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Publication Order of Robert Penn Warren Standalone Novels

Night Rider (1939)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
At Heaven's Gate (1943)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
World Enough and Time (1950)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Band of Angels (1955)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Cave (1959)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
All the King's Men (1960)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Flood (1964)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Meet Me In The Green Glen (1974)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
A Place to Come To (1977)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Robert Penn Warren Chapbooks

Blackberry Winter (1946)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Don\'t Bury Me At All (1950)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Gods of Mount Olympus. (1959)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Use of the Past (1977)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Old flame (1978)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Ballad of a Sweet Dream of Peace (1980)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Mountain Mystery (1981)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce (1983)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Robert Penn Warren Collections

Selected Poems 1923-1943 (1942)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Eleven Poems on the Same Theme (1942)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Selected Poems of Robert Penn Warren (1944)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Circus in the Attic (1947)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Brother to Dragons (1953)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Promises: Poems 1954-1956 (1957)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
You, Emperors, And Others (1960)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Selected Poems: New and Old, 1923-1966 (1966)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Incarnations (1968)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Audubon (1969)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Or Else (1974)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
New and Selected Poems, 1923-1985 (1976)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Being Here: Poetry 1977-1980 (1980)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Rumor Verified (1981)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Love: Four Versions (1981)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Have You Ever Eaten Stars? Poems 1979-1980 (1981)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren (1998)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Now and Then: Poems, 1976-1978 (2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Robert Penn Warren Letters Books

Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren (2000)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren, Volume 2 (2001)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren, Volume Three (2005)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren, Volume Four (2008)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren, Volume Five (2011)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Robert Penn Warren Non-Fiction Books

The Essential Melville (1857)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
John Brown (1929)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Understanding Poetry (1938)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Melville the poet (1946)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
William Faulkner And His South (1951)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Segregation (1956)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Selected Essays (1958)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Legacy of the Civil War (1961)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Wilderness (1961)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Who Speaks for the Negro? (1965)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Faulkner (1967)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Why do we read fiction? (1971)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Homage to Theodore Dreiser (1971)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Democracy and Poetry (1975)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
A conversation with Robert Penn Warren (1976)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
A Time to Hear and Answer (1976)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Modern Rhetoric (1979)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Katherine Anne Porter (1979)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back (1980)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Robert Penn Warren Talking (1980)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition (1983)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Portrait of a Father (1988)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
New and Selected Essays (1989)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Talking with Robert Penn Warren (1990)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren: A Literary Correspondence (1998)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
How Texas Won Her Freedom: The Story Of Sam Houston And The Battle Of San Jacinto (2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of U.S. Landmark Non-Fiction Books

The Voyages of Christopher Columbus (By: Armstrong Sperry) (1950)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Landing of the Pilgrims (By: James Daugherty) (1950)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Our Independence and the Constitution (By: Dorothy Canfield Fisher) (1950)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Paul Revere and the Minute Men (By: Dorothy Canfield Fisher) (1950)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Pirate Lafitte and the Battle of New Orleans (By: Robert Tallant) (1951)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Trappers and Traders of the Far West (By: James Daugherty) (1952)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Louisiana Purchase (By: Robert Tallant) (1952)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
John Paul Jones: The Pirate Patriot (By: Armstrong Sperry) (1953)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Clara Barton (By: Helen Boylston) (1955)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Davy Crockett (By: Stewart Hall Holbrook) (1955)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Story of D-Day (By: Bruce Bliven Jr.) (1956)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Abe Lincoln: Log Cabin to White House (By: Sterling North) (1956)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Wyatt Earp: U.S. Marshal (By: Stewart Hall Holbrook,Ernest Richardson) (1956)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Evangeline and The Acadians (By: Robert Tallant) (1957)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Remember the Alamo! (1958)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Andrew Carnegie and the Age of Steel (By: Katherine Binney Shippen,Ernest Kurt Barth) (1958)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The American Revolution (By: Bruce Bliven Jr.) (1958)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Battle for the Atlantic (By: Jay Williams) (1959)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Golden Age of Railroads (By: Stewart Hall Holbrook) (1960)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa: The War in the Pacific: 1941-1945 (By: Bruce Bliven Jr.) (1960)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
William Penn: Quaker Hero (By: Leonard Everett Fisher,Hildegarde Dolson) (1961)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Mr. Bell Invents the Telephone (By: Katherine Binney Shippen) (1963)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
From Casablanca To Berlin- The War in North Africa and Europe: 1942-1945 (By: Bruce Bliven Jr.) (1965)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Battle for Iwo Jima (By: Robert Leckie) (1967)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
George Washington: Frontier Colonel (By: Sterling North) (2006)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Swamp Fox of the Revolution (By: Stewart Hall Holbrook) (2008)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Best American Short Stories Books

