This Quiet Dust

Author : William Styron
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781936317219

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This Quiet Dust by William Styron Pdf

“Thoughtful, candid” essays from the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Sophie’s Choice (The Christian Science Monitor). This Quiet Dust is a compilation of William Styron’s nonfiction writings that confront significant moral questions with precision and vigor. He examines topics as diverse as the Holocaust, the American Dream, and the controversy that raged around his Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, The Confessions of Nat Turner. In each entry, Styron expertly wields his powers of insight to slice through the most complex issues. This Quiet Dust offers a window into the philosophical underpinnings of Styron’s greatest novels and is the ideal entry for readers seeking a greater understanding into the work of one of America’s most celebrated authors. This ebook features a new illustrated biography of William Styron, including original letters, rare photos, and never-before-seen documents from the Styron family and the Duke University Archives.

Author : Mildred Dowdy Lucas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89066157637

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This Quiet Dust by Mildred Dowdy Lucas Pdf

Hall family of Connecticut in mid 1800's.

Author : William Styron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:641170847

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This Quiet Dust by William Styron Pdf

Author : Richard Bowes
Publisher : Lethe Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590212974

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Dust Devil on a Quiet Street by Richard Bowes Pdf

Dust Devil on a Quiet Street chronicles the remarkable life of Richard Bowes. Bowes's childhood and adolescent brushes with dramatic spirits and hustlers, large and small, paved the way for his encounters with the supernatural.

Author : Clayton Koelb
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501743986

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The Comparative Perspective on Literature by Clayton Koelb Pdf

Few would deny that comparative literature is rapidly moving from the periphery toward the center of literary studies in North America, but many are still unsure just what it is. The Comparative Perspective on Literature shows by means of twenty-two exemplary essays by many of the most distinguished scholars in the field how comparative literature as a discipline is conceived of and practiced in the 1980s. Nearly all of them published here for the first time, the essays discuss and themselves reflect significant changes at the core of the field as well as evolving notions as to what comparative literature is and should be. The volume editors, Clayton Koelb and Susan Noakes, have included essays that address the scope and concerns of comparative literature today, historical and international contexts of the field, and the relationship of literary criticism to other disciplines, as well as affording comparative perspectives on current critical issues.

Author : Arthur Patchett Martin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Australian poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015050559270

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Australian Poets, 1788-1888 by Arthur Patchett Martin Pdf

Author : Jan Thomas
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781439160169

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Here Comes the Big, Mean Dust Bunny! by Jan Thomas Pdf

The dust bunnies are back for another round of rhyming fun. But this time a big MEAN dust bunny wants to play—and run and chase and grab! Can the four little dust bunnies get that bully to play nice? Jan Thomas’s lovable critters shine again in this hilarious rhyme-filled book that starts with scares and ends with…smiles.

Author : Jeffrey J. Folks,Nancy Summers Folks
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780813161556

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The World Is Our Home by Jeffrey J. Folks,Nancy Summers Folks Pdf

Since the early 1970s southern fiction has been increasingly attentive to social issues, including the continuing struggles for racial justice and gender equality, the loss of a sense of social community, and the decline of a coherent regional identity. The essays in The World Is Our Home focus on writers who have explicitly addressed social and cultural issues in their fiction and drama, including Dorothy Allison, Horton Foote, Ernest J. Gaines, Jill McCorkle, Walker Percy, Lee Smith, William Styron, Alice Walker, and many others. The contributors provide valuable insights into the transformation of southern culture over the past thirty years and probe the social and cultural divisions that persist. The collection makes an important case for the centrality of social critique in contemporary southern fiction.

