Boyhood Impressions

Author : Phillip Eldridge Williams
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781477158333

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Boyhood Impressions by Phillip Eldridge Williams Pdf

Growing up in a poor family, a poor community, and a poor state is no unusual set of circumstances that has produced many positive and unfortunate outcomes in the lives of people everywhere. What is rare is to have these never-ending hardships remembered in detail with an innocence that makes one wonder why such an obvious lack of resentment, but this is precisely what the author has done. How this was achieved is due to an innate drive to overcome and a conviction that surely this is not the way growing up need be. No matter the depth of depravity, there are assets that can be taken advantage of. With maybe just a little more than average intelligence, and exceptional physical coordination that included the ability to run fast, a deprived father’s sports background, and a wonder and curiosity that developed out of necessity and a love for nature, Williams left for the military life that ultimately answered many of these deep questions that even the Creek Bank School of Learning could not provide answers to.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : Methodist Episcopal Church
ISBN : SRLF:A0010657419

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The Ladies' Repository by Anonim Pdf

The idea of this women's magazine originated with Samuel Williams, a Cincinnati Methodist, who thought that Christian women needed a magazine less worldly than Godey's Lady's Book and Snowden's Lady's Companion. Written largely by ministers, this exceptionally well-printed little magazine contained well-written essays of a moral character, plenty of poetry, articles on historical and scientific matters, and book reviews. Among western writers were Alice Cary, who contributed over a hundred sketches and poems, her sister Phoebe Cary, Otway Curry, Moncure D. Conway, and Joshua R. Giddings; and New England contributors included Mrs. Lydia Sigourney, Hannah F. Gould, and Julia C.R Dorr. By 1851, each issue published a peice of music and two steel plates, usually landscapes or portraits. When Davis E. Clark took over the editorship in 1853, the magazine became brighter and attained a circulation of 40,000. Unlike his predecessors, Clark included fictional pieces and made the Repository a magazine for the whole family. After the war it began to decline and in 1876 was replaced by the National Repository. The Ladies' Repository was an excellent representative of the Methodist mind and heart. Its essays, sketches, and poems, its good steel engravings, and its moral tone gave it a charm all its own. -- Cf. American periodicals, 1741-1900.

Author : Edward Brooks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Adventure stories
ISBN : STANFORD:36105049270882

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The Story of the Iliad, Or, The Siege of Troy by Edward Brooks Pdf

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520950603

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Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians by Mark Twain Pdf

o Includes the authoritative texts for eleven pieces written between 1868 and 1902 o Publishes, for the first time, the complete text of "Villagers of 1840-3," Mark Twain's astounding feat of memory o Features a biographical directory and notes that reflect extensive new research on Mark Twain's early life in Missouri Throughout his career, Mark Twain frequently turned for inspiration to memories of his youth in the Mississippi River town of Hannibal, Missouri. What has come to be known as the Matter of Hannibal inspired two of his most famous books, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, and provided the basis for the eleven pieces reprinted here. Most of these selections (eight of them fiction and three of them autobiographical) were never completed, and all were left unpublished. Written between 1868 and 1902, they include a diverse assortment of adventures, satires, and reminiscences in which the characters of his own childhood and of his best-loved fiction, particularly Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, come alive again. The autobiographical recollections culminate in an astounding feat of memory titled "Villagers of 1840-3" in which the author, writing for himself alone at the age of sixty-one, recalls with humor and pathos the characters of some one hundred and fifty people from his childhood. Accompanied by notes that reflect extensive new research on Mark Twain's early life in Missouri, the selections in this volume offer a revealing view of Mark Twain's varied and repeated attempts to give literary expression to the Matter of Hannibal.

Author : Edward Brooks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Mythology, Greek
ISBN : HARVARD:HN1RU6

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The Story of the Iliad; Or, The Siege of Troy, for Boys and Girls by Edward Brooks Pdf

Author : Steven H. Gale
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1324 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781317362265

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Encyclopedia of American Humorists by Steven H. Gale Pdf

First published in 1988, this book contains entries on famous American Humorists. Humor has been present in American literature, from the beginning, and has developed characteristics that reflect the American character, both regional and national. Although American literature was, in the past, treated as inferior to British literature, there has always been a large popular audience for the genre, which this book shows. The figures with entries in this encyclopedia not only amuse in their writing, but also aim to enlighten- setting out to expose the foibles and foolishness of society and the individuals who compose it. It is the manner in which these authors try to accomplish this end that determines whether they appear in the volume. Indeed, the book will demonstrate that the best humor has at its base, a ready understanding of human nature.

