A Man Without A Country

Author : Kurt Vonnegut
Publisher : Dial Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-20
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780525510130

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A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “For all those who have lived with Vonnegut in their imaginations . . . this is what he is like in person.”–USA Today In a volume that is penetrating, introspective, incisive, and laugh-out-loud funny, one of the great men of letters of this age–or any age–holds forth on life, art, sex, politics, and the state of America’s soul. From his coming of age in America, to his formative war experiences, to his life as an artist, this is Vonnegut doing what he does best: Being himself. Whimsically illustrated by the author, A Man Without a Country is intimate, tender, and brimming with the scope of Kurt Vonnegut’s passions. Praise for A Man Without a Country “[This] may be as close as Vonnegut ever comes to a memoir.”–Los Angeles Times “Like [that of] his literary ancestor Mark Twain, [Kurt Vonnegut’s] crankiness is good-humored and sharp-witted. . . . [Reading A Man Without a Country is] like sitting down on the couch for a long chat with an old friend.”–The New York Times Book Review “Filled with [Vonnegut’s] usual contradictory mix of joy and sorrow, hope and despair, humor and gravity.”–Chicago Tribune “Fans will linger on every word . . . as once again [Vonnegut] captures the complexity of the human condition with stunning calligraphic simplicity.”–The Australian “Thank God, Kurt Vonnegut has broken his promise that he will never write another book. In this wondrous assemblage of mini-memoirs, we discover his family’s legacy and his obstinate, unfashionable humanism.”–Studs Terkel

Author : Edward Everett Hale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN26KM

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The Man Without a Country and Other Tales by Edward Everett Hale Pdf

Author : Edward Everett Hale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HW1Y71

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The Man Without a Country by Edward Everett Hale Pdf

Author : Masha Gessen
Publisher : Riverhead Books
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781594486517

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The Man Without a Face by Masha Gessen Pdf

History of Eastern Europe, Russia.

Author : Charles Patrick Pfarrer
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781591146650

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Philip Nolan by Charles Patrick Pfarrer Pdf

Philip Nolan: The Man Without a Country is Chuck Pfarrer’s captivating adaptation of Edward Everett Hale’s American classic “The Man Without a Country,” first published in The Atlantic Monthly more than a century ago. Masterfully blending history and fiction, Pfarrer tells the story of a young artillery officer, Philip Nolan, who becomes embroiled in Aaron Burr’s 1807 conspiracy to invade the territories of the Louisiana Purchase. Insinuating his scheme has official approval, Burr convinces Nolan to carry a coded message into the Orleans Territory. Nolan has no knowledge of the former vice president’s intended treason—and Burr has no idea that Thomas Jefferson has discovered his scheme. Soon Philip Nolan is in military custody with Burr, charged an accessory to the plot. The nation holds its breath as Burr is tried for attempting to tear apart the Union. The charges against Burr seem ironclad, but his lawyers are clever, and Burr walks free. An embarrassed prosecution looks for a scapegoat, and expands the charges against Nolan to include desertion and sedition. Learning that his own court martial will proceed, despite Burr’s acquittal, Nolan denounces his accusers, damns his country, and tells the court he wishes never again to hear the words “United States” as long as he lives. The judges return with an ominous verdict: the prisoner’s wish will be granted. Nolan is sentenced to permanent exile aboard a series of U.S. warships, never again to hear news from or speak of his country. Decades pass. Shuttled from ocean to ocean, Nolan realizes he is a stateless person, estranged from his keepers and forgotten by his country. Eventually passed aboard an American frigate in the Mediterranean, Nolan comes into the custody of a newly commissioned lieutenant, Frank Curran. When Barbary pirates capture an American whaleship, the pair is drawn into a web of international deceit and mortal danger. As a rescue mission is launched, Nolan teaches the young officer a lesson about duty, loyalty, and the meaning of patriotism. Equal parts adventure, naval history, and morality tale, Philip Nolan: The Man Without a Country is more than frigate duels and small boat actions. Intricately plotted and beautifully crafted, the novel is a poignant and closely observed examination of the human condition.

Author : Cormac McCarthy
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307390530

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No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy Pdf

From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road comes a "profoundly disturbing and gorgeously rendered" novel (The Washington Post) that returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of the famed Border Trilogy. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. One day, a good old boy named Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law—in the person of aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell—can contain. As Moss tries to evade his pursuers—in particular a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human lives—McCarthy simultaneously strips down the American crime novel and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning’s headlines. No Country for Old Men is a triumph. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.

Author : Mike Wallace
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1545409846

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Summary of a Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut by Mike Wallace Pdf

A Man Without a Country is an essay collection published in 2005 by the author Kurt Vonnegut. The extremely short essays that make up this book deal with topics ranging from the importance of humor, to problems with modern technology, to Vonnegut's opinions on the differences between men and women. Most prevalent in the text, however, are those essays that elucidate Vonnegut's opinions on politics, and the issues in modern American society, often from a decidedly humanistic perspective. In January 2007, Vonnegut indicated that he intended this to be his final work, a statement that proved to be correct with his death in April 2007. Later published works of Vonnegut's were all published posthumously, and consisted almost entirely of previously unpublished material from early in his career.

