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A Dove of the East: And Other Stories
A Dove of the East: And Other Stories
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The twenty stories here, many of which first appeared in The New Yorker and have since been anthologized throughout the world, are strikingly beautiful essays on enduring...
Digital Barbarism: A Writer’s Manifesto
Digital Barbarism: A Writer's Manifesto
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Mark Helprin anticipated that his 2007 New York Times op-ed piece about the extension of the term of copyright would be received quietly. instead, within a week, the art...
Ellis Island and Other Stories
Ellis Island and Other Stories
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Winner of the Prix de Rome and the National Jewish Book Award, these ten stories and the title novella, "Ellis Island," exhibit tremendous range and versatility of style ...
The Veil of Snows
The Veil of Snows
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"Long ago, in the time of the old emperor, I was young and just beginning in my profession. The Usurper was there, and one could not escape his evil presence.... An enthr...
Memoir From Antproof Case
Memoir From Antproof Case
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An old American who lives in Brazil is writing his memoirs. An English teacher at the naval academy, he is married to a woman young enough to be his daughter and has a li...
A City in Winter
A City in Winter
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Driven to avenge the murder of her royal parents and reclaim their lost kingdom, the daring young heroine and would-be queen journeys to the besieged city on the plain to...
Refiner’s Fire
Refiner's Fire
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An orphaned immigrant's experiences take him from the Hudson River Valley to Harvard, off to sea on a British merchant ship, then finally back to his birthplace, where he...
The Pacific and Other Stories
The Pacific and Other Stories
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At long last, almost ten years since his previous book, Mark Helprin returns with The Pacific and Other Stories, a collection of sixteen stories that display the remarkab...
Freddy and Fredericka
Freddy and Fredericka
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Mark Helprin’s legions of devoted readers cherish his timeless novels and short stories, which are uplifting in their conviction of the goodness and resilience of the...
A Kingdom Far and Clear: The Complete Swan Lake Trilogy (Calla Editions)
A Kingdom Far and Clear: The Complete Swan Lake Trilogy (Calla Editions)
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In a rare collaboration, bestselling authors Helprin and Van Allsburg worked for nearly a decade on this ambitious, multi-generational trilogy that pits the power of love...
A Soldier of the Great War
A Soldier of the Great War
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For Alessandro Giullani, the young son of a prosperous Roman Lawyer, golden trees shimmer in the sun beneath a sky of perfect blue. At night the moon is amber and the cit...
Winter’s Tale
Winter's Tale
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New York City is subsumed in arctic winds, dark nights, and white lights, its life unfolds, for it is an extraordinary hive of the imagination, the greatest house ever bu...
Mark Helprin
Born in 1947, Mark Helprin was raised on the Hudson and in the British West Indies. After receiving degrees from Harvard College and Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, he did postgraduate work at the University of Oxford, Princeton, and Columbia. He has served in the British Merchant Navy, the Israeli infantry, and the Israeli Air Force. He was published in The New Yorker for almost a quarter of a century, and his stories and essays on politics and aesthetic...