The Heart Of The Hills

Author : John Fox
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547320364

Get Book

The Heart Of The Hills by John Fox Pdf

The Heart of the Hills' is a short dramatic story written by John Fox Jr. The story is a fictionalized version of a real-life feud during the late 19th century between two rural American families of the West Virginia, Hatfield and McCoy, which in this book are renamed Hawn and Honeycutt.

Author : John Fox Jr.
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781775560623

Get Book

The Heart Of The Hills by John Fox Jr. Pdf

Throughout his entire career, American novelist John Fox Jr. was dedicated to documenting the complexities of the culture in his native South. However, in his later works, Fox Jr. began to take a broader view, including some of the external influences that helped to shape Southern life, as elements of his fiction. In The Heart of the Hills, the final volume of Fox Jr.'s acclaimed Mountain Trilogy (following The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come and The Trail of the Lonesome Pine), Fox Jr. explores the way that outside players exploited the impoverished people of the South and the region's abundant natural resources for their own selfish gain.

Author : Jr. John Fox
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783387039634

Get Book

The Heart of the Hills; A novel by Jr. John Fox Pdf

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Author : John FoxJr.
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780813189871

Get Book

The Heart of the Hills by John FoxJr. Pdf

First published in 1913, The Heart of the Hills is the last novel completed by John Fox Jr. and the final piece in his mountain trilogy. This companion to The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come and The Trail of the Lonesome Pine is crucial to an understanding of Fox's views. In The Heart of the Hills Fox revises his earlier thoughts about mountain people. He depicts more clearly than in his previous work just how they were exploited by outside industrialists-those men who, in the words of Fox's hero Jason Hawn, "got rich diggin' our coal an' cuttin' our timber." He also reveals the long-term impact of this exploitation on the environment. Having witnessed the ravages of clearcutting on his travels through the mountain country of Kentucky and Virginia in 1911-1912, Fox was all the more receptive to the warnings voiced by his environmentally conscious father. From their letters and diaries it is clear that John Fox Sr.'s influence permeates The Heart of the Hills; in this work, dedicated to his dying father, Fox determined to make amends to the mountain people.

Author : John Fox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1026473960

Get Book

The Heart of the Hills by John Fox Pdf

Author : John Fox Jr
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1407630318

Get Book

The Heart of the Hills by John Fox Jr Pdf

Author : John William FOX
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:28023053

Get Book

The Heart of the Hills by John William FOX Pdf

Author : John Fox Jr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0243733771

Get Book

Heart of the Hills by John Fox Jr Pdf

Author : John Fox Jr.,F. C. Yohn
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1498069452

Get Book

The Heart of the Hills by John Fox Jr.,F. C. Yohn Pdf

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1912 Edition.

Author : John Fox, Jr.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0742612384

Get Book

The Heart of the Hills by John Fox, Jr. Pdf

In The Heart of the Hills Fox revises his earlier thoughts about mountain people. He depicts more clearly than in his previous work just how they were exploited by outside industrialists - those men who, in the words of Fox's hero Jason Hawn, "got rich diggin' our coal an' cuttin' our timber". He also reveals the long-term impact of this exploitation on the environment. Having witnessed the ravages of clearcutting on his travels through the mountain country of Kentucky and Virginia in 1911-1912, Fox was all the more receptive to the warnings voiced by his environmentally conscious father. From their letters and diaries it is clear that John Fox Sr.'s influence permeates The Heart of the Hills; in this work, dedicated to his dying father, Fox determined to make amends to the mountain people.

Author : John Fox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1536952214

Get Book

The Heart of the Hills by John Fox Pdf

An excellent popular book for all

Author : Joe Hill
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061233241

Get Book

Heart-Shaped Box LP by Joe Hill Pdf

Judas Coyne is a collector of the macabre: a cookbook for cannibals . . . a used hangman's noose . . . a snuff film. An aging death-metal rock god, his taste for the unnatural is as widely known to his legions of fans as the notorious excesses of his youth. But nothing he possesses is as unlikely or as dreadful as his latest purchase, an item he discovered on the Internet: I will sell my stepfather's ghost to the highest bidder . . . For a thousand dollars, Jude has become the owner of a dead man's suit, said to be haunted by a restless spirit. But what UPS delivers to his door in a black heart-shaped box is no metaphorical ghost, no benign conversation piece. Suddenly the suit's previous owner is everywhere: behind the bedroom door . . . seated in Jude's restored Mustang . . . staring out from his widescreen TV. Waiting—with a gleaming razor blade on a chain dangling from one hand . . .

Author : Floyd C. Watkins,Charles Hubert Watkins
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0820321931

Get Book

Yesterday in the Hills by Floyd C. Watkins,Charles Hubert Watkins Pdf

Yesterday in the Hills recalls life in North Georgia from the 1890s until World War II and records vanished and vanishing folkways of the region. Here is folklore at its best--seen from the inside and mediated though the heart. Yesterday in the Hills is built upon the bedrock of experience and memory, but its sharply drawn characters and beautifully proportioned narrative transcend reminiscence and realistically depict hill country life as it once was.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : MINN:31951D00546908M

Get Book

The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year ... by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : NWU:35556000683581

Get Book

Appletons' Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events by Anonim Pdf