Author : Edward Everett Hale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 374472509X

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The Man Without a Country by Edward Everett Hale Pdf

The Man Without A Country - And Other Tales is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1888. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Author : Mark Waid,William Messner-Loebs,Terry Kavanagh
Publisher : Marvel Entertainment
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-13
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781302485528

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Captain America Epic Collection by Mark Waid,William Messner-Loebs,Terry Kavanagh Pdf

Operation: Rebirth! Captain America, thought dead by the nation he loves, returns to the land of the living with a vengeance...but his unlikely savior is one of his deadliest enemies! Now, reunited with his long-lost love Sharon Carter, Steve Rogers must face a foe he hoped he'd never see again. But Cap's return is good news for the Avengers. COLLECTING: CAPTAIN AMERICA #444-454, THOR #496, IRON MAN #326, AVENGERS #396, CAPTAIN AMERICA ASHCAN EDITION, CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE LEGEND, MATERIAL FROM CAPTAIN AMERICA COLLECTORS' PREVIEW (CAPTAIN AMERICA EPIC COLLECTION VOL. 22).

Author : Mark Waid
Publisher : Marvel Comics Group
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 0785105948

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Captain America by Mark Waid Pdf

Accused of attacking a U.S. military base, C aptain America has been removed from his position and exiled from the country. Captain America has to do something to cl ear his name but first he must save the United States from a nother threat. '

Author : Kurt Vonnegut
Publisher : Rosetta Books
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780795348648

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If This Isn't Nice, What Is? by Kurt Vonnegut Pdf

A collection of commencement speeches and other wit and wisdom from the New York Times–bestselling literary icon and author of Slaughterhouse-Five. Master storyteller and satirist Kurt Vonnegut was one of the most in-demand commencement speakers of his time. For each occasion, Vonnegut’s words were unfailingly insightful and witty, and they stayed with audience members long after graduation. This expanded second edition also includes more than sixty pages of further thoughts from Vonnegut (whose good advice wasn’t limited to graduation speeches). Edited by Dan Wakefield, and including such pieces as “How to Make Money and Find Love!,” “How to Have Something Most Billionaires Don’t,” and “Somebody Should Have Told Me Not to Join a Fraternity,” this book reads like a narrative in the unique voice that made Vonnegut a hero to readers everywhere. Hilarious, razor-sharp, freewheeling, and at times deeply serious, these reflections are ideal not just for graduates but for anyone undergoing what Vonnegut would call their “long-delayed puberty ceremony”—marking the long and challenging passage to full-time adulthood. “Like Mark Twain, Mr. Vonnegut used humor to tackle the basic questions of human existence.” —The New York Times

Author : Agha Shahid Ali
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Jammu and Kashmir (India)
ISBN : 817530037X

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The Country Without a Post Office by Agha Shahid Ali Pdf

Here Is A Haunted And Haunting Volume That Establishes Agha Shahid Ali As A Seminal Voice Writing In English. Amidst Rain And Fire And Ruin, In A Land Of `Doomed Addresses`, The Poet Evokes The Tragedy Of His Birth Place, Kashmir.

Author : Susan Schaller
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520959316

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A Man Without Words by Susan Schaller Pdf

For more than a quarter of a century, Ildefonso, a Mexican Indian, lived in total isolation, set apart from the rest of the world. He wasn't a political prisoner or a social recluse, he was simply born deaf and had never been taught even the most basic language. Susan Schaller, then a twenty-four-year-old graduate student, encountered him in a class for the deaf where she had been sent as an interpreter and where he sat isolated, since he knew no sign language. She found him obviously intelligent and sharply observant but unable to communicate, and she felt compelled to bring him to a comprehension of words. The book vividly conveys the challenge, the frustrations, and the exhilaration of opening the mind of a congenitally deaf person to the concept of language. This second edition includes a new chapter and afterword.

Author : Edward Everett Hale
Publisher : EDCON Publishing Group
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Burr Conspiracy, 1805-1807
ISBN : 1555761798

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The Man Without a Country by Edward Everett Hale Pdf

A shortened adaptation of the story of Philip Nolan, who was banished from the United States and lived to regret the consequences. Includes word definitions and multiple choice questions.

Author : Richard Tres
Publisher : Beacon Publishing Group
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Man Without a Party by Richard Tres Pdf

The Kaiser fined him for his writings; he refused to pay. The Weimar Republic charged him with treason for publishing the truth about their illegal military build-up. He fought them in court and went to prison. In early 1933, when Hitler took power, journalist Carl von Ossietzky was one of the first thrown into the new concentration camps. In order to get him out of Germany, Ossietzky’s friends nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize. Never thinking he would win, they hoped to create enough international uproar to force Hitler to free the journalist he was torturing. Ossietzky won the Nobel Peace Prize for 1935. But Hitler still would not let his captive go. This is Carl von Ossietzky’s story.