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William Maxwell may refer to: Arts William Maxwell (engraver) (c. 1766–1809), printer of the Sentinel of the Northwest Territory newspaper in Cincinnati, Ohio W. B. Maxwell (William Babington Maxwell, 1866–1938), British novelist William Hamilton Maxwell (1792–1850), Scots-Irish novelist William James Maxwell (1843–1903), Scottish-born sculptor in Australia William Keepers Maxwell Jr. (1908–2000), American editor and writer Education William Maxwell (educator) (1784–1857), seventh President of Hampden–Sydney College William Henry Maxwell (1852–1920), superintendent of public schools in New York City Medicine William Maxwell (physician) (1581–1641), Scottish physician William Maxwell (physician) (1769–1826), Scottish physician Military William Maxwell (Continental Army general) (1733–1796), Irish-born American soldier from New Jersey in the American Revolutionary War William C. Maxwell (1892–1920), American pilot in the United States Air Force Politics and administration Sir William Maxwell, 5th Baronet, of Monreith, British MP for Wigtownshire, 1805–1812 and 1822–1830 William Maxwell (Australian politician) (1867–1921), gold miner and member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly William Maxwell (co-operator) (1841–1929), Scottish co-operative activist William Maxwell (railroad executive) (1794–1856), American business executive and politician, president of the Erie Railroad 1842–1843 William Edward Maxwell, British colonial official, governor of the Gold Coast George Maxwell (administrator) (William George Maxwell, 1871–1959), British naturalist and colonial administrator in British Malaya and Straits Settlements William Herries Maxwell (1852–1933), British MP for Dumfriesshire, 1892–1895 and 1900–1906 William John Maxwell, 18th Naval Governor of Guam Sports William Maxwell (footballer) (1876–1940), Scottish footballer, manager of the Belgium national football team Bill Maxwell (1882–1917), Australian rules footballer Other William Maxwell, 5th Earl of Nithsdale (1676–1744), Catholic nobleman William Maxwell (journalist) (1860–1928), British journalist, soldier, writer and civil servant William Sutherland Maxwell (1874–1952), Canadian architect and a Hand of the Cause in the Bahá'í Faith See also Billy Maxwell (1929–2021), American golfer Charles William Maxwell (1775–1848), governor of the British crown colony of Sierra Leone 1811–1815 Willie Maxwell, birth name of American rapper Fetty Wap. Discover the William Maxwell popular books. Find the top 100 most popular William Maxwell books.

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  • Old Man and the Sea synopsis, comments

    Old Man and the Sea

    Ernest Hemingway

    The last novel Ernest Hemingway saw published, The Old Man and the Sea has proved itself to be one of the enduring works of American fiction. It is the story of an old Cuban fisher...

  • Meanwhile There Are Letters synopsis, comments

    Meanwhile There Are Letters

    Suzanne Marrs & Tom Nolan

    2016 Edgar Award Finalist2016 Anthony Award Finalist2016 Macavity Award FinalistIn 1970, Ross Macdonald wrote a letter to Eudora Welty, beginning a thirteenyear correspondence betw...

  • John Stuart, Joseph Stuart, James Stuart, And William H. Scott, Plaintiffs in Error v. Hugh Maxwell synopsis, comments

    John Stuart, Joseph Stuart, James Stuart, And William H. Scott, Plaintiffs in Error v. Hugh Maxwell

    United States Supreme Court

    THIS case was brought up by writ of error, from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs in error, who were plaintiffs below, su...

  • The Case for Color-Blind Equality in an Age of Identity Politics synopsis, comments

    The Case for Color-Blind Equality in an Age of Identity Politics

    Alan Dershowitz

    In The Case for ColorBlind Equality in an Age of Identity Politics​, Alan DershowitzNew York Times bestselling author and one of America’s most respected legal scholarsanalyzes ...

  • Cancel Culture synopsis, comments

    Cancel Culture

    Alan Dershowitz

    In Cancel Culture, Alan DershowitzNew York Times bestselling author and one of America’s most respected legal scholarsmakes an argument for free speech, due process, and restraint ...

