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In The Garden Of The North American Martyrs

Author : Tobias Wolff
Publisher : Ecco
ISBN 13 : 9780880014977
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (149 download)

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Download or read book In The Garden Of The North American Martyrs written by Tobias Wolff and published by Ecco. This book was released on 1996-10-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the characters you'll find in this collection of twelve stories by Tobias Wolff are a teenage boy who tells morbid lies about his home life, a timid professor who, in the first genuine outburst of her life, pours out her opinions in spite of a protesting audience, a prudish loner who gives an obnoxious hitchhiker a ride, and an elderly couple on a golden anniversary cruise who endure the offensive conviviality of the ship's social director. Fondly yet sharply drawn, Wolff's characters stumble over each other in their baffled yet resolute search for the "right path."

In The Garden Of The North American Martyrs

Author : Tobias Wolff
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061868221
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book In The Garden Of The North American Martyrs written by Tobias Wolff and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the characters you'll find in this collection of twelve stories by Tobias Wolff are a teenage boy who tells morbid lies about his home life, a timid professor who, in the first genuine outburst of her life, pours out her opinions in spite of a protesting audience, a prudish loner who gives an obnoxious hitchhiker a ride, and an elderly couple on a golden anniversary cruise who endure the offensive conviviality of the ship's social director. Fondly yet sharply drawn, Wolff's characters stumble over each other in their baffled yet resolute search for the "right path."

In the Garden of the North American Martyrs

Author : Tobias Wolff
Publisher : Ecco
ISBN 13 : 9780880012454
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book In the Garden of the North American Martyrs written by Tobias Wolff and published by Ecco. This book was released on 1981 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These stories provoke our amazed appreciation".

Saint Among Savages

Author : Francis Xavier Talbot
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 9780898709131
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Saint Among Savages written by Francis Xavier Talbot and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saint among Savages tells the remarkable story of St. Isaac Jogues, a French Jesuit who was killed by Mohawks while serving as a missionary in New France. Coming from a upper middle class life in Orleans, he knew from an early age that he wanted to be a priest and serve abroad as a missionary to risk his life in order to save souls. Along with several others, collectively known as the North American Martyrs, he followed his dreams and met death in the American wilderness. Living with the Huron people in what is now Ontario, he was captured by Mohawk warriors and tortured and held captive for over a year. He escaped back to France with help from the Dutch in New York, and remarkably insisted on going back to New France, even though he knew what he might be facing. Besides Jogues' life there is also a lot of material about the lives and customs of the Native American peoples who lived along the St. Lawrence River.

In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs

Author : Christopher de Bellaigue
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060935367
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs written by Christopher de Bellaigue and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2006-01-03 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Iran in the late twentieth century is a chronicle of religious fervor and violent change -- from the Islamic Revolution that ousted the Shah in favor of a rigid fundamentalist government to the bloody eight-year war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq. But what happened to the hostage-takers, the suicidal holy warriors, the martyrs, and the mullahs responsible for the now moribund revolution? Is modern Iran a society at peace with itself and the world, or truly a dangerous spoke in the "Axis of Evil"? Christopher de Bellaigue, a Western journalist married to an Iranian woman and a longtime resident of a prosperous suburb of Tehran, offers a stunning insider's view of a culture hitherto hidden from American eyes, and reveals the true hearts and minds of an extraordinary people.

The Barracks Thief

Author : Tobias Wolff
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062376888
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book The Barracks Thief written by Tobias Wolff and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-08-19 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Barracks Thief is the story of three young paratroopers waiting to be shipped out to Vietnam. Brought together one sweltering afternoon to stand guard over an ammunition dump threatened by a forest fire, they discover in each other an unexpected capacity for recklessness and violence. Far from being alarmed by this discovery, they are exhilarated by it; they emerge from their common danger full of confidence in their own manhood and in the bond of friendship they have formed. This confidence is shaken when a series of thefts occur. The author embraces the perspectives of both the betrayer and the betrayed, forcing us to participate in lives that we might otherwise condemn, and to recognize the kinship of those lives to our own.

