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The Virginia Historical Register, and Literary Companion Volume Yr.1853

Author : Virginia Historical Society
Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
ISBN 13 : 9780353125445
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (254 download)

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Download or read book The Virginia Historical Register, and Literary Companion Volume Yr.1853 written by Virginia Historical Society and published by Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-11-10 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Censorship of the American Theatre in the Twentieth Century

Author : John H. Houchin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521818193
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (181 download)

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Download or read book Censorship of the American Theatre in the Twentieth Century written by John H. Houchin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-06-26 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Houchin explores the impact of censorship in twentieth-century American theatre. He argues that theatrical censorship coincides with significant challenges to religious, political and cultural traditions. Along with the well-known instance of the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1950s, other almost equally influential events shaped the course of the American stage during the century. The book is arranged in chronological order. It provides a summary of censorship in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America and then analyses key political and theatrical events between 1900 and 2000. These include a discussion of the 1913 riot after the Abbey Theatre touring produdtion of Playboy of the Western World; protests against Clifford Odet's Waiting for Lefty, performed by militant workers during the Depression; and reactions to the recent play Angels in America.

The Virginia Historical Register, and Literary Companion

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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William Maxwell: Early Novels and Stories (LOA #179)

Author : William Maxwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1042 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book William Maxwell: Early Novels and Stories (LOA #179) written by William Maxwell and published by . This book was released on 2008-01-10 with total page 1042 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his second book, They Came Like Swallows (1937), William Maxwell found his signature subject matter—the fragility of human happiness—as well as his voice, a quiet, cadenced Midwestern voice that John Updike has called one of the wisest and kindest in American fiction. Set against the background of the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918, this short novel presents the loving character of Elizabeth Morison, a devoted wife and mother, through the eyes of those whom she is fated to leave decades before her time. Edmund Wilson described The Folded Leaf (1945) as “a quite unconventional study of adolescent relationships—between two boys, with a girl in the offing—in Chicago and in a Middle Western college: very much lived and very much seen.” He praised this “drama of the immature” for the compassion Maxwell brings to his male protagonists, whose intensely felt, unarticulated bond is beyond their inchoate ability to understand. Time Will Darken It (1948) is a drama of the mature: a good man’s struggle to keep duty before desire and his family’s needs before his own. It paints a portrait of Draperville, Illinois, in 1912, a proud and isolated community governed by gossip, where an ambitious young woman must not overreach the limits society has placed on her sex, and an older, married gentleman must not encourage her should she dare. Together with these major works, this Library of America edition of Maxwell’s early fiction collects his lighthearted first novel, Bright Center of Heaven (1934), out of print for nearly 70 years, and nine masterly short stories. It concludes with “The Writer as Illusionist” (1955), Maxwell’s fullest statement on the art of fiction as he practiced it. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

The Outermost Dream

Author : William Maxwell
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 9781555972646
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (726 download)

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Download or read book The Outermost Dream written by William Maxwell and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 1997-09-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Outermost Dream brings together essays and reviews by William Maxwell, one of America's foremost writers and editors. Maxwell chose deliberately to focus on biography, memoir, diaries, and correspondence when reviewing books: "what people said and did and wore and ate and hoped for and were afraid of, and in detail after often unimaginable detail they refresh our idea of existence and hold oblivion at arm's length." In reading his reviews, we are struck by Maxwell's skill in choosing the one particular, the haunting moment, that further illuminates our understanding of the power of an individual life. His discernment is equally telling whether writing about literary luminaries such as Virginia Woolf, Lord Byron, E.B. White, Isak Dinesen, or delving into the diaries of an unknown Victorian curate with vivid dreams of murder and mayhem.

All the Days and Nights

Author : William Maxwell
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0804150141
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book All the Days and Nights written by William Maxwell and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the American Book Award-winning author of Ancestors and Time Will Darken comes a masterful collection of stories, spanning more than 50 years--a tour of a world that engages readers entirely, and whose characters command the deepest loyalty and tenderness.

Twelve Faces of Time

Author : Elizabeth Doerr
Publisher : teNeues
ISBN 13 : 9783832793739
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (937 download)

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Download or read book Twelve Faces of Time written by Elizabeth Doerr and published by teNeues. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Twelve Faces of Time' looks in-depth at the work of 12 master craftsmen in the field of horology.

The Virginia Historical Register, and Literary Companion; Yr.1853

Author : William Maxwell
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781013466854
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Virginia Historical Register, and Literary Companion; Yr.1853 written by William Maxwell and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Ancestors

Author : William Maxwell
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679759298
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book Ancestors written by William Maxwell and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1995-01-17 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Book Award-winning author of So Long, See You Tomorrow offers an astonishing evocation of a vanished world, as he retraces, branch by branch, the history of his family, taking readers into the lives of settlers, itinerant preachers, and small businessmen, examining the way they saw their world and how they imagined the world to come.

The Chateau

Author : William Maxwell
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307809366
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Chateau written by William Maxwell and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-02-08 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1948 and a young American couple arrive in France for a holiday, full of anticipation and enthusiasm. But the countryside and people are war-battered, and their reception at the Chateau Beaumesnil is not all the open-hearted Americans could wish for.

