The Best Adirondack Stories Of Philander Deming

Author : Philander Deming
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1997-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0815604424

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The Best Adirondack Stories of Philander Deming by Philander Deming Pdf

In simple, darkly faceted stories, Philander Deming writes as a person whose childhood knowledge of the Adirondacks has been honed to a fine sense for its potential human tragedy. In this, the first collection of his best work, a haunting vision of the Adirondacks comes through that is hard to forget. Deming's themes revolve around deception and self-deception, loneliness, and good intentions gone awry. Most of his stories occur just before or after the Civil War. In almost every story, however, Deming shows his characters looking back towards the mountains, from the Mohawk or St. Lawrence Valley or from lonely settlements on the edge of the forest, or across Lake Champlain. Few Adirondack writers have been so convincing in conveying the keen isolation of life in the northern forest and its peculiar effects on the human mind. The wilderness community is cruel, fostered by ignorance and isolation. In the end, the mountains, seemingly a neutral back drop against which individuals confront a collective morality, are the real source of his inspiration.

Author : Philander Deming
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1434419630

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Tompkins and Other Folks by Philander Deming Pdf

Philander Deming (1829-1915) was a court transcriber who wrote about actual incidents in Adirondack life

Author : Philander Deming
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.)
ISBN : PSU:000006062620

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Adirondack Stories by Philander Deming Pdf

Author : Philander Deming
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3337710050

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Adirondack Stories by Philander Deming Pdf

Author : Jerre Mangione
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1998-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0815604297

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Mount Allegro by Jerre Mangione Pdf

Mount Allegro is an extraordinary memoir, a celebration of Sicilian life, an engaging sociological portrait, a moving reminiscence of a fledgling writer’s escape from the restrictive culture in which he grew up. Jerre Mangione’s autobiographical chronicle of his youth in a Sicilian community in Rochester is one of the truly enduring books about the immigrant experience in this country. Family squabbles, soul-nourishing food, and the casting of evil eyes are only some of the ingredients of this richly textured book, although they must all take second place to its unforgettable characters. As Eugene Paul Nassar writes in the book’s Foreword, “Mount Allegro . . . gave a literary visibility and identity, amiable and appealing, to a poorly understood ethnic group in America, and did so at a very high level of artistry.”

Author : Lois Shirley Crayton
Publisher : Xlibris
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.)
ISBN : 0738865249

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The Adirondack Tales of Philander Deming by Lois Shirley Crayton Pdf

Philander Deming (1826-1915) was one of the great practitioners of the "local color" short story. Using his own experiences in the Adirondack region as the "real" basis for his stories, he developed a strikingly unique blend of realism and craftsmanship in his work. In Lois Shirley Crayton's study, she shows how Deming utilized these true incidents in his work sometimes to the embarrassment of the individuals involved. Deming was a keen observer of life in upstate New York, and in his job as a court stenographer, he kept a ready ear to the story possibilities of the trials he attended. Utilizing unpublished letters of Deming to his sister and first-person accounts of Deming from individuals who knew him, Crayton creates a portrait of Deming that is more complete and more complex than has ever appeared before. Deming's fascination with particular incidences in the life of the region, such as the introduction of the Rural Free Delivery system, are not only fascinating in what they tell us about the man, but also reveal much about life in the Adirondack region at the end of the Nineteenth Century. With renewed interest in the "local color" genre in general, and renewed interest in Deming in particular much of his work has been or will shortly be published by Syracuse University Press readers will find a wealth of information to enrich their reading of Deming in this study.

Author : Joyce A. Madancy
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684173891

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The Troublesome Legacy of Commissioner Lin by Joyce A. Madancy Pdf

"In 1908, a very public crusade against opium was in full swing throughout China, and the provincial capital and treaty port of Fuzhou was a central stage for the campaign. This, the most successful attempt undertaken by the Chinese state before 1949 to eliminate opium, came at a time when, according to many historians, China’s central state was virtually powerless. This volume attempts to reconcile that apparent contradiction.The remarkable, albeit temporary, success of the anti-opium campaign between 1906 and 1920 is as yet largely unexplained. How these results were achieved, how that progress was squandered, and why China’s opium problem proved so tenacious are the questions that inspired this volume. The attack on this social problem was led by China’s central and provincial authorities, aided by reformist elites, and seemingly supported by most Chinese. The anti-opium movement relied on the control and oversight provided by a multilayered state bureaucracy, the activism and support of unofficial elite-led reform groups, the broad nationalistic and humanitarian appeal of the campaign, and the cooperation of the British government. The extent to which the Chinese state was able to control the pace and direction of the anti-opium campaign and the evolving nature of the political space in which elite reformers publicized and enforced that campaign are the guiding themes of this analysis."

