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The Watchful Gods And Other Stories

Author : Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 1647791294
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (477 download)

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Download or read book The Watchful Gods And Other Stories written by Walter Van Tilburg Clark and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of Walter Van Tilburg Clark’s collection of short stories—which includes “Hook,” Clark’s most renowned story—makes these pieces available again to a new generation of readers. Critic John R. Milton once said that Walter Van Tilburg Clark "did perhaps more than anyone else to define (in his fiction) the mode of perception, the acquisition of knowledge, and the style which we tend to call Western." In 1950, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, author of the acclaimed novel The Ox-Bow Incident, published a collection of short stories that had already won distinction in various national magazines. The collection was well received by reviewers, and subsequent critics have noted that these stories reflect both Clark’s literary power and the major concerns of his novels: the interior and intuitive complexities of good and evil, and the fragile, intricate web that connects humankind to the rest of the natural world. A foreword by Ann Ronald, one of the West’s most astute literary critics, sets the stories into the context of Clark’s oeuvre and illuminates the way they reveal crucial characteristics of this writer’s imagination.

Watchful Gods

Author : Brenda Jackson
Publisher : Signet
ISBN 13 : 9780451019073
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Watchful Gods written by Brenda Jackson and published by Signet. This book was released on 1960-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story

Author : Blanche H. Gelfant
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231504950
Total Pages : 677 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story written by Blanche H. Gelfant and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-21 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esteemed critic Blanche Gelfant's brilliant companion gathers together lucid essays on major writers and themes by some of the best literary critics in the United States. Part 1 is comprised of articles on stories that share a particular theme, such as "Working Class Stories" or "Gay and Lesbian Stories." The heart of the book, however, lies in Part 2, which contains more than one hundred pieces on individual writers and their work, including Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Richard Ford, Raymond Carver, Eudora Welty, Andre Debus, Zora Neal Hurston, Anne Beattie, Bharati Mukherjee, J. D. Salinger, and Jamaica Kincaid, as well as engaging pieces on the promising new writers to come on the scene.

The Bear Tree and Other Stories from Cazenovia’s History

Author : Erica Barnes
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815655428
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book The Bear Tree and Other Stories from Cazenovia’s History written by Erica Barnes and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historic lakeside village of Cazenovia in the scenic Finger Lakes region is one of the jewels of Central New York, and yet very few books have told its story. Cazenovia is a town founded by wealthy men, and much of what has been written about it has focused on the elite and the grand lakeshore mansions in which they lived. In contrast, Barnes and Emerson’s new book chronicles the story of everyday Cazenovia: the fascinating people, places, and history of this 225-year-old community. The Bear Tree and Other Stories from Cazenovia’s History explores the unheralded, inaccurately told, and long-forgotten tales of the town. Readers will encounter historical characters such as elephant and lion tamer Lucia Zora Card, "The Bravest Woman in the World"; educator Susan Blow, "The Mother of American Kindergarten"; and World War I soldier Cecil Donovan, whose letters home vividly depicted the experience of war for those awaiting his return in Cazenovia.

Study Guide to The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Clark

Author : Intelligent Education
Publisher : Influence Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1645420671
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book Study Guide to The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Clark written by Intelligent Education and published by Influence Publishers. This book was released on 2020-02-15 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Walter Van Tilburg Clark’s The Ox-Bow Incident, said to be one of the greatest Western novels ever written. As a classic novel set in 1885 but written in 1938, The Ox-Bow Incident draws parallels between Nazi brutality and the vigilantes showcased in the novel in order to communicate unjust violence can occur anywhere at any time. Moreover, the novel serves as a great example of realism, having been written during the realist movement. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history of Clark’s classic work, helping students to thoroughly explore the reasons it has stood the literary test of time. Each Bright Notes Study Guide contains: - Introductions to the Author and the Work - Character Summaries - Plot Guides - Section and Chapter Overviews - Test Essay and Study Q&As The Bright Notes Study Guide series offers an in-depth tour of more than 275 classic works of literature, exploring characters, critical commentary, historical background, plots, and themes. This set of study guides encourages readers to dig deeper in their understanding by including essay questions and answers as well as topics for further research.