The Professional

Author : W.c. Heinz
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0786748427
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book The Professional written by W.c. Heinz and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-06-16 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1958, The Professional is the story of boxer Eddie Brown's quest for the middleweight championship of the world. But it is so much more. W. C. Heinz not only serves up a realistic depiction of the circus-like atmosphere around boxing with its assorted hangers-on, crooked promoters, and jaded journalists, but he gives us two memorable characters in Eddie Brown and in Brown's crusty trainer, Doc Carroll. They are at the heart of this poignant story as they bond together with their eye on the only prize that matters—the middleweight championship. The Professional is W. C. Heinz at the top of his game—the writer who covered the fights better than anyone else of his era, whose lean sentences, rough-and-ready dialogue, dry wit, and you-are-there style helped lay the foundation for the New Journalism of Jimmy Breslin, Gay Talese, and Tom Wolfe. And all the trademark qualities of W. C. Heinz are on ample display in this novel that Pete Hamill described as "one of the five best sports novels ever written."

Victory Over Japan

Author : Ellen Gilchrist
Publisher : Diversion Books
ISBN 13 : 1940941148
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Victory Over Japan written by Ellen Gilchrist and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2014-01-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1984, this collection of 14 short stories set in Arkansas and Mississippi went on to win that year’s National Book Award for fiction, confirming Ellen Gilchrist’s place as one of the preeminent literary talents of her generation. Victory Over Japan takes us into the lives of an unforgettable group of Southern women — beautiful, complicated, enchanting, and sometimes dangerous — in and out of bars, marriages, divorces, lovers' arms, and even earthquakes, in an attempt to find happiness, or at least some satisfaction. Throughout these stories, one hears echoes of Flannery O'Connor and Eudora Welty, but Ms. Gilchrist has her own unique literary voice, and it is outrageously funny, moving, tragic, and always appealing. PRAISE: “To say that Ellen Gilchrist can write is to say that Placido Domingo can sing. All you need to do is listen.” —Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post “She is what they call a natural, writing with passion, authority and a noticeable lack of the self-consciousness that weighs down much of contemporary fiction.” —San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle “Ellen Gilchrist’s achievement is to create lives which refuse to be bound on the page by words and sentences . . . the writing is full of understanding that doesn’t advertise itself as perception or insight.” —London Daily Telegraph

William Maxwell: Later Novels and Stories (LOA #184)

Author : William Maxwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1016 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book William Maxwell: Later Novels and Stories (LOA #184) written by William Maxwell and published by . This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the latter half of his literary career, Maxwell deepened his connection to his signature subject matter--small-town family life in the early 20th century--and broadened his canvas to include new places and characters. This volume of his later works features 40 brief stories and the essay Nearing Ninety.

The Scent of Time

Author : Silvio A. Bedini
Publisher : American Philosophical Society Press
ISBN 13 : 9781422376249
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (762 download)

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Download or read book The Scent of Time written by Silvio A. Bedini and published by American Philosophical Society Press. This book was released on 1963 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication. Over 40 illustrations.

Paris Trout

Author : Pete Dexter
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 081298739X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Paris Trout written by Pete Dexter and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pete Dexter’s National Book Award–winning tour de force tells the mesmerizing story of a shocking crime that shatters lives and exposes the hypocrisies of a small Southern town. The time and place: Cotton Point, Georgia, just after World War II. The event: the murder of a fourteen-year-old black girl by a respected white citizen named Paris Trout, who feels he’s done absolutely nothing wrong. As a trial looms, the crime eats away at the social fabric of Cotton Point, through its facade of manners and civility. Trout’s indifference haunts his defense lawyer; his festering paranoia warps his timid, quiet wife; and Trout himself moves closer to madness as he becomes obsessed with his cause—and his vendettas. Praise for Paris Trout “A masterpiece, complex and breathtaking . . . [Pete] Dexter portrays his characters with marvelous sharpness.”—Los Angeles Times “A psychological spellbinder that will take your breath away and probably interfere with your sleep.”—The Washington Post Book World “Dexter’s brilliant understanding of the Deep South has allowed him to capture much of its essence—its bitter class distinctions, its violence, its strangeness—with a fidelity of detail and an ear for speech that I have rarely encountered since Flannery O’Connor.”—William Styron “Dexter’s powerfully emotional novel doesn’t have any brakes. Hang on, because you won’t be able to stop until the finish.”—Chicago Tribune

The Element of Lavishness

Author : William Maxwell
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1582432473
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book The Element of Lavishness written by William Maxwell and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2003-05-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An instant classic in the literature of friendship: the witty, affectionate 40-year correspondence between a great story-writer and her editor . . . pleasure and delight. In July 1938, William Maxwell, then twenty-nine years old and the acting poetry editor of The New Yorker, wrote to Sylvia Townsend Warner inviting her to send him verse. Miss Warner, forty-four and famous for her novel Lolly Willowes, had recently begun writing stories for the magazine, antic, inimitable sketches of English life that Maxwell adored. The poems were sent, and a remarkable friendship was begun.

The Virginia Historical Register, and Literary Companion

Author : William Maxwell
Publisher : Franklin Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780343509965
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book The Virginia Historical Register, and Literary Companion written by William Maxwell and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.