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Author : Oscar Fay Adams
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ISBN 13 : 9780878211159
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (111 download)
Download or read book A Brief Handbook of American Authors written by Oscar Fay Adams and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Oscar F. Adams
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ISBN 13 : 9780827419766
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (197 download)
Download or read book A Brief Handbook of American Authors written by Oscar F. Adams and published by . This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Oscar Fay Adams
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780265821435
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Brief Handbook of American Authors (Classic Reprint) written by Oscar Fay Adams and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Brief Handbook of American Authors To the many authors in England and America who have cordially cooperated with the writer in his work he desires to express his sincere thanks, as well as to the following persons who have rendered valuable assistance: Mr. Horace E. Scudder, Colonel T. W. Higginson, and Miss C. F. Bates, of Cambridge, Mass; Mr. E. C. Stedman, Mr. Rossiter Johnson, Mr. G. P. Lathrop, and Mr. Wm. Winter, of New York City; Mr. James Berry Bensel, of Lynn, Mass. Mr. David Hutcheson, of Washington, D. C.; Miss Frances Bigelow, of Worcester, Mass; Mr. Wm. M. Rossetti, Mr. Austin Dobson, Mr. M. D. Conway, and Mrs. Howitt-watts, of London, England. That the work' as it stands leaves much to be desired no one is more fully conscious than the writer; but if, imperfect as it may be considered, it shall yet be found of substantial service to those for whom it was written, it will have attained the end which he had in view. 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 : Oscar Fay Adams
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 384604735X
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (46 download)
Download or read book A Brief Handbook of American Authors written by Oscar Fay Adams and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1884.
Author : Adams Oscar Fay
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781318008841
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (88 download)
Download or read book A Brief Handbook of English Authors written by Adams Oscar Fay and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author : Oscar Fay Adams
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ISBN 13 : 9781331120780
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Brief Handbook of English Authors (Classic Reprint) written by Oscar Fay Adams and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Brief Handbook of English Authors This brief handbook is intended simply for every-day use, when reference to larger works of the kind may not be convenient. Experience has proved that the small book which can be readily taken up is consulted far more frequently than the ponderous volume that requires great muscular exertion to lift. In the world of letters as in the world of society conventionality plays no unimportant part, as every student of literature knows. That there is such a thing as "conventional immortality" every biographical dictionary yields abundant evidence. Even so small a work as this must necessarily contain many names that have achieved this conventional immortality through the accident of circumstance. Some literary fames are among the legacies left by preceding centuries to the present one to account for and explain. And when all is said, "the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy and dealeth with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity." 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 : Oscar Fay Adams
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ISBN 13 : 9783337546359
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (463 download)
Download or read book A Brief Handbook of English Authors written by Oscar Fay Adams and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Oscar Fay Adams
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331515688
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (156 download)
Download or read book A Dictionary of American Authors (Classic Reprint) written by Oscar Fay Adams and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Dictionary of American Authors Th! Present volume is an outgrowth of the writer's Handbook of American Authors, first published in 1884, several features which the judgment of the public approved in the earlier work having been retained in this. Without pretending to contain an exhaustive list of American writers, it may neverthe less lay claim to be fairly inclusive, as the more than six thousand names herein mentioned will serve to show. A few names that might naturally be looked for here have been omitted at the request of their owners; while some others have not been included, for the reason that diligent search failed to discover any trustworthy data concerning them. Here and there, too, the reader may chance upon unfilled dates of birth, or initials unexpauded. Yet in the ma iority of such cases application by letter made directly to the owners of the names aforesaid, or to relatives and immediate friends of such persons, has failed to elicit any response. All reasonable efiort has been made to obtain trustworthy information upon such points, but failure to obtain replies to let ters of inquiry must account for the greater number of such omissions and here it may not be out of place to mention that information of more general tharacter obtained from private sources has now and then been received too late to be of service, owing to the fact that the work was already electrotyped before it came to hand. 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 : Oscar Fay Adams
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book A Brief Handbook of English Authors written by Oscar Fay Adams and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mildred Rutherford
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780259868811
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (688 download)
Download or read book American Authors written by Mildred Rutherford and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-21 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from American Authors: A Hand-Book of American Literature From Early Colonial to Living Writers To prepare a text-book of American literature is a difficult task. It 'is utterly impossible to give every writer a place in so small a compass, and, as a matter of fact, justice cannot be done every section of our broad land. Especially do we realize this to be true, when we discover that in the South alone there are over writers, to say naught of the remaining three-sections. While we trust a spirit of fairness shall per vade our work, we know that in the judgment of many wise critics some names will be omitted contrary to their opinion, and many inserted which they think should have been omitted. Every compiler of a work of this kind is subject to this criticism. 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 : Mildred Lewis Rutherford
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 860 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book American Authors written by Mildred Lewis Rutherford and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brander Matthews
