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Languages : en
Pages : 148
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US-136, Brownville Bridge West
Author: Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine
Author: George Thomas LittlePublisher:
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Category : Maine
Languages : en
Pages : 808
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The World and the Parish
Author: Willa CatherPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803215443
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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"One of the few really helpful words I ever heard from an older writer," Willa Cather declared in 1922, "I had from Sarah Orne Jewett when she said to me: 'Of course, one day you will write about your own country. In the meantime, get all you can. One must know the world so well before one can know the parish.'" Although Cather's first novel about her own country, O Pioneers!, did not appear until 1913, the process of knowing the world and of mastering her craft, so far as it can be traced in her published writing, already had been going on for some twenty years. The World and the Parish: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902, is the fourth in a series collecting the work of these years of experiment and discovery. More specifically, it offers a representative collection of Cather's nonfiction writing for newspapers and periodicals during her first decade as a professional writer. Selected from 520 articles and columns, the text is divided into three parts corresponding to major developments in Cather's career?the period from 1893 to 1896 when she first began to write regularly for Lincoln newspapers; the years in Pittsburgh when she was working for the Home Monthly and the Leader and sending her famous "Passing Show" column back to Nebraska; and the period from the spring of 1900 to 1903, when she freelanced in Pittsburgh and Washington, taught in a Pittsburgh high school, and made her first trip abroad. The text has been edited with three main objectives: 1) to enable the reader to trace Cather's development as a writer; 2) to group the material so that the reader interested in a particular subject?the theatre, or music, or literature, for example?can readily locate pertinent selections; and 3) to provide a context sufficient to relate these pieces to Willa Cather's life and to the times, and to suggest some of their connections with the body of her work. Chronologies have been included for each of the three parts; and the Bibliography is the most complete yet available for the for the nonfiction writing up to 1903. Not the least remarkable feature of this collection is the range and variety of forms and subject matter?reviews (of books, plays, operas, concerts, art exhibits, lectures), feature stories, interviews, straight reportage, columns of miscellaneous comment, and travel letters. Seemingly, with no apparent effort Willa Cather could adjust her sights to any assignment and any audience. And if it is astonishing that she could write so much about so many matters at so many levels, it is perhaps even more astonishing that so much of it was so good. Undeniably, however, the chief interest to the general reader and the peculiar value to the scholar of these journalistic writings reside in their manifold and crucial connections with Cather's later work and in the unparalleled insights they afford into the process by which a gifted writer becomes a great artist.
Water-resources Investigations Report
Author: New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial
Author: William Richard CutterPublisher:
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Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 722
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Maine Register Or State Year-book and Legislative Manual from April 1 ... to April 1 ...
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Category : Associations, institutions, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1204
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Maine Register Or State Year-book and Legislative Manual
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Associations, institutions, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1200
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Maine Register, State Year-book and Legislative Manual
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Category : Associations, institutions, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1214
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Illustrated History of Nebraska
Author: Julius Sterling MortonPublisher:
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Category : Nebraska
Languages : en
Pages : 962
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A Record of the Commissioned Officers, Non-commissioned Officers, and Privates, of the Regiments which Were Organized in the State of New York and Called Into the Service of the United States to Assist in Suppressing the Rebellion, Caused by the Secession of Some of the Southern States from the Union, A.D. 1861, as Taken from the Muster-in Rolls on File in the Adjutant-General's Office, S.N.Y.
Author: New York (State). Adjutant General's OfficePublisher:
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Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 660
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