A Short History Of A Small Place

Author : T. R. Pearson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101126936

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A Short History of a Small Place by T. R. Pearson Pdf

Marvelously funny, bittersweet, and beautifully evocative, the original publication of A Short History of a Small Place announced the arrival of one of our great Southern voices. Although T. R. Pearson's Neely, North Carolina, doesn't appear on any map of the state, it has already earned a secure place on the literary landscape of the South. In this introduction to Neely, the young narrator, Louis Benfield, recounts the tragic last days of Miss Myra Angelique Pettigrew, a local spinster and former town belle who, after years of total seclusion, returns flamboyantly to public view-with her pet monkey, Mr. Britches. Here is a teeming human comedy inhabited by some of the most eccentric and endearing characters ever encountered in literature.

Author : Thomas R. Pearson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : City and town life
ISBN : OCLC:426050353

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A Short History of a Small Place by Thomas R. Pearson Pdf

Author : Jamaica Kincaid
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781466828834

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A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid Pdf

A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua--by the author of Annie John "If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If you come by aeroplane, you will land at the V. C. Bird International Airport. Vere Cornwall (V. C.) Bird is the Prime Minister of Antigua. You may be the sort of tourist who would wonder why a Prime Minister would want an airport named after him--why not a school, why not a hospital, why not some great public monument. You are a tourist and you have not yet seen . . ." So begins Jamaica Kincaid's expansive essay, which shows us what we have not yet seen of the ten-by-twelve-mile island in the British West Indies where she grew up. Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright by turns, in a Swiftian mode, A Small Place cannot help but amplify our vision of one small place and all that it signifies.

Author : T.R. Pearson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:975970018

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Short History of a Small Place(PB). by T.R. Pearson Pdf

Author : T. R. Pearson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : City and town life
ISBN : 1101125470

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A Short History of a Small Place by T. R. Pearson Pdf

In this introduction to Neely, the youn narrator, Louis benfield, recounts the tragic last days of Miss Myra Angelique Pettigrew, a local spinster and former town belle who, after years of total seculsion, returns flamboyantly to public view- with her pet monkey, Mr. Britches.

Author : E. H. Gombrich
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300213973

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A Little History of the World by E. H. Gombrich Pdf

E. H. Gombrich's Little History of the World, though written in 1935, has become one of the treasures of historical writing since its first publication in English in 2005. The Yale edition alone has now sold over half a million copies, and the book is available worldwide in almost thirty languages. Gombrich was of course the best-known art historian of his time, and his text suggests illustrations on every page. This illustrated edition of the Little History brings together the pellucid humanity of his narrative with the images that may well have been in his mind's eye as he wrote the book. The two hundred illustrations—most of them in full color—are not simple embellishments, though they are beautiful. They emerge from the text, enrich the author's intention, and deepen the pleasure of reading this remarkable work. For this edition the text is reset in a spacious format, flowing around illustrations that range from paintings to line drawings, emblems, motifs, and symbols. The book incorporates freshly drawn maps, a revised preface, and a new index. Blending high-grade design, fine paper, and classic binding, this is both a sumptuous gift book and an enhanced edition of a timeless account of human history.

Author : H. V. Nelles
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Canada
ISBN : 0195445627

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A Little History of Canada by H. V. Nelles Pdf

"Throughout his concise history, award-winning author H.V. Nelles reminds us of such fateful events, whether strategic or happenstance, that have shaped Canada as we know it today. Beginning with the earliest human occupation of North America, nearly 14,000 years ago, Nelles takes us on a whirlwind tour of the land and its inhabitants to the present day. Canada's enduring theme, he argues, is transformation. ... Fully revised throughout, this updated edition incorporates the latest research that helps us understand the course of history. Lively and opinionated, this is the ever-evolving story of a nation"--From www.amazon.ca.

Author : Donald R. Wright
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317453888

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The World and a Very Small Place in Africa by Donald R. Wright Pdf

Niumi, a small, little-known territory located on the bank of the Gambia River in West Africa, is seemingly far from the reaches of world historical events. And yet the outside world has long had a significant - and increasingly profound - impact on Niumi. This fascinating work shows how global events have affected people's lives over the past eight centuries in this small region in Africa's smallest country. Drawing on written and oral testimony, and writing in a clear and personal style, Donald R. Wright connects 'globalization' with real people in a real place. This new edition updates discussions of global history and African history based on current studies and new developments that have been factored into the interpretive framework. Reflecting on recent visits to Niumi, Wright extends the story into 2009, to consider the impact of global recession and domestic political repression under a regime in power for the past fifteen years. Punctuating the narrative are photographs, maps, and 'Perspectives' boxes on selected topics such as the sale of slaves five centuries ago, colonial sexism, the fate of press freedom, and how popular culture affects growing up in a traditional society. Throughout, the author deals with African history seriously, global trends critically, and human lives sensitively.

