Collected Short Prose

Name: Collected Short Prose
Author: James Agee

by James Agee

Anthology of short prose pieces ranging from personal reflections to literary fragments

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James Agee

Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, with Walker Evans's photographs, is one of the great American works of documentary art, a meditation on the lives of sharecropper families in Depression Alabama that questioned the very premises of documentary journalism.

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A Death in the FamilyLyrical novel about a father's fatal accident and its emotional aftermath in a Southern family
Let Us Now Praise Famous MenPhoto essay documenting the lives of Alabama sharecroppers during the Great Depression
The Morning WatchNovel following three boys' spiritual crisis during a religious retreat in the American South
A Way of SeeingCollection of essays and photographs exploring vision, art, and the human condition
Agee on FilmEssays and reviews on cinema and filmmaking from a writer-journalist perspective