The Genteel John O Hara

Author : Pamela Carol Mac Arthur
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 3039105159

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The Genteel John O'Hara by Pamela Carol Mac Arthur Pdf

The writer John O'Hara (1905-1970) came from Pottsville in Pennsylvania. He put his home town and the surrounding vicinity under a microscope to produce an account of 'The Anthracite Region' that rivals Edith Wharton's descriptions of New York and Sinclair Lewis's anatomy of Sauk Centre. With the discerning eye of a local resident, O'Hara recreated this coal-rich region and its people so well that his novelettes, novellas, novels, plays and short stories give a true record of his 'Pennsylvania Protectorate' in the latter part of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century. In order to reveal the ethnographical, geographical and historical authenticity of the O'Hara Canon, this book examines his writings in the context of Pottsville and the borough of Tamaqua, as well as the nearby towns and villages. The author also investigates both O'Hara's genteel upbringing and his gangster stratum. The book explores the many dimensions of O'Hara's life from the time of his birth until his escape to New York City in 1928. New sources such as unpublished letters and interviews with O'Hara's family, friends and enemies provide important insights into O'Hara, as well as into Pottsville and the surrounding region.

Author : Robert Emmet Long
Publisher : New York : Ungar
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015019155608

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John O'Hara by Robert Emmet Long Pdf

Author : Kathryn Canavan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781493036165

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True Crime Philadelphia by Kathryn Canavan Pdf

Serial killer H.H. Holmes built his murder castle in Chicago, but he met the hangman in Philadelphia. Al Capone served his first prison sentence here. The real-life killers who inspired HBO’s Boardwalk Empire lived and died here. America’s first bank robbery was pulled off here in 1798. The country’s first kidnapping for ransom came off without a hitch in 1874. A South Philadelphia man hatched the largest mass murder plot in U.S. history in the 1930s. His partners in crime were unhappy housewives. Catholics and Protestants aimed cannon at each other in city streets in 1844. Civil rights hero Octavius V. Catto was gunned down on South Street in 1871. Take a walk with us through city history. Would you pass Eastern State Penitentiary on April 3, 1945, just as famed bank robber Willie Sutton popped out of an escape tunnel in broad daylight? Or you might have been one of the invited guests at H.H. Holmes’ hanging at Moyamensing Prison on a gray morning in May 1896. It still ranks as one of the most bizarre executions in city history. Or, if you walked down Washington Lane on July 1, 1874, would you have been alert enough to stop the two men who lured little blond Charley Ross away with candy? You might have stopped America’s first kidnapping for ransom, the one that gave rise to the admonition, “Never take candy from a stranger.” The case inspired the Leopold and Loeb kidnapping. Then there was the bank robber whose funeral drew thousands of spectators and the burglary defendant so alluring that conversation would stop whenever she entered the courtroom. Mix in murderous maids, bumbling burglars, and unflinching local heroes and you have True Crime Philadelphia.

Author : Elizabeth Long
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351589970

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The American Dream and the Popular Novel by Elizabeth Long Pdf

This title, originally published in 1985, examines conceptions of success and the good life expressed in bestselling novels – ranging from historical sagas and spy thrillers to more serious works by Updike, Bellows, Steinbeck and Mailer – published from 1945 to 1975. Using these popular books as cultural evidence, Elizabeth Long argues that the meaning of the American dream has changed dramatically, but in a more complex fashion than has been recognised by that country’s most prominent social critics. Her study presents a challenge to prevailing social-scientific views of contemporary American culture, and represents, both in theory and method, an important contribution to the study of culture and social criticism.

Author : Matthew J. Bruccoli
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1975-07-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780822974710

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The O’Hara Concern by Matthew J. Bruccoli Pdf

The definitive biography of short story writer John O’Hara.