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book An Introduction to the Study of American Literature written by Brander Matthews and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is intended as an introduction to the study of American literature. Although the chapters on the separate authors are wholly distinct, they have been so planned that each of them prepares the way for its successor, and that all of them together outline the changing circumstances under which American literature has developed. An attempt has been made to show how each of the chief American authors influenced his time, and how he in turn was influenced by it; and also to indicate how each of them was related to the others, both personally and artistically. Bearing in mind the fact that the student needs to have his attention centered on vital points, all dates and all proper names, and all the titles of books not absolutely essential, have been rigorously omitted. Interest has thus been concentrated on the literary career of each of the greater writers and on their practice of the literary art, in the hope and expectation that the student will be encouraged and stimulated to read their works for his own pleasure. After the consideration of these more important authors, one by one, the writers of less consequence have been discussed briefly in a single chapter; and in like manner a single chapter only has been devoted to a summary consideration of the condition of our literature at the end of the nineteenth century. To arouse the student's interest in the authors as actual men, the illustrations chosen have been confined to portraits and views, and to facsimiles of manuscripts. To enable him to see for himself the successive stages of the growth of American literature, and to let him discover how the authors sometimes came one after another and sometimes worked side by side, there has been appended also a chronological table of the chief dates in our literary history. As mere text-book instruction can never be an adequate substitute for the student's own acquaintance with the actual works of the authors discussed, there have been annexed to every chapter bibliographical notes calling attention to the editions most suitable for the student's reading, and also to the best biographies and to a few of the most suggestive criticisms."--From the Prefatory Note.
Author : Juliette Wells
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135036553X
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)
Download or read book A New Jane Austen written by Juliette Wells and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-05 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Completing Juliette Wells' groundbreaking trio of books on Austen's readers, this latest volume revolutionizes our understanding of how Austen came to be viewed as the world's greatest novelist. Wells shows that Austen's global reputation was established not by British scholars, as is commonly believed, but by visionary American writers and collectors, working largely outside academia. Drawing on extensive research, Wells weaves together colorful, compelling case studies of men and women who, from the 1880s to the 1980s, helped readers appreciate Austen's novels, persuasively advocated for her place in the literary canon, and preserved artifacts vital to her legacy. Engagingly written and abundantly illustrated, A New Jane Austen will inform and delight scholars and Austen fans alike.
Author : James Nagel
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118902130
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (189 download)
Download or read book The American Short Story Handbook written by James Nagel and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-12-08 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a concise yet comprehensive treatment of the American short story that includes an historical overview of the topic as well as discussion of notable American authors and individual stories, from Benjamin Franklin’s “The Speech of Miss Polly Baker” in 1747 to “The Joy Luck Club”. Includes a selection of writers chosen not only for their contributions of individual stories but for bodies of work that advanced the boundaries of short fiction, including Washington Irving, Sarah Orne Jewett, Stephen Crane, Jamaica Kincaid, and Tim O’Brien Addresses the ways in which American oral storytelling and other narrative traditions were integral to the formation and flourishing of the short story genre Written in accessible and engaging prose for students at all levels by a renowned literary scholar to illuminate an important genre that has received short shrift in scholarly literature of the last century Includes a glossary defining the most common terms used in literary history and in critical discussions of fiction, and a bibliography of works for further study
Author : Illinois State Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 814 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Dictionary Catalogue of the Illinois State Library written by Illinois State Library and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Gray
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444392468
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)
Download or read book A Brief History of American Literature written by Richard Gray and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-12-28 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Brief History of American Literature offers students and general readers a concise and up-to-date history of the full range of American writing from its origins until the present day. Represents the only up-to-date concise history of American literature Covers fiction, poetry, drama and non-fiction, as well as looking at other forms of literature including folktales, spirituals, the detective story, the thriller and science fiction Considers how our understanding of American literature has changed over the past twenty years Offers students an abridged version of History of American Literature, a book widely considered the standard survey text Provides an invaluable introduction to the subject for students of American literature, American studies and all those interested in the literature and culture of the United States
Author : Timo Müller
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110422425
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Handbook of the American Novel of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries written by Timo Müller and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-01-11 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasing specialization within the discipline of English and American Studies has shifted the focus of scholarly discussion toward theoretical reflection and cultural contexts. These developments have benefitted the discipline in more ways than one, but they have also resulted in a certain neglect of close reading. As a result, students and researchers interested in such material are forced to turn to scholarship from the 1960s and 1970s, much of which relies on dated methodological and ideological presuppositions. The handbook aims to fill this gap by providing new readings of texts that figure prominently in the literature classroom and in scholarly debate − from James’s The Ambassadors to McCarthy’s The Road. These readings do not revert naively to a time “before theory.” Instead, they distil the insights of literary and cultural theory into concise introductions to the historical background, the themes, the formal strategies, and the reception of influential literary texts, and they do so in a jargon-free language accessible to readers on all levels of qualification.
