Author: Henry LawsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories, Australian
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The Romance of the Swag
Author: Henry LawsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories, Australian
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Shall We Gather at the River
Author: E. Reid GilbertPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1465348077
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
This Romeo/Juliet story set in the mountains of Virginia in the 1870s depicts a life and time largely forgotten now. Jimmie Sue, a white farm boy, and Madeleen, a colored sharecropper girl, although mutually attracted to each other, must deal with a greater obstacle than having different family names, such as the Capulets and Montagues in Shakespeare. Jimmie Sue was not so interested in a sheet of paper to certify their relationship, but Madeleen would have no part of an arrangement that was not "blessed of the Lord." Their shared experiences in the fields, the churches, the baptism creek give them many contact opportunities, which are duly celebrated yet constantly thwarted. Although the focus is on these two teenagers, the story gives some insight into the post-civil war racial relationships in the mountains... quite different from the more normally accepted tales of the plantations.
Gather at the River
Author: Hal CrowtherPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807131008
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
To read Hal Crowther is to find yourself agreeing with views on topics you never knew you cared so much about. In Gather at the River, Crowther extends the wide-angle vision of Southern life presented in his highly acclaimed collection Cathedrals of Kudzu. He cuts to the heart of recent political, religious, and cultural issues but pauses to appreciate the sweet things that the South has to offer, like music, baseball, great writers, and strong women. Some of these essays invite debate. Crowther gives a balanced perspective on the tragedy of the Branch Davidians at Waco, shedding light on a different world of religiosity and revealing urban media prejudices for what they are. He describes the unique heroism of a fallen Marine in the Iraq war, a war fought by one class and promoted by another. And his solution to racial conflict -- interracial procreation -- will jump-start readers' sensibilities. In other chapters, Crowther discusses the grim portrayal of the South in early film and the triumphs of Southern music. His literary essays include appreciations of William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, Elizabeth Spencer, and Wendell Berry, and a biting lampoon of exhibitionist memoirs. Among the Southerners Crowther profiles with pride are the art historian and Museum of Modern Art curator Kirk Varnedoe; the great, cursed baseball player Shoeless Joe Jackson; the curmudgeonly realist H. L. Mencken; and the singer Dolly Parton, whose candid artifice inspires the author's litmus test for Southern authenticity.
They gathered at the river: the story of the great
Author: Bernard A. WeisbergerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Revivals
Languages : en
Pages :
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Revelation
Author: Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 0857861018
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
The final book of the Bible, Revelation prophesies the ultimate judgement of mankind in a series of allegorical visions, grisly images and numerological predictions. According to these, empires will fall, the "Beast" will be destroyed and Christ will rule a new Jerusalem. With an introduction by Will Self.
Bulletin of the Geographical Society of Philadelphia
Author: Geographical Society of PhiladelphiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
List of members in v. 7.
The Other Side of the River
Author: Alex KotlowitzPublisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307814297
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Bestselling author Alex Kotlowitz is one of this country's foremost writers on the ever explosive issue of race. In this gripping and ultimately profound book, Kotlowitz takes us to two towns in southern Michigan, St. Joseph and Benton Harbor, separated by the St. Joseph River. Geographically close, but worlds apart, they are a living metaphor for America's racial divisions: St. Joseph is a prosperous lakeshore community and ninety-five percent white, while Benton Harbor is impoverished and ninety-two percent black. When the body of a black teenaged boy from Benton Harbor is found in the river, unhealed wounds and suspicions between the two towns' populations surface as well. The investigation into the young man's death becomes, inevitably, a screen on which each town projects their resentments and fears. The Other Side of the River sensitively portrays the lives and hopes of the towns' citizens as they wrestle with this mystery--and reveals the attitudes and misperceptions that undermine race relations throughout America.
Shall We Gather at the River
Author: James Arlington WrightPublisher: Wesleyan
ISBN: 9780819520432
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
The work of the young mid-western poet offers prophetic messages on the banality of life and man's paradoxical fear of death
A History of New Sweden; Or, The Settlements on the River Delaware ...
Author: Israel AcreliusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Sweden
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Author: