity and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $39.81! \| SVS
25	The alchymist's journal more books like this by Evan S Connell add to wishlist This 1991 book by novelist Evan S. Connell takes the form of fictionalized diary entries to tell the story of alchemy in 16th-century Europe. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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