Wake Up America Classic Reprint

Author : Mark Sullivan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1331368189

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Wake Up America (Classic Reprint) by Mark Sullivan Pdf

Excerpt from Wake Up America The war did not come to us as it came to Belgium. No Oregon rancher, working in his field on a peaceful afternoon, was disturbed by an odd whirring in the sunny air, and looked toward Mount Hood to see an airplane spitting fire upon his neighbouring village. In no New England town did children huddle in the windows and peer at exultant Uhlans prancing down the maple-shaded street. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : G J Morgan
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781788038614

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Her American Classic by G J Morgan Pdf

Told from dual perspectives that span two books, this moving and emotionally-driven love story will leave readers breathless and reeling in equal measure. It continues. Tom watches from afar, day in, day out, seeing Lily laugh, seeing her cry - an unravelling actress, ripe for the taking. All he needs is one photo, the money it could make, the life it could give him and his family. So why can't he do it? Lily's also at a cross-roads. It's clear now that no matter how far she runs, she can't ever escape fame, the paparazzi, even her boyfriend. Surely it's just a matter of time before she does something stupid, something she’ll forever regret. Give them their big headline. Their front page news. Unless someone can convince the actress there’s more to life than sacrifice. It ends...?

Author : William Dean Howells
Publisher : Musaicum Books
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788075838353

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The Rise of Silas Lapham (American Classics Series) by William Dean Howells Pdf

In Howells' maybe the most famous novel, The Rise of Silas Lapham, the story follows the materialistic rise of Silas Lapham from rags to riches, and his ensuing moral susceptibility. Silas earns a fortune in the paint business, but he lacks social standards, which he tries to attain through his daughter's marriage into the aristocratic Corey family. Silas' morality does not fail him. He loses his money but makes the right moral decision when his partner proposes the unethical selling of the mills to English settlers. The resolution of the love triangle of Irene Lapham, Tom Corey, and Penelope Lapham highlights Howells' rejection of the conventions of sentimental romantic novels as unrealistic and deceitful. William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author, literary critic, and playwright. He was the first American author to bring a realist aesthetic to the literature of the United States. His stories of Boston upper crust life set in the 1850s are highly regarded among scholars of American fiction.

Author : Mark Sullivan
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1021975176

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Wake Up America by Mark Sullivan Pdf

Wake Up America is a powerful call to action from award-winning journalist Mark Sullivan. Drawing on his extensive experience covering wars and revolutions around the world, Sullivan argues that America's democracy is at risk and that it is up to citizens to defend it. This book is essential reading for anyone who cares about our country's future. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Gertrude Stein
Publisher : Musaicum Books
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9788075831972

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THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALICE B. TOKLAS (American Classics Series) by Gertrude Stein Pdf

Alice was an American-born member of the Parisian avant-garde of the early 20th century, and the life partner Gertrude Stein. The book starts with Alice's days in San Francisco, before she moved to France, then describes her moving to Paris, meeting Gertrude, and starting their life together. The book had mixed reception, both among critics and Stein's friends, but the success of it was great. Today it is ranked it as one of the 20 greatest English-language nonfiction books of the 20th century. Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright and art collector, best known for Three Lives, The Making of Americans and Tender Buttons. Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and made France her home for the remainder of her life. Picasso and Cubism were an important influence on Stein's writing. Her works are compared to James Joyce's Ulysses and to Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : American essays
ISBN : UCAL:$B248250

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Select American Classics by Anonim Pdf

Author : Herman Melville,Mark Twain,Stephen Crane
Publisher : Bantam Classics
Page : 898 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008-05-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553905106

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Four Great American Classics by Herman Melville,Mark Twain,Stephen Crane Pdf

These four landmark novels of nineteenth-century American literature have gained a permanent place in our culture as great classics. They are not only part of our national heritage, but masterpieces of world literature whose deep and lasting influence is felt to this day. The Scarlet Letter vividly records America’s moral and historical roots in Puritan New England and masterfully re-creates a society’s preoccupation with sin, guilt, and pride. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn carries readers along on Huck’s unforgettable journey down the Mississippi in America’s foremost comic epic—the first great novel in a truly American voice. The Red Badge of Courage re-creates the brutal reality of war and its psychological impact on a young Civil War soldier in one of the most moving and widely read American novels. Billy Budd, Sailor, and Other Stories joins the world’s great tragic literature as a doomed seaman becomes the innocent victim of a clash between social authority and individual freedom.

Author : Jack London
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547678212

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Martin Eden (American Classics Series) by Jack London Pdf

Martin Eden is a tale about a young sailor struggling to become a writer. Eden is trying to rise above his destitute, proletarian circumstances through an intense and passionate pursuit of self-education, hoping to achieve a place among the literary elite. His principal motivation at first is his love for Ruth Morse. Because Eden is a rough, uneducated sailor from a working-class background and the Morse's are a bourgeois family, a union between them would be impossible unless and until he reached their level of knowledge and refinement. Jack London (1876-1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. His amazing life experience also includes being an oyster pirate, railroad hobo, gold prospector, sailor, war correspondent and much more. He wrote adventure novels & sea tales, stories of the Gold Rush, tales of the South Pacific and the San Francisco Bay area - most of which were based on or inspired by his own life experiences.

