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Author : George Garrett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Understanding Mary Lee Settle written by George Garrett and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Lee Settle
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 9781570030970
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Blood Tie written by Mary Lee Settle and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Settle has done a remarkable job of capturing the culture that is, in a sense, the most important character in her book. -- New York Times
Author : Mary Lee Settle
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570032844
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (328 download)
Download or read book Addie written by Mary Lee Settle and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An autobiography that begins with one's birth begins too late, in the middle of the story, sometimes at the end. So begins Mary Lee Settle's memoir. Her story carries within it inherited choices, old habits, old quarrels, old disguises, and the river that formed the Kanawha Valley of West Virginia and the mores of her childhood. She traces effects on her family and herself as ancient as earthquakes, mountain formations, and the crushing of swamp into coal deposits. In doing so, Settle records the expectations, talents, and tragedies of a people and a place that would serve as her deep and abiding subject in The Beulah Quintet.
Author : Mary Lee Settle
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393057324
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (573 download)
Download or read book Learning To Fly written by Mary Lee Settle and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2007-07-24 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir, which picks up Settles life story where "Addie" left it, finds a girl turning 20 and determined to be an actress. In the summer of 1938, Settle began a theater apprenticeship, inadvertently setting her on a road few women of that era dared to travel.
Author : Mary Lee Settle
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1643362321
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (433 download)
Download or read book O Beulah Land written by Mary Lee Settle and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2021-03-31 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: O Beulah Land, the second volume of The Beulah Quintet—Mary Lee Settle's unforgettable generational saga about the roots of American culture, class, and identity and the meaning of freedom—is a land-hungry story. It follows the odyssey of Johnny Church's descendants as they leave England in search of freedom and land. One of those descendants, Jonathan Lacey, settles in the backcountry of Virginia, where he battles both Native Americans and white frontier bandits and builds the beginning of a flourishing estate named Beulah. The novel closes shortly before the commencement of the Revolutionary War, with Lacey elected to the House of Burgesses and his family line firmly established in what is to become the state of West Virginia.
Author : Mary Lee Settle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Prisons written by Mary Lee Settle and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the English Civil War a young man joins Cromwell's Parliamentary Army to escape his humorless father only to find betrayal and tragedy in Ireland. Based on a true incident.
Author : Mary Lee Settle
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393323832
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (238 download)
Download or read book I, Roger Williams written by Mary Lee Settle and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Banished by his fellow colonists in the dead of winter, Roger Williams endured years of exile among the Narragansett Indians and narrates this tumultuous tale in the peaceful last years of his life. In this panorama of war and love, the reader finds the freedom of conscience is an idea worth dying for. A "Los Angeles Times" Best Book of 2001.
Author : George Garrett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (785 download)
Download or read book Understanding Mary Lee Settle written by George Garrett and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary lee Settle
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0671779974
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (717 download)
Download or read book Turkish Reflections written by Mary lee Settle and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1992-06-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author recounts her experiences living in Turkey for three years, and shares her observations on Turkish history, people, and culture.
Author : Mary Lee Settle
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 9781570031496
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (314 download)
Download or read book Charley Bland written by Mary Lee Settle and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this narrative of doomed love, Mary Lee Settle tells of a triangular affair set in the small town of Canona, West Virginia, revealing the mores of Canona's closed, upper-class society and of its less prosperous underculture.