Author : John O'Hara
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307431806

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Selected Short Stories of John O'Hara by John O'Hara Pdf

“John O’Hara’s fiction,” wrote Lionel Trilling, “is preeminent for its social verisimilitude.” Made famous by his bestselling novels, including BUtterfield 8 and Appointment in Samarra, O’Hara (1905–1970) also wrote some of the finest short fiction of the twentieth century. First published by the Modern Library in 1956, Selected Short Stories of John O’Hara displays the author’s skills as a keen social observer, a refreshingly frank storyteller, and a writer with a brilliant ear for dialogue. “The stories in this volume,” writes Louis Begley in his new Introduction, “show the wide range of [O’Hara’s] interests and an ability to treat with a virtuoso’s ease characters and situations from any place on America’s geographic and social spectrum.” From the Trade Paperback edition.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Schuylkill County (Pa.)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005698274

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John O'Hara Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Books
ISBN : CUB:U183015726158

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Books by Anonim Pdf

Author : Henry Idema
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0847676617

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Freud, Religion, and the Roaring Twenties by Henry Idema Pdf

In this book, Henry Idema has developed a theory of religion and culture indebted to the psychological work of Sigmund Freud and the sociological work of Weinstein and Platt, and he has shown the validity of his theory through illustrations from the life and times and work of Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway, and F.Scott Fitzgerald. Idema brings a psychoanalytic perspective to his analysis of religion and culture. He starts out by developing a theory of religion focusing on early relationships with the mother and father, and then shows how social forces such as urbanization, industrialization etc. weakened religion in the institutional church, especially in its function of helping men and women to cope with anxiety.

Author : Judith Yaross Lee
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1578061989

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Defining New Yorker Humor by Judith Yaross Lee Pdf

A penetrating look into what really gave America's most notable magazine its distinctive punch

Author : William Wasserstrom
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1959-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780816658886

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Heiress of All the Ages by William Wasserstrom Pdf

Heiress of All the Ages was first published in 1959. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. In a provocative study of American literature, Professor Wasserstrom reappraises the genteel tradition and its place in social and intellectual history. He shows that our image of this tradition has been inadequate, that most of our writers and critics have failed to recognize its profound effects. Basing his discussion primarily on a study of the major novelists of the period from 1830 to the present, the author examines the role of women in fiction and defines some of our national attitudes toward love. He discusses especially the world of Henry James (from whose phrase "heir of all the ages" the title of this book is derived), William Dean Howells, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Fenimore Cooper, Edith Wharton, and Robert Penn Warren. He also considers such well known novelists of their day as Bret Harte, Edgar Fawcett, Robert Herrick, Henry B. Fuller, Hamlin Garland, and Gertrude Atherton. In addition, his study is based on source material of the period: diaries, recipe books, family magazines, early issues of sociology and psychology journals, and travel books. This book will interest not only students of literature and history but also those in the general field of American civilization and sociologists and psychologists concerned with the relation of American literature to our mores.

Author : Dayton Lummis
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781475905823

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Ramblin' Bob by Dayton Lummis Pdf

The stage and film actor Peter Holden (Parkhurst) has called Dayton Lummis "a cosmic town crier." Indeed, that he is, and more. This latest volume, Ramblin' Bob, will reveal that. Read it! The California social critic Tom Englezos said of Lummis's previous collection of acerbic thoughts and often politically incorrect observations: "I thoroughly-and absolutely-enjoyed NOTES. I was informed, and-often-outraged! Great stuff. Damn! I hope you have more coming. A lot more!" Ramblin' Bob is more. And still more...

Author : Grace Metalious
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781555537593

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Peyton Place by Grace Metalious Pdf

A new paperback edition of the infamous novel that shocked the nation

Author : John T. Soister,JoAnna Wioskowski
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476612782

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Claude Rains by John T. Soister,JoAnna Wioskowski Pdf

The career of Claude Rains is often, and unfairly, overshadowed by the careers of the ever-popular Karloff, Lugosi, Chaney and Rathbone, but few can dispute that he was truly one of the world’s foremost character actors. The Invisible Man, ironically, made him quite the visible star. In his own inimitable way, Rains later became John Jasper (in Mystery of Edwin Drood), Louis Renault (Casablanca), Julius Caesar (Caesar and Cleopatra), and Mr. Dryden (Lawrence of Arabia). While concentrating on Rains’ more than fifty films, this book also comprehensively examines his work in other media: the stage, radio, television and recordings. His only child, Jessica, in the foreword, provides a brief biography of her father. There are many rare photographs.

Author : John O'Hara
Publisher : New York : Random House
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015008720917

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Selected Letters of John O'Hara by John O'Hara Pdf