  • The Chateau synopsis, comments

    The Chateau

    William Maxwell

    It is 1948 and a young American couple arrive in France for a holiday, full of anticipation and enthusiasm. But the countryside and people are warbattered, and their reception at t...

  • The Old Man and the Sea synopsis, comments

    The Old Man and the Sea

    Ernest Hemingway

    Ernest Hemingway’s most beloved and popular novel ever, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, now featuring a previously unpublished short story and additional supplementary materialplus a...

  • So Long, See You Tomorrow synopsis, comments

    So Long, See You Tomorrow

    William Maxwell

    In this magically evocative novel, William Maxwell explores the enigmatic gravity of the past, which compels us to keep explaining it even as it makes liars out of us every time ...

  • Case Against the New Censorship synopsis, comments

    Case Against the New Censorship

    Alan Dershowitz

    In The Case Against the New Censorship: Protecting Free Speech from Big Tech, Progressives, and Universities​, Alan DershowitzNew York Times bestselling author and one of America’s...

  • Man on the Move synopsis, comments

    Man on the Move

    Otto De Kat & Sam Garrett

    In January 1935, Rob leaves Holland for Cape Town, a young man thirsting for adventure and wanting above all to leave his family's suffocating hold on him behind. After a brutal st...

  • Hemingway on Fishing synopsis, comments

    Hemingway on Fishing

    Ernest Hemingway

    From childhood on, Ernest Hemingway was a passionate fisherman. He fished the lakes and creeks near the family’s summer home at Walloon Lake, Michigan, and his first stories and pi...

  • The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway synopsis, comments

    The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

    Ernest Hemingway

    The definitive short story collection that established Ernest Hemingway's literary reputation, originally published in 1938.Ernest Hemingway is a cultural iconan archetype of rugge...

  • The Garden of Eden synopsis, comments

    The Garden of Eden

    Ernest Hemingway

    The last uncompleted novel of Ernest Hemingway, published posthumously in 1986, charts the life of a young American writer and his glamorous wife who fall for the same woman.A sens...

  • The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway synopsis, comments

    The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

    Ernest Hemingway

    The fourth in the series of new annotated editions of Ernest Hemingway’s work, edited by the author’s grandson Seán and introduced by his son Patrick, this “illuminating” (The Wash...

  • Our Mutual Friend synopsis, comments

    Our Mutual Friend

    Charles Dickens

    'Perhaps his greatest work. The great novel of London: dark, wise, unsentimental' William BoydWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NICK HORNBY John Harmon returns to England after years in exil...

  • Look Homeward, Angel synopsis, comments

    Look Homeward, Angel

    Thomas Wolfe

    The spectacular, historymaking first novel about a young man’s coming of age by literary legend Thomas Wolfe, first published in 1929 and long considered a classic of twentieth cen...

  • Doktor Maxwells weihnachtliche Zeitpanne synopsis, comments

    Doktor Maxwells weihnachtliche Zeitpanne

    Jodi Taylor

    Eine Kurzgeschichte zur WeihnachtszeitEs ist Heiliger Abend, und eigentlich wollen die zeitreisenden Historiker von St. Mary’s der Krönung von William dem Eroberer in der Abtei von...

  • The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories synopsis, comments

    The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

    Ernest Hemingway

    The ideal introduction to the genius of Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories contains ten of Hemingway's most acclaimed and popular works of short fiction.S...

  • Death in the Afternoon synopsis, comments

    Death in the Afternoon

    Ernest Hemingway

    Ernest Hemingway's classic exploration of the history and pageantry of bullfighting, and the deeper themes of cowardice, bravery, sport and tragedy that it inspires.Still considere...

  • Works of William Babington Maxwell synopsis, comments

    Works of William Babington Maxwell

    William Babington Maxwell

    2 works of William Babington Maxwell British novelist (18661938) This ebook presents a collection of 2 works of William Babington Maxwell. A dynamic table of contents allows you to...

  • The Trouble with Perspective synopsis, comments

    The Trouble with Perspective

    William Thomas Maxwell

    A startling short tale about a group of researchers and what happens when they prevent a disturbed man from completing a ritual off a lonely shoreline in England. Included with thi...