The Best Short Stories of 1915 (1916)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best Short Stories of 1916 (1916)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best Short Stories of 1917 (1917)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best Short Stories of 1918 (1918)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best Short Stories of 1919 (1919)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best Short Stories of 1921 (1921)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best Short Stories of 1922 (1922)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best Short Stories of 1923 (1923)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best Short Stories 1924 (1924)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best Short Stories of 1925 (1925)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best Short Stories 1926 (1926)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best Short Stories 1927 (1927)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best Short Stories of 1928 (1928)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best Short Stories of 1929 (1929)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best Short Stories 1930 (1930)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best Short Stories 1931 (1931)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best Short Stories of 1932 (1932)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best Short Stories 1933 (1933)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best Short Stories 1934 (1934)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best Short Stories 1935 (1935)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best Short Stories 1936 (1936)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best Short Stories 1937 (1937)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best Short Stories of 1938 (1938)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best Short Stories 1939 (1939)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best Short Stories of 1940 (1940)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best Short Stories 1941 (1941)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories 1942 (1942)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories 1943 (1943)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories 1944 (1944)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories 1945 (1945)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories 1946 (1946)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories 1948 (1948)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories 1949 (1949)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories 1950 (1950)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories 1951 (1951)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories 1952 (1952)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories 1953 (1953)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories 1955 (1955)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories 1957 (1957)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories 1958 (1958)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories 1959 (1959)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories 1960 (1960)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories 1961 (1961)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories 1962 (1962)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories 1963 (1963)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories 1965 (1965)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories 1966 (1966)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories 1967 (1967)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories 1968 (1967)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories of 1969 (1969)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories 1970 (1970)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories 1971 (1971)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories 1972 (1972)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories 1973 (1973)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories 1974 (1974)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best of Best American Short Stories 1915-1950 (1975)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories 1975 (1975)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories 1976 (1976)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories 1977 (1977)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories 1978 (1978)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories 1981 (1981)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories 1984 (1984)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories 1985 (1985)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories 1987 (1987)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories of the Eighties (1990)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories 2001 (2001)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories 2002 (2002)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best Short Stories of 1921, and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (2007)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories1921 (2007)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories 2015 (2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Anthology series.

Publication Order of Anthologies

Short Story Masterpieces: 35 Classic American and British Stories from the First Half of the 20th Century(1954)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories 1964(1964)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Stories of the Modern South(1977)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume 2(2000)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best American Short Stories of the Century(2000)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Robert Penn Warren was an American poet, literary critic, and writer. He attended from Clarksville High school in Tennessee, Vanderbilt University, and the University of California, Berkeley in 1926.

Later he joined Yale University and got a bachelor’s in Litt as a Rhodes Scholar. In 1930, he started teaching at Southwestern College. Warren also taught at Vanderbilt University and LSU. He was the sole winner of Pulitzer prizes for both poetry and fiction.

The author was awarded the Pulitzer in 1947 for All the King’s Men and later won his subsequent Pulitzer awards for poetry in 1957 and 1979. Robert Warren died on Sep 15, 1989, of bone cancer.

All the King’s Men
Jack Burden is a news reporter who finds himself following the hardworking and ambitious but naïve candidate known as Willie Stark. He’s a man picked to split the votes in the primary and ensure the nominations of the crony and corrupt politician that Louisiana is famous for.

Stark is the only person with no idea that the fix is on as he sumps and receives demotivating indifference from his crowds while trying to tell them the truth.

He soon finds himself on the ropes more than he is in the ring and begins to understand that for him to succeed, he’ll have to give the crowd whatever they want.

