Roger Sale (1932–2017)

Author of Seattle, past to present

About the Author

Roger Sale (1932-2017) taught literature at the University of Washington for nearly forty years. A prolific writer for publications such as the New York Review of Books and Seattle Weekly, Sale was the author of thirteen books, including Fairy Tales and After, On Writing, and Seeing Seattle.

Works by Roger Sale

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Seattle, past to present (1976) 91 copies

Fairy Tales and After: From Snow White to E. B. White (Harvard Paperbacks) (1978) 78 copies

Seeing Seattle (1994) 17 copies

On Not Being Good Enough: Writings of a Working Critic (1979) 13 copies

Reading Spenser; an introduction to the Faerie queene (1968) 13 copies

On writing (1969) 7 copies

Discussions of the novel (1960) 6 copies

Modern heroism; essays on D. H. Lawrence, William Empson, & J. R. R. Tolkien (1973) 4 copies

Literary Inheritance (1984) 1 copy

Closer to Home: English Writers and Places, 1780-1830 (1986) 1 copy

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The Wind in the Willows (1908) — Introduction, some editions — 27,633 copies, 365 reviews

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