Author : Ellen Henrietta Richards,Sophronia Maria Elliott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Cleaning
ISBN : WISC:89047336086

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The Chemistry of Cooking and Cleaning by Ellen Henrietta Richards,Sophronia Maria Elliott Pdf

Author : T'aejun Yi
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780231546348

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Dust and Other Stories by T'aejun Yi Pdf

Yi T’aejun was one of twentieth-century Korea’s true masters of the short story—and a man who in 1946 stunned his contemporaries by moving to the Soviet-occupied northern zone of his country. In South Korea, where he is known today as “one who went north,” Yi’s work was banned until 1988. His momentous decision did not lead him to a safe haven, however: though initially welcomed into the literary establishment, North Korea sent him into internal exile in the 1950s, and little is known of his fate. Dust and Other Stories offers a selection of Yi’s stories across time and place, showcasing a superb stylist caught up in the midst of his era’s most urgent ideological and aesthetic divides. This collection unites his earlier modernist masterpieces from the colonial era with his little-known work penned during North Korea’s founding years, offering a rare glimpse into the making—and crossing—of the border between south and north. During the turbulent final years of Japanese rule, Yi’s elegant yet subdued stories championed both his native tongue and the belief in the capacity of art. In the heavily politicized environment of the North, his later works maintain a faith in the art of storytelling and a concern for the disappearance of customs in the throes of modernization. Throughout both eras, Yi focused on ordinary people: old men struggling to understand a changing world, lovers meeting up among ancient ruins, a lively widow targeted by a literacy campaign, a bourgeois couple trying to sustain themselves during the war by breeding rabbits, and more. Magnificently translated by Janet Poole, Yi’s work bears witness to global turmoil with a melancholic sense of enduring beauty.

Author : Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345802545

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Dust by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Pdf

A Washington Post Notable Book When a young man is gunned down in the streets of Nairobi, his grief-stricken father and sister bring his body back to their crumbling home in the Kenyan drylands. But the murder has stirred up memories long since buried, precipitating a series of events no one could have foreseen. As the truth unfolds, we come to learn the secrets held by this parched landscape, hidden deep within the shared past of a family and their conflicted nation. Spanning Kenya’s turbulent 1950s and 1960s, Dust is spellbinding debut from a breathtaking new voice in literature.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026374492

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Present Day Thoughts; Memorials of St. Andrew's Sundays. By the Author of The Recreations of a Country Parson [A. K. H. Boyd]. by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368132651

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Present-Day Thoughts by Anonymous Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.

Author : Karen Hesse
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545517126

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Out of the Dust (Scholastic Gold) by Karen Hesse Pdf

Acclaimed author Karen Hesse's Newbery Medal-winning novel-in-verse explores the life of fourteen-year-old Billie Jo growing up in the dust bowls of Oklahoma. Out of the Dust joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes exclusive bonus content!"Dust piles up like snow across the prairie. . . ."A terrible accident has transformed Billie Jo's life, scarring her inside and out. Her mother is gone. Her father can't talk about it. And the one thing that might make her feel better -- playing the piano -- is impossible with her wounded hands.To make matters worse, dust storms are devastating the family farm and all the farms nearby. While others flee from the dust bowl, Billie Jo is left to find peace in the bleak landscape of Oklahoma -- and in the surprising landscape of her own heart.

Author : Alicia Gaspar de Alba
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1611921961

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La Llorona on the Longfellow Bridge by Alicia Gaspar de Alba Pdf

In this collection of poetry and essays, Gaspar de Alba incorporates the Mexican archetypal wailing woman who wanders in search of her lost children. La Llorona is more than an archetype: she is a tour guide through the ruins of love and family and the constant presence of the poet's voice. She transcends time, place, and gender. The lines of the poems breathe that haunted spirit as they describe her movidas, both geographic and figurative, in search of the lost mother, the absent father, the abandoned child, the lover, the self. These essays track other movements of thought: reflections on identity, sexuality, and resistance. As a leading interpreter of border life and culture, poet, storyteller, and essayist Gaspar de Alba explores the borders and limits of place, body, and language through a painful series of moves and losses. She prevails and becomes the forger of her own destiny, her own image on the landscape, the interpreter of her own dreams and history. These vibrant poems and essays of self-creation, even to the basic task of choosing her own name, are a testament to the phoenix-like quality of art: the poet can create beauty out of destruction and desolation.