Agee, James 1909-1955

A death in the family by James Agee ( Book )
104 editions published between 1938 and 2011 in 6 languages and held by 4,612 libraries worldwide
On a sultry summer night in 1915, Jay Follet leaves his house in Knoxville, Tennessee, to tend to his father, whom he believes is dying. The summons turns out to be a false alarm, but on his way back to his family, Jay has a car accident and is killed instantly. Dancing back and forth in time and braiding the viewpoints of Jay's wife, brother, and young son, Rufus, Agee creates an overwhelmingly powerful novel of innocence, tenderness and loss that should be read aloud for the sheer music of its prose.

Let us now praise famous men : three tenant families by James Agee ( Book )
56 editions published between 1941 and 2001 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,742 libraries worldwide
Words and photographs describe the daily lives of typical sharecropper families in the American South.

Agee on film by James Agee ( Book )
61 editions published between 1958 and 2000 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,911 libraries worldwide

The collected poems of James Agee by James Agee ( Book )
18 editions published between 1968 and 1978 in English and held by 1,632 libraries worldwide

The African Queen ( Visual )
8 editions published between 1951 and 2010 in English and held by 1,443 libraries worldwide
At the start of World War I, German imperial troops burn down a mission in Africa. The mission's reverend was so overtaken with disappointment that he passes away. Shortly after his well-educated, snooty sister Rose buries her brother, she must leave on the only available transport, the 'African Queen' steamboat. The boat is manned by the ill-mannered bachelor, Charlie. Together they embark on a long difficult journey, without any comfort. Rose grows determined to assist in the British war effort and presses Charlie until he finally agrees and together they steam up the Ulana encountering an enemy fort, raging rapids, bloodthirsty parasites and an endlessly branching stream which always seems to lead them to what appear to be impenetrable swamps. Despite their opposing personalities, the two grow closer to each other and ultimately carry out their plan to take out a German warship.

Letters of James Agee to Father Flye by James Agee ( Book )
33 editions published between 1944 and 1978 in English and held by 1,434 libraries worldwide

Let us now praise famous men ; A death in the family, & shorter fiction by James Agee ( Book )
7 editions published in 2005 in English and held by 1,269 libraries worldwide
Three key works by the early twentieth-century author include the 'prophetic journalism' experiment of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Death in the Family, and the novella The Morning Watch.

The collected short prose of James Agee by James Agee ( Book )
16 editions published between 1968 and 1978 in English and held by 1,265 libraries worldwide

The night of the hunter ( Visual )
6 editions published between 1987 and 2010 in English and held by 1,185 libraries worldwide
A psychotic self-styled preacher marries and murders a young widow for her money. He then pursues her children to get his hands on the money, only to meet his match in the form of a saintly farm woman.

Film writing and selected journalism by James Agee ( Book )
4 editions published between 2005 and 2006 in English and held by 1,165 libraries worldwide
"This Library of America volume supplements the classic pieces from Agee on Film with previously uncollected writings on Ingrid Bergman, the Marx Brothers, Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat, Vittorio De Sica's Shoeshine, and a wealth of other cinematic subjects." "Agee's own work as a screenwriter is represented by his script for Charles Laughton's unique and haunting masterpiece of Southern gothic, The Night of the Hunter, adapted from the novel by Davis Grubb. This collection also includes examples of Agee's masterfully probing reporting for Fortune - on subjects as diverse as the Tennessee Valley Authority, commercial orchids, and cockfighting - and a sampling of literary reviews, among them appreciations of William Faulkner, Virginia Woolf, S. J. Perelman, and William Carlos Williams."--BOOK JACKET.