The Mammoth Book of Westerns

Author : Jon E. Lewis
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 178033916X
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Westerns written by Jon E. Lewis and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Western, though a singularly American art form, is one of the great genres of world literature with a truly global readership. It is also durable despite being often unfairly maligned. Ever since James Fenimore Cooper transformed frontier yarns into a distinct literary form, the Western has followed two paths: one populist - what Time magazine famously billed 'the American Morality Play' - capable of taking many points of view, from red to redneck, but always populist, with a sentimental attachment to the misfit; the other literary - eschewing heroism, debunking with unsettling candour many of the myths of the West. It can sometimes be difficult to draw a sure line between the two forms, but both are represented in this outstanding collection which includes stories by Rick Bass, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Larry McMurtry, Mari Sandoz, Christopher Tilghman, and Mark Twain, among many others.

Great California Stories

Author : Arthur Grove Day
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803265837
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (658 download)

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Download or read book Great California Stories written by Arthur Grove Day and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1510 a Spanish romancer described an island called California, "very close to the side of the Terrestrial Paradise." It was inhabited by Amazons, and even the harnesses of the beasts they rode were gold. Thus began the rich literature of California. In a place that boasts so many claims to one's attention, short fiction has flourished. Great California Stories trumpets the immense short story tradition developed by visitors like Mark Twain and Ambrose Bierce but mostly by natives like Jack London and John Steinbeck. The twenty-one stories in this anthology go back to the oral tradition of the American Indians and recall the Hispanic settlement, the gold rush of the 1850s, the agricultural epoch, the growth of cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles, the foibles of early Hollywood, and the rise of ghettos. The ethnic diversity of California is reflected in a cast of story characters including Indians, mission fathers, Asians, Mexican Americans, African Americans, and forty-niners and landseekers from the eastern states. California's varied scenery is drawn on in stories with a strong sense of place, whether Steinbeck's Salinas Valley or Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles. Besides Steinbeck and Chandler, authors represented are Theodora Kroeber, Bret Harte, Gertrude Atherton, Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, Edwin Cone, Jack London, Idwal Jones, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Dashiel Hammett, Eugene Burdick, Janet Lewis, Wallace Stegner, and Danny Santiago. For them California is a memorable background, sometimes a fabulous character, always a distinctive quality.

Novels Into Film

Author : George Bluestone
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Novels Into Film written by George Bluestone and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers, with Selected Letters of Una Jeffers

Author : James Karman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804794774
Total Pages : 1024 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Book Synopsis The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers, with Selected Letters of Una Jeffers by : James Karman

Download or read book The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers, with Selected Letters of Una Jeffers written by James Karman and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of correspondence, the last in a three-volume edition, spans a pivotal moment in American history: the mid-twentieth century, from the beginning of World War II, through the years of rebuilding and uneasy peace that followed, to the election of President John F. Kennedy. Robinson Jeffers published four important books during this period—Be Angry at the Sun (1941), Medea (1946), The Double Axe (1948), and Hungerfield (1954). He also faced changes to his hometown village of Carmel, experienced the rewards of being a successful dramatist in the United States and abroad, and endured the loss of his wife Una. Jeffers' letters, and those of Una written in the decade prior to her death, offer a vivid chronicle of the life and times of a singular and visionary poet.

A Literary History of the American West

Author : Western Literature Association (U.S.)
Publisher : TCU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780875650210
Total Pages : 1408 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book A Literary History of the American West written by Western Literature Association (U.S.) and published by TCU Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 1408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary histories, of course, do not have a reason for being unless there exists the literature itself. This volume, perhaps more than others of its kind, is an expression of appreciation for the talented and dedicated literary artists who ignored the odds, avoided temptations to write for popularity or prestige, and chose to write honestly about the American West, believing that experiences long knowns to be of historical importance are also experiences that need and deserve a literature of importance.

CliffsNotes on Clark's Ox-Bow Incident

Author : Clyde Burkholder
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544183177
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (441 download)

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Download or read book CliffsNotes on Clark's Ox-Bow Incident written by Clyde Burkholder and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2001-03-07 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This CliffsNotes guide includes everything you’ve come to expect from the trusted experts at CliffsNotes, including analysis of the most widely read literary works.

