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Category : Book collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 678
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The Delineator
Author: R. S. O'LoughlinPublisher:
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Category : Dressmaking
Languages : en
Pages : 1240
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The Bookman
Author: The Dial
Author: Francis Fisher BrownePublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 894
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The Bookseller & Latest Literature
Author: Current Literature
Author: Edward Jewitt WheelerPublisher:
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 988
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Teach the Nation
Author: Anne-Elizabeth MurdyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317849493
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Is knowledge power? In Teach the Nation , Anne-Elizabeth Murdy explores the history and contradictions in the notion that education and literacy are vital means for improving social and political status in the US. By closely examining the rapidly shifting social context of education, and the emerging literature by and for African-American women during the 1890s, Murdy proves that the histories of education and literature are deeply connected and argues that their current lives must be regarded as mutually dependent. Teach the Nation offers a new understanding of literacy and pedagogical study and identifies how literary history enhances current feminist and anti-racist teachings. By excavating notions about education in the 1890s-as turbulent a time for American public education as today-Murdy asks readers to step back from this historical moment to better understand the contexts and institutions within which we theorize learning and teaching. In doing so, she compels readers to reimagine the potential for gaining social power through education and literature.
Putnam's Monthly and the Critic
Author: The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien
Author: Oscar HijuelosPublisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 1538722240
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 309
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With “soaring, matchless prose,” a Pulitzer Prize winner pens a New York Times bestselling saga of the Montez O’Briens, a rambunctious family of Irish Cuban immigrants comprised of fourteen daughters—and one doggedly masculine son (Publishers Weekly). Irish American Nelson O’Brien fell passionately in love with the poetess Mariela Montez while photographing the ravages of battle in Mariela's native Cuba during the Spanish-American War. After marrying, they moved to the United States to start a new life, settling in a small Pennsylvania town where Nelson took over the Jewel Box Movie Theater. Together, they had a remarkable fifteen children: fourteen daughters and one lone son. In Oscar Hijuelos’s The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien, the lives, loves, and tragedies of this sprawling Irish Cuban family unfold. Over the course of a century, each member moves in and out of each other’s lives, traversing Cuba, New York, California, Alaska, and Ireland, while Margarita—the Montez O’Brien’s eldest daughter—ruminates on the nature of femininity, sex, love, and earthly happiness. And as Margarita learns and grows in an overwhelmingly female environment, she can’t help but contrast her experiences with those of Emilio, her intensely masculine brother, whose B-movie career in the 1950s has left him adrift and frustrated, with little hope of success. Lush and gorgeously written, The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien is a masterwork by one of America's greatest writers. Reckoning with cultural assimilation and complex family dynamics, the novel elicits tears and laughter while tenderly revealing the bounteous heart and exhilarating adventures of a warm, passionate family. Includes a Reading Group Guide.
The President's Hat
Author: Robert HerringPublisher:
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Category : Andorra
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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