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The Fortress of American Solitude

Author : Shawn Thomson
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0838642179
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (386 download)

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Download or read book The Fortress of American Solitude written by Shawn Thomson and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For individuals who are interested in how Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and other narratives of shipwrecks and castaways influenced antebellum American Culture, Shawn Thomson's The Fortress of American Solitude is useful. More specifically, for Melville scholars, the second, third, and fourth chapters provide some interesting insight into possible readings for how Defoe's novel-and the castaway genre in general-may have influenced Melville's call to sea and the penning of some of his most interesting characters.

Two Solitudes

Author : Hugh MacLennan
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773553908
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Two Solitudes written by Hugh MacLennan and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Governor General’s Award for Fiction Canada Reads Selection (CBC), 2013 A landmark of nationalist fiction, Hugh MacLennan’s Two Solitudes is the story of two peoples within one nation, each with its own legend and ideas of what a nation should be. In his vivid portrayals of human drama in First World War–era Quebec, MacLennan focuses on two individuals whose love increases the prejudices that surround them until they discover that “love consists in this, that two solitudes protect, and touch and greet each other.” The novel centres around Paul Tallard and his struggles in reconciling the differences between the English identity of his love Heather Methuen and her family, and the French identity of his father. Against this backdrop the country is forming, the chasm between French and English communities growing deeper. Published in 1945, the novel popularized the use of “two solitudes” as referring to a perceived lack of communication between English- and French-speaking Canadians. Content note: This book contains racial slurs that readers may find offensive or upsetting.

The Bascombe Novels

Author : Richard Ford
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408838397
Total Pages : 1577 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Bascombe Novels written by Richard Ford and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 1577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This trilogy of brilliant novels - The Sportswriter, Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land - that charts the life and times of one of the most beloved and enduring characters in modern fiction. When we meet Frank Bascombe in The Sportswriter, his unguarded voice instantly wins us over and pulls us into a life that has been irrevocably changed by the loss of a marriage, a career, a child. We then follow Frank, ever brilliantly and hilariously observant, through Independence Day and The Lay of the Land, witnessing his fortune's rise and his family's fragmentation and reintegration. With finely honed prose and an eye that captures the most subtle nuances of the human condition in all its pathos, humour, beauty and strangeness, Richard Ford transforms Frank Bascombe's life into a riveting moving parable of life in America today.

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Author : Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book One Hundred Years of Solitude written by Gabriel García Márquez and published by Blackstone Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the twentieth century’s enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Rich and brilliant, it is a chronicle of life, death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the beautiful, ridiculous, and tawdry story of the Buendía family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America. Love and lust, war and revolution, riches and poverty, youth and senility, the variety of life, the endlessness of death, the search for peace and truth—these universal themes dominate the novel. Alternately reverential and comical, One Hundred Years of Solitude weaves the political, personal, and spiritual to bring a new consciousness to storytelling. Translated into dozens of languages, this stunning work is no less than an account of the history of the human race.

American Solitudes

Author : Associazione italiana di studi nord-americani. Convegno di studio
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Solitudes written by Associazione italiana di studi nord-americani. Convegno di studio and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

To-day in America

Author : Joseph Hatton
Publisher : London : Chapman and Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To-day in America written by Joseph Hatton and published by London : Chapman and Hall. This book was released on 1881 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Today in America

Author : Joseph Hatton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Today in America written by Joseph Hatton and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Aegypt

Author : John Crowley
Publisher : Gollancz
ISBN 13 : 9780575083004
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Aegypt written by John Crowley and published by Gollancz. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is more than one history of the world. Before science defined the modern age, other powers, wondrous and magical, once governed the universe. Historian Pierce Moffett moves to the New England countryside to write a book about Aegypt, driven by an idea he dare not believe: that the physical laws of the universe once changed and may change again. Yet the notion is not his alone. Something waits at the locked estate of Fellowes Kraft, something for which Pierce and those near him have long sought without knowing it: a key, perhaps, to Aegypt.

Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness

Author : Bob Kaufman
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811200769
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness written by Bob Kaufman and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1959 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

British Criticisms of American Writings, 1783-1815

Author : William B. Cairns
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Criticisms of American Writings, 1783-1815 written by William B. Cairns and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

One Hundred Years of Solitude, Struggle, and Violence along the US/Mexico Border

Author : John Thomas
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527507440
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book One Hundred Years of Solitude, Struggle, and Violence along the US/Mexico Border written by John Thomas and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book features oral histories, mainly of members of the ranching families who have lived in the Mexican State of Sonora and the corresponding territory in the US that stretches from Tijuana on the California border to Agua Prieta on the Arizona border. The elders in those families recall the tales that their grandparents told, providing a century of perspectives on the revolution in economics, culture, and drug trade that the area has witnessed. The book uses the voices of those who have lived through the vicissitudes of border life to paint this cultural upheaval in gripping, personal terms.