Author : William J. Long
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547124160

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Outlines of English and American Literature by William J. Long Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Outlines of English and American Literature" (An Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived) by William J. Long. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : J.M. Coetzee
Publisher : Random House
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781409015840

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Boyhood by J.M. Coetzee Pdf

In Boyhood, J. M. Coetzee revisits the South Africa of half a century ago, to write about his childhood and interior life. Boyhood's young narrator grew up in a small country town. With a father he imitated but could not respect, and a mother he both adored and resented, he picked his way through a world that refused to explain its rules, but whose rules he knew he must obey. Steering between these contradictions, Boyhood evokes the tensions, delights and terrors of childhood with startling, haunting immediacy. Coetzee examines his young self with the dispassionate curiosity of an explorer rediscovering his own early footprints, and the account of his progress is bright, hard and simply compelling.

Author : John Harvey Kellogg,James Thomas Case
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Hygiene
ISBN : UOM:39015076976177

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Health Reformer by John Harvey Kellogg,James Thomas Case Pdf

Author : Lewis Atherton
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1972-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803257597

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The Cattle Kings by Lewis Atherton Pdf

Examines the role of the ranchers in shaping the American West and probes their contributions to the nation's cultural development

Author : V. & D. POVALL
Publisher : Gatekeeper Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781662945762

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AN EDUCATED DEATH by V. & D. POVALL Pdf

Justin Pierce seeks a reason to live. But death keeps nipping at his heels. A prominent special agent for both the United States and Mexico, Justin struggles to recover from deep personal loss and near fatal injuries sustained during his last operation. Demetrio, Justin’s closest friend, a distinguished Mexican anthropologist and genius, steps in to rescue his pal. Death calls again when a body washes ashore mere feet from Justin’s seaside hideaway. The victim turns out to be closely connected to his sister Carrie, and with her life now in danger, Justin must solve the murder and protect her at all costs. With Demetrio as his impish sidekick, Justin harnesses his connections to international secret service agencies to untangle a web of corruption, fraud, and murder in the halls of academia. Justin’s unexpected foray thrusts him into a pursuit fraught with twists and hardships, a challenge that paves the way to a new lease on life.

Author : Edward M. Feinstein
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781684424368

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In Pursuit of Godliness and a Living Judaism by Edward M. Feinstein Pdf

“This is a loving, sophisticated, illuminating, outstanding depiction of a brilliant intellectual/spiritual/moral leader who deserves just such a treatment. This book will serve as testimony and inspiration for the new generation... a tour de force articulation of a truly great life.” – Rabbi Irving (Yitz) Greenberg A comprehensive biography about the life and work of Rabbi Harold Shulweis who was essential in the renewal of Jewish life in post-war America. Harold Schulweis was a dominant figure in the renewal of Jewish life in the post-war generation of American Jewry. Widely regarded as the most successful and influential pulpit rabbi of his generation, he shaped an extraordinary career as pulpit rabbi, theologian, public intellectual, and communal leader. His innovations in synagogue practice reshaped congregations across the continent introducing synagogue-based havurot, “para-rabbinics” and para-professional counseling programs, outreach to alienated Jews and “unchurched” Christians, opening the traditional synagogue to gay and lesbian Jews and their families, and welcoming families of children with special needs. With Leonard Fein, Schulweis founded Mazon, the Jewish communal response to hunger. He launched The Foundation for the Righteous – recognizing Christians who rescued Jews during the Holocaust – an effort chronicled on the CBS news program “60 Minutes.” In the closing years of his career, he initiated the Jewish World Watch – a communal response to the incidence of genocide worldwide.

Author : United States. President
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1028 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Presidents
ISBN : OSU:32437000790838

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Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States by United States. President Pdf

Author : Estados Unidos. Presidente (1963-1969: Johnson)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1062 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCM:5317599928

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Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson by Estados Unidos. Presidente (1963-1969: Johnson) Pdf

Author : Maurice Wohlgelernter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000677430

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History, Religion, and American Democracy by Maurice Wohlgelernter Pdf

History, Religion, and American Democracy provides a fundamental review of four major themes: naturalism and supernaturalism in an American context; issues in the history of Judaism; American social philosophy; and the teaching and learning of democratic ideals in a pluralistic postmodern environment. This book provides a naturalistic context for the deep analysis of religious, theological, as well as social and political themes.