Author : Brian C. Rosenberg
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807116746
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (167 download)
Download or read book Mary Lee Settle's Beulah Quintent written by Brian C. Rosenberg and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1991-10-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-1950s, when Mary Lee Settle published The Love Eaters and The Kiss of Kin, critics hailed her as a sharp and acidic writer. However, when in subsequent novels the focus of her work shifted from contemporary social realism to historical fiction, the same critics who previously had praised her work lost enthusiasm. In Mary Lee Settle’s Beulah Quintet: The Price of Freedom, Brian Rosenberg examines Settle’s work—especially Prisons, O Beulah Land, Know Nothing, The Scapegoat, and The Killing Ground—to show the magnitude and artistic merit in a single, continuous fiction—a fiction of major importance. According to Rosenberg, the Beulah quintet is one of the few grandly ambitious works of historical fiction written by an American woman. In the novels, Settle attempts to apply a European tradition of historical re-creation to American experience and, in so doing, to adapt a largely conservative form to the demands of a revolutionary history and ideology. Although the immediate subject is the history of a region in West Virginia, the deeper subject is nothing less than the history of America: the beliefs, conflicts, and illusions that gave rise to, and continue to distinguish, American culture. Rosenberg also treats the reaction to the Beulah quintet among literary critics. He looks at the neglect and misjudgment the novels have suffered by being labeled historical fiction, a genre often though to consist largely of “romance novels,” and explains why the quintet should be placed among the canonical works of contemporary American literature. Rosenberg includes in his book the transcript of an interview he conducted with Settle in which she reflects on both her intentions as a writer and the reception of her work. Mary Lee Settle’s fiction has for too long been misperceived. Brian Rosenberg’s thorough analysis of the Beulah quintet will allow a larger audience to understand the nature and scope of her achievement.
Author : Mary Lee Settle
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393020274
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Spanish Recognitions written by Mary Lee Settle and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Lee Settle
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 9781570031168
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Know Nothing written by Mary Lee Settle and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the Civil War, Peregrine Catlett considers freeing his slaves but believes he can only retain his plantation by slave labour. His son, Johnny, returns to his father's farm but stays only until the outbreak of hostilities. He ends up fighting family and friends with disastrous consequences.
Author : Mary Lee Settle
Publisher : Viking
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Fight Night on a Sweet Saturday written by Mary Lee Settle and published by Viking. This book was released on 1964 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The truth of her family's bitter past confronts a West Virginia girl, summoned home from New York by the accidental murder of her brother.
Author : Rosemary M. Magee
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781617033971
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (339 download)
Download or read book Friendship and Sympathy: Communities of Southern Women Writers written by Rosemary M. Magee and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1992 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Garrett
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807128503
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (285 download)
Download or read book Southern Excursions written by George Garrett and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2003-03-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few if any are better endowed than George Garrett to comment on the general and the particular, the long and the short, of southern letters in our time. Garrett— a prolific and internationally renowned author of fiction, poetry, drama, and biography as well as a teacher, editor, critic, and frequent jurist for literary competitions—has been immersed in the writers and literature of his native region for almost a half century. Southern Excursions contains more than fifty of the best essays, reviews, and other short pieces of his career. For the connoisseur of good writing, this book is a depository, a treasure, a veritable time capsule of southern, literary, and American culture. Without sacrificing reverence for modern masters such as Faulkner, O’Connor, and Welty, Garrett has consistently embraced worthy new artists through the years, deftly and judiciously drawing the line between critical acclaim and popular success. Payton Davis, Shelby Foote, Walker Percy, William HoVman, Madison Jones, Reynolds Price, Robert Morgan, R. H. W. Dillard, Wendell Berry, Doris Betts, William Goyen, Mary Lee Settle, Randall Kenan, David Huddle, Allan Gurganus, Dorothy Allison—these are a few of the writers Garrett has championed. If some names sound less familiar, Garrett, in these pages, will inspire readers to swift investigation. The author’s charm, wit, and anecdotal style make reading Southern Excursions a delight, and yet there’s no mistaking his erudition. Wise like a prophet, with a talent scout’s enthusiasm, Garrett is not afraid to tell unwelcome truths, covering topics that include southern publishing houses and literary quarterlies, the alliance between writers and academia, the state of criticism and theory, and, most eloquently, the persistence of place, memory, and the Civil War as themes in southern letters. Southern Excursions is a book for the ages, stowing as it does the sage views of one as learned, respected— and modest—in his time as George Garrett. “My strong suggestion [to readers],” he states, “is to plunge in and fare forward. Experience the story before turning to or trusting the opinions and judgments of others, myself included.”
Author : Mary Morris
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312199418
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (994 download)
Download or read book Nothing to Declare written by Mary Morris and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-11-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traveling from the highland desert of northern Mexico to the steaming jungles of Honduras to the seashore of the Caribbean, Mary Morris confronts the realities of place, of poverty, of machismo, and of self. "One gutsy woman and one fantastic writer".--"Cosmopolitan".