Alone Time

Author : Stephanie Rosenbloom
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 039956232X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Alone Time written by Stephanie Rosenbloom and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wise, passionate account of the pleasures of traveling solo In our hectic, hyperconnected lives, many people are uncomfortable with the prospect of solitude. Yet a little time to ourselves can be an opportunity to slow down, savor, and try new things, especially when traveling. Through on-the-ground reporting, insights from social science, and recounting the experiences of artists, writers, and innovators who cherished solitude, Stephanie Rosenbloom considers how traveling alone deepens appreciation for everyday beauty, bringing into sharp relief the sights, sounds, and smells that one isn't necessarily attuned to in the presence of company. Walking through four cities--Paris, Florence, Istanbul, and New York--and four seasons, Alone Time gives us permission to pause, to relish the sensual details of the world rather than hurtling through museums and uploading photos to Instagram. In chapters about dining out, visiting museums, and pursuing knowledge, we begin to see how the moments we have to ourselves--on the road or at home--can be used to enrich our lives. Rosenbloom's engaging and elegant prose makes Alone Time as warmly intimate an account as the details of a trip shared by a beloved friend--and will have its many readers eager to set off on their own solo adventures.

The Fortress of Solitude

Author : Jonathan Lethem
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375724885
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book The Fortress of Solitude written by Jonathan Lethem and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2004-08-24 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review EDITORS' CHOICE. From the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Motherless Brooklyn, comes the vividly told story of Dylan Ebdus growing up white and motherless in downtown Brooklyn in the 1970s. In a neighborhood where the entertainments include muggings along with games of stoopball, Dylan has one friend, a black teenager, also motherless, named Mingus Rude. Through the knitting and unraveling of the boys' friendship, Lethem creates an overwhelmingly rich and emotionally gripping canvas of race and class, superheros, gentrification, funk, hip-hop, graffiti tagging, loyalty, and memory. "A tour de force.... Belongs to a venerable New York literary tradition that stretches back through Go Tell It on the Mountain, A Walker in the City, and Call it Sleep." --The New York Times Magazine "One of the richest, messiest, most ambitious, most interesting novels of the year.... Lethem grabs and captures 1970s New York City, and he brings it to a story worth telling." --Time

Democracy in America

Author : Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy in America written by Alexis de Tocqueville and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Christian Register and Boston Observer

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christian Register and Boston Observer written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Seeking in Solitude

Author : Bernadette McNary-Zak
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1606089692
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Seeking in Solitude written by Bernadette McNary-Zak and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-06-02 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeking in Solitude examines select forms of contemporary Roman Catholic eremitic life and practice in the United States. Given the sustained presence of, and increased interest in, the eremitic life and practice, this book responds to the question of the place of the hermit in American Catholicism in a way that neither mystifies nor mythologizes it, but rather attempts to understand it.

Alfred Kazin's Journals

Author : Richard M. Cook
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030017165X
Total Pages : 799 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Alfred Kazin's Journals written by Richard M. Cook and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 799 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the time of his death in 1998, Alfred Kazin was considered one of the most influential intellectuals of postwar America. What is less well known is that Kazin had been contributing almost daily to an extensive private journal, which arguably contains some of his best writing. These journals collectively tell the story of his journey from Brooklyn's Brownsville neighborhood to his position as a dominant figure in twentieth-century cultural life. To Kazin, the daily entry was a psychological and spiritual act. To read through these entries is to reexperience history as a series of daily discoveries by an alert, adventurous, if often mercurial intelligence. It is also to encounter an array of interesting and notable personalities. Sketches of friends, mistresses, family figures, and other intellectuals are woven in with commentary on Kazin's childhood, early religious interests, problems with parents, bouts of loneliness, dealings with publishers, and thoughts on the Holocaust. The journals also highlight his engagement with the political and cultural debates of the decades through which he lived. He wrestles with communism, cultural nationalism, liberalism, existentialism, Israel, modernism, and much more.Judiciously selected and edited by acclaimed Kazin biographer Richard Cook, this collection provides the public with access to these previously unavailable writings and, in doing so, offers a fascinating social, historical, literary, and cultural record.