Author : William Maccrillis Griswold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015034634991

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Descriptive List[s] of Novels and Tales ...: Novels and tales dealing with American country life. 1890 by William Maccrillis Griswold Pdf

Author : William Maccrillis Griswold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1020 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UIUC:30112097055609

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Descriptive List[s] of Novels and Tales by William Maccrillis Griswold Pdf

Author : William McCrillis Griswold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UCLA:31158001052124

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Descriptive List[s] of Novels and Tales by William McCrillis Griswold Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1948 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Fiction
ISBN : OSU:32435057655482

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A Descriptive List of Novels by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : American fiction
ISBN : WISC:89054778915

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Descriptive Lists of American, International, Romantic and British Novels by Anonim Pdf

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Author : Fred Lewis Pattee
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1933
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9781465575456

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A History of American Literature Since 1870 by Fred Lewis Pattee Pdf

We are beginning to realize that the Civil War marks a dividing line in American history as sharp and definitive as that burned across French history by the Revolution. That the South had been vastly affected by the war was manifest from the first. The widespread destruction of property, the collapse of the labor system, and the fall of the social régime founded on negro slavery, had been so dramatic and so revolutionary in their results that they had created everywhere a feeling that the ultimate effects of the war were confined to the conquered territory. Grady's phrase, "the new South," and later the phrase, "the end of an era," passing everywhere current, served to strengthen the impression. That the North had been equally affected, that there also an old régime had perished and a new era been inaugurated, was not so quickly realized. The change there had been undramatic; it had been devoid of all those picturesque accompaniments that had been so romantic and even sensational in the South; but with the perspective of half a century we can see now that it had been no less thoroughgoing and revolutionary. The first effect of the war had come from the sudden shifting of vast numbers of the population from a position of productiveness to one of dependence. A people who knew only peace and who were totally untrained even in the idea of war were called upon suddenly to furnish one of the largest armies of modern times and to fight to an end the most bitterly contested conflict of a century. First and last, upwards of two millions of men, the most of them citizen volunteers, drawn all of them from the most efficient productive class, were mustered into the federal service alone. It changed in a moment the entire equilibrium of American industrial life. This great unproductive army had to be fed and clothed and armed and kept in an enormously wasteful occupation. But the farms and the mills and the great transportation systems had been drained of laborers to supply men for the regiments. The wheatfields had no harvesters; the Mississippi the great commercial outlet of the West, had been closed by the war, and the railroads were insufficient to handle the burden.

Author : Harold K. Bush,Steve Courtney,Peter Messent
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780820350745

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The Letters of Mark Twain and Joseph Hopkins Twichell by Harold K. Bush,Steve Courtney,Peter Messent Pdf

This book contains the complete texts of all known correspondence between Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) and Joseph Hopkins Twichell. Theirs was a rich exchange. The long, deep friendship of Clemens and Twichell—a Congregationalist minister of Hartford, Connecticut—rarely fails to surprise, given the general reputation Twain has of being antireligious. Beyond this, an examination of the growth, development, and shared interests characterizing that friendship makes it evident that as in most things about him, Mark Twain defies such easy categorization or judgment. From the moment of their first encounter in 1868, a rapport was established. When Twain went to dinner at the Twichell home, he wrote to his future wife that he had “got up to go at 9.30 PM, & never sat down again—but [Twichell] said he was bound to have his talk out—& I was willing—& so I only left at 11.” This conversation continued, in various forms, for forty-two years—in both men’s houses, on Hartford streets, on Bermuda roads, and on Alpine trails. The dialogue between these two men—one an inimitable American literary figure, the other a man of deep perception who himself possessed both narrative skill and wit—has been much discussed by Twain biographers. But it has never been presented in this way before: as a record of their surviving correspondence; of the various turns of their decades-long exchanges; of what Twichell described in his journals as the “long full feast of talk” with his friend, whom he would always call “Mark.”

Author : Jeff Herman
Publisher : Prima Lifestyles
Page : 988 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0761510125

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Writer's Guide to Book Editors, Publishers, and Literary Agents, 1998-1999 by Jeff Herman Pdf

"A real find for the aspiring writer."--"The Associated Press "In-depth information."--"The Writer Who are they? What do they want? How do you win them over? Find the answers to these questions and more in the 1998-1999 edition of the "Writer's Guide to Book Editors, Publishers, and Literary Agents by Jeff Herman. Filled with "the information authors and aspiring authors need in order to avoid having a manuscript end up in the "slush pile," this comprehensive listing is organized in an easy-to-use format. It includes in-depth information about publishing houses and literary agents in the United States and Canada. The specifics include the names and addresses of editors and agents, what they're looking for, comission rates, and other key information. In addition, readers will discover the most common mistakes people make while attempting to solicit an agent (and how to avoid them) as well as numerous suggestions designed to increase the chances of getting representation. "Writer's Guide to Book Editors, Publishers, and Literary Agents also includes dozens of valuable essays giving readers insight and guidance into such topics as: - How to Write the Perfect Query Letter - The Knockout Nonfiction Book Proposal - How to Thrive After Signing a Publishing Contract - Mastering Ghostwriting and Collaboration - Free Versus Fee: The Issue of Literary Agency Fees About the Author "Jeff Herman is the founder of The Jeff Herman Literary Agency, a leading New York agency. He has sold hundreds of titles and represents dozens of top authors. Herman frequently speaks to writer's groups and at conferences on the topic of getting published.