"John Crowley is one of the finest writers of our time."
—Michael Dirda, The Washington Post

"Crowley is generous, obsessed, fascinating, gripping. Really, I think Crowley is so good that he has left everybody else in the dust."
—Peter Straub

In these four wildly imaginative short books, award-winning author John Crowley employs a rattling button jar of styles to tell multifaceted stories: of a young artist’s adventures in 1960s New York, of family histories brought to light, of the beguiling mysteries of the dreaming mind. Featuring all the wonder, erudition, humor, and finely wrought prose for which Crowley is known, each volume stands on its own, yet all four are connected by thematic threads of love, loss, and chance, and of a life committed to literature and art. Taken together, they represent some of the author’s most intimate works to date.

Includes all four books from A Conway Miscellany (print and ebook): The Sixties, Two Chapters from a Family Chronicle, Two Talks on Writing, and Seventy-Nine Dreams.

The books are printed in the US on 100% recycled paper. Their covers combine to reveal a painting by Jean Valette-Penot, Trompe-l'œil à la gravure de Sarrabat.

About the Author

John Crowley is the winner of three World Fantasy Awards—including one for Lifetime Achievement and one for his novel Little, Big—as well as two Mythopoeic Awards. In 1992 he received the literature award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.