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Author : Edwin Clarence Guillet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (216 download)
Download or read book Backwoods Scoundrels written by Edwin Clarence Guillet and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Piacentino
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807130865
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (38 download)
Download or read book The Enduring Legacy of Old Southwest Humor written by Edward Piacentino and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2006-02-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Old Southwest flourished between 1830 and 1860, but its brand of humor lives on in the writings of Mark Twain, the novels of William Faulkner, the television series The Beverly Hillbillies, the material of comedian Jeff Foxworthy, and even cyberspace, where nonsoutherners can come up to speed on subjects like hickphonics. The first book on its subject, The Enduring Legacy of Old Southwest Humor engages topics ranging from folklore to feminism to the Internet as it pays tribute to a distinctly American comic style that has continued to reinvent itself. The book begins by examining frontier southern humor as manifested in works of Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, Flannery O’Connor, Eudora Welty, Woody Guthrie, Harry Crews, William Price Fox, Fred Chappell, Barry Hannah, Cormac McCarthy, and African American writers Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Alice Walker, Ishmael Reed, and Yusef Komunyakaa. It then explores southwestern humor’s legacy in popular culture—including comic strips, comedians, and sitcoms—and on the Internet. Many of the trademark themes of modern and contemporary southern wit appeared in stories that circulated in the antebellum Southwest. Often taking the form of tall tales, those stories have served and continue to serve as rich, reusable material for southern writers and entertainers in the twentieth century and beyond. The Enduring Legacy of Old Southwest Humor is an innovative collaboration that delves into jokes about hunting, drinking, boasting, and gambling as it studies, among other things, the styles of comedians Andy Griffith, Dave Gardner, and Justin Wilson. It gives splendid demonstration that through the centuries southern humor has continued to be a powerful tool for disarming hypocrites and opening up sensitive issues for discussion.
Author : David E. E. Sloane
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351183443
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Routledge Revivals: Mark Twain as a Literary Comedian (1979) written by David E. E. Sloane and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1979, Mark Twain as a Literary Comedian looks at how Mark Twain addressed social issues through humour. The Southwest provided the subject for much of Twain’s writing, but the roots of his style lay principally in north-eastern humour. In the mid-1800s the northern United States underwent social changes that reflected in the writing of the literary humourists like Twain. Sloane argues that he used humour to describe conditions in the emerging middle-class urban experience and express his American vision and that Twain’s views on the human, social, and political conditions, presented through his fictional characters, elevated the use of literary humour in the American novel.
Author : Charles Whibley
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3387011067
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (87 download)
Download or read book A Book of Scoundrels written by Charles Whibley and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-08-28 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Bénédict Henry Révoil
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Shooting and Fishing in the Rivers, Prairies, and Backwoods of North America written by Bénédict Henry Révoil and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Bénédict Henry RÉVOIL
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Shooting and Fishing in the Rivers, Prairies, and Backwoods of North America ... Translated and Revised by The Chronicler. [A Translation of “Chasses Dans L'Amérique Du Nord” and “Pêches Dans L'Amérique Du Nord.”] written by Bénédict Henry RÉVOIL and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Douglas Library Occasional Papers written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lately Thomas
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789121272
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)
Download or read book A Debonair Scoundrel written by Lately Thomas and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1962, this book tells the flamboyant story of Abe Ruef and San Francisco’s infamous era of graft. In the year 1906, San Francisco was rocked by two calamitous earthquakes. Nature herself was responsible for one; a man named Ruef was responsible for the other. Abraham Ruef (1864-1936), known as Abe Ruef, was a rogue of innumerable refinements. A classical scholar, a wit, a bon vivant, he was also a political boss who not only picked the city’s officials—among them, “Handsome Gene” Schmitz, San Francisco’s “bassoon mayor”—but picked the city’s pockets as well. When he was finally arraigned for graft, Ruef attempted to appoint himself District Attorney to prosecute the case! In A Debonair Scoundrel, Lately Thomas reconstructs the little known but fantastic career and its gaudy, dramatic setting: a city thrown into wild disorder; fighting in the courts reeking with corruption; kidnappings, and flying bullets with overtones of slapstick comedy and suspense. The men who saw to Ruef’s undoing were relics of a bygone West: millionaire Rudolph Spreckels, who tried to reform his own class; Fremont Older, the Evening Bulletin crusading editor—and others, such as Teddy Roosevelt and William Randolph Hearst. Their encounter with Abe Ruef is wittily described by Lately Thomas, author of The Vanishing Evangelist, who has brought his magnificently creative gifts to a book as brilliant and rambunctious as the fabulous era he describes.