Native Americans, Christianity, and the Reshaping of the American Religious Landscape

Author : Joel W. Martin
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807899666
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Native Americans, Christianity, and the Reshaping of the American Religious Landscape written by Joel W. Martin and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010-10-11 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this interdisciplinary collection of essays, Joel W. Martin and Mark A. Nicholas gather emerging and leading voices in the study of Native American religion to reconsider the complex and often misunderstood history of Native peoples' engagement with Christianity and with Euro-American missionaries. Surveying mission encounters from contact through the mid-nineteenth century, the volume alters and enriches our understanding of both American Christianity and indigenous religion. The essays here explore a variety of postcontact identities, including indigenous Christians, "mission friendly" non-Christians, and ex-Christians, thereby exploring the shifting world of Native-white cultural and religious exchange. Rather than questioning the authenticity of Native Christian experiences, these scholars reveal how indigenous peoples negotiated change with regard to missions, missionaries, and Christianity. This collection challenges the pervasive stereotype of Native Americans as culturally static and ill-equipped to navigate the roiling currents associated with colonialism and missionization. The contributors are Emma Anderson, Joanna Brooks, Steven W. Hackel, Tracy Neal Leavelle, Daniel Mandell, Joel W. Martin, Michael D. McNally, Mark A. Nicholas, Michelene Pesantubbee, David J. Silverman, Laura M. Stevens, Rachel Wheeler, Douglas L. Winiarski, and Hilary E. Wyss.

Visions of the Big Sky

Author : Dan Louie Flores
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780806138978
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book Visions of the Big Sky written by Dan Louie Flores and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient ecstasies -- Visualizing Lewis and Clark and the meaning of the West -- The eye and the heart in George Catlin's West -- Karl Bodmer's gift -- Alfred Jacob Miller's new Western American -- Jesus and animus beneath the Bitterroots -- An entire Heaven and an entire Earth : audubon on the Missouri -- Albert Bierstadt and the mountains of Mars -- Thomas Moran's Rocky Mountain romance -- Coming to terms with the Little Bighorn -- Altitude equals beatitude : William Henry Jackson and the Northern Rockies -- L.A. Huffman and the frontier disconnect -- Catching shadows in the northern West -- Through Indian eyes : the Crows and Richard Throssel -- Evelyn Cameron's time machine -- Carl Rungius and the son of wild folk -- Loving the West, hating the West, painting the West : the troubled times of Fra Dana -- Frederic Remington's Kiss of death -- Maynard and Montana -- Winold Reiss's beautiful Blackfeet -- Motion and poetry -- The bear in the mirror -- Emily Carr and the Great Mother -- The ripples beyond Ansel Adams -- In the end, what was Charlie Russell trying to tell us?

A Study Guide for Tobias Wolff's "In the Garden of the North American Martyrs"

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Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 1410349519
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book A Study Guide for Tobias Wolff's "In the Garden of the North American Martyrs" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2016-07-14 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Tobias Wolff's "In the Garden of the North American Martyrs," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.

In the Garden of the North American Martyrs

Author : Tobias Wolff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780912946832
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (468 download)

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Download or read book In the Garden of the North American Martyrs written by Tobias Wolff and published by . This book was released on 1981-01 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories tell of a boy who can not tell the truth, a dying hunter, a philandering professor, and others coping with life's unexpected realities.

The Jesuit Martyrs of North America

Author : John J. Wynne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781951835019
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Jesuit Martyrs of North America written by John J. Wynne and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the years 1642 and 1649 eight members of the Society of Jesus were killed in North America after brutal torture by the Iroquois. These Jesuits had worked diligently to bring the native Americans of the region of what is now Upper New York and Canada to the Catholic faith. Five of the eight North American martyrs were put to death in what is now Canada, and three of them in New York State. The names of the eight North American martyrs are:Saint Rene GoupilSaint Isaac JoguesSaint John de LalandSaint Anthony DanielSaint John de BrebeufSaint Charles GarnierSaint Noel ChabanelSaint Gabriel LalemantSaint Isaac Jogues, after thirteen months' imprisonment by the Mohawks, had several fingers cut off of his hand. He went back to Europe, but returned again to North America and was killed by tomahawk blows at Ossernenon, now called Auriesville, in New York State. Saint John de Brebeuf declared before he died, "I have a strong desire to suffer for Jesus Christ." He was tortured terribly, and a burning torch was put into his mouth, which strangled him.Saint Rene Goupil, thirty-five, was the youngest of the martyrs, and cried "Jesus, Jesus, Jesus!" as he died. Saint Noel Chabanel was thirty-six, and Saint Isaac Jogues and Saint Gabriel Lalemant were thirty-nine. The oldest of the eight North American martyrs, Saint John de Brebeuf, was fifty-six when the Indians killed him.They were canonized June 29 of 1930 by Pope Pius XI. Their memorial is October 19, and Spetember 26 in Canada.