Author : Edward Hudson 1875- Young
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 101438043X

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Our Young Family in America by Edward Hudson 1875- Young Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huck Finn (Illustrated): American Classics Series by Arthur Conan Doyle Pdf

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huck Finn (Illustrated): American Classics Series This carefully crafted ebook: "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huck Finn (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huck Finn (Illustrated): American Classics Series "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" is a novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. The story is set in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, inspired by Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived. Tom Sawyer's best friends include Joe Harper and Huckleberry Finn, who will get him into trouble, but also accompany him in glorious adventures... The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huck Finn (Illustrated): American Classics Series "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" - Huckleberry "Huck" Finn and his friend, Tom Sawyer, have each come into a considerable sum of money as a result of their earlier adventures. Huck is placed under the guardianship of the Widow Douglas, who, together with her stringent sister, Miss Watson, are attempting to "civilize" him and teach him religion. Finding civilized life confining, his spirits are raised somewhat when Tom Sawyer helps him to escape one night past Miss Watson's slave Jim, to meet up with Tom's gang of self-proclaimed "robbers." The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huck Finn (Illustrated): American Classics Series

Author : Denis Donoghue
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300133783

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The American Classics by Denis Donoghue Pdf

How is a classic book to be defined? How much time must elapse before a work may be judged a “classic”? And among all the works of American literature, which deserve the designation? In this provocative new book Denis Donoghue essays to answer these questions. He presents his own short list of “relative” classics--works whose appeal may not be universal but which nonetheless have occupied an important place in our culture for more than a century. These books have survived the abuses of time—neglect, contempt, indifference, willful readings, excesses of praise, and hyperbole. Donoghue bestows the term classic on just five American works: Melville’s Moby-Dick, Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Thoreau’s Walden, Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, and Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Examining each in a separate chapter, he discusses how the writings have been received and interpreted, and he offers his own contemporary readings, suggesting, for example, that in the post–9/11 era, Moby-Dick may be rewardingly read as a revenge tragedy. Donoghue extends an irresistible invitation to open the pages of these American classics again, demonstrating with wit and acuity how very much they have to say to us now.

Author : William Dean Howells
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788026849360

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A MODERN INSTANCE (American Classics Series) by William Dean Howells Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "A MODERN INSTANCE (American Classics Series)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. A Modern Instance is regarded as one of the most pivotal works in the career of William Dean Howells; it solidified his reputation as a champion of realism in the United States. The novel is about the deterioration of a once loving marriage under the influence of capitalistic greed. It is the first American novel by a canonical author to seriously consider divorce as a realistic outcome of marriage. The story chronicles the rise and fall of the romance between Bartley Hubbard and Marcia Gaylord, who migrate from Equity, Maine, to Boston, Massachusetts, following their marriage. William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author, literary critic, and playwright. Nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters", he was particularly known for his tenure as editor of the Atlantic Monthly as well as his own prolific writings, including the Christmas story "Christmas Every Day", and the novels The Rise of Silas Lapham and A Traveler from Altruria. Howells is known to be the father of American realism, and a denouncer of the sentimental novel. He was the first American author to bring a realist aesthetic to the literature of the United States. His stories of Boston upper crust life set in the 1850s are highly regarded among scholars of American fiction.

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-06
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9788026874652

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WALDEN (American Classics Series) by Henry David Thoreau Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "WALDEN (American Classics Series)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Walden details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built in the woods near Walden Pond, Massachusetts. Thoreau compresses the time into a single calendar year and uses passages of four seasons to symbolize human development. Part memoir, part personal quest, the book is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, where Thoreau hoped to gain a more objective understanding of society through personal introspection. Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, surveyor, and historian. A leading transcendentalist, Thoreau is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Civil Disobedience, an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.

Author : Michael S. Harper,Anthony Walton
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780307765130

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The Vintage Book of African American Poetry by Michael S. Harper,Anthony Walton Pdf

In The Vintage Book of African American Poetry, editors Michael S. Harper and Anthony Walton present the definitive collection of black verse in the United States--200 years of vision, struggle, power, beauty, and triumph from 52 outstanding poets. From the neoclassical stylings of slave-born Phillis Wheatley to the wistful lyricism of Paul Lawrence Dunbar . . . the rigorous wisdom of Gwendolyn Brooks...the chiseled modernism of Robert Hayden...the extraordinary prosody of Sterling A. Brown...the breathtaking, expansive narratives of Rita Dove...the plaintive rhapsodies of an imprisoned Elderidge Knight . . . The postmodern artistry of Yusef Komunyaka. Here, too, is a landmark exploration of lesser-known artists whose efforts birthed the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts movements--and changed forever our national literature and the course of America itself. Meticulously researched, thoughtfully structured, The Vintage Book of African-American Poetry is a collection of inestimable value to students, educators, and all those interested in the ever-evolving tradition that is American poetry.

Author : James Barbour,Tom Quirk
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781469617152

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Writing the American Classics by James Barbour,Tom Quirk Pdf

This collection of essays describes the genesis of ten classic works of American literature. Using biographical, cultural, and manuscript evidence, the contributors tell the "stories of stories," plotting the often curious and always interesting ways in which notable American books took shape in a writer's mind. The genetic approach taken in these essays derives from a curiosity, and sometimes a feeling of awe, about how a work of literature came to exist -- what motivated its creation, informed its vision, urged its completion. It is just that sort of wonder that first brings some people to love writers and their books. Originally published in 1990. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.