At first glance, Willie Stark appears like he would have been the perfect party candidate. However, he uses rhetoric to stir crowds by claiming that he’s just like them and that he will bust the heads of the evil politicians and the state house forcing them to do things the right way.

On the other hand, Willie knows something about the government and uses his skills to improve the lives of the impoverished by taxing the rich heavily and using the money to construct roads and offer free health care.

He uses exaggeration, and Burden observes a candidate’s merging and an honest man’s corruption. Burden soon becomes unemployed, but Stark always liked him and gave him a high position on his staff.

Though Stark is soundly defeated, he uses the remaining period before elections to become an excellent orator and electable candidate. As Burden becomes more trapped in the shady activities of Governor Stark’s administration, he begins to stumble over his high ideas of the importance of telling the truth. He tries to convince himself that he only does what his boss wants and tells him to do.

Whatever the boss does with the information he brings to the table has nothing to do with him, but the longer he gets involved and the more people he meets who later become victims of Stark’s ambition, the less he can claim.

Burden has feelings for his childhood friend, Anne Stanton, who is the daughter of the former governor. They briefly become an item, and then they go separate ways. Burden ends up marrying Lois, a woman who is so attractive. Despite the positive attributes, the two have different ambitions and goals, and the biggest problem is that Jack is in love with Anne.

Jack becomes close friends with Anne again, and he can’t help but make allusions to his marriage proposal still applicable. Even though Anne is thirty-five and has never been married, she keeps going around the issue. However, Burden no longer sees her as a friend anymore.

Stark still sees him as among the good guys despite the number of men he has felt after being destroyed. He concluded that it would have been better to destroy rather than bribe them.

If he bribes them again, he will still have to keep the untrustworthy associates in his organization. If he destroys them, they will no longer prevent him from accomplishing his ambitious aims. He’s on a self-made mission to use the corrupt system but only for the good part.

Despite his reputation, everything isn’t really about politics at all; it’s about a man looking after himself by sieving back through the history of his own family. In the process, he discovers some skeletons from the past yet still haunting the present.

All the King’s Men is more than a bit skeptical of the realities of American politics. Jack tells the story of Willie Stark, providing the novel’s moral center. He relates the present and the past not only for Willie but for himself.

Jack came from a privileged background but later turned his back on that life by becoming a cynical political newspaper reporter in a corrupt state. He’s a friend to Adam and Anne Stanton, the children of the preceding governor.

Judge Irwin is his mentor who influenced him since his youth, and his father, Ellis Burden, is a good friend of the judge.

Jack has a future and has been working on his doctorate while studying papers of an ancestor names Cass Mastern. The papers serve as a mirror of Jack’s life. However, Mastern betrayed a friend by having an affair with his friend’s wife and lives the rest of his life haunted by the betrayal.

The novel shows how people’s actions have consequences, and everyone owes a responsibility for the consequences of their actions. The book tells the story of Stark through the eyes of Jack Burden.
A Place to Come To
The novel tells the story of Jed Tewksbury, an alienated man who’s not common in the present. He’s told in a poetic and his scholarly achievements. He gets a scholarship at jerkwater college, enters graduate school in the university of Chicago, and passes in classical and medieval literature.

Jed Tewsbury narrates a story of his life from his humble beginnings in Rural Alabama. He later joins college and becomes an expert and later joins the army. He enters his first marriage to Agnes Andresen, an intelligent scholar. Even though Jed feels lonely and distant while with Agnes, he becomes restless and loses focus when she dies of cancer.

Rozelle Harcastle is Jed’s high school sweetheart whom he walks out on a high school prom. He meets her later in life in Nashville, and they get involved in a passionate affair, and Jed realizes that his love for her is still alive but too bad for him since she doesn’t feel the same.

He goes to Paris and later to Chicago, where he marries again, gets a son, and later gets divorced.

The novel is a story in which characters learn lessons the hard way, especially Jed, who realizes that every man has to live his own life and has fewer chances of knowing what it means. After becoming a classical and medieval literary scholar and getting married twice, having a son, and having an affair, Jed Tewksbury returns to his hometown to pay a visit to his mother’s grave and make peace with himself and his past.

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