Author : David Seamon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351212496

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Life Takes Place by David Seamon Pdf

Life Takes Place argues that, even in our mobile, hypermodern world, human life is impossible without place. Seamon asks the question: why does life take place? He draws on examples of specific places and place experiences to understand place more broadly. Advocating for a holistic way of understanding that he calls "synergistic relationality," Seamon defines places as spatial fields that gather, activate, sustain, identify, and interconnect things, human beings, experiences, meanings, and events. Throughout his phenomenological explication, Seamon recognizes that places are multivalent in their constitution and sophisticated in their dynamics. Drawing on British philosopher J. G. Bennett’s method of progressive approximation, he considers place and place experience in terms of their holistic, dialectical, and processual dimensions. Recognizing that places always change over time, Seamon examines their processual dimension by identifying six generative processes that he labels interaction, identity, release, realization, intensification, and creation. Drawing on practical examples from architecture, planning, and urban design, he argues that an understanding of these six place processes might contribute to a more rigorous place making that produces robust places and propels vibrant environmental experiences. This book is a significant contribution to the growing research literature in "place and place making studies."

Author : Harikrishna Lalshankar Dave
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Gondal (Princely State)
ISBN : UCAL:$B576102

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A Short History of Gondal by Harikrishna Lalshankar Dave Pdf

Author : Charles East
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0820309249

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The New Writers of the South by Charles East Pdf

Stories and selections from novels by twenty writers depict the complexities of life in the modern South

Author : Georgann Eubanks
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780807899526

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Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont by Georgann Eubanks Pdf

Read your way across North Carolina's Piedmont in the second of a series of regional guides that bring the state's rich literary history to life for travelers and residents. Eighteen tours direct readers to sites that more than two hundred Tar Heel authors have explored in their fiction, poetry, plays, and creative nonfiction. Along the way, excerpts chosen by author Georgann Eubanks illustrate a writer's connection to a specific place or reveal intriguing local culture--insights rarely found in travel guidebooks. Featured authors include O. Henry, Doris Betts, Alex Haley, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, John Hart, Betty Smith, Edward R. Murrow, Patricia Cornwell, Carson McCullers, Maya Angelou, Lee Smith, Reynolds Price, and David Sedaris. Literary Trails is an exciting way to see anew the places that you already love and to discover new people and places you hadn't known about. The region's rich literary heritage will surprise and delight all readers.

Author : Augie Nieto,T. R. Pearson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781596914681

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Augie's Quest by Augie Nieto,T. R. Pearson Pdf

A fitness pioneer and ALS patient documents his creation of a new model for private medical research and development for less common and less profitable diseases, describing how his entrepreneurial partnership with the Muscular Dystrophy Association enabled significant results in its first two years.

Author : Barbara K. Olson
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0838753167

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Authorial Divinity in the Twentieth Century by Barbara K. Olson Pdf

"Whatever a writer's religious assumptions and histories, the literary device of omniscient narration traps a writer into a pose as God, at least some sort of God, be it one the writer eschews, avows, or longs for. In this study, Barbara K. Olson examines the relationship between both the writer and the omniscient narrator to God." "Olson explains how modernists Ernest Hemingway and Virginia Woolf both illustrate how authors' particular styles of omniscience bear a reliable though variable relation to their own or their culture's particular conceptions of God." "The experience of novelists generally attests to perennial theological conundrums into which their creating and narrating have cast them - transcendence vs. immanence, providential care vs. cosmic capriciousness, determinism vs. freedom. Not surprisingly, such atheists as John Fowles and Ronald Sukenick have aimed their narrational experiments in omniscience at subverting what Fowles has called the "godgame" that this device requires. Such other writers as Flannery O'Connor, Graham Greene, and Murial Spark have predictably relied on the device as one consonant with their theistic assumptions."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Olmstead Robert
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781599635002

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Elements of The Writing Craft by Olmstead Robert Pdf

Great narratives are built piece by piece, through myriad small tasks and careful moves. In this landmark book, Robert Olmstead shows how distinguished writers past and present have built their fiction and nonfiction. Through this writer's-eye analysis of more than 150 of literature's most finely crafted passages, you'll learn to read like a writer. Then, more than 500 innovative exercises challenge you to experiment with - and expand upon - the techniques of the masters, so you can use them for great narratives of your own.