Author : Kelly Bowen
Publisher : Forever Yours
ISBN 13 : 1538700611
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (387 download)
Download or read book Night of the Scoundrel written by Kelly Bowen and published by Forever Yours. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From award-winning author Kelly Bowen comes an enchanting historical short story perfect for fans of Grace Burrowes, Sarah MacLean, and Tessa Dare. Can he trust her with his darkest secret? Ruthless. Dangerous. Known simply as King. No one knows his true name or where he came from. And when he learns that the man who betrayed him has returned to London, King has only one goal: vengeance. But first, he must seek out an unlikely ally to aide him in his pursuit... Adeline Archambault is as mysterious as she is beautiful. Exiled after the French Revolution, she's determined to reclaim her birthright and deliver the justice that is owed her. King's offer to help her, in exchange for her assistance, is a bargain she can't refuse. But will this deal with a devil lead to a future she never dared hope for? 40,000 words
Author : Jeff Berry
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 9780345225719
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (257 download)
Download or read book Majority of Scoundrels written by Jeff Berry and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1972-03-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir Charles G. D. Roberts
Publisher : London : Ward, Lock
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book The Backwoodsmen written by Sir Charles G. D. Roberts and published by London : Ward, Lock. This book was released on 1909 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Theodore Goodridge Roberts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Rayton written by Theodore Goodridge Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Larry J Hoefling
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595359140
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Chasing the Frontier written by Larry J Hoefling and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Scots-Irish is one of the struggles and achievements of an American immigrant group that existed for only a short period, whose descendants continued to make their marks on the young country for generations. From the North of Ireland to the backwoods of the American frontier, the tale of the Scots-Irish includes a massive exodus to the New World, where they founded communities in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, and the Irish Tract of North Carolina during the Revolutionary War era. Containing nearly six thousand names of documented settlers of the primarily Scots-Irish settlements of Virginia and North Carolina, Chasing The Frontier includes materials from church records, military records, early wills and deeds, and newspapers of the time. For the frontier families, life was a daily test of endurance and hardship, but the Scots-Irish also found time for horseracing, gambling, and socializing, and the migration of this hardy race and the lure of the frontiers of Kentucky and Tennessee led to the founding of churches and state charters, and elections to some of the highest offices in the country. Chasing the Frontier is a snapshot of everyday life for the pioneering Scots-Irish in early America.
Author : Steven L. Piott
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493058657
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Audacious Scoundrels written by Steven L. Piott and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-05-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century a growing number of ordinary citizens had the feeling that all was not as it should be. Men who were making money made prodigious amounts, but this new wealth somehow passed over the heads of the common people. As this new breed of journalists began to examine their subjects with scrutiny, they soon discovered that those individuals were essentially “simple men of extraordinary boldness.” And it was easy to understand how they were able to accomplish their sinister purposes: “at first abruptly and bluntly, by asking and giving no quarter, and later with the same old determination and ruthlessness but with educated satellites who were glad to explain and idealize their behavior.”[i] “Nothing is lost save honor,” said one infamous buccaneer, and that was an attitude that governed the amoral principles and extralegal actions of many audacious scoundrels. Relying on secondary sources, magazine and newspaper articles, and personal accounts from those involved, this volume captures some of the sensational true stories that took place in the western United States during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century. The theme that runs through each of the stories is the general contempt for the law that seemed to pervade the culture at the time and the consuming desire to acquire wealth at any cost—what Geoffrey C. Ward has called “the disposition to be rich.” End Notes Introduction [i]Louis Filler, Crusaders for American Liberalism (Yellow Springs, OH: Antioch Press, 1964), 14.
Author : Charles Whibley
Publisher : Gibb Press
ISBN 13 : 144463805X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (446 download)
Download or read book A Book of Scoundrels written by Charles Whibley and published by Gibb Press. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This early works is a fascinating novel of the period and still an interesting read today. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author : Kelly Hennessy
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1640823247
Total Pages : 928 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Last Refuge of a Scoundrel written by Kelly Hennessy and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-11-06 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part epistolary novel laced with flights of magic realism escapist fantasy, part bellettrist polemic debating a shopping list of culture war topics, Last Refuge of a Scoundrel is an unusual, multifaceted and densely textured book meant to linger on your palate long after you put it down. Much of the action revolves around a bitter, protracted homeowners association dispute in north San Diego County, alternately, hilarious and enraging. It's a novel of ideas, ever strumming the
Author : Chauncey Holt
Publisher : Trine Day
ISBN 13 : 1937584380
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (375 download)
Download or read book Self-Portrait of a Scoundrel written by Chauncey Holt and published by Trine Day. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Released for the first time 16 years after his death, this startling autobiography by one of the so-called “three tramps” from the John F. Kennedy assassination reveals the details of Chauncey Marvin Holt’s many claims. Much mystery and suspicion still swirls around that fateful day in November 1963, and theories abound in nearly every form of media. But one of the major mysteries revolves around the three men spotted and later arrested in Dealey Plaza. Holt’s controversial confession to being one of the three tramps has a history of its own, and in his own words he delves into his unique and wild background and life. From his United States Air Force service during Pearl Harbor to his associations with the mob and the CIA, Holt discusses his experiences and encounters in great detail. From a man who truly lived a rare and unique life, the book explains the ins and outs of his associations with Lee Harvey Oswald and the assassination in this unique retrospective of a complex and occasionally dubious life.