Bridges That Stand

Author : James D. Folger
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595189172
Total Pages : 671 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Bridges That Stand written by James D. Folger and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-07-29 with total page 671 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marshall Sunder, bombardier of a WWII B-26 bomber, destroys the bridge at Bad Scheidel, in Nazi Germany. Assigned to the Army of Occupation at wars end, Marshall, and Kristine, a widowed German maid, fall in love The bridges destruction resulted in the death of Kristine's daughter and mother. Discovering that Marshall was the bombardier, she is shocked and unforgiving. Personal tragedies devastate the young flier: the death of one crew member, and the revengeful castration of another occur. Too, he believes that Kristine has been killed when her home is vandalized. Marshall is transferred home, and discharged. Enroute, he meets a war widow, Eileen, in San Francisco, and they commiserate, and enjoy near-erotic sex. At home, he is disenchanted with the family business. Knowing he has violated the Commandment, Thou Shalt Not Kill, he mourns the death of Kristine's child and mother. Visited by his co-pilot, Gary, he learns that Kristine wasn't killed, and is pregnant. Sure that he is the father, Marshall returns to active duty and goes to Germany, intending to marry Kristine, and discovers that her husband, thought killed, has returned.

History of Nevada

Author : Russell R. Elliott
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803267150
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book History of Nevada written by Russell R. Elliott and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maintaining the same high standards of the first edition, published in 1973, this new, revised edition is still the most comprehensive one-volume history of a state that was once thought of as "a bridge to somewhere else." In revising, Elliott summarizes the state's economic, political, and social history since 1973 and strengthens a major point he made then: that Nevada's acceptance of liberal marriage and divorce laws and of legalized gambling brought economic stability to a state singularly devoid of stable economic resources. -- from Book Jacket

A study guide for Walter Van Tilburg Clark's "The Ox-Bow Incident"

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Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 1410321185
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book A study guide for Walter Van Tilburg Clark's "The Ox-Bow Incident" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study guide for Walter Van Tilburg Clark's "The Ox-Bow Incident", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students series. 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 Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

The Ox-Bow Incident

Author : Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 0307807401
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Ox-Bow Incident written by Walter Van Tilburg Clark and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2011-10-12 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in 1885, The Ox-Bow Incident is a searing and realistic portrait of frontier life and mob violence in the American West. First published in 1940, it focuses on the lynching of three innocent men and the tragedy that ensues when law and order are abandoned. The result is an emotionally powerful, vivid, and unforgettable re-creation of the Western novel, which Clark transmuted into a universal story about good and evil, individual and community, justice and human nature. As Wallace Stegner writes, [Clark's] theme was civilization, and he recorded, indelibly, its first steps in a new country.

No Charity in the Wilderness

Author : Shaun T. Griffin
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 1647791499
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (477 download)

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Download or read book No Charity in the Wilderness written by Shaun T. Griffin and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Charity in the Wilderness is a long journey into the new American West. From the southern border to the isolating two-lane highways in the desert, this collection is a prayer of reconciliation with so much that troubles us—those who live without resources or voices—and their possible future in this ever-changing landscape of desire. Griffin has spent many decades in the high desert trying to find the way forward—when what he knows has been challenged and still there is breath on the horizon. One day an ancient Chinese poet comes to visit: "Snow deepens/ to quiet what I once believed, and Wang Wei stoops from the spine:/ this is how you become silence." Even if you doubt the old poet's counsel, like Griffin, you want to journey with him into the wilderness.

A History of American Literature 1900 - 1950

Author : Christopher MacGowan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119072778
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book A History of American Literature 1900 - 1950 written by Christopher MacGowan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2024-05-13 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the first five decades of 20th century American literature, covering a wide range of literary works, figures, and influences A History of American Literature 1900-1950 is a current and well-balanced account of the main literary figures, connections, and ideas that characterized the first half of the twentieth century. In this readable, highly informative book, the author explores significant developments in American drama, fiction, and poetry, and discusses how the literature of the period influenced, and was influenced by, cultural trends in both the United States and abroad. Considering works produced during America’s rise to prominence on the world stage from both regional and international perspectives, MacGowan provides readers with keen insights into the literature of the period in relation to America’s transition from an agrarian nation to an industrial power, the racial and economic discrimination of Black and Native American populations, the greater financial and social independence of women, the economic boom of the 1920s, the Depression of the 1930s, the impact of world wars, massive immigration, political and ideological clashes, and more. Encompassing five decades of literary and cultural diversity in one volume, A History of American Literature 1900-1950: Covers American theater, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, memoirs, magazines and literary publications, and popular media Discusses the ways writers dramatized the immense social, economic, cultural, and political changes in America throughout the first half of the twentieth century Explores themes and influences of Modernist poets, expatriate novelists, and literary publications founded by women and African-Americans Features the work of Black writers, Native Americans, Asian Americans, and Jewish Americans A History of American Literature 1900-1950 is essential reading for all students in upper-level American literature courses as well as general readers looking to better understand the literary tradition of the United States.