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Michael Gorra

Born

in New London, Connecticut, The United States

February 17, 1957

Genre

Literature, Nonfiction

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Michael Gorra is an American professor of English and literature, currently serving as the Mary Augusta Jordan Professor of English Language and Literature at Smith College, where he has taught since 1985.

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Average rating: 3.93 · 17,428 ratings · 1,732 reviews · 22 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Sound and the Fury (Norton Critical Editions) by William Faulkner, Michael Gorra (Editor) 3.86 avg rating — 196,811 ratings — published 1929 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	As I Lay Dying (Norton Critical Editions) by William Faulkner, Michael Gorra (Editor) 3.72 avg rating — 187,999 ratings — published 1930 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton, Anna Quindlen (Introduction), Michael Gorra (Afterword) 3.98 avg rating — 106,395 ratings — published 1905 — 2969 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece 4.30 avg rating — 419 ratings — published 2012 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War 4.31 avg rating — 389 ratings — published 2020 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bells in Their Silence: Travels through Germany 3.24 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2004 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	After Empire: Scott, Naipaul, Rushdie 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1996 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The English Novel at Mid-Century: From the Leaning Tower really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1990 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Storytellers: Reading the Masterpieces of Nineteenth-Century Short Fiction 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“James Baldwin’s “Stranger in the Village” (1953) describes a winter’s stay in an isolated Swiss hamlet called Leukerbad. I have known that essay almost as long as I’ve known Faulkner’s own work, and I never reread it without a sense of profound discomfort, an uneasiness with American life and my own cushioned place within it.”
― Michael Gorra, The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War

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“Absalom, Absalom! uses the fractured mind of a boy who seems already half-ghost to present the family history of “the son who widowed the daughter who had not yet been a bride.” No one can read it quickly or even entirely with pleasure, but anyone who can hear its flowered dissonance will know that such books are why we read at all.”
― Michael Gorra, The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War

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“For the history of our shared country, he argues, is the history of the way white people have tried both to recognize and to deny the humanity of their black neighbors.”
― Michael Gorra, The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War

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