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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (363 download)
Download or read book California Vignettes written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rockwell Dennis Hunt
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)
Download or read book California Vignettes written by Rockwell Dennis Hunt and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Juan Bautista Alvarado
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Vignettes of Early California written by Juan Bautista Alvarado and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bradley W. Vaughan
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ISBN 13 : 9780961395100
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (951 download)
Download or read book Vignettes of California written by Bradley W. Vaughan and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cooley Windsor
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810124963
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Visit Me in California written by Cooley Windsor and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2008-08-13 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deftly moving between the comic and the tragic, the sacred and the profane, this collection of short stories is populated by modern children, ancient poets, dying men, and your basic, mundane Greek gods. Windsor turns familiar stories from the Bible and from myth inside out, exploring the feelings of minor characters and looking at events from imaginative perspectives. His prose is rich with detail and emotion and he touches on themes of art and artifice, success and failure, family and its sacrifices, and expectations met or missed. In “The Last Israelite in the Red Sea,” a follower of Moses who dallies during their Exodus finds it more difficult to walk across the bottom of the temporarily displaced Red Sea without shoes. “Four of the Times My Sister Cried” follows a young narrator as his family rehearses for his mother’s death and then, as they must, lives without her. The wry “The Art of War” has characters from Homer to a courtesan talking shop about the battle of Troy from their perspectives. Set as a series of short pieces, “The Fleshly School of Poetry” tells of lessons learned and lessons taught. With its explorations of expectations, “Meet the Author” gives readers intimate portraits of various plans or coping mechanisms people put up when death draws close. “The End of the World” approaches the Rapture with a humorously practical spin: wouldn’t the angels need a plan to ensure that it goes smoothly? “In Parting” explores some of the troubles with family, especially when a sister’s child turns out to be a marionette. The geographically explicit “Three Mediums in San Francisco” touches on frustrated and imagined eroticism. The collection ends with “The Hilton Epiphany,” a fitting closer in which divinity comes to an unlikely person in an unlikely place.
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Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 029580226X
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)
Download or read book Vignettes from the Late Ming written by and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology presents seventy translated and annotated short essays, or hsiao-p’in, by fourteen well-known sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Chinese writers. Hsiao-p’in, characterized by spontaneity and brevity, were a relatively informal variation on the established classical prose style in which all scholars were trained. Written primarily to amuse and entertain the reader, hsiao-p’in reflect the rise of individualism in the late Ming period and collectively provide a panorama of the colorful life of the age. Critics condemned the genre as escapist because of its focus on life’s sensual pleasures and triviality, and over the next two centuries many of these playful and often irreverent works were officially censored. Today, the essays provide valuable and rare accounts of the details over everyday life in Ming China as well as displays of wit and delightful turns of phrase.
Author : Tommie W. Whitener
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ISBN 13 : 9780998681559
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (815 download)
Download or read book California Vignettes written by Tommie W. Whitener and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: a collection of short stories
Author : Liesl Olson
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030023113X
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Chicago Renaissance written by Liesl Olson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating history of Chicago’s innovative and invaluable contributions to American literature and art from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century This remarkable cultural history celebrates the great Midwestern city of Chicago for its centrality to the modernist movement. Author Liesl Olson traces Chicago’s cultural development from the 1893 World’s Fair through mid-century, illuminating how Chicago writers revolutionized literary forms during the first half of the twentieth century, a period of sweeping aesthetic transformations all over the world. From Harriet Monroe, Carl Sandburg, and Ernest Hemingway to Richard Wright and Gwendolyn Brooks, Olson’s enthralling study bridges the gap between two distinct and equally vital Chicago-based artistic “renaissance” moments: the primarily white renaissance of the early teens, and the creative ferment of Bronzeville. Stories of the famous and iconoclastic are interwoven with accounts of lesser-known yet influential figures in Chicago, many of whom were women. Olson argues for the importance of Chicago’s editors, bookstore owners, tastemakers, and ordinary citizens who helped nurture Chicago’s unique culture of artistic experimentation. Cover art by Lincoln Schatz
Author : Joshua Samuel Brown
Publisher : ThingsAsian Press
ISBN 13 : 9780971594081
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Vignettes of Taiwan written by Joshua Samuel Brown and published by ThingsAsian Press. This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Joshua Samuel Brown first stepped out of the passenger terminal at Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taiwan, he was a stranger in a humid land with insufficient funds, zero job prospects and an over-packed suitcase. Like much else in his life up to that point, his decision to move to Taiwan was based largely on random occurrence and cosmic coincidence. He was twenty-four years old, thousands of miles away from home, and at that moment the happiest man alive. This anthology of short stories, travel essays, photographs, random meditations, and political meanderings grew out of his years on the island formerly known as Formosa.