  • Extraordinary Canadians Lord Beaverbrook synopsis, comments

    Extraordinary Canadians Lord Beaverbrook

    David Adams Richards

    Press baron, entrepreneur, art collector, and wartime minister in Churchill's cabinet, Max Aitken was a colonial Canadian extraordinaire. Rising from a hardscrabble childhood in Ne...

  • Time Will Darken It synopsis, comments

    Time Will Darken It

    William Maxwell

    Pregnant with her second child, Martha King finds her marriage to lawyer Austin King more and more frustrating when her husband befriends his young foster cousin, Nora, and, in the...

  • Green Hills of Africa synopsis, comments

    Green Hills of Africa

    Ernest Hemingway

    The most intimate and elaborately enhanced addition to the Hemingway Library series: Hemingway’s memoir of his safari across the Serengetipresented with archival material from the ...

  • The Electromagnetic Brain synopsis, comments

    The Electromagnetic Brain

    Shelli Renée Joye & Dean Radin

    An exploration of cuttingedge theories on the electromagnetic basis of consciousness Details, in nontechnical terms, 12 credible theories, each published by prominent professional...

  • To Have and Have Not synopsis, comments

    To Have and Have Not

    Ernest Hemingway

    From one of the best writers in American literature, a classic novel about smuggling, intrigue, and love.To Have and Have Not is the dramatic story of Harry Morgan, an honest man w...

  • The Dangerous Summer synopsis, comments

    The Dangerous Summer

    Ernest Hemingway

    Experience Hemingway’s firsthand chronicle of a brutal season of bullfights in Spain.In the 1950s, Hemingway and his wife return to Spain, where Hemingway had visited before as a w...

  • Endgame synopsis, comments

    Endgame

    Omid Scobie

    Endgame, the explosive book from longtime royal journalist Omid Scobie and author of the international blockbuster Finding Freedom, is a penetrating investigation into th...

  • What There Is to Say We Have Said synopsis, comments

    What There Is to Say We Have Said

    Suzanne Marrs

    Letters revealing a lost literary worldand a unique friendship between a brilliant author and a New Yorker editor.   For over fifty years, Eudora Welty and William Maxwell, tw...

  • For Whom the Bell Tolls synopsis, comments

    For Whom the Bell Tolls

    Ernest Hemingway

    Introduced by Hemingway’s grandson Seán Hemingway, this newly annotated edition and literary masterpiece about an American in the Spanish Civil War features early drafts and supple...

  • The Red Gift synopsis, comments

    The Red Gift

    William Thomas Maxwell

    A magical version of modern Los Angeles, an exdruid down on his luck. Some people spend New Years Eve alone, some with family, some in celebration with a bunch of raucous strangers...

  • For Whom the Bell Tolls synopsis, comments

    For Whom the Bell Tolls

    Ernest Hemingway

    Ernest Hemingway's masterpiece on war, love, loyalty, and honor tells the story of Robert Jordan, an antifascist American fighting in the Spanish Civil War.In 1937 Ernest Hemingway...

  • Death Comes for the Archbishop synopsis, comments

    Death Comes for the Archbishop

    Willa Cather

    A portrait of an enduring friendship, from one of America’s most celebrated novelists.‘Quite simply a masterpiece’ Daily Telegraph Two priests are despatched from Rome to New Mexic...

  • John Stuart, Joseph Stuart, James Stuart, And William H. Scott, Plaintiffs in Error v. Hugh Maxwell synopsis, comments

    John Stuart, Joseph Stuart, James Stuart, And William H. Scott, Plaintiffs in Error v. Hugh Maxwell

    United States Supreme Court

    THIS case was brought up by writ of error, from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs in error, who were plaintiffs below, su...

  • El Viejo y El Mar synopsis, comments

    El Viejo y El Mar

    Ernest Hemingway

    La obra que le valió a Hemingway el Pulitzer en 1953.«Su mejor obra. El tiempo demostrará que es la mejor que cualquiera de nosotros haya escrito, y con eso me refiero a sus coetán...