Tales My Father Told, and Other Stories
Author | : Hallie Quinn Brown |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Hallie Quinn Brown |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Walter D. Edmonds |
Publisher | : Syracuse University Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2000-04-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780815606338 |
This new book by Walter Edmonds is a cause for celebration. For decades Edmonds has been one of America's most popular writers. A National Book Award and Newbery Medal winner, his Drums Along the Mohawk is one of the all-time best sellers. His many historical novels about America and his extremely popular children's books have earned for him a loyal and substantial group of fans. Edmonds' latest book, his first in decades, will be welcomed by readers all over. Tales My Father Never Told is a nostalgic look back at another time and place. This is the autobiography Edmonds never wrote. It lovingly recreates his childhood and pre-adolescent days growing up at the foot of the great Adirondacks, in the rural beauty of the Northlands.
Author | : John Updike |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0141042591 |
A beautiful, moving collection of short stories, in many of which Updike revisits the haunts of his childhood from the vantage point of old age. In 'Fiftieth' old friends reconnect at a class reunion, and one of them is left wondering, 'What does it mean: the enormity of having been children and now being old, living next to death.' In the story 'The Full Glass' the protagonist describes somewhat ruefully the rituals of old age. Before going to bed, he raises his nightly water glass 'drinking a toast to the visible world, his impending disappearance from it be damned.' In 'Varieties of Religious Experiences' a grandfather, visiting his daughter in Brooklyn Heights, watches the tower of the World Trade Centre fall, and his view of a God is forever altered. Again and again in these memorable stories, Updike strikes to the heart, giving words to what is so often left unsaid. He is at once witty, devastatingly observant, touching � and, of course, a consummate storyteller. This is a collection that will be admired and cherished.
Author | : Nelly Reifler |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2001-09-13 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780805067149 |
A collection of 180 personal, true-life accounts of life combining the ordinary and the extraordinary. Contains primary source material.
Author | : Kate Bernheimer |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 486 |
Release | : 2010-09-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101464380 |
The fairy tale lives again in this book of forty new stories by some of the biggest names in contemporary fiction. Neil Gaiman, “Orange” Aimee Bender, “The Color Master” Joyce Carol Oates, “Blue-bearded Lover” Michael Cunningham, “The Wild Swans” These and more than thirty other stories by Francine Prose, Kelly Link, Jim Shepard, Lydia Millet, and many other extraordinary writers make up this thrilling celebration of fairy tales—the ultimate literary costume party. Spinning houses and talking birds. Whispered secrets and borrowed hope. Here are new stories sewn from old skins, gathered by visionary editor Kate Bernheimer and inspired by everything from Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Snow Queen” and “The Little Match Girl” to Charles Perrault’s “Bluebeard” and “Cinderella” to the Brothers Grimm’s “Hansel and Gretel” and “Rumpelstiltskin” to fairy tales by Goethe and Calvino and from China, Japan, Vietnam, Russia, Norway, and Mexico. Fairy tales are our oldest literary tradition, and yet they chart the imaginative frontiers of the twenty-first century as powerfully as they evoke our earliest encounters with literature. This exhilarating collection restores their place in the literary canon.
Author | : Lorraine Elena Roses |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 572 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780674372696 |
In poems, stories, memoirs, and essays about color and culture, prejudice and love, and feminine trials, dozens of African-American women writers--some famous, many just discovered--give us a sense of a distinct inner voice and an engagement with their larger double culture. Harlem's Glory unfolds a rich tradition of writing by African-American women, hitherto mostly hidden, in the first half of the twentieth century. In historical context, with special emphasis on matters of race and gender, are the words of luminaries like Zora Neale Hurston and Georgia Douglas Johnson as well as rare, previously unpublished writings by figures like Angelina Weld Grimké, Elise Johnson McDougald, and Regina Andrews, all culled from archives and arcane magazines. Editors Lorraine Elena Roses and Ruth Elizabeth Randolph arrange their selections to reveal not just the little-suspected extent of black women's writing, but its prodigious existence beyond the cultural confines of New York City. Harlem's Glory also shows how literary creativity often coexisted with social activism in the works of African-American women. This volume is full of surprises about the power and diversity of the writers and genres. The depth, the wit, and the reach of the selections are astonishing. With its wealth of discoveries and rediscoveries, and its new slant on the familiar, all elegantly presented and deftly edited, the book will compel a reassessment of writing by African-American women and its place in twentieth-century American literary and historical culture.
Author | : Ruth Stiles Gannett |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2014-01-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0486492834 |
A young boy runs away from home to rescue an abused baby dragon held captive to serve as a free twenty-four hour, seven-days-a-week ferry for the lazy wild animals living on Wild Island.
Author | : Alexandra Styron |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1416591818 |
"Reading My Father" is an intimate, moving, and beautifully written portrait of the novelist William Styron by his daughter, Alexandra.
Author | : Patricia Cisneros Young |
Publisher | : Tate Publishing |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2007-11 |
Genre | : Short stories, American |
ISBN | : 1602475482 |
' These] vignettes of Brownsville people, part real and part fiction, capture the character of our border community. The reader becomes involved with the characters and the stories. It's as though the essence of our society and culture had been opened to view through a historical prism. And the stories are just plain pleasurable to read.' -Dr. Anthony Knopp, Ph.D, Professor of History at the University of Texas at Brownsville, Texas
Author | : William Morris |
Publisher | : Delphi Classics |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2017-07-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1788777077 |
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