Author : Gary Noy
Publisher : Heyday.ORIM
ISBN 13 : 1597145041
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (971 download)
Download or read book Hellacious California! written by Gary Noy and published by Heyday.ORIM. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Teems with bittersweet compounds of 19th-century nefariousness, including . . . gambling, knife fights, the demon drink, con artistry, and prostitution.” —Los Angeles Review of Books In 1855 an ex-miner lamented that nineteenth-century California “can and does furnish the best bad things,” including “purer liquors . . . finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier courtezans [sic]” than anywhere else in America. Lured by boons of gold and other exploitable resources, California’s settler population mushroomed under Mexican and early American control, and this period of rapid transformation gave rise to a freewheeling culture best epitomized by its entertainments. Hellacious California tours the rambunctious and occasionally appalling amusements of the Golden State: gambling, gun duels, knife fights, gracious dining and gluttony, prostitution, fandangos, cigars, con artistry, and the demon drink. Historian Gary Noy unearths myriad primary sources, many of which have never before been published, to spin his true tall tales that are by turns humorous and horrifying. Whether detailing the exploits of an inebriated stallion, gambling parlors as a reinforcement and subversion of racial norms, armed skirmishes over eggs, or the ins and outs of the “Spirit Lover” scam, Noy expertly situates these stories in the context of a live-for-the-moment society characterized by audacity, bigotry, and risk. “Confidently carries the reader into the everyday lives of early Californians. The focus on Californians’ popular pastimes . . . with an eye on vice, decadence, and scandal, makes this book a rowdy tour.” —Dr. Patrick Ettinger, Professor of History, California State University, Sacramento; Former Director of CSUS Public History Program and the Capital Campus Oral History Program
Author : Marguerite West Hill
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (854 download)
Download or read book Vignettes of Saint Anne's Town written by Marguerite West Hill and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francis J. Weber
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Vignettes of California Catholicism written by Francis J. Weber and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alberto Ledesma
Publisher : Mad Creek Books
ISBN 13 : 9780814254400
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (544 download)
Download or read book Diary of a Reluctant Dreamer written by Alberto Ledesma and published by Mad Creek Books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From undocumented to "hyper documented," Diary of a Reluctant Dreamer traces Alberto Ledesma's struggle with personal and national identity from growing up in Oakland to earning his doctorate degree at Berkeley, and beyond.
Author : Lois Daniel
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1569764468
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (697 download)
Download or read book How to Write Your Own Life Story written by Lois Daniel and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 1997-08-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing the story of one's life sounds like a daunting task, but it doesn't have to be. This warmhearted, encouraging guide helps readers record the events of their lives for family and friends. Excerpts from other writers' work are included to exemplify and inspire. Provided are tips on intriguing topics to write about, foolproof tricks to jog your memory, ways to capture stories on paper without getting bogged down, ways to gather the facts at a local library or historical society, inspired excerpts from other writers, and published biographies that will delight and motivate.
Author : William Baker
Publisher : eBookIt.com
ISBN 13 : 1456605348
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (566 download)
Download or read book Vignettes - Life's Tales Book One written by William Baker and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: VIGNETTES, Book One, Two and Three, are a collection of short stories about the life experiences of its author, William (Bill) Baker. Each contains about twenty short stories. The stories are historically accurate and told in a sensitive, humorous way.'á Parts, are very touching. Every reader will find themselves in one or more of the real life stories which range from: -Days of childhood mischief, to a Senior Air Force Officer, -Teen-age hitch-hiking, to serving a Four Star Knighted Officer of the Royal British Air Force, -Hanging a high school football effigy -Experiencing the Kamikaze raids at Buckner Bay, Okinawa, to romance on a cattle ranch.
Author : William Baker
Publisher : eBookIt.com
ISBN 13 : 145660595X
Total Pages : 57 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (566 download)
Download or read book Vignettes - Life's Tales Book Two written by William Baker and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: VIGNETTE, Book Two is a collection of short stories about the life experiences of its author, William (Bill) Baker. It contains about twenty short stories. The stories are historically accurate and told in a sensitive, humorous way. Parts, are very touching. Every reader will find themselves in one or more of the real life stories which range from: - Days of childhood mischief, to a Senior Air Force Officer - Teen-age hitch-hiking, to serving a Four Star Knighted Officer of the Royal British Air Force - Hanging a high school football effigy - Experiencing the Kamikaze raids at Buckner Bay, Okinawa, to romance on a cattle ranch.
Author : Almira Morey
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368333976
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (683 download)
Download or read book Vignettes of San Francisco written by Almira Morey and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-01-16 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.