Old School

Author : Tobias Wolff
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375701494
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book Old School written by Tobias Wolff and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2004-08-31 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The protagonist of Tobias Wolff’s shrewdly—and at times devastatingly—observed first novel is a boy at an elite prep school in 1960. He is an outsider who has learned to mimic the negligent manner of his more privileged classmates. Like many of them, he wants more than anything on earth to become a writer. But to do that he must first learn to tell the truth about himself. The agency of revelation is the school literary contest, whose winner will be awarded an audience with the most legendary writer of his time. As the fever of competition infects the boy and his classmates, fraying alliances, exposing weaknesses, Old School explores the ensuing deceptions and betrayals with an unblinking eye and a bottomless store of empathy. The result is further evidence that Wolff is an authentic American master.

This Boy's Life

Author : Tobias Wolff
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802198600
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book This Boy's Life written by Tobias Wolff and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The PEN/Faulkner Award–winning author recounts coming of age in 1950s Washington State with his mother and abusive stepfather in this classic memoir. This unforgettable memoir, by one of our most gifted writers, introduces us to the young Toby Wolff, by turns tough and vulnerable, crafty and bumbling, and ultimately winning. Separated by divorce from his father and brother, Toby and his mother are constantly on the move. As he fights for identity and self-respect against the unrelenting hostility of a new stepfather, his experiences are at once poignant and comical, and Wolff masterfully re-creates the frustrations, cruelties, and joys of adolescence. His various schemes—running away to Alaska, forging checks, and stealing cars—lead eventually to an act of outrageous self-invention that releases him into a new world of possibility. Praise for This Boy’s Life “Wolff writes in language that is lyrical without embellishment, defines his characters with exact strokes and perfectly pitched voices, [and] creates suspense around ordinary events, locating the deep mystery within them.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review “[This] extraordinary memoir is so beautifully written that we not only root for the kid Wolff remembers, but we also are moved by the universality of his experience.” —San Francisco Chronicle “A work of genuine literary art . . . as grim and eerie as Great Expectations, as surreal and cruel as The Painted Bird, as comic and transcendent as Huckleberry Finn.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer “Wolff’s genius is in his fine storytelling. This Boy’s Life reads and entertains as easily as a novel. Wolff’s writing and timing are superb, as are his depictions of those of us who endured the 50s.” —The Oregonian

Our Story Begins

Author : Tobias Wolff
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1400095972
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Story Begins written by Tobias Wolff and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-04-07 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of stories—twenty-one classics followed by ten potent new stories—displays Tobias Wolff's exquisite gifts over a quarter century.

Back in the World

Author : Tobias Wolff
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679767967
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book Back in the World written by Tobias Wolff and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1996-10-01 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To American soldiers in Vietnam, "back in the world" meant America and safety. To Tobias Wolff's characters, Back in the World is where lives that have veered out of control just might become normal again. Unfortunately, the men and women in these gripping, pungent, and wonderfully skewed stories have only the vaguest notion of what normal is. A gentle priest finds himself in a Vegas hotel with a hysterical, sun-burned stranger. A show-biz hopeful undergoes a dubious audition in a hearse speeding across the California desert. An aging soldier is distracted from a night of philandering by a gun-toting neighbor and a suicidal enlisted man. As he moves among these unfortunates, Wolff observes the disparity between their realities and their dreams, in ten stories of exhilarating lucidity and grace. Stories included are: "The Missing Person," "Say Yes," "The Poor Are Always With Us," "Sister," "Soldier's Joy," "Desert Breakdown," "Our Story Begins," "Leviathan," and "The Rich Brother." "Terrific...The magic of his fiction cannot be explained. It is the ancient art of the master storyteller."--Tim O'Brien

Tobias Wolff's "In the Garden of North American Martyrs"

Author : Anita Helmbold
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Tobias Wolff's "In the Garden of North American Martyrs" written by Anita Helmbold and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

In Pharaoh's Army

Author : Tobias Wolff
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307763757
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book In Pharaoh's Army written by Tobias Wolff and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether he is evoking the blind carnage of the Tet offensive, the theatrics of his fellow Americans, or the unraveling of his own illusions, Wolff brings to this work the same uncanny eye for detail, pitiless candor and mordant wit that made This Boy's Life a modern classic.